Actually very well. You don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. The military being commanded by a civilian to keep the military in check is about keeping the military from ruling the country. See: Pakistan, Myanmar.

What you see is the civilian government throwing the military around carelessly, not the military getting out of check.

If you want to laugh about something, laugh about how the checks and balances between the 3 branches of government have broken down, not about the military ruling over the people.

My question too. At the very least he seems like a singular case where it’s unclear.

Actually good point. All I find on GroundNews is three reports of UAE debunking this claim. Example: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-officials-deny-israeli-reports-strike-inside-iran

Yeah seriously. This kind of thing is really terrifying. This is why we’ll never make it into space. Being in space requires so much effort just to stay alive. The second anyone wants to kill anyone up there, everyone’s dead as hell.

Yeah, dude, I’M the problem. Nice mental gymnastics.

It’s just my opinion but the “brand war” on HDDs is a little overblown in my opinion. I too recall one or two periods where Seagate got bad pr for quality issues, but I’m not concerned that 10 years later any HDD I buy from them is going to croak as soon as it’s half full. There’s no way they would still be in business if that image is true. I think many times if there is a different in quality between brands it’s the difference between 99.999% and 99.998% - gasp! double the failure rate! - and then it evens out again.

It’s so hard to raise kids to turn off the light when they leave the room, with huge wastes of electricity like this just running rampant in the world.

Yeah I’m with you on that. I don’t know how any decent person can board the bus of this religion at this point, given how the bus has been hijacked by psychopaths. How up your own ass do you need to be to just show up to church on Sunday and chant hymns? Where are the outraged Christians trying to take their religion back? Nowhere - they just leave.

I suppose this is true. I have more criticisms than praise for my home country, the US, but when I hear people outside it criticize it in a hostile way, my first reflex is not to agree with them, it’s more like “hey fuck you.”

I knew someone would call it 4D chess but I’m not suggesting mad genius. I’m just maybe waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Which makes you wonder if it’s chapter 1 in some other plan.

He has another long YT video about how immigration ruined Canada. Full of stereotypes.

I get that when you want to talk about geopolitics you have to generalize a bit, but this guy generalizes hard multiple times per sentence, these big crystal palaces out of those generalizations and then fashions predictions based on the layout of those palaces. It’s all a bit facile.

Speaking of easy, someday we will realize that this is a guy who predicted Trump would win and that there would be a war with Iran and those two things are not exactly Nostradamus-worthy.

Still I like him. Good food for thought. He thinks about things at a very high level.

I will just add one thing perhaps in contrast to this. But inasmuch as I’m offering an analysis of how people think about this, please don’t infer that I agree with them

With some things, ADHD being one, I think the grumbling we hear is not really that there can’t be all these new cases suddenly. It’s that we’re pathologizing something that’s a normal part of being a kid.

Again, I’m not saying ADHD is like that, just that “no one had this when I was a kid” isn’t the most on-point way to characterize people’s incredulity about ADHD. They think we’re over diagnosing it because we want to turn something into a problem, and turn boys into girls, and yadda yadda.

Why do we need to have a study on this when we can just listen to grandpa’s opinion, planted in his mind by Fox News?

No apology necessary. It is very frustrating material. I hope you have a great weekend.

They got in there!

I heard while he was in Miami he created a pretty big mess for his dad when he stole a retired assassin’s car and killed his dog.

Without holding it, it’s pretty hard to even define what “succeeding in invading” even means.

I wish I were more surprised. The truth is I’ve been watching executives take their own intelligence out of the equation for some time.

They’ll say “is there any data we can use to make this decision?” And there’s nothing wrong with that yet - more information is good.

But they’ll press and press. “How are we going to measure outcomes? We need to agree on metrics first. What’s our OKR for this?”

They need everything to be spelled out in black and white. Number go up or number go down. That way they don’t actually have to think.

I’ve worked under some really good leaders who could see three steps ahead and knew where we were trying to go. They didn’t need to lay down data gathering instrumentation before taking any single step. They didn’t just throw A/B tests at a wall to see what stuck. But those days are behind me.

Outsourcing the whole shit show to AI only makes sense once you’ve already abdicated all complex thought and judgment.

Just making sure. Cheers