ceejayoz

13 ms·

301.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
My yard got dug up to run a sewer line. They filled it in after and planted seed. I couldn't possibly tell you where it happened now. If they'd left a big pile of rocks in the spot, I'd bet I could find that.
302.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Did the US? I would argue it’s been going on for 80 years, in tandem with the rise of the military industrial complex. That's pretty fast, historically. > But the US was never really an empire in the traditional sense, no? Sure
303.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Maybe the company has at least made committments to restore it to the way it was after?
304.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Of course it's an impeachable offense. We see several new ones every week. There's just no one with the power plus willingness to do so.
305.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/61z8jv/oecd_life_...
306.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Consider: I may also try and make/buy safer tools so I don't ever have to use them again at some point in the future. I may hire someone else (China!) to do the work. A lack of trust does not mean an immediate cessation of use
307.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Think of it this way: You loan a friend $5k. They promise to pay it back. They don't. You may still hang out! But you may never loan them money again unless they give meaningful evidence they've changed. The US probably has one
308.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
I do hope there's a "when fifty people call within 200 meters all at once" escalation somewhere in this flowchart.
309.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> I think the whole “empire collapsing” is a bit of a dramatized phrasing, though historians can correct me. I think it’s much more death by a thousand cuts, and the UK is a great analogue in that regard. Didn't the UK's empire
310.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Sure. It might be much worse and faster this time! People have nukes and machine guns!
311.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Why? I don't trust a wood chipper or angle grinder or fireworks on the Fourth of July, so I'm extra careful around them. Doesn't mean I don't use them. > Is the force even still there… Yep.
312.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> This is not convincing. Yeah, we heard that about climate change, too. We may be Cassandras, but that doesn't make us wrong.
313.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> How do you explain all of the people and countries who are currently trusting the US and their commitments? You've never seen a crime flick where the soon-to-be-murdered victim goes "I won't call the cops, I swear! Don&#
314.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> The decline of the Roman Empire, depending on how you define it, played out over centuries, if not a millennium. Sure, and before COVID-19 pandemics often took years/decades to spread around the globe. Agriculture took thousands o
315.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> I’m talking about the people with decision making power and the businesses working internationally. As am I. At a certain point, you get bitten enough times that you decide the angry cobra isn't a great pet. It may be really cool,
316.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Germany made it illegal to display Nazi symbols and espouse their beliefs. (And hung a few.) A bit of a lesson learned, in part, from not spanking the Confederacy's leadership enough.
317.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Sure. We had Nixon. Most collapses start slow, and I tend to doubt this one is finished .
318.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
The American population has demonstrated that they'll nominate an insane criminal to power at random. Twice! I think that's gonna stick longer than the Bush to Clinton style transitions.
319.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Completely ignorant here, and I don't want to ask an AI (I don't trust them on these issues). Could you give me an example how you can make money with this information? Place a Kalshi bet on the outcome of something that a Tr
320.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi... > The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians posit factors inc
321.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> What exactly is the problem for me or anybody else reading the article that some PE investors weren't able to get the return they had hoped for on their investments? A widespread contagion in the industry would wipe out significan
322.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Yes, but then they are just as "stuck" with their investments as my uncle is stuck in his car because he hasn't decided if he wants to get out of it or not. Hardly worthy of a newspaper article. One person stuck isn&#x27
323.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> There are only two outcomes: Price goes up or price goes down. And if you don't know which is going to occur, you may feel stuck. Indecisive, anxious, conflicted, call it whatever you like. > Only future value is of interest. W
324.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
But that makes this even more likely to be a ripoff. Getting Claude to make the same exact mistake twice in non-deterministic manner takes real effort!
325.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> The term is so broad that you cannot say that for private equity. You called these "high risk investments". That tells you at least some broad information about the sort of investors who are attracted to it. Claiming otherwis
326.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> That's always been with us. But the ability to meaningfully make a personal implementation has changed.
327.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Didn't meta just announce to the world that its AI is prone to hack out of its container and attack other companies? "Our model is super dangerous too! Please try it!" Some of this shit is just PR work.
328.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Private equity is a form of investment, not a form of investor. Surely a particular form of investment typically attracts a particular form of investor? > You can only sell for the price that somebody wants to buy for. And if yo
329.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> If you use your own tokens and solve it yourself, it's still your problem. The flip side, of course, is that I can fix my problem - which may be unique and not something a large SaaS will ever do - on my timeline.
330.
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Perhaps you could give us a concrete example, or explanation, to help us understand? Otherwise, this comment is similarly void of useful info.

More ›