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14hr ago
That would be beatdowns for public school teachers and administrators. I'm fine with non-ass-kicking methods of limiting the harm they do.
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16hr ago
People like hot characters in media. Actors for Hollywood movies are very much not a representative sampling of American body types. The male actors bulk and cut and many are clearly on gear. So every Disney Marvel movie you get to see the cut lead male with his shirt off. The female lead will also be unusually hot compared to the median person.
I'm fine with more "normal" looking people in media. Zendaya is not a big-breasted hottie and that's fine. Let's get more actors like that. And stop making the guys cut so hard to have chiseled abs.
I played Diablo 2 Resurrected a bit and the player characters look a bit different than the original. The druid is older and a bit haggard for instance. If they had similarly made the female PCs less hot I'd be fine with that. They didn't of course.
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20hr ago
South Africa still has their enriched uranium. There's material for 6 to 7 nukes in storage right now. But their infrastructure is in a sorry state and I'm skeptical if they still could remake their nuclear program from scratch. Already having the fissile material laying around is a huge advantage. Maybe.
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21hr ago
South Africa still has their weapons grade uranium. But I don't think they can rebuild their nukes. They've had recent problems keeping the power on and trains running. Their basic infrastructure is collapsing. A nuclear weapons program is far beyond them today.
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21hr ago
the Africans can emerge with their advanced air fleet and superweapons
I think this is the weak point here. I don't suppose this is happening. Much less within two years. Africa would need to bootstrap an industrial base to catch up to 1939 Europe, not the other way around.
1939 Europe obviously. Not even close. Assuming they were united. Somehow French and Germans are marching together.
That or a stalemate in which neither side can meaningfully invade the other. Europeans can't seize North Africa, Africans can't seize Spain.
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21hr ago
even under bizarrely loose ideas of what counts as 'defamatory'
To be fair to Anthropic, some other countries have bizarrely loose ideas regarding defamation. England for one example. Japan for a far worse one. Truthful statements about a public figure can be defamation in Japan. Us Americans have it good in this regards.
I assume Anthropic doesn't want to be dragged into foreign defamation suits.
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1d ago
Billionaires and centimillionaires are devoured by helicopter crashes. It is their natural predator.
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1d ago
Was it previously possible to build a car that drives upside down
Yes. Upside down demos have been around for a while. Fans sucking the car down make it corner better. To show off the fans photo the car upside down. This is a continuation of that concept.
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1d ago
I never heard of this.
a French-language sung-through musical that premiered on September 16, 1998, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris
Yeah, that tracks. I take it this was popular in other anglophone countries or something?
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1d ago
And videos of white French youths engaging in firey, but mostly peaceful protests.
And as always: most "immigrant" youths are natural born citizens whose parents or grandparents immigrated.
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1d ago
Countless times I've seen Muslim men wearing typical modern fashion with their wives wearing a head wrap or more.
If these guys were white and by themselves no one would naively think they were Muslims.
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2d ago
instead of making a ton of money in tech or finance like every other smart guy
He dropped out of middle school. In some manner I don't understand given truancy laws.
The tech and finance jobs are gatekept behind official credentials. Not excessively, but having never attended high school is a problem.
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2d ago
You do deserve it though, you were ripping us off, coasting as we risked for your security." Indignation Europe is weak and so a failure as an "ally".
I endorse some version of this. We have a real free rider problem and even rhetorically going against it is denounced as throwing away our precious soft power.
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3d ago
This is now more interesting than the original discussion and I'm also curious. Where's the authors' names and institutions?
The sources are real rather than AI hallucinations.
Top of page six has to source where a source should be, but a human can make that mistake. Or this is an unfinished draft.
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3d ago
Be sure to include Stephen King since supposedly the original filmed version of IT devastated the American clown industry.
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4d ago
I saw a collage of medieval illustrations featuring human sized bipedal white rabbits with weapons attacking or enslaving humans. I don't get the larger point, but they liked drawing menacing rabbits.
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4d ago
Fuel prices make everything more expensive. You pay your share at the grocery store.
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6d ago
But it's really important to note here that among the influencer right truth does not matter. It simply does not. They do not give a rat's ass if the story is real
Agreed. They could hardly sink lower in this regard.
Only mainstream respected journalists from major media outlets are a more debased group with less respect for truth.
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6d ago
Both parties keep doing this. Running bizarre looney candidates in critical races. There's hundreds of millions of Americans and these are the ones all political focus is put on for key elections?
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6d ago
Irvine California? Asians don't count as diversity. The whole point of BIPOC is to exclude Asians and "white and Hispanic" people.
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6d ago
For one example, as of now in 2026 the climate alarmism was finally admitted to be made up or whatever.
Not everyone has heard this happy news and some are still panicked about climate change. Such as most young Americans according to some polling.
Geeze Amazon really got hit hard. I didn't recall that from the character selection screen.
Looking at that image what stands out most is how much the barbarian shrunk in every dimension. This kind of exaggerated game is the one place they should most have over the top huge muscular men. Strange they got rid of that but kept the idealized figures for the women.
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