Raison d'État

Mail-in ballots are great for cheating. They're also good for when you have to work on election day, or your partisan state government chooses not to...

"President" of the "New Syria". A lot like the old one, but Al Qaeda is now in charge and talking about how much they've always admired Israel...

These are also deniable. "I asked Claude to write the config, and it seemed to work".

On drones!? Okay, I'm sold

Archive.org is good. English versions regularly taken down after complaints, but just as quickly reuploaded. nostr:nprofile1qqsqyucf6zf9j9cdymgnmwyey...

We close the door, and the Resident Evil Maid fixes the global internet. The, we mock zombie sh1tcoiners. $BRAINS is going to zero!

No human should ever have to put up with her annoyingness. If bots achieve nothing else, they are already a huge W for humanity on this alone.

There is an option in settings, it might be under "data and privacy" or some such. You can turn off autoloading of different types of media, or have i...

I tried to run an Nvidia closed-source model, once, and it wanted to execute a script, scan my system and phone home before it would run. (It got dele...

Naw, that just proves you're unable (or unwilling) to concentrate :p

Yes, and same for Iranians and Europeans. What event do you think the Indo-European language family comes from?

LOLwut? Persians were speaking Avestan (and carving inscriptions in it) at the same time the Rig Vedas were being introduced to India. Possibly a ...

There are no "advanced" or "primitive" societies. Only those who are well adapted to current conditions, and those that are not. "Current conditions"...

The masses don't do numbers. Journalists and politicians don't either. We would be getting the exact same policy prescriptions with the exact same ar...

There's a lot of literature on how populations are estimated. The error bars are rather wide, as you've eluded to.

Could theoretically have been built in the 1st or 2nd, too. Vitruvius would have been up for the job. 9th C, probably not, in Western Europe. 15th t...

GM, Rasha!

That creepy thing was asking Epstein for parenting advice, and he was clearly far more normal than her

100% Many privileged people grow up in the modern West believing there are no such thing as responsibilities for others nor consequences for them. T...

Will have to read that next! Currently reading Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society". Not agreeing with the writer 100%, but seeing a lot of my extend...

A Bachelor of Idiocy isn't enough these days, People who really want to make a career in that field go on to get doctorates :p

I use 0.5, but I'm not exactly sure what difference it makes. I would expect a lower temperature model to make fewer mistakes but to also be less inno...

PosterChan is the only Nostr client more complex and featureful than Amethyst :D

I'm the same, but let's be serious, 95% of Westerners would rather be watching "Married At First Sight" than reading journal articles or wiki entries....

If you live on a ridgeline in that part of the world (many do), you're looking at days of travel to reach a store 20km away (as the crow flies). And u...

Their land comes with two different gradients there - really steep, and mf-ing cliffs. Without modern civil engineering, you've got the choice of rid...

Always cringe, and now desperate :D

GM, Rasha!

True. I had some with breakfast! But I wouldn't dream of trying to grow them on my farm.

~60kJ My rig could run all day and night on that, but maybe, its at least ballpark. A single almond requires 12 litres of water. That's conventional...

...or entertaining. Truth

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Acksually... the British government in colonial Australia did forbid shagging the natives, in many proclamations. Control over access to women was as...

If you want a shield that works as well as a last-century LLC, get a Discretionary Beneficial Trust.

IKR. Nearly useless these days. Okay-ish for borrowing money - but banks aren't stupid and want directors guarantees...

IANAL either, but I know enough to know that is terrible advice. Directors, especially managing directors are held personally liable these days.

Yup. And being a massive cheapskate, I recommend https://github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi All the free plans, welded seamlessly together. I haven...

Haha DeepSeek does this to me! Qwen is much less delulu

Divert attention, yes, but also to seize control of China's energy supply, so they can balance payments via extortion without having to relax their fi...

Trump's family are certainly making hay off insider trading in futures. I will never say any government is fighting for freedom, they never are. But...

True. My government is penalising me to pay for various conflicts, too. Taxing me much more than Iran is, even though I'm very annoyed at fuel prices...

Correct. Iran and Oman, as the relevant "coastal states", have the right to charge tolls, but were not doing it. Indonesia and Malayisia are the sam...

Customary international law is not the law of the jungle. Turkey, Denmark, Sweden etc are definitely complying with it. Iran and Oman are probably ...

What gives Turkey the right to police the Bosphorus? What gives Denmark and Sweden the right to police the Skagerrak? What gives the USA the right t...

Logistics. The "rest of the world" cannot project force remotely that far.

My son is on holidays with his TikTok mum right now, so this does not fill me with warmth and confidence. He's almost her height, and far fitter, but...

