Raison d'État

GM Rasha! I like the meme, its a sentiment we don't see expressed very often in this day and age!

Anything can be smuggling if you don't have US Treasury Department permission :D

Protecting them from happy customer reviews? We've all come across organisational staff who will do almost anything to prevent a sale (that would mea...

GM, Rasha!

GM, Rasha!

Have you read Orlov's "Five Stages of Collapse"?

That's a big question, and regen agriculture can be only a very small part of any answer. I don't have a full answer myself.

TBF, the Jewish State at that time was engaged in genocide of all its minorities and most of its neighbours. Simon ben Kokhba was really not very nic...

LOL well I bought a RISC-V dev board, but haven't actually done anything with it except make sure it powers on. Will be putting my own Buildroot-base...

Buy land, but don't sell your whole stack for it. Land can be easily extorted or confiscated by the State. Plan your ownership structure in advance, ...

Testosterone is also important for keeping calm, for restraining aggression, and for directing it against actually-deserving targets. Endocrinology b...

Lower testosterone => higher insincerity and fakeness That might explain 90% of the difference between the WW2 generation and today in one metric!

Tor helps, but you need to keep it p2p and noKYC

"Search for the Hero" lol I had a buddy in HS who was a huge fan of her. He came out as gay later, and I was the only person surprised.

That's how one constructs a lifelong "therapeutic relationship"... Business is business

Normies disagree. Some of their conspiracy theories would be hilarious if not so sad...

Eastern Browns are #2 in the world for venom, but nobody told them yet :D If you disturb a Brown sunbathing, he's like: "Sorry Sir, I didn't know ...

My farm only gets Eastern Browns :( No lottery tickets for me!

Abliterate, abliterate. This is why I prefer to suffer the frustration of stupid 7B models I can run locally...

Government gonna government. What I like about SA (compared to my government) is how peacably SA just abandons communities on the political periphery...

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Madiba founded a terrorist organisation, and travelled Africa soliciting weapons for it. He had his reasons, of course, but to portray him as nonviol...

I just love those cute little national caricatures! So expressive. Anyone know how they were done? Which AI? Prompts?

Power and evil always dress up in ideology, though. They're afraid to be seen in public without it. I don't expect AnCap communities to last long in...

Its cute when they act shocked

Arrrr, me hearties! Somalia, its only wrong when you do it.

Spanish ppl survived Pedro II, you will survive these muppets too.

Almost. In the case of black holes and nation-states, its not the size so much as whether it is _growing_ that predicts its fate. The mass of a bla...

Not an AnCap, but I don't see how involving the government in that transaction would make it better in any way. I can easily imagine both parties dyin...

Matthew 27:25 still underway...

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Yes AI government. Then we disconnect the datacenters :D

I agree with all of that, except the last paragraph. Recombination in new patterns is as important as divergence and specialisation. It just shouldn...

Hahaha one wall of my living room is all bookshelves. Some were secondhand, but more are from when I couldn't pirate an ebook of something, so I order...

Fair. My suggestion would not be just.

Along with mercury, silver, tin and copper. Just read up :p Who says morbid sh-tposting can't be educational?

Dental fillings

Hmmmm, partial disagree. '38 was the time. Any earlier he would have become Germany's Joan d' Arc, any later the wheels were already in motion...

The Koch bros were always hypocrites, but because they apply their values selectively, not because they're incorrect. The ultra-rich and a few fat ca...

I have no tattoos. Not immutably opposed to the idea, but I have always been mindful that they are forever, and I never found a message I was sure I...

#Ollama, people! Use it. Keep your AI and all its data on your own hardware. 7B models run smooth and snappy on my crappy ten-year-old graphics card...

Excellent advice. I'd also suggest paying by untraceable means wherever possible. When dealing with normies, that's usually cash. Helping others to p...

"Half the range" is simply untrue. You need to expend energy to transport your energy, range has a negative exponent.

Milei only LARPed as a libertarian when campaigning, and flipped back to "Conservative" (Socialist but with a generous helping of nepotism and graft) ...

The American people won then, as well as the Iranians :D

Dosage and quality control are key, and Prohibition militates against both. I've had MDMA maybe ten times in my life, never once experienced the cras...

Deep question, good thoughts. I think small numbers of people make inexplicable choices all them time, but when something goes mainstream it is usual...

Vote harder, Americans lol

What a ridculous grift! Nobody is mining #Bitcoin commercially with GPUs on Earth, what a fraudulent comparison. ASICs on Earth can run cooler, fo...

A professor friend rang me earlier. He's utterly clueless about nearly anything outside his specialty. I can tell him that and he takes it well, but t...

Trolling and distracting, I think

Yes, bootloader alone can set kernel swappiness level, but you get whole menus of blinkenlights if you compile it :)

Its set in a postapoc AI dystopia. Feels a lot less like scifi now, and more like tomorrow's news l anding page.

