David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt

This article is extremely important.

Reminds me when I saw a 2-hour documentary skeptical of the holocaust. Went looking for counterarguments and mostly found people saying "oh those horrible antisemitic people"

(the video showed no hint of antisemitism)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-kavanaugh-on-fideism

Ken M is the thinking man's troll
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RT @horseysurprise

https://twitter.com/horseysurprise/status/1596051668936056836

PSA: Russia still losing 3x the equipment.
https://github.com/leedrake5/Russia-Ukraine

PSA: the locations of mines are not necessarily random. They could be placed in a straight line with no gaps. (@GeoConfirmed says this more likely occurred on Feb 6)
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RT @NOELreports
A video from @AndrewPerpetua shows very refreshing Russian tactics near Vuhledar. In this tutorial they show how to bypass mines. Very clever movement.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1624694734072545283

PSA: the locations of mines are not necessarily random. They could be placed in a straight line with no gaps.
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RT @NOELreports
A video from @AndrewPerpetua shows very refreshing Russian tactics near Vuhledar. In this tutorial they show how to bypass mines. Very clever movement.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1624694734072545283

One reason to be skeptical is that there are various stories about Wagner killing its own troops (e.g. for desertion).

If they want to help Putin out with psyops, they could round up a few Wagnerites they intended to kill anyway, but then dress up the executioner as Ukrainian.

And... it's not that Scott Alexander doesn't care about truth or truthseeking, right? But somehow lying or bullshitting isn't a big enough deal to him that he would think about that when when he thinks of Trump.

It's weird.

Or "Mexico will pay for the wall." Or "Global warming is a hoax invented by the Chinese." There were people dedicated to making lists of his lies.

So this is weird, right? For me this is THE reason to hate Trump. For Scott Alexander it doesn't even make his shortlist.

"single, pithy, irrefutable reason to hate Trump."

In my mind there was one very clear, important and specific reason.

He lied constantly. Or at least bullshitted. He'd just say any old shit and insist it was true. Like "thousands in New Jersey cheered for the 9/11 attacks".

Scott Alexander baffles me sometimes. Because we agree about so many things, but then out of nowhere he'll say something bothersome/do something dumb.

Here we have a very tame example, but one that seems important. He talks about Trump's negative qualities but says there's no

Little do the people clicking "yes" realize that their $10/hour job just became 50 cents.

Oh ye of little reading comprehension.
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RT @Aella_Girl
If you press the button, the top 10% earners in the world (who hold 85% of the world's wealth) will be forced to forfeit their earnings and be given a fixed allowance equal to 5% their prior income.
Their money'll be distributed to everyone else, proportionally according to need.
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1624197941165494277

Never send an architect to do an engineer's job.

Also, this is nuts?! A tall building fell over like a yard sign in the wind, but did NOT crumble when it hit the ground! Probably lots of survivors?
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RT @WarMonitors
⚡️In Turkey, the chief architect of a residential complex in Hatay province, which fell during the earthquake, was detained at the airport.
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1624067847184871425

I hate it when Ukrainians commit war crimes. It's not a good look.

This looks like a big one. I can't confirm it's true and I don't know the location or context around it, but an earlier tweet seems to say Wagner already has a suspect in custody, whom they are torturing.
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RT @WarMonitors
Here’s my telegram, both vids are posted there https://t.me/warmonitors
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1624240468841168897

Never send an architect to do an engineer's job.

Also, this is a nuts?! A tall building fell over like a yard sign in the wind, but did NOT crumble when it hit the ground! Probably lots of survivors?
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RT @WarMonitors
⚡️In Turkey, the chief architect of a residential complex in Hatay province, which fell during the earthquake, was detained at the airport.
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1624067847184871425