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the 'wheel of reincarnation' paper: http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...

> rediscovered/reinvented and renamed

It's not old yet; it'll be old once it's been renamed two or three times...

Might a "Highly Elliptical Orbit" be what I learned in uni as "Molniya Orbit"?

> The FBI infiltrating political groups of all stripes is to be assumed by default at this point.

That (US domestic political groups, anyway) is their job, after all?

Sorry, I had been attempting to strike a nagging tone more than a bragging one: to put it more baldly, homelessness is a (collective) choice.

[I voted with my feet for this society. That took me a couple of years to learn a language, and a few more to learn a culture, both of which seem to be much shorter timescales than I expect change, whether driven by pollys or by people, to happen upon in my old, or other anglophone, societies — even with nagging.

If you think I have more effective means than nagging, please let me know what they may be. I am generally a fan of mutual aid and direct action, but at this point believe that occasional nagging with an existence proof that there are functioning alternatives, however indirect and unmutual it may seem, is still as close as I can approach those ideals while remaining effective]

nonverbal cues go all the way down to canines, etc.

> I'd say that is zero.

That's your society, not all societies. People, veterans or not, aren't homeless in mine.

See Goldstein, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" (1949)

My relatively stable high trust society has bunker space for more or less the entire population; if the world goes to hell I'd much rather be* among people who (even on our right wing) habitually put solidarity into practice than be worrying about generators, ice augers, and looters.

* one of the best pieces of advice I ever got, related to skating to where the puck is going to be: "if you know where to be, you can let the young guys run"

So if Santa knows who's been bad or good, he had to have known the other reindeer were mobbing Rudolph.

Yet he did nothing about it, right up until he needed Rudolph's capabilities to further his own strategic interests.

Holly-jolly? Right, right.

> ...there is always an uncertainty from having to depend on a foreign government.

If you can't trust foreign governments any more than they can trust you (you are the foreigner to them, after all), why not just divvy up the world into a bunch of "hunger games" districts and use gunboat diplomacy to keep them in line?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unified_Command_map_...

"Analog dance music" FTW

Would George Floyd have anything to do with it? Or is that just coincidence?

In the States, due to the silly way education works, the whole game for parents is physically to move to the good school district.

I think part of what they didn't like was that in Old Man River, instead of singing:

  Git a little drunk
  An' you lands in jail

for Moscow audiences he sang:

  Show a little grit
  And you land in jail

Nowadays we don't even need family and friends to spy on you for benefits; websites and apps do it for advertising revenue.

After all, they kept Paul Robeson in by simply pulling his passport, no wall needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson#:~:text=A%20month...

pics (for anyone who prefers a bit more subtlety in their international relations):

https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-...

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17070508372...

Ancient Aliens ought to be required viewing in schools, because they are very careful to employ enthymeme and reported speech to make a series of statements each one of which is technically true, yet have implications which are false. Gaining the skill to recognise when these kinds of claims are being made is, I feel, essential for the electorate in a democracy.

Just what do actual soldiers think of the LARPers, anyway?

ML models with open weights? Like, say, Qwen?

The US got a lot of things in a lot of fields because the sort of people who were smart enough to make those advances were also smart enough to get far away from the Reich while the getting was still good.

Similarly, I believe the Renaissance was not so much a "rebirth" of culture as it was italian port cities suddenly benefiting from a sudden influx of highly educated people bugging out from Constantinople; more a translation than a reappearance.

Speaking of Austin, anyone wishing to admire the art of the Gerrymander ought to look at the multiple electoral districts covering the state capital.

PS. Hook'em Horns :)

See also Mutual defence clause (Article 42.7 TEU)

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...

OK, that makes sense.

Luckily there's also Article 42.7 TEU, then:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...

Here is a recent picture, taken during discussions about Greenland: https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-...

You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark.

You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all"

If we may talk brass tacks, he also has several boomers that could lob a bus or a few at the new White House ballroom. Half an hour flight time if they didn't bother to leave their home base; shorter than that if they fired from somewhere in the Atlantic: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17070508372...

Surely the most intelligent military on the planet would know every combatant has a duty to disobey a manifestly unlawful order?

See https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-st...

Just because Trump's own countrymen let him steamroll them, why do you think Europeans would?

Here is a recent picture, taken during discussions about Greenland: https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-...

You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark.

You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all"

If we may talk brass tacks, he also has several boomers that could lob a bus or a few at the new White House ballroom. Half an hour flight time if they didn't bother to leave their home base; shorter than that if they fired from somewhere in the Atlantic: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17070508372...

https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-st...