What could he have possibly been trying to say?

I mean, the general appeal of ICE engines is the fuel, not the engine. Gasoline is generally more energy dense than lithium.

We’re getting the same reporting on South African refugees to the states. A lot of it is local propaganda, playing up how horrible it is in foreign countries by comparison

I wish they would all leave. Make Russia Atheist Again.

The ICE gestapo is going to terrorize NYC no matter who’s mayor.

Part of the indignity of the Adams administration has been the NYPD doing a lot of the dirty work. In a city with a $5.8B budget (by comparison, the entire North Korean military apparatus runs on $4B/year adjusted) that’s an enormous force multiplier. Mamdani’s pledged to pull the plug on this relationship in his first 100 days. And that’s going to provoke an ugly backlash without a doubt, both inside the NYPD and from DC.

The struggle doesn’t end on election day!

Hard truths. Far better to have a guy like Mamdani at the wheel than a Kapo like Cuomo or Adams.

How do you say “Cablegate” in Hebrew?

I’ve seen a persistent theory of politics within liberal circles that conservatives want Mamdani as mayor, because they see it as an excuse to send hordes of ICE / National Guard into the city at the first hint of defiance. Also, a lot of speculation that the NYPD is going to preemptively hate on this guy so much that they’ll practically roll out the red carpet for far-right radicals to terrorize the city. Given the degree to which people seem to have zero hope for the future, its certainly tempting to indulge in “There’s no way to win!” bleak prophecies.

But my expectations are significantly more muted. I think he’s going to get into office, run into a massive wall of bureaucratic intransigence, and lose his popular momentum when he’s not able to spin municipal straw into socialist gold overnight.

I guess only time will tell. But the worst thing for a progressive candidate’s image in the US is getting what they asked for and being expected to deliver. Just look at AOC, Keith Ellison, and Bernie Sanders.

I remember when I was in college and people were clamoring on the Ron Paul bandwagon, entirely because he was a high profile politician from a bright red state that wasn’t rabidly pro-war. Like, the demand for something that wasn’t (Republican: KILL’EM ALL!) or (Democrat: Let’s only kill as many people as is fiscally sensible) was so overwhelming that Paul’s dogshit economic and social politics failed to register for millions of people who probably should have known better (myself included).

Over twenty years later, I feel like we’re getting something of the reverse. A guy whose politics would normally rub GenZ / GenA liberals the wrong way and whose faith/tan would enrage young conservatives is getting a Katamari-like following across the political spectrum entirely because he’s outside the increasingly narrow R/D divide.

the differences between conservative/liberal brain’s is so obvious that with like 15 minutes of training anyone can correctly determine political leaning with around an 80% accuracy rate

This reads like pseudoscience to me. Sounds like you’re leaning on cultural touchstones to describe physiological differences.

And then it becomes freaky accurate.

Polling would be substantially more accurate if it was.

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.

Think about how the earliest versions of Android didn’t even come with a basic file browser, for example.

They didn’t offer an official app, but the Google Store was flooded with 3rd party alternatives practically the day the OS was released.

Even then, knowing what an “App Store” is and how/why you’d use it is a skill more common among younger users. My mother, who happily goes on her laptop and installs all sorts of garbage, had no idea how to add an app to her phone. My younger coworkers are much more comfortable working through Citrix and other Cloud Services, because they don’t expect a file system to be living under every app they use.

It’s the overall push to turn computers into single-use appliances, rather than general purpose devices.

I more felt that the phone was becoming a kind of mono-device or universal remote, with a lot of the IoT tech trying to turn it into an interface for every other kind of physical appliance. If anything, I feel like the phone does too much. As a result, its interface has to become more digital and generic and uniform in a way that makes using distinct applications and operations confusingly vague.

But growing up in an analog world has definitely tilted my expectations. Younger people seem perfectly fine with syncing their phones to anything with a receiver or RFID tag. And the particularly savvy ones seem interested in exploiting the fact that everything has a frequency. I’ve met more than a few kids who have fucked around with the Flipper and other wireless receiver gadgets.

it’s easier for children to learn more languages than adults

Kids are also assumed to operate at a child’s language level. So an 8-year-old speaking both English and Spanish at the 1st grade level is impressive. But a 20-year-old speaking at a 1st grade level is considered remedial.

Even then, there’s a lot to be said for experience. Computers and languages alike benefit from years of exposure. A large English vocabulary will help you pick up Spanish faster. And many years of experience on an Apple will clue you into tricks a naive Windows/Linux user would never consider.

I remember my dad trying to limit my screen time by putting a password lock on the screen saver. He was shocked to discover that an eight year old figured out how to evade it by… restarting the computer. But then he enabled password on restart and got cagey when typing it in, and that slowed my Hackerman attempts down significantly.

Kids tend to learn basic things faster. But they lack the breadth of experience to recall and apply strategies and patterns they’ve accrued over a lifetime. So much of what we consider “smart” versus “dumb” in problem solving is just “how many times have you already seen the answer to this question applied successfully?” Figuring something out for the first time is always harder than applying the heuristic you’ve been using half your life.

I’ve seen so many people on the “Only Millennials know how to use computers” and just kinda forgetting how many of this cohort didn’t get their hands on a computer until that first generation of Apples and Dells ended up in resale shops or on eBay for deep discounts.

So many folks who see kids on touch screens and throw fits, because that’s not how a “real computer” works, were throwing fits at their parents ten years ago for not understand how intuitive a touch screen is.

Feels like its all an excuse for people to get mad at one another, while occluding the simple fact that using a thing for a long time gives you more experience with the thing.

Funny story, this is a popular playbook in US foreign policy.

As a comparison, Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

Israeli counterintelligence has been focused on tarring journalists in Gaza by labeling them as terrorists.

And in The Philippines, the American businesses have employed the process of Red Tagging of labor activists in order to bring down the wrath of anti-communist hit squads on their head.

Misinformation is a major component of our foreign policy.

I’m sorry to be pedantic

No you’re not.

Deadlift, lunge, squat

If they’re just lifting their own weight?

You’re arguing nobody at 300 lbs can squat the bar?

Religion is just a part of it.

Ranchers, golfers, and data centers are at the heart of this thing. Plenty of these guys are fully secularized

No. They’re just normal strong, on account of regularly lifting large amounts of weight.

Can’t do that. It’s evil Communism

Hardly unique to Tehran. Utah is facing the same crisis right now. Their answer has been to privatize harder.

Let’s see your average 300lb person do a pull-up.

Let’s see the average anyone.

Sure their legs will be strong from carting around all that mass

That’s correct.

Well this is s stupid argument.

Also, routinely untrue. Exceedingly common for Business School teachers to have side hustles. Hell, teaching often IS the side hustle.

nfl and nba coaches built like a pound cake with multiple championships

It’s weird to think knowing how to train and lead a team requires someone to be at peak physical fitness, especially when they’ve been doing it for upwards of 40 years.