Skinning a dog alive sounds unnecessarily difficult and hazardous, even as a simile. Also not British enough. How about you "jelly him like an eel"?

Sent a link to an article on that case to my ex, she's better at critiquing elaborate murders than even a "Heretic" LLM :D

I've bathed in sulphur springs overseas, but I wasn't drunk. The rocks were madly slippery, no push required.

Coz they wish they were brave and charismatic enough to try Asian or Latina. Instead, they remain incels. Whilst married!

Coping mechanism. Then, when they get home, they cry.

Californians have never been governed hard enough or wastefully enough to satisfy them. Even when half of Mexico revolted against Santa Anna, Califor...

I'm still bullish on 10M+ property in CA. Most of those relocations will be hurt feelings on TikTok. CA pricing out the middleclasses is what will ki...

Its was under the Atoms for Peace program, so you can still blame the Yanks for putting you up to it :D

Police exist to keep us safe

Awwww, it means you could blend in with the colony and do research unobtrusively. Me, the penguins would be like: "is that a walrus standing up on hi...

Fair. And I would receive a stiff prison term if I shared that on regime social media, or said it where a snitch could record it. Freedom And Democ...

From a pure economics POV, yes, 100%. Bad tools like debasement do have political uses for the political class, though. Some of them aren't even enti...

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I suspect that is the point of these bots. Any money they steal is just gravy.

GM, Rasha! Enjoy your Saturday!

Physical gold and silver did circulate, even if more of the money supply was promises, and the rest base metals. The 14th C crisis was certainly exace...

They would, and it would be a problem, because not everybody else would be willing to exchange for WallmartCoin except at a premium, and there's no po...

"Company scrip" was a thing, in the 1930s. Wallmart could pay staff in WallmartCoin, accepted only at WallMart

You're not alone in that! Too many people seethe but believe they must comply, or that it was always like this. I keep a dumbphone to "prove" I can't...

Usenet and mailing lists ARE social media. There's a lot of flaming and stupid stuff on both, even though they fortunately lack the algorithms that a...

Ouch! Get well soon, and remember to look after yourself too sometimes!

@MAHDOOD is this true? :D

The flower looks a bit weird. Midjourney?

All my fav Chaotic Menaces hang out on Nostr :)

Line up a good midwife first though, complications do happen...

China was also launching a ground assault on Vietnam that killed 120k people to seize one village, and skirmishing with the Soviets all along long sec...

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Think of it as a "Should I Go Back to Reddit?" test, that you passed.

Not retarded, that's far to kind. They are abusive status-seekers if they're causing this

I like to leave my empty cards on top of the machines, and take other peoples empties left there for recharge with cash. Sabotaging the system's data ...

It kinda does... mineralised in the soil from past overuse. Yields will drop sharply in the first season without synthetic NPK, but they'll simply c...

Feminist fediverse uses it to represent grape without the g.

Sounds delicious, but I'm imagining the Fediverse double-takes over that emoji :D Congrats on using it correctly!

I'm sure he did. Ergodan may be a slimy two-faced crook, but he's a master troll :D

Politicians in Western countries are soulless middle-managers. Politicians in non-Western countries are mafia.

Have you ever tried to remove expanding foam? :D Save the sh-t for management's car interiors

Explosive vapours?

I sense a smuggling opportunity. Do these taxes apply to secondhand vehicles? Like the one you've ("trust me bro") had in your garage unregistered fo...

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I take it to mean the slip-strike faults have moved everywhere else, its only the San Andreas that's "stuck". Curious if the lowered water table coul...

GM!

GM, Rasha!

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Kamchatcha or California busting a move and getting into the party spirit next? Looking left out and stressed on that map...

Please no, I have friends and family members on top of some of those dots! Antarctica, I'm sorry about all the mean things we said about you de-trans...

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Fascinating that the Wallace Line is associated so strongly with Denisovan heritage. Makes sense, and gives me something to tease my Filipino friends...

Asians overall have very low levels of Neanderthal - but your map shows central and north-west Asians have quite a bit. Huh, interesting.

Those of us with mostly Euro heritage can disagree with that. Up to 6% Neanderthal nuclear DNA, but no mitachondrial. You're still broadly correct, ...

I'm good with slow, as long as I can be doing something else while my picobot beavers away. Thinking of switching to a slightly slower model in retur...

True, but the Neocons in their formative years wanted to lead the USSR, not the United States. They're getting their wish, but looks like Gorbachev's...

Day-um! Good score :)

Hey, it worked for Abiy, and Obama! But he'll need to come out as Jewish and/or Furry if he hopes to clear the Diversity hurdle. Maybe Ukrainian?