Babel
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This will set back US competitiveness massively unfortunately. They need a US national interest clause for researchers.
Homeland Security@DHSgov
An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.
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@Rhodesiaonsol @eveningxbt Umm this guy is an Olympic champion and he already broke the world record in training
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@eveningxbt Combination of things. The genetic gap between the people competing at the Olympics and the people here is huge, a lot of WR holders are on PEDs already, and the effect of most PEDs isn’t what most people think. If it was strictly weightlifting I’d have a different stance.
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@pofunder @beffjezos Moving to India or what’s the plan? Plenty of great talent in India from what I hear
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Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years.
Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
Theo - t3.gg@theo
This sucks. America should welcome greatness. Builders, innovators, and creators should have a fast path to citizenship. I can’t fathom why we would make life harder for founders starting billion dollar companies that want to anchor themselves in the US.
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Cyborg deathmatches are going to be so much more interesting than the Olympics.
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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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@JohnnyBCCB @DejiOkusanya @imthatdexter @Polymarket Could be that the doctors aren’t prescribing it necessarily just advising
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@DejiOkusanya @imthatdexter @babelDefi @Polymarket I get that there are shady docs helping athletes juice under the table. But I have no idea where they’re finding docs to openly help athletes do gear for this competition. It’s a complete violation of all medical ethics.
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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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@JohnnyBCCB @steeliewheel @imthatdexter @Polymarket Did we not all just get done explaining this to you? The entire field of sport medicine exists, and a large percent of them are enhancing athlete. This is a giant industry lmao and no they certainly aren’t shunned they are paid millions of dollars per year
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@steeliewheel @imthatdexter @babelDefi @Polymarket I have no doubt there are shady doctors doing this clandestinely. But I’m not sure what doctors are willing to openly help athletes juice for this competition. They would be shunned professionally.
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I didn't vote for this
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
JUST IN - Trump admin preparing for a fresh wave of military strikes against Iran.
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@zahctainefon @comeonands_lam @SteamySnuggler @Cizzy_mac @riotgames You are obviously retarded lol. Their software didn’t brick anything. Those are $6k modified cards made to cheat in valorant. Since they patched the way the way were cheating, they are essentially worthless
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@comeonands_lam @SteamySnuggler @Cizzy_mac @riotgames You cannot get away with a federal crime by getting your victim(s) to sign a waiver.
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congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight
ogisada@ogisadaDMA
Game: Valorant AC: Vanguard (VGK) Today’s Vanguard anti-cheat update blocked the majority of DMA firmwares using SATA/NVMe. VGK suddenly triggered an IOMMU restart warning in-game, after which the DMA firmware becomes completely unusable, even without the game running or after uninstalling Vanguard. Only fix is a full OS reinstall. It’s using IOMMU to create read blocks, which permanently breaks the majority of almost all SATA/NVMe firmwares once triggered. Even the advanced H2-board got affected. Confirmed Firmware Block wave by @ItsGamerDoc
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Enhanced Games athlete in photo is James “The Missile” Magnussen.
Australian swimmer with an Olympic silver medal. Said he’d “juice to the gills” if offered $1m to break 50m freestyle record of 20.88.
Enhanced Games agreed. This vid of him is most viewed on its YouTube channel and top comment is incredible: “you can see his back from his front”.
Absolute tank. 6’6 and will weigh ~250lbs for the swim.
For the inaugural Enhanced Games this weekend, Magnussen will also wear a full-body polyurethane super swimming suit that was banned after 2008 Beijing Olympics (he’s been training and doping at a facility in LV).
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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@JohnnyBCCB @imthatdexter @Polymarket Shrunken testes are a choice, you can keep the gonads producing with HCG etc. bone density will go up on most steroids not down. But I do agree there’s always a trade off. Drinking alcohol is much worse for you than doing a moderate cycle of testosterone
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Some of the male population needs to take steroids for various medically/therapeutically-necessary reasons, and they accept the resulting risks. That’s not the same as voluntarily fucking up your body chemistry, leading to shrunken testes, bone density issues, cardiovascular issues, skin and hair issues, etc.
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@JohnnyBCCB @imthatdexter @Polymarket I think the major point I’m trying to make is that I would never support bodybuilder levels of gear. But you can see major improvements with much less, and plenty of the male population is already taking them
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@imthatdexter @babelDefi @Polymarket Are there actual licensed medical doctors willing to supervise elective anabolic steroid use? That feels hard to believe — it’s likely a violation of their oaths. Perhaps they bring some doctors in from overseas, or use other types of MD-light “doctors.”
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@JohnnyBCCB @imthatdexter @Polymarket They are using licensed medical doctors yes. Bodybuilders have been working with doctors for decades
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@gamehowitzer @JohnnyBCCB @Polymarket Be sure to call up Mr Olympia and tell him you think his protocol might actually be pointless
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@babelDefi @JohnnyBCCB @Polymarket Not all bodybuilders use the same protocols. And honestly that much test is just pointless. There's way more to it than just running ridiculous amounts of gear.
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@gamehowitzer @JohnnyBCCB @Polymarket Ok well I’m pretty familiar with the protocols used by most of the well-known bodybuilders. Obviously they all use their own protocols?
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I know they’ll be on less because the doses bodybuilders take are far far beyond what would enhance your performance in a sport. They take so much because they need to stay muscular into insane leanness.
Bodybuilder might take 4 grams of testosterone whereas a pro athlete would see serious gains from 300 mg
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@babelDefi @Polymarket Body building on gear is a terrible idea, too. And why do you think they’ll be on less, anyway? Are there rules about how much they can be on for these games?
I’m not saying we should ban or “stop” anything, but I would encourage people not to encourage these idiots.
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@FaithLikeAbish2 @LargeInStature_ It’s the “intentionally make it look like you’re not wearing garments while wearing garments so you can fit in with the popular culture” that’s the problem. Leggings under skirts? Totally fine. Nude bodysuit to carefully craft the illusion of nudity? Questionable.
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A nude bodysuit over your garments. That's wild ngl. I would have never thought to do something like that in a million years.
I steered clear of the conversion up until now. I saw the photos. I was like, how can she possibly call that garment-friendly.
Seems sus. Like those Jewish people who have all the tricks for getting around their commandments.
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@DavidHWeyland @AntelopeHill Are we supposed to think you guys are Based White Americans or something? Because we can all tell you are gay brown communists pretending to be Based ™️
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@AntelopeHill As predicted you hit a nerve.
You should make a keffiyeh but stars and stripes or flecktarn.
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@AntelopeHill @FrostyHillz420 Probably the most retarded design I’ve seen in a long time. Like something out of Pakistan or something
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@GDA360 @skuxy18 @Polymarket Professional athletes already take compounds with far less data on them so they can get around the rules. So by switching to the compounds we actually have decades of data on, they’re being safer than before
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@skuxy18 @Polymarket Calling it healthier is a stretch because long term effects of many performance enhancing compounds are still unknown and no amount of “above board” changes the risks athletes take with their bodies
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