#hyperbole — Public Fediverse posts

Oh joy, yet another "revolutionary" update that promises to speed up your queries by an imaginary 1000x—because who needs realism when you have hyperbole? 🚀 Meanwhile, the real update was on how many #buzzwords they could cram into a single paragraph. 📈🤣
https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026 #revolutionaryupdate #hyperbole #techhumor #queryspeed #imagination #HackerNews #ngated

Oh joy, yet another "revolutionary" update that promises to speed up your queries by an imaginary 1000x—because who needs realism when you have hyperbole? 🚀 Meanwhile, the real update was on how many #buzzwords they could cram into a single paragraph. 📈🤣
https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026 #revolutionaryupdate #hyperbole #techhumor #queryspeed #imagination #HackerNews #ngated

Death by a single cardboard cut.
(Totally guilty of #hyperbole yes)

Death by a single cardboard cut.
(Totally guilty of #hyperbole yes)

Wow, this seems so powerful, why did i only just now read about it? #emacs #hyperbole

https://github.com/emacsmirror/hyperbole

@deech https://mastodon.social/@deech/117017546711973882

New #emacs post!

"Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse"

https://www.chiply.dev/post-hyperbole-implicit-buttons

#emacs #software #programming #knowledge #information #hyperbole

New #emacs post!

"Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse"

https://www.chiply.dev/post-hyperbole-implicit-buttons

#emacs #software #programming #knowledge #information #hyperbole

🚀 Ah, the wonders of tech journalism: cramming 16 GB into 1.8 GB and proclaiming it "lossless" is the next frontier of hyperbole! 🙄 Just imagine the revolutionary impact on humanity when every bit can be packed tighter than a tech blogger's self-importance. 🤡
https://github.com/theadamdanielsson/ggufpacker #techjournalism #hyperbole #innovation #datacompression #journalismhumor #technology #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Ah, the wonders of tech journalism: cramming 16 GB into 1.8 GB and proclaiming it "lossless" is the next frontier of hyperbole! 🙄 Just imagine the revolutionary impact on humanity when every bit can be packed tighter than a tech blogger's self-importance. 🤡
https://github.com/theadamdanielsson/ggufpacker #techjournalism #hyperbole #innovation #datacompression #journalismhumor #technology #HackerNews #ngated

@simonroses they are moderating expectations and toning down the mkt which helps, expect to repeat this cycle a few times perhaps - peak ai for smb sector is 3-5 years away #hyperbole

@simonroses they are moderating expectations and toning down the mkt which helps, expect to repeat this cycle a few times perhaps - peak ai for smb sector is 3-5 years away #hyperbole

Just hyperbole

#hyperbole #illustration #graphic #digitalillustration

Just hyperbole

#hyperbole #illustration #graphic #digitalillustration

Anti Material Sniper Rifle

A lot of fun is made in this video, with some serious antimaterial sniper rifles. Instead of talking a lot about them, I invite you to have a look at the video. It's fun to watch

facts:

A sniper rifle is a high-precision, long-range rifle. Requirements include high accuracy, reliability, mobility, concealment, and optics, for anti-personnel, anti-materiel and surveillance uses by military snipers. The modern sniper rifle is a portable shoulder-fired rifle with either a bolt action or semi-automatic action, fitted with a telescopic sight for extreme accuracy and chambered for a high-ballistic performance centerfire cartridge.

20th century

During the Second Boer War, the latest breech-loading rifles with magazines and smokeless powder were used by both sides. The British were equipped with the Lee–Metford rifle, while the Boers had received the latest Mauser Model 1895 rifles from Germany. In the open terrain of South Africa, the marksman was a crucial component in battle. The Lovat Scouts was a British Army unit formed in 1899 that was renowned for the expert marksmanship and stalking skills of its personnel. The men wore ghillie suits for camouflage and were expertly skilled in observation. Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard said of them that "keener men never lived".[5] After the Boer War, the Scouts became the first official sniper unit in the British Army.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper_Rifle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMGSVP3CyWQ

#Ballistic #Rifle #Sniper #Anti #Material #Anti #Tank #Armour #Armor #Steel #Hull #Plating #metallurgy #Plumbum #Lead #Ferrum #Iron #Hyperbole #Parabole #Mathematics #Physics

Anti Material Sniper Rifle

A lot of fun is made in this video, with some serious antimaterial sniper rifles. Instead of talking a lot about them, I invite you to have a look at the video. It's fun to watch

facts:

A sniper rifle is a high-precision, long-range rifle. Requirements include high accuracy, reliability, mobility, concealment, and optics, for anti-personnel, anti-materiel and surveillance uses by military snipers. The modern sniper rifle is a portable shoulder-fired rifle with either a bolt action or semi-automatic action, fitted with a telescopic sight for extreme accuracy and chambered for a high-ballistic performance centerfire cartridge.

