evidence-based policy means the best fabricators of evidence control policy.
one can hope it's easier to fabricate evidence for what is true than what is not, at least to some degree.
but is that degree large enough to overwhelm, say, resource differences among backers of researchers looking for different things?
seek and ye shall find — if you have the finances to seek thoroughly enough.
"Silenced Unknown Call."
Usually phone notifications stress me, but this one was somehow calming.
starbucks wrote to say my stars are expiring soon very kind of them to write but they didn't have to tell me man do i feel it.
@kentwillard i think it fair to say Biden has both national-interest and political incentives in the mix. it’s been rough on his domestic coalition, but as you say he can still hope for Saudi Arabia’s vote at the pump this November. i think the US is already pretty clear that it sees Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and some less well known groups in Syria and Iraq as ultimately answering to Iran (and indeed Iran describes them as its “axis of resistance “).
@kentwillard i think the US wants Israel and the Gulf monarchies together to maintain a stable Middle East without nearly as much direct US attention. though their publics are not on side, in the future first Trump then Biden have decided on, Israel and several of its former enemies are hoped to become one team, together deterring Iran and its proxies and helping support one another’s “stability”.
@Transportist news reader.
i feel like it might be a good career move to no longer be running in a Republican primary.
[new draft post] The long fistbump https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/05/08/the-long-fistbump/index.html
@admitsWrongIfProven @jawnsy Hello, world!
@admitsWrongIfProven @jawnsy Hello, world!
@jawnsy yes but the behavior is as yet undefined.
in stevelang blank files will be legal and defined to compile to a program that emits “Hello, world!” to the console.
the stevelang specification is this toot long, and already it has the shortest hello world.
Please make sure it is signed by the required date.
@Pinchy63 @gardenvarietylinguist i get them when i have too many browser tabs open on mastodon.
now that we know what went wrong, we wish we could go back in time and make different things go wrong.
@Mikle_Bond there's not always! not everybody will "get it", or will even care to try.
but the path should be open, clear, welcoming, encouraging, transparent to the people who might be inclined, who are many more than would get formally educated into more opaque systems.
photograph of characters Lokai and Bele from Star Treak, the original series, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". see https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield_(episode)
The weird thing is that, under contemporary moral pathologies, open borders offered as refuge from vicious discrimination in a source country might be characterized as complicit accommodation of ethnic cleansing. Refusing refuge might, as Egypt's Sisi put it, be characterized as necessary to prevent "liquidation" of their cause, assertion of their rights at home.
#HaroldMeyerson on why US choices a century ago sit at the roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. https://prospect.org/world/2024-05-06-who-created-israel-palestine-conflict/