[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @TNG512 TNG5 TNG5 posts on X about japan, countries, south korea, money the most. They currently have XXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/interactions)  - X Week XXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXX +253% - X Months XXXXXXX +392% - X Year XXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +29% - X Months XXX +191% - X Year XXXXX +8.10% ### Followers: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/followers)  - X Week XXX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +1.20% - X Months XXX +5.90% - X Year XXX +20% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [japan](/topic/japan) 7.14%, [countries](/topic/countries) 4.29%, [south korea](/topic/south-korea) 4.29%, [money](/topic/money) 4.29%, [finland](/topic/finland) #307, [china](/topic/china) 2.86%, [median](/topic/median) 2.86%, [$60k](/topic/$60k) #30, [tb](/topic/tb) #730, [dram](/topic/dram) #87 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@soblackandblue](/creator/undefined) [@besttrousers](/creator/undefined) [@xwanyex](/creator/undefined) [@joematzam](/creator/undefined) [@ianinnorway](/creator/undefined) [@jonatanpallesen](/creator/undefined) [@martinskold2](/creator/undefined) [@xenoemoia](/creator/undefined) [@phl43](/creator/undefined) [@patimarins64](/creator/undefined) [@richardhanania](/creator/undefined) [@nianello6](/creator/undefined) [@phil58919600](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Interesting comment on the Substack. The Dominican Republic is now richer than countries like Colombia. Would any HBD types have predicted that" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998184195236270457) 2025-12-09T00:13Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Expanding more on the Japan point one of Richard's arguments for a long time is that it doesn't make much sense to put Japan in the same cultural cluster as China and South Korea therefore it doesn't make sense to explain Japan's "similar economic success" with a cultural explanation. Maybe. But the only reason why Japan looks economically "similar" to other East Asian countries *now* is because Japan's economic growth has been stagnating for the last XX years. Japan industrialized *much* earlier than other East Asian countries and as late as 1990 they were still by a large margin well ahead" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998253949183529442) 2025-12-09T04:50Z XXX followers, XX engagements "We're only left with the question of whether China and South Korea are really that culturally similar but here's a graph that Rich presented in an earlier article as evidence against the idea that Japan should be lumped in with Korea and China culturally that shows that by this measure South Korea and mainland China appear to be indeed quite close. In fact they're closer to each other than mainland China is to Taiwan or Hong Kong" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998258723752731033) 2025-12-09T05:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements "I'm not sure where OP got $XX for median earnings of age XX median earnings of the XX to XX age group are $72k. But whatever let's be conservative and use a number of $60k and leave aside that that that averages men and women and includes immigrants and children of immigrants whose ancestors weren't in America in 1955 and were probably in most cases much poorer than the median 1955 American at that time" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998865183142555689) 2025-12-10T21:19Z XXX followers, XX engagements "$18270/$2800 = XXXXX. XXXXX * $60k = $391500. It is *trivial* to find X bedroom houses in Milwaukee in what appear to be very nice neighborhoods that are almost certainly significantly larger than the median 1955 house for less than $391k" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998866335875645896) 2025-12-10T21:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements "So much of today's Republican rhetoric on immigration feels like the Streetlight Effect now that they can no longer do anything about or even discuss issues with ADOS blacks. (Because "welfare queen" rhetoric hits their poor white base too and Trump has chipped away at the Dem advantage with African Americans every election and they'd like that to continue.)" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998891570574274843) 2025-12-10T23:04Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "Here on X the online right can remain willfully ignorant of how the bottleneck for basically all policy options to fight crime including increasing incarceration is money. But people like Stephen Miller would be challenged to put their money where their mouth was or face electoral consequences if they brought the subject up in public. So they pretend that urban violent crime in America is primarily caused by immigration which is beyond absurd even if for the sake of argument you were to accept at face value the highest commonly presented numbers for Hispanic crime rates" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998892738943832523) 2025-12-10T23:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements "@jonatanpallesen "in Finland" Might be useful data for you specifically in Denmark but I see an awful lot of Americans and other people who live in countries with far less generous welfare states reposting this study" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998928638897782997) 2025-12-11T01:31Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "Eyeballing the graphs North Korea had commonly estimated GDP/Capita PPP of maybe $2000 circa 1992 if they recovered to 1992 levels by 2005 and grew at XXX% every year since then assuming that the pre-1995 figures are accurate which might be a big "if" they might be around $3900 GDP PPP/capita by now similar to Benin or Guinea" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998968096342814885) 2025-12-11T04:08Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Came across footage from one of those bodycam FPS games that includes a character with exposed and non-pixellated