I enjoyed their recent video on power law distributions and why they dramatically change how you should operate in those domains.

They also did some good content a short while ago explaining why Monsanto and Dupont are problematic.

That said you are right about the thumbnails since when I looked at the channel to double check that it was veritasium I was thinking of the title and thumbnail are completely different for all of them.

Because there is a fig leaf of legality over the bombing.

The excuse they run is that they have designated the cartel as a terrorist organisation (this stretches the definition of terrorism past breaking point), they have asserted that the boats are operated by the cartel (this is heavily disputed) and they suggest that terrorists “attacking” the US by importing drugs are enemy combatants and legitimate military targets.

All of this is insane, but republicans have been going along with it with varying levels of enthusiasm.

The problem here is that even if you buy the justification that marks the occupants or the boats as enemy combatants, that still doesn’t legally permit war crimes.

The republicans in question agree with the method to paint them as enemy combatants, but don’t agree that war crimes are acceptable against enemy combatants.

Because the implication of “kill everybody” is that surrender will be refused, and issuing such a “no quarter” order is a war crime.

This is shortly after Hegseth fired a few judge advocate generals (military lawyers ish) since he viewed them as potential “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander-in-chief.”

Existing hierarchies and power structures.

If you can force yourself to view everything through that lens, the actions of conservatives make a lot of sense, as do the things that make them angry.

If you are actually asking;

Because most people generally agree that a more equitable society is good, people being beholden to their employers in a relationship with an extremely lopsided power dynamic is bad etc.

But because if even filthy shitlibs agree with things like that there is no value to espousing them; you get no good-leftists points for a statement which costs you nothing to make.

But if you say the US deserved 9/11 due to it’s support for Israel, or that North Korea is actually a model state and all the reports of human rights violations are just propaganda etc. well you are clearly willing to burn all your political credibility with normies and so you must be an ardent communist and therefore worthy of respect.

In real life this effect is diminished because you are usually forced into interacting with people who sadly aren’t a fan totalitarian regimes or quite like the US and you see these people often enough that you maybe respect them and care about their opinions. So you naturally moderate your opinions so you can perceive yourself as someone they would respect in turn.

But if you live in an echo chamber, the statements which would otherwise carry a personal cost suddenly become free and still ingratiate you with you peers. And then it becomes a conception to see who can pick the position juuust within the echo chamber’s overton window but as far as possible outside the general public’s overton window.

See also: the young republicans mask off support for literal Nazism in their group chat.

I maintain that salad cream is almost the perfect condiment and can work as a substitute for either ketchup (due to it’s acidity) or mayonnaise (due to everything else in it).

(Probably not a good idea to substitute either of them when used as ingredients though)

I think the name and the original intent was for it to work as a vinegarette equivalent since it is primarily oil and vinegar, and while it does certainly work there, I will pick vinegarette over sald cream if given the option. But for anything else where you would have ketchup or mayo salad cream wins.

Instructions unclear, use of the kit somehow wound up with a military dictatorship and an imperial empire?

Valid, I got 15-20 from a Google search, but further research puts your numbers as more reasonable, I will edit the patent post.

I think it’s hard to definitely call something a bubble until it pops.

The definition of a bubble goes something along the lines of market prices exceeding the intrinsic value of the investment they represent, which may be true here?

If you want to read more about this the rough name for these companies was “the magnificent seven” a year or so ago when I last looked at this. A quick Google suggests represent about a third of the SNP 500’s value now and have a cape ratio (cyclicly adjusted price to earnings) of ~37 compared to 15-20 being normal.

Edit: the above baseline is incorrect; see sugar_in_tea’s comment for a more accurate baseline and some interesting counterpoints

I can’t find a good numerical source for the correlated risk within this group, and I suspect analyzing it is very difficult. Given they all used to be a lot more diversified in the past but now a large % of their valuation is predicated on AI historical correlation analysis probably fails. But the diagram linked here suggests it’s probably bad to put all your money in these companies. (Or even a 3rd if you are in an s&p 500 index tracker 😶)

Like, none of this definitively says this is a bubble, since if it were possible to divine that the bubble would immediately pop, but it does suggest there is a strong likelihood we are seeing a bubble.

