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the 'wheel of reincarnation' paper: http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...

> rediscovered/reinvented and renamed It's not old yet; it'll be old once it's been renamed two or three times...

Might a "Highly Elliptical Orbit" be what I learned in uni as "Molniya Orbit"?

> The FBI infiltrating political groups of all stripes is to be assumed by default at this point. That (US domestic political groups, anyway) is their job, after all?

Sorry, I had been attempting to strike a nagging tone more than a bragging one: to put it more baldly, homelessness is a (collective) choice . [I voted with my feet for this societ…

nonverbal cues go all the way down to canines, etc.

> I'd say that is zero. That's your society, not all societies. People, veterans or not, aren't homeless in mine.

See Goldstein, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" (1949)

My relatively stable high trust society has bunker space for more or less the entire population; if the world goes to hell I'd much rather be* among people who (even on our right w…

So if Santa knows who's been bad or good, he had to have known the other reindeer were mobbing Rudolph. Yet he did nothing about it, right up until he needed Rudolph's capabilities…

> ...there is always an uncertainty from having to depend on a foreign government. If you can't trust foreign governments any more than they can trust you (you are the foreigner to…

"Analog dance music" FTW

Would George Floyd have anything to do with it? Or is that just coincidence?

In the States, due to the silly way education works, the whole game for parents is physically to move to the good school district.

I think part of what they didn't like was that in Old Man River, instead of singing: Git a little drunk An' you lands in jail for Moscow audiences he sang: Show a little grit And y…

Nowadays we don't even need family and friends to spy on you for benefits; websites and apps do it for advertising revenue.

After all, they kept Paul Robeson in by simply pulling his passport, no wall needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson#:~:text=A%20month...

pics (for anyone who prefers a bit more subtlety in their international relations): https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-... https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/ima…

Ancient Aliens ought to be required viewing in schools, because they are very careful to employ enthymeme and reported speech to make a series of statements each one of which is te…

Just what do actual soldiers think of the LARPers, anyway?

ML models with open weights? Like, say, Qwen?

The US got a lot of things in a lot of fields because the sort of people who were smart enough to make those advances were also smart enough to get far away from the Reich while th…

Speaking of Austin, anyone wishing to admire the art of the Gerrymander ought to look at the multiple electoral districts covering the state capital. PS. Hook'em Horns :)

See also Mutual defence clause (Article 42.7 TEU) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...