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Brutticus

@ Brutticus @midwest.social

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  • watching age-restricted videos from youtube without google account

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  • Bless you sir

  • I'm there already

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  • Is that his skin? A mask? I cant tell. This guy looks like he skinned a dark chocolate bar and made a human suit

  • My brother grew up to become a homicidal freak. Are violent men common in the general population or was our childhood ROYALLY fucked?

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  • jfc OP. its not common, this is the second most abuse filled upbringing I have ever heard about. You desperately need therapy.

  • New He-Man Movie

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  • Its like a monkeys paw

  • Draw Steel is a machine that makes heroes

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  • I'm really looking forward to playing at least a whole adventure of drawsteel. We did the demo and it only took 3 hours for 4 encounters. For example we could play that much 5e and not finish 1 encounter.

  • Better don’t give martials any weapons and casters no spellcasting then…

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  • I've been hearing about DM's complaining about Rogues SA since 3.x days. These are the same guys who (allegedly) thought the monk was more powerful that the sorcerer because the monk's chart had so many more columns and class features.

    Why did you even play with this guy?

  • Grippy handles too. Luxury.

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  • Imagine if we could grow toilets?

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • possibly? Being a liberal is the default where I live. Its generally considered the opposite of "conservative." I give liberals (in the US politics sense) a bit more grace than most leftists. It is as far left as most people consider "allowable" in the US. They don't hold very many abhorrent social opinions; they are quite supportive of queer rights, they volunteer at soup kitchens with me, oppose nazis, are environmentally conscious, etc.

    Their main issue is that they have never been taught to view the world differently. So they talk about environmentalism, and they get behind bike lanes and electric cars, but they cannot conceive of restructuring cities to make use of more public transportation, or say blowing up fossil fuel infrastructure in minecraft. They want to help the homeless, but they can't imagine just housing people, they support shelters and clothing drives and the salvation army, and other stop gaps within the system. I've long since resigned myself to the fact that people who think what I think are rare, and even various other stripes of leftists (anarchists, syndicalists, MLs, etc) are all gonna be a vanishingly tiny minority. I don't think most liberals are so far gone we can't reach them.

    (Unless you meant like, neo liberalism, with like Thatcherist and Reaganite austerity, in which case yeah, basically fascism).

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • I feel like your rebuttal is mostly hinging on the definitions of "defend" or "support" are. Look man, I understand that the US is going to invade Venezuela, or least is testing the waters a bit. Aside from military adventurism being what dying empires do to feel young, Trump himself is desperate to do anything from being exposed as part of the "Deep state" his cult was built up to hate (not that anything will then happen).

    But when you deny the Uyghur genocide, or say Putin is "de-nazifying" Ukraine, it sure sounds to me like you simping for the imperialist expansionism of other empires, because in the broad strokes, they oppose the one you hate. Which, fuck dude, I hate the empire you hate, and they are the biggest one, but I can also hate more than one thing. You can oppose US imperial interests while understanding that Putin is trying to reclaim Ukraine because it was one of the richest former Soviet Republics. Both are evil, but trust the people of Ukraine to know how to best bet on their own safety. We make the same choices everyday in a dictatorship of capital. Do you buy a product from the company with slaves or the one that poisons water?

    Just cause you hate Hershey doesn't mean you simp Nestle.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • For the same reason people fall into fascism. Capitalism is putting the screws to people. Rent is too high, food is too expensive, people are on a treadmill, and dissatisfaction hangs in the air like miasma. People are mad, and they don't know at what. They sense something is rotten, they dont have the words. Fascism co-opts leftist talking points, but pulls a bait and switch with the Jews and migrants and whoever.

    Tankies also start from this choking miasma, you look at Tankie propaganda, its compelling. The US commited genocide and war crimes, and is more racist than you know. Capitalists are terrible, yadda yadda you know it. Tankie propaganda also frames politics as a team sport. When you look at the US (or you can look at it as the "Nato Empire," which can be an interesting way to think about it), as the ultimate evil, can be easy to see anyone opposing them as good or worth supporting.

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • The Nazi mobile is anti consumer? Say it aint so!

    Didn't they run slave labor camps at multiple points in their history?

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  • You're right, that does seem very nice.

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  • I work in social work; I would say about 60 percent of what I do is paperwork. My agency has told us not to use LLMs, as that would be a massive HIPPA nightmare. That being said, we use "secure" corporate emails. These use Microsoft 365 office suite, which are copilot enabled. These include TLDRs at the top, before you even look at the email, predictive texts... and not much else.

    Would I love a bot who could spit out a Plan based on my notes or specifications? absolutely. Do I trust them not to make shit up. Absolutely not.

  • These and the Titanic one were my childhood

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  • I remember the arms and armor one! I got it for my best friend one Channukah... like 20 years ago

  • Why are "love potions" always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?

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  • This man is a poet

  • Why are "love potions" always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?

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  • My assumption is that friendship is a lot easier to initiate and maintain. Limmerence, especially, is a lot of anxiety about how the person feels and if I could only make them see the depth of my feelings and am I what they want. The kind of thing that a specific kind of person wishes for magic for.

  • How to differentiate between a AGI and an LLM that has read every book in existence?

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  • This is interesting. Im not supremely well informed on these issues but I always assumed so called "AGI" would have emotions, or at least would be "Alive." Is there a term for such a robot? Most fictional robots have intelligence and emotions to the point where we loop back around to it being unethical to exploit them.

  • Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation

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  • Lol so I downloaded this and I LOVE it. I'm only on the second gym and I have been doing nothing except grabbing pokemon. Everything seems so well thought out and its beautiful.

    There may be some plot elements that people are mad about, but really it just seems to me that people are mad because there is a rainbow flag and a trans flag in some homes. Its just really bland chud rage.

  • Look lady, I'm just saying...

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  • It's nice to know that Bob the angry flower is still doing things. I met at SDCC like 20 years ago.

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    Recommendations for a new phone

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    I made some Pumpkin Cheese Cake

  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    I have this corner in my basement

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    Youtube Embedded player acting weird for anyone else?

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    I made Jam

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    yt.dlp and age gated videos on youtube