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@fleshsimulator Chi-Fi kicks ass, if you'd have told me 18 years ago you'd be able to find balanced armature IEMs for under $100 I would not have believed you. Same goes for over-ear offerings, Fiio and Hifiman planar magnetics are offer crazy price/performance ratios if you win the QC lotto.

one underrated good development over the past ten years is how much better cheap headphones have gotten these are $17 and perform on par with $350 IEMs from 15 years ago

@nypost Just some random Dutch teens?

Four teens arrested in Dutch synagogue explosion as new terror group claims responsibility trib.al/PLALBgT

@DAKKADAKKA1 Typical Western woman moment.

The Irish are literally the smallest race of people on the face of the earth. This woman literally wants to genocide them.

@powers1av3 >Acid Bath >Nu metal This better have been a bait post because if not...

Forever disappointed that that band got adopted by #that crowd

@LDS_Dems We have that, it's called NICS. Try actually learning the fucking law before spitting absolute braindead, retard policy takes.

In light of the SAVE Act, Democrats should require every gun owner to register and complete a federal background check that requires either a passport or a birth certificate. Unless Republicans think this is an undue burden on a Constitutionally protected right.

@s2_underground Lol, lmao even.

@fleshsimulator Are you looking for a collector piece or a shooter? Former, Model 27 or a vintage Python. Latter, 686+ or TR-8.

Looking for a .357 revolver What do I go with

@CommieGibberish Every single time, man.

Jews will team up with LITERALLY anyone and anything so long as it promises to hurt White people. You think they’d facilitate full-blown White Replacement Policy in the White homelands they’re currently living in, but they wouldn’t elect a Muslim Communist mayor of New York City? Do you really think this Star Wars character’s policies won’t serve the dual purposes of Thirdworld mongrelizing the populace they rule over AND consolidating centralized top-down Jewish rule?

@joker_jay94 @kunley_drukpa And then Chanology happened in '07 and the eternal newfag summer happened/is still happening.

@kunley_drukpa On 4chan we called them summerfags because summer vacation brought waves of normies who would otherwise have been doing schoolwork.

WHAT IS ‘ETERNAL SEPTEMBER’? Useful term to conceptualise repetitive, asinine or low-level ‘discourse’ online, especially in formerly ‘more intelligent’ spaces experiencing a mass influx of new participants - “Eternal September”. The term originates in the early history of the internet and describes a fundamental shift in how online communities behave once they are exposed to continuous mass participation. It first emerged in the early 1990s in reference to Usenet, one of the first large-scale online discussion systems. For many years, Usenet experienced a predictable annual cycle tied to the academic calendar. Each September, new university students gained access to the internet and began posting, often unfamiliar with established norms of online conduct, known as then as ‘netiquette’. Older users would spend several weeks correcting mistakes, sharing community ‘lore’, pointing newcomers to FAQs and enforcing community standards. By October, most new users had either adapted or left and the community returned to a relatively stable equilibrium This pattern ended in 1993 when commercial internet providers, most notably America Online, opened Usenet access to millions of subscribers. Unlike universities, these services added users continuously rather than seasonally and provided little guidance on existing norms. The influx of newcomers became constant and overwhelming, far exceeding the community’s ability to socialise them. As a result, the corrective phase never ended. September became permanent, giving rise to the phrase “Eternal September.” While the term originally referred to this specific moment in Usenet’s history, it has since become a broader metaphor for what happens when an established online culture is inundated by perpetual growth. Maybe you can think of parallels here! At its core Eternal September describes the breakdown of shared norms under conditions of unbounded scale. Early online communities were small enough to rely on informal social enforcement. Participants recognised one another, reputations mattered, bad behavior carried social costs etc. Norms such as staying on topic, avoiding repetition and not wasting people’s time with your dumb stupid retarded priors posts were essential to keeping discussions usable. Because growth was slow and predictable, these communities could absorb newcomers without losing coherence. Eternal September marks the point at which this balance collapses - as the number and rate of new participants make informal governance (broadly-defined) ineffective The consequences are the loss of this kind of ‘historical memory’ are both cultural and structural. As newcomers vastly outnumber long-term participants, veteran or ‘oldhead’ influence diminishes and the incentive to teach these norms erodes. (4chan used to have the motto “lurk more” for this purpose). Experienced users grow fatigued from repeating the same talking points, always making corrections etc and often disengage, taking the community’s memory and knowledge with them. Norms that once defined the place are diluted or replaced, the ‘Coca Cola Effect’ runs riot - often shifting toward simplicity and immediacy rather than depth or rigour. On social media platforms lowest common denominator influencers grow more than more reflective, intelligent influencers etc. The culture adapts to what requires the least shared context, often at the cost of quality or nuance [1/2]

@AuronMacintyre Corporatism Oops... All Welfare Fraud Edition

So the Walmart business model is now hiring illegals who can't speak English for poverty wages subsidized by food stamps to sell groceries to illegals who don't speak English who are buying groceries with food stamps because they work for poverty wages

