mcphage

> Are there any ads that people do trust?

What? Yes, of course. Are you so terminally online that you assume all advertising is the fake AI chum that we see on the web?

Why not?

It's probably valued at 1.2B, at least

State house elections, 2 of them in Minnesota: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/27/specials-elections-...

> The ICE guys will be hanging around in urban neighborhoods with lots of minorities. Such as parts of Milwaukee and Detroit.

Which they have been. How did that go in the special election a few days ago?

> Is a journalist someone who prints out a press badge?

What difference does that make? Are you suggesting Don Lemon merely printed out a press badge?

> Mass immigration didn’t exist back then

What? No.

I would say there’s no concealment at all. It’s a naked bribe and flattery. But bribery is legal now.

> What if our economy has more than the maximum amount of participants?

Then our economy is entirely fucked, and will be taken over by China and the EU soon.

> it‘s a-ok to insult small men, ugly men and small dicks, as long as the recipients are evil or not well liked

As long as you're punching up. And if your target is at a authoritarian force occupying your city, abducting and murdering your neighbors, that's definitely punching up.

> Just think how SK is shitting square ones knowing that NK has troops fighting on the front lines, and is totaly involved in planning, tacticts and strategy.

I think if SK was seriously worried about that, they would send troops to support Ukraine.

Their plan is failing because their popularity numbers are dropping constantly, and they are convincing people to get out and organize and protest. Like, do you actually see any successes here? They’ve managed to turn “Abolish ICE” from a fringe left wing opinion, to the mainstream centrist position.

Like, I get that they’re doing this big show of force. But they’re losing. They are not accomplishing any of their goals, and the longer this goes on, the more the population is turning against them, and the less and less they will be able to accomplish their goals anywhere. Minnesota is not afraid of them, and they’re teaching the rest of the country not to fear them either.

I agree that’s their plan. But that plan is currently failing, and it’s not looking like they’re learning anything from it.

> It is possible that this approach sparks a reaction and backfires.

Not only is that possible, but it is actively happing as we speak.

They are disrupting lives, but elections? Imagine if the election was held today in Minneapolis, how do you think the vote would go? Would people be afraid to vote, or would it be the largest turnout the city has ever seen?

> they have the numbers for that

Maybe, but right now they’re trying for 1 and can’t do it. Not sure where they are hiding 10x or 20x the troops.

> I think about what we are trying to implement, and if this iteration brings us closer to it.

> Where things go, how pieces fit, reusable patterns - this is more question of subjective taste and big-picture thinking.

I do that, too, only I call it coding, and it doesn’t require me to rewrite a bunch of badly written slop first.

They’re failing to control a single mid-sized city, I’m not sure how they would maintain control over half the country. They don’t have the numbers, and are widely hated.

> have genuinely no idea idea what is going on or who to trust here.

Well, which one photoshops people they don’t like and releases them, claiming they are real? AP or the White House?

I’ve tried it in safari on iOS and a Mac.

The main page loads fine, but the main content pane just shows “BIBLEX Loading…”

Stuck with a "Loading..." message. Too much traffic, maybe?

This all reminds me of the offhand comment from an old XKCD: “You own 3D googles, which you use to view rotating models of better 3D googles.” He’s got this gigantic angentic orchestration system, which he uses to build… an agentic orchestration system. Okay.

I’m not trying to give advice, I’m just curious about their arrangement. When I did consulting, I hated billing, and would have wanted a system that was as easy as possible.

Why didn’t you work out a more manageable billing structure with them?! Or to put it another way: if it took you 10 minutes a week with spreadsheets to even figure out what their bill is, how on earth did they verify your invoices were even correct? And if they couldn’t—or if it took more than 10 minutes each week—why wouldn’t they prefer a billing system they could verify they were being paid correctly?

This is your evidence? This is meaningless. The problem is, you’re applying reasoning backwards. You’re starting with the assumption that Trump’s ramblings are justified, so you search for whatever you can find that supports his side, and thus conclude that this evidence is sufficient to justify his claims, because it’s all the evidence out there. Instead of actual reasoning, which would be to start with the question “are his claims justified?”, searching for evidence for and against, and realizing that these few articles in support are dwarfed by the hundreds of billion dollars in trade between the two countries.

Do you believe that the monied interests will stop on their own before we get there?

Is that why the TikTok ban fell through?! …figures.

We should have made it clearer that monied interests have a choice: be kept in check by the law, or by the guillotine.

> The EU has a huge strategic problem because they let their own defenses and industry rot for decades

They also have a long history of being able to ramp it up quickly if necessary.