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Author of the Super Hostile series, maker of Minecraft maps. Current indie game dev working on AirSector (alt. Airship Empires) and Castle of the Zephyr.
North Carolina Beigetreten Ekim 2011
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Society derives zero benefit from having rapists and her 99.9999 number is completely false anyway.
I would be content with every rapist shot dead before their assault is complete. This would directly lead to a better world.
Delusional Takes@DelusionPosting
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By the time of the Crusades, there had already been a Muslim incursion so deep into France that the ensuing battle (Tours) was fought midway between Nantes and Paris. The Muslims owned Sicily. They owned Spain. They were deep into India. They weren't a peaceful retiring civilization happy to tend their gardens.
In fact after the First Crusade, the Muslims continued to conquer, eventually taking down the Byzantines and all the Balkans.
The First Crusade was an audacious and courageous strike against a force that the crusaders felt menaced all Christendom. Were they justified? That has to be determined by your own moral compass. But certainly they weren't just picking on the poor oppressed Mohammedans.
Natasha Montreal@NatashaMontreal
The Crusades were not random wars of aggression. The Crusades were the Eastern Christian response to centuries of Islamic conquest. They were primarily defensive wars. In early Christianity there were five centers of high authority: Rome, Alexandria, Constantine, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Each one had a Bishop and administered a large region, both politically and religiously. The origins were Apostolic and the cities were the core seats of Christian authority. Islam rose out of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 600s. Almost immediately after consolidating power in Arabia, the Muslim state launched rapid military expansion against its neighbors from 632 onward. Islam took 3 out of 5 of the Patriarchal Holy Sees (Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem) in the 7th century. The Crusades were the Eastern counteroffensive. The Muslims had conquered the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and were in Tours, France by 732. It took over 700 years for the Spaniards to expel the invaders. The Reconquista was a parallel Western front. The Ottomans laid seige to central Europe for hundreds of years. They took the Balkans and Constantinople fell in 1453. Vlad Tepes of Wallachia (reimagined in modern times as the horror character Dracula) fought them off heroically for 6 years and drove them out of his principality. They laid seige on Vienna in 1529 and were expelled from Vienna 160 years later. Only Rome remained from the original Holy Sees after 1453 when Constantinople fell. Things you don't learn in school these days.
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The conspiracy theorists are owed a great apology.
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Long beach California, full of oil towers in 1944...
By the 1940s, parts of Southern California looked less like a coastline and more like an industrial forest.
Long Beach, especially nearby Signal Hill, sat atop one of the richest oil fields in the country. At its peak, the field produced over 260,000 barrels of oil per day, and the landscape filled with thousands of derricks packed tightly together, each tapping into the same underground reservoir.
This wasn’t just local industry, it was strategic. During World War II, California’s oil fields were critical to fueling ships, aircraft, and the broader U.S. war effort. The demand helped push production to historic highs, transforming quiet neighborhoods into dense grids of machinery almost overnight.
The moment was temporary. As production declined and urban development expanded, most of these towers disappeared. Today, the same areas are covered with homes, parks, and streets, with little visible trace of what once stood there.
At one point, Signal Hill was so saturated with wells that some lots were drilled just a few feet apart, making it one of the most densely drilled oil fields in the world.
📷© Andreas Feininger
© Vintage American Photos
#archaeohistories
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"It's just <X>, who cares? It's not that serious."
This mindset is the cause of everything going to shit. Never let anyone bully you into thinking otherwise.
It's just 1 piece of trash, who cares?
A $2 candy bar was stolen? Who cares.
They pay someone to collect the carts.
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Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
bitfloorsghost@bitfloorsghost
we ruined such a good thing
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The power of a dog’s nose is so extraordinary it can detect even the faintest trace—just a few molecules in the air.
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This is insane
Andy Ngo@MrAndyNgo
A Seattle man who shot and killed an eight-month pregnant Korean-American woman and nearly killed her husband when they were driving to work has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Cordell Goosby m—rdered Elina Kwon and her unborn baby in June 2023 when they were stopped at a red light. Prosecutors did not charge him for killing the baby due to concerns about protecting abortion in the liberal state. After hearing testimony from defense medical experts that Goosby was "insane" at the time of the shootings, the prosecution agreed to have the case ended through the not guilty motion. Goosby will be committed to an institution and regularly evaluated to see if he is fit to be released to the public. ngocomment.com
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yeah, living amidst the ruins of a more civilized world, wonder what thats like, haha
Funes@Bulkington___
Always fascinated how people in the middle ages for hundreds of years just lived amongst the ever decrepitating Roman ruins. It was just a part of daily life for them.
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🚨 BREAKING: Tencent has killed the “next-token” paradigm.
Tencent and Tsinghua has released CALM (Continuous Autoregressive Language Models), and it completely disrupts the next-token paradigm.
LLMs currently waste massive amounts of compute predicting discrete, single tokens through a huge vocabulary softmax layer. It’s slow and scales poorly.
CALM bypasses the vocabulary entirely. It uses a high-fidelity autoencoder to compress chunks of text into a single continuous vector with 99.9% reconstruction accuracy.
The model now predicts the “next vector” in a continuous space.
The numbers are actually insane:
- Each generative step now carries 4× the semantic bandwidth.
- Training compute is reduced by 44%.
- The softmax bottleneck is completely removed.
We’re literally watching language models evolve from typing discrete symbols to streaming continuous thoughts.
This changes the entire trajectory of AI.
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I felt this video. Most employees have no idea how expensive it is to keep the business running. And most think every owner is making huge profits when they’re often scraping by.
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I'm watching the Harry potter movies with my son, and I can't express to you the degree to which this woman is the perfect embodiment of the spirit which has infected our culture.
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