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Jason
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Husband | Father | Germanic Pagan | Outdoorsman | Angler | Texas Native - Arizona Vagabond
Arizona, USA Katılım Ağustos 2025
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Wheel of Pain:
The series of fantasy books about Conan by Robert E. Howard is considered classic.
While he was telling alternative historical fantasy and did display a rather bleak world.
He also highlighted aspects of Paganism, both Indo-European and Mesopotamian, which were spot on. Also, he touched on morality and proper masculinity with themes of honor, strength, and ruling with wisdom.
One aspect I always found interesting was the Wheel of Pain.
The wheel of pain was a mill that Thrall slaves were forced to turn by hand all day long. It took their full body. It was said to break the mind but strengthen the body.
It was torture and slave labor, but from it, Conan became extremely strong and Steele willed. After he was freed of it by being purchased, he continued to wear a pendant that represented the wheel and his time there. It became a religious symbol to him, almost associating it with Testing from his God Crom.
I started to think about how the wheel was torment. But a torment that Conan had to undergo in order to transform him.
How the wheel of time and samara (cycle or rebirth), multiple lives, daily grind and training, experiences in life both Joyous and anguishingly sorrowful, are meant to strengthen us. Ultimately, they prepare us for Ragnarök. Itself is the ultimate test, but also a cycle.
These all are constant cycles of good and bad, happy and sad, that we must undergo in order to karmically be prepared for Apotheosis/Enlightenment.
It isn't the cycles or the wheel itself that is conditioning and building us. It is how we embrace and use the wheel to our advantage to push ourselves higher. Stronger. Wiser. More noble.
It is interesting to note that the Celtic version of the Thunderer / Striker, Taranis, is associated with the chariot wheel. The wheel is associated with the Sun and Solar worship, and solar crosses have been discovered all over Europe in Celto-Germanic regions.
In addition, the wheel of Dharma is the teachings of the Buddha with 8 spokes of the Arya 8 fold path.
All of this is just food for thought. Or maybe food for spirit. Just like the wheel, it is how you utilize it that matters.
Hammer and Vajra!
Otaku Guru@otakuguru55
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One year mother and I went to Galveston…I think I was ten. We took the ferry to Crystal Beach and on the way a pod of bottle-nosed dolphins breached all around the boat. That was pretty amazing 😊
All day Astronomy@forallcurious
🚨: Study shows the most unforgettable childhood memories are family vacations between ages 5 to 10.
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After all these years, you finally got your wish, Dave. 🥲
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.
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@Tom_Rowsell @Gnosisinformant @frater_dt Follow them back to Proteus, capture him, and demand he bestow prophetic wisdom upon you.
Or not. Actually, that’s a terrible idea. Nevermind.
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This is like one of those crazy stories you read in Herodotus that nobody would ever believe if they couldn't see it for themselves.
Dr. Lemma@DoctorLemma
A seal at a public aquarium learned to mimic human speech, and he sounded exactly like a grumpy old man. He spent years swimming in his tank, surfacing just to stare at confused tourists and yell "How are ya?" and "Get outta here!"
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My feet need to be on the dash or on the seat, and it might permanently fold me in half someday, but I can't sit normally 😭
But I also will never tell you to vaccinate, so there's that.
White Media🎥@WeimarWorlds
Majority of women would scream “get the vaccine to be safe!” followed by riding in every car they get in like this.
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Absolutely. This quite obviously should be the law. We already require the president to be a natural born citizen. Why wouldn't we extend that requirement to congress and the judicial branch?
Leading Report@LeadingReport
Nancy Mace files legislation to ban foreign-born elected officials and judges.
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President Trump is right. Birthright citizenship is being exploited.
Only children born to legal U.S. residents should be automatic citizens. I introduced a Constitutional Amendment to address this issue and end birthright citizenship once and for all.
Fox News@FoxNews
JUST NOW: President Trump calls birthright citizenship a "disgrace" ahead of the upcoming Supreme Court decision that could have major impacts throughout the country. "20% to 25% of the people coming into our country will come in through birthright citizenship. They'll become citizens through birthright citizenship, and it will cost us numbers..." "It's all up to a couple of people, and I hope they do what's right."
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@k1rallik @AKALYPTIK This info was already known years ago. Sucks for those people but either self host their own cloud storage or go with a privacy focused provider.
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do you understand what Google's AI just did to an artist..
His entire Google account got permanently banned. Not just Drive. Gmail.. YouTube.. Every single service..
His appeal was rejected. No human reviewed it. An algorithm decided his life's work was a violation.
He never shared the files publicly. It was a private backup of his own creations. The AI flagged it anyway - probably the filename or art style - and that was enough.
- Google banned a developer's 14-year-old Gmail account over a research dataset that contained no illegal content
- Google expanded its automated ban policy in October 2025 - violations now trigger immediate termination with zero warning period
- No lawsuit against Google for wrongful account termination has ever succeeded in US courts
Your Google account is not yours. You are renting access to your own digital life from a company whose AI can end it in seconds - with no appeal, no human, and no recourse.
AyakaMods@AyakaMods
Google just permanently banned a manga artist’s entire Google account, just for uploading his own old manga files to Drive. AI moderation triggered and flagged it, he tried to submit appeal then he got rejected it by Google and now he has lost everything like Gmail, Drive, all linked services is gone. He never even sharing the files publicly, it’s only backing up his own a private work like any creator and artists. This is Google Drive “AI moderation” in action. No human support and no serious to take action. Physical storage or real private alternatives only. Support the artists getting screwed by this. This level of corporate overreach is insane.
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White-collar jobs are getting hit harder by AI than blue-collar ones right now. Tasks like writing, data analysis, coding, research, and admin work are exactly what current AI excels at, unlike physical manufacturing work.
One analysis puts white-collar automation potential at around 30%, compared to under 1% for blue-collar roles. Goldman Sachs says AI could automate 25% of all US work hours, with 300 million jobs globally exposed, though actual displacement over 10 years might be more like 6-7% of workers.
What’s actually happening: AI was linked to about 4.5% of job losses in 2025, and in April 2026 it accounted for 26% of layoffs in one report. Entry-level white-collar roles, junior analysts, coders, paralegals, customer service, are seeing the biggest squeeze, with hiring slowing sharply in AI-exposed fields.
BCG projects 50-55% of US jobs will change significantly in the next couple years, but only 10-15% get fully eliminated in the next five. A lot of roles are getting augmented, people using AI tools to work faster rather than being replaced outright.
It’s still early, so the big wave of losses some CEOs are warning about hasn’t fully materialized yet. The real story so far is fewer new office jobs being created, especially at the entry level.
Patricia 🇺🇸@1109Patricia
AI is creating new blue-collar-ish roles: robot operators, maintenance techs for automated lines, quality inspectors who work with AI systems, and tradespeople building data centers and power infrastructure for AI itself. Those jobs often pay better than traditional assembly line work. Bottom line: manufacturing will likely keep shedding routine repetitive positions, but skilled trades around automation and AI infrastructure look like one of the stronger paths forward. History shows tech usually creates new work even as it destroys old tasks.
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