Posts by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
(DIR) Post #AwwWy8iu3Phct8B0BE by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-08-08T00:27:13Z
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@futurebird the effect is predictably like the arrest/execution quotas during the Great Purge
(DIR) Post #AxsTZ5Z5d2wZ9vcpTk by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-09-04T23:22:20Z
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@futurebird well I think it *is* important to distinguish different cases, but in order to formulate effective policy, not as a moral hierarchy!
(DIR) Post #Ay0K2eESN4ognZ6sFc by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-09-08T18:13:22Z
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@ricci and that it is another self-own for Trump's tariff policy. Extort other countries into investing in the US and then kidnap their employees?
(DIR) Post #Ay0KW754BxsQfVlflY by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-09-08T18:18:41Z
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@ricci yeah before it was "beg/flatter/offer bribes for a tariff exemption", now it's "better hope we don't drag your workers off in chains"
(DIR) Post #AyB9FvY6Kxj9VszGYi by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-09-13T23:34:16Z
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@futurebird Luigi turned out to be not very left-wing, plus hatred of health insurance companies cuts across the political spectrum, so that was hard for the right to weaponize.
(DIR) Post #AyBEhHiwV0JvsQvGKG by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-09-14T00:35:16Z
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@futurebird @MightyRedPanda or rather it's a political nonstarter if it doesn't fit into the contemporary culture-war framework
(DIR) Post #AyBFo7M9Xm3thh5KLo by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-09-14T00:47:42Z
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@futurebird @MightyRedPanda the fact that health care affordability is a huge concern across the spectrum and yet Democrats won't talk about it tells you all you need to know
(DIR) Post #AyUALaXVIUhaHQ3xoG by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-09-23T03:46:01Z
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@ricci @regehr hey if it weren’t for EY there would certainly not be a yacht called “The Bayesian” so there’s that
(DIR) Post #AzI0oQDAIaxEQDHe5Y by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-10-17T04:44:26Z
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@ricci the movie had better judgment than the book in this case
(DIR) Post #AzPwGJMcPFHomprdiq by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-10-21T00:41:24Z
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@futurebird @PizzaDemon the museum is an amazing piece of performance art. I hope the Borzoi is still there up in the tea room guarding the samovar.
(DIR) Post #Azdsxx4X440Pv0YFRg by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-10-27T18:10:28Z
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@futurebird unfortunately Rand Paul is an extreme outlier among the GOP (always has been a principled noninterventionist), so his response doesn't tell you much about the general "conservative" attitude to these extrajudicial killings.
(DIR) Post #Aze8iMOAlgk54QKECW by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-10-27T21:06:56Z
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@futurebird well he did protest the Obama admin's droning of a US citizen back in the day, and has called these "extrajudicial killings" and faulted them for lack of due process.https://newrepublic.com/post/202275/rand-paul-donald-trump-caribbean-strikes-extrajudicial-killings
(DIR) Post #AzeokERzRyIV6UgarA by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-10-28T04:57:53Z
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@futurebird we literally found mushrooms growing in the bathroom carpet of a house I lived in as a kid
(DIR) Post #AzgogHgdre64IaZocS by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-10-28T23:54:51Z
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@andrewrk where's the "unsafe" keyword in Fil-C, how am I supposed to get anything done?
(DIR) Post #B0DC0LKYgTQqpeNHDk by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-11-13T18:58:41Z
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@futurebird the first female Fields medalist apparently got a lot of inspiration from doodlinghttps://news.artnet.com/art-world/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-winner-doodler-79848
(DIR) Post #B0TouTmXzmXVH6sZyS by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-11-21T19:30:03Z
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@ricci sadly I can get that feeling only in a perfectly horizontal position
(DIR) Post #B0ejErsCxch2tDIqJs by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-11-26T20:00:21Z
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the graduate student from hellhttps://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/phd-level-intelligence-or-the-graduate
(DIR) Post #B0ljSQuHNXLZPmSYLY by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-11-29T22:06:47Z
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sick burn
(DIR) Post #B1n3bV8LXSdTdls3zE by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-12-31T00:06:17Z
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@futurebird it’s designed like a casino
(DIR) Post #B2oIXa9EoHS8PYlTrk by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2026-01-29T22:57:23Z
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I really love designing tabulation machines here at IBM. Such cool technology. I'm not really exposed to the sales side but hear there's a lot of demand from Europe, Germany maybe? Anyway, super-fun technology to work on.