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Congratulations for rediscovering Machiavelli. “The ends justify the means” is such a winning philosophy.

The ends do alter the acceptability of the means. E.g. if I offered you the means of “pay money to flip coin to make money as many times as possible” and the numbers involved were $50k if heads, lose $1k if tails and $50 buy in that’s way different if the numbers involved were $1k if heads, lose $50k if tails and $500k buy in.

If you can’t alter your reasoning to include outcomes then you will make poorer decisions.


The bus is always idling at the curb; Trump cronies never seem to realize that eventually, everyone gets thrown under it.

Every power hungry maniac thinks their power of sycophancy is going to be better. If they had any shred of reflection they wouldn’t be working for this man.

Bondi lasted a record 38 Scaramuccis

I forgot: the Curb-to-Bus (CtB) transit time is measured in Scaramuccis.

  • Bondi lasted 423 days, from 2/5/25 through 4/2/26
  • One “Scaramucci” ≈ 11 days
  • 38×11 = 418 days

Yes, it always ends in tears.

I suspect many do, but you can grift a lot before that happens

https://browsergate.eu/extensions/

It seems to not scan for Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, two extensions I rely on. That's...surprising.


Because what they're scanning for is scrapers. So much linkedin scraping. And I'd bet that the majority of the innocuous-looking extensions are scrapers hidden as other extensions to get users to unknowingly use them.

So is Windows.

I've never seen a more impressive effort to carry on as if the elephant is, in fact, not in the room.


For those interested in learning more about the West's operations in Iran leading up to today:

https://github.com/thinkhuman/iranwest/blob/main/exploitingi...


I have no objections to the drug, but it’s also been well-established and well documented that you can achieve all these effects and results with a ketogenic (or similar) diet.


"The initiative, propelled by advocacy from State Senator Daniel Zolnikov and organizations like the Frontier Institute"

Always follow the money: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Institute


Fair; I don’t get the point of Andrew Tate, either.


That's me, I wrote it.

If you are genuinely interested in the history of the region, the saddest part is that it's not 'sensationalized' as you put it, but the opposite--it's incredibly well-documented. Even released CIA documents confirm the coup and other actions. I don't see much disagreement between Wikipedia and what I wrote.

And Iranians, like Americans, differ in their opinions of government. There are nearly 100 million Iranians in country (and many more outside).

And of course if you read what I wrote, it's fairly clear why many Iranians didn't want a religious nationalist government, and many left over the past decades. Many of them didn't want the Shah or his Israel-trained brutal secret police, either, and many more didn't want the country's economy sold wholesale to the West (as it was).


In all likelihood the same thing would be happening if the Iranian government wasn’t a religious or nationalist government.


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