David Grogan
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David Grogan
@David__Grogan
Software developer, unlikely to tweet.
Dublin, Ireland شامل ہوئے Ocak 2018
426 فالونگ28 فالوورز
@phl43 There are actually multiple examples of flat earthers doing experiments which proved the earth wasn't flat, which convinced them to stop being idiots (on that issue at least). The laser thing is probably within reach of a committed lunar truther too.
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The problem is that nobody who has the ability to fire a laser at specific coordinates on the surface of the moon needs to be convinced that humans really went there and the people who do aren't going to trust what they say.
iGeekbb@igeekbb
美国当年登月的时候，就怕你们不相信，安装了三台激光反射器在了月球表面，但凡有点实力的天文台，往那个坐标打一束激光脉冲，就能收到返回光信号，年年打年年收到，56年了没断过。全世界航天局都承认美国登月是真的，都2026年了，还有一群民科在造谣阿波罗登月是假的。
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@Lockbreaker3 @APHClarkson they initially claimed they weren't even going to talk to the US unless there was a full ceasefire, after previously also saying they wouldn't even do a ceasefire. that's two folds already.
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@David__Grogan @APHClarkson They haven't folded on that at all. That's exactly why the strait is still closed. They're wisely retaliating against Israel's benefactor, who they estimate is weak.
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Also worth noting that in scenarios where China, the EU and India are unhappy with Iran's tolls posturing then Tehran will come under wider economic pressure and loss of any trading partners it has. The whole tolls gambit is not sustainable
ᴅʀ. ʜ.ᴀ. ʜᴇʟʟʏᴇʀ 🖖🏾 ⚜️@hahellyer
Since Oman has already said it wouldn’t cooperate, it’s peculiar the proposal is being taken so seriously. Much commentary seems aimed at embarrassing DC over the poor decision to go to war; but the focus should be on the implications for the Gulf Arab states & global trade.
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@Lockbreaker3 @APHClarkson well if they don't then the ceasefire won't hold. they already seem to have folded on the Lebanon question, so I wouldn't be surprised if they fold on this too, but if not, it'll be more war.
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@David__Grogan @APHClarkson Well that's what the terms are as of now. Iran doesn't have much reason to fold on that.
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@Lockbreaker3 @APHClarkson There won't be a lasting ceasefire that involves the strait being policed by Iran and charging tolls.
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@Lockbreaker3 @APHClarkson the speedboats can be taken out with even cheaper drones
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@APHClarkson This is a miscalculation IMO. They can and will do this in the long term and it won't be difficult for them. The strait can be policed with speedboats you can order from Bass Pro Shop without the threat of fighter jets.
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@AndyWarrenStein @Halalcoholism I don't consider tankies woke, horseshoe theory undefeated.
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@David__Grogan @Halalcoholism Calla Walsh
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@natejb2003 @StatisticUrban Polanski believes you can use hypnosis to increase the size of a woman's breasts. Yes, he's thick.
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@StatisticUrban Absolutely atrocious take, you have no idea what you’re talking about, you probably only believe this because Polanski has a Northern accent and you’ve bought into the small-minded UK class system
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@bendreyfuss @techfusionjb The comment you're replying to was written by AI btw lol
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@techfusionjb Right and I honestly think that despite the endless discourse about this almost everyone intuitively understands what you’re saying and gets that this is actually the line
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I don’t get the blowback to this tweet. Everything Megan describes is a completely reasonable use of AI as a tool. I also use it to talk through an idea then come back with the thing I wrote and get a copy edit from it. There is nothing illegitimate about that.
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
I use AI to do research (i.e., find things to read, explain parts of academic papers I find ambiguous or confusing), transcribe interviews, generate pushback on my column thesis, suggest trims when I'm over my word count, sharpen podcast interview questions, and perform a final fact check on columns and editorials. But mostly it's compressing the ancillary tasks to the main job: reading, thinking, and writing.
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@davidfowl Do you have any tips on getting this working, been meaning to get into combining copilot with playwright (which I've not used at all). Are you using an mcp, agent skills, just telling it to use the cli and hoping for the best?
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One of the biggest productivty boosts I've gotten from agentic engineering is testing automation. Writing the code is great, writing tests are great, but nothing compares to having it open up browsers or run a sequence of command line operations to manually verify a change.
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@sentientist the 'gang-raped by immigrants' bit was completely made up.
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This woman's story couldn't be more perfect for the narrative unless she also had top surgery and was forced to drink seed oils- so it won't surprise you to find few of the details here are corroborated and Ramos was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at 13.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
🇪🇸 A young Spanish woman will be euthanized today, after a group of illegal migrants gang-raped her while she was in state care. In 2022, the teenager Noelia Castillo Ramos placed in a state institution amid family difficulties and placed in a state-run home together with North African migrant minors where she was raped by them. The trauma broke her. Months later, Noelia attempted suicide by jumping from the 5th floor. She survived, but the fall left her paraplegic. The rapists were never arrested and remain free. Instead of delivering justice or adequate long-term support, the authorities offered assisted suicide as the solution. Today, March 26, 2026, Noelia Castillo Ramos will be euthanized. The system that failed to protect her is now "solving the problem" by ending her life
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@variedints @mattyglesias No, many centre-left parties are pro-private healthcare too. It varies a lot country to country.
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@mattyglesias Are right European parties really all against private healthcare?
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@BDSixsmith The migrant attack seems to be completely made up btw, she was raped by an ex, and there were two other sexual assaults at a nightclub (doesn't go into details), she jumped out a window days after the last assault.
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This is a horrific case, and this is clearly not the most important thing about it, but she can't have been a teenager in 2022 when she says in the video that she's 25. Does anyone have a solid account of the facts from Spain?
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Visegrád 24@visegrad24
🇪🇸 A young Spanish woman will be euthanized today, after a group of illegal migrants gang-raped her while she was in state care. In 2022, the teenager Noelia Castillo Ramos placed in a state institution amid family difficulties and placed in a state-run home together with North African migrant minors where she was raped by them. The trauma broke her. Months later, Noelia attempted suicide by jumping from the 5th floor. She survived, but the fall left her paraplegic. The rapists were never arrested and remain free. Instead of delivering justice or adequate long-term support, the authorities offered assisted suicide as the solution. Today, March 26, 2026, Noelia Castillo Ramos will be euthanized. The system that failed to protect her is now "solving the problem" by ending her life
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@David__Grogan @Jonathan_Blow Only in the same sense that it's impossible to argue against the existence of God
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As someone who programs game ("simulation") engines, I have a long-term project where I want to explain why the "simulation hypothesis" is nonsense in like 5 different ways (while pointing toward what a sensical version would look like).
So this Saturday at 10am Mountain Time, I will do a livestream that is the first in the series of Simulation Saturdays. To start with, I just want to lay out the framework in a not-organized, random-discussion kind of way, to just make an outline of what all the relevant topics would be. Then on later Saturdays we can go to various subtopics and talk about them.
(Unlike #screenshotsaturday, the first Simulation Saturday will be at a time that is widely recognized as Saturday by many people, though I make no promises about subsequent Simulation Saturdays.)
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@pogarithm @Jonathan_Blow I'm not saying it's a well motivated belief, just that it's impossible to argue against. If there was a simulation, there would be no reason to believe it would operate under the same laws outside of the simulation, just as with simulations we ourselves make.
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@David__Grogan @Jonathan_Blow If you assume an outer universe can have its own laws of physics then yeah anything is possible. I could even prove that your grandmother is a bicycle.
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@pogarithm @Jonathan_Blow also, maybe it's fine to simulate everything in a fine-grained manner in the meta universe? who's to say our notions of what constitutes vastness would compare to the potential actual vastness of any non-simulated outer universe?
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@pogarithm @Jonathan_Blow you wouldn't need to simulate the entire universe at a subatomic level though, if something like an experiment on subatomic particles needed to be simulated, it could be, everything else could be more coarse grained....
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@Jonathan_Blow the simulation hypothesis is impossible to disprove, for similar reasons to radical scepticism or solipsism, but again similarly, not something where belief in it is in any way well motivated. I've never heard any argument, for or against, which was in any way compelling.
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