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kitnaht

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  • Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses, correct?

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  • Depends if they sold, where they sold, and a bunch of other factors.

  • Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading

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  • You probably know fewer than 20 people who live in poverty yet think you know everyone who's poor?

    I'm surrounded by the dumb fucks in a deep red state in the country; nearly everyone I've ever interacted with my entire life lives in poverty. The fact that you have a RETIREMENT FUND AT ALL puts you well above that line.

    You know what you can't have when you're in poverty? Retirement funds. Because it's considered equity and you're not allowed to have any in order to get government assistance. The only things exempt from that are your homesteaded house, and 2 cars (and only if both adults in the house are working!)

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  • It's not very shortsighted, it's quite long-sighted. Everything has been shit since the 2008 crash. Absolutely dog-shit garbage. Wages haven't changed, everyone's already in the hole.

    I'd have loved a few more years of floating it, but the writing has been on the wall for some time now. It's going to suck for everyone, I'm sure - but the market never corrected in 2008. It was going to happen some time or another - I'm just happy Republicans are going to be on the hook for it.

    It's going to take 10 years to come back from this - but I suspect in doing so, we'll be in a better place in the long term. Last people who did this weren't re-elected for damn near 20 years. We've all said this was the last gasp of a dying political party. It's gonna suck, sure -- but I'm hopeful for the future and the rebound it will cause.

    On top of it all, I've been using it as leverage to fuck with every Trump voter I see in my shop.

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  • Honestly, we've needed this crash since back when Obama was president, and we got a bunch of propped up corporations. They socialized the losses, so to speak.

    Nobody I know in poverty is affected by stocks, so fuck them all.

  • I hate my phone so I got rid of it

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  • How about uh...stop using social media? I barely ever touch my smartphone, I only use it for E2E encrypted messaging apps, email, and maybe the occasional phone call.

    You don't need to get rid of the phone to do this shit.

  • Ender 3 V2 damage?

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  • I repair 3D printers for a living, this was dropped or slammed into something else. That connector on the v2 is NOT a flimsy plastic. But you're right, you can just print another one. The belts don't have to be so tight; at best "snug".

  • Chevron must pay $744 million for damage to Louisiana coast, says landmark court ruling

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  • In before Trump pardons another corporation....

  • p r e s s u r e

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  • What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?

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  • That isn't how genetics work and it isn't how intelligence works.

    On a simplified level, it absolutely is. If having more kids gives an evolutionary advantage, and being unintelligent is part of that caste, then absolutely the children will be born with a lower capacity for intelligence.

    Look at Huskeys vs other dogs. Massive, MASSIVE difference in personality, intelligence, energy, etc.

    And they aren't a different species either - it takes fractions of a % of difference in DNA to produce huge swings in things like intelligence.

    If we share something like 90% of our DNA with monkeys, it's not going to take an entire speciation to measure intelligence differences. This is a lie told by people who pretend to be scientists, but are more interested in the moral implications of confirming than they are truth and facts. Yes, telling people you can control the genetic population of the species to push for certain outcomes within the species in a dangerous thing. We get that. But that is the truth of the matter, not some fairy-tale that we're all kumbyah and that every genetically distinct population doesn't have advantages and disadvantages (of which there are hundreds or thousands of distinct genetic populations within the h. sapien species; If you're a pacific islander, a DNA test can tell you exactly what island you originate from).

    Sure, on an individual level - people as single data-points can fall upon that distribution, but you absolutely can shift that distribution up or down.

    Granted, doing genetic control like this comes with its own incredibly dangerous set of consequences such as amplification of mutant genome, because you would be controlling for 1 trait, but missing the other millions of traits/genetic markers that you need to keep diverse in order to keep the human body working. -- Again, using dogs as a reference here, how most dalmations have hearing problems or are completely deaf because when their line was bred, they were controlling for the patterning, not other genetic defects.

  • What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?

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  • If we bred for it, we could make it happen. That's the point.

    Also, it isn't unscientific. They've done it in rat/mouse studies. Look up mouse utopia. We aren't immune to social collapse. As a species we aren't that smart to begin with. It's our social structure, public schooling, etc that allow us to advance early age and maintain the higher order thought that our society continues to have. When shit goes sideways, kids don't have public schools any more, etc -- you'll see how stupid genetically, we all are.

    I have friends, who are legitimately "mentally stunted" because they weren't taught language due to a neglective environment.

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  • TV shows almost look like OW MY BALLS today; with newer smart TVs injecting ads into content that isn't even theirs.

    We've got a president doing McDonalds buffets for events, suggesting people "inject light" into their veins for medical intervention, wanting to rename greenland to "Red White and Blueland"...

    Nah. That shit hits far too close to home.

    And if other animals can be bred for specific traits, so can humans. We're not special in any way regarding that. Rejecting that because of how it was incorrectly used to justify horrible things in the past is flat out unscientific.

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  • Gender Fluid? You mean like the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket?

  • What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?

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  • Idiocracy. We're basically dumping brawndo on the plants as we speak...

  • Fox News removes their Dow ticker as stocks crater from Trump's new tariffs

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  • There is only 1. uBlock Origin.

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  • I've only ever done those speeds on a VERY clear interstate highway with little to no traffic, in my dumbass teenage years - honestly it's a miracle I didn't get myself killed; looking back it was absolutely irresponsible, but damn it was fun :D

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  • That's about 40mph faster than I've ever driven, and even in a sports car it gets squirrely VERY fast at those speeds. Holy shit.

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    How to stop the global infestation of billionaires??

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  • Venezuela has tons of billionaires I bet. It's not about the number, it's about the inequality at the tippy top.

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    The insidious creep of American culture

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  • Ho ho ho, wait until you find out what the continent Canada is on gets called...

    You're AMERICAN too...

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  • I'm gonna get called a misanthrope for this -- but we've gotta stop having children. This "Line go up", shit of ours can't keep going on or we're going to starve ourselves out of existence.