EnsignRedshirt

It’s called dialectics (probably, I have never read a book)

It is deeply hilarious to me how much “intelligence” work is just knowing about things that anyone can find on the internet, and how often they can’t even get that right.

Yeah, the easy parenting hack for noisy toys is a piece of tape over the speaker. Doesn’t always work, but it won’t cost you much to find out.

I don't know if this counts, but I only started listening to the podcast after finding the original CTH subreddit (which quickly became the only tolerable place on reddit from my perspective). Tangentially, the only reason I created a twitter account was to understand the myriad twitter references in both the subreddit and the show. I quit reddit after the purge, quit twitter after Musk bought it, but I do still keep up with the podcast for the most part. Very grateful that this place exists to continue the spirit of the original subreddit, which had long-since outgrown the podcast by the time it got banned.

It’s a shame Sleve Mcdichael retired from politics, he’d have had a shot.

The funny thing is that in many ways, Trump is to the GOP what Bernie was to the Dems. He is the Republican that people want to vote for, and everyone else is a professional politician going along to get along. The difference is that the GOP primary is more democratic than the Dem primary, which will never not be funny.

As things get worse and more chaotic, we might see the rise of this type of system out of necessity. Supply chain issues, genuine shortages, mass migration, etc. are all problems that will need solutions that something like Cybersyn can solve, and that the current roster of institutions can't or won't. The infrastructure is all there, as is most of the software required. It's not really a technical problem, it's a political one. The people in charge don't want interconnectivity at a societal level because that would inevitably lead to communism.

This is 80% of the way to an Onion article.

The media so desperately wants this to be a real contest. At least they can feel safe in the knowledge that they won't affect the outcome.

The prize is real insofar as they award a prize, but it’s a little like if Netflix paid the Motion Picture Academy to award an Oscar for Best Streaming Service.

dumbest Nobel price winner

It bears repeating that there is no Nobel Prize for economics. It's a fake prize that they added after the fact to add credibility to a fake science.

Yet more evidence that Irish are PoC.