Recent content by Ddseddse

Of all the posters on this board, I'm most disappointed by Zen. Smart enough to know better, not overtly trolling like a lot of others, not a professional contrarian, just stuck in a mental groove they can't quite seem to snap out of. Cognitive bias is a hell of drug. I haven't lost faith in...

It's like a public good. The choice is not between efficient or inefficient, it's between getting the information or not getting the information. 😝 But seriously, I don't know of an alternative written source for the information that Perun produces. I may well exist, but I don't know about it.

Yup, and you (meaning Ramrouser) are ignorant if you think the rest button was on HRC, she may have been in the photo, that was a president Obama who gave his secretary of state her marching orders. Hillary is, was and has always been a real Russia hawk. I love Barack Obama, but I can assign...

This. This. This. A thousand times, this.

After an hour of Perun's stuff, I feel like I've read an entire book! :) The guy knows his shit and has the gift of communicating dense material succinctly. I think you'll also appreciate how he extensively caveats things he does not know, and is very clear about sources and methods.

I know you're a reader, not a media guy, but Perun's YouTube videos are densely packed firehose of information. If you're truly interested on the topic I would suggest watching his latest "Russian Casualties & Force Generation - Losses, Recruitment & Sustaining the War in Ukraine". Normally I'd...

Not sure we aren't both addressing different sides of the same coin. The open 3 in the corner should be going to the missing stretch 4, for example. I mean you can argue that coach Davis should be better able to adapt his offence to the pieces he has, and to an extent that's true, but if you...

#8 of 13 on Umberto Eco's Essay on Ur-Fascism... The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and...

If you are saying that Hubert's failures on the recruiting trail should be the nail in coffin in terms of his UNC head coaching gig, I will cede that you have a point that deserves to be made . I'm objecting to folks who a pointing to Hubert's on the court coaching as the problem. I think that...

True story. In the very early 90's I would at times teach a course on database design. One of my examples was the FBI the database had 22 different entries in it's Gender field. Stuff like "Male Living as a Female", "Male transitioning to female - Preoperative", etc. The early 90s FBI didn't do...

I think restaurants spend too much on overhead. I think the only obvious solution is to mandate that they spend 85% of their outlay on food cost, and only 15% on overhead (you know, like repairing the walk in when the refrigeration goes out, or fixing the plumbing when the toilets back up)...

Unfortunately pretty accurate, imo. Russia's biggest problem of the war to date is how to come back down from their frothy sugar-high war economy. Imagine the unemployment and blow to GDP when they stop spending 9% of their economy on their defense budget and all those conscripts return to...

I think it's less of a matter of who he has on his roster, than who he doesn't have on his roster (i.e. legit 5, stretch 4). Folks who argue that the recruiting misses are on him are not wrong. But folks who use "these are his guys" to mean that Hubert is losing with the roster that he hand...

I think for the most part we are, at best, only peripherally aware of the crisis in Sudan. This is the first legit famine on the globe since 2017. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160161 For any posters on this board who are fortunate enough to be in a position in life to do charitable...

I mean Matthew 25:41 seems pretty self explanatory to me... ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite...