Sounds like your typical engineer. I passed fluid dynamics, I deserve to look at the big ball of plasma.

My eyes haven’t hurt this bad since studying for differential equations theory… Have I told you I’m an engineer?

Well, a lot of the policy and austerities she set were “reversed” because they weren’t sustainable. However, once you normalize a political ideology and set a precedent, it’s hard to prevent it from happening again.

I think it’s kinda crazy that him and zuck chose Hawaii for their doomsday bunker, especially considering they chose the same small island.

Hawaii may be defensible now, but climate change is going to make it a whole lot harder. Microenvironments like small islands are prone to systemic collapse when exposed to rapid changes.

I just don’t really see how the benefits of isolation really overcome the negative effects of climate change will surely bring.

Polarization is the real killer of democracy.

Well that… And the fact that globalized capital isn’t particularly beholden to the interest of individual nation states.

The west could utilize their economic hegemony to truly starve the Russian war machine if they wanted, but that would require leveraging their economic trade status with countries like India and China and would come with a large disruption of capital.

The biggest flaw in modern democratic states is fairly uniform in nature. Instead of corporations being beholden to their governments, governments are beholden to their corporations.

However, it’s not how people generally define their identity. For example, I was born in Ukraine and my ancestors all lived in Ukraine for centuries, but I don’t think of myself as Ukrainian and they didn’t think of themselves as Ukrainian

I think this is kinda the point, that the way ethnicities define themselves are typically based on a misunderstanding of genetics and a bygone definition of race.

I for example am half Korean and half Czech, according to how both those ethnicities self identify I don’t really qualify for either. To my Korean family I’m a tall white guy who looks kinda Korean, To my Czech family I’m just a very big Korean dude.

I personally think that ethnicity and culture should be shared, and that gate keeping culture based on antiquated ideologies like race just perpetuates our worse tribal instincts.

Of course that could be some implicit biases coming out to play. If I believed that ethnic purity was a beneficial quality, I’d be in trouble.

Eh… I know there’s about a million Afghan refugees in Iran that are considered internally displaced people. I think acquiring citizenship would be pretty hard for this population, especially considering they require a fair bit of documentation.

And maybe you should learn to listen to disabled people about ableism

I don’t think you get to define ableism for all disabled people…

never mind actual guidelines on how to work with disabled people in general, and people with Down’s Syndrome specifically,

Those are all guides for educators… I work in medicine, this isn’t applicable to your argument or this discussion?

Hell, these jobs attract people who think they’re better than us, and know better than us about us). And yet, to an outsider in an ableist society, you seem more qualified to speak on disability than disabled people are, and you confirm their ableist bias which makes them comfortable and even less willing to listen to us, so well done on actively contributing to ableism cycle…

I think you may be inappropriately projecting your own feelings about your condition, whatever it may be, to this particular argument. Just because you are disabled, doesn’t mean that you represent everyone with a disability. I have a disability, which is one of the reasons I went into my field. However, that doesnt mean I truly understand what it’s like for people with other disabilities. I can just provide context based on my own perspective and what I have learned in school and from my patients.

but mostly I feel bad for your clients

Get over yourself, you’re not the only disabled person on the Internet. Some of us just don’t make it the centerpiece of their entire personality.

Presuming competence is one of the cornerstones of working with and caring for disabled people.

That’s a nonsensical idiom. You have to evaluate every patient’s competency and ability to achieve patient compliance individually, disabled or not.

Maybe try that, instead of essentially erasing her achievements and agency? No group is a monolith

Which is why I didn’t make any definitive statement, I just stated a reasonable concern. There are a plethora of examples of parents or organizations taking advantage of people with disabilities.

While no groups of people are monoliths, many people who share certain diagnoses will share similar personality traits. For example we wouldn’t assume someone with a social anxiety disorder would thrive as a public speaker.

Maybe it’s your own bias you should be worried about.

Maybe you should adopt a more dialectical approach to subjects you don’t have experience in. Not everything fits within a dichotomy of right or wrong, context is everything.

Tbh, my biggest concern would be that she’s being taken advantage of by a group or family member for political gain. I work a lot with the disabled community and have several patients with downs syndrome.

