Taking territory by surprise is relatively easy. Holding it may be more difficult.

I've heard soulseek is good.

Scots-Irish people on Turtle Island are actually not necessarily Irish at all. We are Scottish people who colonized Northern Ireland and then came over from there to Turtle Island. There's the possibility of mixing between Scots and Irish but we are some of the most settlers to ever settler.

Wrongful convictions are actually quite common and if discovered in large numbers or affecting certain ethnic groups disproportionately could lead to resentment towards the police force and social instability. It's just not worth the risk IMO.

Socialism is not poverty and even a socialist state that's heavily affected by climate change should have the resources to lock people up for life, especially if you already have prisons because the people certainly won't support enacting the death penalty for everyone who's convicted. If you can afford to build and maintain a subway you can certainly afford to build and maintain a prison.

I think war is pretty clearly a different situation from punishment of crimes committed during peacetime. In war there is no monopoly on violence and it's important to kill the right enemies in the right place and at the right time. When the state imprisons people in peacetime, why rush to kill people who could have been wrongly convicted? There is a cost to the state to keep people locked up but there is also a very high cost to executing people humanely, and it may not even be possible to do so. Is there anything to be gained really, besides some misguided, disembodied sense of "justice"?

There's also the question of deterrence, but I believe punishment doesn't meaningfully deter criminals. To me the purpose of life imprisonment and the death penalty is keeping dangerous people out of society, and neither one does that better than the other. It then becomes a matter of finality and ongoing costs when considering the difference, and considering the possibility of wrongful conviction, I don't believe it is ever justified.

Generally favorable but I will readily admit I don't know that much about him.

I'd like to say Biden is mask on fascism but he doesn't even wear a mask anymore because the pandemic is "over"

I'm curious, what's the rest of your diet like?

If you are going to drink that make sure to use a straw or you'll wreck your teeth.

Can some historian come in here and explain how Soviets buried this history?

I coulda told you it was a bad idea before you hired all those people, you know

For more general information on llms I recommend this blog. https://simonwillison.net/ The post about prompt injection is especially good.

I'd also like to recommend Bones by Be Svendsen.

Liberals will literally call nonviolent civil disobedience and protest violence when it's nothing of the sort. If they think that is violence why not just go for the whole hog?

how about you answer the question first, buckaroo

as much as it pains me to have to pay more for my PC parts we love to see a chaebol take an L

Capitalism is already defeated. No I will not elaborate.

Present people with situations that are sexually relevant but leave them without the bandwidth to properly deal with them due to other external circumstances like not being able to pay their rent and food and medicine at the same time

It could definitely play a role. Emily Nagoski's book puts forth the "dual control model" of sexual motivation. You have the accelerators, which are things what get you all hornt up, and you have the brakes, which are things that you have to urgently take care of before you can prioritize having sex. If you're not financially secure in modern America it will be hard to relax enough to have sex. If you press on the accelerator and the brake really hard for long enough you can get a kind of incel situation going on. It's not a good place to be in.

If Stalinism is anything, it's Marxism-Leninism as he was the one who wrote the book on it. People call us Stalinists like it's some massive own. Yeah, our ideology is related to Stalin. That doesn't somehow make it wrong.