Charlie Beer Ӿ

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Charlie Beer Ӿ

Charlie Beer Ӿ

@CharlieBeer1

Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@Mr_Andrew_Fox @JockGlasgow @israelnewspulse Again, I am more likely to trust people who are getting shouted at and praised by both sides. As stated above I have more often than not found this is an indication of truth-seeking character although neither that nor the inverse would I carelessly state as universally accurate.
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Andrew Fox
Andrew Fox@Mr_Andrew_Fox·
“Do as we demand or we’ll commit war crimes” is one hell of a take.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@JockGlasgow @Mr_Andrew_Fox @israelnewspulse Maybe he just isn't captured by either left or right ideologically and simply says what he thinks is true... For me when he says things he knows will upset people who just agreed and supported him on another issue, shows integrity is more important to him than pandering to groups
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@NeckPinch @Mr_Andrew_Fox @israelnewspulse Don't jump to general conclusions about me due to this correction but the analogy does not hold up. It is always a war crime if you bomb a hospital with the PRIMARY objective of disrupting its intended function as a hospital, even a military hospital! Same with power plants!
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Vulcan Shitposting Academy 🖖🏻🖕🏻
If those power plants have any military connection or function whatsoever - and most such plants do in the heavily-militarized Islamic Republic - they are legitimate military targets under that very law of armed conflict. That means if the IRGC, Basij, etc. are tapping into the electric grid, the plants powering it are likely legitimate targets. If the guards at those plants are IRGC, if the IRGC vets all who work or visit those plants, etc, they aren’t exclusively “civilian” in nature. I mean, hospitals are protected by international law, but if terrorists make use of them (either inside or beneath), that opens up a military to targeting them. They’ve lost their exclusive civilian function. Same goes for power stuff in the IRI.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@Mr_Andrew_Fox @reportingLibya I appreciate that rock, hard place is the succinct version of your answer to this, but why- if that is what you think- would you argue that allowing Iran nukes is favourable to the (clearly also negative) consequences of this war. Genuine and non- loaded truth seeking question.
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Andrew Fox
Andrew Fox@Mr_Andrew_Fox·
There is probably a better than 50/50 chance that the Iran war is going to be a global economic disaster. It’s going to make the 1970s look like a cakewalk unless Trump ends it, sharpish.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas

BREAKING: Qatar says that its Ras Laffan industrial city, home to a massive LNG plan, was hit by Iranian missiles. "Emergency response teams were deployed immediately to contain the resulting fires, as extensive damage has been caused." Note the wording: "extensive damage"

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen@bayer04_en·
Two hard-fought games 🤝 Well played, @Arsenal, and best of luck for the rest of your season.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@KonstantinKisin Mostly agree- it's unlikely we all die. But it does seem somewhat different to other situations. Reading between the lines: 1) This could take a while. 2) as Trump implied it could well involve boots on the ground. 3) it likely has wider implications for international politics.
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Konstantin Kisin
Konstantin Kisin@KonstantinKisin·
It's the third time WW3 has broken out in a year and as many smart people have predicted we're all going to die. Like the last two times. It's been a pleasure knowing you all and I hope to see you in the afterlife. Or just back here tomorrow reading the same panic slop.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@Mr_Andrew_Fox @middletonmark1 I don't think that that's the only reason that he would be unelectable but it's important that this is mentioned and settled before other matters when people vote. It's the same reasoning that should be applied to AFD in germany where I now live. Elon wildly wrong to back either
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Andrew Fox@Mr_Andrew_Fox·
@middletonmark1 I really like some of the things he says/does but he’s backed up but absolute lunatics who make him unelectable
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Andrew Fox@Mr_Andrew_Fox·
I was kind of Reform-neutral until Braverman and Jenrick defected. My boss is Reform; I don’t always agree with him, but he’s a good bloke. Recruiting a raft of ex-Tory headbangers though… nah. They were the reason I hesitated in voting Conservative. For now, it’s a no brainer.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@BenGreenJeru Whilst I agree that Gary is wrong- the most generous take is he is tunnel visioned- he has a strong moral conviction to stand up to perceived injustice. If someone like that believes the lies then the reaction is expected. Damagingly wrong but should affect tone of our response
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Ben Green@BenGreenJeru·
“The most important film of our time”. This is a crazy assertion. Obviously this film is disputed. Happened in a war started & maintained by Hamas. But for once on X you get a glimpse of how obsessed Lineker is with Gaza. Over on Instagram, this is just the output for the last 8 hours. Lineker has no skin in the game. Never mentions Hamas refusing to disarm. Never mentions the Jihadist death cult. On a daily basis, Lineker posts propaganda from Qatar and Turkey “news channels”. Obviously Iranian protestors are never mentioned. Gary Lineker’s obsession with demonizing Israel is sick.
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Gary Lineker@GaryLineker

