Lolz. Okay, bro.

Well, but that’s impossible. In China, he won’t have any freedom. He needs to stay in the United States where he can pursue research into biology and medic- door bang

shouts of military police

repeated gunfire

screams of terrified research assistants

confused orders from multiple officers at once

more gunfire

moaning from injured civilians

more gunfire

radio chatter from officers

“Yeah, they were armed. Looks like syringes and a bunson burner. Yes. All illegal. Yes, we’re cleaning up now. No need to report this up the chain, they already know. Signing out.”

Belling the Cat

Very easy to propose ideas that you have no intention of putting into action. Very difficult to answer the hard practical questions, much less put your theoretical understanding to work. How many mice have to die trying to hang a bell on the cat, before you’re ready to show some humility?

If your ontological framework cannot resist a bit of outside criticism, maybe you need to keep looking for viable alternatives. “We have to keep going with the wrong answer, because I haven’t figured out the right one yet” isn’t philosophy. It’s theology.

As I understand it currently, the Straight of Hormuz is open for people not currently at war with Iran.

You can reach out to the IRGC, put in a request to traverse the Straight, validate that you are not currently an agent of a belligerent in their unlawful bombing and attempted occupation, and then receive a confirmation notice along with a bill for safe passage.

Iran Charges $1 Per Barrel Toll via Yuan, Stablecoins

Earlier, the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee announced on the 30th of last month that it would legislate the strait passage fees. According to the details of the plan reported by Bloomberg, shipping operators wishing to navigate the strait must contact a brokerage company linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and submit details including the ship’s ownership structure, shipping documents, cargo manifest, destination, crew list, and automatic identification system (AIS) data.

The brokerage company forwards these documents to the Hormozgan Province Command of the Revolutionary Guard’s Navy, which then verifies whether the vessel has any connections to countries Iran considers hostile, such as Israel and the United States. Once this inspection is passed, toll negotiations begin. Iran has categorized countries into grades 1 through 5, with vessels from more friendly nations receiving more favorable terms.

The initial negotiation price is typically around 1 U.S. dollar per barrel, payable in Chinese yuan or stablecoins. Stablecoins are digital assets pegged 1:1 to the value of fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar or Korean won. Given that a very large crude carrier typically carries 2 million barrels, the toll is expected to be set at a similar level to 2 million U.S. dollars (approximately 3 billion Korean won).

So it appears that Trump has gotten exactly what he set out to accomplish. Congratulations. Get that man on the deck of the Gerald R. Ford to celebrate.

In fact, they go back to being slaves because then they don’t have to worry anymore.

This last bit is Neo-Confederate propaganda. The “slaves were happy to be slaves” myth is wildly apocryphal.

Far more often, the freedmen leave their plantation economies in pursuit of more lucrative work in more industrial and urban regions. Harlem, New York and Detroit, Michigan are testament to the exodus of American colored people northward following the war. Or they strike out to undeveloped territories and form their own municipalities. Large black communities popped up across the Southwest and West coast, as the post-Civil War frontier was subjected to industrial scale genocide of native peoples.

The consequence of this mass migration is a labor shortage at home. One which can only be resolved by (a) raising wages / living standards until people want to stay or (b) re-enslaving the population through other means. In the case of the US South, these “other means” were the Jim Crow laws, which transformed the private plantation economy into a publicly managed (and privately profitable) state prison economy.

Following the end of Reconstruction under Rutherford B. Hayes, southern state governments imposed a suite of laws forbidding “vagrancy” and constricting the right of colored people to travel unattended. Independent communities of black citizens were raided and demolished (The Wilmington Massacre of 1898, the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 being two notable examples - really all of Red Summer being a major historical turning point for American race relations). Enormous prison compounds were constructed. And the incarceration rate among people of color skyrocketed.

The campaign to re-enslave the colored population was a central position of the “Dixiecrats” straight into the LBJ administration. And capturing these revanchists was pivotal to the Nixon and Reagan campaigns, even as the taste for segregation soured nationally on the American tongue. All of this was covered up and expunged from US History, following the 1980s Reagan Revolution and the reactionary efforts to undo the Civil Rights Movement. So it’s very easy to never know the long dark winter of civil rights in post-Civil War American history.

But “slaves were actually happier to be on the plantation” is textbook Coolidge Era white nationalist revisionism.

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

– Joey S

Largely rubber-stamping what they’ve already been doing.

We’re going to get an earful, in twenty years, when liberals clap themselves on the back for repealing this law.

Less pay, longer hours, and the hiring manager plans to sexually harass his workforce.

What more do we need?

A time machine and Merrick Garland in a choke hold until he agrees to press charges.

a distraction from the only subject that matters: the Trump-Epstein files

This guy will be a Bane Capital VP inside another three years.

Because it increased by over 3%?

Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers. Month over month they report a 31.85% drop to the Simplified Chinese language use and English use increasing by 16.82% to 39.09%. Other languages also showed gains amid the massive decline in Simplified Chinese use.

So it wasn’t a major jump in usage, just a re-weighting of accounts by real active usage.

That’s still much better than several years ago in the pre-Steam-Deck days when Steam on Linux was at around 1%.

And a heavy amount of Linux use is just Steam Deck console adoption. So, not nearly as much a cut-over from Windows to Linux as a cutover from XBox/PS5 to Steam Deck.

A shill for… editing other people’s comics?

Skyrocketed

5%

:-/

Listen, it’s progress. But why the headline gore?

“You can say whatever you want here!”

“Cool, what do most people talk about?”

“Well, you can say most stuff anywhere. So we tend to just talk about the stuff that gets us banned: CSAM and telling one another to kill ourselves”

A bunch of Batman villains are just leftist tropes.

• Catwoman, the feminist bitch who just wants your money

• Penguin, the gross immigrant whose disability reflects his twisted soul

• Poison Ivy, the Eco-Terrorist

• Two-Face, the typical big city crooked politician

• Bane, the Mexican wrestler drug abuser

• Scarecrow, the post-modernist head shrinker

• Joker, the debauched fruity anarchist

They’re all just things conservatives from the 80s are afraid of

Was going to say…

Batman is a fantasy of a billionaire who isn’t a pedophile

Stop editing other people’s comics.

Laws written by whom?

Legislators were gobbled up by tech lobbyists back under Bush/Obama. Nobody was going to pitch legislation than ran afoul of trillion dollar rampaging corporate behemoths.

Actual project knowledge is distributed across “topic files” fetched on-demand, while raw transcripts are never fully read back into the context, but merely “grep’d” for specific identifiers.

Consistent with a lot of bugs and goofs I’ve heard people in long running instance of Claude will encounter.