skin and yes it looks like further evidence that the main thing holding back current video games from true photorealism is the uncanny valley" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998905326461128996) 2025-12-10T23:59Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Probably the closest you could get in the intersection of PPP GDP/capita total PPP GDP and population would be Senegal. Again assuming that the pre-1995 figures are accurate" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998970782605861301) 2025-12-11T04:19Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Just got linked a study using Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend which the linker claimed to support the claim that more money does not decrease crime including in America and not just in Finland. What the abstract actually says: "We find a XX% increase in substance-abuse incidents the day after the payment and a XX% increase over the following four weeks. This is partially offset by an X% decrease in property crime with no changes in violent crimes."" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1999002215504297998) 2025-12-11T06:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements ""in Finland" I repeat my call for a global ban on research into the effects of poverty that uses subjects living in Nordic social democracies" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998073347343810710) 2025-12-08T16:53Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "Especially in the American political context the leftmost extreme of the economic Overton Window represented by Bernie Sanders et al is turning the US into a Scandinavian-style social democracy. Demonstrating that giving low market income people already living in an Actually Existing Scandinavian social democracy even more money doesn't do much is utterly useless for that policy debate. And amplifying the results of such studies while not mentioning the crucial detail of where they were conducted is incredibly intellectually irresponsible if done unintentionally ntellectually dishonest if" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998075596438434193) 2025-12-08T17:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements "I'm inclined to side with Noah here Hanania's arguments strike me a lot as painting bullseyes around bulletholes. For example: "As long as they aren't subject to something as extreme as the rule of Mao." But the century before Mao is called by Chinese people their "century of national humiliation."" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998173340364877836) 2025-12-08T23:30Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "He also noted early on that the available data for North Korean IQ (from tests given to refugees) indicates markedly lower IQs than South Koreans and then later asks why we should expect East Asian culture to survive X generations of rule under the Kim dynasty. If NK's IQ scores are lower why we are we even talking about culture surviving Maybe they did lose their culture and that's partially *why* their IQ scores are lower" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998175402708328630) 2025-12-08T23:38Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Here's a graph that was posted in Rich's own article. As you can see it makes zero sense to lump Japan in with the rest of East Asia apart from geographically exceptional Singapore prior to 1990" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998256641062682752) 2025-12-09T05:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Doesn't make any sense to lump Japan in with South Korea and Taiwan after 1990 either. The latter two have been growing much faster since 1990 and Japan is now poorer than the others after XX years of economic stagnation. Japan and South Korea ended up in a similar place now but their paths to get there were very different" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998257369097343048) 2025-12-09T05:04Z XXX followers, XX engagements "TLDR: There was no "East Asian success." There was a relatively recent pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success. And also separately Japan was much more successful than almost the entire rest of Asia from 1868 until 1990 and they've been badly economically stagnating for the last XX years. And that seems a lot less mysterious regardless of which theory of success you subscribe to" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998262020781584526) 2025-12-09T05:22Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Well the pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success part seems a lot less mysterious. I think that Japan's XX years and counting of stagnation looks pretty weird and seems understudied" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998262520017199467) 2025-12-09T05:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Withdrawal that didn't happen until the end of March was "forced" in "early-mid March". This should have been a red flag that something was off about the story. And we now know for sure that they were leaving something really big out: at the time the Pentagon and presumably by extension the Ukrainians believed that there were at least XX BTGs waiting in Belarus to reinforce the Kyiv axis and likely encircle Kyiv" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998652985291985129) 2025-12-10T07:16Z XXX followers, XX engagements "@joematzam @ianinnorway @MartinSkold2 What are they worried about They've bombed electrical infrastructure for X years without NATO doing anything they were in Kyiv's suburbs in early and NATO refused to intervene" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998881091349094882) 2025-12-10T22:22Z XXX followers, XX engagements "@joematzam @ianinnorway @MartinSkold2 That makes zero sense" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998890426015908171) 2025-12-10T22:59Z XXX followers, XX engagements "HDDs have gotten quite cheap per TB but USB-powered 2.5" HDD capacities top out at X TB so for anything more you need a 3.5" drive which to use with any device other than a desktop these days means a