Huh, Russia too.

Does anyone else remember the joy of going to a state fair, or local games market/festival/convention to gave their PS/2 modded to play international games? Anyone remember region locking?

Fun times.

I wonder if Russia understands that the crazed Republican supporters they’ve cultivated to slightly favor Russia with this candidate (Trump) are just as likely (if not more) to be the same ones demanding Nuclear War with Russia next election season, or the one after it.

That’s the problem with trying to inject chaos into the world’s current super power, it might roll over and crush you whilst chaotically flailing sometime later. That’s the nature of chaos.

What you actually want is a friendly calm America, that lets you go about your own business. Not a chaotic America run by wildcards, sycophants, and morality free billionaires.

JD Vance was appointed on Peter Thiel’s recommendation, beating out the candidate Rupert Murdoch was suggesting.

I believe Vance worked at Thiel’s Venture Capital company named Narya (a Tolkien reference, as that’s Thiel’s company naming preference).

But yeah, Trump was presented with two options from the right wing elite billionaires he serves. So that’s how that worked.

Wait, where is Leon Skum involved?

Guy taking bong hit watching other two people fight

Most of the deaths under Stalin were from the conman Trofim Lysenko, who created “Lysenkoism” (a set of farming techniques he was faking the data on to get paid), and under both Mao and Stalin were from unwanted famines.

Good, it’s the only reliable sign of intelligent self-awareness there is, to the point that all children progress through it, starting out as bad liars, and getting better at it.

LLMs however might just be stupid, or stocasticaly incorrect.

Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system, activated when the wealth gap gets too large.

It looks great! Don’t know why that ahole is making that face.

Yep, so much of Reddit is like that… Creating an adversarial relationship with users …and just like YouTube slowing down people using ad blockers, or games demanding people be online, it will eventually drive people away.

Death by a thousand self-inflicted cuts.

Add removal, pocket further advertising can choosing to appear in, simple bad coding, or are they doing abmassive AI study to see how different paddings affect our choices?

Who knows!

Yep, she’s the greenwashing candidate who comes out every four years to collect a paycheck and espouse Libertarianism. An absolute grifter.

CAPITAL-ism is aimed and designed to benefit those with the capital.

Then he’ll remain a danger to the world and probably do a lot of horrible things protecting himself, which will not be a good outcome for the west.

As long as they’re not hallucinating, which anyone (including conspiracy theorists) can ask them to do. They they turn into conspiracy confirming machines.

Negotiate the full deal to return Ukrainian, and exit peaceably. Run your stories in Russia “Ukraine successfully denazified, free and fair elections to be held” - “Ukrainian forces defeated at Russian border”…

…then go back to arresting democracy protestors, gay rights advocates, and your own alt-right talking heads… And try to keep your head on Vlad. Try to pick a successors, and a nice European country to retire to.

Renegade (old show featuring Lorenzo Lamas) or Space above and Beyond (which only ran for one season).

Is this from the Alf episode where he visits a prostitute? Ahhh, different times.

Absolute truth may ir may not exist, but humans and all our interpretations are subjective.

… and if God wanted us to know an absolute Truth that would violate our free will, it might also make someone go crazy. Which is the internal reasoning for why faith is required for most religions (externally/critically it’s because non of them make coherent sense).

Slap a “for me” any statement becomes subjective, even your “I don’t believe in absolute truth exists”.

…and what’s more, to go one step further, I don’t think the belief in an absolute truth is as comforting as we pretend it must be. He sounds very uncomfortable to the point it’s bothering him, and interrupting his daily interactions with others.

Sounds like a mental health issue to me… And like many mental health issues, I think it comes as a way to avoid and protect ones self from trauma. In this case the truama of living in an ambiguous world, where there’s not a simple set of answers available.

Religion holds people back, keeps them attached to an easy set of inauthentic beliefs that operate on false ideas of the world… And that’s my subjective viewpoint argued with reason, which for almost all intents and purposes is qualitatively better than operating on faith.