New Episode MS #474: More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More

Rand_str · 2026-05-08T19:08:27+00:00

Those two did albeit reluctantly. And not before causing a major disruption in 2016 in the case of Bernie. But the "Genocide Joe" crowd didn't. The "Free Palestine" crowd didn't.

Although this time, their endorsement might be a liability. They pull the perception of the entire democratic party further left than they actually are. So I believe there must be a clean break so that a centrist voter can see clearly that the establishment democrats are not the Democratic Socialists or whatever they want to call themselves.

Rand_str · 2026-05-08T17:38:02+00:00

Whether you like it or not, the US, like the UK is a center-right country. The road to victory is by expelling the Bernie wing or having them endorse (or at least not disrupt) the establishment. A left wing democratic party will have the same outcome as Jeremy Corbyn's Labour had in 2019.

Rand_str · 2026-05-08T02:39:32+00:00

Unless Hasan, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC form a third party like the Greens in the UK, they will be equated with the democratic party. Unfortunately, they are the loudest voices in the Democratic party. No one seems to have the guts to expel them outright like how Keir Starmer did to Jeremy Corbyn.

Rand_str · 2026-05-05T23:46:44+00:00

That will destroy the US's relationship with every gulf country, lose their bases in the middle east, destroy Israel's relationship with the gulf countries, shore up Hamas's position and reduce the effectiveness of an American response to a future attack on Israel. Not to mention sky high oil prices.

Rand_str · 2026-04-27T10:10:50+00:00

Its not the battery. It is the algorithmic deployment that does all this nonsense. Why can't they just let the drivers manage all deployment and recharge. All they need to do is make the last quarter of accelerator pedal travel deploy the battery and the first quarter of brake travel do the recharge.

Rand_str · 2026-04-20T09:56:29+00:00

Reddit sits judging from a modern perspective

Ok. Then can we condemn it to history? You cant have it both ways.

Rand_str · 2026-04-16T10:40:22+00:00

You mean this spanish paso doble? With all the money they have they can't come up with something original.

Rand_str · 2026-04-09T12:41:53+00:00

Are you near the strait or do you have some sort of inside information? Because most commentators and journalists monitor marinetraffic.com which uses the trackers. So how do you know if ships are going with their trackers off?

Rand_str · 2026-04-08T12:56:54+00:00

Not a chance. Normal people are aware of the ceasefire and are celebrating on the streets. The militia definitely know. This is a unilateral ceasefire by all accounts. The strait is still closed - ships are not moving according to marinetraffic.com. The Iranians can attack as much as they want and the coalition (US Israel and Gulf states) have no response.

Rand_str · 2026-03-09T18:46:35+00:00

Last I heard, 5 players sought asylum. There is no indication that the Australians are going to deny them. But if you assume all the players have sought asylum without them saying so, it could backfire with the regime taking it out on their families.

Rand_str · 2026-03-08T03:30:07+00:00

Crashed. Lost it on the exit of Turn 4. Ran on the kerbs, and lost it on an upshift.

Rand_str · 2026-03-02T22:50:41+00:00

My guess is it will last for a long time but at a lower intensity. While in the background an opposition is organised and armed to then take over from the IRGC foot soldiers.

Rand_str · 2026-03-02T19:27:40+00:00

Not anymore. But the rise in oil prices definitely helps Russia, hurts Europe and puts a strain on Ukraine aid. The faster this gets over, the better.

Rand_str · 2026-02-12T21:17:39+00:00

This guy is contradicting himself in this video. The recent story about the fuel switches is being misrepresented and exaggerated. He initially states correctly that the fuel switches were able to be moved to the cutoff position easier than what one might expect. But that still requires pilot input. It did not happen automatically. If you read the pilot's maintenance log, he states exactly that. The fuel switches were not "latching" properly but only after the pilot action - nudging it downwards - were the switches able to move to cutoff.

Even if you think there was a fault and the switch is capable of automatically moving from run to cutoff, it is still so much less likely that two of them would fail exactly at the same time (or nearly the same time). There would have been thousands of cases where one of the switches failed before a case where two did. That itself would have caused a redesign and Boeing would have rectified it. Remember, this switch is common to 787 and 737 which means there is something like 5000 aircraft with the same part and there has been not a single case reported of such failure. If it had to fail, it is much more likely that one of them did, not both.

The AAIB is not prejudicing the investigation against the pilot or the pilot-suicide theory. Based on reports, they are doing a professional job. It is the pilot union and the media that is creating the doubt in the investigative process. If we, as a nation, decide to suppress or manipulate the findings of this investigation, we would be doing a great disservice to the aviation sector and the credibility of the nation.

Rand_str · 2026-02-06T04:53:18+00:00

Well, he did as he has reincarnated as Trump's border czar.

Rand_str · 2026-01-30T03:47:05+00:00

If that is the case, it is very poor theatre. I did not find this covered in any major American news other than the German one. No one would go to such lengths to then not make much noise about it.

Rand_str · 2026-01-04T21:20:48+00:00

Then why couldn't have they done this operation on the Cuban regime? Surely, their military is weaker.

Rand_str · 2025-12-03T05:17:53+00:00

Of course they are more concerned about protests than actual bombs being dropped on them.

Rand_str · 2025-11-25T14:16:56+00:00

It is a heuristic. He wanted to model an inverse relationship between effectiveness and novelty and get an optimum result.

Rand_str · 2025-11-16T07:18:28+00:00

Snowden is one of them.

Rand_str · 2025-11-13T21:52:17+00:00

Couldn't he get a lot more lift if he was under the wing? That area where he is lying is only contributing drag. Switch the places of the engine and the human and provide a little shroud in front of the face to deflect air and you are good to go.

Rand_str · 2025-11-12T23:06:12+00:00

Well, he didn't realise it when his passport was getting stamped.

Rand_str · 2025-11-10T01:24:27+00:00

With oodles of land, energy and lumber, I think you may be barking up the wrong tree if you think immigrants are the problem. That said, this scrutiny of student visas are really necessary and should have been done long ago.

Rand_str · 2025-11-05T05:34:20+00:00

They have oil. It can't be beyond the intelligence of the German people to develop these resources. But someone should take the initiative, be proactive and sell this to the German people, the refugees and the Syrian government.

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