pretty hefty box with its own power cord" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998918230354858319) 2025-12-11T00:50Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Also also a lot of devices including most smartphones and tablets will not be able to power even a 2.5" HDD over a USB connection" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998919284639281155) 2025-12-11T00:54Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Slow speed flash storage is still pretty cheap up until the X TB mark (you can find X TB USB flash drives and micro-SD cards for $70-80) presumably because data centers don't have much use for slow flash memory. So there might still be hope for physical media on flash carts. But I had kinda been hoping that SSDs could overtake 2.5" HDDs and bring about effectively unlimited portable data storage and it looks like that will have to wait" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998943005085245768) 2025-12-11T02:28Z XXX followers, XX engagements "I've Ctrl+Fed a few times through Piers Morgan's recent interview of Nick Fuentes and I cannot find any mention of a topic even vaguely related to IQ scores. Cofnas's argument that conservative refusal to discuss the topic of IQ and race was responsible for the rise of the Groypers is looking even worse now than it ever was" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998948676769923503) 2025-12-11T02:51Z XXX followers, X engagements "Key innovations of bodycam games: 1) Faces are pixelated so the most difficult part of the human body by far is taken out of the equation. 2) Limited view of the PC's own body makes animation imperfections less obvious. 3) Flaws of in-universe camera further obscure rendering imperfections" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998906332901208162) 2025-12-11T00:03Z XXX followers, XX engagements "If not for the uncanny valley issues that necessitate X and X I expect that we would have seen a flood of near-true-photorealism "found footage" games by now. After all just look at how much low budget CGI was able to accomplish in found footage *movies* even 10-15 years ago. But the need to obscure literally every human face and avoid close ups of moving human bodies as much as possible in order to close the last mile makes this suitable for few genres beyond just the one of "police/military bodycam FPS."" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998908040859570679) 2025-12-11T00:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Noticed that SSD prices were unusually high on Amazon and Googled and yes it turns out that there is in fact a shortage of SSD and DRAM chips due largely to demand from AI data centers" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998845090996039752) 2025-12-10T19:59Z XXX followers, XXX engagements ""The fact that Samsung and SK Hynix are dismantling NAND production lines to install DRAM production lines will create a shortage of SSDs from the end of 2025 until the end of 2026." The one area of consumer computer hardware where something like Moore's Law was still happening is now stuck in a ditch. Great" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998846354534400330) 2025-12-10T20:04Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "I've Ctrl+Fed a few times through Piers Morgan's recent interview of Nick Fuentes and I cannot find any mention of a topic even vaguely related to IQ scores. Cofnas's argument that conservative refusal to discuss the topic of IQ and race is responsible for the rise of the Groypers is looking even worse now than it ever was" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998949989775716582) 2025-12-11T02:56Z XXX followers, XX engagements "The USSR only annexed Eastern Galicia after WW2 and Eastern Galicia turned into a big headache for Moscow and arguably played a key role in bringing down the Union in 1991. And the rest of the Ukrainian SSR was hardly free of difficulty even with Ukrainian nationalists getting a bunch of concessions that would contradict Putin talking points of the last XX years such as language quotas on a bunch of stuff. (Publication numbers for Ukrainian language media dropped a lot after 1991 because those quotas were no longer in place.)" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998986507701387617) 2025-12-11T05:21Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "In any event capturing the rest of Donbas would be pretty much useless for trying to conquer the West Bank of the Dnieper and would not even be all that useful for conquering the rest of the East Bank. The Dnieper is quite wide and Northeastern Ukraine actually has better terrain for an invasion towards the Dnieper (look up some war maps from February-March 2022)" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998987484638884003) 2025-12-11T05:25Z XXX followers, XX engagements "@xenoemoia @jonatanpallesen Have a link for the Alaska one" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998997319648514279) 2025-12-11T06:04Z XXX followers, XX engagements
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@TNG512 TNG5
TNG5 posts on X about japan, countries, south korea, money the most. They currently have XXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXX +29%
- X Months XXX +191%
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Social category influence countries XXXXX% finance XXXX% currencies XXXX% celebrities XXXX% technology brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX%
Social topic influence japan 7.14%, countries 4.29%, south korea 4.29%, money 4.29%, finland #307, china 2.86%, median 2.86%, $60k #30, tb #730, dram #87
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @soblackandblue @besttrousers @xwanyex @joematzam @ianinnorway @jonatanpallesen @martinskold2 @xenoemoia @phl43 @patimarins64 @richardhanania @nianello6 @phil58919600
