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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Welcoming and embracing inhumane conditions in prisons as federal policy will make challenging those conditions even more difficult, Baich said. “It’s hard enough to challenge conditions of confinement when departments of corrections or the Bureau of Prisons is saying that it’s not unconstitutional,” he said.

I actually wouldn't think that's true. If Trump in standard Trump fashion is simply announcing that the conditions are horrifyingly cruel on purpose, I would think that judges would be more likely to give orders that it be fixed. If you're dealing directly with BoP then no, but as they noted, they haven't been fixing them anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I think he just has an overall instinct that if the sensible people are for it, he has to be against it. I’m not even joking. I don’t know why, but it seems pretty clear that he operates along those lines, and I honestly can’t think of any other reason to be against wind and solar.

I know he got mad once because people were going to put up windmills that were visible from his golf course, and he was convinced that somehow it would ruin things for all the golfers, but at this point I think that’s just a minor detail, and the overall principle is just that he hates anything that’s good. I am 0% joking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

My point is, the people who put Thomas Clines in prison were also in the government.

You're not wrong, really, about the sum output of the system in aggregate, viewed from the outside, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

And the Germans kill the Jews and the Jews kill the Arabs and Arabs kill the hostages and THAAAAAAATT is the news

Is it any wonder

That the monkey's confused?

And so on

By Roger Waters

Actually, this was a while ago, and there are a couple more layers to the cycle now, if you know where to look. Arabs killings Kurds, Kurds killing Turks. Some of the newer nodes are still forming and may or may not grow large, but they're there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

"The West" is a massive mob of people with a lot of variation within them, both in motivation and action.

Some parts of it did full-throated support for fascism of all varieties, before, during and after the war. Some parts of it were against the Nazis (because, more or less, they were competition), but fully in favor of other fascism like Pinochet. Some parts of it were breaking their backs to try to save as many innocent people from the Nazis as they could, simply because of concern for human rights. Some parts of it continued that same opposition to fascism, even the flavor of it that the State Department likes, in the decades that followed, even including hearings to try to stop the fascism our people were doing in Central America, and trying very hard to send some high-ranking people in the US to prison for their embrace of fascism in Nicaragua. It didn't work (except in the case of Thomas Clines, which I don't consider much of a success), but it wasn't for lack trying. By some people.

We don't need to have a big argument over which of those is the "real" face of the US. They're all real. The second grouping is probably the dominant grouping as far as representation inside the State Department and actual control of the US's foreign policy, yes, which is a god damned shame. We can agree on that. The vast majority of Nazi war criminals were never punished, just kind of went on about their business.

For the most part, the people who set up Nuremberg were best buds with the people who helped Pinochet later on, but the sins of the second doesn't completely cancel out the virtues of the first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Dump every single schema, paste the whole thing to claude.ai, ask it to generate graphviz markup showing the whole thing as you requested. Give the result to graphviz, see what happens.

It might not work or might not work perfectly, but that is what I would try and it definitely has the potential to be better than staring at the text trying to make sense of it all. Depending on the size of the beast, you might have to do it in pieces with a defined mapping of table names to graphviz node names so that piecing it out works smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

The selection of which characters to include in the hallucination is impeccable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The background is that he's saying that the "real negotiations" will take place later, and must include all parties including the EU.

Of course, nothing means anything under Trump. The whole thing is so disorganized that any statement about the future from any US official might as well come from a magic 8 ball. I just thought it was a little noteworthy that Rubio is making an attempt to be an adult in the room, however doomed that effort might be preordained to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I wasn't implying anything at all negative. It's clearly just a part of the joke, I was just sort of gently making it clear before saying "Yes though, it is accurate that the art people often have better parties."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, he is, so far. It would be out of character if he tried to downplay it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Yeah. Refusing to claim anything unambiguous about Taiwan's status has, against all odds, been working fine for over half a century. I don't think this is anything specific to Taiwan, just the Trump team's general rule of going into any situation where the correct strategy is "nothing" and starting in on "FUCK THAT LET'S START DOING SOME STUFF I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE BTW."

[–] [email protected] 76 points 17 hours ago (8 children)
  1. I suspect there is a strong possibility, at least, that she’s not actually passed out drunk and OP is telling a fib. Call it a hunch.
  2. Yes the art and design student parties are often quite a bit more adventurous in general, I think
 

The video describes it as “dancing,” which I think is overly generous. But the little guy / gal is clearly experiencing happiness and celebrating.

 

“I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process.”

-Ed Nather

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