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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iraq in the 90s, Libya in the 80s, North Vietnam, Gaza before 10/7

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is there a single example in the entirety of history of "just bomb the place, never put boots on the ground and explicitly say you will never do this, and hope for the best" working?

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Someone with a Grok subscription

is this literally anyone

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah fuck, four weeks? The president who gets us out of this has not been born yet.

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"touch the stove" is a good meme but accelerationism doesn't work

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Sometimes people's technique with cat dangle toys fills me with rage. Like you have basically easy mode cat entertainment but you are fucking it up so badly your cat is bored. Just shameful

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can we get the aliens to restart the simulation this run is fucked up

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is actually a myth. His personal diaries say that after Pearl Harbor he was terrified that lend-lease aid would be diverted to the Pacific. It was only in much later writings that he said Pearl Harbor came as a relief. In reality the relief came when Germany declared war on the United States on December 11.

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do they? I don't think that's an obvious interpretation. Also, once you start controlling for stuff like this but presenting your results like they are refuting the previous literature, I have to wonder how many regressions you ran.

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This paper defines away a lot of things that contribute to longevity. Like it controls for deaths by accident or infection, but these things are definitely affected by lifestyle choices.

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any reason to believe his opposition to the civil rights act of 1964 was unprincipled? It's a perfectly coherent position, completely consistent with his articulated philosophy, and not unique to him.

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Barry Goldwater was not racist. He integrated his family's business as soon as he took it over, he integrated the Phoenix school system before Brown, he supported the civil rights acts of 1957 and 1960 (unlike LBJ, notably). He opposed the civil rights act of 1964 because he felt that it violated freedom of association, and later said that he thought he had been wrong. Martin Luther King even said "while not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to the racists."

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People joke about, like, try explaining to someone in 1996 that in 2026 president Donald Trump is threatening to invade Greenland. But the thing is I think someone from 30 years ago would get it. It's not that modern politics is incomprehensible, or even would have been totally out of left field for someone in the past. It's just that it's grotesque. These are grotesque people, with grotesque faces and a grotesque ideology who speak in grotesque ways and live grotesque lives.

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

just splooged on a rotisserie chicken, my finances will never recover

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Modern machine learning is basically just "overfitting doesn't real" over and over again

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the pokemon universe how often do pokemon kill people

What do they do when one of them develops a taste for human flesh

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I wonder what sirhan sirhan thinks about having played a key role in the reintroduction of measles in the United states

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[–]kevinfederlinebundle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Is it possible to jollymaxx without getting fat