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RedFrank24

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  • I wonder what game they're trying to play

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  • Assuming they're a teenager, you trusted your parents not to search through your stuff a lot more than most. Parents aren't going to give you any lectures or punish you for having a PS5 controller in your room.

  • Killing in the name of

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  • Yeah it's like when your mom calls you by your full name and you know you've really fucked up.

  • Killing in the name of

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  • To be fair, it's both. It basically just says "Don't invoke God's name unless it's important". Don't swear by God unless you actually mean it, don't call out his name in thanks unless you genuinely believe it, and so on and so on.

    Tbh it could have just been God going "You know how you get a ping when someone does an @everyone on Discord and it really annoys you? Yeah well I get that whenever someone uses my name, so knock it off unless it's important!"

  • that boy right

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  • ...No, it was political convenience, both in the Chinese Famine and the Irish Potato Famine. The British were so convinced that laissez faire capitalism would resolve the issue that they actively got in the way when that turned out not to be true, because it was better to them that the system be seen as working than it actually working. The same applied to the Chinese when Mao was warned that exterminating the sparrows would cause famine, as would 'deep plowing' made up by some Soviet guy, but The Party can never be wrong, and if The Party tells you how to do something, you do it that way, even if millions of people die.

    It was a situation in both cases where political ideology was put up against reality, and political ideology won, resulting in mass starvation.

    When it comes to Israel... I don't think it really compares because Israel knows Gazans are starving, and that's actually the goal. They actively want the Palestinians to be gone as quickly as possible. The political convenience is more on the side of anyone who allies with Israel because it's more convenient for them to have an ally in the middle east, rather than step in and deal with the problem. I guess it would be convenient for Netanyahu specifically, because so long as he keeps the war going, he's staying in power and most importantly out of prison.

  • Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update

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  • The problem here is that all these major anime providers are owned by Sony, so you're kinda fucked if you want to boycott them.

  • that boy right

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  • Could be worse... It could be that people are starving because it's politically convenient for them to starve. Back in 1959 China introduced the Four Pests campaign, which involved exterminating rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows because they kept eating crops.

    ...Turns out that was a bad idea, and those 'pests' were actually pretty important to ecological balance, leading to (in combination with other Maoist policies where central government was telling farmers how to farm, but also lacked the knowledge on how to farm correctly) the Great Chinese Famine, killing anywhere between 15-55 million people by starvation.

  • No doubt

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  • He did fight corruption and beat up corrupt judges and politicians in his early career, but it doesn't work. Gotham is corrupt on a cultural level, like Russia on steroids. There is nothing you can do to 'fix' Gotham. There is literally no incentive you can give them that will make it not corrupt. You could go "Everyone in Gotham gets $10,000,000! Free housing, healthcare, everything!" and the guy whose job it is to distribute that money would suddenly be $100,000,000,000,000 richer and exactly nothing would change.

  • No doubt

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  • Gotham is so corrupt that it would make Russia blush. If you taxed Bruce Wayne at 99%, nothing would change except the cops would all suspiciously have new supercars.

  • Greta Thunberg arrested by Israeli forces after military boards aid flotilla headed for Gaza – Middle East crisis live

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  • No doubt they'll do what they did last time and just force her to watch Oct 7th footage and go "...Are you... Are you convinced yet? Please be convinced... Please"

  • "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst...?"

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  • They still have to make that money back somehow though. They can't just put a load of investment down on AI, make zero money off it (or worse, less than zero) and then expect everything to be fine with the existing profits. They need to raise revenue from existing streams to cover for the loss they just incurred by doing AI. That, or cut costs, which means layoffs, which means people have less money, meaning they spend less money, which means businesses make less money, so they do layoffs, and so on and so on leading to a recession.

  • Can you think of any now?

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  • ...So what learning styles are there?

  • Steady

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  • Steady

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  • Lies, all lies

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  • I'll listen to it, it doesn't mean I'll like it. If you can tell me what you like about it, maybe I'll also like it.

  • JD Vance suggests trans people pose a “domestic terrorist threat” & FBI plans to target trans people - LGBTQ Nation

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  • I mean... It kinda was. Netanyahu deliberately stalled peace talks because he wanted Trump in power and he knew that killing Palestinians only hurt Kamala politically, it never hurt Trump because his voters don't give a shit.

  • oldest trick in the book

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  • The price of the spell to undo the invisibility has now gone up to 100,000 gold.

  • Britain Indulges ‘King Trump’ Fantasy With Made-Up Ceremony

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  • If there's one thing the UK is good at, it's making rich people feel important. It's how all those Russian oligarchs feel so comfortable in London, comfortable enough to spill their secrets. Nobody suspects the butler, nobody suspects that behind the pomp and ceremony there's a knife waiting for you.

    Trump likes to be flattered, so flatter him, and then get as much cash out of the US as possible! $150bn investment so far as a result of this little bit of pageantry, since all those tech companies are now dancing to Trump's tune.

  • GitHub auth

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  • My workplace doesn't allow Bitwarden because 'it's not secure'.

  • soon arriving

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  • British summer is nice if you have air conditoning, otherwise it's hell. British winter is nice for exactly 24hrs if it ever snows. You know that first 24hrs when it's deathly silent at night because the snow is deadening all the sounds, and when you get up in the morning and the snow is still fluffy? That's when British Winter is good. The rest of the time, the snow melts but not enough so it just turns to ice, you're slipping everywhere, it's freezing cold and extremely wet so you're just completely soaked at all times.

    Autumn and Spring don't exist. You have Cold, Hot and Overcast.