pretty soon the only allies we’ll have left are israel and rhodesia.

the Venn diagram between what i take from the Jewish tradition and what ADL takes from it is just two circles, very very very far away from each other.

when “deep research” surfs the web for you, does it do the CAPTCHAs?

people with idiotic politics demand we deport people for having idiotic politics.

“the customer is always right” is a relic of that world before success in business meant establishing monopoly.

nowadays, the customer is always plankton.

@Phil Romania hardly bans right wing candidates. ever heard of AUR? totally whack and terrible, fascist or close to it from my perspective (you’d take a different view), but never banned. you, my friend, are i suspect less informed about Romania than i am. i’ve spent, cumulatively, years there. in any case, the whole interview is quite good, give it a read.

@nholzschuch @Migueldeicaza vim and vigor!

[new draft post] Voice of a Maryland https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/voice-of-a-maryland/index.html

a romanian perspective. https://friendshipbridge.eu/2025/03/09/done-romania-crisis-en/

the phrase 'the west' becomes awkward if the westernmost part of the west is no longer in it.

@nholzschuch @Migueldeicaza 🙂

if tech treated tech like government, it would have mocked computing relentlessly for crashing so much and sent its own industry to the wood chipper. manual typewriters would be a token of a vigorous masculinity.

you can persecute jews for not cracking down on anti-semitism hard enough.

my god they love this shit. they laugh and laugh.

a thing to understand about Democratic Party professionals, from Congressional leaders to NGO-ists, think-tankers, and consultants, is their material situation is not all that different from Big Law — they lead lives of comfort that can be undermined if they find themselves especially targeted.

you start out so lonely. so you resolve, you struggle, you make enough money to buy the whole fucking world. so you do.

then you find there is no place lonelier than a world that you own.

@Phil yeah, these are your priors. they are ill-informed, but we will all pay the price for them.

@Phil they don’t have a clue what they are doing and what they are cutting. they are indiscriminate, firing on the basis of easy to fire (ie new or recently promoted) rather than any evaluation of merit. what roles have they killed just a bit less obviously important than nuclear weapons protection, oopsie? they miscompute and outright lie constantly about their “savings”. they themselves are waste, fraud, and a mothereffing ton of abuse. physician, heal thyself.

@Phil as i said, perhaps we’ll see how you like this brave new world your political movement is bringing on. i could be wrong, but i suspect you won’t (though even if so i wonder if you’ll attribute blame to malicious compliance or some other excuse). what if there is nothing as good as NOAA and plane crashes become more common again, in part because they fly blind into weather? oh well, you might say. price of progress.

i’m proud of NOAA, want to keep and even expand it.

@Phil do you have any reason to suspect a cumulative effect of vaccinations over all the other cumulating factors that have changed over time? i do know, for example, autism diagnoses have continued to rise even after childhood vaccines were stripped of thimerosal that had previously been alleged the cause. i’m not saying some difficult-to-detect cumulative effect is impossible. i’ve no idea why anyone would especially suspect one, though.

@admitsWrongIfProven i’m not sure about that. often the same people who blame strip (or provide the political support to those who strip).