@jeff_crayton @SarahisCensored "X is true despite overwhelming evidence because I feel like it."
Earther trannies
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Patrick
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@SarahisCensored Agree. Have always been a young-earther (less than 10k years) and the arguments attempting to “prove” billions of years have only solidified my position.
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The earth is young. It is not billions or even millions of years old. This is biblically supported.
Happy Earth Day.
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@NathanpmYoung There are parts of the US that approach Sudan or Haiti in Chicago burbs, Baltimore, etc, but no one talks about them because there isn't any reason to go there, and the level of segregation makes it "icky". But it is all the same thing that will devour the country.
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@Patrick06090676 Still far more dangerous feeling than I was expecting.
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SF is the most dangerous feeling place I’ve been to in the world. Because when I when to Mombasa or Udaipur, they wouldn’t let my white ass go to the dangerous parts after dark. But I thought SF was a normal city. It isn’t.
No. I won’t be shamed for acknowledging that.
Celia Ford@cogcelia
This weekend, I overheard a group of AI safety researchers laughing about how the city of Oakland "is District 9, dude. Don't go there!!" As in, presumably, the alien shantytown. Lighthaven is basically on the Berkeley-Oakland border. And it frankly pisses me off when some EAs and rationalists (who, yes, are not the same! and have both separately said things like this within earshot of me): (a) know nothing about the city they live in, (b) write large swaths of the Bay Area off as dangerous, disgusting places to be avoided*, and/or (c) go out of their way to minimize contact with anyone outside of their community, while claiming to care about epistemic clarity or doing the most good and such. Go outside, I'm begging you. Even, god forbid, in Oakland. I live here, it's nice! Maybe you live and work around here, too - be a good neighbor! Take a chill lap around Lake Merritt and maybe consider funding one of the city's many community-led efforts to make it better. -- * another anecdote: At the last SF EAG, I got multiple swapcard notifications warning me to take uber/waymo away from the conference venue, lest I expose myself to the Tenderloin at 6pm. But like, frankly, I'd *love* for more fresh-out-of-college AI safety fellows to walk through the Tenderloin. Really take in the housing and displacement crisis. You'll be fine, I promise! Let yourself feel some of the ugly impact that the tech industry has had on marginalized people in this city.
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@js_xanatos @owroot Nah. Show's over. If the movie got made today it would end irony poisoned with some phag shit.
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@Patrick06090676 @owroot That's just a cope for a lazy ending and finale
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The more the years pass the more I like The Truman Show. It’s a lot of things at once and gets better the longer we go on.
Underrated movie.
BEYOND THE VEIL@beyond_theveil1
When Truman realizes his entire life was a lie 📷
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@js_xanatos @owroot The ending literally could not be improved. You could only make it more cynical which is unnecessary.
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@EmperorZetta @bizlet7 Everything he said was public information or speculative.
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@bizlet7 It's the fact that he's so desperate to impress a woman, that he just spills that insane level of classified info. I can't wrap my head around it.
I don't even think it's about dating strategy at this point, just raging insecurity.
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Someone needs to tell these ugly boring men that a pretty foid is not going to be into you because you’re some bureaucrat that has upper middle class wealth.
This isn’t the 1950s. Girls aren’t impressed by middle aged men with a house and decent paying job anymore.
They should seriously make this a part of security clearance training.
James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING NEWS: Top U.S. Nuclear Chief Caught LEAKING Sensitive National Security Information to Stranger, Reveals Army Chemist Was Exposed to U.S. Chemical Nerve Agent, Confirms U.S. Strike Killed Children in Iran, Discloses U.S. Plans to ‘Kill Iran’s New Supreme Leader’ “If he [Mojtaba Khamenei] doesn't change his ways, yeah, they're [United States] going to kill him.” “The easiest way to get intelligence…send a pretty girl, talk to the guy…I have to resist your eyes.” “Your eyes have mesmerized me so much…Almost like you're an intelligence.” Andrew Hugg, a U.S. Chief of Chemical Nuclear Surety, was caught on hidden camera casually revealing sensitive information to a stranger in a public restaurant. Andrew Hugg, Chief of Chemical Nuclear Surety, in charge of nuclear and chemical safety was caught on hidden camera releasing information regarding the U.S. Nuclear Information. He claims the U.S. still possesses nerve agents and says a U.S. Army chemist recently died from exposure. He also acknowledges U.S. airstrikes have killed children in Iran, calling it “collateral damage,” and revealed to the journalist how nuclear launch decisions are made in real time. Hugg described how the United States could assassinate Iran’s next leader if he “doesn’t change,” while admitting the U.S. has no plans to use nuclear weapons: “We’re not going to nuke anybody.” All of this was casually revealed to an undercover journalist in a restaurant. This raises serious questions about this official's judgment, security, and what’s really happening behind closed doors. We have reached out to the Pentagon and U.S. Army for comment and they are working on a response. @USArmy @DeptofWar
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@HoosierLit @escapefrommelos 3 on the right just need a little modern styling to look fine, 3 on the left hell nah
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@escapefrommelos Come on now. Those are all woulds.
