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... he said using the language, technology and culture the "colonizers" gifted to him,using their electricity... so dependent on their gifts that in his heart there's no way he'd press a button to undo pic-rel if it meant he had to give up the benefits of colonization and go hunt gazelle

Colonization is the worst crime against humanity. No debate.

Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year. So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away. It's called World Monitor. Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land. > Military movements. > Economic shocks. > Natural disasters. > Cyber incidents. > Flight paths. > Shipping lanes. + 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other. It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen. It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel. It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key. Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.

@bowtiedgerman Tangentially related: there's no way to give kids the confidence and strength they'll need to be moral without also giving them the ability to contest their parents authority.

Intentionally making your kid uncool in high school (which many parents do) means they carry a lifetime of resentment towards happy and successful people

@Aristotle7777 Women don't do shit. The government is replacing husbands with itself because women are easier to sell things to.

Women are replacing husbands with the government.

I mean from the angle there based on where it hits I would expect it to hit the front half of the wheel and thus be pushing the wheel right. This is where, "I'm not a race car driver" comes in because it's very possible steering into that when it happens is the correct thing to do

@gridboundStory @FormulAnalyst You don't think the front left wheel, contacting the side pod of Russell's car, drags the steering that way for him?

Genuinely speaking, props to the guy He has perfected this move and can take out whoever he wants without even risking a DNF for himself 👏

@iamrobothead Remember when Blade was awesome and badass and no one GAF that he was black? Remember Morpheus? Electing a president to finally slay the ghost of racism forever sure did have the opposite effect...

Remember when everyone enjoyed Djimon Hounsou in Gladiator because they didn't try and make him Roman or Greek? Good times.

@uncledoomer I make about $300k in base salary with another 75-150k in bonuses and performance incentives and I am counting the minutes until I have enough money saved to retire, not even super comfortably, just safely. Working sucks.

i feel like this feeling immediately goes away when you get paid enough

@bumbadum14 If you're not a giant faggot they'll sell to you too, lol.

Immigrants operate within an entirely separate legal structure than you.

@BecomingCritter They did a brief experiment with universal testing and IIRC the rate of "you are not the father" was like 25% or something, lol.

WHAT? Cheating is so common in France that paternity tests are illegal ‘to keep the peace’ Testing yourself can get you 1 year in prison and €15k fine (more than half a year’s average salary)

Blacks were sick of the whole “low-IQ” label that biased, racist whites slapped on them. So, some Africans decided to conduct their own non-biased IQ tests in Nigeria. Turns out, white is right… again. Niggers are motherfucking retards. Legit, clinical fucking retards.

A child is a lot more likely to grow up to be an off-putting freak from having a single mother than from watching anime.

@pearlythingz The most liberal younglings I know reasonably well had the most conservative parents, and the most conservative younglings I know well had the most liberal parents.

Conservatives are constantly selling you that they are going to “outbreed” liberals but even the most conservative people I know have difficulty keeping their daughters conservative and more importantly making conservative choices Women dictate the culture, so what’s your plan when your daughter wants to be a baby mama?

Anime "weird kid" fearmongering is really a coping mechanism to pin the corruption and perversion of children on something culturally considered alien/socially illicit to cope with the reality the source of perversion is socially licit and standard/mainstream

@IsaacKing314 We've been automating our job since it started existing. Arguably our entire job is about automating things. It's okay the good developers know we're not professional typists and the other developers don't belong in this field anyway.

I don't fully understand why programmers seem to be the ~only group of people not angry that their jobs are being automated.

@jake__horst @MadKamikazius What was Ned Stark's tax policy? Robert? Stannis? Please, enlighten me.

@gridboundStory @MadKamikazius You definitely didn’t read the books

George Martin: "I find it lacking that we never learn of Aragorn's tax policy." Okay George. Then you can probably explain to us how the seasons work in your world, and how wildlife manages to survive years-long winters. It's a fundamental part of your world. Can you, George?

Statistically you're most likely to be killed by your own mother before you are even born.

No one ever had to work to survive before capitalism was invented. Food just fell fully cooked from the sky and houses sprang up fully formed from the ground. This is why there was famously never any starvation in communist countries who totally never had to resort to forced labor after taking everyone's incentives away. People just continued to work in factories and coal mines because they wanted to.