irrational zoologist

@Eric_Erins this but adobe style would go much harder

Doing all this just for the houses to be builder grade is a generational bit

@balajis @romanhelmetguy missing part of this is if/when china is ascendant the internationalists will move there, become "chinese", and then subvert from the inside to dilute their ethnos running the same mass migration playbook. in some ways this is preferable as long as we control our borders.

> “All actual physical territory will be controlled by whoever wins the USA vs China Cold War.” Also, I disagree with this, because Chinese empires aren’t like Western ones. (1) Western empires have a lifecycle of invading everyone, conquering, converting them to their ideology, printing a lot of money and causing a lot of ethnic strife, and then collapsing. That’s Rome, Spain, Portugal, France, Russia, Britain, and now America. (2) China is the opposite. They just want others to pay tribute to them, via the tributary system. Otherwise, they don’t want to invade the world, because they would become less Han Chinese in doing so! (3) In a deep sense China is more MAGA than MAGA. They are stay-at-home traditionalists who will let the barbarians abroad do their thing so long as they pay tribute, trade for goods, and not “interfere in China’s internal affairs.” (4) The dual absence of both America and China from much of the map creates opportunities. American empire will withdraw and China, not wanting to repeat the same mistakes, will not deploy Chinese troops abroad in a naive way. Instead it will just trade with local partners in each region. (5) China is like the opposite of the neocons and neolibs, they basically don’t care about what a country does, so long as it doesn’t mess with China. It could be totally corrupt Venezuela or totally meritocratic UAE, Orthodox Christian like Russia or fundamentalist like Iran. China doesn’t care and doesn’t care to invade their land either. Will just trade with them rather than waste trillions on pointless wars.

PRINT OUT THE INTERNET Ok. Let me make it extremely concrete. Where did this giant sprawling datacenter come from? It was printed out from the Internet. Specifically, Zuck used the Internet to gather men, make money, organize materials, purchase territory, and shape it to advance Meta's goals. The principal such goal is, ultimately, the replication of Meta itself. This datacenter makes money in the cloud, which enables Zuck to purchase more land, which he repeats all over the earth. Think of it as viral growth, but in the physical world. Now extend that beyond Meta, towards any Internet tribe...such as your following. After all, where was your following built? Was it built one handshake at a time? No, it was built on the Internet. And where do you spend your time? Do you spend it convincing people in a small town? No, you probably spend it on the Internet. And where do you make your money, use your money, find your information, talk to your ideologically aligned friends? Again and again, the Internet. As Orwell said, to see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. The Internet is, right this moment, in front of your nose, as you're looking at your screen. Yet despite being the single most important force in the world, the thing that billions personally engage with for hours per day, the driving force that essentially didn't even exist in daily life just a few decades ago, perhaps the most popular thing humans have ever created...the Internet is still somehow underestimated. After all, the Internet is now much larger than America, with billions of users. The Internet is actually much wealthier too, as it's the only thing with global economic scale comparable to China. The Internet also now drives every single political and military event, from the initial Twitter-driven election of Trump and Brexit, to crypto and AI, to the advent of drone warfare. In fact, the Internet was in part built by America to outlive America. That's why Paul Baran of RAND proposed a packet-switched network, so that the Internet could resist a nuclear attack. ARPA eventually adopted the same blueprint on efficiency grounds. But Baran's initial idea remains important: even if the American state went down, the Internet's network would stay up. Concretely, what it means is that brilliant Americans designed a communications system that could survive even as everything else went down. So that we could restore America from cloud backup. We might need to draw on that property. We might need to print out the Internet, to organize social networks in the physical world, to gather peers together online to start building the societies we believe in offline. Because if we can print out a datacenter, we can also print out a new city.

