@marick absolutely. silly dance parties, abundant housing, amazing education, free health care should exist as options, but there should be no compulsion. except for kids, some compulsion, it’s the juvenile condition under any system. people who don’t identify as queer or commie are great and always welcome! (i think all the humans are queer and ‘commie’ is just a free-floating epithet to reappropriate. i’d describe myself as a social democrat, but if they wanna call us that why not embrace it!)
that so often "insane" vibe-coding prompts are "clone this popular app!" suggests that coding LLMs are better copy machines than architects of applications.
i think democrats should rebrand themselves "queer commies for abundant housing, free health care, amazing education, and silly dance parties".
personally i like it, and it's unlikely to be worse branding than "democrats".
who lubricated the present that it slips so easily into the past?
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maybe the answer to the riddle of theodicy is just a really bad prompt.
laissez-faire ≠ liberalism
there are no deals, commitments are meaningless, but the ironclad principle of the new diplomacy is if you flatter him and make him look good he just might be nice to you. whoever you are.
and if you give him an opportunity to look good, if he can take credit, he might do whatever it is you’d like done.
Many of the worst crimes are perpetrated—by purposeful arrangement—in third countries. Auschwitz wasn’t in Germany. “Extraordinary renditions” weren’t to the United States.
A green light into black holes.
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-courts-disastrous-ruling
whenever i hear the expression "drill baby drill", i think of the dentist.
i see mockery of fears that selective service registration could cease to be a mere formality and conscription could return. i agree that it’s far-fetched.
but it’s a bit less far-fetched after the Russia-Ukraine experience, who expected the return of manpower-intensive trench warfare. and yet.
what if we traded, regime change here for regime change there? seems fair!
coalition of the who the fuck even knows anymore
i think there’s kind of a moral version of a Veblen good. it’s hard to know what will actually deliver power, but ambitious people do/promote evil as a price of power.
sometimes they use this price in evil as a proxy for or measure of how effective an approach must be at delivering power. and so look to pay more.
@peter it’s good for R-leaning US oil producers!
the end of history was boring, but history is worse than boring.
the Iranian people should overthrow the regime, then join the EU and impose a digital services tax.