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Brisketexan

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  1. If “Melanated People of Power” wasn't the name of a kick-ass regional funk band from either Chicago or Cleveland in the mid-70s.....it goddamn well should have been.
  2. Commented on just that memory a couple of years ago when we drove Rt 1 (the main road from Tallin to Narva, on the Russian border). The stretch just south of Kolga is lots of good straightaways, with plenty of stretches tailor-made for such use. Of course, that is the trip where I commented to my wife that we were going to be within 90 miles of the Russian border, so I was counting on her better ears to listen for the sound of Russian tanks. She laughed -- "what fucking Russian tanks?" (Her area of focus in college was Soviet Studies...she never had a high regard for the Russian military, and enjoyed watching their armor getting smoked that year by Ukraine)
  3. There hasn’t been enough time? All yall were doing victory laps just a few months ago when things looked better. GTFO with that “it’s just been 22 months” bullshit.
  4. But…will there be repercussions? In a country that supposedly stands as a bulwark for “the rule of law” against the barbarism horde? Come on, man.
  5. There’s thinking that it’s a defensible idea/action (it may well be, for the reasons you say), and then there’s utterly forgetting the swooning over Milei, and how he was gonna show all them deep state libtard types what a true libertarian crypto paradise would look like! When the very people who held him up as the archetype for freedom and gubmint bad and all that are ALSO supporting his bailout…yeah, we’re laughing AT you, not with you.
  6. Jesus, the whiny tittybaby white persecution complex is in full bloom. These people are the most pathetic, candyass snowflakes in American history. I mean, they're also liars (seriously....find me the case of "criminal consequences for N word were greater than criminal consequences of murder of white person." I'll wait).
  7. Run that dude for office. Preferably a powerful one. I'll scratch out a check to candidate "I fucking call it like I see it."
  8. But it's more than that. It's vaporware writ large. It's magical thinking, sales numbers boosted by Elon buying his own cars, NVIDIA setting up vehicles to buy its own chips, etc. It's fucking fake.
  9. And they JUST. DON'T. GET THAT. They think they can simultaneously wave around the "I'm a constitution-loving conservative" flag while also waving (in practice) the Wilhoit's Law flag (in-groups the law protects but does not bind, vs. out-groups that the law binds but does not protect). Once you create and iimplement the Wilhoit dichotomy, it's all over but the shoutin'. Well, fellas, it's all over but the shoutin'. Your precious Second Amendment means precisely as much to this admin as MY First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, etc. When you decided to light the whole fucking thing on fire, don't be fucking surprised when everything burns.
  10. AI deals with NVIDIA. This shit. It's all just a fucking shell game, with the only question being the same question it always is: who's gonna be stuck with the empty shells, while the insiders who rig the game walk away with the shell hiding the ball and get the prize? When the book is written on this era, it will have a title like "The Scam Economy" or some shit like that.
  11. What these fucking moronic, idiotic, brain-dead FUCKING ASSHOLES don't get is what we've been telling them for fucking years: when these fascists say they're gonna just dispense with constitutional rights for "the other," you fucking morons think you're part of the in-group. Nope. In fascist regimes, literally EVERYONE eventually becomes "the other." And once you've established that constitutional rights are disposable, don't count of keeping any of yours, you pieces of shit.
  12. Kinda yeah. I mean, at least Thanos grasped, and had some remorse for, the cost of his insane plan (even if it was only because it touched him personally). Thiel, Musk, Ellison, etc., would answer that question with "just half of all human population. Not bad." And then they'd move on to their next piece of bullshit without giving it a second thought.
  13. He says that...he says lots of stupid shit that is at total odds with the laws of economics. But the assets on the ground that exist/are being built in the short term are natural gas and some renewables. AFIAK, ain't nobody even working on getting the financing to build a big new coal plant to serve a data center.
  14. Are the "1" and "0" keys on your computer broken? Because I'm sure you meant "100%."
  15. [Brisketexan, Catholic school kid of similar vintage, checking his ID to confirm his name wasn't "Brian R."]
