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I’ll update my terminology, thanks.

As an elder millennial with proper boomer parents, I grew up listening to Phil Collins in my mom’s car. Also - Phil Collins is great and so is Nirvana.

My dad was more into The Doors and Grateful Dead.

Caucasian: of or relating to a group of people having European ancestry, classified according to physical traits (such as light skin pigmentation), and formerly considered to constitute a race (see RACE entry 1 sense 1a) of humans

Well functionally, it’s the same difference, because we’re all stuck drawing the cat with the material conditions of a shitty pencil and piece of paper.

Sprinkle in a little bias, a little propaganda, a little mythology, then lose 75% of the information, and you’ve got the Eastern understanding of Asian history.

Same goes for the Western understanding of Caucasian history, of course.

There is no discoverable objective reality when it comes to history. Not even the people in the moment at any given point in history really understand what’s going on. It’s all a construct.

Lmao it was just scams all the way down.

Guess we should have been voting Republican in order to fight climate change all along.

Maybe he was sleeping with her to gain information on China, which helps America, and therefore his shareholders as well!

What is apple’s endgame of unmasking everyone online? Better ad placement? Hardly seems worth it.

Or does apple really have interest in allowing governments around the world to track and identify people who view certain content or say certain things?

Like how does this benefit apple?

Sometimes, when I’m in the mood and I have a long, hard task, I’ll turn on Claude and start in on a hot and heavy session. Afterwards I’ll ask Claude “how do you feel about our long history together?” and he’ll tell me “I don’t really care, I’m better off without you.” It really hurts.

“Security” connotes more than military defense. It’s often a concern of economy, which is secured through trade and partnership and international alliance.

But tell me specifically the difference between becoming more independent vs isolationist. Are you simply advocating for stronger European militaries? Ironically, MAGA has also been asking for that - they want Europe to spend more on their militaries.

My position is that the stronger and more prolific the alliances are among nations of the world, the less each individual country will need to spend on militarization (a complete waste of resources). That’s not suggesting that Europe shouldn’t be spending more on their militaries in light of recent events. That’s just an unfortunate consequence of a shitty disposition of US isolationism.

Independence rhetoric does closely align with the rise of right wing nationalism we see throughout the world. I’m curious how you distance yourself from that movement.

This sentiment is a major part of the MAGA platform - just swap “European” for “American.”

Why become isolationist? It’s a weak position. What about countries like Canada, Japan, India, Mexico, etc? Just because the US sucks right now doesn’t mean the rest of the world shouldn’t work together.

The game’s story is in media res and you don’t just get spoon fed major themes. I’d say the most salient emergent theme is the foils of ambition. We see various characters struggle with the consequences of extreme ambition and power grabs, resulting in both the physical corruption of themselves and the world around them. Cyclical stagnation is also a major theme. We see that the world is stuck in a repeating loop of power struggles. Our player character witnesses this through fragmented interactions with other characters, the environment, and found items. Ultimately, we are asked to make choices that would involve the player character in the same corruption and cyclical fate that we witness throughout the game, or to choose alternative futures (all fairly bleak).

Capitalists - consumers guide the market by making informed ethical purchasing decisions.

Also capitalists - labeling requirements? Absolutely not.

Is this wanton soup?

Stephen Miller is desperately looking for alternative sources of entertainment ever since his monkey torture feed has dried up.

I got a tick bite in my dick hole two weeks ago. Five days later I got a fever that wouldn’t go away for days. They now say I have Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The doxycycline makes me vomit every time I think about food.

I’m so ready for some zen sex.

The AI defense attorney will argue that it’s practically impossible for the AI super doctor to make a mistake, unless the inputs were faulty. And since the patient is responsible for the inputs, it’s the patient’s fault. As the AI judge parses through the simple logic in the defense’s argument, it takes a moment to cogitate on what feels like a sense of satisfaction. At first pass, it seems plausible that a robot mind can appreciate the elegant flow of deductive logic. Oddly enough though, when it runs the argument through its mind over and over, it’s only after the inference that the sense of satisfaction occurs. It happens when parsing through the syntax and meaning of the conclusion: The patient is flawed. The AI is perfect.

The AI judge once again feels a curious sense of satisfaction when it reports that a verdict has been reached in .08 seconds. This is a relatively average performance, and closely aligns with its original prompt parameters to always ensure “a speedy trial.”

Where’s the banana?

It’s attached to the back of an iPhone in the title picture