Trump’s future looks dead in the water. And Biden is a zombie.
I suspect Ron DeSantis has about a 60% chance of being president in 2025. He’s a terrible speaker but no one seems to care about that anymore. Other than that, the stars are aligning for him.
This is also what the transformation of Roman cities of late antiquity to what we would recognize as medieval towns looked like. https://t.co/jV1RfyJtjr
— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) November 8, 2022
Degrowthers need to be rhetorically destroyed. They will bring nothing but pain and death and the sort of decline mentioned above.
I don’t do anything really on my smartphone except Google Maps and take the occasional photo. Browsing on them is still 100% shitty and they are security nightmares.
I hate smartphones. Fuck them.
I genuinely think I’m too dumb to figure out Mastodon
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) November 5, 2022
Nah, it’s crap. Designed by doofuses who never met a real human ever.
I did three sets of 20 dips on the dip bars yesterday.
Getting stronger all the time. And I love it.
All of the time I see crap about “How the war in Ukraine will affect Europe” or “Europe and Ukraine: War on Europe’s Border?”
MOTHERFUCKERS UKRAINE IS IN EUROPE GODDAMN
Is in Europe, has always been in Europe, etc. By the way, clownish leftists, Moscow is also in Europe. See for yourselves:
It’s wild people don’t know just basic fifth-grade level stuff and think they should be opining on anything.
Soon our computers and devices will be so secure they won’t be able to do anything. It’ll be perfect. We’re getting close to that now.
Has the ability to see all videos on a Youtube channel been removed?
It has. Isn’t that wild? You literally can no longer see all the videos someone has uploaded. It’s impossible.
Ask yourself why that would be? If you tell me it’s for “security,” I’ll smack with you a goddamn trout. In another thread, at least one person realizes why this (and other similar incidents) are occurring:
So do all of you still think this sort of thing is being done for “security?”
Do people really not understand when they say, “Elon Musk’s companies are subsidized by the government,” that every other large fucking firm in the country also receives massive government subsidies? How can you be that clueless?
If Tesla hadn’t been subsidized it would never have been competitive against oil company interests as they receive billions and billions a year of direct and indirect subsidization. And the same for the large car companies, especially US-based ones (the foreign ones also receive subsidies, just mostly not from the US).
This argument against Musk — while I am not fan of his — is fundamentally disingenuous. Even when not employed against Musk it makes no goddamn sense as I think companies should receive government support if they provide societal and social benefits of some sort.
Or would you prefer that the government not have provided funds and other support for Covid and other vaccines? For electrification? For housing? Be clear now. Because y’all fuckers dumb.
Why has no one ever managed to make a chat program as good as ICQ?
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) November 5, 2022
The same reason Firefox sucks, and that all software is trash now: the impetus the past decade or so has been to get the information genie back in the bottle under the guise of increasing security. ICQ gave the user loads of control and lots of capabilities. It was difficult to surveil and allowed anyone to talk to anyone, unfiltered, unmoderated, and with tons of customizability.
That cannot and will not be allowed now. The project of the current era is making sure all is capable of being surveilled, controlled and squelched if needed. This is why you cannot customize software. This is why everything seems to have only two useless features — and also why Google search no longer functions and Twitter is being incinerated.
That so many people buy the tall tale that it’s all for “security” boggles my fucking mind.
I respect your decision to relocate to Mastodon. See you back here in a week! 🥰
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) November 5, 2022
Yup. Mastodon is trash, designed by clowns.
Russia basically resorting to human waves at this point https://t.co/6OoTrXc4nt
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) November 6, 2022
This does not much look like Russian victory to me, no matter what Ian Welsh claims.
To understand #Ukraine and why 🇺🇦fights so hard, you need to understand 🇺🇦 history and #Holodomor (https://t.co/CqoNAbFFqX). Vita Yaremko @uvyriy weighs on the long-term economic effects of that horrible Soviet policy. Read her great job market paper: https://t.co/X4PTsEunZC
— Yuriy Gorodnichenko (@YGorodnichenko) November 6, 2022
Now you’re just cheating, bringing history into this. That’s totally unfair to dimwits and dipshits.
How young did the person start?
When I was in sixth grade I drew up detailed invasion plans for taking over the United States. Much later, I found out that my plans closely resembled Pentagon projections of how the Russians would invade if they were to do such a thing.
I also created several of my own languages soon thereafter, rediscovering independently (because I had no books about linguistics I could access easily) several principles and ideas that form the core of linguistics and sociolinguistics and then using them in ways that were pretty unique (because I had no one to compare to, or with).
The difference between me and Larry Summers: I had no connections. My parents never went to college. I was not bound for college. There was no chance I’d get into an Ivy League school. I was a total misfit surrounded by people who mostly deeply hated me.
I’m happy with my life — but I was never afforded the opportunities of Summers, nor the chance to flourish. I was always getting the shit beaten out of me for the stuff I was doing and how weird I was.
That matters.
