Its crazy how you can beat this drum year after year after year and not burn people out.
zifnab25
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I'm old enough to remember when liberals were outraged by Russian "De-Nazification" of Ukraine.
Yeah, its definitely got the same "genius" energy of your Matt Yglesias quips, Ben Shapiro rants, or Jordan Peterson tearful monologues. He's clearly aware of the material history of these people and organizations and he acknowledges tendencies among leftists to champion the weak and oppose the cruel. But he psychologizes the motivations in order to tear down his subjects. "You support marginalized people because you resent them. You oppose powerful people because you envy them. You're too empathetic and too intellectual and too moralistic. And if you're too much of something, that means you're the opposite of it."
Its the exact same gibberish I'd expect to read from a WaPo Op-Ed or Economist Think Piece or NYT Best Seller.
Also, literally DeSantis's appointee.
Honestly, it has the same vibe as the Texas voter-fraud fearmonger who died waiting to speak on the floor of the State House An irredeemable shitbag, who worked himself to death doing Greg Abbott's dirty work.
Guys like this are chewed up and spit out by their bosses.
Don't be such a tease. Drop some bars. Let's hear a few of Ted's best bangers.
This is, unfortunately, right in line with what elite Virginians consider edible.
Okay, sure, but then Biden will be integral to prosecuting a fair and just war against the Hamas Terrorists, for which he should also be applauded.
Then, when Gaza is fully leveled, he should be applauded for overseeing a new peace in the territory and for providing billions in aid to help Israel rebuild the blasted craters.
And, finally, Biden should be applauded for the boom in economic activity within Gaza that follows a successful repatriotization of the region by upstanding, hard working, honest, good looking native peoples who coincidentally look like European and American real estate developers and suburban landlords.
I'm looking forward to Gaza being described as an "Economic Miracle" within the next ten years.
Its just math, bro. You can't argue with it, bro. Long tail of risk made manifest, my dude. We have to be effective altruists, guy. Its really simple but I can't show any of it to you. I just can't show you what's in the box or how it works, because then that would ruin the magic. You don't need to know how any of this stuff works, dawg. Don't look behind the curtain, there's nobody back here. Stop asking all these stupid questions, you're not smart enough to understand, I swear, stop looking or the magic will go away! Dawg, you just gotta trust me, I'm good for it everything is fine, just stop asking how AI works guy dude bro STAWP!
About midway through, when they get into the main character's backstory by cutting between her actual life and a shadow puppet play of an old Japanese parable, you really see the show's artistry shine. The show's core narrative is rock solid. The animation is superb. The characters are genuinely fun to root for and the twists in the plot keep you engaged. Heroes and villains and bystanders alike all have a compelling role to play.
If I could make one change, it would be to soften some of the more unbelievable stunts the main character manages to accomplish. There are definitely moments that stretch credulity, bleeding over into Shōnen anime. But its not out of line with your Cowboys Bebop or Samurais Afro or Champloo, so I'll bite my tongue.
the initial outlay alone could cost as much as $100 billion, for a project that is likely to take years to complete
I guess the big question you have to ask is whether Biden holds Argentina in as high esteem as he holds Ukraine. My guess is that he does not.
Idk, man. There was a brief period from, maybe 2002 to 2015, when Google search results were somewhat relevant. This was after the late-80s/early-90s, when web crawlers were a crap shoot at best. And the Alta-Vista / Lycos / AOL / Yahoo era where you could get high profile results reliably but everything else was 50% porn-categories on any conceivable topic.
Even at its peak, Google wasn't terribly useful outside of the first 10-20 returns. Bing was a flop, until they poached and functionally rebranded as DuckDuckGo. One of the primary appeals of sites like Reddit stemmed from the community oriented information exchange - you could go to a boutique sub on a particular topic and discover sites and content producers you'd never heard of before. Then those sites would gain prominence and start showing up in search engine queries over time. Wikipedia was, similarly, useful in large part because the information was consistent and reliable from month to month and year to year. One of the better things Wikipedia did was to lock down their bigger topics and limit who could post, if for no other reason than it curbed the "newer is better" impulse of modern web traffic engines.
But gaming search engine queries has always been a thing. Bush's guys figuring out how to get John Kerry's website to show up when you searched for "Waffles" was a thing back in 2004. Or Steve Lener rigging his Albino Blacksheep site to make "French Military Victories" redirect to a message asking if the user was looking for "French Military Defeats". Google-bombing has been around since the firm's inception. Nothing about the above is particularly new or disturbing, save in so far as its a problem these hubs of genius still can't solve.
Mercury is a liquid. The anvil is a solid. Therefore the mercury is less dense than the anvil and should float above the anvil. This disproves the theory of buoyancy, which was created by (((scientists))) in the 17th century to distract from the magnificence of God's Grace.