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Interesting comment on the Substack. The Dominican Republic is now richer than countries like Colombia. Would any HBD types have predicted that"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:13Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Expanding more on the Japan point one of Richard's arguments for a long time is that it doesn't make much sense to put Japan in the same cultural cluster as China and South Korea therefore it doesn't make sense to explain Japan's "similar economic success" with a cultural explanation. Maybe. But the only reason why Japan looks economically "similar" to other East Asian countries now is because Japan's economic growth has been stagnating for the last XX years. Japan industrialized much earlier than other East Asian countries and as late as 1990 they were still by a large margin well ahead"
X Link 2025-12-09T04:50Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"We're only left with the question of whether China and South Korea are really that culturally similar but here's a graph that Rich presented in an earlier article as evidence against the idea that Japan should be lumped in with Korea and China culturally that shows that by this measure South Korea and mainland China appear to be indeed quite close. In fact they're closer to each other than mainland China is to Taiwan or Hong Kong"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"I'm not sure where OP got $XX for median earnings of age XX median earnings of the XX to XX age group are $72k. But whatever let's be conservative and use a number of $60k and leave aside that that that averages men and women and includes immigrants and children of immigrants whose ancestors weren't in America in 1955 and were probably in most cases much poorer than the median 1955 American at that time"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:19Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"$18270/$2800 = XXXXX. XXXXX * $60k = $391500. It is trivial to find X bedroom houses in Milwaukee in what appear to be very nice neighborhoods that are almost certainly significantly larger than the median 1955 house for less than $391k"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"So much of today's Republican rhetoric on immigration feels like the Streetlight Effect now that they can no longer do anything about or even discuss issues with ADOS blacks. (Because "welfare queen" rhetoric hits their poor white base too and Trump has chipped away at the Dem advantage with African Americans every election and they'd like that to continue.)"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:04Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"Here on X the online right can remain willfully ignorant of how the bottleneck for basically all policy options to fight crime including increasing incarceration is money. But people like Stephen Miller would be challenged to put their money where their mouth was or face electoral consequences if they brought the subject up in public. So they pretend that urban violent crime in America is primarily caused by immigration which is beyond absurd even if for the sake of argument you were to accept at face value the highest commonly presented numbers for Hispanic crime rates"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"@jonatanpallesen "in Finland" Might be useful data for you specifically in Denmark but I see an awful lot of Americans and other people who live in countries with far less generous welfare states reposting this study"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:31Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"Eyeballing the graphs North Korea had commonly estimated GDP/Capita PPP of maybe $2000 circa 1992 if they recovered to 1992 levels by 2005 and grew at XXX% every year since then assuming that the pre-1995 figures are accurate which might be a big "if" they might be around $3900 GDP PPP/capita by now similar to Benin or Guinea"
X Link 2025-12-11T04:08Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Came across footage from one of those bodycam FPS games that includes a character with exposed and non-pixellated skin and yes it looks like further evidence that the main thing holding back current video games from true photorealism is the uncanny valley"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:59Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Probably the closest you could get in the intersection of PPP GDP/capita total PPP GDP and population would be Senegal. Again assuming that the pre-1995 figures are accurate"
X Link 2025-12-11T04:19Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Just got linked a study using Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend which the linker claimed to support the claim that more money does not decrease crime including in America and not just in Finland. What the abstract actually says: "We find a XX% increase in substance-abuse incidents the day after the payment and a XX% increase over the following four weeks. This is partially offset by an X% decrease in property crime with no changes in violent crimes.""
X Link 2025-12-11T06:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements
""in Finland" I repeat my call for a global ban on research into the effects of poverty that uses subjects living in Nordic social democracies"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:53Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"Especially in the American political context the leftmost extreme of the economic Overton Window represented by Bernie Sanders et al is turning the US into a Scandinavian-style social democracy. Demonstrating that giving low market income people already living in an Actually Existing Scandinavian social democracy even more money doesn't do much is utterly useless for that policy debate. And amplifying the results of such studies while not mentioning the crucial detail of where they were conducted is incredibly intellectually irresponsible if done unintentionally ntellectually dishonest if"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"I'm inclined to side with Noah here Hanania's arguments strike me a lot as painting bullseyes around bulletholes. For example: "As long as they aren't subject to something as extreme as the rule of Mao." But the century before Mao is called by Chinese people their "century of national humiliation.""
