Karl Henwood

Writer, soldier, dog servant, avid chicken observer. Be glad the dinosaurs got small and fluffy; a chicken the size of a T-Rex would make us into nuggets.

[Karl Henwood @ManglerOfProse]

@CTIronman @NRO @petespiliakos @RameshPonnuru Ah, yes Australia is completely able to remove all authority from the President of the United States. Trump was but a helpless infant, unable to so much as speak out against these things.

Is it possible for conservatives to have agency?

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@CTIronman @NRO @petespiliakos @RameshPonnuru Is "he absolutely had the power to do the right thing but didn't want to pay the cost of doing it" really the stinging retort all the people replying here seem to think it is?

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@adamsmithtwo @mattyglesias Exactly this, especially if you're poor enough to lack things like food, shelter, etc. $50k buys a lot of warm dry space and beans.

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@adamsmithtwo @mattyglesias More that people are bad at risk, but to an extent yeah.

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@josephnollasj I feel that mimes is one of those things where it could be a good or bad way to blow your fortune. Hiring mimes to follow and mock your enemies? Good. Hiring mimes to follow your friends? Not cool.

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@ettingermentum I'd say it only became the consensus under Trump 2 because he fired everyone who understood the complexity and risk... previous few decades were marked by a loud minority advocating war being ignored by all the people who had ever seen a wargame of what would happen.

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@WilsonNetNews @firebornnn @phil_from_DE @StatisticUrban The problem is, nobody ever seems able to point anyone to the right people or places. Which is frustrating, since even google searches and whatnot don't turn up much. Not saying this stuff doesn't exist, but there should be big red arrows pointing at it instead of this vagueness.

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@WilsonNetNews @firebornnn @phil_from_DE @StatisticUrban If a movement engaged in a huge quantity of organizing and outreach online, but refuses to provide information online and is often rude to people who ask, that's pretty solid evidence that the movement isn't organized, disciplined, or prepared enough to hold power.

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@WilsonNetNews @firebornnn @phil_from_DE @StatisticUrban The DSA and those who agree with them should do be the ones providing a detailed roadmap to this without allowing mass violence. I remember 2020-2022 when asking about details online was met with insults and a curt instruction to do the reading... when the reading didn't exist.

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@WilsonNetNews @firebornnn @phil_from_DE @StatisticUrban That's how this is typically read by the public. I work with lots of people who aren't into politics, and they read abolish the police/prisons as simply no longer trying to stop even the most horrific violent crimes. Needless to say, they think it's nuts.

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I'm super sad about what is happening with Twitter right now, for all its faults its been an amazing way to connect with different communities.

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@foxfeather More emu content here please. It's a ray of absurd light in this hellhole.

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@admcrlsn Honest question, can you write cursive? They tried to make 3rd grade me learn, and I absolutely refused, and I wonder who even knows how these days.

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@Smith4Gm @feelsdesperate No, it's halfway between an ordinary Jew and the fabled Spherical Jew. Sort of an oval shape, like humpty-dumpty.

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@inkhat Congratulations!

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@NateSilver538 This makes sense (really). If you trained an AI on the output of the very best programmers in the business critiquing code from the less skilled, they would correctly point to error by the less skilled coder all the time, so the AI learned to do the same.

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@daveweigel I dunno, some of his parodies are so good (Amish Paradise) that when the real version comes on I'm eternally surprised that the lyrics aren't Al's.

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@DrewSav I think me meant the man does not have his full abilities? That can be an insult, but it's also used as a simple description.

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@nataliemj10 Also if you read what he writes, Nate Silver still seems pretty committed to intellectual honesty and empirical reality, even if he does make his personal preferences clear.