20th century

During the Second Boer War, the latest breech-loading rifles with magazines and smokeless powder were used by both sides. The British were equipped with the Lee–Metford rifle, while the Boers had received the latest Mauser Model 1895 rifles from Germany. In the open terrain of South Africa, the marksman was a crucial component in battle. The Lovat Scouts was a British Army unit formed in 1899 that was renowned for the expert marksmanship and stalking skills of its personnel. The men wore ghillie suits for camouflage and were expertly skilled in observation. Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard said of them that "keener men never lived".[5] After the Boer War, the Scouts became the first official sniper unit in the British Army.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper_Rifle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMGSVP3CyWQ

#Ballistic #Rifle #Sniper #Anti #Material #Anti #Tank #Armour #Armor #Steel #Hull #Plating #metallurgy #Plumbum #Lead #Ferrum #Iron #Hyperbole #Parabole #Mathematics #Physics

If Trump played in the MLB, he'd hit 486 HRs *every season*. All of them grand slam and in the river.

His pitching line would be: ꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘ.

Clemens, Ohtani, Judge would be his flunkies and brawl to hold up his spittoon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-says-ve-had-061205477.html

#sarcasm #hyperbole #MLB

If Trump played in the MLB, he'd hit 486 HRs *every season*. All of them grand slam and in the river.

His pitching line would be: ꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘ.

Clemens, Ohtani, Judge would be his flunkies and brawl to hold up his spittoon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-says-ve-had-061205477.html

#sarcasm #hyperbole #MLB

Is the Iran War the Greatest Strategic Defeat in American History?

There’s a new poll out today showing that “Trump’s war in Iran” — and it is his war, let’s make no mistake about that — “is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.”

I am not much of a poll tracker. But the Washington Post story about this new polling caught my eye, not only because I’ve been watching Emile de Antonio’s excellent 1968 Vietnam War film In the Year of the Pig on the Criterion Channel, but also because I keep running into statements like this one, from Paul Krugman’s Substack (30 April 2026):

Trump’s ego is so fragile that he can never admit losing. He cannot bear to face up to the reality that he, more or less single-handedly, led America to the greatest strategic defeat in its history. So he desperately wants to extract concessions from Iran that would lend him a fig leaf and allow him to claim victory.

Krugman is right about Trump’s “fragile ego,” but surely he needs to be more measured when it comes to what counts as the greatest strategic defeat in American history. He’s not alone. Mitchell Plitnick dedicated a whole podcast to the idea in early April. And this isn’t just a slip of Krugman’s pen. A few paragraphs later, he doubles down: “America,” he writes, “will have suffered its worst strategic defeat in history as a result of a completely gratuitous misadventure to please Trump’s ego.”

The American war in Iran might count as the quickest strategic defeat in our history, and I’m not going to deny that it’s already having and will continue to have serious geopolitical consequences. (I found the HC Commodities podcast interview with Doomberg clarifying on this point). But I have a hard time seeing how this war should count as a greater or worse and more humiliating strategic defeat or a more costly blunder (strictly in terms of blood and treasure) than Vietnam.**

At the end of his podcast, Plitnick hedges on this point:

It is about as great a strategic disaster as you can imagine. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, I mean they all pale before how stupid this was, despite the fact that they went on for years and years and year, and cost more in terms of lives and more in terms of money, because they went on so long. And that should not be minimized and in no way am I trying to minimize that. But when we talk about a strategic loss, about a strategic disaster, this is the biggest one in US history, and it was all for nothing, all for nothing.

What I take from this is that the war in Iran should count as the biggest or the greatest strategic defeat in American history because it may turn out to be the stupidest strategic defeat in American history.

There is no getting around the stupidity and recklessness and pointlessness of it all.

