@boris_kloris @halogen1048576 Probably same for US Army Air Force bomber crews incinerating civilians while dying at high rates, or anti-Comanche punitive expeditions back in the day.
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Dylan Alexander
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@boris_kloris @halogen1048576 Some paper came out recently that the psychological profile of genocidal fighters (e.g. in Africa) is ethnic altruism - they sacrifice their lives and comfort to destroy the enemy, who deserves it, to protect their people, who didn't deserve what was done to them.
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@OTheologicum @St_Rev But his manifesto says he's going after an unnamed pedo. Checkmate, chuds!
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@St_Rev We have his manifesto. I don't think he's getting away with this one.
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OK I'm thinking this guy got away with a lot in college
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Cole Allen makes his bid for release from detention, arguing that prosecutors' evidence that he intended to assassinate Trump is weak and underscoring lingering questions about whether he fired his gun. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2808…
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@S0NNYCR0CKETT @cremieuxrecueil They did it to dilute Republicans (allowed) not concentrates black votes to result in black Congressmen (not allowed racial discrimination).
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@cremieuxrecueil How was Virginia able to make snakes out of NoVa then?
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The nature of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision today is interesting.
They ruled to *keep* Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act–so states can't create absurd maps, like Illinois with snakes coming out of Chicago.
They just banned the racial affirmative action part.
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@mennona_musings @bandy1803 Since they were trying to take a supply depot and rearm, I would guess the attack foundered in part because they ran out of ammo with too many defenders between them and the depot. A bayonet charge would have a risk of capture rather than being killed.
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@bandy1803 Forgive my ignorance, but why didn't they go out trying to take an American with them?
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The Japanese make one last attempt to turn the tide of the battle at Attu: an 800 man Banzai charge against the weakest point in the American line.
Their hope is to capture the principal supply depot, rearming with the weapons and forcing the Americans to leave the island or die from exposure.
It's a desperate plan, but at first it succeeds. The Japanese scatter a US infantry company and overrun a field hospital, killing almost everyone inside. (1/3)
Bandy@bandy1803
Now reading this account of the Aleutian Island campaign (1942-1943).
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@waynebriqu37421 @zekester116 @lymanstoneky Loudon had early network effects putting lots of internet infrastructure there. With the big expansion of data centers companies are now looking to put them anywhere they can get power and do it cheaply. No/low taxes is part of what they look for and someone will offer it.
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@zekester116 @lymanstoneky The article literally says they pay lots of tax in loudoun
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Wild to me localities are banning data centers when you could instead just get data centers and slash your residential property taxes and make literally everybody better off
Martin Chorzempa 马永哲@ChorzempaMartin
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@Molson_Hart @MaxPaxCat Water, where explosions are harmlessly absorbed.
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If data centers are cheaper in space (they’re not), we should just put them at the bottom of lakes and oceans instead:
- cooled by water surroundings
- can run power lines and fiber optics to them
- instead of an expensive rocket, you can just drop them in place
britton winterrose@Winterrose
@Molson_Hart It’s cheaper to stream tokens to earth than make them on earth now we’ll be fine
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@AdamasNemesis @asymmetricinfo Our nicest ones are not half as nice as the central tourist area of any historic Euro city that didn't get bombed out. No one things Manhattan is "nicer" than Prague or Paris.
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@asymmetricinfo Not so sure about that; our most touristed central cities are precisely our nicest ones: think Manhattan, San Francisco, Miami. Basically nobody is going to a random dilapidated downtown in the Midwest or a corporate bughive in the South.
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One reason that people often struggle to believe how much richer Americans are than Europeans is that European central cities are much nicer than American ones, and both travelers and expats tend to flock to central cities.
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
This is another example of why walking across an entire city, or a region passing through cities, gives you a better understanding of a place. When you walk across Milan, or from Dusseldorf to Bonn, you see that Europe isn't nearly as economically wealthy as the US. If you stick to tourist centers -- London, Paris, Milan -- you only see the wealthiest, and not the often dreary suburban apartment block bleah where most people live
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@escu__valentin @jankulveit I favor genetic selection for color prefence towards red in the human race.
