Cool. IDC what country is doing it, I'm kind of the view that if humanity isn't going into space, we're just sitting here waiting idly for the end to come.

Putin made a big mistake when:

• He either didn't know about all the corruption in the military - and then blindly tried to use a decayed force as if it were real strength.
• or He did know about all the corruption the military - and then dumbly tried to use a decayed force as if it were real strength.

Either way, the veil came off, then the entire world saw how badly Putin had let decay and rot take over.

It's is also not the planet where Spock grew up, until he left to join starfleet.

I'm just not sure which is more true:

• There's more bad cops now, because the system has become a factory for them.
• We're more aware of police misbehavior now, because they are more recorded.

I'm confused.

Is Russia complaining here, or just helping confirm that what we intended to do happened?

Yeah, don't turn away op.

The iguana is just waiting for the right moment to ride off with it.

13,000 police. Say allocated for two weeks, 14 days. The average police officer will need probably a cake per day on average, based on my inventing that fact out of thin air.

So 182,000 cakes.

I only clicked the article because I couldn't tell from the thumbnail, if Kadyrov's eyeglasses were real or a photoshopped parody someone had put on him.

See, that's always the problem with that guy. It's like he's parodying himself all the time.

We all fear what's coming.

That thing where there's cameras everywhere, hooked up to machine learning systems like hall monitors, microticketing us into compete compliance with every regulation everywhere we go, digitizing our every public moment.

What's worse is, there won't even be the three seashells.

I saw this movie "OMG – Oh My God!" which was like a Bollywood takedown of the fake gurus in India. It also has an interest plot in that the main character doesn't believe in Shiva, but the movie literally has Shiva there interacting with him.

It goes into things like the wasted milk, money/idol industry.. but it does also make some exceptions where real charity is done, like it doesn't attack the kitchens that do things like langar.

As an American I can't evaluate the truth of it, but it was interesting.

Yeah, I respect the people giving their hair as a way to thank the deity. I think that part is actually pretty cool, like giving of yourself as a sacrifice is really probably the most noble sacrifice to do.

It's the part where the temples take that hair and it becomes commerce where it starts to feel sketchy.

It's kind of exploitation though. Basically religion has setup a system to harvest peoples hair and then sell it for their own profit.

> Once their wishes are realized, all of the family members come back to the temple and shave their heads to thank the god, Sreeja explained. Primary dealers then buy women's hair from these temples at a discount and sell it to industrialists like Sreeja, who then process it and export the extensions overseas.

You have a point that the configs for their infrastructure would kind of be more interesting than their actual source code.

From a coding perspective it tends to become less interesting. Programming for scale is mostly about making simple composable services you can ramp up or down as needed.

Good. Putin should be a lesson that old abusive authoritarian crap doesn't fly anymore.

Sure we're seeing the desperate grasping for it from authoritarians around the world, but people are waking up to what things like gaslighting are, to Putin's game, to how the power-obsessed will always strive to gather themselves more power.

No, the world isn't awake to all that yet.. but that's why lessons like this, where the attempt to abuse Ukraine blows up in Putin's face instead, are important.

That's my take, here. Is Twitter doing anything interesting algorithmically, do they have some secret sauce approach, some special technology that lets Twitter do its thing?

Not really. It's just a pub-sub model at scale.

> Injecting carefully measured doses of the neurotoxin into specific parts of the body can be a handy way for trained medical specialists to switch off targeted muscles responsible for pain or cosmetic problems.

See.. it's the psychology and the wording behind that paragraph.. that keeps me far away from botox.

I love how writing can really dramatically say something, by distinctly -not- saying it:

>The hope was that it would result in small pieces for animals to consume. The result was an event that would be remembered in the history books.

I asked gpt about it and it said that human corpses can be used as fertilizer to grow potatoes, but that it wasn't recommended and there were better fertilizers.

So then I asked if it I were skynet and didn't care about human life would it make sense, and it said there would be legal or societal backlash... and I asked if it skynet would care about that and it said it wouldn't.

... so I think we're good!

Yeah this should be a zero-tolerance situation if there's to be any.

Politicians for a country are traitors if they put other countries interests before their own.

Extraordinary claims made without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Yeah, from my perspective he never lied about being a con artist.. and like a true con artist, what we thought was the con wasn't the true con. In the end he gets this movie made about him and we're all going "lol but it's fake"... well... yeah? That just proves he's good at being a con artist!

This is FIFA's president.

We should just be glad Rwanda's genocide didn't 'inspire him' to recreate it.

I feel like with Prince... it's more like Carmen Electra probably hit that.

I have to believe he made her pancakes after, too.

It's basically semi-codified generational abuse.

"Oblivious CEO in C-Suite demands workers double efficiency 'for the good of the company'"