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theturtlemoves [he/him]

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  • Isn't Qatar the most Iran-friendly country? Egypt is pro-Israel, right? Whose side is Oman on?

  • build $1b radar to defend from missiles radar gets hit by missile

  • There are ants like Dinoponera where there are no specialised queens, and the strongest worker becomes the 'queen' as long as she can keep challengers at bay. The technical term for such queens is gamergate (gam-ergate, not gamer-gate).

  • making mythological references by using thematically relevant symbolism, or naming characters after mythological figures, or cribbing subplots from old myths isn't profound or deep, it's a tasty treat for people educated in that reference to make the connection or a way for an author to go "idk I'll just grab a vaguely relevant name or symbol or plot arc from the collected body of myths and/or literature at least some of the audience will be familiar with, so they get it a bit better and maybe they'll think I'm smart for it".

    It's often a shortcut. You can show Donald Duck's uncle being a selfish miser. Or you can just name him Scrooge. A single story can't show everything, so this is useful.

  • Some sororities are sometimes partnered to a frat and encourage sex with members of that frat. Sometimes its a requirement to get in.

    Excuse me, what the heck?

    Why would anyone join? And how does this not become a national scandal and get shut down?

  • Oh yes. They're more in touch with material reality than Western lib papers, but their readers are mostly Asian libs.

  • No, but it's a Hong Kong based newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. It's more social democrat than socialist in tone.

  • Puyi was the last emperor of China. When Japan invaded China he sold out, and approved whatever orders they put in front of him. After the war he was captured, forced to see the damage he had done and talk to the relatives of the people he had executed, etc. He apologised and was given a new job as a gardener. He was clumsy (since he was used to other people doing everything for him) but tried to learn gardening. He met and married an 'ordinary' woman - a nurse, if I remember correctly. Many years later he confessed that he was happier as a gardener than he had been as the emperor.

  • Xi has won the Mandate of Kevin.

  • I was late on my deliverables (because I had lost sleep thinking about what to do about the other stuff but that's besides the point.) However, I was being yelled at while doing another thing that was asked for, explicitly due in 2 hours.

    He also doesn't know how to program

    Anyone who has written a computer programme knows that you cannot predict how long it will take before you start. Doubly so if you are coming up with something new (which I assume you are). If something takes longer than expected to write, it takes longer than expected to write, and that's it. Definitely not an excuse to shout or be unprofessional about.

  • Are they confusing Arthur with Alfred?

  • the US got distracted for a decade and a half or so.

    Invading Afghanistan was a choice. If anyone 'distracted' the US, it was the US itself.

  • British PMs are usually asked if they'd use such weapons and the answer is always yes

    Corbyn publicly said no. This refusal to potentially kill thousands of civilians was seen as a sign of weakness.

    the USSR was too principled to use their nuke

    China also has a 'no first use' policy.

  • Ignatius shouldn't have stopped at Paris.

  • for inference use domestic chips, for training buy Nvidia.

    Is this to encourage local manufacturing, or due to espionage concerns? My understanding is that usually GPUs do not have direct access to the internet, and so putting a backdoor in one of them would be pointless.

  • Just zeroeth world things

  • Yes, it could be a military coup. It could also be the US using classified alien technology they found in the Bermuda Triangle.

    But the simplest explanation is that Trump / Rubio were angry at Venezuela, their generals told them a ground war would be Vietnam 2.0, and that it would be safer to kill / kidnap one of their leaders and declare victory. The US can do this - Venezuela has one modern Russian-made air-defence battery (see MarmiteLover's posts in the news threads) and that can't cover the entire country. (Older systems won't work against the modern US military.)

  • Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You're alleging that an entire military command collaborated with their enemy. You'll have to provide some proof for that.

  • Source?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    A Modest Proposal