While people with downs syndrome are a lot more capable than most people give credit and are perfectly capable of contributing to society. I can’t say I’ve ever met a person with down syndrome that would enjoy working in a position that is so dynamic. They typically thrive in routine and in jobs where they can physically engage with their work. J

Luckily chemical and especially biological weapons are hard to use without risk of collateral damage. Like with any chemical reaction, dilution is generally the solution, and there’s a whole bunch of air moving around.

Plus most of the really effective gasses are horrific blistering agents, and I hope to think even the west would balk at seeing the results of that being done to children. But, that may be me being optimistic.

Yeah, I always play both sides so I always win.

The same F-16s that were outclassed by the J-17 in recent military exercises?

I mean, even if that’s true… Is that really even a flex? The F-16 platform is 30 years older than the J-17.

But you know who she is… I’d say it’s pretty self evident that it was fairly effective PR.

Reality doesn’t matter, politics revolves around perception and fabricating the PR story you want.

“President saves famous female athlete from tyrant” is always going to be a net plus. The people who don’t agree or perceive it in a different fashion are either votes you wouldn’t win anyways, or people who don’t care about it enough to vote for someone else because of it.

At least that has some return on investment, that’s if you’re looking at it from the perspective of a politician.

Though I do find it pretty hypocritical that he spent that capital freeing someone from a crime that he himself is perfectly fine sending people to jail for in America.

Brittney Griner was a celebrity stuck in a political dispute, Whelan is a totally different case. I don’t think he was spying for the CIA, but he was up to some pretty sketchy stuff, and he has an even sketchier past.

He’s claimed to work as a police officer in multiple places that say they have no record of him, or that he only worked there for a short time. He was court marshalled for larceny and given a bad conduct discharge. Even after his discharge he was hired as head of security for a global firm that did business in Russia. Even ignoring the fact that he holds like 4 different citizenships, just the information that he has provided himself is super sketchy.

I wouldn’t be in any rush to to spend political capital on this dude either.

I’m not sure you know who Jane Street is.

I understand they do quantitative trading, which is mostly just a new marketing term for something people have been doing for ages.

they do not have clients. Jane Street invests on their own behalf,

No… They are a liquidity provider, they still have clients.

As far as what you said about connections and convincing people to join your portfolio, that’s not relevant as JS traders do not have investment clients

Liquidity providers rely on clientele and reputation just as much as any other trading company.

I’m sure that’s the imagery that Jane Street’s marketing firm has spent a lot of money developing.

We don’t really know what he did at Jane Street, it’s not like the company is going to go into detail about hiring the biggest fraudster in modern history. What we do know comes from what SBF or his lackeys told michael lewis, who is also a known liar…

Militarily speaking, the situation is similar to Cuba and US during the Cold War. Taking control of the island will grant them more military security.

I don’t really know if that makes a whole bunch of sense… The only country with the capabilities of attacking China is the US. The only real provocation that may spark that military conflict is an attack on Taiwan or South Korea.

Taiwan isn’t even that advantageous of a location for an invasion either way, the strait of Formosa would be a death trap for any amphibious landing. The most militarily important region for China is and always has been the Korean peninsula.

I think Chinas main motivation is that Taiwan disrupts their plans to completely control trade routes in the South China sea. Once the 9 dash line is under control and expanded to include the territorial waters of Taiwan, China will have a defacto monopoly on trade for most of eastern Asia.

You say he wasn’t particularly gifted but he was definetly smart no? I mean him graduating from MIT is at least evidence that he is not suffering from brain-damage.

I don’t think he was witless, I just think he presented himself as a boy genius when in reality he was just a narcissist with ADHD. He spent a lot of time developing a persona that mixed imagery of Steve Jobs and Aaron Swartz.

But if you actually look into his actual work… None of it’s groundbreaking, especially considering all the innovative aspects of ftx were all lies built upon fraud.

That’s not true at all… Connections go a lot further in wall street than intellect. Even if you’re an extremely talented trader, unless you’re taking a lot of risk, you’re still going to be doing just slightly better than average. The most important aspect of trading is convincing people to join your portfolio, so people with affluent families have a huge advantage.