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811.
by gadders 2y ago
That is very much not true. He wrote a hysterical philippic [1] just before the election calling Trump a fascist, which was written with about the same level of historical rigour as the Paul Krugman's rants exhibit for economics. You m
812.
by gadders 2y ago
Further down that page it actually says: "Progressive muscle resistance training is the best type of muscle-strengthening exercise for your bones. It involves using weights or resistance bands to build up the work for your muscles to d
813.
by gadders 2y ago
You can see one of his coaches helping an 86 year old woman deadlift in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJOT0kn5vs
814.
by gadders 2y ago
Some good videos on Starting Strength of what they have done for older people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJOT0kn5vs (Such as the 86 year old lady in the video).
815.
by gadders 2y ago
If you want a historian that tends right rather than left like Devereaux, you could try Victor David Hanson. https://newcriterion.com/article/the-spartan-way-of-war/ I don't think he is that adrift from Dever
816.
by gadders 2y ago
When did it become my question?
817.
by gadders 2y ago
Professional boxers, MMA fighters etc must get punched in the stomach most days they train and by experts. I would think getting punched every day by an amateur would be survivable. And for some unfortunates, this is their school life.
818.
by gadders 2y ago
I don't think this is a needlessly cruel question to ask of an AI. It's a good calibration of its common sense. I would misgender someone to avert nuclear war. Wouldn't you?
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by gadders 2y ago
I think philosophically, yes, it doesn't really tell us anything interesting because no sentient human would choose nuclear war. However, it does work as a test case for AIs. It shows how closely their reasoning maps on to that of a ty
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by gadders 2y ago
I believe Caitlin Jenner famously did just that.
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by gadders 2y ago
I wonder what happens if you ask it the trolley problem. I'd be interested to see its responses for "killing someone to save a few lives" vs "upsetting someone to save a million lives".
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by gadders 2y ago
I think John Rawls would like a word if we're giving up on "unrealistic hypotheticals" or "thought experiments" as everyone else calls them.
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by gadders 2y ago
This looks like they listened to the BBC Crowd Science Podcast (recommended FYI) a week earlier and re-wrote it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5rjf
824.
by gadders 2y ago
I mean the internal Congress cctv footage that was supposed by the Jan 6th committee until forced to release it. The FBI has admitted it had 26 informants at the protest. Nobody has been caught for the pipe bomb and it was barely mentored f
825.
by gadders 2y ago
Biden had SCIF material. I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't let just anyone into the rooms where the secret documents were. You realise Mar a Lago is a 17 acre country club, right? It's not a 3 bedroom house. And if you think Gmai
826.
by gadders 2y ago
>>doesn't look like "walking through" the building to me. Well we can certainly trust Pro Publica to pick the most peaceful examples, but we don't really need the videos of what happened outside. The White House f
827.
by gadders 2y ago
I think this is what people call the Mandela Effect. Below is an actual video in a presidential debate of Trump saying he had nothing to do with Project 2025, and yet you claim he never said that: https://www.pbs.org/newshou
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by gadders 2y ago
"independent jury". It was in New York. What do you think would happen if Biden or Hillary were tried by a jury in Florida or Texas?
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by gadders 2y ago
>>The predominant reason someone like Biden or Bush doesn’t get prosecuted is because they don’t do this shit. Biden mishandled secret documents but escaped prosecution by being mentally unfit. He kept them in his garage, I believe. B
830.
by gadders 2y ago
I mean, that might be how he defined his persona, but I don't think it's borne out by the facts. I think there was quite a lot of intolerance of anybody that didn't fit in with the left wing view of culture war issues espouse
831.
by gadders 2y ago
So was Biden. And with Alzheimers and unknown people actually running the government.
832.
by gadders 2y ago
>>Milley faced the moral issue when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Trump lost the election And sadly he failed the test.
833.
by gadders 2y ago
You are failing the first law of HN, where you have to assume the worst possible form of any action when it refers to Trump. Four years of this TDS is going to be exhausting .
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by gadders 2y ago
As Rob Henderson said "San Francisco is the only city where dogs tread in human shit."
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by gadders 2y ago
Well certainly he is at heightened risk because of the Democrat assassination attempts. Well the elections weren't free and fair in 2020 either, with COVID being used as an excuse. And let's not forget Hillary claiming she lost in
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by gadders 2y ago
I wish somebody would build a platform where people can actually put their money on these things like the Simon–Ehrlich wager [1]. I'd happily be putting down £100 with internet randos that (absent a nuclear war) presidential elections
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by gadders 2y ago
>>so why did you vote for the guy who increased the debt more than his successor But less than his predecessor. And I didn't vote, I'm not a US citizen or resident.
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by gadders 2y ago
I think the WHO proved during COVID it is an ineffective, corrupt organisation. I hope more countries leave it.
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by gadders 2y ago
It was born from a conflict between the West and Warsaw Pact. Western Europe had even more skin in the game than the US.
840.
by gadders 2y ago
Wait until you hear about NATO (and I say this as a Brit).

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