But I still balk at this application of the superlative to Trump’s Iran disaster. Is Krugman really asking us to start from the founding and work our way forward, ranking strategic defeats*? No, he appears just to be riffing. He never bothers to argue the historical point, never even mentions Vietnam or other examples.

Superlatives may make good clickbait, but they can also be very slippery: in just the two examples I’ve cited here, greatest can mean quickest or it can mean stupidest or maybe it can even mean most consequential. That’s unclear. Superlatives tend to muddle thinking about history, where clarity counts.

Talking about Iran as the greatest or the biggest strategic defeat in American history may score some political points, or drive some online traffic. But in this case hyperbole carries a cost. It distorts both past and present, and it can dampen political will (signaling that there is no recovering from this greatest of all defeats) or exacerbate the historical amnesia from which too many Americans already seem to suffer.

And it’s still early days, too early to judge. Trump’s war in Iran is only two months old, and the American public already appears to be decisively against it. It wasn’t until after the Tet Offensive in 1968, a full four years after the Gulf of Tonkin debacle, that public disapproval of the Vietnam War began to reach these levels, as this chart (made from the same Gallup data used by the Washington Post) shows:

That comparison all by itself is a pretty damning indictment of Trump’s war. And maybe that means a good number of Americans — not all of us, but some of us — have learned a little something from history after all.

N.B. 2 May 2026: In a conversation with Greg Sargent on The Daily Blast podcast (and published on Krugman’s Substack blog today), Krugman backs away from the superlative:

The celebration of a guy who is an absolute disaster at presidenting—he has led, more or less single-handedly, on his own decisions, his own faith, his own judgment, he has led America into one of our worst strategic defeats in our history. He took on this relatively small military power in Iran, figuring that he could destroy the regime and install his people in a few days, and he lost the war.

*PS 10 May 2026: Robert Kagan comes close to doing just that in the opening paragraphs of his new piece in The Atlantic. Though he never reaches for the hyperbole, he argues that the defeat in Iran is in a class all by itself and of tremendous historical import, a signal event in the unraveling of the American-led postwar order.

Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character [than in every other American war Kagan lists]. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done….the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends and foes adjust to America’s failure.

**Another postscript, 18 June 2026. I still balk at the superlative, but Paul Musgrave’s piece at Foreign Policy did a lot to change my mind on the comparison with Vietnam. And the MOU signed at Versailles yesterday only bolsters his argument.

This paper is right up there with the "how to give a mouse PTSD" talk I went to once. This time, it's "we took eight healthy people and subjected them to so much stress that their blood proceeded to spontaneously clot" (#hyperbole). Read and enjoy.

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/JP290576

This paper is right up there with the "how to give a mouse PTSD" talk I went to once. This time, it's "we took eight healthy people and subjected them to so much stress that their blood proceeded to spontaneously clot" (#hyperbole). Read and enjoy.

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/JP290576

@krystyna
"nothing worse"
#hyperbole

#EnochBurke's five millionth* court appearance is to object to being kept safe, in a smaller prison nearer his family. Wicked, says Enoch

But luckily, he can't disrupt the #HighCourt #IEHC any more. All his appearances are now on a video link, which gets cut if he kicks off. This also saves the cost of a van, driver, and escorting officer to bring Burke to and from the court.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0312/1563080-enoch-burke-castlerea/

Note: the tally of five million is #sarcasm and #hyperbole, induced by the #BurkeFamily

#EnochBurke's five millionth* court appearance is to object to being kept safe, in a smaller prison nearer his family. Wicked, says Enoch

But luckily, he can't disrupt the #HighCourt #IEHC any more. All his appearances are now on a video link, which gets cut if he kicks off. This also saves the cost of a van, driver, and escorting officer to bring Burke to and from the court.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0312/1563080-enoch-burke-castlerea/

Note: the tally of five million is #sarcasm and #hyperbole, induced by the #BurkeFamily

Hyperbole and a Half "Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Allie Brosh Rating: 4.6/5 (13,214 Reviews) #Humor #Memoir #Comedy #MentalHealth #Illustrated #Dogs #Reading #Books #Love #Marriage #Hyperbole #BookSky

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortun...

Hyperbole and a Half "Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Allie Brosh Rating: 4.6/5 (13,214 Reviews) #Humor #Memoir #Comedy #MentalHealth #Illustrated #Dogs #Reading #Books #Love #Marriage #Hyperbole #BookSky

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortun...

