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Glowfic sounds like fan fiction written by CIA agents.

In my ideal version of Omelas there’s a secret institution where people like me are given vast power and wealth to think about how to solve the tortured child issue.

The title already says it’s a lexture by Thiel— oh wait sorry I see what you mean.

I think “making up a guy to get mad at” is already an idiom as is.

I still read xkcd regularly and think it’s pretty good. I don’t think “we” as a community need to have a particular opinion of Randall Munroe or his work but personally I think he seems alright and I enjoy the things he makes.

Seems like a stretch to assume that comic does anything to recruit rationalists. If you’re not already in the rat pipeline it’s just a pretty good joke about probability and if you are, it’s still a better example of Bayesian reasoning than whatever the rats pretend to do.

When the “criti” for Amazon is just that it’s “boring”, I feel we’re in plain old hype territory.

somehow not the first or second TMBG reference I’ve seen today

Honestly that just seems to imply the concept of legitimate scientific racism even more.

I dunno, an AI non-proliferation treaty that gives some rat shop a monopoly on slop machine research could conceivably boost human scientific progress significantly.

I figured he’d be a lot better known for his YouTube career than for his bsky posting. I see his stuff all the time in my recommendations, though his style isn’t my cup of tea so I seldom watch any of them.

Oh good. If I ever need to consult a list of top slop shops sorted by fuckability, I’ll try and remember this exists.

Yes, we’re losing a lot of money, but have you considered we will definitely make a lot of money tomorrow?

Thanks man, I love being lumped in with fascists and pedos.

First domino: US government invents peer review

Last domino: Richard Stallman successfully kamikazes his reputation for good after multiple close attempts over the years

Imagine if it turns out that it wasn’t even politically motivated and he just owed a bunch of money or something.

Even in Luigi’s case, it took days to catch a guy who (allegedly, lol) killed a billionaire in the middle of Manhattan. Though very dashing, Mangione hardly seems like a navyseal elite supersoldier ninja hitman 47 either. Whatever Kirk’s killer’s motive, I see little reason to assume it was necessarily a pro job. All this tells us is that overfunding and militarization doesn’t equate to a more competent police force.

Irrationally annoyed at yanks incorrecting each other how this kind of shot could only be pulled off by a trained expert sniper. The Behind the Bastards guy agrees, but the replies are still stuffed with examples.

I know from experience that even mediocre conscripts shooting a gun for the first time in their life usually manage to land hits in a one foot diameter circle from 150 metres with iron sights on an intermediate catridge rifle. It doesn’t take an elite marksman to hit a sitting man from 200 yards away, especially with a scope. Even if nervous and high on adrenaline, an average hunter, target shooter or (ex) military type would be more likely than not to hit a target of that size at that distance, assuming otherwise decent conditions.

Hell, the factory sights on an M16 are supposed to be set for zero elevation at 250 metres and the effective range for most assault rifles and their semi auto civilian variants is around 300 metres. To say you need to be a trained sniper to make this shot is like saying you need to be a professional racing driver to do 80 mph on a highway.

If there’s one thing you’d assume seppos know well, it’s shooting firearms, but some people still can’t help but spout dumb bullshit.

It’s even worse than Methods? That should be surprising but isn’t.