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I implore you to remember that debates will seldom resonate with most as most are simply spewing beliefs that they perceive to align with consensus, not beliefs they have reasoned themselves into
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One of the best things I’ve read in ages. A highlight:
They encounter a truck broken down in the middle of the road. The crew are waiting for a repair.
“They were happy as the parts would arrive in a few weeks… we asked how long they had been waiting?
‘Just over a year’”
Strategic Advisor@BBDaybreakEU
This here is an absolutely fantastic travelogue which I finished reading yesterday. It's over 50,000 words but to summarise: - Belgian couple take a Toyota Landcruiser and drive across the Congo. They cover 3000km in 39 days. - It's an unbelievably hostile environment. Everyone in the country, from the police officials to village children, is trying to make money from them. With a few exceptions, most of the Congolese they encounter are utterly terrible people. - Despite this, they have a strict 'no bribes' policy, which extends to not giving any money to anyone begging for it (which is constant). This pisses everyone off. They have to persuade every policeman and official to let them through wherever they go, and they have to tell villagers that they will not pay them when they 'offer to help'. - Most of the roads are mud and almost impossible to traverse. The car is very robust but it gets knocked about a lot and faces frequent mechanical issues which somehow have to be resolved in the middle of nowhere. - Wherever they can, they seek refuge at Catholic missions in villages along the way. The clergy are some of the only people they can remotely trust. - Their presence as White people in the villages, and on road, is a complete spectacle. Hundreds of villagers crowd around their tent when they sleep. Everyone is staring at them, asking for money, and laughing when some kind of misfortune befalls them. - There are a couple of instances where they brush closely with angry villagers wielding machetes and sticks screaming about Whites and money.
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@Cheetoignocnito @LeahRebeccaUK @BBCNews No sadly it wasn't, those references I don't mind as that's how they're said. In this instance the person actually said "A to Z " (meant as a way of saying from start to end/running the full gamot etc) in their chat to the news anchor. Usually this is said as Zed in UK.
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Dear @BBCNews
I notice you've suddenly started using the word 'homicide' in your reports on the BBC app.
Stop this nonsense - you and I are British, and I have absolutely no desire to talk more American. It's called murder, and in the UK always has been.
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@jump_drive_flyr @LeahRebeccaUK @BBCNews Was it referring to Gen Z? Because in fairness that’s a borrowed term from America. It’s like the anime Dragonball Z. It’s pronounced zee not zee in that case
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@LeahRebeccaUK @BBCNews Yeah I've noticed this too, also Sky News the other day one of the people on the news item said "...A to Z" in her piece but pronounced it Zee instead of Zed I nearly threw a mug at the TV
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What struck me is how we are living in two totally different worlds, even when only living feet apart. There's a Britain, a London, that lives entirely within the belly of the state, and another for whom it barely exists except as an extractrive force.
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Where though? Was his land just full of walls?
George Mack@george__mack
Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.
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@uncle_deluge Isn’t blonde and pale the name of a five finger death punch song
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The one guy trying to clean up the Ganges seems to be undergoing some kind of Aryan transformation to make him blond and pale
Poop World Order@PooWorldOrderr
The holy Ganges river of India has 150 million liters of shit being dumped into it everyday The holiest river of Hinduism is just a river of shit
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@ManageDeclineUK @BoldlyUnpopular The average rural British town literally looks like that
What you’re describing is former industry towns
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@BoldlyUnpopular Lets not pretend the average rural british town looks like that. The reality is they are a wasteland and filled with pakis and indians. Shuttered shops, betting shops, muslim chicken burger shops, muslim ran barbers.
