such a sore looser loser

I’ve heard it as, “Nothing will materially change until the plutocrats fear for their lives.”

The Origins of Virtue

by Matt Ridley

Coincidences

Are investors from the US or our government allowed to buy swathes of real estate in the PRC to the same extent that the CCP or Chinese investors are allowed to?

I’m betting no.

Including or excluding the Catholic Church as an organization?

Dogs teach you about loyalty. Cats teach you about boundaries.

Ironically, luddites against space exploration in this era call for the dismantling of a titanic field of science that is both directly and indirectly responsible for the very device from which they shart out their oh-so-learned opinions to the rest of the world.

Follow Creators, Not Platforms

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It’s interpreted.

Ironically, due the nature of the language used in their complaint and its similarity to psychological operations conducted by COINTELPRO, @[email protected] seems “shallow and politically motivated”.

symbolic

I agree with your sentiment, but I’m compelled to point out that their “billions” is in the valuation of the preferred shares of the corporations they control. If they were to sell to get their billions in cash, the value of their portfolio that analysts purport they have would plummet to pennies on the dollar and very quickly.

Billionaires take out loans using their appraised assets as collateral when they need a couple tens of hundreds of millions in cash.

These billionaires’ egos literally write checks their bodies can’t cash with tacit approval from the Fed and SEC.

It is.

“Dumb” people who don’t demonstrate their stupidity loudly are of average intelligence.

It’s George C. Scott playing General Turgidson.

“Mediocrity” (sort of) implies “middling”, etymologically, which is what most people are. Average.

Reminds me of some lyrics by the Foo Fighters, “There goes my hero; he’s ordinary.”

What’s the reasoning behind it?

We crave validation from others and ourselves by being considered “rare” or capable of creating “rarity” in an ocean of mediocrity and banality to justify our state, choices, and attitudes. We consider “rarity” as inherently valuable and a virtue to aspire to.

Helix for terminal has been fantastic; I like GUIs so for me Zed is my “S-Tier”.

Yes, Zed allows you to turn off the Agentic LLM integration off in settings.json:

{
  "disable_ai": true
}