Fatuous Pauper
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Activist: "British farmers should transition to plant-based crops."
Farmer: "Two thirds of Britain's agricultural land cannot grow crops."
Activist: "With investment..."
Farmer: "The investment required to terrace, drain, and cultivate upland Britain would cost more than the food it produced would ever be worth."
Activist: "It could be done."
Farmer: "Economically, ecologically, and practically, it cannot. The hill farmers have tried for three thousand years to push the line upward. The line is where it is."
Activist: "Technology changes things."
Farmer: "Technology cannot change the angle of a fell or the depth of the topsoil."
Activist: "Other countries manage hillside farming."
Farmer: "With enormous subsidy, at great environmental cost, and still not competitively."
Activist: "What's your alternative."
Farmer: "Sheep and cattle on the hills. Arable on the valleys. The same system that's fed Britain since before the Romans."
Activist: "That sounds old-fashioned."
Farmer: "It works. That's why it's old."
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@SlumRNA_Dog Life is a team sport that is played on a much longer timescale than our lives.
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Like I just want to give my kids the life I had with some special attention to details my parents missed, not out of any failure on there part, I just think there’s nothing wrong with getting the family batting average up.
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I’ve literally looked forward to larping as my parents (with some tasteful modifications) for my entire life
Overeducated Gibbon@MostlyMonkey
Past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.
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@christina99106 @timecaptales He was doing it long before MMA existed. If he was born 40 years later he likely would have been a decent MMA fighter.
It’s not like he just died at 50
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Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate.
On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other".
Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion.
Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself.
Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo.
Rest in peace, Chuck!
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@AnnaLeptikon I have never met a reality TV star (and I've met several) who wasn't 100% out of his or her mind.
Oh, and the last time I looked a bachelor or bachelorette means someone who has never been married.
Taylor is a divorcee with children.
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Take a moment to mute the video and to only look at the image of her on the right side and feel the inferences you would have made about how she behaves, including in her worst moments. And then notice how catastrophically wrong you can be. What makes humans so interesting is their active management of how they are perceived by others. Hanson would call it signaling. This means humans can also actively fool you entirely. With humans it’s genuinely “turtles all the way down”, if you feel like trusting them too quickly, this can itself become a sign that you shouldn’t.
Look at this charismatic fellow for example.
FearBuck@FearedBuck
ABC has canceled The Bachelorette after their lead was seen in a leaked footage physically attacking her ex-boyfriend and throwing metal chairs at him while her child was present and reportedly the child was struck during the altercation.
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@AnnaLeptikon Why do you dislike being picked up from the airport?
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The funny thing is I mostly dislike getting picked up from airports, but I’d dislike having to argue why it’s an obviously lovely human and civilized thing to do even more.
Diana S. Fleischman@sentientist
Airport pickup is a costlier signal now that Uber exists. Anyone can send flowers; only someone who actually wants to spend two hours of their evening will drive to the airport. Sacrifice for a non-utilitarian outcome is romantic- that's why buying a diamond ring is more romantic than buying new kitchen appliances.
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@Konstantk8 @emeriticus The apocalypse is meant to symbolize the inevitability of your death and that of your line. Having your first child comes with a renewed sense of your own mortality.
Plus it's a compelling background for a survival story.
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@basedc1 @emeriticus Dude I keep telling people it’s a love letter to his son. People are like “it’s a horror story about dying in an apocalypse”. No! He literally spends half the book doing “I love this kid” poetry. The reason he hadn’t capped himself is because he wants the boy to live.
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If you read Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road in that order, it's like the life cycle of civilization: its bloody birth out of chaos, its violent decline, and its apocalyptic death in flames. I think that's why I found The Road so special. It's characteristically bleak and pessimistic McCarthy, but there is a kernel of superhuman hope at its heart that makes it one of the darkest things I have ever read, but also the most tender. "He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
Kristen Rudd@kristenrudd
About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.
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@Indian_Bronson 1986 was much better than 2006 which in turn was much better than this shit show of a year.
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@Indian_Bronson The overpressure would have turned their organs to jelly at the very least
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Nope, probably was bottom right and why they are alive (penetrator round burying into the earth). Not sure if they were targeted, but definitely wasn’t an artillery round (they would have been pulled apart and diced by shockwave and shrapnel at that distance).
Chay Bowes@BowesChay
It looks like Steve and his crew were targetted with an M982 Excalibur, US GPS-guided, 155mm extended-range artillery shell. They strike with precision within 4 meters at ranges over 40 km.
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"500 pound man hoisted out of a 15 foot hole on a construction site in Pomona, California. The man was not a construction worker and somehow ended up in the hole"
This is actually how we grow new Americans.
Forget being indigenous, this is what it means to be autochthonous.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: 500 pound man hoisted out of a 15 foot hole on a construction site in Pomona, California. The man was not a construction worker and somehow ended up in the hole, according to ABC 7. LACoFD's Heavy Rescue unit was eventually able to hoist the man out before he was rushed to the hospital. It’s unclear if he suffered any injuries.