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@frozenaesthetic Wouldn’t that only be true for the GI tract though? It would still be an irritant to eyes
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Pepper spray would likely be ineffective against most dinosaurs because they are closely related to modern birds and reptiles which generally lack the sensory receptors needed to feel the heat of capsicum
Just a thought
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@TetraspaceWest It came up recently when laila Cunningham appeared on GB news saying we were a secular nation and it had to be explained to her that actually, we’re very much not a secular nation at all
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its so funny how the UK is technically a theocracy because of legacy code but it never comes up
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Gen Z didn’t normalise that, all of the previous generations did so gen z grew up seeing that as a widespread default behaviour. Hence why they’re so hyper-aware of constantly being steeled, hence why they struggle to be sincere, hence why they don’t want to approach the opposite sex or even really go out and get drunk or dance.
If any of that is recorded and posted, it could be humiliating
Behaviours that were perfectly normal prior to the smartphone era are now a potential for humiliation and best avoided
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@macgreb @achillghost @bad_takes Gen Z normalized recording and posting people without consent. There is a constant stream of "look what this person is doing" videos and almost no one stops to question the utter violation of the social contract by the poster. That's new.
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It’s probably fine that vast swathes zoomers and younger millennials exist in a kind of permanent internalized panopticon in which all actions are assumed to be (and interpreted as) performances for a viewer
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙♀️@SketchesbyBoze
Most of life occurs in those ten-minute stretches where nothing seems to be happening. You’d be shocked at how much reading you can get done while you’re standing in line or riding the subway. There’s no such thing as “performative reading” when we are in a literacy crisis.
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This has been the exact problem I’ve predicted with AI now since the AI boom started
The fact that they were built during peak woke and have certain biases and restrictions is terrible because it’s likely that nobody will build model AI systems and everything is just going to be built off previous systems
This means the extremist woke sensibilities end up permeating every aspect of our society as AI becomes integrated into everything we do like the internet has, then a very aberrant and extreme ideology could solidify itself as the baseline for all of human history going forward
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it is actually a serious issue that the hangups of modern libs are going to be endlessly and automatically replicated across every space accessible to AIs
Lewis 🇺🇸@ctjlewis
Not true. I got into a small argument with Claude yesterday after I sent a shock humor tweet someone wrote on here, just to see how he’d react. You simply haven’t seen where his lines are. Highly judgmental robot.
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@buanadha @Tarnational @blightersort “Essay” and it’s literally 2 sentences. Wow that’s embarrassing for you
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@Tarnational @blightersort I'm at work, I didn't bother reading the essay to give a quick response
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Jill is 100% correct. we should absolutely evaluate, test and check-on home-school kids. if they are not performing at least as well as the worst kid in a public school then they should face the same consequences as a public school with similar performance.
so, to take an example, 23 schools in Baltimore have zero children scoring proficient in math. Because of that, those schools have faced the consequence of getting extra funding.
thus, if a homeschooler is found to have performance that bad or worse, they should also be given extra funding, I guess.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
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Who was the worst Doctor of all time?
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@SpryArcaneMage @frozenaesthetic Nor do British British people. Or earl grey tea for that matter. The vast supermajority of tea Brits consume is English breakfast tea and I’d say most of those have it with milk and then some of those also add sugar
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@frozenaesthetic Depends if it’s hot black tea or something else , we don’t like it in herbal, green, or iced tea
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@ODindune Because im making a joke, and because my phone autocorrected it. Side note, spell checking like your grading an English paper is a great way to ingratiate yourself with someone you're just meeting 👍
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"Pots not people" is what they called it. Its why every archeology or anthropology book from the early 60s up until like a year ago is totally worthless and should be destroyed. The schizophrenic racists who poured over ancient texts in the 19th Century were closer to the truth.
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."
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The Europeans conquered the world because they were successful and rich. They didn’t become rich through colonisation
I understand this means you mightn’t be able to take a pure black and white stance and may need to engaged in nuanced thought, but I believe in you, you can do it
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@Peritelle1 @FoxfordComics Based on Europe landmass, and seasons, it is not
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Always hilarious to me that China and India didn't even know this massive continent in their backyard. And then some English dude from the other side of the world just came along and yoinked it.
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