  16. This. Imagine that you are what most would call "on the spectrum." It is NOT a bad thing - or at least, not an inherently bad thing. It bestows upon you the ability to think about the world, problems, and solutions in a very non-traditional, often non-linear way. That can lead to some lightning-bolt type innovations, changes and disruptions to existing structures, etc....which CAN be good. Now imagine that you are like that....and you are a sociopath. That is, you have no sense of empathy -- whether learned or innate, it doesn't much matter. Empathy is the foundation beneath most moral and ethical structures; if the structure depends solely on "well, you wouldn't like that if it happened to you" (appeals to self interest only), then the structure is doomed to fail. If you don't have empathy, you don't have what the ethical and moral would call "humanity." Our system rewards such a thing: innovation, gaming the system, playing OUTSIDE the system, unbound by any ethics or morality. In short, these men ARE Skynet. Not "they're creating Skynet," they ARE Skynet. They have some unique computing power in their heads. They see "problems," and they come up with "solutions," unimpeded by moral boundaries. They absolutely can -- and will -- reach a conclusion like "(1) higher-form humans are the best representatives of humanity (and they of course see themselves as members of that select group) (2) resource competition is dragging us all - including "higher-form humans" -- down, (3) therefore, eliminating competition is best for humanity, because it helps higher-form humans succeed. Shit like that. Their kind of thinking is how you end up with cold, calculating elimination of millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, of human beings. It's the "trolley problem," except they play the game with 9 to 10-figure numbers of humans. And they do so with no remorse, empathy, sympathy, or sadness. "2 billion dead to make life better for the 6 billion left? Well, that's just a price to be paid. Did y'all see my sick meme?" These men are the most dangerous, evil humans to ever live. Not just because of how they think, but because they have to means to turn their evil into reality.
  17. What you're missing is that one would be CREATED to be politically advantageous if there was any raw material there to work with. And here, there is plenty of such raw material. It's just that the raw material does not match up with the preferred narrative of the ruling regime, thus is is not played up at all. You know that if there were images of the shooter wearing a Biden shirt and having a Biden sign on his house (instead of the Trump gear that he actually had), Ka$h would have tweeted about it before the fire was even out. This is the problem. Yes, this guy almost certainly acted as he did because he was a complex stew of fucked in the head. But that's the case for many shooters. But when the regime can find ANY connection to "THA LEFT," THAT is the narrative. And it's not just a narrative by the blogosphere, it's a narrative advanced by the head of the FBI himself. It's a fucking shitshow.
  18. I dunno. I like small town motels, where the bathroom has a sign on the mirror that says "PLEASE DO NOT CLEAN FISH OR BIRDS IN SINK," so I'm maybe not the best guy to ask about this.
  19. I understand the electric power industry reasonably well (seriously, better than most, as I've been involved in it on-and-off since before it went deregulated in Texas (and I actually worked on that transition)). And I think there may be opportunity there. First, there may be generation that's built strictly for data centers (like, on-site or functionally so) that, if an outfit goes belly-up, will be there for the vultures. Second, there may be private generation (such as by single-asset entities, or small book of assets entities) that is built banking on long-term contracts from data centers. But when the data center goes belly-up, the contract is killed in the bankruptcy, and now the business case for that generation asset won't allow it to survive (debt service and operation costs depend on selling at something like the contract price of X, and without that reliable contract revenue, something much less than X for that power just being dumped on the grid isn't going to cover the cost). Swoop in and buy those generation assets for a fraction of their cost, and they WILL be a viable business case in the grid (I'm particularly thinking ERCOT).
  20. Say what you will, but in that "blowing up boats" video, the second to last boat looks like a pretty sweet duck-hunting setup, and I'd like to know more. I mean, we probably don't need to worry about its battle-readiness until gadwalls figure out drone technology.
  21. I'd bet something approaching 50% of our generation could say something similar.
  22. That's why we have, umm, St. Copius of Northern Nebraska. Duh.
  23. I looked into working at the Hague on war crimes issues some time back (I have a cousin who is a Mexican attorney who does so). Alas, I am woefully unqualified. They need (1) prosecutorial experience, and (2) skills in languages I don't have (Russian and French, primarily). That said....I'd happy be a runner or messenger or such for Ms. Kallas.
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