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put the porno book down.

They should also quantify how many of the books that people are reading are trash fiction and self-help books. Not many people that read are actually reading substantive, educational works.

A gave you an article with a letter from a congressman that was part of an investigation into exactly this behavior.

It's not my job to educate you. I'm not writing out a research essay for you, on hacker news. Figure it out yourself, read a book. And go fuck yourself while you're at it.

The crackdown on Trump supporters after his 2016 election.

https://archive.ph/uJR8h

It's pretty disgusting to demand a domestic crackdown on your political opponents because of the 'threat' posed by an extremist group that you are covertly funding, training, and controlling, which is what happened with Azov.

Considering that: (1) the US has covertly supported al-Qaeda, to the point of enabling an offshoot, HTS, to control Syria, (2) the US has covertly supported a right wing Azov battalion that Time magazine and Vice ran stories on as part of a 'rise in global right wing terror' only to turn around and support them and whitewash them in the war against Ukraine, (3) ISIS-K attacking Iran and Russia instead of Israel, (4) heads of major right wing orgs like the Proud Boys being FBI informants (Richie Torres), I would say your statement is plausible.

you don't care about Ukrainians. If you did, you'd want peace. Fake empathy, reprehensible.

This is insanity. You have lost your mind. Europe is covered by a nuclear umbrella and is thus in no danger from Russian invasion.

And you still haven't answered the question, which indicates that you don't see any Ukrainian path to victory - rather your intention is to throw all of Ukraine into the meat grinder in order to make yourself slightly safer from a completely hypothetical Russian invasion, which is profoundly unethical.

Ukraine needs to rebuild its army too, and would benefit more relative to Russia from a ceasefire, even if Russia reinvaded. You people are so wildly irrational.

That is a false premise. No one is negotiating complete surrender.

What is Ukraine’s path to victory??

what is Ukraine's path to victory and why do you think war is better than peace or even a ceasefire?

This place has become a real echo chamber lately. I'm seeing radically unexamined opinions stream past like a firehose and can't respond to all of them. But to the anti-peace "pro-Ukranian" people here:

1. Do you see a path to victory? If so, how many Ukranians have will have to die before Crimea is retaken? Conditioned on your answer - do you really care about Ukrainians?

2. Do you really believe that the West stands for the 'rules based international order' while it unconditionally supports the ethnostate of Israel holocausting it's indigenous population inside of a concentration camp?

3. Do you really consider Ukraine to be a democracy given that Zelensky has suspended elections and has repressed his political opposition?

"John Bolton, former national security adviser"

Are we so naive that we're listening to this guy now? The forever war guy that wants to bathe the world in blood?

not my best comment, but I can't delete it now.

they're not establishing anything. They are doing what people like Sheldon Adelson and George Soros did in the background for decades, only now your eyes are being directed towards it by the media when before you would have been chastised like a dog for mentioning it. And like a dog you would have obediently gone along with it. The fact that visible billionaires are owning the system should actually comfort you, because it means that the far more dangerous invisible ones are getting weakened.

for decades they have been a mouthpiece for the CIA and the deep state. Bezos is clearing house.

People who oppose these moves like "I don't like when visible billionaires own our news services, I much prefer the invisible ones" bewilder me.

Wait- do you think the grants have gone away? Do you even know what overhead is?

I didn’t say it’s a good thing. I think it’s dishonest and manipulative.

As I’ve said in the Penn thread: this is likely a temporary move, intended to be used for rhetoric. Eventually the faculty will complain, because they rely on large pyramids of postdocs and grad students for almost all labor. There’s simply no way to continue the work of university research without a strong supply of grad students. Once this is realized, and the NIH doesn’t bend, then grad admissions will increase again, and admin cuts will start, as they should.

This is likely a temporary move, intended to be used for rhetoric. Eventually the faculty will complain, because they rely on large pyramids of postdocs and grad students for almost all labor. There’s simply no way to continue the work of university research without a strong supply of grad students. Once this is realized, and the NIH doesn’t bend, then grad admissions will increase again, and admin cuts will start, as they should.

Makes me want to take ivermectin every once in a while.

how do archaeologists know they burned down their own cities? One would expect the more neutral statement 'Their cities were burned every 50-100 years".

Now it looks like Tinder.

> WSJ is Diet Fox News, in print form.

Then read the Haaretz article, dumbass.

Complete nonsense. American media and Israeli media both credited Trump with the ceasefire deal, with the WSJ complaining that "Trump forced Netanyahu to make a deal with the devil" and AIPAC complaining that Trump isn't being blamed more for the action.

- https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-forced-netanyahu-to-make-a...

- https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64825

- https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-13/ty-article/.p...

- https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-official-trump-envoy-sway...

Resistance larping has never been so morally hypocritical if the goal is to get back to the previous administration which spent 15 months dropping 2000lb bombs on innocent civilians.

they ruled that it was plausible enough to pursue the case

> As to working in the industry, you should check my comment history. I've done modeling and fundamental algorithms for a huge range of industries, including new pricing algorithms I developed for investment houses. I have a PhD in math, degrees and grad work on CS and physics, taught graduate mathematical econ at a top 50 univ, and have done significant work and consulting for finance places. So I sorta do know about this.

So you are kind of academic and consult-y. It fits. See, I could tell you were. You just don't have the folk knowledge that comes from actually working in a place - which I actually have, though its been almost 10 years since I left. I work in biotech now, for the past 8 years.

You can keep your 'peer-reviewed' research - I'm telling you man in finance it has a very poor reputation. You just sound like a naive dweeb falling back on your epistemology class because you don't have domain specific knowledge. Selection and survivorship bias. Observational study problem.

Read some Matt Levine, maybe that's a good way for you to gain this type of folk knowledge.