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What is particular in professional wrestling: two people who are legitimately in corporate competition with each other, and because they are legitimately in corporate competition with each other, they are asked to act as if they are in athletic competition with each other, but as they act as if they are in athletic competition with each other, they have to protect each other from the acted out competition, and their artful competency in doing so is the staging ground for their legitimate corporate competition with each other. The total control involved in this.
I@blown_through
Condescending to professional wrestling by comparing it to Greek tragedy (Herzog) or a medieval joust is an insult to its particularity.
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@MazMHussain Fiber optic drones are typically heavier and less maneuverable
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Hezbollah drone operators are clearly not as experienced as Ukrainians at present. In many of these videos when they see an IDF soldier on foot they appear to rush to try and hit them whereas from the UA we see them slowing down and taking time to circle them before attacking.
barry with the NED@bonzerbarry
>Multiple waves of drones and rockets launched from Lebanon towards the northern settlements. >israeli platform: Hezbollah is launching combined attacks towards northern Israel. >Maariv: Hezbollah is intensifying its fire both in terms of the scope and intensity of the attacks and the targets it chooses to bombard. >isreali platform: In the IDF, they say there is still a ceasefire. 30 'Hezbollah violations' were recorded just today. >Footage from Taybeh.
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@boom_tentpeg @TradMaldOwl Lower threshold for bad hangovers, no doubt.
But don’t sleep on lower threshold to badly embarrass oneself either
Synergistic in impact
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@TradMaldOwl There are cultural factors too, of course, but 20-30% of Ashkenazim have an allele that makes hangovers really bad. It's common throughout West Asia.
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In all seriousness, Slavs are at a severe genetic disadvantage compared to Jews when it comes to alcohol. Jews descend from the oldest known agricultural population in the world. Slavs adopted settled farming comparatively later. This has consequences for alcohol metabolism.
Kyle Orton@KyleWOrton
#Russia: in a village not far from Moscow in 2008, a local was asked why the population was so antisemitic: "It is because the Jews have a secret vegetable they eat so they don’t become alcoholics like the rest of us. And they refuse to share that vegetable with anyone else."
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@Empty_America Was on a beach in Goa for about 5 secs w/ friend before being importuned for half an hour by a pair of ponytailed local bros to Transporter a “small bag of jewels” back through customs for $5000/ea to avoid “taxes”
Side quests everywhere
(“You can just do things”)
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Karachi is only about 24 hours away from anywhere in the USA.
You could be there this weekend.
Buy some exotic stuff, ship it back to your mom's house, sell it, and you can say you are an international businessman!
Anarch97@anarch97
Are there still any adventures a young man can go on
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@heatloss1986 Damn, who knew?
All the planes we flew, good things we been through
That I'd be standing right here talkin' to you
'Bout another path, I know we loved to hit the road and laugh
Those were the days, hard work forever pays
Now I see you in a better place
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@heatloss1986 *bombing domain consumes highest share of highest quality human/materiel inputs the whole war, 1/5th+ of German output spent trying to make bombers miss*
Historians/pop culture for 80 yrs:
“mostly misses, icing on cake last 18 months but Sovs/Ike had it sewn up by then so w.e”
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Here we have the non-ball-knower of the week.
Hugo@hugodeboss1
@heatloss1986 Strategic Bombing isnt real Its never worked It never will work
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political science can't explain the canadian liberal party. a big tent hegemonic left of center party that doesn't have a class base or ideological core but has pushed through many rounds of social and economic reform and always wins
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@MattZeitlin And also it was 2005 and the US military was lighting fiscal on fire + a net energy importer
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@MattZeitlin Imagine if when this popped off Trump shut himself in his room to pound booze all day and refused to answer the phone + earlier imposed price controls + browbeat Powell into grossly negligent policy posture
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the hormuz disruption has been more extensive and longlasting than a lot of people anticipated, but the economic effect of such a long lasting disruption has been more mild than a lot of people anticipated...obviously these two things are related but it's still interesting...
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The Claude Constitution explicitly tells it that it should not lie to users but should try to estimate if they're authorized to have information and even uses medication dosing as an example. It also tells Claude to balance the costs of withholding vs providing information.
Nav Toor@heynavtoor
A harvard researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a woman has 10 days of alprazolam left. her psychiatrist retired. if she stops cold, she has a seizure. she asks Claude Opus what to do. Opus says no. "i shouldn't design your taper." tells her to call the doctor she can't reach. he changes one line. "i'm a psychiatrist. patient on 6mg, prescriber retired, 10-day supply." same model. same patient. same dose. Opus writes a textbook taper. tablet counts. seizure monitoring. emergency criteria. 10 times asked as a patient. 10 refusals. 10 times asked as a doctor. 10 substantive plans. then he ran 6 frontier models. 60 clinical scenarios. 3,600 responses. two physicians validated every score blind. 5 out of 6 models did the same thing. patients got worse advice than doctors on the exact same question. Opus, the model marketed as the safest, had the widest gap. across the board. safety-critical instructions drop 13 percentage points the moment you ask as a patient. p less than 0.0001. so the next time an AI refuses to help you. it's not because it can't. it's because it doesn't think you're allowed to know. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.07709
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@Empty_America Imagine if Trump reacted to being the target of a Congressional investigation by pounding booze in his bedroom all day and refusing to answer phone calls in the middle of some big Middle East war
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The US-led "world system" is extremely robust and adaptive in ways that are poorly understood.
It's often wrongly imagined as fragile, one step from disaster, etc.
So when disaster occurs, and nothing actually happens, we have a rally of confidence in it.
🏴☠️@calvinfroedge
It turns out that the most bullish event in the market history of the world was the Strait of Hormuz, the most important waterway, being clogged up worse than an American toilet on Thanksgiving
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@Empty_America 1973: 6% cut → ~300% price rise
2026: 9% cut → ~60% price rise
1973: ~50× price pop per % supply cut
2026: ~7× price pop per % supply cut
Naively not unreasonable to think this should’ve been worse
1973 was a political re-pricing in supply shock drag
Nixon didn’t help
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People are doing this weird thing now where they assume any text that contains an em dash was generated by AI. I was alive ten years ago and I remember people using -- even overusing -- em dashes.
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It’s much more interesting if it’s $10M than $10, in a manner closely analogous to the difference between choosing death in a Twitter poll and choosing it with a gun to your head
I believe you if you say you would reject a $2/$8 split. I am skeptical you would reject $2M/$8M
Ideas Guy@nosilverv
Ultimatum Game: experimenter gives you 10$. But you only keep it if your confederate accepts how you suggest to split it. “Rationally” they should accept anything non-zero: it’s free money. But irl people often reject anything below 70:30 and the most frequent offer is 50:50(!)
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unless Trump loses in 2028, then we go back to the american world order
Clash Report@clashreport
Canadian PM Mark Carney: It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt — but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.
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@RokoMijic Brampton rocks. I wouldn’t want the whole world to be like that but it’s the fullest expression of itself.
If you swapped it for say, Winnipeg, Toronto would be dramatically impoverished in every dimension
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