LaMarseillaise

It is not pedantic. You said that Iran funded terrorism “across Europe”. When asked for sources, half of what you provided was not relevant to the statement. I surmise you are arguing in bad faith.

Two of these are outside of Europe.

The top comment on this very thread at the time I write this is clear bad-faith disinformation. Life is a Cabaret, but the Cabaret is not life. The tone here has changed for the worse, especially since the election, and I cannot keep pretending.

I have vivid nighttime hallucinations. Sometimes it is bugs or spiders (so many spiders), other times dancing teacups emptying themselves onto my face. I remember a time when my alarm clock was a lion that I had to tame. But a few times it was very much what you describe. In one case, a ghostly looking woman looked me directly in the face from not more than an inch away.

Our minds get kind of funny when we are asleep. They manifest strange and incomprehensible imagery. I wouldn’t make too much of it.

(By the way, I have these much more frequently when I am stressed. Perhaps that was a factor for you?)

With mouse support coming in visionOS 2, this could be an interesting experience on the Apple Vision Pro.

My concerns tend to be the cost in terms of land and intermittency that are harder to evaluate. Nevertheless, I believe we should not let the perfect (nuclear) be the enemy of the good (renewables), so your comments are welcome. We should neither fuss over the aesthetics of a solution nor obsess over the exact time at which it is strictly preferable to status quo on a very specific metric.

I knew someone who worked at the child care center. Things got really bad after the pandemic. I heard that people were promoted for very sketchy reasons. The result was a bureaucracy-heavy mess of incompetence and political infighting. It apparently was unbearable, and it is not a surprise to me that this happened. All the corner-cutting and nickel-and-diming made it clear that the higher-ups were trying to kill this perk. It is kind of sad, since this single perk was specifically called out when Google used to get the ‘Best Place to Work’ awards.

The first complete work I read was Sallustius’ “Conspiracy of Catiline”. I was not prepared for such ridiculous propaganda.

> If you ask specifically about the discrepancy it will usually deny the discrepancy entirely or double-down on the mistake.

I have had the exact opposite experience. I pasted error messages from code it generated, I corrected its Latin grammar, and I pointed out contradictions in its factual statements in a variety of ways. Every time, it responded with a correction and (the same) apology.

This makes me wonder if we got different paths in an AB test.

I had a conversation with it in Latin yesterday. I also just spent way more time than I care to admit on inquiries about late-18th/early-19th century governments. It seems better at providing high-level information than specifics. I consistently find errors in anything to do with dates or calculations, but it is accurate enough to be very useful to me. Much better than the vast majority of my elementary school teachers, at least.

For anyone curious, the name could be translated to “All Ways”.

I have learned the hard way that when dealing with government software (at least in the US), you must assume the least favorable/most unfavorable interpretation of any information given.

When I saw the email informing the author of the over-purchase, I knew there was no way out. Purchasing the difference, as the author did, would only cause more trouble. The questions now are how much will be refunded, whether any purchases will go through, and whether there will be a fine or legal action. Refer to the rule above for my guesses.

I think many people do not appreciate how devastating this is to public trust.

The idea that the Soviet Union won WWII is itself propaganda and ignores the contributions of many, many nations, not to mention the entire Pacific war. Also, the liberation of France was exclusively the western allies.

Economics is not physics. It has no laws. And the field could not exist if it were zero-sum.

Edit: I should clarify that economics does not have laws in the same way physics does. The ‘law of diminishing returns’, for example, is more of a trend or generalization than an absolute, and is frequently violated in a way that gravity is not.

Economics is also still not a well understood field. There may be government policies with unexpected effects due to that incomplete understanding. We have seen this many times.

I had been saying for years that Russian conventional military power was vastly overestimated, yet even I have been surprised at their dismal performance so far. A week ago, I assumed decisive Russian victory to be a foregone conclusion. Now a Ukrainian victory actually seems possible and perhaps even plausible. You are right to point out that it is early, though.

> It could be seen as provocative.

The invasion of Ukraine has invalidated this line of reasoning. NATO is the only definitive way to prevent a Russian invasion now, and every moment of delay puts Finland in greater danger. If Putin is crazy enough to invade a NATO Finland, then he is definitely crazy enough to invade a non-NATO Finland.

Jacquesm demonstrated that there was no point, and therefore nothing to address.

Whether or not you make this argument, or whether you feel it is unnecessary, is beside the point. People often ask "What about the waste?" as a sort of final argument. I have encountered this multiple times. It can be time consuming and frustrating to explain why it is not a serious issue, and hurts one's credibility to dismiss the issue too quickly.

It was implicit in your statement:

> Without pressure from grades, [students] won't do the work of learning.

If it were qualified with ‘many’ students, there would be no such confusion. Your comment, as-is, is trivially falsified by the example of any auto-didact.

In what way does the late-fee policy prevent this?

The average compensation for a member of the board of directors at an S&P 500 company is ~$300,000/year. Goldman Sachs pays ~$600,000/year. Senators and Representatives are paid $174,000/year.

I consider decision-making for the United States far more important than that of any one company in the S&P 500. Therefore, to be competitive, members of Congress should be paid at least twice what they are paid now.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-compensation-directors-in...

I was quite sure that this depiction of a bomb was based on 18th century grenades, which were spherical and had a string fuse. The word ‘grenade’ even comes from pomegranate, due to the visual similarity. It seems like this depiction may have originated a little further back than the American Civil War.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenade

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate

Universal statement? The above commenter specified California. I provided an example confirming that statement for California.

Not to mention, the comment is practically a truism aside from the locations mentioned:

"Wind only displaces gas and coal when governments aren't shutting down nuclear to persue [sic] it..."

If a nuclear plant were shut down and replaced entirely with wind, then that necessarily means that coal and gas are not displaced.

It is absolutely true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encina_Power_Station#Retiremen...

I lived there. I believed the 'environmentalists' when they said that SONGS would be replaced by renewables. I am not falling for it again.

Last week, I looked at the comments on a YouTube video about the Afghanistan withdrawal. I noticed something suspicious: two comments with a similar political view ended with a few whitespaces and a pipe character (“|”), and had generic user names. Then I looked again - there were actually dozens of comments like this on the video!

I know exactly what happened: the programmer used the wrong delimiter. It makes me wonder how many times the programmer did not make such a mistake.

> There are oppressive fundamentalist Christian organizations

I suspect that if they were in power, they would justify their actions as being ‘within the limits of Christianity’. I do not think tw04 was blaming Islam - the quotes indicate to me that this is how the Taliban sees it.

> most dangerous plane in the US military.

Only for the pilot.

You enjoy proximity to other meat suits?

Without that, it sounds to me more like hell than heaven.

Accurate. I have said basically this a number of times. And I am from the US.

They may be referring to ‘cold welding’. Oxygen lets metals ‘remember’ what they are connected to. References:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

- https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y2nQ8isf55s