So I wanted to write a longer #NoAI piece but apparently my blog is down (and this time, miraculously, it might not be #AI scrapers), so I'll give you a sneak peek of what I wanted to say in the more hyperbolic part on how the #LLM discourse has all the common features of libertarian discourse.

"According to Google, LLM-backed searches don't consume much more energy than regular searches" [ignoring model training, surely.]
→ According to carbrains, cars are actually cheaper than public transport, provided that you compare gasoline cost with ticket prices, and ignore the cost of buying and owning a car. Not to mention all the indirect costs of space waste (roads, parking lots, garages), environment pollution, accidents…

"AI is just a tool, people decide if it's used for good or bad."
→ Ah, yes, and "guns don't kill people."

"AI has its uses."
→ So does asbestos.

"Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using AI, but on their actual quality."
→ "Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using slave work…"

"I do not use AI myself, but I don't want to block others."
→ "I do not keep slaves myself…"

#NoLLM #hyperbole

So I wanted to write a longer #NoAI piece but apparently my blog is down (and this time, miraculously, it might not be #AI scrapers), so I'll give you a sneak peek of what I wanted to say in the more hyperbolic part on how the #LLM discourse has all the common features of libertarian discourse.

"According to Google, LLM-backed searches don't consume much more energy than regular searches" [ignoring model training, surely.]
→ According to carbrains, cars are actually cheaper than public transport, provided that you compare gasoline cost with ticket prices, and ignore the cost of buying and owning a car. Not to mention all the indirect costs of space waste (roads, parking lots, garages), environment pollution, accidents…

"AI is just a tool, people decide if it's used for good or bad."
→ Ah, yes, and "guns don't kill people."

"AI has its uses."
→ So does asbestos.

"Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using AI, but on their actual quality."
→ "Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using slave work…"

"I do not use AI myself, but I don't want to block others."
→ "I do not keep slaves myself…"

#NoLLM #hyperbole

A quotation from Douglas Adams

MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst

Let's open a new can of hyperbole shall we! Oh, wait we've seen this before.

Tesla claims yet again that Robotaxi's are now operating without human “safety monitors" in the car in Austin TX. Apparently the human supervisors are now in a separate car that shadows the Robotaxi. And riders are reporting there are no “unsupervised” rides operating. Social media commentators slammed this is another marketing stunt. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-pauses-unsupervised-robotaxi #Tesla #RoboTaxi #AutonomousDriving #FSD #Hyperbole #Austin

Let's open a new can of hyperbole shall we! Oh, wait we've seen this before.

Tesla claims yet again that Robotaxi's are now operating without human “safety monitors" in the car in Austin TX. Apparently the human supervisors are now in a separate car that shadows the Robotaxi. And riders are reporting there are no “unsupervised” rides operating. Social media commentators slammed this is another marketing stunt. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-pauses-unsupervised-robotaxi #Tesla #RoboTaxi #AutonomousDriving #FSD #Hyperbole #Austin

A river shoreline after full sunrise. Composed in absolute Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra wide, using a hyperbolic curve

#Photography #Android #AndroidPhotography #Nature #Sky #Skyline #Azul #hyperbole #hyperbolic

A river shoreline after full sunrise. Composed in absolute Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra wide, using a hyperbolic curve

#Photography #Android #AndroidPhotography #Nature #Sky #Skyline #Azul #hyperbole #hyperbolic

This is what happens when a word is watered down to the point of being meaningless.

"Terrorism" and "terrorist" mean nothing now, they're just insults to throw around.

They're not even worth getting upset about anymore. Call me a terrorist, I'll shrug and continue my day. We've been going down this road for decades.

#terrorist #terrorism #hyperbole #politics #nonsense

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwynpjgqg7po

Beware the hyperbole machine! Big Tech is now proposing building data centers in orbit. Musk and Bezos are leading the charge - but they are NOT the only players.

Proponents of orbital data centers suggest they gain advantages by tapping limitless solar energy, deal with the challenges related to heat/cooling, while avoiding the environmental and public-health consequences of building them on earth.

Critics contend that the expense and technological complexity of putting data centers in the unforgiving environment of space makes the idea impractical.

