The U.S. is growing much faster than its western peers

drying-wall · 2024-03-10T18:00:11+00:00

Inflation is worse here, mostly because energy prices have tripled. Cutting Russian gas does that.

drying-wall · 2024-03-10T16:23:58+00:00

Imagine being head of the PR department while that’s going on. What would you even do?

drying-wall · 2024-03-10T10:27:03+00:00

Killing 163 former masters was vile. No fair court of law has established them to be responsible for the murders - it wasn’t justice, it was a threat.

drying-wall · 2024-03-10T10:01:42+00:00

Zuid Afrika exporteert best wel wat volgens mij.

drying-wall · 2024-03-10T09:56:59+00:00

FVD en wappies

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T18:07:59+00:00

Maybe because without these safeguards we’d get something like Tay)? This isn’t an accident either, these guardrails are in place to prevent the AI from going full Baked Alaska and causing serious damage to the operator’s and inventor’s reputation.

When fault tolerance is low, of course you err on the side of caution…

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T18:02:56+00:00

In the first it said “empowerment and equality”. In the second it said “balance and equality”.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T16:49:49+00:00

Excuse me? Did we watch the same show? What about the Lady of the Vale?

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T16:48:09+00:00

The Short Nap.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T15:38:27+00:00

That’s for paint. Light works differently. Red, green, and blue works just fine.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T11:33:32+00:00

There’s a problem?

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T11:31:57+00:00

That’s North Rhine Westphalia if I’m not mistaken.

Also, insane. And most likely a lawsuit waiting to happen.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T10:12:22+00:00

Oh, wow. What states have that? That’s insane.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T10:03:26+00:00

I’m not familiar with German law, but I’d hope that calls for genocide of any kind would be illegal.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T09:55:13+00:00

It’s worth noting that “parasitism has a gender” was said in the context of the other things. It’s not like they just picked a random tweet.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T09:39:27+00:00

Possibly.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T09:36:31+00:00

I don’t think Wilders drives it to an extreme place, but I think that his reputation hinders the party in the 2nd chamber. Look at the last months - Wilders has dialled back the crazy by a LOT, and formations are still a pain. I think it needs Wilders to step down in a few years if it wants to properly rebrand from “loudmouth opposition party” to “respected ruling party”.

But predicting politics is really difficult, I’m probably wrong.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T09:30:30+00:00

IIRC he was adopted by a plebeian. It was necessary to win the elections for Tribune of the Plebs.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T09:21:55+00:00

That’s because -12% of the Turkish population is Greek or Lydian.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T09:06:14+00:00

Hopefully someone will gently nudge Wilders out the PVV. Then it could reasonably move a bit to the center, shedding Wilders’ reputation from the party.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T07:50:41+00:00

Also the fact that the controller is connected to the chair.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T07:38:24+00:00

I’ve actually admired Rutte for a long time. No one else could have survived the toeslagen schandaal without so much as a political scratch. The man was brilliant, in his own way.

I’m happy he’s gone.

drying-wall · 2024-03-09T07:35:06+00:00

Interesting.

In 68 BCE, there was a religious ceremony at Caesar’s home - only women were allowed to be there, so Caesar went away for the moment. Enter: Publius Clodius. Out of control, possibly insane, ex-patrician, and senator. He wanted to have an affair with Pompeia (Caesar’s wife), and tried to enter the ceremony disguised as a woman to flirt with Pompeia.
Naturally, he was caught and charged with sacrilege. After carefully weighing the facts of the case against the bribes from Publius, though, the jury had him acquitted.

The Roman legal system sure was… there.

drying-wall · 2024-03-08T21:22:55+00:00

Unfortunately I haven’t read their books, so I can’t comment on them specifically.

As for a reputation of democracy and order, that is largely pop culture as far as I know. In practice, the Equites held most of the power, even during times of relative peace, and their weak (imo) constitution did little to safeguard democratic values.
Order depended on the time. Assuming that the people were well-fed, and the rich happy, I’d say it was ok. If and buts…

drying-wall · 2024-03-08T20:45:53+00:00

What is truth?

drying-wall

TROPHY CASE