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@jankulveit To all the red pushers: what about all the babies that will die if red >50?
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Asked AIs the Red/Blue button question. Lots to notice, but posting without further commentary. First plot is with max reasoning, models called via API.
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@JSRavencroft @robert_lyman Soldiers at Fort Bliss are also forbidden from visiting Juarez, because no one needs the risk of Shit Going Down in a foreign country.
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@JSRavencroft @robert_lyman 18 year old Marines at this place might mouth off or take disrespectful selfies in a way that offends the hosts. Or they take ironic/sincere supportive "hey this is cool" photos and now you've got a "racist/fascists Marines!" story.
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It’s actually a shocking place, where the cult of Bushido is alive and well. When I was a soldier I was forbidden to visit. It’s shocking for its complete failure to accept what the Japanese people accepted after 1945, that militarism was a burst balloon, and had taken Japan into endless darkness. Yasakuni glories murder. Now, Yasakuni exists only for militarists of a failed past. China and Korea will never really trust Japan so long as this centre of war-worship exists.
Ross Cable@RossWCable
Yasakuni; a surprisingly good war museum with all the expected omissions… But most surprising to me was the glorification of death and self ‘sacrifice’ throughout the war (not just toward the end). Oh, and all those war criminals deified. The Japanese visit there en masse…
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@philippejeanpr1 @PaulSkallas So then colonization did not create wealth for Europe
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Europe was doomed the moment America and Russia discovered oil in their own countries.
Europe entered the oil age without continental-scale oil abundance.
Europe had to import the fuel of the modern world. That meant dependence.
POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope
Europeans have to step up and defend their own interests because the U.S., China and Russia are now all “dead against” them, French President Emmanuel Macron warned today. politico.eu/article/emmanu…
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@lionelbchadwick @mattyglesias It would have shredded many of the guys near him and done nothing but some hurt ears, maaaybe, in the ballroom.
All the suicide vest Israel attacks with high casualties were on buses or packed cafes. Even a sedan with a trunk full of homemade doesn’t do tha much damage far away
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@mattyglesias Matt that is true but what if the assassin had brought in a powerful bomb instead? seems silly for potus to be in a public hotel during time of war
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Catching up but it seems like the whole area where POTUS and other officials were was in fact secure, and the shooter was stopped well outside the security perimeter in the publicly open area of the hotel and basically everyone did their jobs well and the system worked.
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@beyondreasdoubt @bonchieredstate If you set up outside the hotel you have to cover ALL the entrances, and still screen the event anyway
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@beyondreasdoubt @bonchieredstate Security standing outside the hotel is vulnerable to someone hosing them down from down the street or a car before others rush the entry. Interior checkpoint sets up a choke point to focus on threats and you can have guns on the flanks.
Also leaves normal hotel bus alone
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The assumption is that the lobby is where the security checks were, and he was discovered there and dispatched. Hence him not making it into the auditorium.
So security did its job.
Brianna Lyman@briannalyman2
How did an assassin get on the roof in Butler? How did an assassin get into the lobby of the hotel where the most powerful man in the world is when he is supposed to be guarded by the best of the best? Something is wrong with the security. Why so?
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Dylan Alexander retweetet
"Okay, so imagine a magic button."
"I'm imagining the button."
"If you press the button—"
"What color is it?"
"It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is."
"Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—"
"That's a different thought experiment."
"—and I tried to be a nice guy and pick blue so I could save everybody, but it turns out ya'll a bunch of selfish motherfuckers and I died."
"It wasn't buttons. It was pills."
"Don't care. I'm out for me this time. What color is the button?"
"Ugh, fine. It's red."
"I press the button."
"You don't even know what it does yet!"
