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NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@rpcs3 my old-ass i7 4770k will be thrilled thank you for giving the old man something to smile about in his final days

We have achieved a new breakthrough on emulating PS3's Cell CPU! Elad discovered new SPU usage patterns and coded ways to generate more optimised PC code from them - benefitting all games! Twisted Metal, one of the most SPU-intensive games, sees a 5-7% Average FPS improvement.

Yeah they show it in this extended scene

A gynecologist friend of mine in Ljubljana once told me (and I think about this constantly) “Slavoj, the uterus has no opinion.” I think this is perhaps the most Lacanian sentence ever spoken by a man who has never read Lacan. Because what does it mean for the uterus to have no opinion? It means that at the level of the Real; at the level of the body, of tissue, of biological process; there is no recognition. The body does not ask, “Who are you?” This is what Lacan is getting at with the formula, il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel--there is no sexual relationship. People think this means something pessimistic, like “love is impossible” or some such nonsense. No. It means that at the level of the Real, the sexual encounter does not produce meaning. The meaning comes from elsewhere. The meaning comes from the Symbolic. From names, from promises, from law. Now. This woman in Australia sleeps with one twin on, let's say, Monday. She sleeps with the other on Thursday. She gets pregnant. And the court says: we cannot determine the father. And everyone treats this as an amusing anomaly, a quirk of genetics. But I want to say something that may sound strange: this is not an anomaly at all. This is the normal situation, finally made visible. Because (and this is where you have to read Lacan very carefully) paternity was never a biological fact. There is this old Latin phrase the jurists knew perfectly well: pater semper incertus est. The father is always uncertain. The mother, you can see: she is there, the child comes out of her body, this is, you know, hard to argue with. But the father? The father is always, in a sense, a hypothesis. And this is precisely why Lacan says that the Name-of-the-Father, the Nom-du-Père, is a signifier. Not a gene. Not a body. A signifier. Which means: a position in a structure. The father is whoever the Symbolic order says is the father. And what this twin case does (without knowing it, without intending it) is they short-circuit this entire apparatus. Because the Symbolic says: “Fine, give me a DNA test, I’ll determine the name.” And the Real replies: “There is no difference to find.” The signifier reaches down into the biological substrate, looking for something to grip onto, and it finds... nothing.

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The Greatest Flex of the 21st Century: Semiconductor > Refine common sand into 99.999999999% pure silicon ingots. > Slice the crystal into wafers thinner than a human hair. > Use Extreme Ultraviolet light to print patterns at a molecular level. > Etch circuits so small that a single speck of dust is a mountain. > Physically blast atoms into the silicon to program its behavior. > Polish the surface to a flatness that defies the laws of physics. > Weave miles of microscopic copper wiring between billions of transistors. > Use electron microscopes to hunt for defects smaller than a virus. > Dice the wafer and encase it in a shell with gold connections. > We have turned the most basic element of the Earth into the world's most valuable resource. We are literally manipulating matter at the atomic level to create the digital world.

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

Mark Fischer extensively discussed this phenomenon in his works, how there was a "slow cancelation of the future". He theorized that because capitalism places a limit on what we can imagine as an alternative to it— where a future without it is rendered both unimaginable and impossible— culture as a result loops the past endessly, instead of creating something new. It quite literally cannot. It's forced to recycle the same cultural products. Only what capitalism produces is natural, real and permanent; nothing outside of it. So it has to keep going back. The future is bound to the socio-political and economic limits of its current reality— what it produces cannot be so radically different. We cannot imagine a world distinct from, or beyond it, so instead we extend the present. We keep going back to what we knew. That is why nostalgia is probably the most powerful marketing tool; it presses into something that is no longer there, but we hold onto; that we yearn for again— it exploits that bond we have to that memory/ feeling to sell us the idea that you can actually go back. Nostalgia after all in greek literally means the pain an old wound. Fisher says modern culture shows us how actual innovation isn't really possible, instead capitalist culture is only capable of imitating what came before— so it recycles, remixes, reboots— aesthetics, music, art, fasion etc. A past that we long for, yet we can not go back to. Waiting on a future that is promised, yet never arrives either (look up his writings on Hauntology).

Cloud and Tifa are so cool.

The perfect Biden video doesn’t even exi… 💀😭

I am beginning to realise that most of you have never experienced that kind of visceral, gut-wrenching love toward a man, nor the primal desire it can awaken within you something so intense it compels you beyond the boundaries of what society labels as acceptable, into acts you once thought unimaginable, and in that state, you perceive them as something profoundly beautiful. Male and female sexual parts are extremely beautiful to the eyes of the person who is in love with the soul.

Dude no one will ever use a VN logging site that bans nukige which is like 80% of the medium you can't be real. Also this just screams 'I want that ad money' AND very obvious vibecoded garbage

Resident Evil Checkquiem before you Requiem Featuring music by @vector_u

Modders put Leon into Silent Hill 💀

this video is way funnier than most of these are just because there’s no ai in it

Modders swapped Leon into Grace’s body and it looks funny af 💀