How does this land with them?

Running Man was a prediction, coming true.

I never imagined that markets could be so corrupted by those in power, without some other consequences somehow balancing out. Like being arrested, or removed from office.

Forget PolyMarket. We literally have bets being made on oil futures, directly before a tweet by the president. Openly profiting on direct minute by minute manipulation. Openly corrupt.

Who could have foreseen that a government/person would actually blatantly start a war, and manipulate bombing raids in order to manipulate a market, without being charged with a crime himself.

In sports betting, it seems obvious if a player throws a game.

In a war? Surely nobody would do this, right? Who could imagine it.

Didn't Trump float the Idea of a joint venture with Iran on the Fees?

Amazing, that once you could make money on a toll, Trump was "there is profit in peace? lets get this peace thing going"

And yet, it is the wisdom of the crowds. The crowds being obscene.

Aren't we all constantly hitting re-fresh for updates, and making predictions.

The prediction markets are just consolidating that 'desire'.

But, that would takes, schools changing, companies changing, everything. So it was really the installed base that won, not what was better.

We'd have to go back in time, and have some ML Language win over C++ .

Probably more this than any technical reason. More about culture and installed view points.

I don't want to get into the objects/function wars, but do think pretty much every technical problem can be solved better with functions. BUT, it would take an entire industries to re-tool. So think it was more about inertia.

Inertia won.

What a missed opportunity. I think really F# if you combine all of its features, and what it left out, was the way. Pulling them all into C# just makes C# seem like a big bag of stuff, with no direction.

F#'s features, and also what it did not included, gave it a style and 'terseness', that still can't really be done in C#.

I don't really get it. Was a functional approach really so 'difficult'? That it didn't continue to grow and takeover.

How are they spinning this, that it is not Reparations?

"10. Iran to use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations"

What is the splitting of hairs here?

In a post about labor shortages in Restaurants? We can't mention immigration?

Who do you think worked in the kitchen?

Then isn't that part of the problem?

The onus is on you, to tell me what would be acceptable sources for you.

You didn't really debunk any of these sources, just supplied some random sampling of your own creation. Interestingly, I have gone back and watched the full video of both of those quotes. He did say all of those things, but 'in-joking'. That is a common tactic. Everything he says can be re-cast as 'he was only joking'. The trick is, the right can always shift what was a 'joke' or 'not-joke', depending on the argument. Was it serious, or not serious? It really depends on shifting views, and the interpretation can change day to day.

I tend to agree liberals really piled on those examples too much, there were really so many better examples.

If the "Right/Left" or "Liberal/Conservative" is too hot button for any kind of discussion.

He also wrote "Anathem"

Which is fictional world, with fictional sides, that can be used to explore similar concepts a little less triggering.

The Right, just happens to be in a bit in a slump right now with its anti-science religious activism. "Doing worse"

Garrett & Bond (2021), Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions, Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf1234?utm_sourc...

Sultan et al. (2024), Susceptibility to online misinformation: A systematic meta-analysis, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409329121?utm_source=...

Rathje et al. (2023), Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information, Nature Human Behaviour. This one emphasizes that misinformation judgments are shaped by both accuracy motives and social/identity motives, which helps explain why partisan gaps are not simply about intelligence or total inability to separate truth from fiction. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01540-w?utm_sourc...

Lyons et al. (2021), Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2019527118?utm_source=...

Pennycook et al. (2022), Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing online misinformation, Nature Communications. This paper discusses baseline sharing discernment and notes worse baseline discernment among conservatives in the samples they studied, while also showing that simple accuracy prompts can help. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30073-5?utm_sourc...

summary is: there are studies showing conservatives, on average, perform worse on certain misinformation/truth-discernment tasks, but the strongest scholarly version of the claim is narrower and more conditional than the popular retelling https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf1234?utm_sourc...

a famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act III, Scene II). It means that someone's overly emphatic or frequent denial of a situation suggests they are hiding the truth, are insincere, or actually guilty of what they deny. It implies their defense is covering up a secret desire or truth.

Was also in Snow Crash.

"All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice…With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain't what it used to be.

The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.

But as long as you have that fourwheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream.

"

Snow Crash Chapter 39 (Hiro's observation as he drives along the Alaska Highway)

If you live in a fantasy land, anything can happen.