Activity from dis_integration

Marx didn’t have a clue about this stuff. it’s true that nobody in the 19th century had a clue yet about climate change, and yet marx already had diagnosed the cause: competition leads to falling profits which in turn push capital to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I've been meaning to ask, what is Japan trading with the Spanish? they're getting guns and ammunition but what are they offering in return that's so valuable? I thought it was silk at first but the silk was coming from China. japanese… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

“you say it’s bad to kill children but have you considered that our enemies were once children”, incredible. this is the logic of holocaust, cold indifference and thirst for blood. it’s almost impossible for me to believe someone said that out loud,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Returnal has a fantastic coop mode. You choose to host or to join a coop session and you're randomly paired with someone to go around fighting the aliens with. It might support microphones but I've never talked to anyone or heard from anyone on it… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

i have to say, everyone in that room is so OLD. they’re all ancient [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Holy geez, Mike Johnson gives me the creeps. he’s doing jim halpern shit back there, i can’t stand him [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

WaPo's feed is scanning the crowd -- every third person appears to be chewing Nicorette? probably zyn, which has become a partisan bugaboo [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

> We're told that Toranaga is a savvy planner and manipulator, well-known for his trickery, but Blackthorne has to save him twice during during the escape attempt. I think they're struggling with how to make it plausible that Toranaga would… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

hey could choose to allow only the States' 5 year olds vote. Well, no. That would violate the 26th Amendment. In general, a state that tried the other sort of ad absurdum approaches you mentioned would get into conflicts over equal… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I think the ruling is pretty absurd, constitutionally. Article ii, section 1, clause 2 gives the choice of presidental electors to the state entirely. It's up to the individual state entirely how and to who they decide to give their electoral… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Self-immolation is undoubtedly, at least for a Westerner, an act of despair. But despair can have many causes. We always say that despair is mental illness, but it's possible to be full of despair because the world is wrong, because of real… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

> When you're talking about people of the book, and especially the Fremen, who are explicitly descendants of Arab peoples I don't know if they were arabs, exactly, but Dune takes places something like 10,000 years in the future, and the Fremen… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

> I don't know if they were arabs, exactly, > It constantly astounds me when people deny the clear and very much conscious Arab I just meant in the explicit mythology of the books, not the real world inspiration of the author. Although if… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

> Looks like someone self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC in protest (the second person in the US since Oct 7, to my knowledge) What's going around twitter/bluesky is that it was an active duty member of the US Air… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

> Is there a reason the vending machines need to know how old you are? in all sincerity, if the vending machine is displaying ads, it's useful to be able to tell advertisers the demographic that will see the ads and how many people will see… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I have a simple approach to this. Parse the CSV line with backslashes as escape characters. If it fails, parse it without. Do that for each line. Python csv parsing takes a file as input and reads the whole file, but you can trick it to take one… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

> Did anybody catch Tess's explanation why there were so many infected on the ground blocking the long route? I think the argument was that it had been safe before but people trying to move in and out of the QZ had opened up the buildings to… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

AI video is a scam these claims that it’s “not generating video” seem kind of confused about what’s going on. it’s not using its powers of imagination to interpret a prompt and produce an original artwork based on this interpretation,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

the brazenness of this must be some kind of message, since navalny surely posed no threat to putin today if he ever did in the past, but it’s not really clear what the message. nobody serious has any doubt that putin regularly murders people who are… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

it doesn't matter if khaled mashal says he will accept the existence of israel, and i don't care. there's no set of words or actions that could possibly justify israel's current actions either morally or legally. you're trying to justify genocide by… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

> but the fact that they're there at all, and that they arise just from having watched millions of videos and still pictures, is so interesting that the dangers fade a little into the background. the dangers are that the creative capacity of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

i don’t think it’s emphasized enough how completely the “economic war” against russia has failed. their gdp is growing, they face no real obstacles to lng and oil exports and they seem to have had no problem sourcing the electronics and other… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

