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How many people would need to be killed for you to consider the leak important? How many friendly countries involved in an ongoing war with your number one adversarial nation for the last 80s have to have their spring offensive plans impacted in the middle of a war would make this 'important' to your mind?

Tacos Moreno's Al Pastor in Santa Cruz was like 50% of the reason I made trips back home.

I love history like this. History books are so full of battles and conflict and always imply cultures were divided by huge chasms. I love to see the connections and wish we highlighted it more.

<Super Ignorant Take Ahead...> I remember being taught in American History class that Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson studied and admired Native American systems of government when drafting the Constitution but my kids weren't taught this (though to be fair American History was removed as a separate subject and no longer covered in depth in their schooling). Most 'mericans would say it comes out of enlightened Europe when John Adams cited the Mohawks, who he argued enjoyed “complete individual independence,” while tribal leaders brought major decisions like declarations of war to “a national assembly.” and Thomas Jefferson said “the only condition on earth to be compared with ours is that of the Indians, where they still have less law than we. The Europeans are governments of kites over pidgeons [sic].”

To me it seems today Persian history is so artificially removed from Greek popular history, but when my son and I explored Alexander the Great's history it lead to us exploring Persian history and feeling the popular narrative was manipulated from the reality with so much missing connections.

I responded negatively to a previous post on here about 'Islamic Golden Age History' because it artificially divides us when huge portions of that golden age thought was coming from Christians and recently conquered lands only tangentially 'Islamic' and again popular history Pigeon holing and artificially separating us all.

'Islamic Golden Age' thought is also much Christian mindset thought (though not Germanic western European post Roman Christian thought which somehow becomes all Christian according to historians). Persia IS one of the progenitors of Western thought alongside Greece (Alexander the Great adopted much from Persia along with lots and lots of other cross pollination). But we sure aren't given that impression from popular history.

Now today I learned Indian spices were influential in Roman food. But I was taught Europeans didn't covet Indian spices until way later. Why? What use does that narrative have? Over eighty percent of the 478 recipes in the fifth century Roman cookbook of Apicius included pepper and that cookbook was widely known about since the 1800s apparently.

OK too many words, and hopefully I didn't offend with my Islamic Golden Age stuff. I'm not trying to lesson the Importance of the Islamic world, but expand it. I just hate that today we self isolate and apply that isolating viewpoint to the past when it doesn't appear to have been the case.

Versus the push that we should draw the conclusion that it's a nothing burger? It definitely highlights that Twitter is happy to categorize and treat Ukrainian content differently which is insightful to know.

If this is for their Crisis Misinformation Policy why only one specific callout and specifically directed to Ukraine? Seems like a generous assumptions to make on your part that it's a nothing burger. The takeaway we should go with is that we now know that internally they are willing to programatically segment out Ukraine related topics. The question to me that this new knowledge should lead to is why a policy to segmenting this? (not to call immediately jump to 'nothing burger' or as you put it in the above post 'misinformation').

I wrote medical reporting software and yes the USA calculates it's numbers much differently than at least France and Japan. Why do you claim BS?

Rupert Murdoch, the guy Elon spent the Super Bowl with, might know a bit of his position.

Dude did you spend any time in San Francisco in the 80s? The 90s? San Francisco is how San Francisco got where it is today, the same place it was 40 years ago.

This doesn't explain the success rates that low wealth immigrants have when it comes to entrepreneurship. It does feel like an analogy someone would write a sudo-intelectual book based on because it 'feels accurate' while being nothing but pop-crap people use to put energy into being resentful or to justify limits they put on themselves.

When I lived in California there were yearly stories about homemade cheese that was getting sold and killing people and a push to remind people of this reality. The 'licensing requirements' are there for a reason, around food the reason is to prevent deaths or permanent disabilities from food poisoning.

Don't forget it's all thermal printers not just food label printers so adolescent females need to wash their hands after handling receipts.

OPEC+ members are hoping that all members keep their word and produce less and hoping to get paid more for their product. Fixed that for you.

The SPR was created to fill a roll after the 1970s that no longer exists. The USA was energy independent in 2021 with projections expecting more of the same in 2022 and 2023. In addition our proven reserves are at 5 years of current use all of which to say the SPR is not a strategic military asset in the way it was when it was created or it's intended purpose.

Finland just added 830 miles of NATO border with Russia. The US and Britain both approved this extension of NATO's border with RUssia.

Finland just joined NATO and added 830 miles of NATO border with Russia invalidating that Russian talking point.

Huh? I did my own laundry starting from like 10, and cooking the family dinners most nights (until I reached high school and football practice got in the way). Not sure what 'US' you are talking about, maybe the generation before the 80s?

As a male American latch key kid in the 80s I learned to cook and made dinner for my parents and myself most nights. There was a ton of cooking shows on PBS to learn from. You can only watch so much Robotech/Voltron and play so many Commodore games. All of my friends made good food too.

There is a mens rea element though isn't there? If you post this with the intent of preventing people from voting versus posting something you think is factual versus posting something with the intent being to make a joke. The first would be illegal, the second wouldn't, the third maybe (if you had reason to believe that people would interpret it as being factual prior to your posting it).

Great. Get rid of 'Police' departments and create a new form of community protection with no long history and none of that baggage :) problem solved. Thanks Scalia for encouraging 'defund the Police' as the ONLY solution to the problem!

The medium is important if it is artificially inserting itself to push narratives directed for malicious intent. They aren't banning phone calls from China, or preventing Chinese citizens from posting on American websites. They are banning a specific filter.

The stories the cartel guys told in federal prison about what they made people do to get their supply still makes my skin crawl. If you support keeping drugs illegal you support teenagers (that society has decided aren't responsible enough to buy alcohol) being subjected to the worst things cartel guys can up with to be 'entertained'. Period. If you want to keep this garbage illegal you support and are OK with a level of abuse that you can not shake once you hear about it.

Why Islamic specifically? What differences do you see from the above linked Arab Christian's writings and what Muslims might write? Is there a specific difference in theology betwen Arab Muslims and Arab Christians that translates to physicians/polymaths that you are interested to explore? I know there are artistic differences but I'm not aware of medical/mathematics ones?

You seemed willing to participate when you posted originally. I'm curious what changed?

So you didn't renew your domains and chose not to have them auto-renew?

What are you going to point them to? A random Reddit post that provides zero details?

This is a random Reddit post why is everyone treating it as 'news' or even correct?

But we aren't banning foreign speech, we are banning a foreign platform for information dissemination. I don't see anyone promoting not allowing Chinese citizen's posts to be viewable in the USA. That is what banning foreign speech would look like.

We were in a hippie commune when I was a kid. My parents got tired of choosing to be poor. Getting down to eating canned zucchini and frozen catfish by the end of winter was not great.

Thanks, off to work on a new startup!

AI is just a lossy form of storing the copyrighted work and using pieces of the copyrighted work for future output. It definitely requires licensing of the works stored (I mean 'trained on')used if used outside of 'personal use'. I can't just re-compress a tons of pictures into crappy jpg format and then use them however I'd like. I also can't just come up with a new format for machine storing copyrighted images to be used for creating derivative works, call it AI, and say it's 'different'. The AI company has to be able to prove in a court of law it could have generated the image if it hadn't been trained on my copyrighted work. We already covered this area of law with sampling in music. If you didn't want to continue over ownership of the work from the owner of the 'sample' you either license it or.... don't use it.