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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

This isn't how it's done in other countries. My kid is 3 and I think he had just your very basic shots, like 5 or so, and some of them were the same one multiple times. Not an unreasonable number like 32!

Considering that all the predictions about the unvaccinated were totally wrong, it definitely seems fishy.

Trump made a lot of mistakes his first term, I hope he's learned better this time around.

https://youtu.be/IOaD-2IAym8

Great video as always by speech analyst Martin DeCoder.

One thing from Oprah's speech, she goes "what did you do to vote?" And the girl goes "I woke up at 7am" and Oprah goes "woooooow"

7am isn't woooooow, 5am is woooooow. 7am is the normal time a lot of people get up on the weekend without an alarm clock.

And if it was 4am, I'd be a little scared. Like, ain't nobody stopping you from voting come hell or high water!!

"this one reeks of a Kamala voter. Off the cliff they/them goes"

Oh Jesus Christ I think it's real....

The climate changing can be a big deal -- one of the factors of the bronze age collapse was a change in climate that slowly made Mesopotamia stop being prime farmland and start being desert. A similar change in climate made northern Europe inhabitable for the first time, especially by farming civilizations.

Problem is none of this is based on reality, it's all histrionics to try to make people ignore the fact that their quality of life has been getting to a point that's so bad they're going to be the end of their genetic lines by focusing on some big political/environmental issues instead of the corrupt governments working together to hurt the common man.

Whether people like it or not, the fact that you're "allowed" to have one opinion and you'll be rewarded, and you're "not allowed" to have other opinions and your career and life will be destroyed means you're definitionally not doing science.

In proper science, the final arbiter of truth is reality. If you're acting as if the final arbiter is the state, you're doing propaganda, and if the final arbiter is some group of moral busibodies then you're doing theology.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes propaganda or theology can be noble pursuits, but what they aren't is science.

It has nothing to do with the presidency and everything to do with being a father.

Being the sort of father who did this was what led to having to be the sort of father who did this. He's not choosing family, he's signing his remaining son's death warrant as he no doubt has a thousand times before in other situations where there were a chance of consequences occurring.

For just over 100 you can get an hp t740 on eBay.

https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t740/

I was giving it the side eye but I don't do fans.

I can't imagine he hates his VP enough to make her president for a month and a half after embarrassingly losing the election to someone she called a fascist and whose media allies were all calling Hitler.

It's just too embarrassing for everyone involved.

Hiturur

Got some strange new users lately.... Like 90 posts in an hour, I'm just imagining some shit poster like Teru Mikami from death note "you'll block me" "you'll block me" "you'll block me"

I'm not your dad, but I'm not sure you're really in your element here...

https://youtu.be/H4IUjR9FlKA

Seeing the Reichfuhrer Trudeau folding is fantastic. I just hope the voters remember what he did when Trump wasn't putting a boot to his neck.

Uglymug Epicfighter effortpost with some minor spoilers
So I do need to point out that I'm putting what feels like entirely too much thought into a work called "uglymug epicfighter" about a big fat ugly guy who is really strong, which has been characterized as "reddit moderator isekai". But hey, I enjoy effortposting so here we are.

All caught up on uglymug epicfighter and it really isn't "reddit moderator isekai" as people joked. It's more like a traditional ugly duckling morality tale about people's true beauty being from within. Some of the plot twists remind me of "no exit" by Sartre (which is a strange connection to make for a kids manga)

The main characters were all connected in their previous lives, and many of them were either the victims of or the perpetrators of a great sin against someone else.

Of course, being an isekai from a modern (and I have to stress not postmodern) civilization, rather than being a depressing story about how there is no value meaning or sense in the universe, it's not flipping story about how good people working together can make anywhere into a paradise.

The main character looks at first like the stereotypical Reddit mod, being really fat and really ugly, but ends up taking on the countenance more like a warrior Monk, stotic and strong. In spite of the physical ugliness, the virtue of the character also feels different when you see them. You know when they're on the page that he's going to do the right thing.

One of the core themes of the work is that strength comes through sacrifice. The main character looks are not by accident, he chose to look that way in order to gain additional skill points. Besides that, there are things that can be written in a free form box at the beginning of the story where you can trade something for power, for example being unable to lie or unable to betray others.

The core tension of the story, given that the main character is someone whose class is literally "Absolute God" and so combat is only tense when another absolute God is in combat, is information asymmetry. Who was everyone prior to being brought to another world? What do they want to do now? What are their powers? What limitations and extraordinary powers did they give themselves and why? Given absolute power, it can only be exercised once the situation is known.

It's getting an anime soon, and hopefully it'll be as good or better than the manga I read.

Next upgrade for the FBXL network is ordered, a couple machines with embedded Ryzen APUs, totally fanless (I'm not about to start having fans now).

If my son required 10 years of blanket immunity for any and all federal crimes he committed or may have committed, it would be my act of love to let him be indicted.

Kiddo.... Stop breaking federal laws.

Would you give her blanket immunity for federal crimes over a more than 10 year period?

De Beers just implemented huge price cuts on raw diamonds of up to 10% because prices in the market were falling so fast and they wanted to implement a price floor.

There are a lot of things this could mean, but the narrative that makes the most sense to me is the middle, upper middle, and lower upper classes are cutting back on luxuries because they're being squeezed by inflation.

Some people claim that sanctions on Russian diamonds are causing prices to drop, but that's the opposite of the reaction you'd expect. Russian sanctions would be more likely to raise prices outside of Russia, since a major source of diamonds would be eliminated.

Another potential problem people cite is that lab grown diamonds are becoming more accepted, but there's no reason why that would have happened just recently to this extent unless something else such as economic pressures was causing people to rethink the natural diamond market. DeBeers has also reduced prices for its lab-grown diamonds by nearly 40%

I was watching the movie "singing in the rain" last night with my boy. He loved the singing and tapdancing numbers. He was pretending to tapdance during "good morning"

Two thoughts...

First, it might just be me, but I feel like they did a lot more with explicit body language than most film today does. The whole story of the blonde actress and the male lead told without needing words for anyone with an eye.

Second, I dated a girl who looked and sounded just like the blonde actress lol. Very pretty girl but deeply flawed (which maybe explains what she dated me lmfao)

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