@KulakMAGAMan @TheBabylonBee Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor did not act badly. The CGI is bad by today's standards, but we had never seen anything like the pod race before.
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meadbert
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@meadbert @TheBabylonBee Compared to JJ Abrams, yes.
Compared to the original Trilogy, no.
The 2nd of the trilogy was horrible, just people acting badly to CGI barf for 90% of the film.
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Man Sadly Informs Son After Watching 'Return Of The Jedi' That They Never Made Any More Star Wars Movies buff.ly/YCXfL7J
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@AtlasShrugged85 @TheBabylonBee I liked the first JJ Abrams movie. Not so much the one where rock & roll defeats the bad guys.
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@meadbert @TheBabylonBee It’s similar to how fans now view the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies in light of the 2017+ productions.
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@Havoc_XXI @JomboyMedia This is not the batter's fault. I was never taught to swing at that pitch with two strikes. Not even in Little League.
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USA beats the Dominican Republic on a really really bad call and the stream is dead quiet
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Hope he knows the Starcraft 2 community is generally very against gun ownership 😅
Aleksey Krupnyk@WhiteRaSC
I think it's time for good people around the world to unite and be ready protect ourself
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@Oilfield_Rando This can't be correct. I do not believe that North Carolina had net migration out of the state in 2025. I am confident that North Carolina had migration into it. If there has been an exodus from NC I would be shocked.
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@iosif_lazaridis Yeah, but one of those would have the lowest area and that would be the unique solution.
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@meadbert No there isn't a unique solution because "polygon" is a class of shapes that is not uniquely identified unless one specifies the number of vertices. There is a triangle, quadrangle, ..., k-gon that cover 80% of the points while minimizing land area.
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"create the most compact polygon (in terms of land area) that encloses 80 percent of the places where the significant figures grew up"
is an ill-defined problem without specifying the number of vertices of the polygon.
Charles Murray@charlesmurray
This erroneously-captioned graphic is periodically posted and every time I see it I am compelled correct it. Here's the actual text from _Human Accomplishment_ that introduces the map: "If we ignore national borders and instead create the most compact polygon (in terms of land area) that encloses 80 percent of the places where the significant figures grew up, it forms the shape in the figure below, with borders defined by Naples, Marseilles, the western border of Dorset County in England, a point a few miles above Glasgow, the northern tip of Denmark, and a point a few miles east of the city that used to be Breslau in German Silesia (now Wroclaw in Poland)." (p. 446) The actual caption to the graph (as you can see for yourself) is "Accomplishment and population both rose nonlinearly after 1400." The 97 percent figure used in the book refers to the percent of accomplishment in the *scientific* inventories that occurred in Europe and North America. (p. 381) The text that the person who created this mishmash used to caption the two graphics does not occur anywhere in the book and is factually incorrect. . Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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This is how to explain the difference between progressive and conservative views on crime.
Is criminality caused by poverty? No, it’s because criminals are stupider than average.
Is criminality caused by lack of opportunity? No, it’s because criminals are more impulsive than average.
Is criminality caused by a lack of education? No, it’s because criminals score lower in traits like conscientiousness.
This doesn’t mean that material conditions can’t make a difference at the margins. Of course you can change the incentives and thereby change behavior.
But progressives will always be confused about criminality, because they prefer to believe that every human being is basically the same and only responding to material conditions, but that’s just simply not true. We have mountains of evidence on this. Human beings are not in fact mostly identical. And criminality is associated with a particular set of traits.
eugyppius@eugyppius1
Criminality is tightly associated with traits like low conscientiousness, low intelligence, high time preference, and not having a spare $50 lying around (because if you did you'd spend it all on crack or meth).
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On my broadcasts, I set myself the goal of reaching the grandmaster league at the age of 45. It wasn't easy, but we did it. Anything is possible! There will be a stream in the evening.
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@ConceptualJames I strongly disagree with not voting. It does not matter if you don't like either candidate. In an election of Stalin v Hitler you vote! They may both be bad, but you can't tell me it does not matter who wins.
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@ThomasSowell This tweet is dripping thick with irony ... unless you consider 16 seconds to be long form.
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Katie Miller: "What's one invention that's made us worse, not better?"
Elon Musk: "Maybe short-form video. It seems to be rotting people's brains."
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@ohaiom @marmadukebj16 @RandyEBarnett What about a tourist? A wealthy Chinese mother vacationing in Disneyland ends up delivering in Anaheim. She then goes back. Her son, who has never taken a step in the US is a US citizen? May we draft him into the armed forces? May we tax his worldwide income?
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@marmadukebj16 @RandyEBarnett Because a very small number of people are not - literally, foreign diplomats. That’s it.
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The debate over “birthright citizenship” gets very abstruse very fast. So, now that the issue will be heard by SCOTUS, it’s useful to keep in mind what is and is not contested. A 🧵 thread:
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Consistent rise & fall of civs requires something bad to accumulate over centuries. Which is most common?
(A) Degrade environment, deplete resources
(B) Inequality, including elite numbers & aspirations
(C) Org/institution inflexibility
(D) Values, norms and status markers
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@robinhanson It is a terrible thing! I am watching too many friends and family members who should have been well off absolutely destroying their family's financial situation.
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"43% of U.S. adults think '…betting on sports … is' a bad thing for society, 7% say it's a good thing, & 50% say it's neither good nor bad. The 43% figure is up from 34% who said the same thing in …July 2022." reason.com/2025/10/07/ame…
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@Emmanuel_Sev @robinhanson I answered assuming lump sum but now that I reread I think that it meant adding to your income.
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@robinhanson To confirm, is it a one-off payment or a yearly one?
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Using your average income over the last few years as a reference, the next 8 polls will ask how much you’d need to be paid in multiples of that income (added to your other income) to agree to accept one of 8 changes. Assume this change is fast & painless, & that both this change & the added income last for the rest of your life. Assume no other changes than those that clearly result from this change.
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@ThomasSowell It would encourage them to increase the "Earned Income Tax Credit" each election which I consider spending despite its name.
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🔥 New Feature Alert! 🔥
Command your army like a true tactician! 🧠⚔️
You can now draw a shape to spread out your units — just select multiple units, hold right-click and drag, then release. They’ll auto-space along your path!
✅ Dodge AOE with ease
✅ Form a perfect concave in seconds
✅ Look like a strategy god 👑
Try it out in Stormgate Update 0.5.0 coming out end of June🗺️💥
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