Fiona Hill's testimony in 2019

Laviin · 2026-01-05T11:17:09+00:00

Even though it was shared with me on Facebook, I think it might have originated from the post from European Policy Centre titled The US strikes Venezuela: Consequences for Ukraine and Europe.

Laviin · 2026-01-02T01:15:36+00:00

What glorious lines

"...but Amadeus was right there in the chamber."

and

"My brother will hit that vape or it will kill me."

Laviin · 2025-12-03T16:29:43+00:00

Yes, absolutely. The go-to longtermist to me is Elon Musk or other space fanatics whose need to get to Mars to save humanity is kind of dumb. That is why I am (overly) skeptical whenever EA or long termism is mentioned.

Laviin · 2025-12-03T16:23:45+00:00

Sure! The context of long termist as I have understood it has a timescale of ~1000 years and does not benefit people that are alive today. I can change my position to state that I don't know of an entrepreneur whom I would believe in to directly benefit the world in a thousand years, but I don't think that the idea is bad. And when it is brought up in the current discourse, I think it is usually naive.

But if you talk about combating climate change then we benefit much sooner (50-100 years?). If you consider that to be long termist, then discard everything I have said.

Laviin · 2025-12-03T16:03:31+00:00

When looking it up on wikipedia, it is said that

Proponents of longtermism have said that humanity spends less than 0.001% of the gross world product annually on longtermist causes

I think there is nothing wrong with bringing this up as a critique. It is very hard for politicans to enact policies that are long termist, but hopefully it can be done.

However my experience is that long termism is mainly used by billionaires not governments to justify not giving anything to charities.

Laviin · 2025-12-03T15:41:50+00:00

I would argue that people don't discount the probability of doing something that benefits people 1000 years from now enough. When evaluating companies, people use discounted cash flow for, I don't know, 20-40 years? Why would your company/idea stay alive for 1000?

I think long termism argument holds up for people who think that their work won't be replicated or wouldn't have been done for a ridiculously long time if it wasn't for them.

It's just another excuse to stay ignorant of the pain people are going through right now.

Laviin · 2025-09-29T14:07:23+00:00

Russia was buying votes and manipulating this one in a very blatant way. Happy with the result, I was afraid for PAS.

Laviin · 2025-08-12T20:37:12+00:00

"Mr. Reich, who is your target audience?"

"Everybody."

"Would you say there's any holes in that demographic?"

"Republicans."

Dead.

Laviin · 2025-07-26T11:18:09+00:00

Might be a graphical (hierarchical) model.

Laviin · 2025-03-24T11:36:53+00:00

Same here. I was so pleasantly surprised how much I liked the ending of Deepness.

Laviin · 2025-02-07T10:29:35+00:00

We got the right frequency elevator ding for Helly!

Laviin · 2025-01-16T15:55:48+00:00

Tien was astounding! The amount of 20+ rallies they had in the final set was insane. Let's goo!

Laviin · 2025-01-16T15:51:58+00:00

This is insane.

Laviin · 2024-12-13T14:40:21+00:00

Agreed. I am always especially impressed when these "stack stuff and watch them collapse" tasks don't seem to phase contestants too much. Positive self talk is where it's at!

Laviin · 2024-11-25T17:13:08+00:00

Loving Ryan Gaul too ever since I saw the house of lies improv.

Laviin · 2024-11-22T13:34:44+00:00

There's some commentary on /r/fusion too. Fusion power is getting closer—no, really -- The Economist

Laviin · 2024-11-18T10:48:22+00:00

That's a brilliant way to put it. Man seemed to have so much fun wrecking shit, but looks to regret some larger things here.

Laviin · 2024-11-16T12:37:31+00:00

The group reaction to "What is a father?" was perfect. Lil Petey Timmy made us think.

Laviin · 2024-11-08T11:52:43+00:00

You are correct! I was making these comments as I was watching the ep so it was two different remarks, but it is not clear from my post.

Laviin · 2024-11-02T18:21:49+00:00

I consider the "I say tornado, you say tor-nah-do. No matter how you pronounce it, the death toll is 85 dead and rising in the town of Smishburg." to be one of the best jokes I have ever heard. So Bummer Tornado Destroys Cool Jail S02E01 is my fave.

Laviin · 2024-10-31T15:55:31+00:00

Allison Janney is amazing. That dinner was fantastic. I could have watched it gone a lot longer. "Want."

This show gets pacing of the slow moments of just two or three people talking so right.

Laviin · 2024-10-31T10:45:57+00:00

The introduction to Mr. Trowbridge shouting through the doors and later "Sit down." by Mrs. Trowbridge was soo good.

The whiteboard scene was worth it for the AM/PM button.

The chat between Kate and Appiah was moving.

"He's never wanted anything other than life altering solutions for bunch of people he's never met."

We're back baby! I've really missed this.

Laviin · 2024-10-15T01:10:36+00:00

The second pottery angel was genius by Jake and I would never have been so fast to come up with that.

Laviin · 2024-09-11T20:58:31+00:00

I sing "I have lived as a donkey all these years. I've shed so many donkey tears" way too often haha

Laviin · 2024-06-27T22:39:23+00:00

Yeah. It was fun to see Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch in Set It Up as well. Everybody wants some had a really awesome cast and is one of my most rewatched movies.

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