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Its hard to do an apples to apples comparison, because like conflicts change. But Trump dropped more bombs per year than Obama did. The number under him also sharply increased for his first year and than decreased year by year after.

You know cans are just plastic sacs using the tin/aluminum for structure right?

Thats an old looking 56.

I think all sports have more subjectivity than you are admitting. How often have you heard someone yell at an umpire or referee seen as unfair?

It’s not cart blanche to turn anything political. I’m just asking you (and everyone here) to recognize that somethings they may not think of as political already are. If you put yourself in the shoes of the person treating something as political and still come away thinking its unfounded, as in your pirate flag case, you’ve done what I’ve asked.

Guy looks completely normal.

While there is undeniable truth in what you say, I’d caution to remember that while politics dominating your life may be optional, its not for many. Trans people just trying to exist is seen as political, for instance.

Yes and no. Things can be built much denser without the need for all the parking so walking and biking become much more viable.

I’m not saying AI can’t be disruptive. I’m saying we aren’t there. The steady progress you think you are seeing is bought with increased processing power, the science isn’t advancing steadily, it advances in unpredictable jumps. Because the performance gained with processing power is reaching its peak, we’ll need at least another one of those unpredictable jumps for it to get to a state that will do what the comment I was responding to was claiming. It could be another 50 years before that happens, or it could be tomorrow.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf

The current AI boom is all based on a single paper from about 7 years ago, and has been achieved by just throwing more and more computing power at it. There has been basically no meaningful architecture improvements in that time and we are already seeing substantial fall off from throwing more power at the problem. I don’t think its a given at all that we are close to the kind of disruption you are predicting.

I’ve always heard it called a training montage.

Science tells us how to achieve objectives, democracy what our objectives should be. (obviously this doesn’t always work perfectly in practice).

I went to one like 17 years ago or so when it had first opened in my area, and it was basically just a subpar restaurant where the waitresses were wearing maid costumes. None of the shit you might see in an anime.

Yes it is. In any rectangle, by definition the diagonal cross section will always be longer than the longest side. Therefore given that this is a relatively 2d shape in 3 dimensional space, it will be able to pass through the hole.

It also works as the color of bruises, which your hands would be after viciously beating someone.

I used to subscribe inconsistently when there was something I wanted to watch. Then I started sharing with my family so I kept the subscription up at a higher price constantly because I didn’t know when they were using it or not. I’ve since gone back to only subscribing at a lower price when I want to watch something. I honestly thought way more people would be in this situation.

This is basically how you get horseshoe theory, but if you come at an authoritarian leftist with horseshoe theory they’ll mention the nonsense fishhook theory.

In terms of direct responses, Iran tends to behave extremely rationally in like game theory terms. Most countries do, though obviously some misjudgements of each others capabilities can happen. With that said, Iran does very transparently fund terrorists to do their dirty work for them (not that this is unique to Iran).

The biggest asshole at my primary school got shot by a woman he was living with when he was like 19.