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Cake day: 2023年6月5日

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  • Very interesting seeing how Pete Hegseth’s philosophy of “maximum lethality” ran its course, and yet…

    • Iran has come out the other side with more leverage despite taking big losses
    • Trump is desperate to end his (illegally started) war
    • Conservatives like Tucker Carlson have turned on him for his statement on Easter and calls for genocide

    Seems like a complete miss. I’m reminded of this recent Atlantic article

    Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places. He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before.











  • There’s no need for uploading a constant audio feed or transcript (something that would be easy for researchers to detect in the network logs) to show you an advertisement like that.

    Your phone knows all the things you wrote in the post, namely: your location, that you are physically with those friends, the wifi network, the search history of everyone there. Because of all that metadata, advertisers probably know you were playing a TTRPG, maybe even the specific one