No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
9mo ago
And is it not good for the consumer that ** the 'super app' is going to have competition now ? **
My heart bleeds for Apple users. Every time I am forced to use an Iphone - which is every time my boomer doctor father has some problem he can't figure out, I feel like screaming. It's like if someone took an Android phone and lobotomized it.
First time a few years back I found myself in utter disbelief when told the Iphone does not have a file system. There's no simple way for apps to share files.
Why people pay for these abominations is quite unclear. Fashion ? Don't know any better ?
No_one
4mo ago
encouraged others to march towards the Capitol but did not enter themselves, and unlike Epps neither of them were charged with any crimes.
Fuentes is widely believed to be either operated by feds due to threat of prosecution, or behaving as if he were by playing the persona of the degenerate racist piece of shit. Exactly what the media wants. He does nonsensical things like that time he endorse a schizo black man for .. president ?
Alex Jones is a non-stop noise generator who can discredit anything by merely speaking about it. Those aren't really the best examples.
No_one
4mo ago
BAPs laments come from the same place as those ones (namely envy) and should be discarded.
The complaint he has about Asians at Harvard seems somewhat valid. If there's a large tendency among them to just go for a comfy upper-middle class professional lifestyle, than these people have no business being at an elite school, if 'elite' is to have any meaning. Harvard should probably select people in a different way. 100% there are way you can figure out who has leader potential and who hasn't.
It means they should be at 2nd tier schools which can adequately prepare them for their careers, and leave places for the real elite - intelligent, ambitious, ruthless people for others who are a better fit.
Also this Indian Bronson dude (first time I am hearing of him)
Indian Bronson is a known bad actor, associated with J.Arthur Bloom who is some sort of fed baby and who Thought to be involved in some BS 'deradicalisation' meaning channelling all politics that may change the status quo into fruitless directions.
No_one
9mo ago
I largely agree, though I don't think this is what fuel gangs. Japan has no gang problem, neither does western Europe where non-immigrant men who have checked out exist in large but not overwhelming numbers too.
society's defense if needed,
Nuclear weapons really obviate the need for giant militaries for defense.
And with solid drone industry, air defense and artillery, you could probably get around the whole problem of 'not enough young male cannon fodder' anyway. Older men can operate recon drones and man artillery just as well as younger men.
No_one
9mo ago
No_one
10mo ago
I doubt it's true for that bread now.
Even in Czech Republic a loaf of bread is now 2€.
The inflation due to the Ukraine war was pretty brutal. Milk went up 50%. Eggs. Vegetables, etc.
The only thing that stayed low is pork, not sure why.
No_one
10mo ago
If "racial homogeneity" and "supererior aryan genetics" really are the be-all end-all of success how
Whose strawman are you attacking now?
No_one
10mo ago
pretty strong military hegemony in NATO and America.
That's a smug illusion, which is being dispelled by the inability of the entirety of NATO to give Ukraine enough weapons to defeat a militarily inept country with the nominal GDP of Italy.
Russians are being barely competent and are not even trying that hard when it comes to war-economy measures.
No_one
3d ago
I don’t think any straight women are unaware of this fact
It's not aimed at men.
No_one
2mo ago
almost all game writers are D&D geeks who almost exclusively read science fiction and fantasy garbage
I've no idea where you get your ideas about 'science fiction' and 'fantasy' ? Bottom of the barrel WH40k or Star Wars novels ? But generally popular and acclaimed writers of either can write. I'd argue that SF writing in the last 30 years completely pwns "Golden Age of SF" writing. Standards have risen.
Problem isn't what they read, problem is they don't practice writing much. Which is why they suck.
No_one
2mo ago
Men are far more promiscuous than women for very obvious reasons.
And Altman seems somewhat psychopathic to me based on his past exploits so he'd do it if it was needed.
Also Thiel is an impressive guy, and is probably way out of Sam's league.
I can't really tell with men who is good looking and who isn't instinctively, but Altman has a weird face and bit bulging eyes. Thiel looks fit and way more near median male face.
No_one
4mo ago
The war in Ukraine is strong evidence that manpower will continue to matter in war.
People underestimate the ease with which large manufacturers like e.g. e-car makers could turn out million-strong robot armies once there's a good design.
Let's not get into what absolute craziness it'd be if you had bomb-chucking autonomous drones that'd fly to a supply truck, take a small bomb, swap battery, fly back & toss bomb accurately at a target and repeat.
Once you take out air defense cannons, which by necessity are >500kg and more and need engines, the enemy is extremely dead.
No_one
8mo ago
I suspect it's end is bad data/ change in definitions.
People are fatter than ever. Then there's porn.
Facebook is equally bad or worse, and it has been (sensibly) argued that any publicly accessible or accountable forum as such is a detriment to politics.
[before replying, please read the linked post , the excerpt does not explain the reasoning sufficiently well.]
Excerpts:
The other significant effect of the loss of secrecy is a catastrophic decline in dishonesty in politics.* It’s no longer possible to pretend to adopt a political position but to secretly work against it.* It’s not possible to express a claim confidently as a bargaining position, and yet negotiate to minimise the risks.** If you have publicly expressed confidence, you have to publicly act in line with that expressed confidence**. And you can only act publicly.4
When politics was carried out within powerful institutions with social and organisational coherence, political factions could keep secrets. They could plan to carry out actions, and to present arguments, without publicly announcing what they were going to do. Today that is not the case.** Because political factions are open and meritocratic, collective decisions can only be reached in public.**
The effects go further: because all communication within a faction is essentially public, the only way to advance within the faction is through public statements. If you can plan privately and then act, you can be responsible for the consequences of your actions. If you can only contribute to a public debate, then you are responsible for nothing but your public statements.** The loss of institutional power has led, through the loss of secrecy, to a loss of responsibility.**
No_one
10mo ago
That is, it is our world when all the bad things are solved - war, sickness, poverty, greed and so on.
