You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I wonder what thought process leads someone to decide "EVERY cable I use must be 6 feet long, even if the two devices it's connecting are mere inches apart"
so I finished Imperial Life in the Emerald City on Wednesday
it was a lot to take in, but it looks like the primary things that derailed the Iraqi occupation were
cronyism/nepotism - what's interesting to me is that the occupation didn't just fail; it failed in all the ways that the pro-business Republicans that primarily staffed the Green Zone believe that all governments fail: staffers were chosen primarily on prominence within in the GOP network and their loyalty to the Bush Administration, to the point where staffers that weren't Republicans felt they had to hide that fact to avoid repercussion. On top of that, contracts were doled out to companies
ideological blindness - the result of all those Republicans in one space was an unquestioning devotion to building a modern capitalist constitutional democracy in a war-torn country meant some pretty stupid decisions were made: trying to modernize the stock market, privatizing government companies in midst of mass unemployment and looting, and general failure to build infrastructure.
there are other things, like the general failure of the CPA to adequately listen to input from Iraqis, interference from insurgents (created by the mass unemployment that broke out after Saddam was deposed) and the looting that broke out after the war ended, but those are the main ones
News headline: Asthma inhalers 'can stunt growth of kids'
Actual story: Inhalers might reduce height by the enormous degree of... 1/2 a centimeter.
Whee, scaremongering.
Funny that they make a big deal of that and ignore how stimulants given for misdiagnosed AD/HD can actually stunt a child's growth by several centimetres. Or how giving certain children antidepressants can make them suicidal.
It's odd how things that can save a child's life which carry little risk of anything are treated as more dangerous than adult medicines with known risks being given to children are.
what's interesting to me is that the occupation didn't just fail; it failed in all the ways that the pro-business Republicans that primarily staffed the Green Zone believe that all governments fail: staffers were chosen primarily on prominence within in the GOP network and their loyalty to the Bush Administration, to the point where staffers that weren't Republicans felt they had to hide that fact to avoid repercussion
so I finished Imperial Life in the Emerald City on Wednesday
it was a lot to take in, but it looks like the primary things that derailed the Iraqi occupation were
cronyism/nepotism - what's interesting to me is that the occupation didn't just fail; it failed in all the ways that the pro-business Republicans that primarily staffed the Green Zone believe that all governments fail: staffers were chosen primarily on prominence within in the GOP network and their loyalty to the Bush Administration, to the point where staffers that weren't Republicans felt they had to hide that fact to avoid repercussion. On top of that, contracts were doled out to companies
ideological blindness - the result of all those Republicans in one space was an unquestioning devotion to building a modern capitalist constitutional democracy in a war-torn country meant some pretty stupid decisions were made: trying to modernize the stock market, privatizing government companies in midst of mass unemployment and looting, and general failure to build infrastructure.
there are other things, like the general failure of the CPA to adequately listen to input from Iraqis, interference from insurgents (created by the mass unemployment that broke out after Saddam was deposed) and the looting that broke out after the war ended, but those are the main ones
why of all things did they try to modernize a stock market when there were starving people in a war-torn desert of a country
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You ever notice that he always styles his name as "Weird Al" Yankovic but nobody else ever bothers with the quotation marks?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I am reading about The Brave Little Toaster. It has been well over a decade since I last saw that movie and I don't really remember much about it. Apparently it was very dark.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
they're actually bi
Feels like I have a demon baby inside of me.
in the case of computer science, yes, indeed
why of all things did they try to modernize a stock market when there were starving people in a war-torn desert of a country
I'm tooo stoned for this
Oh... My... God
#pyristoned
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I am reading about The Brave Little Toaster. It has been well over a decade since I last saw that movie and I don't really remember much about it. Apparently it was very dark.