*I don't doubt that China could do that, and also just nuke Taiwan off the map, but Taiwan has rather a lot of very accurate long-range missiles *China would lose a lot of prestige infrastructure, along with data centers, power plants etc *Chairman Mao would invade, but Xi Jinping is a rich guy

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How it feels to take an Adderall and a Red Bull

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I have one of these, thanks to a very good friend, but until now had no idea where it was designed!

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A combination of two factors led to my having forgotten, today, that Pattern Recognition mentions the Curta calculator having been designed in Buchenwald: (1) I haven’t fully reread PR since writing it, (2) septuagenarian CRS. (Can’t Remember Shit, alas.)

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Social media companies actually have a liability shield under CDA section 230, which Mike endorses, which is premised on the idea that who is allowed to post is NOT the platform holder's speech.

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