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I don't always know when I'm being an asshole. So let me know.

@RaminNasibov Yes

Is perfectionism a superpower or a trap?

Don't follow those who seek to lead you, seek those you wish to lead you.

@AndrewOlding @snowyxq1 You would have to be either a bot or retarded to not understand the actual leverage. I'll be gracious, assume neither, and that leaves what, you'd like me to badmouth catholicism? Doesn't matter the religion or anti-religion. All your leaders are likely compromised.

@p2pdht @snowyxq1 What's the actual leverage?

Why is the Pope promoting Islam while Christians are being slaughtered by Islamists?

The main function of religion is to redirect charity, take credit, and reap the social rewards. Want to help the poor? Give money to the church, they take a cut, and then give some to the poor, and they get all the social credit. It's like banking, but for social credit. Governments up this 100 times over with taxes and socialism. They get greedy. So governments fall and religions remain. But they are running the same scam, and probably ran by the same people. They just pump you dry until the government fails and then you fall back on the religion.

Why are we giving $11 million in tax money to Catholic Charities? If the Catholics want to provide charity it should come from their parishioners. Same for the Baptists and the Methodists and the Pentecostals...

@AndrewOlding @snowyxq1 Every religion, every government, is compromised. Replace them regularly or suffer.

@p2pdht @snowyxq1 If the leverage is obvious, why didn't you explain it when I directly asked you to? Can you explain it now?

Governments have been walking away from agreements almost as long as governments existed. I'll assume a mistake in translation. That being said, I think dialogue is preferable to war. I think Russia and the US individually have a lot in common. The question is can our two governments reach a lasting mutually beneficial agreement with or without NATO?

💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov: I would advise the US, in every case where it dislikes a particular government, to begin by engaging it in dialogue. No country has ever refused dialogue with the US. ☝️ It was the US, however, that first made agreements & then walked away from them.

@Pontifex_es Actual adults who live in the real world see this as naive. Time to grow up altar boy. Maybe this worked 1000 years ago but today this will get you killed. Catholics need an upgrade.

No hay que inventar la #paz, hay que acogerla, aceptando al prójimo como hermano y como hermana. Nadie elige a sus hermanos y hermanas: ¡sólo tenemos que aceptarnos unos a otros! Somos una sola familia y habitamos la misma casa, este maravilloso planeta que las culturas antiguas han cuidado durante milenios. #ViajeApostólico #Camerún

@Pontifex_es Were you an only child?

The potential leverage is obvious. In the long term, I don't see people choosing to not use such leverage. I think every major religion is corrupt, every government is corrupt, every global company is corrupt, and every top 1% family is corrupt. I think they are all blackmailed or willing to kill blackmailers.

@p2pdht @snowyxq1 How does this speculation make any sense to you? What leverage do you think these forces have on the Catholic Church?

@Pontifex Yes, you drag catholicism into darkness and filth.

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@jawwwn_ I'm fine with palantir as a company. But when you allow the government to access data they are not themselves allowed to collect you start crossing lines.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Jensen Huang: AI = American Intelligence 🇺🇸 “AI makes America the dominant country in the world.” “I spent half my life in Europe—they’re whining and crying. We have the right chips, software, engineers, culture…” “It’s combining into a juggernaut.”

Great point. A good reason for local production .

@Babygravy9 The comments on this post are very entertaining.

@Babygravy9 Pro tip: you don't have to like her as a person to knock her up. In fact, western civilization is doomed unless we get over the Disney worldview and government school feminist brainwashing and realize women have always created problems for themselves and others.

The problem with birth control and its effects on women's brains is that, as far as we know, the effects are permanent. The shrinking of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex--which regulates fear and emotional control--is not reversed by cessation.

@lsanger The internet archive should sell a collection of thumb drives, with documented hashes. I'd buy some.

As a society, we will greatly regret not having made multiple, independent copies of Internet Archive, letting it all rest in the hands of one organization.

Rust is ok, but the group of programmers is dicey. It's like saying arabic is a great language, so let's hire only people who speak arabic. This works in theory, but then you get some people who are great and some who are in a freaky cult. And if it stayed that way, tolerable. But it won't stay thay way, because the ones in the freaky cult will not tolerate anything else. The cultists will preferably hire other cultists. The cultists will also run off non-cultists. It's only a matter of time and you end up with something you don't want.

@mfranz_on Rust is pretty great. xAI code is mostly Rust and 𝕏 is rapidly replacing legacy Twitter Scala code with Rust.

Python is something special and Rust was not mentioned, only C and C++. Perfect.

raylib 6.0 is around the corner and I just updated the architecture diagram, it blows me away how far it has come! 🥲 #raylib architecture v1.0 vs v6.0, 12.5 years apart

In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad. Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average. They ranked dead last out of 65 countries. Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.

@JKash000 @RodDMartin I bet we can detect the level of oil in each storage tank. If we started hitting the mostly empty ones we could speed this up quite a bit while still exercising a lot of restraint.

@RodDMartin Iran only has 13-15 days of oil storage capacity. It’s already been 3 days. Ten days to go until they have to stop oil extraction!

Today Iran lost the last leverage it had: the Strait of Hormuz. It also lost 90% of its income. Iran is being strangled. It is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day. And America doesn't need a single "boot on the ground", not even on Kharg Island, to achieve that. The result is decisive. America has turned the tables on Iran, and not just on Iran, but on every government and every faction that hoped to benefit from Iranian pressure, confusion, or Western hesitation. The United States is now the one power that can effectively determine whether the Strait of Hormuz is used, by whom, and on what terms. That is a staggering reversal, perhaps even more for China than for Iran, but certainly for our perfidious NATO allies. People think Trump is improvising. That's a combination of TDS and refusal to do the homework. Trump has: 1. Told you exactly what he was planning for Iran, out loud and in public, since 1980. 2. Also told you exactly how he thinks, negotiates, creates and takes away leverage, in 12 or 13 books and 15 seasons of a top-rated TV show. Oh, and I hear he was President once before. If you don't understand how he works by now, the problem is you. Iran, and the Iranists abroad, will go on celebrating imaginary victories right up until the regime falls or signs the terms of defeat America imposes. And then, almost certainly, they will celebrate that too. But if you want to understand what's really happening, read the Deep Dive I wrote yesterday. It's an eye-opener. Link in the comments.