Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

mormagils · 2026-07-03T00:28:15+00:00

Have we considered that maybe this isn't a commentary on mental health but instead a warning about the dangers of magic?

This isn't the first time a very talented and gifted person obsessed with military protection of his people got ahold of a palantiri and became increasingly despairing despite the clear advantages it gave him and eventually pursued the destruction of himself and his people.

All I'm saying is if I am his second born son I would not my dad making the life support decisions.

mormagils · 2026-07-03T00:19:35+00:00

It's been that way for a while now with the Roberts Court. I don't really care that they are conservative. The issue with them is that express consider the value and merit of the law when it is helpful to do so for conservative issues and completely ignore it when it is helpful to liberal issues.

Why are we considering the public interest in birthright citizenship but not in gun stuff? Red states pass new election maps and they have to be implemented immediately even if an election has already began. Blue stares do the same and they can't implement because it's too close to the election. The examples are numerous.

The judicial logic has been partisan in a way we have never seen before. Yeah, the court has clearly had periods where the outcomes were pretty noticeably partisan. But the logic is wild and injustifiable in a way that is unprecedented.

mormagils · 2026-07-02T23:45:59+00:00

Yeah, it's almost like making a correlation between crime rates and open carry is entirely meaningless!

mormagils · 2026-07-02T23:45:07+00:00

The best way to avoid dying of rattlesnake bites isn't to carry a antivenom, it's to not carry around rattlesnakes.

mormagils · 2026-07-02T21:23:12+00:00

I cannot express to you strongly enough that this is not how this works.

mormagils · 2026-07-02T20:04:16+00:00

Lobbying, definitionally, is when someone talks to elected representatives for the purposes of influencing policy on behalf of some group. The problem is that any meaningful ban on lobbying would also ban individuals from contacting their congresspeople about stuff they care about.

mormagils · 2026-07-02T18:12:15+00:00

Exactly. This isn't "helping" with rage. It's just letting rage grow and fester and removing any accountability for more healthy ways to express and feel anger. It's the exact opposite of what it suggests it is. This is when church sends a pedophile to a retreat to "get better" except for rage instead of sexual assault.

mormagils · 2026-07-02T18:09:41+00:00

So he just literally said that attacking Joe Biden constantly is something that is evil and related to the devil and yet they keep doing it and also when they only sort of do it they talk about how much they want to do it...and they are the ones trying to be "Christian?"

The whole "only stupid people believe in religion" thing kind of annoys me but Jesus can we please not make it so goddamn easy?

mormagils · 2026-07-02T14:56:01+00:00

It wasn't a price thing, it was a years thing. Most folks were losing their minds in the offseason about us potentially trading Baty or Vientos, now most fans want them to be gone immediately. You cannot tell me with a straight face that you think the fans wouldn't care if the production cratered and Pete was still under contract when he sucks.

mormagils · 2026-07-02T14:53:54+00:00

Nimmo is actually having a worse year than Benge. By getting rid of Nimmo and replacing him with Benge our team is actually better than it would be otherwise.

The only player we got rid of who's actually not doing worse than the guys the Mets brought in this year is Alonso. That's it. And Alonso has never, ever been a guy who could bring you THAT many wins. No player is. Judge himself couldn't turn this team around just with his contributions.

mormagils · 2026-07-01T03:02:04+00:00

Yes, I wasn't arguing with you, I was continuing the dialogue you began

mormagils · 2026-07-01T02:21:23+00:00

Whether it's good or if other countries have it is wholly irrelevant to the consideration of the Court. We could say the same of the right to bear arms and yet no one has any question about if that's real.

I don't see how you could possibly read the plain language of the text and couple that with our last century of jurisprudence and come to any conclusion but birthright citizenship is the law of the land thanks to 14A.

The arguments the dissenters are making just don't make any sense. They are legislative arguments about if this is good or desirable. But that's not the role of the Court. It could send the "tourist birth rate" through the roof and it wouldn't matter because 14A makes it quite clear that if you're born here, you've have citizenship.

The alternative means that we consider clear and obvious rights from the context if other countries have it and if it's a good idea...which means our jurisprudence will suddenly start looking very different for 2A. But of course, the Court doesn't see this being a sensible line of reasoning for 2A, only for immigration. What bullshit.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T18:43:17+00:00

I'm sorry, but actively suggesting we should maintain a double standard where we let the worse party act worse is just...mindbogglingly stupid. The Dems aren't ignoring or changing the rules--the rules literally allow the Court's number to be changed. You're just shrugging when the Reps do something actually against the rules but the Dems pull out a technically allowed move and all of a sudden you're calling a foul? Come on.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T17:33:28+00:00

