Yeah their site is so badly coded it happens to me at times as well. Which says a lot of things.
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This reminds me of how allround crazy person Scott Adams also claimed he successfully predicted Trumps first win. But he didnt. He predicted a landslide win, and not him losing the popular vote. That last part people forget when they claim he predicted it correctly. Figure kot of that going on here with the Rationalists claims. Predictions like this are easy to go 'well it didnt happen for the reasons I thought and also did not happen totally as i said it would, but I still got it correctly'. Esp as they want to be superpredictors. (And yes we also do it, but we are not a group who pretends to be anti bias rational trained supernerds as a larger project).
[Epistemic status: gas giant sized contrarianism, negative gravity]
I mentioned this on bsky and somebody went 'well it was very popular all over the world', and I, the weird european who focuses too much on the US politics had not even heard of it. So I just had a few alarm bells going off. But yeah, lets say 1 in 5 people like it, that is a casual 1.7 billion viewers. Large part of the worlds population joined in.
That would explain a lot and would remove all my confusion about it. (also makes the number useless and lol at everybody running with it even more then).
slabs table
This is is sea peoples erasure and you know it! Damn liar!
I'm happy to see you fully commit to acausal theory here.
No it was 350m likes, not views. That is why im so confused. even at an high rate of 1 in 10 people liking it, it is just so large I'm confused.
"How about a source senator?" another source on hopium, not noticing that in no world do those numbers align properly. "since amassed over 700,000 followers. ... It garnered over 350 million likes, with over 150,000 active viewers at the tail end ..."
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(I really hope they don't enshittify google translate, my ability to make jokes like this would be destroyed, a personal 9/11 if you will).
People found a trick for the EU to get round the tariffs.
The Vatican was excluded from the tariff list and Italy is at the 20% EU rate. I hope some scheming cardinal sees the opportunity here.
italians are about to invent a form of corruption so lucrative it will destroy the global economy
Sorry im going to go offtrack here again, I mentioned it on bsky, and got no traction (not odd, as I think nobody cares about Booker his filibuster thing (stick a pin in that)), but I have some weird leading into conspiratorial questions about the whole thing.
First I heard about this thing is when people said it had gotten 200m likes on tiktok. Which seemed a bit high so I checked, and saw articles say it had gotten 300m. This seems impossibly high. For example, the global K-pop phenomenon 'Gangam style' has gotten 5.5B views and 30M likes in 12 years. I have a hard time believing that in 24hs this centrist political debate thing (which are not popular) has gotten 350m (the highest count I saw on a news site) likes.
Which makes me wonder a lot more if tiktok has simply given up on properly counting likes and just is winging it. Esp for larger events. Could be that people just like things instinctively on tiktok (I did check if you could like a thing multiple times, but nope, one account one like it seems). I found the whole thing weird.
That is didn't do jack shit (apart from giving people hopium about Booker, while it seemingly being his way of avoiding responsibilities) is the cherry on top.
~~I'm noticing my confusion.~~ It is fucking weird.
I have not read the article yet, but isn't part of the whole accellerationism thing that you accelerate the decline of the current system so your glorious new system can arise (because it is obviously better). Seems to me like it is the same stuff, they just disagree which faction will prevail after the fall.
E: amazing they only now realize they cant galt gulch it out, and that they are part of the world. Damn evil Ents, this is why your wives left you.