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“Nearly a third of New Yorkers oppose the brutal Mamdani régime”

Personally I store mine in LLM training data. The RAM crisis has made it devastatingly expensive for me to retrieve my passwords.

Should be…

You’re a Linux user, name every distro…

Debian, Arch, Fedora.

Dan Olson: hold my beer.

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The recent interview with Jeremy Scahill and Ro Khanna comes to mind as a contemporary example.

How much rhetoric has flown around about Israel’s right to defend itself?

In that context, Ro Khanna, one of the most sympathetic national politicians to the Palestinian cause immediately after being held up at gun point by Isreal cannot say the Palestinians also have the same right to defend themselves.

I have a lot of respect for as far as Ro has tried to push things, but come on man, humanity cannot keep playing these games. Something has to give.

Even if we take the assertion that they are doing apologia for Russia as true; the accusation of ‘tankie’ is strange. As if people who identify as communist have never heard of the fall of the USSR.

Maybe it would make sense when defending China in some contemporary contexts, but Russia?

It all reminds me of how George Bush used the term terrorism. Anyone who thought we need a different approach to respond to 9/11 than GWB was ‘letting the terrorist win’. Now anyone who thinks we need to find a different approach other than throwing the military industrial complex at the war in Ukraine is a tankie.

Do these same people think the war in Iran would be better if China got involved. Of course not, that would be insane. But change China to US and Iran to Ukraine and all of a sudden they support it.

The point is to have more skepticism toward all militarism; that’s not to say militarism is never justified. But NATO was literally built to contain the USSR, it worked on some level, the USSR fell. Russia’s militarism toward Ukraine is completely unjustified, but their complaint about still being contained NATO is valid. They subjected their people to a ton of economic hardship in the 90s to appease the west. But we can’t disband or renegotiate NATO because too many people benefit from it staying how it is.

The answer to the Ukraine war was to bring Russia into the western block on more equal terms 30 years ago. Now the situation is fucked, it gets more dangerous to more people every day it goes on.

“We can talk about socialized healthcare and the evils of capitalism all day, but before we go any further I need you to pass this two-factor recognizing that the US’s military/prison industrial complex has done more harm to the world since WWII than China Russia and Iran.”

Can I have your source for that graph?

It says ‘2025 projected’. When was that ‘projected’? The year China really started laying solar was 2024.

Its interesting data, but I’m not sure it responds to the point I’m making. My point is not that China is currently green but that they are in the process of building the infrastructure required for the transition away from fossil fuels.

I think describing what they’ve done so far as ‘some success’ is understating the scale of what they’ve accplished. Especially when compared to their contemporaries such as the US.

I’m not sure I understand the point you’re making.

Regardless, China deployed an entire US electricity grid of capacity in solar energy in a single year. They are making the translation to green energy.

https://archive.is/20260416223302/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/china-s-four-year-energy-spree-has-eclipsed-entire-us-power-grid

The US is down because the US exported much of its industry to China.

Right, the question should be, is it in your interest to support war with China? A world at war is not in my interest. The US should scale back the military industrial complex.

For most people if you want to continue to access the resources you need for a satisfying and dignified life your bigger concern should be climate change. While it would have been nice if the US had adopted Chinese style industrial policy to address climate change 20 years ago, China has the tools to start addressing it now.

The US is denying those tools to its citizens because it threatens US hegemony.

If protectionism is not a consideration why were there massive controversial bailouts when US auto started to fail?

The answer is simple.

Its not either/or its both. The brands in the US are from countries allied with the US. They don’t want China to have more manufacturing that can potentially be used in war. Conversely they want US manufacturing that can be used in war.

The industry they’re protecting just happens to be used for civilian purposes right now.

They’re telling you Chinese cars spies on you because they want you to think your interests and the states interest align with regards to war with China.

Trump is a radical Moaist environmental terrorist. Change my mind.

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I guess this is the closest thing to experiencing Nolan’s vision for now.

Real film heads know the only true way to experience Nolan’s vision for The Odyssey is to watch him film it live.

Nice strandbeest, you could start a collection of those and race them.