We live in a society that judges the former but rarely the latter...

Won't the certificate headers still be visible to peeping toms?

Awesome

Someone needs to give those lads modern MANPADS

There are ~40 governments trusted to sign certificates by major operating systems.. For them, HTTPS is trivial to MitM unless you're pinning certs

Yes, but unless your IP & domain are at the top of the "nice" (rich and well-connected corporate) lists, your sent mail isn't going to be delivered.

They will understand the risks if and only if the news and analysis of the stablecoin collapse becomes part of the next generation of model's training...

The convoy had a broken headlight. And - oh look - another one! Lets see what you got in the back there boys...

The debasement was the trigger, for sure, but it was sustained by a number of things, especially a collapse in investor confidence.

I think you may be right :( When you say a shrinkage of human purchasing power, you mean the share of GDP going to workers will shrink. Or rather, th...

Provision of excuses to those who want to commit evil has always been the most profitable part of organised religion...

"On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu." "Kill one man, and you a...

Like other Western democracies, your voters get a choice between blackmailed pedos Moloch and Baal, most of the time. Sometimes mistakes are made, a...

GM, Rasha!

Only in tolerant societies. My car would probably get keyed in a shopping center car park: "my mother's friend lost money to hackers and everybody kn...

"Bay of Sheep" in the making if true. Even the Iraqi army rekt them at Kirkuk a few years ago. Heavy weapons matter. But I greatly doubt the Kurds we...

Thought it sounded unlikely, Turkey and UAE elites have very close relations. https://ilkha.com/english/world/turkiye-denounces-social-media-claims-o...

The day after they no longer need him in the Ukraine / Black Sea. March / April seems optimistic, but IDK...

The UN is a failure, Ius Gentium alone would be better.

TBF to our ancestors, outright war between tribes was the exception, not the rule. Crimes like those you listed more typically ended in a blood-money...

The "legal work contract" is almost as gameable. Printing fiat citizenships is as destructive as printing fiat banknotes.

My country has had a spookily similar trajectory, including rapid industrialisation in the 40s and 50s. I don't hate the USA, but I do hate the netwo...

Solar HAS come a long way in 75 years. Efficiency, longevity, and above all, price per watt. But physics hasn't changed, so there are many things sol...

Brave New World! Sounds expensive, and all for the benefit of the 99.99% who have no way to harm their owners. Warhammer 40k / Judge Dredd / real-li...

Microphone far away has potential, hmmm. Maybe the stream. Useless, but pleasant. I thought about a CB radio, but it would need to be switchboarded, ...

"A little yes", as my boss likes to say. You're not wrong, but it is complicated. There's a whole piano-keyboard of emotion centers in there...

TBF, that's exactly what we expect human leadership to do. Without massive, predetermined retaliation, deterrence cannot work. Given that SNAFU is a...

Imma gonna need to see some evidence for paragraph three. But we're about to cross the border into religion, so might be best to call it a day. Thanks...

What do you mean by "raise order"? Perhaps we are using different terminology. We are not closed systems, we export disorder to the environment, just...

True. Its a way of gaining social status, even if all the easier and more constructive ways have been choked off.

I fear you are correct, but that will take quite some doing. Millions will die, and not only in Iran

"Sizes and shapes are just your opinion, maaan" - #Flatties, probably :p

Terry Prachett > Spaceballs

OMG, FR...! https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/tech/openai-backtracks-government-support-chip-investments #CronyCapitalism

You're familiar with Taleb's concept of "Tyranny of the Minority"?

It is :) By Copernicus' time, astronomers had observations over sufficient time to recognise the geocentric model was going to also require higher-or...

With geocentric gravity, you can have a spherical Earth. Not sure from memory when this was introduced, but probably BC. This then raises the questio...

In fairness to Aristotle & Ptolemy, their model can be patched with epicycles and eccentrics, and if you add gravity back in it can explain the invers...

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I still follow Ben, he has a lot of sometimes-entertaining non-Flattie content. But if people get hysterical and insulting when you ask them to expla...

Racist concern-troll Imperialist is mad and misandrist. Consider me shocked. I don't understand why you didn't stay on Facebook, it was perfect for y...

French Imperialists are going after Ibrahim Traore, not the son of the man who bankrolled Sarkozy. Yes, the US is, and funding Saif's comeback is als...

Before the West turned and bit his father Qaddafi, playboy Saif was blowing $1M a month in casinos around the Mediteranean. Spoiled trust-fund baby s...

She can't even define one, bro, its hopeless

XRF, have access to a machine through work :) But if I didn't: - specific gravity - streak plate - digest in aqua regia then precipitate Gold is the...

Excellent question. The answers will be different for every person. Ultimately, no jurisdiction should be trusted, but jurisdictions where you are s...

A popular sentiment here, but not a responsible one to take literally. Different classes of assets have different vulnerabilities and different advan...