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More proof LLMs aren't conscious and aren't generalizing any information, and therefore aren't going to become generally intelligent, but are in fact (still extremely useful) trained statistical responders.
Lossfunk@lossfunk
🚨 Shocking: Frontier LLMs score 85-95% on standard coding benchmarks. We gave them equivalent problems in languages they couldn't have memorized. They collapsed to 0-11%. Presenting EsoLang-Bench. Accepted to the Logical Reasoning and ICBINB workshops at ICLR 2026 🧵
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@Indian_Bronson Well and if you have purpose built robots for a lot of this stuff, you're buying a lot of robots! Probably cheaper for awhile to have a general purpose bot that uses your appliances
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I do think it's plausible non-humanoid form factors will simply be better at some tasks and new homes can be redesigned around this (e.g.: a 'laundry room' with washing machine & dryer)
I don't think it's at all plausible general purpose humanoids will be rendered irrelevant.
TBPN@tbpn
.@mcuban says humanoid robots won't last more than 5-10 years. Instead, we'll "design the house to fit the robot, and design the robot to fit the house." "You could create a house where the pantry, the refrigerator, and the washing machines were hidden behind the garage, if you even have a garage. That way you could redesign the house so that all the living space was for people."
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I interpreted the dream in NCFOM as the father going off into existence.
"And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there."
And I got the impression that the first dream is another clue. He goes to meet his father in town so his father could give him some money, and then he loses it.
I always thought that the money symbolizes the gift of life which his father passed to him and he to his daughter, but it was lost when his daughter died young.
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Blood Meridian begins and ends with fire. "See the child" by the fire and the marking out of boundaries and the beginning of civilization. No Country ends with a kind of dream of decline, I think: a son riding out into the dark to meet his father who carried the fire for him and is waiting for him out there. The world has ended by fire in The Road before the book begins, and there is this recurring theme of carrying the fire, of the father passing the torch to the son he is leaving behind in a world that is dead and will never be the same. "Not be made right again." But the man decides to keep going anyway for the boy. Reading McCarthy has had the effect of making me more hopeful but not less pessimistic
Seth Largo@SethLargo
The "carry the fire" motif emerges in each of his Westerns: just a flicker at the end of BM and only in a dream in NCFOM. The physical presence of "the son" is, you're right, the most hopeful manifestation of it (McCarthy had just had a child himself, but the religious connotation is strong). It emerges just as hopefully in The Border Trilogy but you gotta read all three books to get to. His Southern novels are much more bleak because they lack this motif entirely.
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@dontbsalti @BazFutures Right, it's just playing deviation from a moving average. There really aren't that many types of Indis when you bottom line them. Some just take a more circuitous route from A to B
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Since her little Simps from her discord decided to make Twitter profiles doxxing me I should just reverse engine engineered and launch it for free just to be a dick.
Because she’s swinging around this CS degree. And this is like a basic ass indicator that I could code in like 15 minutes on Claude lol
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500 likes I will buy and forward test bloop.
For someone who has a ~masters in CS~ should have been easy to set up a forward test but all we got is cherry picked screenshots.
If she is forward testing— why isn’t she posting those results lmfao
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@Robin_Hood1555 @Austen The program requires 3+ yrs of experience in software engineering
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@Austen What’s your approximate IQ threshold?
Trying to convince a single mom friend, her son is way better off doing this over college.
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It's still kinda wild to me that Gauntlet AI works.
Send half a million dollars to a hotel for housing, hundreds of thousands for food, fly people from all over the world to our office.
And because of what they can do by graduation we can fund it all with recruiter fees.
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@chicagotechmom @ChantalMW @emilykmay I agree with you on that point, I just threw up several potential reasons she hasn't accomplished it.
Being overweight is mystifying for those of us who haven't had to struggle with it.
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@basedc1 @ChantalMW @emilykmay Enh maybe? I’m not an expert but she seems big - as in tall and broad - as well as overweight? Idk man, I just think if fatness has had such an overly negative effect on her life, worth changing even if it’s not perfect, you know?
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@chicagotechmom @ChantalMW @emilykmay Only to a point. Lindy is very heavy and has been her whole life. Her skin is not shrinking that much, even with fasting autophagy.
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@basedc1 @ChantalMW @emilykmay I don’t think this is true - if you lose the weight slowly, skin elasticity can often keep up. Of course it’s not a guarantee - different bodies react differently but definitely there are people out there who look great! Also she would FEEL better!
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@chicagotechmom @ChantalMW @emilykmay But now that she took this approach it may be difficult to go back on it. And let's face it, if she lost all the weight she still won't look good in a bikini. She will have to have a lot of skin removed and still won't look great.
It's worth doing imo, but I get it
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@chicagotechmom @ChantalMW @emilykmay She has prob tried and failed several times to lose the weight. Nobody wants to hear this, but fatness is heavily influenced by genetics.
So she took a different tack, internalized it as her identity, and tried to use her formidable verbal abilities to convince us she's hot.
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