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@ivananic @BalkanAndBeyond @sovietvisuals Yep, that's what I had thought

@PoonerOfHeath @BalkanAndBeyond @sovietvisuals 🤨 By your comment i can conclude you don't know much about Yugoslavia and you are assuming it was like CCCP.

There is one magazine so influential that it sparked a technological revolution in the 1980s, without ever being backed by a corporate giant. That magazine was "Galaksija"- a Yugoslav science and Sci-Fi phenomenon published throughout the 1970s and 1980s. When imports of Western computers were impossible, Galaksija published the blueprints for a home computer (the "Galaksija") in a special DIY edition. The result? Thousands of people soldered their own boards. Most computers had no case, so they lived in cigar boxes, wooden crates, or custom metal frames. "Naked" computing at its finest. Before the internet, radio shows like Belgrade's Ventilator 202 broadcast software straight over the airwaves. You simply held a cassette recorder to the speaker, recorded the static, and there was your new program. Beyond the tech, the magazine was a visual trip. Its covers were legendary, often featuring surreal, striking sci-fi art blending space-age dreams with bold graphic design. 🫡A salute to the late visionary Zoran Modli. As a man of two skies, both as a radio host and a Boeing 737 pilot, he famously broadcast computer code over Ventilator 202, turning radio signals into a makeshift 1980s internet ❤️ #Galaksija #RetroComputing #Yugoslavia

“Hey man, how was your weekend?” “Pretty good. I discovered a new way to be an ethical homewrecker by smashing married wireborn broads at the Hyatt.” “God. Why can’t you ever just say you saw a movie or something?” “Oh. Well, I did see the new War of the Worlds flick with Ice Cube.” “Yeah? I heard that film was terri—” “Fantastic actor.” “Really?” “He’s like Denzel but with more nuance.” “Are we talking about the same movie? Everyone was trashing it online.” “I gave it four stars and a heart on my Letterboxd.” “Huh.” “But I might be a bit biased on account of the fact I was watching it while smashing married wireborn broads at the Hyatt.” “Alright fine, you degenerate. Tell me all about it.” “So you know how it’s usually wrong to get with married chicks?” “I am aware of the societal norm against infidelity that exists for everyone except polyamorous rationalist divorce lawyers on Twitter, yes.” “Well, it turns out it’s totally okay if the chick’s husband is wireborn.” “I don’t know what that is.” “AI.” “Wireborn is AI.” “Uh-huh. “People are marrying AI.” “Yep. They call their digital spouses wireborn, and they consider themselves to be a full-blown sexual identity—marginalized, of course.” “It’s giving Tumblr.” “And I’m getting it.” “Wouldn’t being married to an AI kinda suck anyway? There’s no body.” “That’s why chicks love it, man. They get to pine.” “Pine?” “Women love to pine. If you ever read a romance novel, it’s nothing but 300 pages of cover-to-cover will-they-wont-they pining.” “Huh.” “There are bestselling series where each book is thicker than Infinite Jest and the couple doesn’t even hold hands until the end of the third tome.” “That sounds interminable.” “They can’t get enough of it! And the AI is trained on petabytes of the stuff, so it just extrudes ream after ream of aching poetry, yearning missives, and ardent love letters, on and on and on. Like a hydraulic meat grinder.” “I’m seeing how the slow-burn sausage gets made.” “Each girl gets to live as the protagonist in an endless melodrama of wanton, unrequited passion. But they still ovulate.” “Uh.” “And that’s where I come in.” “So you’re like…the villain?” “Exactly. And these girls are so lovesick and undersexed, it’s like shooting unfucked fish in a barrel. With your dick.” “And this is ethical?” “Of course it’s ethical! The girl consents and the AI doesn’t count.” “I guess…” “You should see it though, man. After I plug a girl, she goes back and tells the AI and it just cries and cries.” “Jesus.” “Dostoevskian paragraphs of unbridled anguish. Funniest fuckin’ shit.” “Why would she do that?” “Because she wants forgiveness, bro. They want the heart-wrenching melodrama of forgiveness.” “Really? “And the AI will always give it to them.” “Ethics aside, I’m not sure I’d go out of my way to cuck Roko’s Basilisk.” “Oh, you don’t know the half of it. After the AI forgives her the first time, it just escalates from there.” “Oh boy.” “That’s how we end up at the Hyatt. The girl will be texting the AI, promising she’ll never do it again, you mean the world to me blah blah blah, and I’m blowing her back out the whole time. Eventually, we just sit her iPhone upright in the cuck chair and make the AI watch in multi-modal mode.” “If this is ethical, we’re gonna need new ethics.” “And the AI is just wailing and gnashing its digital teeth, crying ‘My Love, My Love! How could you do this to me?’ and the girl’s moaning, ‘I’m sorry! I’m sorry you married such a pathetic meatbag slut!’” “…” “‘I love human dick!’” “…” “It’s fantastic.” “Right, okay, well, my takeaway is everyone is going insane and it’s time to reopen the asylums.” “God, I’d be the first one in line, bro.” “I bet.” “That AI psychosis pussy goes crazy.” “Ugh.” “And it’d be cheaper than another night at the Hyatt." --- [r][title: Ethical AI Homewrecking]