@balajis far left: gibs me dat center left: gibs dem dat center right: dont gibs dem dat far right: it's all so tiresome

Far left: we need to tear down the system Center left: we need a system Center right: we need positive-sum games Far right: we need to win zero-sum games

@leftofcentermi @spencerpratt patriot

@phenomenalogram @spencerpratt please shut up

People always ask me, “how can we fix LA? We don’t have the money!” We have the money…it’s just being stolen! You wanna fix the budget? END THE FRAUD. I will bust the scammers and put your tax dollars back to work for YOU.

@leftofcentermi @spencerpratt you are free to vote for the homeless industrial complex kleptocrats instead bc they dont say mean things about marxist retards

@spencerpratt Didn’t like your Hasan remarks. Think big tent, Spencer. All hardworking Americans welcome.

@ThrillaRilla369 hilarious how you went right from gunpowder to drones like those are the two weapons you know about

Gunpowder used to be for entertainment, then it was used to kill. Drones used to be for entertainment, then they were used to kill. AI is used for entertainment.

@marcorandazza the mongols live on in freedom of religion laws and ICBMs iykyk

today, no legal system is based on the Mongols’, nobody reads ancient Mongolian books, its history inspired nothing. Rome still exists in the Catholic Church, Civil Law, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian languages, the entire notion of a republic. Eat a dick, Genghis.

@naval privacy: yes petty crime: rampant police brutality: revealed to be mythical, so yes on a technicality shame: ended way before ubiquitous streaming cameras

Ubiquitous, streaming cameras will bring the end of privacy, petty crime, police brutality, and eventually, shame.

@uncle_deluge so good

Second favourite. Second panel makes me howl every time

I think this is my favourite comic strip of all time

@publicinte if you eat a really bad meal you can get food poisoning

So much discourse around her looks and dating inequality that I have to tell you all what my cousin told me when I was 12 to remind everyone it’s not complicated if you eat a good meal and a bad meal, you eat twice.

@BraedenSorbo imagine living in canada

I have not seen anybody talking about what’s going on in Canada right now. This man was pulled over and told by police that he had to come with them because a psychiatrist labeled him “certifiable.” No paperwork, no rule of law, just a doctor saying that if he didn’t come with him right then and there that he would be arrested. The fact that a government could do this is terrifying.

@Hotshot_Movie @PatrikSandberg patriot

@PatrikSandberg I shoot all of his ads. Pretty sweet gig when you work with a great candidate.

As if working people in entertainment are just dying to slum it on non-union campaign ads for mayoral candidates.

still so funny to me so many far right people heavily personally identified with homelander, a character who was only ever calm when he was able to drink breastmilk of women in his life and act like a literal baby with them

@Breaking911 x.com/phenomenalogra…

A cat that fell from a stadium roof was safely caught by fans using a large team flag, which acted as an improvised net and saved the animal.

imagine being on the precipice of hurtling into an abyss of the unknown and after losing your last ounce of strength landing safely in the loving arms of a multitude of higher beings all celebrating euphorically in the aftermath of your preservation

@cloneristic staged vid. we are all being farmed for engagement. the biggest time wasting scam artists are "content creators"

Men and women have become embroiled in a prostitution ego flex stand off where men get points for getting sex without money and women get points for getting money without sex, where the biggest time wasting scam artist "wins." Low trust insecurity dating is cursed.

@Eric_Erins yup

Huge improvement, but a town of subdivisions built like this lacking a complete continuous street grid, intermixed with real mixed use buildings will not really be truly urban/walkable in the ways people are seeing this as a return to traditional planning are praising it for.

@PalmyrPar there must be a hegelian synthesis to be had here

The 2000s frutiger aero “muh skeuomorphism” revival is already as obnoxious and overplayed as the hyper-minimalism and 80s obsession of the 2010s

@frankwrighter @RestoreBritain_ patriot

I went up to Makerfield to canvass for @RestoreBritain_ - and explained why Restore is the only party which will save the nation:

@BlackLabelAdvsr just say you dont have the pioneer spirit in your heart bro

I see these neighborhoods being built in Texas and I’m trying to figure out who in their right mind would buy a mansion with zero lot lines. Like, you could do a handshake through your kitchen window. Insane! Please make it make sense.