SpaceX and Blue Origin are not the only proponents, Google is looking at this space as are Aetherflux, Lonestar Data Holdings, and Axiom Space. https://gizmodo.com/spacex-hypes-2026-ipo-with-predictable-ingredient-ai-in-orbit-2000697922 #Space #OrbitalDataCenters #AI #DataCenters #Hyperbole #BigTech #Musk #Bezos #BlueOrigin #SpaceX #Google #Suncatcher #Satellites #AIDataCenters

Beware the hyperbole machine! Big Tech is now proposing building data centers in orbit. Musk and Bezos are leading the charge - but they are NOT the only players.

Proponents of orbital data centers suggest they gain advantages by tapping limitless solar energy, deal with the challenges related to heat/cooling, while avoiding the environmental and public-health consequences of building them on earth.

Critics contend that the expense and technological complexity of putting data centers in the unforgiving environment of space makes the idea impractical.

SpaceX and Blue Origin are not the only proponents, Google is looking at this space as are Aetherflux, Lonestar Data Holdings, and Axiom Space. https://gizmodo.com/spacex-hypes-2026-ipo-with-predictable-ingredient-ai-in-orbit-2000697922 #Space #OrbitalDataCenters #AI #DataCenters #Hyperbole #BigTech #Musk #Bezos #BlueOrigin #SpaceX #Google #Suncatcher #Satellites #AIDataCenters

novaTopFlex Returns to novaTopFlex

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/novatopflex-returns-to-novatopflex/

novaTopFlex Returns to novaTopFlex

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/novatopflex-returns-to-novatopflex/

Clearly someone is getting seriously high on his own supply! What heck is a “production-intent prototype”.... Yowzers!!

My Prediction: "Huminoid" robots will ultimately be a giant Red Herring. Robots will be purpose built. Huminoid versions will nichey at best. https://www.brentdoncaster.com/post/technologies-greatest-red-herrings

Musk's view = Tesla will deliver 1 million Optimus robots. Tesla’s robots will “actually create a world where there is no poverty, where everyone has access to the finest medical care". Optimus “will be an incredible surgeon". Ok. Sure. Ya. Got it. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-wants-strong-influence-over-the-robot-army-hes-building/

#Optimus #Robots #Musk #Hyperbole #Yowzers #Tesla #HuminoidRobots #RedHerring #AI #Medicine #Surgeon

Clearly someone is getting seriously high on his own supply! What heck is a “production-intent prototype”.... Yowzers!!

My Prediction: "Huminoid" robots will ultimately be a giant Red Herring. Robots will be purpose built. Huminoid versions will nichey at best. https://www.brentdoncaster.com/post/technologies-greatest-red-herrings

Musk's view = Tesla will deliver 1 million Optimus robots. Tesla’s robots will “actually create a world where there is no poverty, where everyone has access to the finest medical care". Optimus “will be an incredible surgeon". Ok. Sure. Ya. Got it. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-wants-strong-influence-over-the-robot-army-hes-building/

#Optimus #Robots #Musk #Hyperbole #Yowzers #Tesla #HuminoidRobots #RedHerring #AI #Medicine #Surgeon

PSP : De l'hyperbole politique, pas du trumpisme !

https://onjase.quebec/display/3e11eb70-1568-efad-6147-0e0259173955

Saw the most stylish teapot in this universe last night.

Pewter, asymetric knob on hinged lid, wooden handle.

(It poured well.)

#Tea #Teapots #Style #Ephemera #Hyperbole

What do Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Trevor Milton have in common with AI founders??

They all took or are likely taking (in the case of IA Founders) ambitious, visionary, often hyperbolic storytelling over the line into outright fraud...

Prediction - this will become some of the fissures that leads to an AI market bubble pop!

Check out the "When Storytelling Becomes Fraud" article in the latest post from Prof G Markets Newsletter. https://www.profgmarkets.com/p/the-great-slopification-powered-by-openai-64a7 #AI #AIBubble #AIInvesting #Hyperbole #Fraud #ProfGMarkets

🔥🌐 #Analyst declares AI bubble 17 times bigger than dot-com, because who doesn't love random numbers and hyperbole? Meanwhile, #MarketWatch demands you disable ad blockers for the privilege of reading regurgitated tech panic. 📈🤖
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-this-analyst-argues-046e7c5c #AIbubble #techpanic #news #hyperbole #HackerNews #ngated