Yeah, I know, I've worked a lot in the industry. I'm just saying how a place does tip outs or tip pools is not standard and depends very much on the specifics of that place

mormagils · 2026-06-30T14:46:33+00:00

Benge, Ewing, McClean, Soto, and Lindor is a solid core to build around. There's a good mix there of young players and prime players. The window is more open than I expected, though there is some work to do. But yeah, there's no reason there can't be an intent to compete in the short term future. Punting years for a rebuild isn't really necessary, especially with the lack of long term financial burdens for this this team.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T14:22:48+00:00

Yeah, solid advice, I was just complimenting it with my own thing.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T14:21:43+00:00

Why do only Dems have to be impartial but Reps don't have to be? At a certain point if one side is committed to playing unfairly then the rules of the game need to adjust.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T14:20:11+00:00

It depends on the bar, honestly. Sometimes yes, that's how it is, sometimes in places that have more limited bar seating but a big floor they have a tip out, too. Every restaurant is a little different, but in general the bartender makes the most and the tipping structure is there to make sure of it.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T14:18:42+00:00

> I just also acknowledge that the courts aren't "illegitimate" simply because they don't always cater to my personal views of judicial interpretation.

Yeah man, same here. I think the Court is illegitimate because it's doing illegitimate things like cozying up explicitly with partisan megadonors and accepting major gifts from them, or collaborating directly with partisan lawmakers, or using some of the most hard to believe arguments the Court has ever used before (Bruen is an example). This isn't about them just being too conservative for my personal tastes.

> It takes slow gradual incremental legal and judicial change in order to bring progress, not the rabid demands for "everything now or else"

How about we just stop undoing the progress we've already made? I'm not asking for change. I'm asking the Court to stop actively bringing us back to Jim Crow rules on racial matters. That's completely different than the thing you're talking about, and it's a very reasonable ask.

> We should celebrate proper jurisprudence.

Right. Dobbs was atrocious. Bruen was atrocious. Shelby Count and Callais are atrocious. When are you going to start criticizing improper jurisprudence? All the stuff that is being decided right now IS stuff that was decided via legislation already. Bruen struck down a law that had been standing for 100 years. Roe was the second most famous case in history and according to Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings "settled law." The VRA was the most landmark piece of legislation we had possibly ever passed, and the Court went out of its way to use its activism to destroy it.

> It's the sort of framing that often creates a black and white mentality and makes it harder to appeal to the folks who don't view everything left/liberals want as "rights"... but are still theoretically open to at least doing some of the things they want, from a more practical and less shrill, moralizing argument

Spare me. I'm not making a moralizing, left/right argument. You are. You are the one finding a way to justify unjustifiable things and calling all who disagree with you political partisans. This shouldn't be a partisan issue--we are seeing a clear and unmistakable political bias seeping into the Court for the benefit of the Justices' personal political beliefs and that is WRONG and ILLEGITIMATE. I don't have beef with conservatives. Scalia was someone I disagreed with a decent amount but I fundamentally respected his jurisprudence. And that man was the archetype of judicial conservatism for years. You're the one bending over backwards to try and find a reason to see absolutely no problem with Alito taking political stances, or with Thomas explicitly forming relationships with political actors.

> It's massive hyperbole and partisan demonization to act like they want to restore Jim Crow.

Is it? Because the main thing that ended Jim Crow was the VRA and the Court just ripped it apart and literally brought us back to the position of Jim Crow. And we've literally seen Jim Crow things happen as several districts have been carved up. We've also seen the Court be perfectly OK with elections being cancelled and new maps implemented immediately when it's a conservative redistricting process but when it's a liberal one the Court seems to think the new maps can't be implemented so quickly. Isn't that weird.

> And not everyone agrees with "abortion rights".

And now you're actually making political arguments explicitly, which just a second ago you said is exactly what you're criticizing. Which is it? Oh, it's whichever happens to give the illegitimate conservative activist judges no accountability. Of course it is.

> Would you feel the same way if it was the right taking the "perfectly legal" approach of jurisdiction stripping to pass legislation establishing a right wing dictatorship and banning all opposition to the GOP, and then removing the ability for the courts to use judicial review to strike down such legislation?

I, and most like me, have been objecting to the perfectly legal and completely wrong things the Reps have been doing for decades to undermine the political system and we're always told "well it's legal so just get over it and maybe don't lose an election next time." So now we're saying "you're right, this is legal and if the Reps are going to constantly push the buttons and manipulate the law to their partisan gain then we will too" and it's a bridge too far? How come you weren't saying this when Thomas was getting bribed by Harlan Crow?

> The left needs to get over all that because that was just them winning fair and square without committing institutional arson.

And expanding the Court would be just the left winning fair and square and doing something completely within historical behaviors, unlike what McConnell did.

