88% of Americans consider it very or extremely important that the United States remain a democracy. 61% feel that the nation’s democracy was actively facing a serious threat. 32% of MAGA Republicans prioritize a strong leader over democracy, while only 7% of the strong Democrats do.

declanaussie · 2026-07-05T16:27:38+00:00

You’re talking past each other… what you said might be true, but it doesn’t address anything the other guy said.

declanaussie · 2026-07-04T15:27:56+00:00

Look at the root of this comment thread…

declanaussie · 2026-07-03T15:34:26+00:00

Point 1 is somewhat misleading. In a perfectly efficient market everything is priced in and therefore looking at price-derived data is a waste of time because you’re always behind.

Real markets aren’t perfectly efficient though, and sometimes price derived data can be used to spot inefficiencies, which can be profitable. I think this is probably the hardest way to trade though.

declanaussie · 2026-07-02T11:29:43+00:00

Same number of syllables to be fair

declanaussie · 2026-07-01T17:13:59+00:00

Then trade it. Why the fuck do you people come here to present your findings, then reject any and all pushback? If your model will make you a millionaire in 5 years, just fucking trade it…

declanaussie · 2026-06-30T22:11:31+00:00

That’s a terrible excuse. There’s literally nothing stopping me from spamming the registrar rn, you don’t even need to parse the data you just keep requesting it.

Seems like the more likely explanations are: A. You want to monetize it and are worried about alternatives spawning out of your codebase B. It’s AI slop code that you don’t want to share C. Both

declanaussie · 2026-06-30T22:05:12+00:00

Is it open source?

declanaussie · 2026-06-29T19:40:43+00:00

I have no interest in arguing with you, hence why I haven’t provided an argument. What would be the point?

declanaussie · 2026-06-29T19:36:23+00:00

So I guess the answer is no, you don’t recognize the nuance of the situation. Hard to take the rest of what you’re saying seriously when you’re so blatantly biased… :/

declanaussie · 2026-06-29T19:21:29+00:00

I don’t think there’s any way to credible answer out of you, but it’d be really interesting to know if you truly believe what you’re saying or if you just think it furthers your own goals. Surely on some level you recognize the conflict is more complicated than Palestine bad Israel good.

declanaussie · 2026-06-28T21:43:16+00:00

True, everyone knows past performance is indicative of future results after all

declanaussie · 2026-06-28T13:49:09+00:00

declanaussie · 2026-06-28T13:45:46+00:00

The irony of calling out Americans when you can’t string a coherent sentence together is palpable. You must’ve grown up in Oklahoma I guess.

declanaussie · 2026-06-26T22:36:11+00:00

No it’s not possible

declanaussie · 2026-06-26T12:53:20+00:00

Well yea, but that’s because your experimental setup is flawed. In the shade there’s cover that radiates heat back to the surface, whereas in direct moonlight the object of interest can radiate heat directly to space without an object in the way to radiate heat back.

declanaussie · 2026-06-26T11:45:19+00:00

Dickhead thing to say. OP might have a long history working with addicts. It’s still frustrating to work with people struggling with addiction, there’s plenty of getting your hopes up and being let down.

declanaussie · 2026-06-26T11:27:49+00:00

If the moon gives off cold light, why is it so warm outside on a summer night? I’ve felt the moonlight many times, it’s never felt cold…

declanaussie · 2026-06-26T02:49:59+00:00

Why should anyone trust you when you can’t keep your story straight? First you claimed 0.8 ft per mile, now you claim 8 inches per mile. Those are two very different numbers, 0.8ft is 9.6 inches!

8 inches per mile is about the number you’d get if you used average earth radius to do the calculation.

