Tacos and Airplanes

PhD in Tricknology from Hustlers University

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@in_the_woodsss @martian_lore I try my best, but it's a hard life.

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we had to read this dreck in English class in school.

of course we also had to read pieces like "Night" by Elie Wiesel, whom I only later found after high school was a Jewish ultra.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56. https://t.co/WQWxavBm5l

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@zephyr_z9 Do you think they're eventually going to be the third big vendor globally after OAI and Anthropic?

The Linux/RHEL to OAI and Anthropic's Windows/MacOS?

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the internet was supposed to increase the ability of normies to critically interrogate the past. but instead it's become Chud Central for right wing goycattle clickbait and nazi kanging.

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Also true of Hollywood and US/UK visual media.

The way that the whole industry has fallen off a cliff face post-Covid, as people prefer scrolling social media video, combined with the fact that Hollywood is in a creativity drought and the death of linear television, and, well

[Zoso 🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic]

Underrated thing is that Indian soft power has actually *receded*, significantly. As late as 2016 (with the film Dangal becoming huge in China) India had a respectable amount of soft power via bollywood exports which are now squeezed from all sides by Turkish/East Asian products

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if we see Thiel in an X-Men movie, you'll know those Palantir contracts for Israel went sideways

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

> be German
> get brain-fried by edgy Continental philosophy
> back a charismatic Führer promising national rebirth and superiority through conflict with the world
> support his movement that memes the country into a war of aggression motivated by a kooky doctrine about the special historical importance of Jews
> actively contribute to the war effort
> proceed to lose the war
> flee to Buenos Aires, Argentina
> be Adolf Eichmann
> picture unrelated

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The Economist talks about how British people have gotten addicted to buying consumption goods ("treats"). But the overall moaning and also stating that it's a brake on productivity growth gets it backwards: Britons can't afford treats anymore because the economy has barely grown.

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

> be German
> get brain-fried by edgy Continental philosophy
> back a charismatic Führer promising national rebirth and superiority through conflict with the world
> support his movement that memes the country into a war of aggression motivated by a kooky doctrine about the special historical importance of Jews
> actively contribute to the war effort
> proceed to lose the war
> flee to Buenos Aires, Argentina
> be Adolf Eichmann
> picture unrelated

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"In the past few years China’s relations with its rich neighbours have been transformed. Once it imported high-value parts from north-east Asia and focused on low-value final assembly. Now it competes across the whole supply chain."

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

As they deindustrialise, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan must reform https://t.co/7ZDgSkIzHj

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@DavidLiptonWI China SPR wasn’t activated during the Ukraine war’s beginning. If shale forces up supply, SPR release is taming demand/hoarding instincts it seems.

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@BarneyFlames @sp6runderrated The entire anti-trust obsession is entertaining. Tech co’s are hard to break up due to their reliance on network effects unlike Standard Oil. Maybe natural utilities firms should be split or better regulated. But overall, the US economy is so large that anti-trust barely matters.

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@Ersatz_Solus @blancmontagnard The worst is when a tweet about China or Europe or [insert X here] breaks local containment and you get a lot of replies nodding in agreement, but with the most idiotic justifications possible as to why you're right. Worse than those low yield "no ur wrong" replies.

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this is such a perfect encapsulation of America's China debate.

will​.​i​.​am talks about how he wants Chinese style industrialism in the ghettos he grew up in. Both praise Sino-industrialism. But then Maher gives the ultimate cop-out: but China doesn't have freedom.

[紀春生 @ji_chunsheng]

Will.i.​am今天上Bill Maher的播客，谈到几周前去深圳的感受，以及对在中国自由的理解。

[Tacos and Airplanes @blob_watcher]

the first warm day of this year in my city on the edge of the Midwest and we already got motorcyclists crashing it's gonna be a great summer

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@LFriszt Did you see this?

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This isn't correct. The primary reason is their unproductive services sector. Some developed countries have had dismal demographics for years but haven't fallen in Japan's trap (eg Poland, South Korea, Taiwan etc)

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility:
• In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest
• Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15
Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture).
• The younger the age group, the sharper the drop.
• in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years
• Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user
• Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa
• Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing.
Excellent again @jburnmurdoch.
https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM

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@li_dawei98 A US invasion or attack would be a gross violation of sovereignty. But let's be real here. Cuban society is demoralized beyond belief and they really would welcome liberation. They really messed up in the 1990s not doing Opening Up and Reform with Cuban Characteristics.

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@devarbol People now want more space and leisure. And they're going to reclaim it now by not making babies.

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@devarbol I think the reason for this is just that...they're overpopulated in the literal sense. The sustainable population for China is 600-800 million people. Their population explosion had a lot to do with steppe nomadic policies in the 1800s. 1400m population is a human disaster.