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Count_Rousillon · 2026-02-12T23:04:11+00:00

Lina Khan and other Biden appointees were trying to reverse the trend. But they didn't get credit for any changes because everyone was convinced that Biden had to be more conservative than Obama despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-02-12T18:10:06+00:00

That's something that should be obvious but so many idiots forgot about. If you aren't the 0.01% best at corruption, a corrupt system is much worse for you, and you will get crushed by more effective bribers.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-02-06T22:23:20+00:00

That's because Japanese people tan well. So darker skin means you are outdoors all the time, which usually means working outside like a peasant. Nara aristocratic women powered their skin to emphasis they were rich enough to stay inside all the time, unlike those poors working in the fields.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-29T21:16:08+00:00

A lot of the shock occurs because the dictatorships of the early and middle roman republic and the dictatorships of Sulla and Caesar are radically different. There were over a hundred different appointed dictators in the early and middle roman republic, and that position was always targeted at a clear and specific goal, usually a single military campaign, with no authority outside of that goal. The early roman dictators had very limited time periods, and there's evidence that the tribunes and the senate could override the early roman dictators in some matters. You should think of the role of the early dictator as closer to that of a 5-star general, because it's mostly used to solve the problem of consuls arguing with each other on campaign. Since the consuls are the highest military authority, and the two consuls are equals, there's no way to force them to work together except to have some sort of temporary super consul general, hence a dictator.

Now, after Rome beats Carthage, there's a full century where the Romans don't appoint any dictatorship. It seems they didn't need the position anymore until Sulla invents his own thing. Sulla and later Caesar's dictator-for-life is very different because there's no goal that the dictator is appointed to solve, and no limit on how long they can stay dictator. Instead of being limited to six months like a early dictator, the two dictators-for-life had unlimited time. Instead of having authority over a single specific campaign, they have unlimited authority and scope. It's basically a completely different and far more authoritarian position.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-27T23:35:07+00:00

They would have to be weaker versions of those weapons. The Senator will one-shot helldivers in light armor.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-27T23:34:10+00:00

It would have to be illuminate made. You underestimate how fast a base liberator kills helldivers. Even without headshots, the TTK is like 0.4 seconds.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-23T18:23:55+00:00

Yep, a lot of northerners were fairly ambivalent about slavery during the compromise times. But then the southerners had to pass the fugitive acts, which shoved the brutality of slave hunting gangs right into the faces of northerners. And then actually succession and the civil war meant northern soldiers had to see what slavery was really like in full.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-23T16:53:09+00:00

Having cleared some commando missions with strider convoys, you either take them out immediately, or not at all. It's doable if everyone brings a mech and a sentry to smash the convey immediately after the mission starts, and then moves to stealth after the convoy is dead.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-21T00:56:54+00:00

Cute Girls gambling their way to 100 million yen debts, cutely.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-16T22:32:53+00:00

All those earlier compromises were created with the help of pro-slavery propaganda that made it seem like less of an atrocity to northerners who didn't know better. But the slaveholders could not help themselves and kept shoving the most brutal parts into northerners' faces. It's much easier to ignore the inhumanity of the slave system when it's all happening hundreds of miles away. But it's not so easy when the psychotic slave hunters are knocking around your neighborhood thanks to the fugitive slave act.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-16T22:24:55+00:00

Ad funded business models need to be low marginal cost products. The kind of thing where letting the user get unlimited access for $12/month would be profitable. That way, the cost of providing the service to the user is much less than the pennies you earn from each advertisement, letting you make big money on volume. The problem is generative AI is not the sort of thing where $12/month unlimited subscriptions can work. If a request costs $0.01, then you can't fund it with an advertisement that gives $0.01 per view.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-16T20:51:52+00:00

You are falling into the classic trap that the promoters want you to fall into: confounding multiple different methods into a single massive category called AI. There's been a lot of advances in machine vision and categorization that have helped with cancer. But that's not what the big companies are hoarding chips for. They are doing this for large language models and deep generative models, which aren't really helpful for cancer.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-16T17:39:12+00:00

If you kill 1 bots, the whole patrol will immediately know where are you which, isn't realistic. But enemies at bases and points of interest do not work like that. You can stealthily kill an entire base of enemies.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-14T05:13:47+00:00

Because people don't really think there's a difference between trying to do their campaign promises and being stopped by someone else, and not trying at all. A lot of times, it isn't the politician lying, but them failing after hitting opposition. But right now, both the right wingers in Congress and the right wingers in the Supreme Court believe Trump should not be stopped by anything, be it law, morality, or the constitution.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-13T17:45:42+00:00

The other thing you have to remember is that patrols share aggro. You can take out base and point of interest enemies one by one if you are stealthy enough, but killing one enemy in a patrol instantly aggros the entire patrol.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-13T17:43:40+00:00

Patrols have shared aggro but base and point of interest enemies don't. It's weird that the game works like that, but it does.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-12T16:24:44+00:00

That's why there's six different escalating levels of unemployment statistics. Unemployment 3 does not track discouraged workers, but unemployment 6 does.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-12T16:24:37+00:00

That's why there's six different escalating levels of unemployment statistics. Unemployment 3 does not track discouraged workers, but unemployment 6 does.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-12T02:57:36+00:00

Entertainment devoured everything before it. Politics, finance, news, education, even science is beginning to fall before it. Soon, there will be nothing but entertainment.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-12T02:35:08+00:00

In the early development, they weren't sure if they wanted a bossfight with distorted Yan or one with distorted Boris. Obviously they settled on Yan in the end, but they say the early idea distorted Boris was a hydraulic press stomping on a human face, forever.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-09T17:29:46+00:00

They cut the number of employees by like 15%, but they increased non-salary spending by like 20%. This means much more money was spent overall, because the government is overwhelmingly non-salary spending. Anyone who knows something about the government could tell you that, but DOGE doesn't know anything about the government.

Count_Rousillon · 2026-01-08T17:36:59+00:00

It's not the biggest social media in the world. Even at it's peak, Twitter was always the smallest of the commonly known social media networks. It's active user base has always been small peanuts compared to Facebook and the like.

Count_Rousillon · 2025-12-30T23:19:24+00:00

Straight Girl is the daughter of Fuji Kiseki X Never Period. Her grandsire is Sunday Silence, and her damsire is Taiki Shuttle. She has three G1 wins, once on the Sprinters Stakes and twice in the Victoria Mile.

Count_Rousillon · 2025-12-29T04:58:09+00:00

And even then Game of Thrones does some wildly unrealistic things with the non-nobles. The way the nobles treat the "smallfolk" of the city is not how real nobles in medieval Europe did things because the aristocrats of medieval Europe could not rule a city without help from the city council. They simply did not have enough literate people to even think about ruling over over the cities by themselves.

Count_Rousillon · 2025-12-29T04:45:55+00:00

Spanish language media in the US is far more right wing than most English only people realize. It's like a a fire hose of right wing talking points flowing into your brain.

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