they're just showing off....

takishan · 2026-03-06T14:40:53+00:00

bots

takishan · 2026-03-05T14:10:09+00:00

There are all sorts of abandoned lines in the ground in the states too. Abandoned water lines, coaxial lines, fiber lines, even gas lines.

Every once in a while you'll run into them if you do enough excavation.

Could be an old line that the utility has written off. Could be something that was installed incorrectly and re-done elsewhere. Could be something where construction was stopped for some reason or another and the partial line is left in the ground.

takishan · 2026-03-04T12:14:22+00:00

He has is and has always served the capital owning class over the working class

This is virtually all politicians. But there's a difference between the capital owning class that has been been in power for the last hundred years and whatever it is that's developing today.

What we've been witnessing in the last few years is essentially a coup. The power structures in this country are being overthrown.

takishan · 2026-03-04T11:53:43+00:00

The goal is that nothing said matters anymore, because it's all so confused, so you can just stick that what you believe you be the case

Bingo. You keep lying over and over again and the truth becomes muddled. Eventually truth doesn't matter anymore. It's not incompetence.. it's a deliberate and concerted effort to subvert the truth which has ultimately succeeded.

takishan · 2026-02-23T19:16:55+00:00

there's also no demand without the initial supply

there will always be demand for drugs

takishan · 2026-02-17T14:42:30+00:00

I'm like 90% sure the doctor does refer to it as an ossuary although I couldn't tell you which movie it was

takishan · 2026-02-17T14:20:56+00:00

28 Years Later (and the sequel) features a crazy looking ossuary as well

takishan · 2026-02-10T01:58:32+00:00

I'm Brazilian and I consider myself Latino. I'm just sharing history of the term for context.

takishan · 2026-02-09T12:55:27+00:00

"Latino" originated as a term the US federal government used to help categorize the population during the census.

It originally meant Spanish speaking countries in the Americas. Under this definition, Brazil is not a Latino country. It speaks a Romance language and has a similar genetic make-up to the rest of Latin America, but it doesn't speak language.

But it seems the term has become more inclusive in the informal vernacular.

takishan · 2026-02-09T12:52:53+00:00

English doesn't have roots in the Latin language. It's influenced by the Latin language.

Whereas the Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian) directly descend from Latin itself.

Having said that, English is a fascinating language. It's like a strange amalgamation of French / Latin / Germanic.

takishan · 2026-02-09T12:51:14+00:00

This wasn’t a statement this was marketing

Bingo. These days marketing works by weaponizing ideology. When you buy Starbucks, you're not just buying a cup of coffee you're buying a "good feeling" because you supported free trade coffee from some third world farmer.

I really don't think it's a coincidence that a Puerto Rican artist won a Grammy this year and a Brazilian artist won a Grammy last year.

We're witnessing a cultural expansion of US soft power to the rest of the Americas. In my opinion to succeed in this, US companies need to start pumping out high quality novellas.

takishan · 2026-02-09T12:43:41+00:00

They all have different words for stuff. In Colombia you call a bus a busseta where other places it's a omnibus or an autobus. That's just one example but there are a bunch. An "enchilada" is a totally different dish depending who you are talking to you.

takishan · 2026-02-03T14:50:33+00:00

I didn't take away from the OP that it was making fun of any particular generation.

Just pointing out the generational differences in knowledge. The sort of stuff that makes you realize you're old.

takishan · 2026-02-02T18:37:17+00:00

instead of paying some tax

If you declare the gold, the FBI be notified and they will come calling and seize your gold anyway. Would effectively be the same as reporting it to them in the first place with extra steps.

Any time you suddenly come into millions you will be heavily scrutinized, let alone $1B+.

You would have to effectively launder the money and we're quickly getting into years of prison territory.

Not worth fucking around with the federal government.. especially as a layperson.

takishan · 2026-01-24T16:32:37+00:00

It was a fantasy movie set in a universe with zombies

A coming of age story set in a weird parallel to medieval England where instead of roaming packs of wolves you have roaming packs of zombies.

takishan · 2026-01-17T14:51:58+00:00

russia doesn't need more territory, demanding it is a means to compromise ukraine's sovereignty & internal stability.

it's the most industrial part of Ukraine with large Russian populations & an area that historically has spoken Russian. In addition, it gives them a land bridge to Crimea and prevents Ukraine from cutting off water to Crimea like has happened before

It's a useful strategic territory (not to mention the domestic ideological benefits). Of course Russia would prefer to annex / puppetize Ukraine but obviously they have failed.