I am not sure tbh, I know it was Italy and Germany and dissolved during the Napoleonic wars, but beyond that my knowledge of its history is thin.

I guess it also depends how and for what purpose you are defining it as an empire or not.

Wikipedia calls the holy Roman empire a polity, but refers to the first french empire under Napoleon as an empire for whatever that’s worth?

Possibly the naming was aspirational, or a throwback to the Roman empire that controlled most of Europe?

I think they remind me a little of fox capture plan or mouse on keys, both of whom I adored a few years back.

Listening through elephant gym’s discography now, will do cover after.

Oh, and thank you for the personal recommendation; very appreciated 🙂

Love this, somehow scratches an itch I never knew I had.

Probably Vulcanus, it’s the simplest, very easy to scale up and gives you tools to make the other two near planets easier.

Very minor spoilers about what helps and why:

::: spoiler Big mining drills make fulgora easier since you deplete scrap patches at half speed, which is good because medium islands have limited scrap on them.

Artillery makes gleba easier since you can keep pentapod nests from existing in your spore cloud. :::

Imo fulgora is more interesting and I actually did it first, but I do think Vulcanus -> Fulgora -> Gleba is probably the “optimal” order for regular playthroughs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars

Don’t design for having a nice codebase today, design for having a clean codebase after 3 months of Devs copy pasting one bit of code then tweaking it to do what they need or adding more fields to existing concepts.

This generally means it’s best to have one pattern for a given thing, rather than having several patterns you pick based on context, the later runs into problems:

• Someone copy/pasted pattern A for a pattern B context
• Enough stuff changes in a pattern A implementation that it would now be better as a patter B thing.

A second consideration for this is that if there are a group of classes/files/whatever that regularly needs to be copied they should live together. If there are different sections of the code that needs to be edited when creating a new resource, they should be kept in one place and kept small-ish.

Most of this comes from accepting the way people tend to work and from the perspective that software is a living evolving process and only regarding a snapshot of it misses vital information.

Challenging, new boss battles for late-game players to overcome

Was Simon not enough 😨 I swear I am still getting the phase 2/3 music popping into my head randomly months later.

Jokes aside, definitely playing this on release.

I don’t even know if they do, this is possibly/probably just the government repeatedly and gleefully shooting itself in the foot.

Palestine protests themselves aren’t criminalised (despite the title), what is however is criminalised is support of the Palestine Action group.

This is because they are a proscribed as a terrorist organisation, after a couple of their members snuck onto a military base and spray painted aircraft.

This is stupid in almost every way you can look at it, it criminalises people who are innocent of everything but carrying a sign or wearing a t-shirt, it makes the government look both cruel and inept and it has (as far as I can tell) been a huge boon to the credibility of Palestine Action resulting in more people joining or at least supporting them. And finally it (makes the government appear to/reveals the government does) support a nation enacting a genocide.

As for why; the aircraft were refusing tankers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330_MRTT I assume this was done because of rumors that the RAF were refueling IDF planes bombing civilians but last I heard they use incompatible in flight fueling systems.

Various news articles suggest 7m of damage which seems a bit high for spray paint, my guess is that knowing that people with unknown intentions had unsupervised access to military aircraft they demanded the planes on be stripped and re built to check for other sabotage.

The UK terrorism laws are unfortunately defined very broadly and can apply in the case of serious damage to property, not just intent to cause death and injury https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/uk-palestine-action-ban-disturbing-misuse-uk-counter-terrorism-legislation

There was also some controversy in that PA were grouped in with organisations which meet the more common definition of terrorism https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/2/uk-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-palestine-action-as-terror-group

it’s so insanely engrained into modern society

If you want to read something deeply uncomfortable about how language shapes society and how blind we are to the pervasiveness of gender: I think about this essay a lot (CW. Predudice)

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

Spoiler for after reading:

::: spoiler So I probably don’t need to explain that it isn’t about racism, it uses racism to explain how gendered our language is and how gross that looks to anyone who hasn’t become numb to it over a lifetime. But some people I have shown this too have been very confused :::

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