Accidentally? I thought he had a large batch of spoiled milk powder and was looking for a way to use it up.

Schools are already being completely destroyed by AI. Our entire educational system is going to need a ground-up rebuild to deal with this issue and we haven’t even figured out a plan for it yet!

Right now, teachers are essentially stuck fending for themselves against children armed with trillions of dollars in VC funding. It’s one of the most lopsided battles in human history. It’s like this scene from Letters from Iwo Jima:

Not just the hat! Those overalls and shirt are looking sharp!

Accident and deliberate aren’t the only two options. I think the most likely cause is gross negligence on the part of intelligence (who may have been relying on outdated information).

Gross negligence carries culpability. It’s still a war crime because the responsibility for due diligence is on the attackers.

To show that it was deliberate is another matter entirely. There’d have to be evidence that they knew it was a school full of children and that they ordered the attack anyway. Why would they do that?

Mango is delicious but where I live the fresh stuff is never ripe. I have much better luck with frozen mango chunks!

It’s the same dynamic as with Walter and Skyler White from Breaking Bad. People love the escapist element of coming along for the ride with a bad guy who is on the war path. They don’t love the character who tries to drag them out of their fantasy and back to reality.

At least Breaking Bad had the decency to make you really regret liking Walter as the show went on. That was its real genius: to lure you into temptation and then riddle you with guilt.

Come on Hungarians! You know your future is with Europe, not with Russia.

Confirmation bias is an incredibly stubborn human trait (and a near universal one at that). The particular issue this post is engaging with is called attitude polarization: two groups of people diverging more and more in their opinions despite being presented with the same evidence.

Why are humans like this? I think it’s a survival trait that people conform to the opinions of their in-group and are reluctant to let go of opinions that are most central to their world-view. They’ve already invested a lot in both their in-group and their world-view, so rejecting all that is more costly to them than rejecting the truth about some particular fact (that they may not even care about that much).

When you consider that beliefs and openly held opinions have different costs and different benefits depending on which group you belong to, it becomes a lot less obvious that abandoning a position is the right move.

Also after the first couple of KOs, the rest of the guys on that list are going off the grid, retiring to their yachts / chalets in the alps / volcano fortresses. Are we to expect a teenage would-be school shooter to do some Navy SEALs shit and land on a yacht with a black helicopter?

Didn’t you know? Billionaires eat hundreds of millions of steaks a year!

Far from it dude! I’m in Canada.

I don’t think it favours their military at all. I think the war is grinding the Russian military and economy into dust. The prolonging of the facade is only done because Putin is backed into a corner. If peace is actually declared he has to face the music at home, something he is not prepared to do.

Keeping the war going is the only thing Putin knows will keep him alive. He’s not winning though, as much as he’s trying.

Really surprised to hear they have sales tax on ALL food, not just packaged stuff or restaurant food! Not sure what the rationale is for that.

It’s hard to imagine how it could develop in such a ragtag, depoliticized, nihilistic society. Not to mention a lot of those soldiers are just mercenaries.

I think most of them don’t care at all about honour and are just hoping for a payday and to keep their head down until they can go home. Seems like such a dim hope!

Except me yesterday when my vim kept hanging on insert and then printing a bunch of errors from the undotree script. I had to empty my undodir to get it to play nice again. Not sure what happened there!

Note that dietary calories are kilocalories, so 2,000 calories of food is 2,000,000 calories from a physics standpoint.

This issue goes away if you use the proper SI unit, the joule.

How do you get elected to an interim post? I thought interim posts were ones you temporarily assume until an election can be called.

One hand on your jousting stick, the other on the baseball bat, knee on the steering wheel. Love it!