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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...

What, you guys haven't heard of neuroplasticity?

Sure looks like they sit together like chairs.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYcVT3BAQJA

The comments on this short are something else.

I don't know whether to be impressed or repulsed.

Like a self-cleaning oven, they just immolate.

No refunds!

https://youtu.be/dymb0SvHCnY

"Maybe it's just me, but I do believe we're going to have to get medieval on your buttox"

Jeez, posted 18 years ago? Must be why it's actually funny.

There's something I've seen a lot of people say: "I want to either save the world or destroy it" -- it's sort of a chuunibyou thing to say when you think about it, but it speaks more to the fact that many people -- both men and women -- don't feel like they are able to cultivate anything.

They've been told they can't do anything and so they dive into fiction where the heroes save the world and the villains destroy the world.

If we told people once again that they can cultivate something real in their lives if they work hard and smart and act with virtue then they might want to instead go on the adventure of their lives.

Under Principal-Agent theory, Musk is the president's agent -- which he is. A bunch of incompetent lawyers who gave it up to argue in the congress should even know that much. Musk only serves at Trump's pleasure, and the moment Trump isn't happy with what he's seeing, Musk will have to pound sand.

Ironically, many of the bureaucrats DOGE is helping to fire are the "unelected president" in their own minds. They think they don't serve at the pleasure of the president, they think their job is to serve... I guess whatever they want?

I don't want 25% tariffs any more than the next guy....

But Trudeau's a cuck and he should have realized that "mean girling" President Trump was never going to end well.

This is the bed Toronto and Vancouver made for us, now we have to sleep in it.

"If I can't fire them, then they don't work for me, they work for whoever can fire them."

Nobody can fire them.

"Then they work for Nobody. Get Nobody in here to figure this shit out."

Inflation is only 3% just stop buying food and shelter and start buying (checks) clothing, footwear, and home appliances! You're practically making money!

NANI!!!

It's like a gas tank slowly filling to full, 30% there.

Then the novel is done and the effortposting shall resume. :P

Well, medicare and medicaid are funded to a level which ought to be able to provide universal healthcare and does in every other country that does it, so I 1000% believe it. In fact, it should be the biggest scandal in America but they don't seem to care all that much.

True story: Back when I was a teenager, there was a program you could download that claimed to upload a new microcode to your CPU and it would let you use new instructions as if your CPU was a newer model.

Now today I'm sure there's a bunch of people who can tell immediately that it was either a scam or a lie, but back in the day everything was so miraculous on the technology front, who's to say what the next thing you could do wasn't downloading a better CPU? I mean, think of how absurd video game emulation was originally, or even MP3, being able to download some magic thing to make your CPU faster doesn't even seem that crazy. (Oh yeah, and minor miracles like ramdoubler, which compressed your memory -- and you might think "That's stupid" -- but Windows integrates that technology today, and we also had stuff like stacker which was stolen and made into doublespace in dos 6.22 which actually did work to make smaller hard drives larger)

Pretty sure though it didn't turn my 286 into a Pentium.

IMO the best game of all time, definitely worth it.

But it's a SNES JRPG from 1995 so it might just be nostalgia goggles.

If you look at most communist regimes, they don't look like what most of these people think they do, at least not after the revolution is over.

I read the entire article, and I saw a lot of fearmongering, but not a lot of substance.

It's fear porn.

The right has their dose of it too, if you read the right wing papers Joe Biden was both the most competent evil chessmaster in history and also basically pudding, a vegetable they had to hold his hand to sign anything. They were making the exact same noises about how Biden was trying to violate the law and court decisions to cancel student debt without an act of congress.

I'm not saying don't keep an eye on things. Just make sure you're actually getting worked up over things that happened and not things that the press is trying to make you think happened. You know, in the end Biden didn't really get to cancel much student debt because he did follow the court orders. 4 years passed and a lot of Republicans weren't happy with what happened, but American is still there.

When these people are saying "this is unprecedented!" they're just lying. Lincoln was a little dictator, and FDR was practically a king until he died. We have precedent for presidents who go way too far and we're not actually anywhere there yet. Trump's just a jerk. If we're being honest, is Trump even as bad at his worst as George W. Bush was on his best day? How much of everyone's freedom was taken out permanently under *that* administration? Do you remember the patriot act? Do you remember "torture is great we should do it every day"? An innocent man from my country was kidnapped on a layover and shipped to Syria where he was tortured for months, and it's just "well sucks to be you". Which guy would you rather have in the oval office right now?

I've had to admit I'm wrong about politicians in the past repeatedly because I'm kinda dumb, so if and when we start seeing Trump the fascist, I'll be right there with you. Last think I want is to see our neighbor actually being the thing the media kept on saying he is.

I almost feel bad, there's good people out there who have been totally brainwashed into thinking the world is ending because a few Journalists didn't get their way. It's like... look, even if you don't like who's in charge, they won't be there forever. Either elections will happen or the old fart will die of old age.

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