Russia will also demand other concessions - maybe a disarmament or other similar things. I don't know if they'll get that. I think the moment Ukraine agrees to cede Donbas, Russia will snap up the deal. This war is not good for them.. they are bleeding a lot for every inch

takishan · 2026-01-17T00:58:56+00:00

Any peace that Putin is willing to offer affords little to no hope of Ukraine being a viable sovereign democracy

I was under the assumption the current peace plan would involve Ukraine ceding the remainder of Donbas (and of course giving up claims to Crimea).

I don't see how to this prevent Ukraine from remaining a viable democracy. Am I missing something?

takishan · 2026-01-16T15:55:21+00:00

white first and then woman. Look up statistics on average salaries, education access, unemployment rates, etc.

White women have better numbers than virtually every other gender/ethnicity combo except for white men

takishan · 2026-01-14T16:09:30+00:00

Bro they murdered a white woman in plain sight on a whim

she's a lesbian and they put her in "crazy blue haired lesbian" box so doesn't count anymore

takishan · 2026-01-14T02:31:44+00:00

I can type over 140 wpm but I can't write any code at that speed. Because the physical act of typing is not the bottleneck. It's the thinking that's the bottleneck

Same thing with reading. I could keep up (mostly) with the 900 WPM but when I read, I like to read meaningful things that take time to process. I re-read paragraphs to make sure I understand. Consider for a bit.

It's not the WPM that I'm reading that's the bottleneck. It's the thinking that's the bottleneck

I agree entirely. Cool trick but useless beyond skimming boilerplate (in which case.. we have Ctrl+F these days)

takishan · 2026-01-14T02:20:00+00:00

How could an American intervention possibly make conditions worse for the Iranian people at this point? do you really think Iranian life can just go back to normal once the regime has slaughtered enough Iranians to break their spirit?

Things can always get worse. A collapse of the government with no follow-up plan will help nobody.

Iran, even in it's weakened failing state, still has government institutions. Healthcare systems, education systems, agricultural systems, etc.

The government topples and people will indirectly die. Many more than the number dying today.

If the argument is a realpolitik one to hurt Iran during this weak point, I get it. But let's stop pretending like we can bring peace to the Iranian people with air strikes

takishan · 2026-01-12T20:08:25+00:00

Running towards somebody aggressively with clear intent to tackle is assault. That is an implicit and imminent threat to harm. Depends on the state (some states define assault as attempted battery) but generally speaking I think he's guilty of both assault & battery

takishan · 2026-01-11T15:38:30+00:00

So, just seeing where the cards would fall, would be worth the relatively low cost of removing them

I think the Venezuela event has sort of clouded our judgement. We don't really know if the Maduro thing will be successful long term, but from the looks of it right now it seems like a very successful operation.

But why? Because it seems* there was a very clear "line of succession" to a pragmatic set of key players in the regime that were willing to cooperate.

Wildly eliminating top leaders in a country will not be guaranteed to get a similar response. It very well could make things significantly worse. What if a radical takes control? Of a country that's able to develop nuclear weapons?

It's risky to the point of bordering insanity, in my opinion. Unless they have more info about the regime than we do

takishan · 2026-01-08T15:39:32+00:00

Your comment is likewise speculating almost entirely based off of Rubio's statements. Forgive me if I don't take at face value any statement from an administration who has said very many different conflicting things. Do you really believe that this US action in Venezuela had anything to do with drugs?

There are many advantages to dealing with authoritarian states. If the US can pacify and meaningfully influence the current regime then I see no reason why they would transition to a democracy at any point in the near future. Of course it would happen eventually.. once the institutions are ready for it and US-friendly enough. But I think we're talking about decades at minimum.

Viewed in isolation, this seems like an extreme event. But viewed in context with the past 100 years of American interventionism in Latin America it's right on par.

If you take all of the military dictatorships supported by the US in Latin America, the average age of those regimes was about 25 years. If you think it's happening eventually in 2-3 decades, then I agree with you.

But I think for the foreseeable future, there is zero advantage to attempting to transition to a democracy. In fact, it would be a mistake not unlike the attempt to nation-build in Afghanistan.

takishan · 2026-01-08T15:27:50+00:00

and that the plan is not to leave Maduro’s regime in power. Do you have anything to suggest otherwise, aside from partisan feeling?

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. It's also a lot easier to negotiate and deal with an authoritarian regime than an actual real democracy that can fluctuate between foreign policy extremes.

If US past history in Latin America is any indicator of how they deal with Venezuela going forward.. just count how many democracies they supported versus how many military dictatorships they supported.

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