David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt
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EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
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20 years ago, the U.S. made up a flimsy story that Iraq had a nuclear program.
But all indications are that Iran *actually* does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eBVodkJYQ
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The best summary of the Ukraine war so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rovfkd3VkVo
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I didn't realize Trump's lawsuits were quite this bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7j5a4Gz42Y
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RT @NathanpmYoung
One way to spot that it's fake is that biden doesn't speak nearly this fluently, which is funny/ironic/dark.
These are getting a lot better, but which is gonna just make me look at sources more. Also the reader context is really good here. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630980346627100672
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Do you join the lizardman "constant" when the right question comes along?
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This good and important (that it be a strategic decision)
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RT @NOELreports
"The situation is difficult in Bakhmut, reinforcements have been sent there. The decision to hold the city is a strategic one, not a political one," Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar said on the national telethon.
Let's hope it helps 🙏
https://news.liga.net/ua/politics/news/minoborony-o-bahmute-vse-slojno-tuda-otpravili-podkreplenie-reshenie-ne-politi…
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1630642103330979847
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RT @noclador
In short: the US Air Force is giving Ukraine excellent older missiles that are great at defeating russia, and replaces them with missles that are meant to defeat China.
And this concludes our little trip into the Pentagon budget.
13/end
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RT @NathanpmYoung
topologically bagels and donuts are the same
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Nuclear proponents have been expecting this sort of thing.
The article implies a limitation of the IRA, saying it "does little to address many..barriers to building clean energy.., such as permitting holdups, local opposition or transmission constraints" https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/0220229/new-wind-and-solar-energy-projects-are-now-overwhelming-americas-antiquated-electrical-grids
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The Russian government is proud of what they've done?
Amazing footage though.
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RT @KevinRothrock
Drone footage published by the Russian state media showing the current state of Bakhmut. There's nothing left to fight over but ruins.
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1629721382790524929
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And in Soledar, I remember him talking about tunnels that would slow down the Russians (they didn't) and other defenses that, it turned out, didn't allow Ukraine to hold very long.
Ukraine seems to be doing well enough. But not as well as RfU makes it sound.
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...RfU's video today didn't mention that. A similar thing happened with Opytne south of Bakhmut: as I recall, RfU struck an optimistic tone about UKR's ability to defend it, just as it fell to the Russians, and he didn't report on the loss for more than a week.
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I enjoy the level of tactical detail on RfU but its bias is sometimes too much. Yesterday he said that the Russians "will almost certainly not be able to breach Ukrainian defense in Yahidne". Today the Russians captured Yahidne, and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bSkuMpR2Q
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RT @lindseyhilsum
We just arrived in #Kherson. As Putin was speaking, Russian artillery hit this bus-stop killing 6 and injuring 5.
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RT @mbk_center
In 2016 Putin, while addressing a televised awards ceremony for geography students, has said Russia's border "doesn't end anywhere", which he then said was meant as a joke
2023 billboard in Russia ahead of Putin's address to Russian Federal Assembly states the same, but-no joke.
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So I was trying to make a person tonight (so that my other person would have a sibling) and I thought...
Wait, we can just create a person whenever we feel like?
That's wild!
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RT @wartranslated
Russian "Veteran's Notes" channel talks about the critical situation with funding in the Russian army. Neither mobilised nor volunteers get paid properly, some going 6+ months without a single payment. They say, this is happening in every unit and will lead to a social explosion.
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RT @davenewworld_2
WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ This incident of police brutality in Paulding County, GA is from March 2022 and it should be bigger news. Deputy Michael McMaster goes on a power trip and assaults Tyler Canaris for no reason. McMaster should be arrested.
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A thread on why
1. Hersh's article claiming the U.S. blew up #NordStream is full of crap
2. It made twisted sense for Putin (not the USA) to do it
3. A Russia-linked ship, the Minerva Julie, likely planted explosives on NS1 (courtesy @OAlexanderDK)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-262/comment/12622211
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RT @ChrisO_wiki
1/ The Russian government has created a new unified database listing all of those eligible for military service, to make it easier to mobilise people, better able to screen out those with exemptions and catch 'evaders' at border checkpoints and via facial recognition cameras. ⬇️
- Home page
- http://david.loyc.net
EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
