@mattyglesias The Danish conservative party is named ”Left”. The Danish liberal party is named ”Radical Left”.
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JohanL
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In Denmark they stage a reality TV show where the leaders of all the parties in parliament just hang out and talk
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Every election should be special
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
BREAKING — Donald Trump will now be represented by a Democrat in the Florida State House. Democrats flip Trump+11 FL HD-87 in a major upset, continuing their recent special election surge. It’s their third flip this month — and eighth of the Trump presidency.
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@BIPOCrates @mattyglesias Yes. Being right for the wrong reasons is not a success.
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@mattyglesias I "got it right" because I knew when Hillary collapsed at that 9/11 memorial, that her candidacy was over. I told all my friends at the time, and they told me I was an idiot.
Was that a bad method?
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When Trump won in 2016, most sensible people were surprised because he was down in the polls and "the candidate who is up in the polls will probably win" is a sound forecasting principle.
But people who "got it right" (i.e., used bad methods) gained prestige as a result.
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@george_soyros @mattyglesias Virtually all Europeans, just to start with. It’s primitive, unnecessary, and damaging.
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@mattyglesias Who disagrees that kids sometimes need a good spanking? Middle-age resentful morons still whining about their parents?
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Endless takes on ~gentle parenting~ but actually most Americans supporting disciplining kids “with a good hard spanking” and this is true across age cohorts.
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@mattyglesias Americans are highly unusual in this in the Western world, though. Probably comes with being a more violent society in general.
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"Our product will make you economically useless, and possibly kill you" is not a value proposition.
AI leaders need to change their public messaging, and fast.
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Germany is a rich country with poor people. It has lower median wealth per adult than Slovenia.
Germans rent instead of buying property, don’t own stocks, spend a fortune on insurance, and then seriously blame “inequality“
You need to take some risks if you want to get wealthy.
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Ragebating for engagement is so easy. Just give your honest rankings of your preferences. I like blackberries better than raspberries. I like Lord of the Rings better than Harry Potter. I like Vietnamese food better than Thai food. Etc.
Try it and watch the hate explode!
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@Noahpinion Almost certainly untrue. You will notice how it *definitely* hasn’t happened in Ukraine. Drones have limitations, just like everything else in war.
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Import thread.
As I predicted in 2013, the age of the rifleman is over. Drones have driven riflemen from the battlefield. We are in the age of the droneman.
Samuel Bendett@sambendett
1/ QUICK TAKE by a Rus mil blogger on the state of drone warfare in Ukraine: "Drones have definitively seized control of the battlefield. In 2024, one could still zip across on a motorcycle; in 2025, one could sprint through a tree line..." t.me/bayraktar1070/…
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Wow, AI Safety now has some politicians on board
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' AI Data Center Moratorium Act contains a moratorium on all US datacenter upgrading and construction, as well as a ban on the export of all US-origin GPU's. Press conference this afternoon.
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@RealChaosOrder @mattyglesias Rogue One and Andor. The Mandalorian in early seasons.
Star Wars does better tv than Marvel, it’s the movies that are mostly terrible now.
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@mattyglesias What was the last good Star Wars IP? Rebels? KOTOR? Rogue One? Clone Wars cartoon?
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Star Wars: Starfighter is a hilariously bad title.
How did they not spend 30 minutes brainstorming a better idea for their trillion dollar IP?
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@wirraone @mattyglesias Well, after Rogue One, obviously. Nothing is besting that this decade.
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@mattyglesias good chance it will be the best Disney SW movie. for what that's worth.
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@cremieuxrecueil Since this could mean special forces in a single location, it's not a crazy evaluation.
If it's interpreted as full-scale ground invasion, then that's clearly not going to happen under TACO.
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@JeremiahDJohns The kangaroo position is so weird. I could never take a chimp, don't be ridiculous, but the average kangaroo? Sure, most are pretty small.
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Can't decide which is crazier - the guy who thinks he could beat a grizzly bear, or the guy who thinks he'd lose a fight to a rat.
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@SaintHeartwing @BriannaWu It's practically TNG, if you like one you'll like the other.
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Unlike most “Star Trek Fans,” I like Trek that isn’t TOS and TNG. I loved Voyager and Enterprise. I thought Picard and even Discovery had great arcs.
And even I think this show is trash.
It’s moralistic and preachy. It’s cringe. The characters fall flat. It’s a complete betrayal of everything that makes Star Trek good.
Variety@Variety
EXCLUSIVE: “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season. The show failed to find a significant audience, not ranking on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming viewership charts at any point during its 10-episode first season. wp.me/pc8uak-1lH3kQ
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@Mk13042 @mattyglesias "Iraq on steroids" seems like the obvious guess.
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@mattyglesias It's either glory or ruin I suppose. My guess is there is a lot of middle ground between those 2 options here that we shouldn't dismiss
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WSJ op-ed calls for boots on the ground in Iran, frames the consequences of backing down in semi-apocalyptic terms.
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@mattyglesias This seems unwise under even the best of circumstances, and erratic Trump leadership is far from the best of circumstances.
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Japan is still somehow human, while America and China have become two different varieties of posthuman
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@mcreditably @Noahpinion Lower Decks is *amazing*.
Strange New Worlds is perfectlytolerable.
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@Noahpinion There is only one good Star Trek since 2005 and that is the Orville. Which is embarissing but yes the creator of family guy did a better job than all the star trek people combined with their huge budgets.
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I think this is the first Star Trek series that got cancelled before I even had a chance to watch a single episode
Variety@Variety
EXCLUSIVE: “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season. The show failed to find a significant audience, not ranking on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming viewership charts at any point during its 10-episode first season. wp.me/pc8uak-1lH3kQ
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@proales @cremieuxrecueil Initially, at least. It's *wild* that the U.S. doesn't have it - I was aware of it, but it's still bonkers.
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@proales @cremieuxrecueil You also need several yearly, which complicates matters further.
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The efficacy of America's first–and now, sadly, withdrawn due to unpopularity–Lyme vaccine was about 80%!
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Pfizer says its experimental Lyme disease vaccine was 73% effective against the tick-borne illness
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