@UpdatingOnRome Well that's one way to do selective breeding, I guess.
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@real_lord_miles DPRK would execute you for being Catholic.
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This woman made her entire career from abandoning the DPRK (North Korea) at like 11 years old and talks about life in the the DPRK ๐ฐ๐ต.
Itโs all propaganda. You canโt understand or remember much of anything from when you were 11 years old.
Imagine a 11 year old American kid describing his country to some aliens and being their expert on America.
Itโs also commonly left out that around 60% of defectors from the DPRK express that they would like to return back home and 40% regret their decision to leave.
Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com@FluentInFinance
In the United States banks made $12 billion in overdraft fees last year. Thatโs $12 billion they took from people who literally have no money.
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finally got to see the video and there's a lot of interesting things going on here.
first, there's an element here of the "my culture has a beautiful unique tradition of gathering for a large meal!" type discourse where people from lesser cultures grasp onto mundanity as if they were the only ones who ever did it, always silly.
>"in my culture, we like to make loud noises when we are particularly excited!"
oh, you mean like "hip hip hooray?"
>"no, in my culture it's very different, you couldn't possibly understand.
but this is just "hip hip hooray" only at an inappropriate time.
second, you can even see this during the video in Sabrina's confused reaction "your culture is yodeling?"
bc, yes, obviously, yodeling is a part of Swiss culture. but Swiss culture has a lot going on so they don't go around yodeling at inappropriate times and then angrily inform people that it's just fine bc "that's just Swiss culture".
so in this one brief interaction we see the truth laid bare:
1) loud noises to emote excitement is not some unique part of just your culture, that's a human universal.
2) that said, how it is expressed obviously varies. in Sabrina's culture, it shouldn't be expressed during a concert as she's trying to bring the mood down to instill a particular emotional vibe.
3) but somehow, everything today is lowest common denominator. the 'culture' that is the ugliest, most anti-social in western civilization gets to win, every time, bc "diversity is strength" or something. it's dis-civilizational. this is a relatively modest example of the broader phenomenon driving everything to shit.
Kevin@maxlldr
Iโm in a complete shock. I used to be a huge sabrina carpenter fan and now sheโs mocking my culture and calling me โweirdโ, this is so racist and inappropriate and it made me feel uncomfortable. this white blonde racist woman should be cancelled.
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@RockOperaKMS @atlanticesque Obviously, that doesn't mean I like it or wouldn't prefer a different system. I also know people that inherited family homes they couldn't pay the tax on just because of a ridiculous assessment on a house that hadn't actually been on the market in 70 years.
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@deepfrd @atlanticesque You bought into a large HOA called your municipal government. Did you not know youโd be assessed yearly?
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I am pro-property tax. But I do understand the frustrations which arise with it.
โProperty tax pays for services which every property needs! Like roads, sewers, and police!โ
โOh so most of my property taxes are going towards services like that?โ
โHaha noโ
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@DucDeVinny if anyone needs to be scared of the trans crowd, it's certainly schoolchildren
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One of my students (he's 12), during the rehearsal for the passion play they put on last week, picked one of the wigs we had for the costumes and started saying he identified as a attack helicopter, i was honestly baffled by how he knew about this archaic form of transphobia
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@peterrhague @FredLambert It's why we have the annoying brake pedal shapes we have today, because Americans kept driving Audi's into walls.
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Which could have been done by the driver who is certainly culpable. Unless they can prove there was something mechanically wrong with the brakes AND a computer error coincidentally at the same time, this is the same old - driver hits the wrong pedal, panics, tries to blame technology. This nonsense predates Tesla. Itโs always the drivers fault
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It doesnโt matter. Teslas, like all other road legal cars, have mechanical brakes that can overpower the engine.
Phantom acceleration IS. NOT. REAL. The person is always pressing the accelerator by mistake. Every time.
Fred Lambert@FredLambert
Insane Tesla story coming out of Norway today. You probably forgot about this weird Tesla crash from 2023 where a Model Y taxi had two bizarre 'sudden acceleration' crashes in just a few seconds. The driver claimed the car accelerated on its own and he was pressing the brake pedal. Tesla claimed its data shows he was pressing the accelerator. The driver was charged, but the charges were later dropped for lack of evidence, and there are indeed some serious problems with the evidence. While Tesla did share some telemetry data, the automaker claimed that the last 6 seconds were somehow missing. It turned out that someone went inside the vehicle, opened up the onboard computer, and removed the network card, which an expert believes would hold critical evidence. Everyone involved claims not to know where the card is.
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I can hate this!
The property tax is one of the best taxes on the books and it's pro-family to boot.
Property taxes are capitalized into the cost of homes, making it easier to purchase them for young people looking to start families.
Plus, they're efficient. Triple them!
Grant Cardone@GrantCardone
๐จ DONALD TRUMP DEMANDS โNO MORE PROPERTY TAXES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES!โ You canโt hate this! President Trump launches national revolution to abolish property taxes which would result in the most powerful economic expansion in U.S. history.
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@Martin_ASFL @BasedMikeLee Exactly. It's willingly taking on the opposition's strawman.
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@BasedMikeLee Nobody from South Africa has said anything about genocide to you. You're playing right into a trap set by radical leftists to delegitimise any criticism of the racist South African government with the strawman of "genocide". There is racial persecution here, not "genocide".
