batsforpeace [any, any]

great card theory, big insights for serious political analysts

‘and here we have another image from the mid 2020s that encapsulates the decline of the collective west’

very nice! this means I can give Stalin a break from thumbing up for a while, also comrade fly

https://xcancel.com/SztabGenWP/status/1842161867029921867

Wiesław Kukuła, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (so ‘main army guy’ as far I can tell) to cadets during an inauguration speech for the 2024/2025 academic year at the Military University of Land Forces in Wrocław:

“The transformation is a process that we manage in such a way as to change the Armed Forces - from the ones we have now, to the ones we will need to win the future war. Everything indicates that we are the generation that will have to stand up with weapons in our hands to defend our country. And I don’t intend to lose this war, neither I nor any of you. We will win it,”

Some retired politicians were saying he should resign over that, libs and soc dems currently in power said he was out of line and should let the politicians make statements like that but also should not resign, and some of the conservative opposition said this is a good statement actually because it makes the Russian generals afraid lol.

good energy penguin takes it, bunny vibe would be a close second

there are a few horror/cursed type emojis out there that are pretty freaky

didn’t know we have a warren medusa, looks away

socialism through electoralism

looking for glorpnip

here comes Basil, let’s gooooo

the era of struggle sessions is over, only snuggle sessions allowed from now on

dunno about them fighting but having a tamagochi type critter tied to the account would be pretty sweet

hey youtube viewer, like star trek? anti-gun? vote for Harris!

uh oh, time to enter a query to MS copilot… ‘tips and hacks to unbrick a nuclear plant’

they love to brag about it

Claiming that his products “changed the course of history by stopping terror attacks,” Mr. Karp said that Palantir had also “protected our men and women on the battlefield” and “taken the lives of our enemies, and I don’t think that’s something to be ashamed of.”

longtermist techbro whisperer argues that’s ok because it wouldn’t lead to complete collapse:

One finds the same insouciant attitude about climate change in MacAskill’s recent book. For example, he notes that there is a lot of uncertainty about the impacts of extreme warming of 7 to 10 degrees Celsius but says “it’s hard to see how even this could lead directly to civilisational collapse.” MacAskill argues that although “climatic instability is generally bad for agriculture,” his “best guess” is that “even with fifteen degrees of warming, the heat would not pass lethal limits for crops in most regions,” and global agriculture would survive.

also from 2023:

“We barely have enough water and you’re diverting even more for others to use,” says Yang Kuanwei, a tomato farmer bemoaning government water policies in Taiwan’s southern Tainan county, where chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, is building a state-of-the-art factory.

In 2021, an absence of seasonal typhoons left reservoirs so parched, chipmakers like TSMC were forced to truck in water to keep factories running.

For the third year in a row, rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies to not grow rice this season, because it uses scarce water that semiconductor plants nearby need.

“When there is no rain, things grow at the wrong time,” says Zhang Meixue, head of one of the local farmer’s associations in southern Tainan county, once one of the island’s prime rice-growing areas. “Growing rice protects the local ecology by locking in moisture and keeping ground temperatures stable.”

microtransactions in the tamagochi era, good thing we dodged that at least