X Link 2025-12-08T23:30Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"He also noted early on that the available data for North Korean IQ (from tests given to refugees) indicates markedly lower IQs than South Koreans and then later asks why we should expect East Asian culture to survive X generations of rule under the Kim dynasty. If NK's IQ scores are lower why we are we even talking about culture surviving Maybe they did lose their culture and that's partially why their IQ scores are lower"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:38Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Here's a graph that was posted in Rich's own article. As you can see it makes zero sense to lump Japan in with the rest of East Asia apart from geographically exceptional Singapore prior to 1990"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Doesn't make any sense to lump Japan in with South Korea and Taiwan after 1990 either. The latter two have been growing much faster since 1990 and Japan is now poorer than the others after XX years of economic stagnation. Japan and South Korea ended up in a similar place now but their paths to get there were very different"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:04Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"TLDR: There was no "East Asian success." There was a relatively recent pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success. And also separately Japan was much more successful than almost the entire rest of Asia from 1868 until 1990 and they've been badly economically stagnating for the last XX years. And that seems a lot less mysterious regardless of which theory of success you subscribe to"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:22Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Well the pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success part seems a lot less mysterious. I think that Japan's XX years and counting of stagnation looks pretty weird and seems understudied"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Withdrawal that didn't happen until the end of March was "forced" in "early-mid March". This should have been a red flag that something was off about the story. And we now know for sure that they were leaving something really big out: at the time the Pentagon and presumably by extension the Ukrainians believed that there were at least XX BTGs waiting in Belarus to reinforce the Kyiv axis and likely encircle Kyiv"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:16Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"@joematzam @ianinnorway @MartinSkold2 What are they worried about They've bombed electrical infrastructure for X years without NATO doing anything they were in Kyiv's suburbs in early and NATO refused to intervene"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:22Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"@joematzam @ianinnorway @MartinSkold2 That makes zero sense"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:59Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"HDDs have gotten quite cheap per TB but USB-powered 2.5" HDD capacities top out at X TB so for anything more you need a 3.5" drive which to use with any device other than a desktop these days means a pretty hefty box with its own power cord"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:50Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Also also a lot of devices including most smartphones and tablets will not be able to power even a 2.5" HDD over a USB connection"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:54Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Slow speed flash storage is still pretty cheap up until the X TB mark (you can find X TB USB flash drives and micro-SD cards for $70-80) presumably because data centers don't have much use for slow flash memory. So there might still be hope for physical media on flash carts. But I had kinda been hoping that SSDs could overtake 2.5" HDDs and bring about effectively unlimited portable data storage and it looks like that will have to wait"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:28Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"I've Ctrl+Fed a few times through Piers Morgan's recent interview of Nick Fuentes and I cannot find any mention of a topic even vaguely related to IQ scores. Cofnas's argument that conservative refusal to discuss the topic of IQ and race was responsible for the rise of the Groypers is looking even worse now than it ever was"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:51Z XXX followers, X engagements
"Key innovations of bodycam games: 1) Faces are pixelated so the most difficult part of the human body by far is taken out of the equation. 2) Limited view of the PC's own body makes animation imperfections less obvious. 3) Flaws of in-universe camera further obscure rendering imperfections"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:03Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"If not for the uncanny valley issues that necessitate X and X I expect that we would have seen a flood of near-true-photorealism "found footage" games by now. After all just look at how much low budget CGI was able to accomplish in found footage movies even 10-15 years ago. But the need to obscure literally every human face and avoid close ups of moving human bodies as much as possible in order to close the last mile makes this suitable for few genres beyond just the one of "police/military bodycam FPS.""
X Link 2025-12-11T00:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Noticed that SSD prices were unusually high on Amazon and Googled and yes it turns out that there is in fact a shortage of SSD and DRAM chips due largely to demand from AI data centers"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:59Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
""The fact that Samsung and SK Hynix are dismantling NAND production lines to install DRAM production lines will create a shortage of SSDs from the end of 2025 until the end of 2026." The one area of consumer computer hardware where something like Moore's Law was still happening is now stuck in a ditch. Great"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:04Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"I've Ctrl+Fed a few times through Piers Morgan's recent interview of Nick Fuentes and I cannot find any mention of a topic even vaguely related to IQ scores. Cofnas's argument that conservative refusal to discuss the topic of IQ and race is responsible for the rise of the Groypers is looking even worse now than it ever was"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:56Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"The USSR only annexed Eastern Galicia after WW2 and Eastern Galicia turned into a big headache for Moscow and arguably played a key role in bringing down the Union in 1991. And the rest of the Ukrainian SSR was hardly free of difficulty even with Ukrainian nationalists getting a bunch of concessions that would contradict Putin talking points of the last XX years such as language quotas on a bunch of stuff. (Publication numbers for Ukrainian language media dropped a lot after 1991 because those quotas were no longer in place.)"
X Link 2025-12-11T05:21Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"In any event capturing the rest of Donbas would be pretty much useless for trying to conquer the West Bank of the Dnieper and would not even be all that useful for conquering the rest of the East Bank. The Dnieper is quite wide and Northeastern Ukraine actually has better terrain for an invasion towards the Dnieper (look up some war maps from February-March 2022)"
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"@xenoemoia @jonatanpallesen Have a link for the Alaska one"
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