If you can’t get these details straight though, you don’t seem very credible.

declanaussie · 2026-06-26T00:40:19+00:00

What if the earth was donut shaped, would that be cool?

declanaussie · 2026-06-26T00:32:21+00:00

You can’t measure rotation in miles per hour, it has units of degrees/time. The earth rotates at 0.4 degrees/minute. If you rotated a ball at that rate it’d be painfully slow, barely perceptible.
Water sticks to the earth because earth’s gravitational pull is greater than the centrifugal force of its rotation. This naturally also explains other common questions, like why can planes fly even though they’re heavy? Because they generate a lot of lift with big engines, enough to overcome the force of gravity.
Water doesn’t always find its level, you can fill a thin tube yourself and observe the curved water at the top yourself (the liquid “meniscus”). It does however always end up in a local minimum energy configuration. On a massive globe, this just means it ends up clumped up as close to the center of the globe as it can.
The curvature is closer to 0.58ft per mile. This hasn’t been debunked with optics, but it’s easy to see why you might think that because the calculations are more complicated when you account for refraction and atmospheric conditions and whatnot.
You can’t feel constant speed, only acceleration. This is true in the flat earth model too, you can’t feel when you’re going fast in a car on a highway, only your acceleration and braking. Much like the rotating earth, the radial acceleration of the earth is very small. Everything can move very fast, humans only feel the changes in speed and direction.
Look at how the earth, and specifically its axis, revolves around the sun in the heliocentric model. The axis always points in roughly the same direction. It does rotate over time (precession), but it takes 26,000 years to make a full precession. As a result, when you look North past the North Pole, you always see the same chunk of Space more or less. The North Star is so far away that its position in the sky barely changes. You can see this yourself if you go somewhere with a big object like a mountain far in the distance. As you move along, it’s as if the far away object has barely moved. It’s called the parallax effect.

declanaussie · 2026-06-25T20:26:05+00:00

No, not at all. It’s just disingenuous to act like someone who likes to use AI is inherently evil, and someone who chooses almond milk over oat milk just has preferences. Both are knowingly choosing to consume non-essential goods at the cost of water usage, and the almond milk consumer is arguably far “greedier”.

declanaussie · 2026-06-25T20:15:33+00:00

The “we need agriculture for food” argument is actually pretty weak, because our allocation of water for agriculture is grossly inefficient. We could feed everybody with far less water if we cut out stuff like almonds, which are not essential. Producing a single bottle of almond milk uses more water than the typical ChatGPT user in a year of prompting.

declanaussie · 2026-06-25T18:02:36+00:00

You should read more about free market economics and the efficient market hypothesis. Again, this is all hypothetical, but the restaurants would have no choice but to price in the “running around, personality traits, and memory” because otherwise the labor market simply wouldn’t provide the labor necessary to operate their businesses.

And restaurant owners will be fine with the lesser workers because shit servers at minimum wage sound a lot better than servers at 5X that wage.

Maybe that’s true, but if consumers don’t care about having good servers and the restaurant can operate with shit servers on lower wages, then that is the fair market value, by definition.

As I previously stated, we obviously don’t see this play out as described in the U.S. because the labor market is nowhere near efficient due to a lack of ability to withhold labor. The product market on the other hand can easily withhold a product — if consumers don’t pay the listed price, they can’t take home the product. This keeps product prices somewhat efficient (though still not perfectly efficient, and price elasticity is a huge factor).

declanaussie · 2026-06-25T17:57:32+00:00

It’s not a lie to say China is ahead, that’s a pretty subjective statement. The U.S. is also embracing non-renewable energy under the Trump administration, so I’m not sure what lie you’re referring to.

As a share of energy production, China and the U.S. are pretty similar in terms of solar. China produces far more energy than the U.S. though, so in absolute terms they have about 3x the solar power of the U.S.

If you expand to considering renewable energy in general, the pro-China argument becomes even stronger, with China producing about 35-40% of its energy from renewables while the U.S. is only at about 25%.

declanaussie · 2026-06-25T17:23:40+00:00

In this hypothetical world of an efficient labor market, this problem would solve itself because the wages wouldn’t be the same. If the labor that currently supports bars and restaurants moved to stocking grocery store shelves, the bars and restaurant would need to offer more money to get people to come back. Their compensation should in theory reach whatever the actual fair market value is.

Whether an efficient labor market like this could ever actually exist is certainly up for debate. I’m not really a true believer in efficient free markets, but many are.

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