Dr CactusCocktail
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Dr CactusCocktail
@CactusCocktail
Soft inside, prickly outside, makes a mean margarita. Perpetual trophy winner of Enthusiastically Lazy Award. *Not a real Doctor in case you werent sure
Katılım Şubat 2022
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I feel bad for all the other high IQ people who didn’t also inherit whatever other axis it is that makes you socially intelligent. You haven’t lived until you’ve harmlessly manipulated a social situation towards an entertaining outcome just because you can
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Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.
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@dezpill @scaredmoneybrrr Da Nang is just another ruined expat shithole like major areas in Bali and Thailand are.
There are much better locations. And Im not telling anyone where they are.
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@scaredmoneybrrr if you step out of your American bubble and explore the world a bit, you’ll quickly realize Da Nang is becoming one of the biggest destinations of 2026.
in most rankings Da Nang is one of the fastest-growing hubs for digital nomads.
forbes.com/sites/meggenha…
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AI 'knows' nothing except the data its sourcing and this is indeed a death spiral to infinite nonsense being sold as facts.
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN
I came across a theory that AI is starting to make more mistakes because the internet is increasingly polluted with AI slop. The idea of AI cannibalising itself into obscurity is one of my favourite things ever. I hope it is true and I hope it becomes impossible to fix.
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You’re born onto a planet you never asked to exist on…
and society immediately hits you with: “Okay, now go earn the right to eat, sleep, rest, and have shelter.”
Like… zoom out for a second.
We’re floating on a rock in infinite space and we created a game where you have to spend most of your life working just to not starve or freeze to death.
The whole concept is actually insane when you think about it.
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still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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@Ludathygoat Lowkey got some truth to this cause most women I’ve been with said they’d do anal if we were serious
Ladies be treating anal like a wedding ring now
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"Serious negotiations are now taking place, and that, in their opinion, as Great Leaders and Allies, a Deal will be made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of America, as well as all Countries in the Middle East, and beyond... we will NOT be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but have further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s notice." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
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@PeteHegseth @ROCKCRAWLN @POTUS Fuck this bullshit. Get it the fuck over. No " Deal" is coming. It's fucking Iran. They've lied for 48 years and you expect they'll stop now?
Fucking mambie pambie bullshit. This makes the president look terrible. And weak.
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They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.
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"Se débarrasser des archives papier et les remplacer par des archives numériques leur permet de supprimer l’histoire. Un jour, vous trouverez le message « la page n’existe pas », et le lendemain, vous les verrez nier que cela ait réellement eu lieu".
Julian Assange
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@emilykschrader @mahmoudkhalel More top tier 'journalism' from Emily.
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@mahmoudkhalel No one cares you narcissistic prick. You hate America. Why are you still in it? GET THE F*** OUT.
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The FBI investigated me for 12 days and found nothing. Their probe closed 10 days AFTER my arrest. The Trump administration knew there was no case and went on calling me a national security threat. They lied. They're still lying, trying to deport me.
theintercept.com/2026/05/12/mah…
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@Ben_Davison1 Typical class-warfare spin. The "90%" are actually the ones being robbed of their retirement ladder. Scrapping the discount just forces everyone into the "unproductive" arms of the state while inflation eats the rest. Nationalising envy - not fixing inequality
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80% of Capital Gains Tax discount benefits the wealthiest 10% of people
That means 90% of us have been subsidising the wealthiest people to turn our homes into unproductive tax write offs
Labor’s budget is trying to fix this inequity
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