Ha, there's one radio clock in my house that I still keep going for sentimental reasons... it's had a rough time setting itself for a few years, likely due to its placement in the house.
I'll have to test this out sometime, what a fun idea!
OK, it’s a mech suit. The question under discussion is, do you need to learn to walk first, before you climb into it? My life experience has shown me you can’t learn things by “observing”, only by doing.
Yes, you can learn to walk in the mech suit. Let’s put one leg forward, then the next, good. You are now 100% production ready at walking. Let’s run a load test. You’re running now. Now you’re running into the ocean. “I want to swim now.” You’re absolutely right! You should be swimming. Since we don’t have a full implementation of swimming let me try flailing the arms while increasing leg speed. That doesn’t seem to work. The user is upside down on the ocean floor burrowing themselves into the silt. Task Complete. Summary: the user has learned to walk.
Yes, this is literally the scenario every 2nd amendment fanatic justifies themselves with. But we already knew that made no sense; it doesn't change anything to have the hypocrisy demonstrated.
There were investigations. There were indictments (including four of Trump himself). Here we are. What we learned is that the only constitutional remedy is impeachment (which was also tried twice). What has disabled all the checks and balances is the knife-edge Congressional majority, the takeover of the judiciary, and the purging of the civil service. Changing the President stops the active craziness but doesn't address the underlying problem.
Is it possible their only miscalculation was not realizing how much of the world would fight back? Because if it hadn't, they would have continued enjoying the benefits.
No I don't think so. Broadly they hitched their cart to a genocidal madman. Their hubris convinced them they could maintain a steer on its direction.
The centrists ultimately lost when the Nazis banned other political parties. If they were not murdered first. And the Nazis took control of the German workforce, imposed harsh taxation on businesses, central planning, nationalization etc.
I'm sure the uneasy alliance worked well for a a little while though!
Perhaps it was his followup post about how people are lining up to throw millions of VC dollars at his bizarre whimsical fever dream that disturbs people? I’m all for arts funding, but…
Isn't the point that he refused them? VCs can be dumb (see the crypto hype, even the recent inflated AI raises) so I wouldn't put too much stock in what they think is valuable.
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