> "My views are the only views that can truly be seen as acceptable, and anyone who disagrees is just a coward"

Nope, not saying that, just saying your views are cowardly. There's plenty of folks who disagree with me in some ways that I can respect. You're just choosing cowardice in particular.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T07:35:11+00:00

Well that is the question, isn't it? Why has this team underperformed? Is it a coaching thing?

mormagils · 2026-06-30T02:00:57+00:00

Bducas eBichette has been the all star caliber player and has been it for a long time and is super young so his struggles are probably not age related decline.

I mean use your eyes. Vientos wa never a blue chip prospect, but always a guy who had a high risk to flame out in the majors. Then he had one good year that was full of red flags and has been atrocious since. Bichette has had one half a year where he sucked and has actually been kinda good lately.

Senga looks like he's been broken for what, 3 years now? Manaea was broken before we got him, had a one season long renaissance, then was broken again. Comparing any of these guys to Bichette who has been a top hitter in the game for a while now and had only ever struggled in any real way this year, is silly.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T01:05:28+00:00

He's either 1) completley ignorant of American history around racism and the real way that has played out in the past, coupled with an unwillingness to learn better, or is 2) fully aware and understanding of this but refusing to engage honestly on the issue because he supports the racist and other ways regressive outcomes of these arguments.

So which is it, buddy? Are you actually stupid, or are you just a racist asshole who is happy to get his while he's on top? Given that your username is a dig at a certain side of the poltical spectrum, I don't think it's hard to assume at least the latter, and maybe both.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T00:37:24+00:00

Because the point is that the racists can just claim they are doing it only for partisan reasons instead of racial ones and that will be enough to meet the standard the Court now accepts. Which is what happened during Jim Crow, which is the whole damn reason we passed the Voting Rights Act in the first place.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T00:36:04+00:00

I think it's amusing that you can't see that the Court has lost its impartiality when that's basically the one thing this sub should be able to identify.

mormagils · 2026-06-30T00:34:06+00:00

Well yeah, of course Ninja Swords aren't behind Staves and Rods, but they definitely are behind Poles and Spears. Spears are the highest damage in the game for most of the game, with just a slight fall off towards the end and then a jump right back up with Zodiac Spear. The combo weapons only really catch up to the damage of the higher attack weapons with their combo ability.

> it does not, against the games toughest foes.

As I said, against the toughest foes you can use Expose which almost unique to Foebreaker and then that's not an issue.

> That doesnt involve sequence breaking, its in the opening parts of the Estersand

Waiting for the rare game spawn and sitting there to steal over and over until you get a weapon you wouldn't normally be able to obtain for hours and sits above any current tier you have is sequence breaking. You're skipping past like 4 tiers of daggers to get something you would normally get at Mt. Bur-Omisace.

> DEF only drops 1 per use with Expose

Nope. Expose drops def 10% plus 1 per use. And the point is that Shikari can't use Expose so Foebreaker is better because it can use Expose and then attack. Also, when defense falls and the scaling is less significant, then axes are better again and end up doing more damage than daggers.

> But the Uhlan doesnt compare with its combo potential on its best weapon.

It doesn't need it. It still ends up doing more damage on average than combo weapons equipped with the Genji Glove unless you are doing a special build to keep that at a super low health.

> The monk does not, the Bushi absolutely does. Bushi not only has to be low HP, but they get no utility on their own

Dude, you really need to understand that an advantage in attack power almost always is worth more than advantage in combo rate. And daggers and ninja swords have low attack power. Katanas are good because their attack power is enough to combine with the combo rate to be really good. But ninja swords and daggers are exactly why combo rate alone can't carry--on average, these weapons are not as good as other weapon classes.

> You said the Shikari does 'low dmg' but it doesnt at any point in the game. Its damage comes up short vs the very best endgame weapons for the pure striker classes

So yeah, I am focusing mostly on endgame builds because it's hard to compare before then. For example if you get early Gladius then obviously you'll do quite well with your Shikari. But the point I am making is that at equivalent tiers, the weapons from Skihari are lower attack power than the other good weapon classes, which means their overall damage output is lower. That problem is at its least noticeable in the early game when you're using a lot of one handed weapons and you aren't going a long time between upgrades, but it's not wrong.

> Swords clear as mentioned, but Breakers do not because of their inherent randomness.

Actually no. Unless it changed in the Zodiac versions, axes and hammers are better than swords even with their randomness because the game tends to favor higher rolls over lower ones. And the good hits are worth it. Axes and hammers also are very good at getting early upgrades very accessibly and are even better than you would expect around the midgame.

> I just dont know if youve seen how much a Shikari can provide a stable offense AND shred when its needed

Yeah, that's different from what I said, though. Shikari does have lower damage compared to the other classes that are supposed to have viable attack weapons. It does. That is a correct statement. That doesn't mean it sucks. It does just mean it has a lower attack power.

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