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·3개월 전·discuss
I was going to say feng shui, but the handful of times I've seen it brought up in the context of food plating the whole point was harmony and balance . . .

Having food askew is probably messing with the eater's qi.
tenpies
·5개월 전·discuss
What sort of issues are you thinking?

Plenty of defense contractors with classified projects are already publicly listed, so this is not uncharted territory.

Lockhead Martin for example: https://investors.lockheedmartin.com/news-releases/news-rele...

Gives this level of detail:

> Aeronautics classified program losses $(950)

> MFC classified program losses -

It seems very safe from a national security perspective.
tenpies
·6개월 전·discuss
I suspect that too, and the US is not the only country to be having issues with some of the citizenship by investment countries.

Norway for example, appears to have de-facto banned 5 countries (all on the list) that have such programs: https://www.imidaily.com/europe/confirmed-norway-quietly-den...

Their justification is interesting too, because if the threshold is "citizenship must require personal attendance", then Canadian citizenship is almost certainly invalid too if you obtained yours over Zoom, which is how most new Canadians obtain it.
tenpies
·6개월 전·discuss
Boil them, mash them, stick'em in a stew.
tenpies
·8개월 전·discuss
n = 1, but if we get UBI, I will immediately start a precious metals brokerage business.
tenpies
·10개월 전·discuss
The Executive Order has now been published:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

If you don't want to read the pre-amble, you can skip straight to the second "Accordingly" to see the details.
tenpies
·10개월 전·discuss
Also worth thinking about inflation with this one.

The $10,000 figure originated with the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act[1]. Back then, that was a lot of money.

If it had kept up with plain old vanilla government-reported inflation, the number would be closer to $83,000 today[2].

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[1] https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-and-regulations/ba...

[2] https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1...
tenpies
·3년 전·discuss
Also Western billionaire versus Russian oligarch - even if the source of wealth is virtually identical and their political power probably higher in the West.
tenpies
·3년 전·discuss
Realistically, the CIA will not release full details on MK-ULTRA for another couple generations, so we will never get official confirmation of the alleged names in our lifetime. There is a starting list here under "Notable subjects", although presumably there are subjects that were just vanilla murderers and subjects that tried (and hopefully succeeded) to live a normal life[1].

When this information is finally released, the people around for that will say "wow, the CIA used to do some real evil stuff against our own people, good thing they would never do that these days!" as the CIA carries out some absurd level of evil that makes MK-ULTRA seem like a fender bender.

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[1] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/project%20mk-ultra%5B15...
tenpies
·3년 전·discuss
His published works aside, it seems he was corresponding with people and answering letters until fairly recently. Many of these letters (or quite convincing forgeries) are archived in your favourite 4chan archive of choice.

Also worth mentioning what was essentially a partial autobiography by Kaczynsky: Truth Versus Lies[1]. I'm not sure it was ever completed and there are a couple versions floating around. He was still working on it well into the mid 2010s.

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[1] One version: https://archive.org/details/TruthVersusLiesPart1
tenpies
·4년 전·discuss
Don't forget the blood on the political class for this.

After all, they're the ones who made murdering with a car the most penalty free and easily forgiven way of murdering someone.

In some cities you can be comically negligent - I'm talking murdering people over on the side walk because you dropped a bottle of water in your car - and be perfectly okay.
tenpies
·7년 전·discuss
Thankfully I get to make my own hardware decisions, so I've made a point of ordering a new MBP every time a new revision is released, and promptly returning it to Apple the next day when I realize the keyboard is still absolute rubbish.

I would like to think that maybe if some person at Apple runs a report for returns and see that "keyboard" accounts for a huge majority of returns, they may actually act with some semblance of haste.
tenpies
·9년 전·discuss
> I'm beginning to wonder if our ability to sympathize only serves to advance the agendas of those who want to make money on us.

Using your adversary's virtues against them is a strategy as old as humanity. With social media it's baked right into the name. Who doesn't want to be social? Who doesn't want to share? Is something wrong with you?