"And I pull the trolley lever."
"There's no lever!"
"Bias for Action."
"Just listen: there's a button that lets you save 10^100 shrimp, but it kills one random person. Would you press it?"
"What flavor are the shrimp?
"Flavor?"
"Yeah, you know: garlic, Old Bay, Korean BBQ."
"You're saving the shrimp, not eating them!"
"Saving them for what?"
"For nothing. They get to live their lives."
"What? Just doin' shrimp stuff?"
"Yeah."
"How long do shrimp live?"
"Uh, it depends on the species? 1-2 years?"
"And then what happens?"
"They die."
"That seems like a waste."
"How is that a waste? They got to live full lives."
"Weren't you just telling me last week that bees live in perpetual agony and we should commit insect omnicide to free from the suffering of the flesh?"
"Yeah, but that was last week. This week I read a new Snubstack post with a math equation in it and believe something totally different."
"Uh huh."
"It's called updating your priors."
"Okay, well here's my updated prior: I press the button, let the shrimp live for a year, and then I eat them."
"What?"
"All of them."
"You can't eat 10^100 shrimp."
"I freeze the leftovers."
"You would need a freezer bigger than the universe!"
"Really?"
"Yes! 10^100 is more than all the atoms in the observable universe!"
"Okay, then I have a freezer bigger than the universe."
"You can't just—"
"No, wait. Three freezers. One for each flavor."
"You can't just make up three freezers!"
"Why not?"
"It's a hypothetical!"
"Yeah I hypothetically have three big ass freezers."
"The point—"
"If you get to throw out a big ass number of shrimp, I get to have some big ass freezers. Maytag freezers."
"The point of the hypothetical—"
"I've always been a Maytag Man."
"The point of the hypothetical is to interrogate our moral intuitions!"
"Yeah well the only thing I want to interrogate right now is a Red Lobster menu."
"I don't think you're engaging with this in good faith."
"Wait, I got a new hypothetical. A counterfactual even."
"Oh really."
"You know what I would've done differently if I knew you were gonna hit me with this mouthwatering supper-time supposition?"
"What?"
"I would've had breakfast this morning."
"Fuck you."
florence 🦐🪻@morallawwithin
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
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This is the first installment of my new series, “not equivalent to mailbox bashing”
Greg Price@greg_price11
BREAKING: A Fairfax County Judge is sending 19-year-old illegal alien Israel Flores Ortiz to jail for only 135 days for sexually assaulting ten girls in a high school. His defense attorney at the sentencing hearing today ridiculously tried to justify it by invoking the false allegations that have been made against President Trump. He also said that his brain "was not fully developed enough" to know that you shouldn't sexually assault people.
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@fitzr1189 “Fully” execute is obviously trivially true - the number of targets that can be hit in week 1 tomahawk strikes is obviously down 5-50% from their prewar plans.
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What do mutuals who know this topic think about these claims ?
Alex Ward@alexbward
NEW: The U.S. has burned through so many munitions in Iran that some administration officials increasingly assess that America couldn’t fully execute contingency plans to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion if it occurred in the near term, U.S. officials said.
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@presidentholt @sgodofsk Every proposal is 13 because four more is enough to establish control, and you can spin the circuit court justification to make the politics look better. But the Republicans will just add enough to get back control on the next iteration. And so on down the road.
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It bears repeating, as many times as it takes, that you if you think packing the supreme court is a good idea you have no ability to think one step into the future
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@TheGlibReaper @KraftAvi @SaladBarFan @EclecticScribe The R's role is, in fact, of a victim protecting themselves against threats. "Why is my neighbor shooting at me after I said I was coming over right now to kill him, this is such bizarre victim behavior!"
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@dylanfa @KraftAvi @SaladBarFan @EclecticScribe Why is it so hard to acknowledge the Rs’ role? Such a weird victim mentality that it always has to be the Dems’ fault because of something that may or may not have happened over a decade ago.
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