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14hr ago
is a tool of the elite to beat its own population
BASED AND FACTUAL
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1d ago
A 1440p monitor was a massive QoL improvement, both in gaming for a nice crispy UI, and for general productivity
Now I'm on a 38 inch ultrawide 3840*1600 and holy shit it's a massive upgrade in every way, it's glorious.
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1d ago
if I have to stare at the ass of my PC for 80 hours, I prefer staring at a female backside.
The Mass Effect 2 character has a phenomenal ass. It was the first time I picked a girl character and it was a great call
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1d ago
Maybe you are of a liberal persuasion, but it is very funny seeing the siren song/rallying cry of cancel culture
"Erm, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences sweaty 💅"
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1d ago
some sectors, mainly tech (AI) and finserv, are carrying the rest
It's also entirely possible the small group of people being massively enriched by these industries are carrying the consumer spending metric.
The median American spends, what, a few hundred dollars buying Christmas gifts? Someone with a healthy balance of meta employee stock options could spend that on Diptyque candles for stockings alone.
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1d ago
This is 100% the future of coding, expect for highly specific edge problems but even then as I imagine documentation will start being designed by LLMs for LLMs to bridge the stack overflow gap
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2d ago
When the only expectation you can't subvert is people thinking your movies are bad :'(
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2d ago
It doesn't matter AI makes me a better painter but I can't really have have said to have painted it.
How do you feel about photographers? Are they not allowed to take credit for their photo, given a senor put all the pixels where they are?
Or a digital artist who uses photoshop, which even pre-2022 was full of (and increasingly adding) algorithmic editing tools to streamline editing/digital art tasks that previously were done by hand?
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2d ago
seems tuned for getting Leftists to clap like circus seals
Local man discovers the current Hollywood design paradigm
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5d ago
Why does your book selection process send "angsty teen gets superpowers" Sanderson stories to the top of your to-read list?
>post about getting owned on discord on themotte
>get owned on themotte
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6d ago
Military and oil towns in the US, for example, do this quite effectively just by raising average male wages relative to female in the relevant age brackets. We could easily replicate this with fairly mild discrimination in college admissions, or a special tax on female labour, or etc.
Why does this mechanism of action work and how do you think either of those solutions would make anything better instead of causing South Korean-esqe meme levels of gender dysfunction
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9d ago
I don't dispute that, but it also doesn't engage with the article's thesis
So fair, I was really just commenting on that isolated thought
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9d ago
ICE seems to actually be incredibly competent by cop standards
>shoot someone 5 times
>destroy evidence that supports your story by fixing the perps car 1,100 miles away
>things in the body cam footage so bad they can't released
>tfw you're still considered "incredibly competent" compared to your even less competent law enforcement peers
some things can only ever be a hobby for us - even though there are other people who will be able to dedicate their whole lives to them
This has always been true. If you really want to make a career out of something like painting, this has been true for basically all of history.
Basically most art and artisanal crafting (woodworking, etc) falls into this bucket
Edit: to be clear I'm not denying the rest of this, I'm just saying I grew up knowing that a significant number of interesting career paths were cut off due to lack of strong economic viability, thats not a new issue
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10d ago
I'd assume it would be fairly noticable that "wow every time Fred bets any money he eventually wins with two high cards, given he just made a bet after folding 5 times, I can probably assume he has high cards again like the last two hands he played and won"
As we've already established, I play very little poker, but that's how I usually try and think when I play
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10d ago
It shows!
LMAO shots fired, luckily for me my opponents also didn't play much poker, so my amateur reverse psychology was mildly effective
They will simply not play when you are in a hand because the variance is too high
This is really interesting, so "good" players try to avoid chaotic situations and play when they have a better gut sense of what they think the other people are actually doing?
Isn't that the point of bluffing though? I'd imagine every good player does a mixture of going in on legitimately good odds hands, and some amount of bluffing? What makes an opposing player low or high variance?
Then the adults can get back to grown folks style poker.
What does this mean?
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10d ago
Yeah you can't always play tight
I've played a vanishingly small amount of poker in my life but I usually like to set a first impression in the opening few hands by making a somewhat aggro stupid bluff so the people who are trying to track your strategy think of you as more volatile.
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12d ago
Everyone older than ~Gen X is a boomer
I look forward to about 10 years from now when 20-something Gen Alphas start calling Gen-X "boomers"
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12d ago
I worry about a world where wars of aggression are seen to be net positive
There are very few, if not zero, feasible victory scenarios for Russia that are net positive at this point
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12d ago
The guy's boss gets involved, surely due to the campaign by online Indians to get him fired, saying that he wouldn't be firing anybody.
Enough pressure happened that the guy's boss recanted, and fired the guy.
Very curious what specifically happened for the boss, who this deep into the phenomenon of Twitter cancel culture and it's inherent ephemeral nature (i.e. we all know in 2 weeks this will be forgotten) actually cracked. Weak move tbh. Why stand up then fold? Lame.
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14d ago
Wait chat is this real? I genuinely can't tell anymore
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14d ago
yeah I'm with you
I give them longer than 2035 on the demographic piece, but yeah we could get another Deng who decides to chill tf out post Xi, who knows.
I generally have a pretty low opinion of the ability for the PLA(N) to pull off an amphibious invasion, although it's offset by:
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the fact that Taiwanese procurement is so fucking stupid
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the fact that Taiwanese people generally don't seem that committed to defense/dying for their country, although that's what everyone thought about Ukrainians pre-2022
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the fact that China doesn't even need to invade immediately, everyone talks about "okay but the USA will just blockade China and they'll crumble" which I disagree with, but more importantly, if China is fucked by a blockade, Taiwan is mega fucked. A Chinese blockade is basically an immediate "lights out and also you're now starving" to the population of Taiwan.
I hope they don't pull it off, but I dislike all the trends.
Why not just vape in the theater? One of the best parts of vaping > smoking is the fact you can do it inside
Just ghost it
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