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Leftists ignore the South African genocide
And criticize Trump for taking South African refugeesโbecause leftists believe those refugees have the wrong skin color
Not cool
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Each cross is a murdered family
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@elonmusk @IterIntellectus Voting with your feet is effective in the long run, if done from a principled stance.
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what will you do when thereโs nowhere left to run
Radical Living@RadicalFalk
I'm leaving Germany | Brutally Honest Review
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@nayibbukele Importantly, trying to "fix" things by force will always make them worse and disrupt the progress that any disruptive technology always brings. Imagine if the Luddites had gotten mechanical looms outlawed. Or farmhands the traction engines.
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@nayibbukele People always feel this way about new technology but the truth is that people shift to new roles, including the invention of new roles to fill those gaps. The thing about a priced market economy is that it responds well to feedback. So no need to worry about.
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AI layoffs are a textbook collective action problem:
Each company cuts workers to compete, but if everyone does it, demand collapses.
You optimized costs and killed your own customersโฆ and your company.
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The State of California makes more money off a gallon of gas than the oil company that refined it and got it to market.
Almost $2 of every gallon there goes to Sacramentoโs coffers.
And these people are *still* mumbling about โcorporate greedโ and more taxes.
Rep. Ro Khanna@RepRoKhanna
Trump's immoral and reckless war in Iran has shot up gas prices in my district to nearly $6 a gallon. Stop the war, stop exporting our crude oil, and pass my windfall profits tax on Big Oil to give Americans a rebate for their gas bills.
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This kind of attitude in translators was exposed last year for the sham and evil that it is.
We don't want the translators to "write new stories more befitting a Western audience". We watch foreign films and animation to get a FOREIGN perspective from great creators. Not to see a circle-jerk of weeaboos dumb it down.
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They put scars on womenโs faces for a job interview experimentโฆ then secretly removed them.
The women went in believing they had visible disfigurements โ and came out reporting massive discrimination, with interviewers supposedly referencing their โscars.โ
Konstantin Kisin used this study to make a powerful point: constantly telling people theyโre oppressed or disadvantaged primes them to see discrimination everywhere, even when it isnโt there.
Itโs the same psychological effect as buying a new car and suddenly noticing that model on every street.
The ideology of victimhood doesnโt just describe reality โ it actively shapes it.
We should be teaching young people theyโre strong and capable of overcoming adversity, not training them to see themselves as permanent victims.
Whatโs one way youโve seen this โvictimhood mindsetโ play out in real life?
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@ErnstRoets All the politicians in South Africa who push their viciously racist laws should be sanctioned, barred from travel, declared criminals and have their international assets seized
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It's crazy watching the moderate left defend Piker. This guy is basically Nick Fuentes of the left but he gets invited to Oscar parties, is objectively evil in very obvious ways, and is not very smart
Why circle the wagons for this guy?
Legal Phil@Legal_Fil
Klein's declaration that Pikerโan antisemite who also is a racist, defends terrorism, and shocks a dog so that it remains as a prop during his streamsโis "not the enemy" was so outrageous that even the Times felt the need to change the title of the op-ed to hide the ball.
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@TheUnaButters @indianrightwing Or just per annum right this minute.
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@indianrightwing >cumulative C02 emissions since 1750
Why don't you show us it since lets say 2000?
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Three men with a single gun and two knives between them broke into my home in Pretoria twenty years ago. I was held captive with those I was living with. After nearly two hours, aware that I and others were likely to be executed, I found a gap, grabbed a stupidly inadequate shower curtain pole as a weapon, and fought back. Actually, that pole turned out to be a better weapon than I expected.
To cut a rather messy story short, in the midst of a flurry of activity, I got shot at, at close range. By Godโs mercy, I didnโt get hit. I should be dead, honestly, given that the gun was fired so close, just over a metre away, but the bullet miraculously ended up embedded in the wall opposite me. (I still canโt explain this although I have more speculations about the presence of the supernatural now than I did before this happened to me.) I continued in close combat because, thank heavens, that one bullet was the only one the attackers had. Unfortunately, one of them stabbed me (adrenaline is amazing โ I only realised this later), but I still managed to chase them out of the house. (Thumping miscreants at full force with a steel pole worked wonders.)
A few years later, I saw a photograph of the gunman whoโd shot at me in a newspaper โ he was a Mozambican whoโd been sentenced to life in prison for murdering someone else (RIP) who lived not far from me. So many of my friends have stories like this, and worse. Fighting to live is fine. And thatโs all Iโm gonna say on this.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@POFFADER @ceosusan1 @ClownWorld Yeah, because they broke into his house in South Africa and tried to kill him and my kid sister, you stupid asshole
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@jarvis_best Are you saying you needed Grok to come up with that one liner mimicking Nikita?
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1. I use Grok to make a fake X post from an X executive making it look like he criticized me.
2. X uses Grok to analyze notable posts on X.
3. Relying on Grok, X says that its own exec criticized me even though Grok is the one that made me the fake post for me to start.
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The funny thing about X saying that itโs own executive criticized me is that it never actually happened. I made it up.
James Kenney@jfkenney
@jarvis_best "comedian"
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