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I am so sick to my stomach with constant barge of morons and finance journalist trying to convince me just how much "behind" Europe is. "Lack of innovation!" they scream. What innovation?

Illegal hotels, illegal taxi, taxi for my food, everthing as an subscription/service, fake-internet-scam money and algorytm made exclusively with stolen intellectual property for explicit purpose of creating as much unemployment as physically possible. I am missing out so much!

Literally not an single day passes when i don't see "Economist" or "Bloomberg" tell me that my continent is dying because of heresy of workers rights, customer rights and privacy laws. Any country that has an audacity of not openly prostituting itself to corporations is deemed as "stagnant", "bureaucratic" or "slow to adapt".

Why does America has borderline religious desire to export one of the worst takes on business ethics and work-life balance ever created, to every corner of somewhat-developed world?.

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cunty american dad mood board

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man type null is so fucking cool. what if there was a chimera made in the image of god and it was abused and sheltered for all of its life and only by giving it the freedom to live and run around and love on its own terms can you unlock its full potential??? genuinely insane. the alola games cooked so much

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I dream about taking baths a lot, particularly in interesting or weird bathtubs. I live in a house that doesn't have a bathtub right now so I haven't taken one in a few years. I wonder if that influences dream frequency

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last time I got an endoscopy they sprayed fentanyl down my throat to make sure I wasn't a cop before doing the procedure

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my general stance on the arrested UHC shooting suspect is that literally everything spoken regarding him has been pretty much conspiracy, either it be that he's legitimately the shooter and intentionally allowed himself to get caught and or that he can't be the shooter and he's being framed to fit the narrative where the real answer behind all of this is: I don't know, you don't know, the only functional point behind 99% of the posts circulating around this are either pretentious masturbation over how genius the unabomber was for some reason or "you are soooo stupid for believing x thing unlike me" and I'm actually starting to get fucking annoyed

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not to be all ‘kink at pride’ discourse or whatever but is it just me or are people getting a bit too comfortable wearing straight up fetish gear in public? was at the mall the other day and I kept seeing people with santa hats and christmas sweaters on. there was even a mall santa with his big jolly red suit on and everything. disgusting

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Tim Minchin once said "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine."

I propose similar logic can be applied to AI. Predictive text, the youtube algorthm, speech recognition, searching photos by contents, it all uses similar tech to generative images or text, but most people don't think of them AI. Do you know what they call "AI" software that has proven to be useful? Software.

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see the thing about the latest UHC shooter suspect that they arrested is there're anywhere between 20-30,000 guys walking around the United States at any given time with a gun and a manifesto

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me: cereal box mascots tend to be especially fuckable because they are a subset of mainstream cartoon characters designed specifically to market pleasurable physical sensory experiences

the mantis shrimp that i have cybernetically enhanced to perceive human colors: okay i think im starting to "get" rothko

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just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

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Or like, to put it in terms that the "read what you like, who cares if you exclusively read kids' stuff" crowd are at a reading level to understand:

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Can you think of any situations in your own life where Sam-I-Am's teachings might be applicable?

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I fucking love Star Trek and energy because like.

Holy shit. The fucking warp core is insane. Actually fucking crazy. Let's take deuterium and anti-deuterium and fire them down massive super conductive magnet coil tubes at each other into a weird crystal that somehow interacts with subspace, use the insane amount of energy released when the deuterium and anti-deuterium mutually annihilate to break physics and let us go literally exponentially faster than light with zero time dilation.

Like, do you understand how much energy they are riding? I don't because they use measures that are actually absurd. They talk about the heat inside the warp core as being in the millions of kelvins. And like, yeah

Bro. You are standing next to that fucking thing. They literally touch it at times but the surface of the warp core is just... Room temperature. That is fucking bonkers. They are harnessing relativistic power, sometimes just to take a quick hop around the relative neighborhood.

And the "curren" warp scale? Is mad? Like, it goes from warp 1 (the speed of light) on an exponential curve to 9.9999repeating. because warp 10? You occupy all points in the universe at the same time.

AND THEN THEY FUCKING DID THAT? AND IT TURNED THEM INTO SALAMANDERS?

Like. Babes.

I love Trek.

But my people are mad.

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furthermore, i'm miffed at the amount of people ive seen on other platforms telling me "hm, you said pro-capitalist anti-corporation art, but dont you know that's a contradiction :/" as if an ideology being wrong precludes art from being made with it's worldview. have none of you seen Robots (2005)

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thinking about that TNG episode where Riker says he never feels rested after sleeping and Dr Crusher tells him to just drink warm milk about it and then later it turns out he's been abducted by aliens 6 times and had his arm cut off. most accurate portrayal of dealing with the medical profession ever seen on screen