The most important film of our time. ⬇️

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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @ganyicz Even if you take what AI is best at- languages- the end product still reads like AI. It's obviously better in some ways than most people could achieve, which is already worrying. But it's not yet better on its own than an above average author or playwright or essayist.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @ganyicz I'm not going to bet against solutions being found to this although in the meantime they are stalling more than they let up. Will still need human coders just less. In almost all areas I've seen AI used-at a high level the end product is only as good as the human guiding it.
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Filip Ganyicz
Filip Ganyicz@ganyicz·
So, have we all decided to just accept this?
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders@SenSanders·
Yes, Elon. I do lack "any sense of adventure" when that "adventure" will, as you have made clear, force tens of millions of workers out of their jobs. The goal of AI and robotics must be to improve life for all people, not just to make you and your fellow oligarchs even richer.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

The takers like Bernie will eventually follow the makers, but they’re cowards too and lack any sense of adventure, so they will wait until it is safe

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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders To answer about Bernie. I think like many socialists he is an ideologue which is always a precarious thing to be if history teaches us anything. I think it's important to concede that his criticisms are often fair. But as you say it's the solutions which are usually the problem.
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Colin LeMahieu
Colin LeMahieu@ColinLeMahieu·
@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders What evidence do you have of political destabilization? The simplest explanation seems to be that Bernie is a socialist that thinks the economy needs to be planned (by him).
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Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders This is impossible to separate entirely from general discontent about the corn laws and being not too long after the french revolution. But historians usually see it as a contributing factor to the situation nearly culminating in revolution.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Well there are many examples. It's impossible to decouple them entirely from other contributing factors but one example would be machinery replacing jobs leading to the luddite rebellion in Britain and then the climate of discontent continuing until revolution was avoided 1834.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Yes I totally agree with this. Zero sum arguments are getting tiring in general. Both left wing and right wing are infested with this type of thinking. Trump has the same problem with his delusional tariff thinking
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Colin LeMahieu
Colin LeMahieu@ColinLeMahieu·
@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders Even in places where top incomes have gone up, median incomes have also gone up. From what I've seen this position is held by people that assume wealth is zero-sum; under that assumption seeing a wealth gap implies some people lost for others to gain. This isn't reality.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders This is also basically what I was alluding to with short term/long term. Except my point was that these periods of structural unemployment took time to resolve- short in one sense but long enough to destabilise things politically and open the door to radical movements.
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Colin LeMahieu
Colin LeMahieu@ColinLeMahieu·
@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders It's called structural unemployment #technological-advancements-and-automation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">grokipedia.com/page/Structura… and we do know what happens because we've look at what's happened historically with these shifts: Specific jobs and industries decline and maybe never come back but there is no massive unemployment.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Sorry clumsy wording. I am well aware that we are objectively living with highest standards in human history. People who think otherwise are delusional. Our participation in society and our voice also counts for more than ever -but this specifically seems under threat
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Colin LeMahieu
Colin LeMahieu@ColinLeMahieu·
@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders It's not just better off on paper, it's better off actually. The lowest quartile of earners today live far better lives than at any point in history.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders AI seems highly likely to lead to an exacerbation of this. Most people will be left with comparative scraps even if objectively everyone might be better off on paper.
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Charlie Beer Ӿ
Charlie Beer Ӿ@CharlieBeer1·
@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Also even if you broadly agree with free market capitalism like we both do, it's not just hard lefties who are deeply concerned about an increasing wealth gap and an increasingly oligarchal/plutocratic power structure of our governments.
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