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@HundWilliams
they/them AKA der hund. Footloose and Fancy-Free
Katılım Ocak 2015
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@runesword1 His name is Arnold and you need to come pick him up from my house asap. All he hath done is cry and eat since materializing in my kitchen
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that’s the last time we raid a void wizard’s tower. barbarian got struck by a stray orb and now he’s gone. none of us remember his name or what he looked like
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@AlfredAlfer77 @PalantirTech Exactly! And if it was a mandatory service, politicians might be more calculated in whether a war is necessary. Their own sons would be deployed.
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Because we get asked a lot.
The Technological Republic, in brief.
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
techrepublicbook.com
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@EvilGregJackson Most impressive attempt at a pacifist run in the UFC
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Probably one of the best examples of someone maxing out their potential. Learned enough striking to be competent but recognized that it wasn't his A-game, developed chain wrestling and pressure footwork to complement his grappling, dropped to a more beneficial weight class etc.
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Demian Maia’s UFC career doesn’t get talked about as often as it should. What did you think of his run?
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@HundWilliams @whatsuparya Good :) carry on. I hope they get hit by a jab to nb2
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@ferrari77_PM @whatsuparya im just being goofy to ragebait them, I know the video is more of a tech display
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@HundWilliams @whatsuparya Lmao, imagine using this video to justify anything. Actually a joke
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@thugme1 @Matysek88 fight without any of the the ritual is sad tbh
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@killbyundrscore Even rapists hate tattooed women. Women think tats look good, but even the scummiest guys can’t stand them. Men do not want women who are covered in tattoos.
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@envyneissaa @Dboysback65 they are often legally required to mail it and post it to the door
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@Dboysback65 My neighbor has had one like 3 times and ngl I checked how much she owed 2 times. They should not put these things on people’s door. Their mailbox maybe.
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@Dboysback65 They are legally required to post it on doors in many states is why.
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I have saved you all from bad Nurse takes. You're welcome.
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@weaselsnores I find teching this move so damn hard, but ur giving me hope
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@sxphiefrxst @Ky1eKatarn but like the analogy of encountering the man or the bear in the woods, the men and android representing the corporations end up being the more distinct danger.
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@sxphiefrxst @Ky1eKatarn I would say it may not be body horror, but gender based horror. The horror about being trapped on a space (or any) ship with a rapist on board. This one can impregnate men. "noone can hear you scream"
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the Alien franchise is celebrated as peak body horror and sci fi horror, but it's definitely underappreciated as class commentary horror
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@uncledoomer When my sons were in high school, all the smartest kids in the school ended up in "Special Ed." It was the only class where any boy could get ANY teacher attention at all. Smart boys figured out how the school system was stacked against them.
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i think the reason bright, energetic young men butt heads with schoolteachers, overwhelmingly women, is teachers simply have no theory of mind for male students, or arent willing to find the patience necessary to teach boys, whose learning styles are significantly higher variance
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@HundWilliams @Turbinetraveler You’d fit right in with these guys.
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Delta and American Airlines CRJ pilots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are going viral after an ATC clip caught them making "meow," "ruff," and other animal sounds over the radio, but the controller wasn't having it. In the audio, ATC quickly shuts it down, telling them to act like "professional pilots."
📹: Flight Fantasy Simulator
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@Gerontas20 @RedCorner_MMA Bro is taking to the tv like it can hear him.
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@RedCorner_MMA We know the stripper is your friend baldy.
Dont make me look at your fraudulent resume.
You spent 25-26 fighting Bum Lopez
Before that you got colded by Islam-Topturo and your last win before that is Yair🤣
2019-2022 You fought Max 3x and other 2 wins are ortega,tkz🤣
GIF
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Alexander Volkanovski: "A Rematch for Jiri? It Doesn't Work Like That" 🇦🇺👑
Volkanovski pointed out the logical uphill battle Procházka faces. While Jiri has claimed he "felt mercy" for Ulberg after seeing the injury—leading to his own lapse in concentration—Volkanovski argues that losing to an injured opponent actually hurts your case for a do-over:
I like Jiri... but it doesn't work like that. How do you convince the UFC? They're going to say, 'Wait, he tore his ACL and still managed to knock you out?'"
Noted that the adversity was "a lot worse" on Ulberg’s end. In Volkanovski's eyes, Ulberg's ability to finish the fight while compromised proves he was the better man on the night, regardless of the
(Via: @alexvolkanovski )
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