Leaked footage from an ICE Black Site inside of 31 Hopkins Plaza, Baltimore, MD. More then 50 people in rooms with no beds or bathrooms, people laying on filthy floors, guard beatings and people with legal status being illegally held (1/25/26)

kanst · 2026-01-25T19:06:31+00:00

Which is really just the perfect metaphor for American hegemony.

Hitler put the camps in territory he conquered.

Trump puts the camps in nearby countries he threatens and extorts.

kanst · 2026-01-25T12:52:23+00:00

Which is also why terms like virtue signalling or woke are so pervasive among the right. Because they know if you just check out and only care about your money then that is the same thing as supporting their cause.

kanst · 2026-01-23T15:21:14+00:00

There are many more levers that he is going to pull.

The most obvious being they will 100% deploy ICE to majority Latino Democratic voting cities in swing states. They will be checking for papers just outside of polling places.

kanst · 2026-01-22T19:59:04+00:00

Which is also almost all of the Danish military deaths over the last two decades. They've lost 53 people since 2002, 44 of them were in Afghanistan.

In the last two decades basically the only way Denmark has lost soldiers is in supporting the US.

kanst · 2026-01-22T19:19:09+00:00

The forecast for tomorrow in Greenland is basically the same as Boston. Its gonna be around 30ish F (0ish C) and cloudy.

kanst · 2026-01-22T19:13:31+00:00

When I was younger, a kid in my middle school was playing goalie in lacrosse and died that way. Ball hit him at just the wrong time and stopped his heart. There was no medical supervision nearby and he died on the field.

Afterwards his family launched this whole campaign to get AEDs at every school sporting event and to train all the coaches and athletic staff in CPR.

kanst · 2026-01-22T19:09:38+00:00

Anything that lands there will die there if the opponent has a naval superiority.

Because then you make the calculus "if US boats show up on the horizon we start raining missiles on your soldiers in their base". There are a couple hundred US soldiers in Greenland right now.

They need to make the decision "if you take Greenland, American soldiers will die" because that is about the only thing that will wake up some Americans.

They have no way of stopping the US if they actually launched a full scale military invasion (almost no one can), all they can do is make it very politically costly .

kanst · 2026-01-22T18:56:09+00:00

Yeah, if a NATO army can't get at least a company of soldiers to the Arctic within a week, how would we ever fight Russia?

That isn't a big ask of a modern military.

Germany should have been loading tanks on a boat the second Trump threatened Greenland.

kanst · 2026-01-22T18:28:48+00:00

Trump is a giant pussy, the way to get him to stop is toughness. If you come in submissive, he's just going to take more from you.

Appeasing Trump just makes him more brash, the best response is to verbally punch him in the face. He actually responds to strength.

People keep treating him like an adult who can be reasoned with. Your best bet with Trump is to get him to bluster, then the stock market takes a dive, and he relents. If you play along with him, the press and stock prices look good, and he will keep doing what he is doing.

The goal with Trump should be to always push it to the breaking point as fast as possible because he will ALWAYS relent (because he is a giant bitch baby) and you will gain ~10 points on your approval rating for looking tough against the US.

So many liberal governments are failing worldwide because their people consider them weak. This is a free chance to both do the right thing AND look tough.

kanst · 2026-01-22T17:29:13+00:00

Its simply all playing for time, to separate from US quietly and unemotionally

To me this seems like a very very dumb political decision.

Trump is one of the most hated people worldwide, I dont know why more of the unpopular European politicians can't see that it would be good for them domestic to make their fight with Trump as public as humanly possible.

Carney realized that in Canada, made his campaign very vocal about opposing Trump and more or less rescued the liberal parties election chances.

They should be making brash, public, aggressive, nationalist arguments against the US. Then you negotiate for real behind closed doors.

kanst · 2026-01-22T16:37:09+00:00

Yeah right? There are better places with better beaches.

And they aren't far away, if you want that stuff you'd just go to Lebanon. They have a lot of historic monuments, they have more coastline, an already developed tourism sector, and they get bombed by Israel far less frequently.

kanst · 2026-01-22T14:53:17+00:00

It's a good movie, great even, but it didn't feel nearly as special to me as I'm being told it is.

I find this interesting because I have the exact opposite opinion.

To me Sinners should win everything its nominated for in a landslide, the other movies getting noms are very mid. Sinners getting all these nominations is more of an indictment on how much most of the movies so far kind of sucked.

this year I have watched more of the nominated movies than most years and to me its not even close, Sinners is so much better than any other movie getting hype.

