beaufort_deez_nuts
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@iron_redux @rsuyoy you ppl deserve molotovs thrown at your houses for talking like this
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@rsuyoy that's not true, I've seen it quite a bit on Instagram. i think it has filtered down and become part of their egregore -- people at large, not a minority of nerds
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I think saying “permanent underclass” has probably radicalized people more than anything
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god it would really be so sick if my name was kate wehwalt
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@PerseusAccipz @Grey_Athena ('once' being like 467 AD)
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@Grey_Athena Me normally: The church was once a historically progressive force but now is residual negative influence
Me now: The Papacy has withstood assault the assault of tyrants from the Caesars of antiquity through Napoleon and the premiers of the Soviet Union. It will outlast him too
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Another thing to hate Donald Trump for is that I can no longer feel good about doing my anti-Catholic bit ("bit") because unfortunately the Catholic Church finally chose to be on the right side of an issue for the first time since Gregory the Great
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As much as I dislike Keir Starmer, the UK is so poor that £200 a night is considered luxury and ridiculous spending 😭😭…
He’s the Prime Minister what kind of accommodation did you want him staying in? I’m surprised it don’t cost more
Grifty@TheGriftReport
Keir Starmer jetted off for a four-day luxury family Easter break at a £200-a-night four-star boutique hotel in Valencia, complete with rooftop bar and pool. While lounging in the sun and sipping café con leche in a public square, Trump was issuing ultimatums to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants and warning Tehran they’d be “living in Hell.” Starmer stayed put despite the escalating crisis, five years after he slammed Boris Johnson for holidaying as Kabul fell, declaring: “You cannot coordinate an international response from the beach.” Macron spent the weekend on emergency calls with Trump and Iran’s president. Starmer? Not so much. Priorities
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@androgynator heavily astroturfed subreddit to be fair, as is the main uk subreddit. Any criticism of israel gets dogpiled - meanwhile in reality theres pro-palestine protests of 10s of thousands, basically none for isreal. so clearly dont actually reflect the majority
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@nise_yoshimi quote 'Anyway, what have you got on?'
She pulled the sheet a fraction lower to show a quarter-inch black velvet ribbon round her neck.'This.'Bond looked down into the teasing blue eyes, now wide as if asking if the ribbon was inadequate. He felt his body getting out of control.'
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@nise_yoshimi i just remember reading aged around 14 and getting so turned on by a couple of bits that they're burned into my memory from rereading that's my contribution
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reread Fleming's "From Russia With Love" and its so good. Bond doomed from the first page, the Soviet pov of its first third reframing a standard Bond adventure into a tragedy. Stark disavowal of the character's central notion of exceptional (British) individualism
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@davidfrum everyone calling themselves 'germanicus' and 'parthicus' until it gets so devalued that you get 'germanicus maximus'. Back in the day if there was someone walking around called 'africanus', there was only one and it meant africa wasnt going to be a problem anymore
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Something very late Roman about the triumphal arches growing bigger and gaudier as the triumphs themselves grow scarcer and more dubious.
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@Underfox3 and even ppl who 'make their own chips' just hand the design to TSMC
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Everyone considers producing their own chips until they discover that the reality of the real world is much harder and cruel than selling snake oil and rubbish press releases.
zerohedge@zerohedge
*ANTHROPIC WEIGHS DESIGNING ITS OWN AI CHIPS: REUTERS
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@Grey_Athena doesn't work quite as well since the original roundhead/cavalier split was a war itself not philosophy but i still like it
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Richard Rorty if he was a historian of the Reformation instead of philosophy: "Roundheads and Cavaliers eventually sorted out their differences at a three-day long theological debate called the Battle of Gettysburg"
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@RadishHarmers where else though. bluesky and threads are the cargo cultists from the aforementioned war. just make the ui look the same and you'll get back twitter how it used to be
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Twitter is dead. Elon Musk killed it. We still here are the Japanese soldiers from the famous Japanese soldiers metaphor.
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"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
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@scumfutch @nise_yoshimi fell off hard after season 1
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@nise_yoshimi i kinda fell off watching the show after season 3 (i think) but imo most people's problem with it is that they want it to be prestige amazing TV whilst I quite enjoyed Karl Urban and Anthony Starr being fun and watching a guy get exploded into a comical amount of guts every ep
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the boys remains some of TV's most solid and digestible comfort food (Anthony Starr is doing funny faces! Karl urban is uuugh ughie omelandah! something stupidly gross is happening on-screen!) and I think in relation to the genuinely disturbing comic book that's kind of a shame
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@GhostofaSquire @kessler_ulrich @Trutown to an extent(!) you do want them to use their judgment since they're closer to the situation than you
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@kessler_ulrich @Trutown The lesson here I suppose is that for your subordinates to do anything every order must be worded as a “do or die” affair.
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Reading military history makes it clear that issuing commands to subordinate formations in a strategy game should really be a skill check
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@lttlefoot @roryisconfused i'd guess gets like 40% of ppl, esp if you were lonely when young, probably not chemical depression probably not fixed by marriage but not the end of the world
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@LogOffTouchAss @roryisconfused Is this a universal experience, or related to chemical depression that goes away when you get the right pills, or related to loneliness that goes away when you get married?
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The thing is that I’ll go to the pub with friends and have a few drinks and a laugh and it’ll be great and the next day I’ll be walking through London and see some people having a few drinks and a laugh outside the pub and feel that I am forever excluded from the joys of life
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@yawningemoji checked and it does, don't remember if it did when I moved in lol
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when a nigga swears they like big girls but their toilet seat doesn’t even wiggle a lil bit….. hmmm i don’t no #rookies bye
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@eggoslug gender war adjacent? show off your knowledge in the replies? Some powerful engagement bait you got here
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I'm foing to call bullshit.
Folk etymology loves an acronym but it's basically never the actual origin. There's only a handful of real ones: scuba, radar, taser, laser, Pakistan. Coincidentally all of them were coined in the 20th century.
Tim (still totally unremarkable)@forwardnotback
I didn’t know this Origin of “posh”
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@Sorak @ContraPoints good (or at least necessary) and in no way analogous to what america is doing to iran or israel to gaza
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Actually the rare instance where even the Dipshit’s Fallacy (“what if you replaced the thing in my argument with HITLER?”) doesn’t make it sound less crazy
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