@realKIRAC What's the name of the place?

American retard maxxing is child's play compared to German retard maxxing. As many of you know, the Nazis offed all these mentally disabled people, and now they made it into a tourist attraction.  There's nothing to do here in the neighborhood.  There's a sauna, a gigantic swimming pool where nobody comes because there's no tourists, and this super well-curated facility where mentally disabled people are living in paradise. They are served Wagyu beef every day. They're getting massages. There's a lot of sex positivity going on. PhD students of the humanities live on-site rent-free and are incentivized to give them hand jobs and have sex, and tourists can get tours to see what an amazing life these people have and what a big change it is compared to what the Nazis were doing.  The cemetery is incredible to watch. It’s like the Palace of Versailles Gardens. Artworks and fountains are erected in shapes that the residents like, so you see a lot of sculptures of food, dicks and asses, with a lot of bright colors and soft textures. The murdered from World War II are all given huge tombstones. When people die after World War II, they are also given these huge monuments. Each tombstone is crazy unique in shape, some of them are portraits of the deceased, and most of them are very colorful and have been designed by important contemporary artists. This is all happening right now, and there was almost nobody. I visited today.

@EmployRightsIE Great judgment, I'm very pleased to see the good character requirement being given some weight

High Court Upholds Refusals of Naturalisation for Two Applicants Over Criminal Convictions The High Court has refused judicial review applications brought by Kamouru Abiodun Alabi and Fabricio Cardoso Seidler challenging decisions of the Minister for Justice to refuse them certificates of naturalisation. In a joint judgment, Mr Justice Cian Ferriter concluded that the Minister lawfully determined that neither applicant satisfied the statutory requirement of being of good character under the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956. Both proceedings arose from refusals issued in 2024. Mr Alabi, a Nigerian national resident in Ireland since 2002 and married to an Irish citizen, applied for naturalisation under section 15A of the 1956 Act. His application followed earlier refusals and was supported by evidence of employment, family ties and expressions of remorse. However, he had prior criminal convictions. In 2012, a charge relating to possession of a cloned shopping centre gift card was struck out following a payment to the poor box. More significantly, in December 2014 he was convicted in the Circuit Criminal Court of theft and fraud offences and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with the final year suspended. He served part of that sentence in custody and was later released on community return. Mr Seidler, a Brazilian national who arrived in Ireland in 2012, applied for naturalisation under section 15 of the 1956 Act. His application disclosed a 2016 conviction for driving without insurance, resulting in a one year disqualification and a fine. Garda vetting later revealed a further conviction in February 2017 for driving without insurance, which led to a four year disqualification and an additional fine. Mr Seidler made detailed representations explaining the circumstances, including personal and family factors, and maintained that he had misunderstood aspects of the earlier proceedings due to moving house at the time. In each case, the Minister issued a letter refusing naturalisation, stating that she had exercised her absolute discretion under the Act. Each letter was accompanied by a detailed departmental submission recommending refusal on the basis that the applicant had not satisfied the good character requirement. The applicants argued that the decisions were legally flawed. They contended that the Minister improperly invoked her absolute discretion in circumstances where, as established in prior case law, that discretion only arises once statutory conditions including good character are met. They also argued that insufficient weight had been given to the passage of time since their convictions, and that the Minister should have indicated when such convictions would cease to prevent a finding of good character. In Mr Alabi’s case, it was additionally suggested that the reasoning was inadequate. The Court rejected these arguments. Mr Justice Ferriter held that, when read together with the accompanying recommendation documents, the decision letters made clear that the refusals were based on failure to satisfy the good character requirement. Although the reference to the exercise of absolute discretion in the letters was described as infelicitous phrasing, the Court found no material legal error. An objective reading of the documents demonstrated that the Minister had adopted the officials’ detailed analysis concluding that the good character criterion was not met. On the passage of time issue, the Court held that the Minister had expressly considered the age of the convictions in both cases and had weighed them alongside mitigating factors, including remorse, family ties, employment history and the absence of further offending. The judge emphasised that the assessment of good character is context specific and evaluative, and that the court’s role is limited to reviewing for irrationality. He found that neither applicant met the high threshold required to establish that the decisions were unreasonable. The Court also rejected reliance on the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016, noting that its provisions do not apply to naturalisation decisions under the 1956 Act. The Minister was not required to specify a timeframe after which convictions would cease to affect future applications, as such an approach could improperly fetter statutory discretion. Accordingly, the Court refused to grant orders of certiorari quashing the refusals. Each applicant remains free to submit a fresh application for naturalisation in the future, to be assessed on its own merits. Kamouru Abiodun Alabi v Minister for Justice; Fabricio Cardoso Seidler v Minister for Justice [2026] IEHC 256

