@pasta_nachos Not a conspiratorial mindset or malicious force, just human nature and party politics working as designed. When something goes wrong, the delegates' leadership conspires to figure out what to do, change the rules as needed, etc.
@WeaponScientist The original poster, @phildstewart identifies as no less than the chief national security reporter for Reuters! They should probably decrease his social media posting quota.
@asymmetricinfo If the question is, what do "we" spend, or what does our government spend, and what does that say about our priorities, it is irrational to only look at federal spending.
@CREID2852@asymmetricinfo I'd be happy with tax increases, military cuts, and other cuts that would be certainly required, if the savings really truly no excuses went to retire the debt
@CREID2852@asymmetricinfo Binging on debt during wartime (revolutionary war, civil war, WW I and II, Vietnam, GWOT, Iraq, etc) is bad, but somewhat to be expected. Failing to pay back the debt during peacetime, and instead going further into debt as if the war never ended, is the real binge problem.
@CREID2852@asymmetricinfo Our debt binge started with FICA (Social Security and Medicare tax) double-spend accounting fraud, which since the late 1930's has made our yearly deficit (and indirectly, the total debt) appear lower than it really was.
@SamGuichelaar@SteveNomadic if "this guy" = the student pilot then yes he does not understand how LLMs work, but I can't help thinking, he's pretty much using them as advertised.
@hecubian_devil Oh, sweet summer child...open can, watch worms wiggle etc. Whoever can change rules retroactively or mid-course, which inevitably favors some outcomes and factions over others, has the real power, not the voters or delegates.
@nickgillespie Interesting, but lines like "In some ways, conservative Catholic networks in Washington function like the Communist Party in China." scream 'I told my AI to tweek this analogy and failed to realize it was just mashing together two things I don't like'
@Yakki224@sentdefender The US has an effective on the ground force that can be deployed and supported anywhere on the globe. The US even deployed a small portion of it (MEUs and airborne brigades, approximately 10,000 soldiers and marines) to the area near Iran. The US just decided not to use it.
@WimCos@nntaleb In the US most health care, expensive or affordable, is private. The exception is the greatly vexed Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for which only veterans are eligible.
How statistics became propaganda. New @reason Interview with Wrong Number author Aaron Brown, former risk manager at @AQRCapital and a @business columnist. Learn how to see thru misleading media abt everything. https://t.co/0IWleVIfRf
The editors of the world's most prestigious medical journals are sounding the alarm, and nobody is listening.
"We have peer reviewed, high impact editors in most of the journals that are the most high impact, saying that they don't believe what is being published in those journals is trustworthy anymore."
"The BMJ, The Lancet, all of those editors have come out and said, we have a huge problem. We can't replicate this research and we actually don't even know who did the research."
"Everywhere we've looked for corruption, we've found it."
Emily Kaplan, co-founder of the Broken Science Initiative.
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