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@mean_field_zane To what exted could we realistically leash technology though? Let's say we starifht up banned recording based social media like instagram or tik tok, wouldn't instant messaging pretty quickly fill that surveillance niche in a harder to surpress, if less public way?

He’s very clearly right about all of this.

@andrelorenzob @DonVianna Eu so fico depressivo mesmo

@DonVianna Deve ser foda não ter sido aceito em nenhuma universidade fora e não conseguir lidar com isso, ficando ressentido para o resto da vida.

É, porque o certo era deixar eles aqui pra virarem professores na Universidade Federal de Caralhinhos do Norte, ficarem envoltos em um ambiente cheio de colegas medíocres que só publicam mumbo-jumbo em revista nacional e dão aula merda (tudo isso enquanto reclamam que ganham pouco)

@DonVianna Eu nao sei quão robustos são esses testes verbais em especifico, mas testes de identificação de padrão são a base da maior parte dos exames de QI que existem. Matrizes de raven por exemplo são analogos visuais e tem capacidade de predição extremamente robusta

Alguém achar que isso é "raciocínio lógico" e que faz algum sentido cobrar em prova de concurso só mostra o buraco em que a gente se meteu...

@EtherealEOD @EzzellVFX Amazing, have you thought about doing the stealth and special ops elites too? I think the colors would look amazing with your materials

Feeling pretty good with how these came out :)

@DelfinoTuito Eu admito que nao estudei muito sobre o assunto, mas pelo meu entendimento, o fator limitante é refino e não extração de metais raros. So a china tem a tecnologia de refino competitiva no momento

O valor de exportação de terras raras da China em 2025 foi de 500 *checks notes* milhões de dólares, uns 4 dias de exportação de soja do Brasil.

@EdwardKonings @jcaetanoleite Também tem um efeito importante de measurement invariance em provas como o PISA

@brack2552 @jcaetanoleite É, mas a questão é pq está caindo

Galera reclama do PISA no Brasil, mas vocês já viram a tendência da OCDE?

@jcaetanoleite Isso é quase tudo measurement invariance e mudança demográfica. Brancos americanos e europeus continuam com performances altas, a crescentr proporção de latinos nos EUA e imigrantes MENA na Europa que sempre tiveram performance pior cria a ilusão de uma queda geral

@EdwardKonings @jcaetanoleite Imigração e taxas de fertilidade diferenciais

@EdwardKonings @jcaetanoleite Precisa desagregar o efeito de recomposição demográfica though, a maioria da queda vem da proporção de jovens brancos com boa performance educacional caindo em relação a latinos nos EUA e imigrantes MENA na Europa, com performances piores

@jcaetanoleite Colapso da educação tradicional é uma tendência. Qualidade da educação caiu muito

@rockisinfinite I think the best halo spinoff company would be Bad Company era DICE. It would be cool to see a much larger scale Halo campaign

ID Software would do way more with Halo’s gameplay loop than people who think the IP should go elsewhere realize— like, WAY more. The same people who can’t accept Sprint.

@kisstheblade_ @atlanticesque I love hereditary, but the ending kind of kills the most important relation in the movie without really giving it a good conclusion. I think Midsommar did it better in that regard

@atlanticesque @brack2552 Booooooo.

Wow, that was really excellent. In my head, I had grouped it together with Longlegs (2024) as "recent avant garde-ish horror I should really get around to watching," but I watched Longlegs first and that was just terrible. Really an awful film, strongly disrecommend. This, however, was really interesting. Fantastic narrative structure, (sequential vignettes with successive participants in the mystery,) really rich characters, and that rarest of all things: A satisfying conclusion. I won't write all my thoughts, especially since I'm a year late on this, but two things really stick out to me for why this film was great and why many of its peers are not. First, just when I was getting to the end of the first segment, where the viewer follows Justine, I was beginning to think "Okay, I get this character. She's flawed and interesting and all, but if I have to stick with her for the whole movie it's going to get tedious and annoying." And then? It doesn't! We go to another character equally flawed and interesting but who I would equally dislike to spend an entire two-hour film with. And then we do it again, and then again a few more times. Really great way to not wear out the viewer on these nuanced but somewhat unpleasant perspectives. Second, the ending is fantastic. So, so rarely do you get a great ending from these types of films and you get one here. For one, all of my questions were satisfyingly answered, which Longlegs certainly failed at. But more importantly, and without going into detail, (if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it,) I think the major reason why I loved this ending is that we get to see our antagonist—who has been causing so much fear by trapping us in their world—feel an immense amount of fear in the midst of our world. Even in horror pictures with a 'happy ending,' or where the Big Bad is eventually defeated, it's far less common that you get to see them really express real, extended fear at ourselves as much as we felt fear at them. And somehow, it did all that without feeling corny. In fact, none of this movie felt corny to me, which is amazing considering some of what happens in it. Really really well-done. I have a few nitpicks, but compared to nearly every other horror film I've seen which has been released the last few years, this was a treat.

@atlanticesque @kisstheblade_ I'd also argue that the VVitch kind of has a good ending, in a "good for her" sense at least

@atlanticesque @kisstheblade_ Because the movie gets so cartoonishly bleak that you kind of just enjoy it for that

@atlanticesque @kisstheblade_ I haven't seen silence of the lambs yet, but based on your first post and not liking hereditary, do you have issues with stories where the evil just wins in the end and erases character progression? This has left me unsatisfied with some movies

@kisstheblade_ @brack2552 Not really

@atlanticesque @EclecticScribe Great premise with flawed (but still decent) execution. Have you seen the TV show archive 81? I like the mystery investigation aspect of it

@EclecticScribe @brack2552 That was fun but rough around the edges and hasn’t really stuck with me. Not bad though.

@dhaaruni What if I cant do that because I am a failure?

A neat trick to mitigating status anxiety is achieving pretty much everything you ever wanted for yourself and what your parents always wanted for you

@TonyTheLion2500 Welcome to the club

I don't feel like i actually have any real skills.

@Michael_Druggan @andreasuntold Talking about PEDs, did you decide you were smart enough to tank some amount of neurological damage or is there research showing you can minimize the risk with sufficiently strict monitoring and application?

@andreasuntold He trained natty for years and only recently started using very moderate dosages. Have you considered that maybe you're just not pushing yourself enough?

You can’t hate this people enough. They prep up themselves with all kinds of PEDs and peptides and then they talk about training. YEAH MF, as if this shit matters for regular everyday life people who aren’t chemically enhanced like a shitfuck breeding bull. Fuck em all, really.