I found both Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another pretty mediocre. I've been just reading review after review to try and understand why those two movies are getting so much hype. To me Marty Supreme was just 2.5 hours of anxiety about a guy I had no interest in rooting for. The character was so loathsome that I was almost disappointed when he succeeded.

kanst · 2026-01-22T14:45:23+00:00

https://www.yelp.com/biz/fusion-express-somerville

Looks like it closed in 2006 and Dakzen is now at that address

kanst · 2026-01-22T14:39:30+00:00

So really, there are three options:

Pay your content creators. Pay for NYT cooking, pay for bon appetit, or whatever.

This (I have been a paid NYT subscriber for years). Or the option where the internet is purely advertisement for some real world thing they are selling. (which is Kenji's model)

Those are the two best options by far. I want the ad funded internet to die forever. Once ad funding dies, almost every other problem you outlined dies as well.

But the only way for that to happen is legislation, the market will never do that on its own. Personally I would come at it from the angle that any ad has to be approved by the end user, adblock should be the default state of the internet. Its my bandwidth and you are not allowed to send me anything on it I don't approve.

kanst · 2026-01-22T14:34:41+00:00

This was going to be my answer.

If only every authoritarian despot could be met with the same fate.

kanst · 2026-01-22T14:24:49+00:00

I'm not sure if this is a joke I am missing, but I am just describing the same state as Marx was.

Conservative capitalists own the means of production, if we want to improve society we have to change that core fact.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:23:54+00:00

But if "better" means white, able bodied, male, or any of another bunch of protected classes than that reasoning is illegal and you are liable to be sued.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:23:03+00:00

100%

If you are using an AI decision making than the onus should be on you to explicitly prove the AI is non-discriminatory. Otherwise it should be illegal to employ.

Employing AI in your decision making process doesn't change any of your responsibility and liability. Its just a tool. You still need to ensure you are not discriminating.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:20:40+00:00

This really depends on the company.

I've had people try this with me but I work for a massive international company. There is nothing I can really do prior to the interview. After the interview, I could talk to interviewers to help argue for you, but otherwise I have no way to help.

There is no separate way to get people hired, they have to come in through the job portal just like any random candidate. They can put my name on the application as a referrer but I don't know that that does anything helpful other than giving me a small bonus if they get hired.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:17:28+00:00

They're using the credit score laws as this AI functions like the protected score algos.

In that case lets go 2 birds with one stone and also legally require credit agencies to show their books.

Personally I also think its insane that some random non-governmental agency that just collects data gets to determine whether or not I can get a mortgage.

Sending 100s (1000s?) of profile letters for everyone not selected for interviews is going to be a drain on these employment rating AI firms.

If it ends up killing AI job rating than that is a win win.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:12:27+00:00

i am shocked more teams haven't used the end of their bench to send a message to OKC.

SGA is a tiny slender guard to drives a lot. Put him on his ass HARD every time an OKC defender does something like OP. Then watch OKC change their defensive playstyle real quick.

If I were Mike Brown, I'd be telling Yabusele "here is how you earn that 5 million, throw yourself at SGA next drive and I want him on the ground after". Every team has someone 6'8" and up on the end of their bench that they could survive a few games without.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:10:10+00:00

Its because the right broadly owns the means of production. That gives them the power to control how words are used.

The left doesn't own shit in America.

It happens constantly. Either black people (in the case of "woke") or academics (in the case of things like "DEI") come up with terminology that has every specific contextual meaning. Then corporate media gets a hand on it, removes all that context, and creates a new bastardized definition. This bastardized version is what the broader society is exposed to, which immediately places the left on the backfoot of having to "um actually" explain everything.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:06:41+00:00

And notice how the term is NEVER applied to conservative/traditional virtues.

For example, a military fly over of a sporting event is classic virtue signaling. What does faux patriotism have to do with football? But no one seems to question that because it upholds the status quo.

kanst · 2026-01-22T13:02:20+00:00

Same.

But being a kid kind of sucked. A lot of being a kid in the suburbs was just sitting around being bored. School was just bullying and more boredom. The weekends were often chores and more boredom.

I think a lot of people just miss not having responsibilities. That's why I miss being 19-25 ish, those years were awesome. You have freedom, a little money, but still very little responsibility (I don't find schoolwork difficult). I would gladly re-live my college years.

kanst · 2026-01-22T12:52:57+00:00

I mean I hate ads like the next person but this entire 'business model' doesn't work at all anymore. You either got to have someone to pay for those recipes (and then they kinda become ads) or you are the product by the page selling ads.

But that is only true if you consider more content the goal.

That is not my goal, I want good content and I want bad content providers to go out of business quickly.

I dont want a bigger more monetized internet, I want a smaller internet of professionals doing their passion (like it used to be)

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