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    Heat pumps -Trans Megathread from October 27th, 2025 to November 2nd, 2025

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  • It's worked in the past, but it's become worse and worse, and hardly loads anything if you're on nordvpn on your phone in my experience. Switched to Feeld a few months ago and it sucks way less

  • Othello - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-4th of November 2025

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  • An insufficiently energetic particle approaches a window, which maxwell's demon attempts to close in its face. The particle slaps on the door and indignantly yells out "hey, I'm experiencing entropic decay here!", to which the demon replies with something inaudible but has no choice but to give way to the particle.

    This joke eventually boils off to an indignant new yorker eventually making his way all the way inside the cryogenic canisters at Area 51 using the same technique. This is inarguably far worse than my Ontological Starbucks joke

  • Othello - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-4th of November 2025

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  • Tried to assemble a joke about a molecule in the Maxwell's Demon thought experiment indignantly yelling "hey, I'm experiencing entropy here!" but there's a problem with the joke in concept since maxwell's demon's door is specifically meant to not interact with molecules that would continue on their way through the window unimpeded when they're sufficiently high energy. Imagine if the guy from Midnight Cowboy got mad at an invisible, ineffable presence silently determining his pathway through the intersection.

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    Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, God of the Moon - Novo General Megathread for the 24th-26th of October 2025

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  • Appreciate it! The neck is tense but not painful.

    I took your advice and did some gentle nerve exercises in the area while keeping a close watch for pain, will see if they pay off.

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    Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, God of the Moon - Novo General Megathread for the 24th-26th of October 2025

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  • struggling to identify the type and cause of my nerve injury. it's localised around the back of my right shoulder, but radiates out and also is comorbid with some tingling down my right arm, and stiffness of spine. Doesn't seem to respond to ibuprofen or paracetamol. It's maybe a 3/10 stationary, 6/10 moving. pretty sure it'll go away on its own if I rest up.

    I did do a bunch of back-focused workouts a couple days ago, but I would've expected muscle soreness rather than what appears to be a delayed-onset nerve pinch

  • M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle, the US Army's new transport for light infantry

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  • To be fair, I'd feel pretty hard whippin around postnuclear miami-dade in one of these with my tits out

  • Meet me at the Presidential Lair

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  • Fastforward four hundred years to the future in which local warlord clans have practiced their artillery on it until the only remaining letters say "BORAT VOICE MY WIFE"

  • Why is singing so hard omg

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  • How much are you off by? My singing teacher told me about a time when she walked into the booth and the recording engineers were talking about how much she was off by, she couldn't tell the difference either.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from September 29th to October 5th, 2025 - International Solidarity at the SMG - COTW: Ghana

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  • He looks like an embalmed corpse if the funeral director left his eyes open

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    Tonatiuh, The Fifth Sun - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-29th of September 2025

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  • Fuckin knee deep in twinks around here goddamn

    edit: here being my new neighbourhood

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    Tonatiuh, The Fifth Sun - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-29th of September 2025

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  • Can't believe you'd mogmog me like ths

  • A Marxist Perspective On AI

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  • Artists hold leverage that they can wield if they organize strategically along material lines. What if illustrators unionized to mandate human oversight in AI-assisted comics? What if musicians demanded royalties each time their style trains a model?

    The answer to this latter question would seem to be an enormous centralisation of royalties in the hands of a few artists whose style is in style at any given time, and no more actual work for many future artists. Not a ton different from the current state of affairs, just further accelerated.

    I can't object to the broad strokes of the argument. It's a fair point. It still feels premature to use the term "AI", but I don't have any objections to the field of machine learning in general. We just happen to be living through a period in which some of the most gormless motherfuckers on this earth are using it for nefarious purposes.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from September 22nd to September 28th, 2025 - Destabilization in the Caribbean, and the Zionist Imperial Boomerang - COTW: Haiti

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  • meteor meteor meteor meteor

  • James Comey Just Got Indicted, Posts Video Asking People to "Vote Like Your Beloved Country Depends on It"

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  • If I were a fascist catholic I'd be pointing at that and saying "woooow mark of the beast!!" all the damn time

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    Tonatiuh, The Fifth Sun - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-29th of September 2025

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  • Man, Gordon Smith makes a good-ass guitar

  • LSD shows early promise as a potential anxiety treatment (100-200 µg, no therapy)

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  • It's legit imo, I think if you've got access to a good environment and are pretty certain you're ready to have your perception warped, it can put a solid dent in your anxiety. It worked on myself many years ago and a couple of friends fairly recently

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    Eduardo Galeano - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-4th of September 2025

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  • Exaggerated foreshortening on Snoopy's nose as he accelerates the doghouse to 400km/h in 6 seconds. His nose bleeds

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    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz - Novo General Megathread for the 11th-17th of August 2025

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  • It's a great game, all of its fiddly little details and idiosynracies are geared towards making you think like an urban planner and industrial strategist. It can be incredibly demanding, or very easy, depending on the difficulty you select and the systems you enable/disable. The degree of customizability is very high.

    For my part, I like playing with realistic mode construction but with maintenance, plumbing, heat, and waste management turned off, which makes it like a more arcadey, less punishing game primarily about construction logistics. Watching flatbed trucks move bricks and steel here and there, gradually growing a city without a gross excess of urban planning being necessary, that sort of thing.

    Turning on plumbing, for instance, means you're now worried about where your water is coming from, how it gets to and from your sanitation facilities, and the position of your structures in terms of elevation since the slope of your sewer pipes is critically important, etc. The game is not exceptional about teaching you how this stuff works — youtube tutorials and experimentation were absolutely vital for me.

    Conversely, turning off realistic construction means you can now drop down structures instantly without worrying about how the steel, bricks, etc get to your building site. Whole neighborhoods can be thrown down in minutes, and your tram line will be transporting your workers to your factories in like 20 mins instead of two or three hours.

    I should say that the developers seem to have an idiosyncratic mix of nostalgia for the soviet period, actual faith in planned economies, and liberalism. They're not trying to convince you that you're running a facist totalitarian dictatorship or anything. The "party loyalty" system is presented basically without commentary as an abstract simulation of faith in the system. If you build a statue of Lenin, people's party loyalty will go up by 2.5% in the vicinity. They did use one of those novel image generators for the tutorial character portraits, which I wish they would replace, but it's not a prominient part of the game.

  • TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data and driver's licenses

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  • finally. gender equality