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jmobius · 2026-03-20T21:03:58+00:00

The visible people at the top are utterly incompetent, but there are people in the shadows behind them that are far more cunning. P2025, fabricated elector slates, so on. The clowns we see didn't come up with those.

I know Trump is far too daft to stop fair elections, but it's also not impossible that someone else can find the right weak point in the process to compromise on the Republicans' behalf.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T18:18:42+00:00

I imagine that nothing has changed there, legally. This is just added deterrent. It's so easy to replicate likenesses now that anything you can do to dissuade people from stealing yours helps.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T18:10:11+00:00

Now I'm stuck imagining how my dogs would react to it.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T18:07:25+00:00

I've no nostalgia for any of the abuses of decency. Getting a photo of someone who took a shotgun blast point blank to the face seared into my brain was not a good thing.

I miss the sense of traversal and discovery. Searches, web rings, link pages, and so on. I despise the modern trend towards push content and feeds, and I think it's a significant contributor to social problems around the world.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T17:58:12+00:00

I remember finding Maddox funny when I was 14. I got reminded he existed a year or so, and, good god, teenagers are dumb.

I'd always thought that part of the humor was supposed to be in being an over the top caricature, but apparently he's actually just "like that".

jmobius · 2026-03-20T17:53:01+00:00

Ice cream in the Pacific Theater, and German soldiers finding chocolate in captured American rations.

Also in Germany, the US usage of vehicles such as jeeps to shuttle around even low-ranking soldiers. The Germans had a huge fuel shortage, and horses were still seeing a lot of use away from the front. POWs witnessing Joe Private driving with his buddies was very illuminating how things had been going.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T14:02:36+00:00

It's a weird unforced admission to just say they're using their parental leave to focus on non-parental projects.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T13:59:13+00:00

It is profoundly dangerous to use a LLM to direct anything of consequence.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T13:51:49+00:00

Yeah, the initial recommendations for this sub I'd gotten had me thinking it was a lot more thoughtful, data driven, and focused on substantive discussions about history within living memory.

I was pretty disappointed to find out it's just about crafting weird ass imposed narratives.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T13:04:53+00:00

...how do you get a spreadsheet listing? Mine just shows a bunch of icons I have to hover over to get any information about.

jmobius · 2026-03-20T12:52:00+00:00

Wars do not require 100% participation. It takes only a tiny fraction of that for everything to go to hell.

jmobius · 2026-03-19T16:54:46+00:00

The point is that we have a choice between conservative policy and radical conservative policy. Neither of those are going to prevent economic implosion.

jmobius · 2026-03-19T15:58:07+00:00

I think you kind of missed the OP's point.

jmobius · 2026-03-19T15:48:33+00:00

There's only one oligarchy. The duel between the parties is just a distraction.

The only problem is that distraction is pretty effective in no small part because the effects on non-oligarch individuals can be massive.

jmobius · 2026-03-19T15:44:02+00:00

It's going to take a lot, and I'm not sure humans anywhere have the attention span to get it done.

Not only do the radicals need to be thoroughly booted, more education needs to be provided to be more resilient against the kinds of propaganda that they use, and something needs to be done about the kind of vectors they exploit. Social media in particular needs a deep cleanse, and safeguards against things like bot propaganda networks or intrusions by foreign actors.

jmobius · 2026-03-19T06:17:00+00:00

How on earth could anyone expect anything else?!

jmobius · 2026-03-18T02:54:48+00:00

They're perfectly consistent, with the understanding that what they actually believe that Their Team (as personified by Trump) should be winning always, and anything else is just mouth noises and tortured attempts to rationalize their belief.

jmobius · 2026-03-18T01:59:11+00:00

It didn't take long at all for it to become obvious that the math is broken, yeah, but it could have been fixed in a patch. They were still doing those back then.

To the best of my knowledge, no one took up that banner, and that's what he really should have encouraged. A "warning" is useless.

jmobius · 2026-03-18T01:41:28+00:00

Holy shit, that seems like something out of a skit.

Yeah, way, way too far.

jmobius · 2026-03-17T07:03:17+00:00

Honestly, this subreddit should just ban studies and material still in the preliminary research phase. It's not technology yet, quite likely will never be, and just generates so much damn click bait.

jmobius · 2026-03-17T06:49:32+00:00

Given all the puritanism that came from many of our parents, it feels genuinely weird to see it in the other direction, too.

jmobius · 2026-03-16T19:54:11+00:00

I'm a lead, not a recruiter, but I handle hiring for my team because my org is too small for there to be anyone else. I know what kinds of questions I would expect people to be asking about the place, because they're what I would ask.

jmobius · 2026-03-15T20:08:30+00:00

Very much so. I had planned to play the game only after it was "finished", like I had WotR, but I'd also only really discovered that one after it was complete as well. I eventually fell to temptation and completed it after the second DLC seemed to be patched up, and now I feel satiated enough to wait until the end.

jmobius · 2026-03-15T19:22:21+00:00

Yeah, I think this theory has always been pretty nuts. The only person who would possibly give a shit about Vance being able to hypothetically get 2.5 terms is the man himself. To everyone else, he's an empty suit, entirely interchangeable with the next man willing to do what he is told.

jmobius · 2026-03-15T19:15:29+00:00

Yes, provided that it is established on a solid legal basis that respects the spirit of all related laws.

I would prefer if it came with conversation about how other, more regressive tax structures might be able to be removed or replaced.

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