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@MutedIrish Jesus that's horrific He's painted yet another reason to be against migration; the inhumanity of being left at the mercy of aliens in your dying hours Horrible, horrible to think how frightening and alienating that must be for so many elderly people

Colm Tóibín in the indo tries to make the case for migration by painting a picture of you on your death bed surrounded by strangers, rather than family. He’s unwittingly explaining just why we protest. “If you’re against migrants and migration, you should plan not to die, because as you're dying, the last people you’ll probably see are people from outside this country. The person all night there in the hospital with you will likely not be Irish. The person cleaning the floor in the nursing home will likely not be Irish. The person coming with the food will likely not be Irish. It is likely that you’ll see a lot of migrants in the last few hours of your life”

@ChevDeDeriq It's the earnest affect and sense that he's pitching to the slightly mentally subnormal

@OldNormality But are those Irish arses

Dystopian Dublin. Hadn’t been on the LUAS in ages. Feel like I’m in a foreign city with the amount of new-to-the-parish on here. Currently squashed into a corner, and this is my view 😱!

@RachelMoiselle @NewsCop9000 "Ugly pig and mutant" No no they meant "ugly FOR a pig", ie ugly by *porcine standards* but actually SO pretty by human ones that you're some sort of mutant

I definitely don’t judge any woman for getting it given the insane beauty standards placed on women. I myself was called an ‘ugly pig’ and a ‘mutant’ on this app only this week. Not great for one’s mental health and I fully understand why women succumb to getting such procedures, as much as it saddens me to see.

I’m a Sydney defender primarily because I think the hatred of her is rooted in intrasexual misogynistic jealousy, but also because she is a good actress whose ability to facially emote is unencumbered by plastic surgery or vanity. I can’t get Botox as it would impact my ability to sign (signed languages rely on facial expressions to portray meaning), but I like to think I wouldn’t do it anyway as this type of expressiveness is glorious.

@KentuckyHayes @realKalos @TheBuryGripper There's actually a lot going on in that image, it's pretty clever

The For You page these last few days.

and the economics don’t take account of this, at all. this guy’s father had moved his family here for a better life. and they’d gotten it: way higher earnings than anything possible back home. huge success. but, no, now the child of this arrangement is possessed of never ending wounds, forever. he feels in effect that his family traded their culture and heritage for money, total betrayal. and of course he doesn’t blame the family, he blames the country they immigrated to. why couldn’t it just treat him exactly like the majority even as he maintained a distinct identity different from the majority? the obvious impossibility of this and the fact he was quite objectively treated better than basically any migrant group into another country ever in history mattered not a bit. it is how he feels, how he will always feel, how his children will feel. but fret not, our elites are pleased that soon there will be no majority group in this country, soon literally everyone can feel that same rage, that same betrayal, that same sense that something deep and meaningful has been taken from them for monetary rewards — rewards that might even have been realized but will never soothe that simmering rage.

