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Ladies and gentlemen, meet the party of "fuck your feelings" and "humor is legal again..."

And please, no fake canned complaints about "politicizing." The story is nakedly political from top to bottom (no pun intended).


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What? Is there a logical explanation for this other than exactly that...a conservative attack because they got their snowflake feelings hurt by calling out their Daddy Donald's glaring and incontrovertible incompetence with a fairly clever call out?

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That accurately describes your posts. Why don't you present your alternative hypothesis, without the insults?

That would require a hypothesis, which doesn't exist.

Lie. The hypothesis is that the account was removed because it ruffled the feelings of conservatives, whether working at instagram or exploiting the reporting mechanism.

  >Since when has Facebook been associated with MAGA?
That's easy. January 20, 2025: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpqeq82rvo

"Oh, being bribed/extorted by the government we took control-of doesn't count, because internally the lügenpresse still has unreasonably-biased employees who keep accusing us of being bad people who'll abuse government power. But don't worry, we will fix that soon..." /s

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P.S.: I wanted to add something that wasn't ironic, but I'm having a surprisingly hard time unpacking my own sarcastic-intuition into arguments. Perhaps:

1. The MAGA bloc angry at companies moderating Dear Leader have already struck back, and they will not be satisfied by less than a reversal into cheerleading.

2. It can be hard to judge what most employees think when the corporation itself is under some duress.

3. Sometimes the circumstances of a "reversal" demonstrate that the original concern was extremely valid.


Troublingly, I think he actually does think these ideas are helpful. Is a True Believer any less dangerous?

"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."


I think True Believer is worse. I would say that if someone is willing to try something while still willing to accept that it might not work but need to confirm they'd be a rational person. A True Believer will not accept that the thing is not working and try to rationalize why others are still wrong.

They are generally dangerous but they are truly dangerous when what they believe is itself dangerous.

I'll be using that

You’ll like the Simple Sabotage Field Manual too:

https://archive.org/details/simplesabotagefi26184gut/page/n1...

It helped the allies win WWII. It contains lots of good advice (and the white collar chapter should be required reading in corporate training).


  >don't matter... don't matter... don't matter...
Apparently current GPS screens are compatible with your eyes and the viewing conditions you find yourself in. Congrats! May your eyes never darken and your trails be easy!

For others, some of those advantages do matter. Different strokes for different folks! Cheers mate.


Yes, and by the same token, multicellular organisms are literally just sophisticated mitosis and survival optimizers for our cells. But when you take that optimization "to the limit" the cells develop weird things like body plans and back pain and Mozart.

Both examples involve the same "aha" moment: even though it's true that you are literally 'just' doing XYZ, unbelievably complex patterns and sub-goals can emerge.


> and by the same token

I don't think you intended this, but the word choice here gave me a chortle.


If it's a "thundering herd" problem where everyone's harness falls back to less popular providers that don't normally see that much demand, I'd say the probability is pretty good.

Classic cascading failure is consistent with providers failing 80 minutes apart instead of simultaneously.


Exactly, it really is that absurd. If anything, you could say the corporate world is its own self-caricature.

  >bizarre fiction that humanity can escape global warming by putting infrastructure in space or by traveling to Mars
So this is awkward, but Elon Musk agrees with you.

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-moving-to-mars-interv...

  >but launch facilities cause a great deal of local pollution to air and water. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/...
Importantly this was a paperwork issue, not actual pollution. SpaceX reading of the rules was that only Texas regulated this category of discharge not EPA, but this was quickly resolved. The same unmodified water deluge system was later operated with the blessings of the EPA (guess it wasn't that bad!), so I wouldn't lose sleep over this one. YMMV

Any good blogs or articles you can recommend?

I'd like to 2nd schiffern' s comment. Your comment gives a persuasive perception of competence. But that's not sufficient to accept your point. I'd love to have more data and details to work with so I can decide which viewpoint to trust here. So any sources you could provide would be really helpful. otherwise it doesn't sound responsible for me to just trust the "experts" either.

This was pointed out to me a while ago, but it seems to hold true:

Whether someone appreciates a modern engineered landfill is a useful Shibboleth for distinguishing real evidence-based environmentalism from narcissistic signaling "environmentalism."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRx_dZawN44


I'm one of those folks who appreciate a well-engineered landfill. We had a great one in Nevada County, CA. Now that I've moved back to Texas, I've learned the difference the hard way, although not as hard as the people who lost their homes.[1]

1. https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/officials-say-stinky-fir...


You know it's funny, I originally wrote "a good modern engineered landfill," but I felt it was getting too wordy so I deleted the unnecessary word. Based on how my words (apparently) came across, clearly I should've kept it!

Indeed, I should say, a well-managed modern engineered landfill is great, but a poorly-managed modern engineered landfill is terrible. I honestly didn't think this needed to be said, that it was too obvious and too cliche, but indeed on this point of fact we find ourselves in violent agreement with each-other! ;) Cheers mate


Not sure if this counts as 'modern', but I had the unfortunate experience of driving near Seneca Meadows[1] recently. I can't begin to describe the visceral level of horrendous stench that is perpetually downwind of this facility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Meadows_Landfill


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