A lot of left coded debate culture treats disagreement as ignorance because the framework itself requires it. If you disagree, you must have the wrong consciousness, internalized oppression, or you have been captured by propaganda. That is the whole move. It turns argument into pedagogy and pedagogy into coercion. It does not have to meet your reasons. It can explain your reasons away. So the pattern becomes automatic. Theory dump, moral diagnosis, and the quiet assumption that resistance proves the need for more education. The people they talk down to are often not stupid at all. They are running compressed models that have survived contact with real life. Incentives. Tradeoffs. Reciprocity. Limits. Family. Work. Safety. Second order effects. They may not speak in grad seminar prose, but they know what breaks, what backfires, what corrupts, and what humiliates ordinary people. Their simplicity is not emptiness. It is distillation. It is what remains when jargon collapses under consequences. There is also a group the framework cannot acknowledge without threatening itself. High IQ people who see the rhetorical tricks instantly, and plain speech people who do not care about the tricks because they measure by outcomes. Both the Grug and the genius converge on the same blunt conclusions. This does not work. This is a power grab. This creates perverse incentives. This punishes competence. This breaks trust. High IQ spots the sleight of hand. The Grug tests by consequences. The mid zone is where verbal sophistication gets mistaken for truth and complexity becomes a virtue in itself. At bottom, leftist theory is a moral metaphysic dressed up as social science. Rupture, elect led repair, return to wholeness. Oppressor and oppressed as the master key. The good are the ones who can name the hidden structure. Repair becomes negation, deconstruction, exposure, reordering. Once you are inside that story, disagreement is not an alternate reading. It is blindness and it needs to be stamped out via ̷g̷u̷l̷a̷g̷s̷ reeducation or graves. The tragedy is that this whole machine confuses complication for intelligence. It multiplies categories, invents language, and then calls the resulting maze insight. Leftist frameworks are flatly mid wit and derivative, so it sounds profound to mid wits. And the grug keeps being right in the ways that matter. What happens if we do this? Who pays? Who benefits? What gets worse next? What does this teach people to do? Mid wit theory culture can answer those questions with paragraphs and footnotes and perfect moral posture, and still end up with tens of millions dead.

@JoshuaBarzon Socio-Economic factors.

What’s stopping you from moving to Gary, IN … buying this adorable and affordable home for only $150k… and raising a family in it?

@DonShift3 @honestpollster Beautiful.

I STOPPED DRINKING COFFEE IN 1977 AND SAVED MYSELF $55,000 BY STICKING IT IN MY SAVINGS ACCOUNT. OF COURSE THE MILLENIALS TANKED THE SAVINGS ACCOUNT INTEREST IN THE 2000s BUT THAT'S LIFE. NOT MY FAULT I WAS GETTING 10% INTEREST AT BAILY'S BUILDING & LOAN IN THE '70s & '80s. I WAS PAYING 14% ON MY MORTGAGE UNTIL I COULD RE-FI IT. $60k WHEN IT WAS THREE TIMES YOUR ANNUAL WAGE WAS A LOT OF MONEY BACK THEN, 'COURSE I GOT A GOOD DEAL ON THE BOAT AND RV SO IT WASN'T SO BAD. ANYHOW, YOU KIDS NEED TO JUST WORK HARDER AND YOU CAN HAVE A NICE NEST EGG TO TO GO ON A CRUISE WITH WHEN YOU'RE MY AGE. -T. Boomer McGee USAF VIET NAM ERA VET 73-75 8H000 "WE PROTECT WHERE YOU SLEEP"

Fourth Turning is coming fast, now:

@shadegh0st @fatherofmen @matthewschmitz Your chart for median household income is from 2013-2015. Once more, DEI would not affect the entirety of your specific race, or nullify the fact that a large swath of blacks in the US are either unemployed or reliant upon government aid programs.

@GGuttertrash @fatherofmen @matthewschmitz Common sense dictates that what was portrayed in the article in 2014 is what leads into the current state. If we were the DEI recipients our income would have rose above other groups instead of remaining at the bottom You can pretend not to understand if you want to.

Beginning in 2014, prestige industries decided they urgently needed to diversify. They didn’t purge established Boomers. Instead, they did everything possible to avoid hiring white millennial men. This is the story of a generation derailed by DEI. compactmag.com/article/the-lo…

@shadegh0st @fatherofmen @matthewschmitz I'm asking for any new metrics that would prove or disprove the Forbes article from 2014 indicating that white HS drop-outs were more likely to be hired than black college students. Median income by nationality doesn't prove or disprove anything and isn't a relevant metric.

@GGuttertrash @fatherofmen @matthewschmitz Here are some modern ones.

@shadegh0st @fatherofmen @matthewschmitz "Published Jun 27, 2014..." Let's see some statistics that aren't more than a decade old. This lines up with the start of the large DEI hiring push; and I would highly doubt this is still the case given my own corporate experiences since 2014.

@fatherofmen @matthewschmitz Yet when one decides to work and apply you deny them employment. Enough with the games.

@magaxiom @TruueDiscipline Being an outsider in your home country, maybe Pajeet?

@TruueDiscipline I don't see why not. Frisco is a safe community, great schools, great weather, etc. What's not to like?

European immigrant wants to know if they should move to an all Indian area in Frisco.

@revenant_MMXX These whiny zoomers love to complain about housing costs, but they haven’t even tried moving to an iceburg in the South Pacific and having 8 kids with a penguin. Unbelievable.

@CARN0N Imagine how much less anxiety you'd have felt if you'd actually learned how to drive and navigate like a normal human being instead. Cars as appliances replete nanny features and self-driving features will only harm us in the long run.

The other night I was driving in pouring rain, fully dark, and the car randomly lost GPS. No location. No navigation. Which also meant no FSD. I tried two software resets while driving just to get GPS back. Nothing worked. So there I was, manually driving in terrible conditions, unsure of positioning, no assistance, no guidance. And it genuinely felt unsafe. For me and for the people in the car. Then it hit me. This feeling - the stress, the uncertainty, the margin for error - this is how most drivers feel every single day. No FSD. No constant awareness. No backup. We’ve normalised danger so much that we only notice it when the safety net disappears.

@spikesguides Aussies + the worst takes humanly possible; name a more iconic duo.

A lot of people really are cattle, holy shit.