lolinder

43 ms·

721.
by lolinder 2y ago
I agree with your conclusion, but this story is very badly sourced and really should not be used [0]. We only have two sources from the 1800s that claim it: one is contemporary but provides no attribution and we have no reason to believe th
722.
by lolinder 2y ago
Agreed. So there's no need to perpetuate claims whose provenance is "someone 40 years later claimed to have heard this from the sultan's physician's son" (see my reply to GP). We have plenty else to use.
723.
by lolinder 2y ago
I wasn't criticizing OP's statement, just elaborating on it. And it wasn't a joke so much as a rhetorical device.
724.
by lolinder 2y ago
This source notably does not make the claim that the amount was lowered in response to a request from Queen Victoria, which is the actually damning claim.
725.
by lolinder 2y ago
Wikipedia says that the provenance is... sketchy, to say the least: > The claim that he had wanted to give £10,000 first appears in Taylor & Mackay's Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel (1851), but the book is not referenced and n
726.
by lolinder 2y ago
This is obviously an absurd overextrapolation, and it's unlikely that a significant number of people would actually change their name to exploit it, but the principle is accurate: If alphabetical is used consistently then someone with
727.
by lolinder 2y ago
I think that tools like this have to operate on a subscription model like Cursor does in order to make any kind of sense for most users. The pay as you go model for agentic code tools makes you responsible for paying for: * Whatever context
728.
by lolinder 2y ago
In fact, Kagi benefits enormously from being small enough that no one is SEOing for them. Google's adversarial game of algorithmic whack-a-mole is very expensive and hard to keep up. Kagi doesn't have to play the game because they
729.
by lolinder 2y ago
So far Trump 2.0 has done exactly what he promised he would, and his supporters are quite happy. If his actions don't lead to the outcomes he promised that may change, as long as someone else who understands the needs can offer an alte
730.
by lolinder 2y ago
See, this is exactly why I felt the need to speak up. Trumpism isn't what they want, it's just the closest thing to what they want that's been offered. And if you let Trump be the only person who speaks to them for the next 1
731.
by lolinder 2y ago
Nah, there are plenty of us here, we've just mostly gone underground in the face of the mindless hate and anger that's been dominant the last month or two. Echo chambers are self-reinforcing that way.
732.
by lolinder 2y ago
There are only three ways to beat a populist: * Abolish democracy (only works preemptively, abolishing democracy while they're in charge would obviously not work). * Wait for them to die and hope they don't teach what they know to
733.
by lolinder 2y ago
Not voting in the Democratic primary because Trump had already shifted them to the Republican party.
734.
by lolinder 2y ago
Before you can be a leader people have to follow you, and in democracies people have to vote for you. And the unfortunate reality is that reality doesn't matter for elections, only the perception of reality matters. So if you want to b
735.
by lolinder 2y ago
> It doesn't matter that Republicans are slightly more to blame then Democrats in the thinning out of rural places - the folks who live there, IMO, see both parties as the same thing. Yes, and they're very aware that Trump is n
736.
by lolinder 2y ago
In the last 30 years, which other nominee for president by one of the two parties that matter has made addressing the struggles of working class America the center of their platform?
737.
by lolinder 2y ago
It played a role in giving people an outlet to attach their anger to, the same as it did in 1930s Germany. But the economics came first and are still dominant in the majority of Trump voters I speak with. The vocal minority pushing the raci
738.
by lolinder 2y ago
> If you are in the deep trump territory, listen to conservative/religious radio stations. You will know how much hate they are spreading against liberal, trans, gays, and immigrants. You have to distinguish between the rhetoric bei
739.
by lolinder 2y ago
Again, it doesn't really matter if you like them or think they're mature in their attitudes and approach, they've now proven that you can't win elections without them. Figure out how to appeal to them or watch us descend
740.
by lolinder 2y ago
Thanks. I know. I'm here every few weeks with a fresh attempt. It went over better before the inauguration, but now that Trump is actually implementing the policies that he campaigned on it's a bit harder for people to stomach the
741.
by lolinder 2y ago
See 1930s Germany. Even Hitler didn't arise in a vacuum, he gave people an outlet to express their anger at a very real economic disaster.
742.
by lolinder 2y ago
As I said, they're wrong about the medicine, but Trump wins by being the first to acknowledge that there's a serious problem.
743.
by lolinder 2y ago
There are always some fraction of nutjobs in any coalition, but in my part of the Midwest that is a tiny fraction of the voters. Most are just tired of change and tired of feeling left behind. To the extent that they're riled up by tha
744.
by lolinder 2y ago
Don't you see how that platform is more patronizing than "I'll bring the jobs back home"? It's far more appealing to hear that your jobs were taken by cheap Chinese labor than to hear that your skills are out of dat
745.
by lolinder 2y ago
The anti-woke grassroots rhetoric around here is more about how much of a waste of time it is when they should be focused on issues that matter to people's livelihood. It's not hate on LGBTQ so much as irritation that something th
746.
by lolinder 2y ago
> The Biden administration successfully placed tons of factories all over the country with tax incentives for clean energy, but those factories could never trumpet what they were doing because hate for Democrats and for Biden and for cle
747.
by lolinder 2y ago
No, that's not it. I'm writing this from rural America in deep Trump territory, and people here are already struggling and have been for years. From their perspective they've been left out of the benefits of the global econom
748.
by lolinder 2y ago
Whether or not Dahl was influenced by the behavior of the state of Israel, he extrapolated his hatred towards a group of people. It's not really more complicated than that: it's wrong to be anti-Russian because of the actions of P
749.
by lolinder 2y ago
You're being pedantic, and as is often the case when people are pedantic you're also wrong [0]. Their use of the word "prove" is entirely consistent with standard definitions, and "demonstrate" is listed as a s
750.
by lolinder 2y ago
This is based on the US market and culture and may be off base in India, but for me starting with a form with open-ended questions is a huge red flag of being a massive waste of my time. When I left school I swore off of essay questions, an

More ›