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what makes it all weird is that these informal relationships often don't last because there's not really ideological camps anymore, governments come to power then get thrown out and the de facto foreign policy of nations change on a whim

understanding Hungary 2010-26 as a NATO/EU member western democrary was a lot less predictive than thinking of it as a "chud international" member that helped out fellow chuds in Russia and Israel among others

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i was using it to illustrate the phenomenon of modern right wing foreign policy being very ideological and yet transient in a way that leads to deep informal cooperation btwn the chud club membership that's often stronger than whatever said countries' formal allies are

what often ends up happening is that countries in opposing blocs that have a new common governing ideology suddenly start informally cooperating with each other instead of their nominal allies and it leads to all sorts of weird stuff

terra invicta is a strategy game about an alien invasion where you play a transnational organization built around a common ideology regarding what to do with the aliens. a big part of it is winning influence in world governments so you can use their resources towards your goals

basically we're trying to play vicky3 and the chuds are playing terra invicta

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 7h

i think a big blindspot in lefty FP is that we still think in terms of state actors when in reality the modern reactionary movement is a loose informal collection of political movements, institutions and individual aholes that periodically possess countries and aligns them until they get kicked out

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elon this is the sign to throw another 10 million dogecoins into txsen

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 9h

it's not a perfect fit for anki since these are puzzles and require reasoning beyond just memorizing the card, but it still works quite well because riichi is so fast-paced that you have to drill the puzzles until solving them is instinctual

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 9h

update: had to bang out a few updates to the script but now i can make 1 card a minute start to finish (including typing, formatting, proofreading) which is crazy fast for how complex they are

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 9h

i thibk Lioconcha hieroglyphica looks really creepy. AI generated looking clam

軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 10h

you can bet whatever issues with the Linux kernel has, Windows has 1000x over, it just makes fewer headlines because it's a closed source codebase whose politics are playing out behind a curtain. unless you're a practiced computer psycho Linux is by far the best option and will remain so for a while

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 10h

i respect the amount of Hungarian party names and also "hokkien"

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 11h

mine is how i found out i can't spell the word "deliberately"

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 11h

yeah 🫂 reading tech forums in the last few years has been really depressing. solidarity

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 12h

interesting... i didn't know this was an actual thing. i usually just put them in sandwiches where the crispiness is a nice contrast to the chewy and soft ingredients (though it crumbles super easily so it's a bit messy). gotta look into that now, thank you

軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 12h

new bullshit i started cooking lately: 1) lay sheets of sufficiently melty cheese in nonstick pan 2) melt, spread thinly and evenly, then fry until solid enough to flip 3) flip and fry until parts start to go golden brown 4) use as crispy sandwich filling

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 15h

man even here in Hungary the stories about votebuying involve 60-70USD or a sack of potatoes, you gotta be a bit less stingy in the wealthiest country in human history

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i don't deny that the Trump admin is being manipulated, I just think the buttons they're pushing are significantly more pathetic than blackmail

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i mean it's an Occam's razor thing: it's hard to blackmail an open pedophile, but it's easy to impress an impressionable authoritarian wannabe if you're an authoritatian who is successful at consolidating power

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my only disagreement with the piss tape thing is that Trump et al's cloying admiration of Putinism is stronger than any blackmail could possibly be, and that people believe in it because they can't make sense of the authoritarian follower mentality otherwise

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the NHS is pretty unambiguously committing crimes against humanity and all I hope for at this point is that one day I get to watch the ones responsible cry like infants as a tribunal sentences them to live in a hole for the rest of their miserable lives

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i do think giving plants rights is a lot more constructive and better for the world than giving machines rights, since the latter usually boils down to giving their owners and/or operators privileges

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it's awful when innocent people are put against each other like this but it's also something that we have to accept as a fundamental tragedy of the world and move on if we want to achieve anything in the real world

yeah thing is I know that policies I support and loudly argue for fuck over innocent Russians and while I feel for them, I cannot let that stop me or let myself dwell on it for too long. such is life

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but then again for a lot of the events im the show we don't have that kind of precision in the written sources either way

it should be, but i was overthinking hard about whether any of the dates in the show would be different (they almost definitely were not unless one of them was in a very specific band of about a week or so)

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esp. because I'm a computer toucher and the malaise is strongest in my supposed profession. i feel like I've been living that one anecdote about people in the first movie theaters panicking thinking the train coming at them on film was going to hit them non-stop for 4 years

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it's really exhausting because it took me about a year to accept "oh yeah we have very humanlike chatbots that are shockingly good at doing things compared to what they intuitively should be able to" and now I feel like I'm just waiting for everyone else to catch up

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oh yeah when i said roman calendar i obviously don't mean ab urbe condita, i just didn't know whether saying Gregorian or Julian was maximally correct and i didn't want to embarrass myself being slighly inaccurate while being a pedant about slight inaccuracies

軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 19h

nothing especially bad happened today to my knowledge i am just particularly contemptuous of our global hitler pedophile rapist ruling class that doesn't even have the silver lining of being competent, be it in doing good or evil

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 19h

my emotional range for political news today is somewhere between the AM hate monologue from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and the Seven-Kill Stele, is that good

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im grinding mahjong strategy so hard too like im def better but it doesnt seem to have shown in actually winning

Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/10/2026

Reposted by 軽laura

the "agentic" vision of computing is a spam world where everyone has their own personal army of spam bots working 24/7 on their behalf choking everything with spam to try and get one over on the next guy. and that's just not something that can really... exist, long term?

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the wakizashi looking very tempting right now

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out of the 29 hanchans ive played since i started playing mahj again i have won 1 (winrate of 3,4%)

unfortunately knowing how to score hands doesn't matter when you never win any

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in Jaadugar: a Witch in Mongolia, in the narration Fatima kept using the Roman calendar for dates instead of the Islamic one and while I completely understand why they have her do that it peeves me ever so slightly

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im on ep 22 rn do not spoil. i usually cant stop myself from reading the tvtropes page back to back when i like a show while watching it but this time i am too invested in the mystery to do that

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in other news ive also been watching fmab w friends bc this year is apparently the year i catch up on all the shows i should have watched as a teenager

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i still don't understand why fu exists and delving deeper into the scoring system made me understand it less not more

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chat i think i finally managed to cram the riichi scoring table into my brain

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