The impostor syndrome and such are crazy though, when working remotely from my dust and cockroaches box.

When talking about people with ASD that’s called unmasking and is one of the main goals of therapy.

Or edit a word doc and send it back and have it not be screwed up.

It will be screwed up.

And it’s normal. Things get screwed up.

Thinking that abusive monopoly is better than things screwing up a bit here and there is just plain dystopian madness.

I’m so fucking tired of people around not caring about any deep issues, but suddenly becoming perfectionist in cases where that has been advertised to them as norm.

Even those guys are getting some understanding of modern warfare, wow.

BTW, I know that shouldn’t be too public, but are NATO countries doing this? Because Hollywood movies are good and all, but this is the revolution that has already happened, like tercios. I mean cheap mass-produced drones. One can talk quality-over-quantity all one wants, but there’s no way one wins against a well-organized equal force possessing those in good numbers. And level of organization is something hard to predict and developed by experience, so hoping for Russia and NK and China and who not remaining clumsy would not be wise.

Boris Johnson also knows a thing or two about homoerotic stuff, UK good schools and all.

Also they weren’t very careful with that donor money. They could afford to lose it, if they’d cut spending on various kinds of stupid advertising. Half the media would turn against them, but that’d have upsides too - in the exact area of swaying Trump votes, both those voting contrarian and those voting for destructive change.

Either Armenia or Azerbaijan could host it, Armenia endorsed Azerbaijan in exchange for them releasing another portion of hostages (the 2020 ceasefire agreement says that all PoWs must be released, so they are hostages ; and of course people captured after that are).

So in this particular case, apparently, kickbacks did not play a significant role. Which is actually rare for Azerbaijan.

Maybe they’re hoping for a “This is what your country will look like if everyone continues to ignore this problem” reaction from the attendees?

Not necessarily hoping, but this is a useful effect actually.

COP29 is held in Azerbaijan. People are talking as if Taliban going there were weird, but holding any such event in a country culturally and ecologically most similar to Mordor seems weirder.

Nobody is going to really talk about preserving climate in Baku of all places. The only areas not similar to Mordor polluted wasteland in Azerbaijan are not Azerbaijan, they are occupied Artsakh and sparsely populated mountains, villages with sheep and all, to the north of it. And the main reason they remained kinda green is that they were not controlled by Azeris.

It’s only called a climate conference, in fact it’s a meeting for Azeris to make deals on selling their oil or something.

And it doesn’t matter they don’t actually do that, most voters are low info.

But, apparently, they will do that more than Dems. But just a bit.

There were definitely articles where it was clearly he was picking up iconically reliable blue votes - Black and Latinos specifically. I think it’s more just that people are hurting. The economy sucks for them and has for the past 12+ years.

People also don’t like educated well-off white liberals graciously descending to ask for their lowly votes, to bring these poor bastards to some democratic heaven, but that’s not certain. A lot of those people are, ahem, still kinda Christian and still kinda conservative, like second generation immigrants from Catholic Latin American countries. In any case this kind of condescending attitude tends to be unpopular. Especially when those promises haven’t been fulfilled in the past.

The conference is in Baku and compared to Azeris Taliban is almost normal.

and unfortunately, nothing will ever improve until we replace our broken two party system with a modern multiparty democracy

… and you’ll still have plenty of opportunities to fuck that up

I would like us to be trying to change that and not to make things more and more centralized. Because that kind of civilization will fail.

In fitting natural conditions your house can fly too, just not whole and not for long

I mean, it’s crazy, but I’m more fascinated with smaller airplanes. Imagine it, you can make something like a Piper Cub almost as easy\hard as 1000 years ago it was to make a good hauberk.

And for those mentioning computers - my feeling is the same about computers. It’s nice to have a laptop with Linux or FreeBSD (not counting corporate malware), but a machine much simpler, but one that can be produced entirely in an area of 10mln people, full chain, would be much cooler for me.

I’m in awe of distributed production lines being possible and allowed by today’s machinery.

I think that is something we have to rediscover. Centralization is stifling humanity’s advancement. At the same time in the real world rather unpleasant people’s power depends on it, so it won’t be quick or easy. But I think it is happening anyway, just very slowly. Evolution, not revolution. Surely I would be glad for it to be a revolution, to see it as a (yet) young person.

OK, will watch

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Not sure this is the case with FDA.

We’ll see. Roadkill for snack is fine when meat’s cooked correctly, unless it’s a roadkill near Chernobyl.

But it’s understandable not to trust the guy who had part of his brain eaten by a parasite to cook meat correctly.

While RFK Jr is the same worm man, let’s please remember all the cries about drugs being expensive and regulators stifling competition there, and that (from what I’ve read, I’ve never been to US) what can be put into food is already not very well regulated in your country.

Those agencies are problematic. Just like actions aimed at something good may have negative side effects, often outweighing the effect in the intended direction, similarly it is here.

And after typing the previous I’ve read the article and that’s what he’s saying, mentioning Canada as the good example. Unfortunately by analogy this would mean that for drug regulation he’d go the same way, only with his antivaxxer views. Also talking about kids being healthier is cringe.

Probably because he’s smarter.

Well, maybe US-produced porn will stop being glossy garbage for a difference.