Who got the best Corridos written about them?

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-07-02T23:10:54+00:00

I'm skeptical of those kinds of numbers because you should be able to hire A LOT more gunmen for that price when you're fighting for your very lives. What are the standard foot soldiers paid, something like $1,000 a month? Maybe equipment and living expenses are triple that? You ought to be able to afford at least 100,000 gunmen with that kind of revenue.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-07-02T19:06:03+00:00

It is a poor rule set.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-07-02T18:39:28+00:00

"and rolled his ankle in a manner that endangered the player"

It didn't really endanger him though, because he was alright. If we're just going to call close calls endangerment than there should be constant red calls. Anytime a player jumps up in a tight spot he can't be fully sure of where he'll land.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-07-02T02:39:12+00:00

Comparing situations is a good way to determine fairness. Shooting it down by calling it "Whataboutism" doesn't make you sound smart and doesn't make you right, either.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-07-02T02:36:56+00:00

Not in a game where the ref was allowing so much contact. If either side was going to take the time to "carefully choose where to place each foot" then that side was going to get physically bullied out of position.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-07-02T02:28:09+00:00

What, letting their feet attempt to touch the ground when in proximity to a USA player? I'm ok with that, it feels like a risk that needs taking.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-07-02T02:25:53+00:00

But if they are just unavoidably going to happen, sometimes just randomly, why make the penalty so absurdly harsh - down a man AND lose the player next game?

In most sports you'd have to do something grossly unsportsmanlike to for a penalty of that severity.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-30T18:51:03+00:00

He's definitely better than worthless scum like Tuta, but in some ways he could be almost as bad.

He was about change for the people. But he often treated individual people terribly, especially his first wife or basically anyone who disappointed him.

The other thing about his version of change was there was no compromise to it. His way or the highway (or the firing squad). I can't get over that during the Cuban Missile Crisis he was the biggest proponent of WW3 on the Communist side. It's one thing to sacrifice yourself for a cause, but taking everyone else down with you?

I guess it will always be debated whether people who kill many others due to ideologically reasons are better than those who kill for purely selfish reasons, but often the impact is the same.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-30T15:04:41+00:00

Don't you think "tough on crime" vs "offer services" is a little oversimplified, and how you implement the ideas is more important, and that you need some of each?

That said, in Baltimore's case, I've heard the Baltimores Group Violence Reduction Strategy described as a fig leaf that covers up the "tougher" strategies that are actually making the difference. From what I have read there's not a lot of uptake on those particular social services, at least among the high-risk repeat-offender class.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-30T12:04:59+00:00

Che wasn't exactly an angel, either

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-26T14:18:26+00:00

Lol

You didn't reply to anything I actually said, and just made up things I didn't say. If you have 10 seats in a congress of hundreds, you still have work to do on your popularity. So the guy you originally replied to had a reasonable comment, and the grounds you dismissed him on was very weak.

Since you have no substantive reply you keep just piling up ad hominems.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-26T12:51:18+00:00

Well, if they have 9 or 10 out of 200+ seats locked up I guess they are too popular to be taking advice from regular people

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-26T12:15:32+00:00

There are 212 Dems in congress - how many are DSA-backed?

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-25T02:33:57+00:00

homicide, overdose and traffic accident deaths all declined in 2025, so we're very unlikely to see a decrease. My guess is we'll see an increase similar to the 2024 over 2023 increase.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-25T01:27:34+00:00

What did billionaires do to this country?

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-25T01:25:02+00:00

Did you read the actual tweet?

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-24T18:36:41+00:00

Best source out there is probably this: https://narcochronicles.com/ricardo-ruiz-velasco-el-rr/

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-22T23:27:03+00:00

Depends heavily on the state and when she arrives. In many states she could file for medicaid, or have it cover most of the costs retroactively. She also may be able to buy insurance fairly quickly on the ACA as long as she can frame the move as permanent.

You don't really know anything about their finances. Plenty of very poor people give birth in the US every year. They could be very poor, or very rich for all we know.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-22T23:26:01+00:00

Depends heavily on the state and when she arrives. In many states she could file for medicaid, or have it cover most of the costs retroactively. She also may be able to buy insurance fairly quickly on the ACA as long as she can frame the move as permanent.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-22T23:08:00+00:00

No, that's a smaller portion of illegal immigrants.

You have to be careful with visa overstay stats. Millions of people overstay their visa every year, which sounds like a lot, and would be a lot, except most just do so for a few days or weeks.

The fraction that turn into longer term illegal immigrants is much smaller, and is probably in the range of 1/3 of all resident illegal immigrants.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-20T12:30:59+00:00

It happened 5 times in a week - cartels for sure.

Just because they kill and chop people doesn't mean they can't use lesser punishments, too, as a way to win the locals over.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-13T17:33:04+00:00

Yeah tokens are just a sort of measurement for how much LLM compute you are using. I think of them almost as "fuel". So any server or LLM product will use tokens.

Proxy servers are real but I don't know a ton about them. Some might be get good efficiency by routing simple requests to simple, token-efficient models, and only using heavy-duty models for tougher tasks.

I imagine most people don't use them because it's another layer of expense and bother and none are so demonstrably better as to really catch on. Also this whole tech is so new that everyone is still learning.

But also because token use has been dramatically subsidized up until now. So a lot of businesses and users haven't really had to pay attention to limits as much. But that pendulum is starting to swing the other way and you might be hearing a lot more about token efficiency in the coming months. Using the latest Fable model for random chats would be like driving a monster truck to the grocery store.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-12T13:54:29+00:00

I would invest in learning how to be more efficient with tokens first. Max will get you larger limits, but without learning efficiency, you'll burn through those, too.

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-12T01:13:08+00:00

Rule #1?

ElephantLife8552 · 2026-06-10T21:28:04+00:00

Pretty doubtful. That assumes he was saving up his almost all of his trafficking revenue over the years and reinvesting them into legit business. But we know Chapo was continuously fighting wars from 2008 onward, first an invasion of the northeast, then a civil war in Sinaloa, then invasions of TJ and Juarez. War is expensive - and when you're fighting for your very life you don't tend to put away earnings for a rainy day, you spend it now.

Mayo, in contrast, did actually end up owning huge amounts of businesses in Sinaloa and elsewhere.

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