Three months old is also close to when they switch over from baby feathers to adult feathers only, as I understand.

Whatever else is going on, that pigeon is also molting. Those are pinfeathers around their face. The plumage could stand to be preened by someone, but I don’t get the impression that there’s a health issue beyond that going on here.

Pay an artist to do it for you or become an artist and do it yourself.

Relatedly, why does your name end with “Art”?

Weird name for Keir.

Very nice! I like the patterns thrushes often have on their bellies. Your picture captures the effort of ascending nicely.

I’d actually be willing to accept a loss in battery life to not have a device be infested, but luckily that’s not a likely trade-off

Lovely as always!

1-based indexing vs. 2-based indexing

Maciej, is that you?

Stable: A stable equilibrium of many separate anchors so that the inevitable shakeups in facts or your understanding do not pose a problem you can’t cope with by drawing on the other anchors.

Monocultures are prone to collapse.

Wrong thread or phone bad?

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Those of us are wrong, then. Fascism isn’t some inherently abstract force of nature, it’s people and organizations of people. Those social structures can be disrupted, and the major question whose answer determines the means of disruption is whether the earlier responses were appropriately timed and powered.

I prefer the situation where fascist-attitude people are individuals who need treatment rather than one where fascism is not just an attitude of individuals but a structural problem requiring e.g. law enforcement involvement or even a full-societal issue requiring outside military involvement.

Didn’t they largely leave to join the BSW querfront? I actually don’t know the numbers, but at least some of the more prominent RF aligned people left the Left.

The ease with which they can build such structures would go down. Building while hiding is harder than building while not having to hide.

Having central coordination, for example in the form of a party or some other form of organization, means that strategic goals can be planned for and resources acquired and allocated in a more efficient manner. The previous bigger neonazi party, the NPD, fulfilled that role for quite a while.

Organizations and people are not that interchangeable for these purposes. Workflows, institutional memory, leadership all matter. That’s why targeted assassinations of leadership even in cell-like structures can meaningfully disrupt e.g. terrorist organizations’ effectiveness. Similar things can be accomplished by simply disrupting business-as-usual.

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This would benefit from error bars for the estimates.

The GIGO pipeline: Sure, it’s garbage, but hear me out! What if we increased the throughput?

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Dang - the angle compresses the dark areas together a bit, which prevents these ones from fully unfolding their impact. Love them nonetheless, thank you!