While I will not defend theocracy, the people running Iran are anything but mad.
Brutal and repressive authoritarians? Sure.
But their strategy going back 40 years has been thoughtful and measured, which are not the qualities of people who are “mad”.
The same cannot be said for Trump, obviously.
Get your conscience somewhere other than kalshi
Huh?
Thats the big tell you dont actually give a shit about those third world farmers.
Well, one of us is saying that killing tens of millions of people in the global south is a price they’re willing to pay, and the other is me.
All for the low low price of depriving third world farmers access to fertilizer and power for their homes, businesses, and hospitals.
When you think about it, all of the deaths from the famines that are about to be unleashed will also reduce demand for energy.
I’ll admit that I was enjoying Trump flailing around like a moron, taking one loss after another for the first couple of weeks.
I’m not saying that my Schadenfreude was worth all the death and destruction, just that I could appreciate it.
But that’s all gone now, and I’m just left with the pit in my stomach. If this latest threat turns into a real tit-for-tat, it could spark the largest refugee crisis we’ve ever seen.
To say nothing of all the people that are gonna die in the third world because of a potential decade-long shock to global energy and fertilizer supplies.
So running a local model is unforgivable, but “scientific research” running on hyperscalers, can be justified?
Since no one is leaving critical comments that might explain all the downvotes, I’m going to assume they’re reflexively anti-AI, which frankly, is a position that I’m sympathetic to.
But one of the benign useful things I already use AI for, is giving it criterias for shows and asking it to generate lists.
So I think your project is pretty neat and well within the scope of actually useful things that AI models, especially local ones, can provide the users.
Whenever it’s relevant, I will always remind people that lithium batteries are essentially little bombs.
They are tightly packed energy cells, and the only thing keeping them from causing serious harm or death, is quality of manufacturing, and quality of care once they’re in the consumer’s hand.
Never cheap out on anything power related.
Buying a cheap motherboard or buy cheap SSD’s might mean your computer may break more easily, but buying a cheap power supply, means you might burn your house down - and the same logic applies to lithium batteries, and products that contain lithium batteries.
Well, he’s also a psychopathic groyper white supremacist, so he’s not the ideal recruit, although I wouldn’t put it past Jeffries.
But he is the perfect person to defect from this administration for this reason, because those are precisely the qualities that give him so much credibility with the Republican base.
The investigation predates Kent’s departure, the four people said
I think John Barron is confusing backdating with predating.
Markwayne’s 9/11
Of the many complaints this judge leveled, one of them was that the sloppy prosecution didn’t even wait for the FBI to finish it’s investigation before trying to rush a plea agreement.
In the midst of the plea agreement, the FBI found yet more CSAM, that they were unable to charge due to the DOJ’s actions.
I wonder if that was just the defendant’s dumb luck, or if there’s something else going on here.
I’d lean towards the former, but would not be shocked at the latter.
“It feels disingenuous,” said Callie Barr, who is running to flip Michigan’s 1st Congressional District.
Because it is. The DNC will never implement policy changes that would be perceived to harm their donor class, and shocker, corporate price gouging is good for their donors.
Governors need to call up their national guard, and place them around their state’s vulnerable election infrastructure, with orders to prevent illegal interference in their local elections.
ICE can probably outman and outgun any local police department, outside of major ones like NYPD or LAPD, but not the national guard.
Trump would be forced to bring in the actual military to steal the election by force. At that point, he either has the support for a coup, or he doesn’t.
I remember when former GOP Senate Majority Leader, and heart surgeon, Bill Frist went on Bill Maher sometime around the late 2000s, or early 2010s, and they were discussing vaccines.
Bill Maher, being the shithead that he is, was voicing his vaccine skepticism even then.
Bill Frist, whom I’m loathe to give praise to, turned away from Maher, looked directly in the camera and said that vaccines were safe and encouraged everyone to get vaccinated.
Nice try government, but this free thinker isn’t fooled so easily.
Faking the moon landing and flat eartherism are conspiracy theories.
Acknowledging that the global elite are depraved pedophiles who intentionally create catastrophes to profit off the chaos and misery, just means you accept reality.
If anything, the Epstein emails showed me that I wasn’t cynical enough… and I thought I was pretty cynical.
This isn’t an everywhere strategy, it’s a targeted one.
For example, doing this heavily in Fulton county (ATL) would pretty much guarantee that Georgia goes red this time.
They only have to identify a handful of purple states, and then throw everything they have at disrupting voting in their major cities.
And this won’t be the only thing that they do, for example they’re working on mandating a nationwide real ID requirement for voting, which would prevent literally tens of millions of people from voting.
You were calling them mad in the context of geopolitical strategic thought i.e. madman theory, and that’s just not true.
If you need evidence that they are thoughtful and measured, then just look at this war and how it’s playing out.
And if you need more evidence, please read all of the reporting regarding the latest rounds of negotiations that Trump sabotaged.
Those are not the actions of mad men.