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its genuinely crazy how much hotter women have gotten in the last 100 years
ArchaeoHistories@histories_arch
Sex workers in a brothel in France, 1910.... These women were likely working in a *maison close*—a regulated brothel. At the time, prostitution in France wasn’t hidden in the same way it is today. It was legal and tightly controlled by the state. Women working in these establishments were registered, subject to regular medical exams, and often lived inside the brothel itself under strict rules. They didn’t come and go freely the way people often imagine. Photos like this were often staged. They weren’t meant to expose reality—they were meant to *sell an atmosphere*. Brothels competed for clients, especially wealthier men, and presentation mattered. The poses, the clothing (or partial lack of it), the relaxed but deliberate body language—this is advertising, even if it looks informal. Some of these images were turned into postcards or private keepsakes, circulating quietly among clients. But there’s a harder truth underneath the surface. Many of these women didn’t enter this life out of choice. Poverty, lack of options, family pressure, or outright coercion pushed them there. Once inside, debt systems often kept them trapped—owing money for clothes, food, and lodging to the very establishment they worked in. So while the image might feel almost theatrical or even glamorous, the reality behind it was often controlled, limited, and harsh. And yet—there’s something striking here. The way they’re posed together, the confidence in their expressions, the sense of group identity. Whether staged or not, it captures a moment of presence—women who existed inside a system that tried to define them, but who still held onto some version of themselves within it. So no, this isn’t one specific documented “story” tied to named individuals. But it *is* a snapshot of a much bigger story—about gender, control, survival, and how societies package uncomfortable realities into something easier to look at. © Women In World History #archaeohistories
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@michaeldweiss Churchill sucked and destroyed the United Kingdom. I have no axe to grind but what a terrible example.
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Churchill daily consumed (give or take) six glasses of champagne or wine and 5 or 6 ounces of whisky or brandy. But he paced himself and took naps and otherwise turned the tipple into something approaching a political art form. Frat boy habits practiced by those who can’t hold their drink and aren’t clever or witty to begin with are as much an aesthetic offense as they are a national security concern.
scha·den·freu·de @BlisterPearl
So we're calling these guys the "Liquor Cabinet"?
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It's weird how the '50s/early-60s are seen as 'conformist' 'straitlaced' Eisenhower-era moral nuclear family bliss, but you read a popular novel from the time & it's about some drifter sleaze who lives a degenerate lifestyle of affairs, flophouses, drinking binges & abortions
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@samswoora Restaurants worked for me. Much better than McDonald's or hard labor.
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I worry about teenage boys. I have cousins and there’s not really jobs for them, technical schools didnt accept one of my cousins, he’s 17 and like mcdonalds won’t hire him. I don’t know what kind of positive future to guide him too. I also have my direct family to care about
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@WhiteMonster_14 @Aelthemplaer In theory he wouldn't have to graze his ear at all. The wound could be fake. But I don't know or care because it's irrelevant.
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I'm sorry to say I'm starting to agree with this.
Neil Oliver@thecoastguy
I think the "assassination attempt" on Donald Trump in Butler was a stunt.
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@lynettepillled @GolurkFan623 @GambelerQuail No better way to measure the overall health of a people than to ask whether they are taking part in ensuring their own survival. That is the nature of all life.
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@Patrick06090676 @GolurkFan623 @GambelerQuail Oh you mean the cultures that think birth control is a sin have more kids than ones that don't???
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When people fetishize old ways of life they’re imagining that everyone just fucking loved washing clothes in the river and doing 400 laborious chores everyday just to stay afloat.
I’m pretty sure they would have gladly used a washing machine and microwave or whatever lol
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@jamesgish_ @gfodor My take on that is that A) all living things are embodied and therefore conscious, and B) 24/7 commercial beef production to every supermarket in the world is heinous as a starting point.
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@Patrick06090676 @gfodor Well, the argument is that these meat sacks are not conscious. Another hypothetical: would it be ethical to create a breed of cow that enjoys being slaughtered and eaten by humans? Is it ethical NOT TO do so, if it's possible but we continue to farm normal cows for consumption?
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@Patrick06090676 @GambelerQuail Candy has a clear negative effect on a person's health due to the excessive amount of sugar in it. What is the negative effect of using a washing machine instead of manually washing your clothes?
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@escapefrommelos This is too endearingly earnest to be mean about.
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wow… holding up the Black King… this is so Deep… powerful… impressive (he is randomly moving pieces on the wrong side of the board while wearing starwars cosplay)
Tunde Onakoya@Tunde_OD
First Nigerian to play chess at the Louvre 🇫🇷-The world’s most prestigious museum.
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@uncledoomer I will do it. Is the apocalypse seed vault hiring?
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You could move to svalbard norway, get a job at the apocalypse seed vault, meet a nice girl at the orthodox church, then take her on a date to the north pole expedition museum, and get married and raise your children on reindeer hoofs and lutefisk. but you will not do it.
𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀@visualsofearth1
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
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