> Meduza: Ukraine says large Russian landing ship destroyed in strike it seems like ships are basically defenseless against drone attacks. slow moving, giant targets, no way to defend against cheap bombs that can fly low and fast (especially if… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

it’s very difficult for me to understand the psychology of anyone voting in the democratic primary this year. i guess the lines will be short so it won’t take long but there are better things to do on a saturday like watch a pot boil or get a used… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I can't remember the last time I was so mad I'd have to wait a year to see the next episode of a show. bravo (i guess). Also completely baffled by how they will continue this show for another season. Mark can't go back to work, right? I guess Dylan… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

i will say it’s nice to see the lincoln project’s little freak dan phillips getting shellacked here. a primary challenge from the right, of all things, is not something the democratic party or the country needs and hope people will start to see the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

we should be very proud of him Nobody is asking anybody to feel anything? Sometimes news is just the news. eh it’s definitely being spun as part of a narrative to counter biden’s historically low approval ratings and the worrying… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I really don't think this show is about plot. It's about self-hatred, about secrets and the consequences they have, and about creating a mood and an atmosphere. It's also about Pynchonian levels of paranoia. The plot makes just as little sense as… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

smashing the gravestone is an interesting finisher. does it imply he is battling death itself, waging a war on mortality? the grim reaper comes for everyone, even you jamie casino (can’t be his real name!) [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

> Hit Apple TV+ series Hijack renewed for season two, Idris Elba returning Really struggling to imagine how they're going to pull off a second season that has any hijacking in it. Perhaps our hero, after a stressful experience in the air, will… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

i’m curious what happens if he just, as i expect him to, doesn’t pay. will he be arrested? he just has to call their bluff until nov 4th and then either he’s completely fucked anyway, or he’s president and will get away with all of it. it’s so fun… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Final thought: why DID the guy who was buying the rockets kill everyone he came across if he was just a middleman? Get in, buy the guns, sell 'em, get out. I thought we were going to build up to some scenario where he was going to use the rockets to… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

The absurd brutality of the last two episodes was too much for me. Torture, and indiscriminate murder, topped off at the end by murdering some guys who were effectively just civilians with a magic missile. By the end of this season I did not really… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

> I wouldn’t consider the two in the chopper as innocent civilians I guess not. But the moral calculus in these types of media is usually that you kill people who are trying to kill you or others, but when they're unarmed and at your mercy you… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

Biden staff on cocaine, Trump staff on provigil, that's not the way I would have guessed things would fall out. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

i mean has there ever been a more absurd primary? in every debate they all competed in a game to see who could praise trump the most, while he big dicked all of them by not even showing up. outside of the political elites and pundit class, the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

> I'm not feeling this season as much This episode was definitely a boring retread that added very little to the story. [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

> apparently the streets of NYC are completely deserted in the evening to allow a gunfight car chase across the city without any kind of response. yeah just incredible for them to show up at the last minute, run over the guy as he's about to… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

100k seems to be in approximately the same ballpark as 2012 and 2008... and certainly no farther from them than it is the real historic turnout low point in 2000 the amount of money and canvassing and media attention spoiled all so 100k… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

i’m expecting low turnout in every contest in the republican nomination race because they are treating trump as the incumbent who is basically already the nominee. if there was another candidate that anyone was actually excited about maybe turnout… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

> Yeah, didn't Pete Buttigieg win Iowa, too? Bernie won the vote but Pete got one more state delegate equivalent because of how dumb the caucus system is. However, that doesn’t tell us much because Trump won Iowa by a margin that we almost… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

> for all of Trump's whackadoodle nuclear talk, he has made the contrast between the Washington establishment's interest in foreign intervention a major contrast with his isolationism except it's all bullshit. He made a show of isolationist… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Die or not die, win or lose, be removed from the ballot for insurrection or stay on the ballot all the way to Nov 4, it doesn't matter, Trump is still a mythical figure and dozens will run in his name. He remade the Republican party and it's his… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

"Bobi", world's oldest dog, stripped of title
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

> That fog was quite convenient, and not particularly realistic looking. the fog was sent by the gods, with our welsh nihilist a kind of demon, or maybe an avenging angel, but certainly a figure from a mythical realm, possessed of magic powers… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

we get into this debate a lot on mefi and i’d like to say once again that you should always sue big corporations for petty shit like this because they don’t deserve benefit of the doubt or any kind of leniency. fuck em. also i would also have been… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

it’s really hard for me to tell if the author is being sincere or if this is an extremely dry parody of evolutionary or simplistic biological explanations of human behavior [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

holy shit! that's my reaction to this episode. fuck! [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

incredible kevin mcalister energy from this episode. so far this is easily the best fargo since the first season [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

man all that build up to a slightly underwhelming defense of the house. but the house burning down? pretty on the nose for a visual metaphor for dots new life blowing up. “with all due respect, we’ve got our own reality”, just an amazing line… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

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