This is a bad piece, and the dumbest kind of whataboutism. https://t.co/PytGJOL6lT
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) August 7, 2020
Fuck Sarah Jeong. I will always, always hate her for what she did to Naomi Wu. Again, fuck Sarah Jeong.
That she’s also a complete idiot is some sort of revenge.
Amazing how ingrained CCP propaganda has become even in mainstream outlets that would deny it. Why is WeChat the only bridge? Because Beijing blocks everything else and censors WeChat. Why is everything about whether it upsets Beijing? Terrible framing
https://t.co/jUYkUsi73N— Space Cowboy Balding ๅคง่ๆฟ (@BaldingsWorld) August 7, 2020
Assclown Dems screaming about Russia; meanwhile, Chinese propaganda pervades the US. Why? China had made many, many Americans very rich, and made the already-rich wealthier.
Cherry Coke Zero is basically impossible to find anymore due to the pandemic shortages.
This will not stand! My blood type is Cherry Coke Zero. I need that stuff.
I think GPT-3 has actually achieved human-level intelligence, depending on what humans you are talking about.
Most people do run some sort of shitty word-association algorithm for nearly all their thoughts, and so does GPT-3. Thus, it has attained that, and easily.
“Artificial intelligence” is a low bar, and GPT-3 has met that.
I stole this from somewhere — can’t recall where now — but someone said that tattoos are like velvet Elvis art, just for the body.
I concur. I think that’s why I dislike them so much.
I donโt think people outside realize how non-existent small business lending is.
A person who makes $100k/year can borrow $400k at 3% over 30 for a house.
A business than makes $100k/year can borrow like $30k at 12% over 5 years to expand. https://t.co/cqKG7Z1IHb
— Andrew Finn (@finnscave) August 5, 2020
This is true. The small business I used to work for had low multi-million dollar revenue per year, stable contracts, and guaranteed income due to those long-term contracts.
The credit limit on their business credit card was $5,000 and the bank would not increase it. They also basically could not get any sort of small business loan if they’d wanted one. By contrast, a large business which has far more risk gets nearly non-interest loans as needed.
And people wonder why there are fewer small businesses now. That’s one of the many reasons.
It’s been strange to realize that liberals want just as much a stratified, regimented world as conservatives, just aligned along different axes.
I'm posting this again because it's so hilarious.https://t.co/y2njJklcNc
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) August 5, 2020
It’s now defined by how you feel in your heart…until it explodes from obesity.
Hiding from the truth means the truth can and will still find you.
I agree that the US should not have dropped atomic weapons on Japan in WWII.
However, I also have disputes with the revisionists. Most of them assume the US had perfect knowledge of the deliberations inside the Japanese government, the imperial mindset, and that we knew the disposition and the intentions of the Soviet forces. Furthermore, they assume the US had perfect forecasting capability for their own ability to prosecute a fight into Japanese territory.
None of this is true. War is a cloud of chaos where little is known and much is assumed, usually incorrectly. The revisionists seem to miss this completely because they are academics and have never experienced military life of any kind, much less combat.
Bigger button = more clicks on the CTA pic.twitter.com/Ter7xJdNKM
— Vincent Dรฉniel (@vincentdnl) August 5, 2020
In my field, it’s:
The Job Interview: We’re a cutting-edge company with the latest technology. We care about innovation and gettings things done.
The Job: Here, debug this VBScript from 1998. Bob from Accounting wrote it, but he died seven years ago. Also, it’s production-critical. We know you’re not a developer or in Accounting, but no one else knows enough to try.
Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion.
All you wankers who put your crap on that site…yeah.
Here’s why our present system bites ass:
There are approximately 32 million people unemployed in the US right now. That’s almost certainly an undercount.
During that time, since March, my net worth has gone up by 25%, and I was barely trying (mainly just avoiding doing stupid things). Many billionaires made billions more during the same time.
This can’t go on. And it won’t.
Or in other pictures:
THAT V-SHAPED RECOVERY IS COMING ALONG NICELY!
What is your most extreme take that is sufficiently unrelated to the culture war that you wouldn't be cancelled for it?
— Matt Osterndorf (@MattOsterndorf) August 5, 2020
That Wittgensteinian “language games” and the math that we do (“math games”) are not much different, really, and only because the fuzziness of much of quantification has been well-concealed do we think that math offers some Eternal Truth while using words is doomed to vagueness.
Math can and does achieve many things words alone cannot easily do. But math is not the world, and that’s where we are unbelievably confused and misled.
The lapse in the $600 weekly jobless payments could have a huge impact on the broader economy.
How big? Researchers estimate a one-month expiration could cause consumer spending to fall 4.3% โ more than the entire decline during the Great Recession. https://t.co/DmO1JnLVmn
— Kate Davidson (@KateDavidson) August 5, 2020
That’s going to do great things for the economy. We are a deeply stupid people.