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@jdluk87 Y’all slacked…all Siri can do is set alarms it’s embarrassing

@KenRoth Because Middle Eastern countries are Muslim majority countries. We all know that’s the answer Kenneth, so do you

Israel's ambassador to the UN ducks a question about why Israel is the only Middle East nation allowed to have nuclear weapons by claiming that Israel, as it bombs countries left and right, is a "stabilizing force in the region."

@Mdu_Mchunu1 Lmfao ☠️

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@ShaykhSulaiman Giving this guy about 3 weeks

JUST IN: Iran responds on the Negotiations allegations: "You have reached a stage where you are negotiating with yourselves" “Do not call your defeat an agreement.” “There will be no news of your investments in the region, and you will not see the former price of energy and oil.”

@hillarytaylorvi @USEmbassyUganda The irony of that reply appears to have escaped you... do please point out exactly where I’ve misunderstood something. Or just run off like a badly paid NRM bot, that’s cool too

@floatingpointz @USEmbassyUganda befriend comprehension

bobi wine struggles to answer the question on negotiations about his safe return between ambassador william popps and the nrm regime. it seems he is unaware of the role the @usembassyuganda is playing to lower the political temperature!

@lumospascal @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 You don’t understand the game

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 Torture still exists, maybe y’all just don’t wanna play the game

You can't play "game theory" with people who believe they win if they die.

Good point academically, but we both know who "they" are in this context. Mapped onto the real world, death by itself is not the victory, but death in service of a political or religious cause is. "They would just suicide and win" is a category error, that’s explicitly forbidden.

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 i understand "if one of us escalates, we both die" thinking, i disagree it leads to "i kill us both and win" if death was really victory they would just suicide and win, but they dont, which means there are better victories available. positive sum agreements can be found

The Piers Morgan vs Prof Marandi clip making rounds is a good sorting mechanism. If you think Marandi owned Piers in that exchange, you are either dumb, uneducated, or so badly educated the difference barely matters

@vanjajaja1 @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 My tweet is about deterrence, and you’re still misunderstanding the equilibrium bro. It’s not about leverage in the sense of "I will kill you"… it’s "if one of us escalates, we both die". If one actor treats death as victory, it becomes: "I kill us both and win"

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 your initial tweet sounded like disagreement, but wasn't and yes, if "i will kill you" was leverage used for better outcomes then not having it will give worse outcomes. the "toy models" continue functioning

@vanjajaja1 @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 "Build toy models with suicidal actors if you want, no disagreement there" Why not? You just get a worse game with shit outcomes

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 Do you think you can play "game theory" with people who believe they win if they die?

@lumospascal @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 Yes and deterrence requires shared understanding of what counts as loss. So you’re wrong..now kindly fuck off

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 I’m not making a general statement you fool. I’m talking about the kind of people who consider death a payoff

Natif says Ug is "live and let live", that Ugandans love their gay friends the same and don’t really care. @hillarytaylorvi points him to hundreds of openly homophobic comments, instead of defending the claim he immediately runs to: "I think you and I are having totally different arguments and I really don’t wanna spend more time on it." Just a spineless retreat the second reality shows up, every single time. Y’all let him off too easy

@TonyNatif "I don’t seek to minimize the LGBTQIA experience especially in a country like Uganda." 🤔🤔🤔 yet that is exactly what you have been doing these couple of days. ~~~~ discounting lived experiences. minimising as 'overdramatised' rubbishing statistics not supporting you.

I think you and I are having totally different arguments and I really don’t wanna spend more time on it. I don’t seek to minimize the LGBTQIA experience especially in a country like Uganda. I simply say that the reports as portrayed in western media don’t necessarily reflect the reality on the ground. Uganda is a quasi conservative country. Very rarely if ever do people actually live their conservative pretense. This also applies to how they treat the gay community. They’ve lived side by side with them for eons. And now to current times; do I think the law is great? Absolutely not. Is it really being implemented extensively? Nope. Should it be scraped? Yes. But to try and use politics of hate to paint an entire populace as pitchfork carrying, “kill the gay” vigilantes is patently absurd and might actually hurt your cause. That’s my point. How you take that is entirely up to you.

@vanjajaja1 @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 Yes, and I never said deterrence was a requirement for anything besides the current equilibrium. You introduced that on your own to argue with a point nobody made

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 look up, youre in a conversation about whether you can play game theory with people who think they win if they die but yeah people who genuinely dont care about dying wouldnt be affected by avoiding mutual destruction which is key to current nuclear strategy discussions

@lumospascal @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 No you retarded X poet it is not

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 Life is the deterrent or torture, you just don’t know to play the game

@glbaumann Bet they’ll be thrilled

Or you can buy one of these and drive it long enough to pass down to your children.

@StreetFashion01 Sick

Issey Miyake Pleats Please campaign shot by Yuriko Takagi in Kenya, India, and Morocco (1995)

@SpireJim @kiuvarsity you are a disgrace

Imprison Spire … Sure, imprison Spire

@vanjajaja1 @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 Where did I say deterrence is a requirement for game theory? I spoke about the deterrence equilibrium that modern nuclear stability depends on. Build toy models with suicidal actors if you want, no disagreement there

@floatingpointz @LifeMathMoney @sahandy89 I think its you who's missing the point. You can play game theory without deterrents. That is not a requirement for game theory

Nope..even in plain English "effective" still doesn’t fit. A bracket only ever has a marginal rate, not an effective one. Saying "effectively 40% for that bracket" implies those dollars are taxed in isolation, when the income below is also taxed at lower rates. It’s simply the wrong word :)

@floatingpointz @StrictlyAlvin did you somehow skip the last part of that sentence? that explicitly says “for that bracket” yes. it's effectively 40% for that bracket

i'm confused... hasn't paye always been 40% for the top tax payers?

@nikita_helene @StrictlyAlvin Using "effectively" here is incorrect dear, you are discussing a marginal rate, not an effective rate

@StrictlyAlvin but it's effectively 40% for that bracket