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by guscost 6y ago
It was not an attempted insurrection. It was a show of force.
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by guscost 6y ago
Urging supporters to go to the capital “peacefully” using that explicit qualifier. You still have a point, but be transparent about it.
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by guscost 6y ago
“Will be wild” was a little sketchy. But you are more right than wrong, he could easily have channeled all that energy into something truly horrible just by saying “It’s the Socialists! Let’s get the bastards!”
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by guscost 6y ago
The only player coming out of this looking good seems to be Texas, which said "no thanks" to their sales pitch (after a security audit) and avoided the whole mess.
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by guscost 6y ago
If Facebook did anything to contribute to the current unrest, it was supporting competing echo chambers that challenge the dominant one. The organic emergence of echo chambers is surely a problem, but let’s not pretend that the corporate-
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by guscost 6y ago
What I’m saying is that they almost certainly would not have been able to “get the bad guys” without being shot themselves, unless the tactic was machine-gun emplacements turning everyone into hamburger, with the side effect of starting a s
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by guscost 6y ago
There were concealed guns everywhere on both sides this time, so not as surprising to me. Nobody wanted to start a bloodbath.
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by guscost 6y ago
Was there to document and distribute some propaganda, we did not get very close to the militant action, but a few things to report: - At least one flash-bang (probably) and one tear gas grenade (definitely) were used on the capitol steps. -
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by guscost 6y ago
“Stop the spread, stay in bed”
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by guscost 6y ago
Weird theory of mine: The DoD ultimately picks these winning planes based on which one “looks cooler” or basically has better aesthetics. I think the F-35 has better aesthetics than the Boeing X-32, just like the F-22 has better aesthetics
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by guscost 6y ago
Ah, sure: https://twitter.com/isis_win/status/1323046887910477837 https://twitter.com/backupishere/status/1044776935077941248
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by guscost 6y ago
“Right-Wing Extremists More Dangerous Than Islamic Terrorists In U.S.” https://www.npr.org/2015/06/24/417192057/right-wing-extremis... “Terrorist Or Hero? Politics Shape The Story Behind Antifa's On
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by guscost 6y ago
> Honestly, it's probably part of a real justification narrative for trusting things like QAnon and talk radio over the mainstream media. What?! My problem is that people fail to question reputable but comically biased sources like
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by guscost 6y ago
NPR is basically a state propaganda outfit that pretends to be a “neutral” and objective source, although its organization and methods are very different from those of the Q entity. Both sources have many die-hard followers who utterly fa
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by guscost 6y ago
Here’s one huge difference between the two: NPR does not generally make up stories from whole cloth, without at least a real person on the record vouching for them. Their flaws are pretty much all in what stories and details they choose to
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by guscost 6y ago
In the same sense, you have never met anyone who believes Q is the “ultimate provider of truth” and not just some secret spy cell or whatever. I used hyperbole to illustrate a point.
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by guscost 6y ago
A 21st-century struggle session. “Agree with the consensus or else.”
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by guscost 6y ago
You are still using “prediction” in a sense that I would say is not at all “risky”. Put another way, so far string theory is an elaborate kind of curve-fitting — a mathematical construction that matched the empirical data available at its i
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by guscost 6y ago
String theory has not made predictions that are in any sense meaningful to science. “Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if, unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have
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by guscost 6y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873896/ > Trade-offs between different components of parasite fitness provide the dominant conceptual framework for understanding the adaptive evolution of vir
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by guscost 6y ago
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is reading these whimsical “how many aliens can dance on a pinhead” arguments that always show up. Have a great holiday break, everyone.
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by guscost 6y ago
This conclusion is likely as robust as any other religious belief.
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by guscost 6y ago
The book “Longitude” by Dava Sobel is an excellent telling of this story. And there’s a movie adaptation too.
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by guscost 6y ago
Based on the precedent of all other endemic human coronaviruses, there is reason to guess that the winning mutations will be less dangerous. This is also consistent with theory: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles
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by guscost 6y ago
HFT is so latency-sensitive that it matters how physically close you are on Manhattan island . It is so latency-sensitive that new “hollow” fiber-optic cables are being installed, because light moves faster in air than in glass.
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by guscost 6y ago
Some family/friends published a few children’s books about snowflakes and snowflake photography: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Photographs-Snowflake-America... https://www.amazon.com/Snowflake-Science-
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by guscost 6y ago
Quoting the conclusion: “It is too early to say whether Black Lives Matter and other pandemic-inspired protests will result in significant political reforms. Perhaps the reason we are inclined to view pandemics and other crises as moral and
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by guscost 6y ago
If you think your right to virus-free air trumps the rights of others, you’re in for a rude awakening. Funny how similar it sounds to the argument for “restricting carbon emissions”, another thing that people naturally exhale.
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by guscost 6y ago
Not what I meant, but good point. “War on Disease” perhaps.
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by guscost 6y ago
World War 3, Cold War 2, PSYWAR 1, infowars.com, pick your preference. Nobody knows where this thing is headed.

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