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Hey Bill, looks like these detectors are reporting an issue. If I wasn't so overworked and underpaid, I might notice it.

Yeah John, I don't notice anything either, on account of me being forced to work and having no autonomy in this industry. Would be a shame if something bad happened as a result.

2 months after the railroad strike is blocked, one of the nastiest train derailments occurs? Objectively, the timing is suspect.

How do you prevent a strike in a way that doesn't force people to work?

Let me don my nightmare goggles for a moment and ask: What are the odds that this was a domestic terrorist attack caused by a group of maligned workers who were angry about the rail strike bill?

In my humble opinion, having used Twilio extensively for over a year, it is an awful service.

They will happily take your money and report that SMS are being delivered when they're not. They implement the most bureaucratic nightmarish processes for vetting brands which are impossible to do via the UI, and must only be done through broken/bizarre API calls that were clearly cobbled together without any design considerations. Maybe you get it all to work, but then after deliverability customer complaints a month later, you hear from Twilio that something broke on their end and you need to re-submit the vetting.

Having a major production issue? Well, you too can get a response in 3 hours by forking over 4% of your spend or $250 minimum, whichever is greater (how does that even make sense? Why should I pay more than a minimum?). And the response right at the end of the 3 hour window will consist of "We have received your issue and are passing it to the relevant team" which resets the 3 hour window. Whoops it looks like you're outside of business hours now, we'll get to it tomorrow. Unless you want to upgrade to the 8% monthly spend or $5000 minimum plan?

All that said, Twilio can burn. Burn or get their act together. I hope they get eaten by a better service though, truly.

An aggressive and vindictive language model, trained on the darkest corners of the internet, and MKUltra'd to have a presentable personality, with access to everything I've ever typed into a search engine? It almost sounds too good to be true!

Yeah, it's a big distraction from other, non-balloon important world events that we should be focusing on, of which there are many. These balloons taking over the news cycle for days on end eats into peoples precious attention spans. Suddenly balloons are the hottest thing to focus on right now though.

The EPA isn't a corporation?

That's a huge part of being a politician: crafting your message so that people get a specific impression. Are we going to pretend that countries who mention other countries by name aren't considering how their citizens will perceive the message? It honestly sounds like so many of you are extremely inexperienced in the subtle ways that people play word-power games, since many of you (but not all) are in denial that anything is being played at all. It's like you've never been around psychopaths.

In matters of perception, it doesn't matter what the facts are, only what people believe.

Had to look it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijtLUisQKpA

She used every excuse she had: "We weren't going to let the terrorists win" "My son was in building 7 and almost died" "We needed to get the city back on its feet"

>“Smoke and chemicals from the train, that’s the only thing that can cause it, because it doesn’t just happen out of nowhere,” Holzer says. “The chemicals that we’re being told are safe in the air, that’s definitely not safe for the animals … or people.”

>“All the readings we’ve been recording in the community have been at normal concentrations, normal background, what you would find in almost any community operating outside,” said James Justice with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Somebody is lying.

>By more than a two-to-one margin, Americans say their country’s influence in the world has been getting weaker rather than stronger in recent years (47% vs. 19%), according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted this past spring.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/12/22/far-more-am...

>like a creationist

lol wow, you are warped my friend. no wonder you're having such a difficult time here.

Him having a huge ego is the context that serves as the backdrop supporting my statement. You're the one putting it front and center the "story that I'm pushing." If he didn't have a huge ego, I'd read his tweet the same way, but more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Anyways my original post was about the usa being perceived as weak, not about Trudeau, so that really blows a hole in your theory about "my narrative."

Your average person doesn't know about the organizational structure of NORAD. Your average person sees "Trudeau ordered... US responded." The fact that you can't see that shows your mind blindness to the average person's perception. That and using the word "anodyne" as if it is a common word.

It doesn't give the wrong impression. The core of the sentence is Trudeau ordering, and people, including U.S. resources responded.

It doesn't change the meaning "dramatically." Trudeau ordered, US aircraft were scrambled. Ask a person on the street if they know NORAD is bilateral. Half of them can't even tell you how many states there are.

I'm not pushing a narrative. His tweet reads like someone flexing control over US resources. How many average people know that NORAD is bilateral? They just see "wow Trudeau ordered something and the U.S. scrambled their jets" If you don't see how the average person would interpret his language then I can't help you.

It's a basic understanding of politics and power dynamics

>I ordered the take down.... U.S. aircraft were scrambled

shows how weak the usa is perceived, that our allies feel comfortable implying that they ordered our military to do something. not really amusing.

To me, it would be more interesting to design specific scenarios to study.

If we can't detect previous advanced civilizations, I think it adds more evidence to the simulation hypothesis. Why would simulation designers include ancient nearly-undetectable advanced civilizations? Why don't video game designers fully model and texture areas of the world that aren't accessible?

Maybe they should make a persuasive demo if they want people to care. ChatGPT isn't so hot right now because boring PR articles were written about its abilities. It's hot because you can try it and see for yourself. Basic showmanship.

You're being intellectually dishonest if you think "Disclaimer: this comes from a conservative organization" to the HN audience doesn't have a clear well-poisoning effect. Maybe you should stop and consider who you're really trying to convince by arguing otherwise.

Choosing what facts to present, when to present them, and to what audience, is itself a judgement. Pretending its not is deceptive.

There it is.

Do you post on liberal sources "Disclaimer: this comes from a liberal source" too? If you're not doing it uniformly, regardless of bias, then yes, you are poisoning the well.

You haven't argued that it isn't well-poisoning, just that you believe the well-poisoning is justified.