War ? War is what created man and what created civilization.
We'd be nothing but bugs without war.
The suffering modern man experiences because he has been deprived of war and struggle is rather evident.
War destroys lies, reveals all the cards. It's truly horrible but like most others, we are a horrible species and pretending otherwise is useless in the face of historical record.
No_one
30d ago
Bogged down in the poorest European country
1 ) Ukraine isn't the poorest. Moldova is, iirc.
- you are eliding that Ukraine gets all the surveillance and espionage data it needs to use the high tech weapons it got free of charge. Patriots, ATGMs, NASAMS, Himars, Storm Shadow, hundreds of quality artillery systems etc. Enough to equip a large EU/NATO army.
From less high tech weapons, it got ~1000 tanks, 1000s of IFVs, most of its artillery shells and so on.
Poorest country except it got military equipment on par with the French army, at least artillery wise.
Without that help and those supplies, it'd have been over for Ukraine by fall of '22 probably.
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you're also eliding that it gets specialist foreign troops operating air defense and elint equipment. (no, they didn't train Ukes to operate it. It takes years of training just to get basic familiarity. )
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but a failure by any objective observer. Yeah, the initial plan A (watch the bribed government scram) was a failure.
Plan B, grind down Ukrainian army to the point they can't go on is ongoing. Even Americans are now admitting it's unwinnable.
But it is also showing how faithless Americans are. Despite all their big words, they're unable to even provide Ukraine with something as basic as air defenses. Richest country in the world can't or won't give out thousands of radar guided missiles. Could it? (honestly don't know, but I suspect it has thousands of Aim-120 which should be adaptable for ground launch)
No_one
4mo ago
So overall I see no reason to believe that Ray Epps was treated with unusual anything.
Are there any people like him who were on the scene, that loud who got no actual time?
especially given our advancements in biology
Bro, our gene pool is mostly decaying. Accumulating mutations. People who were pre-adapted to modernity aren't even breeding at replacement levels! We-on a societal/species level don't understand anything and don't want to understand anything.
We can't even safely rewrite a fertilised egg's DNA at more than single digit spots because of the error rates.
There have been no successful eugenic projects. Human nature is largely fixed because we're too pussy to do anything about it. All your mushy-headed idealistic bullshit is just putting lipstick on a week old stinking corpse of a pig.
Thanks to the religious, and by that I mean communists with their infinite malleability due to material conditions we're pretty much screwed. There's no good policy, most 'intellectuals' are deluded etc. Only animal instincts of people liking healthy partners are preventing total insanity.
it's that adaptability and change are at the heart of what it means to be human.
That's only true on a timescale of centuries and with very high losses involved.
Yeah. That's why Australian Aborigines after getting unceremoniously yanked from their stone age are now deeply involved in Australian's Aerospace industry and not being subjected to PSA's about the inadvisability of sleeping on the road or sniffing petrol.
Another shining example of 'human adaptability' were Norse in Greenland going extinct because they refused to eat fish, sticking to increasingly desperate farming until the bitter end.
No_one
3mo ago
It still seems a bit odd. Blacks voted to Obama at a rate like 95% Let's generously assume that urban poor blacks are 99%. But aren't odds of every single vote being for Obama in a 332 person district something like 0.99^332 which works out to 3.5% ? Without that generous assumption, if black vote for Obama was only 98% vote share, they'd be really low (e-6) ..
What was the amount of invalid votes in those districts?
No_one
4mo ago
Nah. I'm going to cook something, as there's nothing in the fridge for next week. Probably roast some pork.
I learned to 'cook' when I stopped having access to subsidized student food.
Started with various lentil soups, later goulash stew, later started roasting meat or made schnitzels (way too much work for me). Following a recipe isn't difficult. If I'm lazy I just make myself one big 3-4 egg omelette a day, down it with beer.
I'm told I'm good at it at home, by both parents. Once you get some practice you start to have some instinct what the food is missing. Salt/spices/acid etc. Once that's added, usually the end result is appreciated.
If anyone's got a suggestion how to make food more 'basic' (less acidic) without having to use the lye I keep around for cleaning drains, give me a hint pls.
most of the younger generation is getting worse at cooking.
It's sad. Cooking is not difficult, it's far cheaper than anything else.
No_one
10mo ago
that the adherent can pick whether or not to believe in it, and whether or not to go to church or believe in anything at all.
People don' choose what they believe in. They choose what they profess to believe in.
a huge problem arises in how to condition a person into this deterrence who is not seriously religious.
Trying to solve everything by putting a policeman into everyone's head is not efficient.
That's where secular power comes in. If repeated beatings don't work because the transgressor is a psychopath (sensitive to reward only, not punishment), then execution or exile solves the problem.
No_one
10mo ago
The rule that you are not allowed to occupy other countries without a good reason.
The rule is enforced by most powerful countries on this planet, namely, NATO countries who supply Ukraine sufficient weapons so that they can fight against Russian occupying forces.
Are you truly not blind to the absurdity of your statement? ?
At this point, anyone who has anything to say re: UAP is presumed to be a hostile bullshitter. I'd not believe in UAPs even if videos of them were shown all around mainstream media.
I'm willing to give a pass to people who say "come and see this crazy plane on saturday, it can pull 50 gees" or "here is 50 gigabytes of top secret data showing anomalous craft, here are military personnel who collected it".
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