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@JWhitebread1 I hope the Japanese get this. I bet they do. The last time I was over there I made friends with a local bartender and on like our second conversation we were making pearl harbor and Hiroshima jokes with each other

Okay, I think I need to explain something to any Japanese listeners. In American culture, very close friends often express affection through a practice we call "giving grief" or less delicately, "bustin' balls." We insult each other, make inappropriate comments at the other's expense, often at very inappropriate times, etc. It is frankly, one of the surest signs of trust and closeness between equals. We wouldn't do this with someone who WASN'T a very close friend and confidant. You see this more amongst men, and more in informal situations. Admittedly, you don't see it much in professional settings, and it almost never appears in international diplomacy, BUT, Trump is built different. I have no doubt, that's how Trump meant it. It's too on the nose to be anything else. He's trying to say, we respect you and admire you greatly, and we can banter like this, because we are equals. The correct response is to utterly ROAST or insult your friend back in response. This can even evolve into what is called a "game of dozens" which is a friendly contest to see you can insult their friend with the best, most scathing insult. I think I will stop before I have to explain "Your Momma" jokes, but I think you can get the gist. Please feel free to utterly destroy America with a clever insult in response.

@Rel_Tan_Kier @Its_ereko Right, that's not the verbiage OP used

@burrrgers @Its_ereko Crime they ashamed of, just as rest of World War 2.

Japanese translators froze. Live on air. Silence where words should be. Trump dropped Pearl Harbor. Japan's national trauma. In a press conference. As a joke. The translators couldn't speak. Because what do you say when your ally mocks your history? The world saw Japan's humiliation in real time. This is the man Takaichi came to negotiate with. This is the "partnership." The silence said more than any translation ever could.

@jpegknees Dumb take

ppl who still play the og in '26 are trying to be performative btw

@Clint_Davey1 @curtis_yarvin I highly agree

@curtis_yarvin once had an interesting thought experiment. He said if 1920's America emerged from the ocean, Atlantis-like, in the 2020's - what would happen? Within 10 years it would become by far the richest and most powerful country on earth and would kick the asses of 2020's USA and China. I suspect this is basically right. High energy, ambitious, hardened population used to hustling and working 12 hours a day and constantly inventing stuff. High levels of patriotism, above replacement birth rates, etc. But would this society inevitably turn into our own?

@GrumbleSquid @zhil_arf Right, I don't dispute that, I just think in this instance they picked an animal that was not the best candidate for solving that problem

@burrrgers @zhil_arf And? Stress can unfortunately be learned like depression. Stress, anxiety, depression etc are often intertwined, and they can be learned. It can become chronic. Again the point is treating an animal (humans included) like shit constantly will often cause them to be dysfunctional.

>From these experiments, it was thought that there was to be only one cure for helplessness. In Seligman's hypothesis, the dogs do not try to escape because they expect that nothing they do will stop the shock. To change this expectation, experimenters physically picked up the dogs and moved their legs, replicating the actions the dogs would need to take in order to escape from the electrified grid. This had to be done at least twice before the dogs would start willfully jumping over the barrier on their own. In contrast, threats, rewards, and observed demonstrations had no effect on the "helpless" Group 3 dogs.

@TheKanehB It'd be a hell of a setback. Fortunately I don't see humanity "losing" electricity

The difference between the pre and post apocalypse is electricity. That’s all they’ve offered us in the last hundred years and removing it brings us “back to the stone ages” Humans can live just fine without electricity. We’ve done it before and we will do it again.

@GrumbleSquid @zhil_arf Interesting point. Maybe there's some other feedback mechanism here, like a stressed dog has it's poor spacial navigation skills degraded even further (like a dog with a tangled leash might be stressed)

@burrrgers @zhil_arf Except the other groups of dogs navigated it fine. It wasn't a hard task for them, *unless* the dog felt things were hopeless. The experiment showed that pure negative reinforcement doesn't teach. It just creates mentally broken animals. We see this in humans too.

@YouBeenGrokked @SparrowOat @lilbabygandhi I don't care if you think I'm a POS. My opinion of you isn't high either. I'm certainly not okay with pedos raping kids

@burrrgers @SparrowOat @lilbabygandhi Okay, you’ve established beyond any reasonable doubt you’re a moron POS, who’s good with pedos raping kids. Congrats?

Yes literally every single liberal on here told conservatives to grow the fuck up and vote for the black lady. We all tried to save those actual cretins and they will never forgive us for it.

@godslayerxalt Yup, a dollar a day for just under a year and a half, IE not much.

@Alice3DS Yes

"Video Games are art" and they show you crash bandicoot for the ps1

@DAKKADAKKA1 I love seeing non-AAA succeed

White pill. A single man dedicates years to his game and is awarded supremely for it.

@LoeveTristan Nice!

crazy shit

@Sigmamale388483 @zhil_arf canids are terrestrial pack hunters, but only humans amongst primates are terrestrial pack hunters

@Sigmamale388483 @zhil_arf Well I was going to say this is a good demonstration of how intelligence is not a linear progression. Dogs can't untangle themselves without extensive training, but they instinctual understand our eye movements in a way even apes don't. This makes sense when you consider that...

@Sigmamale388483 @zhil_arf Very cool!

@burrrgers @zhil_arf A YouTube channel that has green vervets use leashes for their monkeys have them drag leashes and if they get caught then they just simply unstuck them

@SpaceKoala Odd take considering how brutally expensive gas was in '05 (adjust for wages and it's like the equivalent of $10/gal)

It's because people chased the American dream of a McMansion in the suburbs and as big an SUV as they could get, not realizing it was founded on an assumption that gas would stay cheap.

@LizardNettle @alexriesart Debatable.

@burrrgers @alexriesart And significantly worse

We have abundance now its just being horded by like 10 dudes.

@MorlockP even if Hollywood tanks (which it should)

@MorlockP whether books, comics or Manga (Harry Potter, lord of the rings, basically any anime). I see people reading in my bar all the time, which is across the street from a thriving independent book store, and down the street from another that just opened. I can't black pill here...

Film was mass, going niche. Novels were mass, going niche. The world I loved has died, in so many ways, and it sucks. Old school hacking, old school startups, science fiction novels, heritage America ... it's all dead. I don't know what to do.