footfaults

The FBI has been harassing collegiant faculty of Chinese heritage for like a decade now, accusing them of secretly working for the evil cee cee pee.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-science-china-lawsuits-judiciary-53f2e5241f25c757c5e9a1575ce6b69e

Who made that brand toxic, Gavin?

As someone who rewrote a "simple" application, moving it from PHP to Python with the huge assistance of Django and lots of existing libraries, and it "only" took 3 years, I wish them good luck. I'm sure they'll do great. 🙄

Erdogan has always been bad, objectively. However he was useful to America so they kept him in power.

I think Turkey acquiring the S-500(?) missile system while being in the F35 program really set off alarm bells in Washington and I think after the successful coup in Syria and replacement a more pliant regime, Washington has set its sights on Turkey and hope to install an even more compliant regime there.

Common Brian Eno W

Same thing Uber did

Interesting. I wonder if this is a beginning of a climb down for the Very Serious People so that we can eventually make a peace deal.

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

I think that a lot of people know the Democrats are shit. They have been shit for decades.

The problem is that people correctly figure out the Democrats are controlled opposition, and they don't stick around. They just stop voting.

The problem is the Democrats know this, and they'd rather lose elections, keep their nice little controlled opposition status, rather than try to actually engage with disaffected voters.

The Bernie campaign was a direct attempt to show that if someone tried to reach out to disaffected voters, it could be successful.

The Democrats made sure to sabotage that strategy by rigging the primaries.

So at this point I think the best thing to do is keep criticizing the Democrats, highlight their intentional losing strategies, and wait until enough people catch on, and we build a mass movement to replace them with something better. Hopefully we catch enough people before they give up and just check out of politics completely

Witchcraft

Average American moment

Yes. Although what are they going to do? Sell it? It's an accounting trick