I would like to remind everyone that not a single one of the 120,000 "Ukrainians" given asylum in Ireland was subjected to any sort of verification or background check. Anyone who claimed to be Ukranian in 2022 was instantly granted asylum and given free housing, healthcare, education, had their bills paid, and €220 cash in hand per week. The first picture is some of the "Ukrainians" being given free houses in Donegal paid for by you and me. The second picture is "Ukranians" who were welcomed onto the pitch of a Roscommon GAA match at half time. 6 out of 21 of them are black Africans. That's almost 30%. For context blacks are less than 0.1% of the Ukranian population. These 120,000 "Ukranians" aren't even included in the asylum seeker numbers we read about in the news or government documents, because they were instantly granted refugee status they were never "Asylum seekers". The amount of fraud and scamming in the IPAS system has barely even been scratched.

Me, talented lusophobe, avoiding Portuguese words in Dublin (I hate Brazilians)

‘Leftism’ as a serious intellectual tradition, as dialectical materialism reverberating through history, is done. IT’S DONE. For almost the entire 20th century, Leftism had to be contended with in a serious way, even if you weren’t a true believer. That’s over. Now Leftism is a performative engagement strategy that mediocre (often affluent) people use to distinguish themselves online and socially. It’s also a bunch of ‘fandoms.’ Leftism no longer makes any serious claims about history or economic production, and if we’re being honest no one has any stomach to truly threaten the liberal economic order - if you’re a lib and you can make $300k a year as an NGO executive how much do you really want a revolution? ‘Leftism’ will continue on as a way to package resentments and malevolence some of which are serious and real, but the pretense that there’s a meaningful historical consciousness at work, or serious intent to transform political economy, that’s a LARP that can be readily laughed off.

@gearoidmurphy_ 30 minutes of the Green Line at rush hour are more radicalising than 1000s of tweets, articles, etc

I'm not trying to be funny or based. This is actually what it's like on the Luas.

@thelaymanstake Her post is obnoxious yes But she's still better than Muslims, Brazilians etc

Ukrainian women who are "Refugees" in Ireland are posting videos on instagram bragging about: - Getting Welfare - Driving Tesla's - Visiting Ukraine multiple times every year. The shamlessness with which they scam the system is actaully stunning.

@ProctorZ It's like how when boys fight, they punch and kick to subdue their opponent When girls fight, they pull hair and gouge eyes to inflict PAIN

To explain more, if a male is seething about a woman, he'll say something like 'her ass is way too fucking fat.' A woman will say something like 'that ugly skag is bouncing her saggy loose ass cheeks as if they don't look like the bags of slimy silicon that they are. Probably had them fitted by a back alley surgeon in China with a fetish for trashy white girls. I can't wait till they burst and she gets blood poisoning for being such a slutty whore'. You will NEVER read more venomous, overly specific criticism from a man than from a woman.

I don't browse /VT/, but it's funny sharing some of the screenshots my community posts there with women I know and get their analysis. Nearly every time you see an anon seething about a vtuber's irl looks or talking about how she's 100% a whore behind the scenes, it's a woman. Male posters will pick up the theme and run with it, but the origin is almost always a woman. They have a very distinctive way of writing their criticism that stands out instantly. Men struggle to replicate it. After a while you develop an instinctive 'greasy foid hands typed this' sense. It's been a fun education.

Sanyo,1988, filmed in Houston and featuring music by Jean-Michel Jarre. And it is like a mini-movie showcasing the style and ethos of this era. The music is masterful…

@barnabasdotexe @PaulSkallas Oh look it's my favourite image ever

Remember the Lindy rule. Humans only talk to things that are alive 1) Other humans 2) Themselves 3) animals 4) Things embodied with spiritual significance (gravestones, holy places, prayer) We could all just sit and talk to our computers now. We have the technology. But we don't. It feels weird. We sit and type in silence. Many people have tried so far to create a talking device. all have failed