They get a cut.

“it’s genuinely crazy…”

Yeah

I swear these two’s real job is as a honeypot for adventurism.

I agree with a few of his criticisms of Hakim’s video. He failed to establish why the eyewitness reports that side with him are more credible than those that disagree (calls them fabricated but didn’t seem to support that) and put too much emphasis on the Chai Ling interview without showing that she was a leader or massively influential in the protests. He claims that the will of the people was subverted but doesn’t justify that within the video.

That said, I think reacting to and critiquing the video isn’t worth much if you don’t at least attempt to tackle the death count. Just throwing out that some estimates go as high as 10k without judging them at all is worthless at best. If 10k people died then I think it’s pretty obviously a massacre.

They started as a piracy site and gained name recognition that way, then went “legit” and started handing out copyright claims like candy.

Yeah federation gets confusing. A user from one instance posts on another instance and you view it through a third instance.

I might be misreading your comment but the user is from .ca and the post is in .world.

Once as a teenager at an MtG event my phone died and I needed to call my parents so I asked a random guy if I could borrow his. Not only did he hand it over, but he told me I might need to step outside to get a better signal. Sometimes people are chill and trusting.

"The Azov Brigade, known for its tenacious but ultimately unsuccessful defense of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol early in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, is regarded as a particularly effective fighting force.

Literally known for losing

Eventually, the generator and the discriminator begin to agree more as they settle into something called Nash equilibrium. This is arguably the central concept in game theory. It represents a kind of balance in a game—the point at which no players can better their personal outcomes by shifting strategies. In rock-paper-scissors, for example, players do best when they choose each of the three options exactly one-third of the time, and they will invariably do worse with any other tactic.

This last sentence is completely wrong, yeah?

Everything I’m seeing is that he "could’ go there and they’re “ready” for him.

I’m pretty sure you have to enroll yourself but are legally required to do so (but it’s been a while since I turned 18)

“cognitive restructuring” is such a dark phrase.

To be honest I don’t think this is a very good metric. It’s a combination of something good (number of people insured) and something bad (debt per insured person).

As an example, if you increased the number of people with insurance, and reduced the debt per uninsured person, you’d expect this to happen.

Not to say that things have actually gotten better, just that we should use more meaningful metrics.

28, but 32 is also good

I can’t actually make it because I’m on mobile, so imagine a perfectly edited version of the “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?” meme.

“inconvenient” is my biggest problem with it. Just use a single format for every work and add some html classes so I can scrape it easier.

It’s not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.

The unpleasant reality is, Russians, like the Chinese, have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. Their people are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

The libs are not ok.

Transphobes get the wall, guys