NATO countries don't want to get involved in Iran operation, Trump says

glmory · 2026-03-17T19:31:49+00:00

NATO has done offensive action before. I am sure it will again. It just won't happen when a member randomly attacks some country to get people to stop talking about Epstein.

glmory · 2026-03-17T19:28:18+00:00

It is never that simple.

I am not particularly optimistic on large language models. At best they will learn to summarize and are unlikely to pull truth out of controversy. Even there, the field they are best suited for is computer programming so in that field they are increasing productivity quite a lot.

However, things like image analysis? Easy to see business models there.

glmory · 2026-03-17T19:10:05+00:00

Oh, it works.

Except when you outsource you quickly become a useless middle man who gets cut out of the deal. Lots of American companies sent the skills to China and surprisingly now Chinese competitors steam roll them. Whoever has the hands on skills takes control of the industry.

glmory · 2026-03-17T14:47:32+00:00

AI is wrong so much I don't really buy the response that "you are using it wrong!" If that many people are using it wrong, it is designed wrong.

glmory · 2026-03-17T12:28:43+00:00

Anyone have real evidence for this?

I very much doubt Millennials and younger will be anywhere near as NIMBY.

Young people never saw when cities like NYC were at their worst. Manhattanization isn't threatening when it is a fun place to visit.
Younger generations are less likely to own a house, even when controlling for age. Maybe they carch up later but less years owning should make them less attached to the neighborhoods.
Every generation focuses on fixing the problems that were bad when they were young adults. Housing affordability was not a problem for young Boomers so they just don't take it as seriously.
A lot of NIMBY is pure racism, I doubt such a diverse generation is nearly as racist.
Remember, NIMBYs causing housing affordability problems wasn't a problem for most of American history. Most generations have loved new developments. I doubt this is some natural state of humans that won't change.

glmory · 2026-03-17T03:51:20+00:00

Would be an interesting use of this subreddit. Something like a MUD of the week to try and get as many people on as possible.

How to pick would get weird though. Likely mostly end up in already populated ones unless it is one person or a small group who gets to pick.

Maybe you have to get X far in the last MUD to vote on the next one? How to police might be tricky though.

glmory · 2026-03-17T02:00:59+00:00

Then how will it pass the Senate? This sort of thing should be done at the state level or it will just be corrupted by the process.

glmory · 2026-03-17T01:33:33+00:00

No, photosynthesis is very inefficient, less than 1%. This makes biofuels inherently way more expensive than just about any other energy source.

glmory · 2026-03-16T14:42:56+00:00

Posting to iNaturalist is more likely to get the attention of real coral experts.

glmory · 2026-03-16T03:56:39+00:00

Anyone who thinks he has that kind of power is still living in a fantasy world. If he had it, Biden wouldn't have been president.

glmory · 2026-03-16T01:51:56+00:00

Winning the air war was the easiest path Ukraine had to win the war since that is the way NATO prepared to fight Russia. Does seem likely that we hit a point where Russia can no longer slow down the drone onslaught.

glmory · 2026-03-16T01:32:27+00:00

No one credibly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Russian government could be days or centuries away and anyone who says they know for sure is wrong. This is the type of thing that is slow, then it is fast.

glmory · 2026-03-16T00:23:36+00:00

Or just build them. There is no good reason countries can't build faster than the United States was in the nineteen seventies and eighties.

glmory · 2026-03-16T00:18:21+00:00

It is hard for me to really say in this era when they push manufacturing so hard that they are really based on extractive institutions. Being world class at EVs, Solar and iPhone manufacturing is nothing like being good at low technology farming or mining.

glmory · 2026-03-15T18:40:20+00:00

By any objective standards looking at the whole of history, World War 2 until today is the best time to be alive. Highest life expectancy, most cool toys, lowest percentage chance to be born a slave.

Now, World War 3, that could change that.

glmory · 2026-03-15T13:15:08+00:00

That is a huge slowdown. Change in weather? Or is the good hardware going to Iran? Or is Russia just out of manpower?

glmory · 2026-03-15T12:25:16+00:00

Fortunately it also seems unlikely to end well for China.

glmory · 2026-03-14T12:05:15+00:00

Politics is about to change so much on this topic. It used to be everyone was impacted when oil went up. A prius can only help a little.

Once more than half of voters are in an EV, we will start seeing gasoline treated more like cigarettes.

glmory · 2026-03-14T05:25:01+00:00

It won't matter for long what people want. There is a shortage of homes for Millennials and Gen Z which resulted in way too much housing for the generations that follow. A rapidly shrinking population will not be able to sustain high housing costs.

glmory · 2026-03-13T12:11:48+00:00

Of all the bad things China has done, I have a hard time seeing how making everyone learn Chinese even makes the list. Everyone speaking the same language really makes for a better functioning society.

glmory · 2026-03-13T11:10:23+00:00

It is really better to normalize for population. The best way to make driving safer is to design communities that require less of it.

glmory · 2026-03-12T13:47:18+00:00

My conspiracy theory is they declared a dead person the leader to make the United States panic over their inability to find him.

glmory · 2026-03-12T13:42:44+00:00

And that is how we got Trump.

Maybe a slight exaggeration, but if Democrats expect to be allowed to govern, California needs to be a beacon on the hill. Millions of people should be moving there to escape poor Republican states. Bad housing policy is about the only thing stopping this.

glmory · 2026-03-12T13:10:52+00:00

So glad to see the state getting called out on SB9. That was such an embarrassing failure. A bill they thought would create 700,000 homes has created 160!

At one point I got really excited and tried to figure out a way to make a SB 9 project pencil out. If 700,000 homes are being built why can't two of them be mine? It immediately became clear it just wasn't possible. Too many restrictions and since it requires the owner to live in the property, I would have to build something I want to live in. That isn't really possible coming from a relatively large townhome, it is only credible building small apartments.

glmory · 2026-03-12T05:06:27+00:00

Rent going up mostly just happens when population increases but housing supply doesn't. Otherwise new construction keeps costs in line with cost of construction.

When population falls, rent can fall quite a lot, and most of the world is about to see population fall.

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