fmac
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fmac
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5d ago
Unfortunately some of our professionals like to ban teaching phonics and think Gender Queer is good content for 8 year olds.
You're referring to American schools here, so clearly Tyler's whole "we control the schools thing" isn't going so well lol
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5d ago
Hell, I even know consulting friends who do it regularly despite minimal actual upside and eroding their hourly wages to something horrible.
Didn't know we were buddies!
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5d ago
naval warfighting and sustainment ability. China's prospects in all three of those are ... suboptimal.
This is a funny callout given the fact the PLAN is quite literally doing the part of the movie where the protagonist does a training montage to "the eye of the tiger"
What do you think about the Type 003 EMALs, the pending type 004, and the fact they're launching type 054x and type 055s at a pretty hefty clip?
Put another way, why do you think basically every INDOPACOM leader sounds like they're shitting their pants in interviews and press releases?
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5d ago
China wins by not allowing foreign companies to compete in its markets
Which is why VW makes 60% of their profits in China (they're so cooked) and the Western world has 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs right?
The CEO of Ford, Chris Farley, who I find quite insightful, will tell basically anyone with a podcast mic that western car manufacturers are about to get absolutely fucked if they don't get their shit together, or in his words, "we're facing a fitness test"
This post didn't trigger my inner AI detecting sense. In an effort to be better calibrated, can you tell me what about this person's post strikes you as AI? I'd like to get better at AI detecting.
After re-reading, the very last paragraph does have a slight AI feeling but that's all I got
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5d ago
While I think it's much more likely than not that Mr Mangione did it, the keeping the gun/silencer/bullets/MANIFESTO on you is so stupid it boggles the mind.
For days too right? Why would you do this?
You could drop a bullet off per garbage can as you travel around PA. You could buy a hacksaw of some kind and do your best to break down the gun and silencer in a gas station bathroom.
Fuck you could rent a car and bury them in the woods, you could buy a bike in cash on Craigslist and bury them in the woods, the possibilities are literally infinite.
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5d ago
I don't really understand your point because I live in Toronto and I have never once thought to myself "damn I can't walk from the ROM to the restaurant I'm meeting my friends at because there's too many parking lots in the way". I'm also generally not suffering for parking in Toronto when I drive places, I love how much underground parking we have hidden away.
Although that was actually my experience in San Antonio, so I think the real thing here is an urban planning skill issue lol
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5d ago
While you're not wrong about urban boundaries, this:
who mostly don't want you to build halfway houses for criminals and/or the mentally ill, or dense pod housing, next to them
Is absolutely ridiculous lmao, just blatantly not true
I can find roughly infinite examples of quite literally every built form being opposed, my buddies neighborhood Facebook group is current having a meltdown because someone wants to build an extension on the back of their SFH
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6d ago
I'm not sure why eccentrics should have a veto over societal development.
Who are you worried about veto-ing what exactly? There's approximately 0 veto-ing that prevents new suburban development, except for the NINBYism of neighboring suburban developments lol.
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6d ago
Arts, music, and culture can all be readily found on the internet
You will live in the suburb, you will consume essential human experiences via a screen, you will be happy
lol, lmao even
Other public transit pros:
Generally the density of places with it means I can add a second or third destination after the primary museum, gallery, glory hole, restaurant on a whim
If your social sphere lives in the same area, it's much easier to meet up with people while doing any of this
You can read or do other stuff while you travel, no attention required
I can get drunk or high at the destination without coordinating a DD
Edit: I realize this is mildly uncouth but I'd like to offer an open mic to anyone drive-by downvoting this comment, why? Do you think my 'pros" here are stupid? Do you dislike public transit? I'm genuinely curious what motivates someone to look at the comment and go "I dislike this" but then also not articulate their thoughts at all. Let's chat
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6d ago
they will usually nuke the entire project and then do it alone anyway
FCAS cries out in pain
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8d ago
Life can just end with the sun evaporating the oceans on earth, and that's probably what will happen.
Jesus Christ as if my "lying in bed at midnight Sunday scariest" weren't bad enough already
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9d ago
People watch competitive swimming even though the median shark would swim circles around the fastest humans.
I know this isn't the point, but I'd way prefer competitive shark swimming
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9d ago
controversial new bicycle from Trek
What bike, and why is it controversial?
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9d ago
They definitely had to revise down their fertility stats a year or two ago due to this
I think there was a funding motivation as well
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10d ago
It's hilarious you're shocked by this because (I'm also Canadian) the fact there even exists a <$500k condo period, let alone a 2bed, in 2025 is absolutely insane to me
#JustTorontoThings
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11d ago
I mean they must have? The only way they'd know he paid cash was via security footage, or if he did the transaction 50% cash / 50% card so that the receipt info could be traced to him
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12d ago
and also midterms to worry about
He should be worried given how bad his approval rating is. Below both Biden and Trump1.
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12d ago
This is just an argument for never voting,
No it's not. Most politicians do want to win again,Trump is unique in that 1) he literally cannot and 2) his brand is about aggressively not giving a fuck (about you)
Thinking that Trump cares what (you) think is absolute tomfoolery and if anyone wants to attempt to defend that point I'd love to see them try
You're not wrong, but neither is he
The UK does seethe in the cuck chair of history (LMAO), but a world in which the USA loses the mandate of free market heaven is a world that's much shittier for the USA.
And the way the USA loses said mandate is by doing exactly what is happening, generally being an irrational and chaotic actor who insists on shooting itself in the foot a lot, and then making fun of the people going "hey maybe stop doing that?".
Nothing crazy has happened yet, and maybe nothing will. But the tiny dominos are starting to shift, and they could get bigger. A non exhaustive list:
Some Saudi oil and natgas trades are now settled in RMB.
Some Russian bonds are now denominated in RMB.
SWIFT is absolutely garbage technologically but the USA laughs at anyone who points this out and China is grinding hard to set up an alternative.
BRICS is looking into using a basket of currencies to settle trades. You may say "hah who the fuck cares about BRICS" which is fair. But if BRICS is looking to get away from you, and then you also alienate the EU (and make no mistake, regardless of the cuck chair, the vibes are shifting) you have actually lost your dominant position over the vast majority of humanity
As someone who greatly benefits from Pax Americana, please wake the fuck up and avoid this obvious fail state
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