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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

  • What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

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  • Alright, here's another one. Americans bragging about their democracy until all of a sudden it's more convenient to blame the politicians for bad behaviour rather than the electorate that put them in power.

    Take some responsibility for your government, does it represent you or not?

  • What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

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  • Alright then, the fake friendliness that their employers require. Especially in customer service.

  • What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

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  • We're not talking to you in this thread, we're talking about you. You don't need to jump in with "but that's not annoying!" After people answer the question OP posed, that's not useful.

    This is ironically another annoying behaviour.

  • What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

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  • The assumption that the American legal, political, and cultural context is the "default." They say "X is illegal" without specifying jurisdiction. They assume a "right wing" or "left wing" party must be like their Republicans or Democrats. And so forth.

  • What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

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  • China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro

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  • Yeah, much as I dislike how it turned out and how China has been ignoring what post-unification rules there were on Hong Kong, the return itself was above board. Had I been living in Hong Kong in the years leading up I'd have taken the opportunity to get out if at all possible.

  • China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro

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  • At least with Iraq the US pretended to be following international norms. The presented lies to the UN to justify their actions, they gathered allies into a "coalition."

  • China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro

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  • Which model of good and evil, if not somehow both, do you think is more accurate?

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  • Who's asking the bird and the worm? We're humans discussing this here, maybe a few bots in the mix.

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    What 2025 action of Trumps do you find most unsettling?

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  • Someone who's 18 years old now was 9 years old when Trump was first elected. Their whole awareness of American presidential politics is under his shadow.

  • [Opinion] Trump is making America a rogue state

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  • Don't forget Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11 and was justified to the UN using falsified information.

  • Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information

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  • The US has always had a strong undercurrent of unscientific thinking in medicine, this is an opportunity to rip the bandaid off and stop treating it as an authority for the long run. Even if things "go back the way they were" that's not ideal given their treatment of things like abortion, stem cells, and marijuana and other narcotics. It was just another of those "good enough" things the US used to provide. Let's build something better in their absence so we don't have to return to that.

  • Venezuela’s interim leader defies Trump and calls Maduro the ‘only president’

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  • They voted for "whoever the other guys want."

  • Venezuela’s interim leader defies Trump and calls Maduro the ‘only president’

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  • That's 50% of the electorate.

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    Trump announces annexation of Venezuela

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  • I'm thinking Cuba is a more likely target, honestly. Not to say that Canada shouldn't be doing everything it can to prepare, of course.

    I used to think that the proper stance was "get all the gear necessary for making a nuke ready but don't actually put it together just yet", but I'm now up to "go ahead and put one together in secret so that it can be announced immediately when needed."

  • [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art?

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  • "Is it art?" Is a question that's been asked over and over throughout history.

    It changes from person to person and from time to time. Cubism, photography, found art, aleatoricism, algorithmic art, interpretive dance, it's all gone through "it's not art" at some point. A banana taped to a wall. An "invisible" sculpture. A tin of the artist's poop. Jackson Pollock's dribbles.

    The answer doesn't really matter. It's right, it's wrong, who cares?

  • As Towns and Cities Fight Off Data Centers, Calls Grow for a National Moratorium

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  • Indeed. Biggest growth industry in existence right now, and the US wants to say "no thanks" to it? By all means, hand it to us.

    I just hope that there isn't a similar surge of popular self-sabotage in Canada, there are much less trustworthy places the data centers will be built instead.

  • what do you guys think about ai

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  • Just last night I discovered that one of my little applications had a bug that was causing it to sometimes lose a bit of crucial data in a hard-to-notice way, seemingly at random. Probably some kind of race condition, super annoying to debug and figure out since each test run took ten minutes to try and the problem was probably nondeterministic anyway. So before I tucked in and started work myself I tossed it over to Jules with a brief description of what I was seeing happen sometimes. I told it to find and fix the bug if it could, and if it couldn't then it should wire up the whole process with debug logging and excessive sanity-checking to help me figure it out.

    By the time I'd finished setting up my first test run Jules had come back with "oh yeah, here it is. This two-line change fixes it." And sure enough.

    I'm a programmer of ~20 years experience, I could have found and fixed that myself. But it could have taken hours and I would have hated every minute of it. We invented compilers for similar reasons, I love throwing AI at stuff like this.

  • Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us

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  • I think you misunderstand. I'm not American. "Time's up" means that I'm done waiting and hoping that America will get its shit together, it's time to treat America as an adversary rather than an ally and move on. The pattern has been clear for a long time, this isn't new. It's just reached a point where it can no longer be papered over and ignored.

    The "big thing" you're hoping for - a sudden dramatic move to national sanity by the Americans - isn't going to happen without generational change and a fundamental shift in world power dynamics happening first.