@augustus
We used to have tons of legends, about cowboys and mountain men and lumberjacks and lakemen and river men etc. It however was right in it's final stage of development when mass media, radio and eventually tv, arrived and one shot the cultural development of Americans. Americas age of legend was only 200 and some odd years ago, the myths were still being writen. It wasn't just chance, there was a very intentional move away from folk stories to cosmopolitan fiction. One of the most tragic events in history, so many rich cultures cut down right as they were about to finalize.
We used to have tons of legends, about cowboys and mountain men and lumberjacks and lakemen and river men etc. It however was right in it's final stage of development when mass media, radio and eventually tv, arrived and one shot the cultural development of Americans. Americas age of legend was only 200 and some odd years ago, the myths were still being writen. It wasn't just chance, there was a very intentional move away from folk stories to cosmopolitan fiction. One of the most tragic events in history, so many rich cultures cut down right as they were about to finalize.
At some point, Europe's establishment began to portray hot weather as scary and wrong. Climate hysteria has to be injected, because nobody really buys into it.
#minds
#minds
Sadly, the power of The Lord's Prayer and Christ's atoning sacrifice is lost on a lot of people. No intercessors. No priests. Just a direct conversation with Our Father. Guaranteed by the Blood of Christ
What makes her basic? That she doesn't wear wigs made from Chinese slave hair?
All Chinese AI models are now switching to a combination of KV caching and sparse attention blocks. Huge speedups. This is https://www.minimax.io/
DeepSeek 4 is also doing something like this. 1 billion tokens is now just 15$
Breitbart Business Digest: Economic Gloom Is Spreading to Trump’s Voters
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/05/26/breitbart-business-digest-economic-gloom-is-spreading-to-trumps-voters/
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When I was a child I spent a bit of time at my great grandfather's ranch. My great grandfather had one foot because he lost one after being electricuted by a powerline. My great grandmother was bedridden with rheumatoid arthritis, and he faithfullly took care of her, and worked the orchard despite his own age and malady. This had a huge impact on me.
I watch both of them die, and my grandparents as well, who had their own medical issues.
Illness, age, and death have been an existential reality for me before it probably should have been, as is the reality that we have little control over any of it. Sometimes caring and attending is all we can due. Nature has its own plans.
I watch both of them die, and my grandparents as well, who had their own medical issues.
Illness, age, and death have been an existential reality for me before it probably should have been, as is the reality that we have little control over any of it. Sometimes caring and attending is all we can due. Nature has its own plans.
See what queer theory does to the brain. The Australian sex discrimination commissioner claims that men pretending to be women can claim discrimination on the basis of potential pregnancy
https://x.com/salltweets/status/2059210493227860393
#auspol
https://x.com/salltweets/status/2059210493227860393
#auspol
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals.
By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectively “see” and recognize individuals — even if they are not carrying a device and even if their phone is turned off.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm
>official vibe: “What if the USSR was a liminal space?”
This was both educational and entertaining.
This was both educational and entertaining.
>be me
>geopolitics gore enjoyer
>discover Transnistria
>what the fuck is this DLC country
>thin strip of land between Moldova and Ukraine
>flag looks like someone found a Soviet PNG in a cursed folder called final_final_REAL_use_this_one.png
>hammer and sickle still there
>not even ironically
>they are doing Soviet nostalgia with the commitment of a divorced dad who still wears his high school football jacket
>USSR collapsed in 1991
>Transnistria apparently hit “remind me later” on the update popup
>start reading more
>it gets worse
>not recognized by basically anyone
>except other breakaway geopolitics cryptids
>Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Artsakh before the save file got deleted
>international legitimacy of a Minecraft server
>capital is Tiraspol
>looks like if a mid-tier Soviet regional capital was preserved in amber by a museum curator with clinical depression
>statues of Lenin everywhere
>street names still doing communist cosplay
>official vibe: “What if the USSR was a liminal space?”
>think it’s just a weird frozen conflict museum
>nope
>it’s also basically a corpo-state
>economy dominated by Sheriff
>not the police
>not a guy with a hat and revolver
>a massive conglomerate
>supermarkets, gas stations, telecoms, media, football club, probably your grandmother if you check the paperwork
>founded by former security-service guys
>because of course
>every post-Soviet rabbit hole eventually arrives at “former KGB man controls bizarre regional monopoly”
>football team somehow beat Real Madrid in 2021
>imagine getting clapped by the official FC of Post-Soviet Costco Oblast
>imagine if Walmart, Gazprom, RT and the KGB had a baby and raised it inside a Soviet bus station
>that’s Transnistrian capitalism
>mfw communist aesthetic
>mfw oligarchic monopoly economy
>mfw red star on the flag but everything is owned by one giga-conglomerate
>“workers of the world unite”
>under one vertically integrated holding company
>best part
>local tax haven shenanigans
>Transnistrian companies often register in Moldova for trade access
>but don’t exactly behave like they’re thrilled about paying Moldovan taxes
>absolute galaxy-brain arrangement
>“we are Moldovan when exporting, independent when taxing, Soviet when branding, capitalist when invoicing, Russian when geopolitically convenient”
>statehood.exe has encountered a legal paradox
>try explaining this to a normal person
>“so is it Moldova?”
>yes
>“so Moldova controls it?”
>no
>“so is it Russian?”
>kind of
>“so Russia owns it?”
>not exactly
>“so who runs it?”
>a breakaway government and a giant ex-security-service corpo-octopus
>“why?”
>because the Soviet Union exploded and nobody cleaned up all the geopolitical shrapnel
>then 2022 happens
>Ukraine war kicks off next door
>Moldova applies for EU membership
>Transnistria sitting between them like a cursed save file from 1992
>suddenly this frozen conflict isn’t just frozen
>it’s frozen inside a room where someone just plugged in three space heaters and a toaster
>every geopolitical analyst on earth periodically waking up in a cold sweat like
>“WAIT, WHAT ABOUT THE WEIRD SOVIET DLC REGION?”
>Moldova wants Europe
>Ukraine suddenly very interested in not having a mystery Soviet rectangle on its western border
>Russia has “peacekeepers” in Transnistria
>Transnistria wants to continue being a Soviet-themed oligarchic customs loophole
>Brussels opens accession documents
>Moscow opens vodka
>Tiraspol opens another Sheriff gas station
>Transnistria is genuinely the weirdest political entity in Europe
>not because it is powerful
>because it feels procedurally generated
>like Paradox Interactive let an intern design a microstate after eating expired pelmeni
>ideology: Soviet nostalgia
>economy: monopoly capitalism
>foreign policy: Russian hostage note
>tax policy: Moldovan paperwork glitch
>national identity: “please don’t ask too many questions”
>military situation: Chekhov’s ammo depot
>tourism slogan: “come see what happens when history forgets to despawn an NPC”
>visit Transnistrian supermarket
>everything is Sheriff-branded
>buy bread from Sheriff
>buy gas from Sheriff
>watch Sheriff TV
>use Sheriff telecom
>cheer for FC Sheriff
>pay in arcade tokens for a Soviet-themed geopolitics museum with card issued by Sheriff Bank
>walk outside
>Lenin statue gazes over the square
>he died warning about capitalist monopolies
>now he stands guard over one with cowboy branding
>beautiful
>absolutely beautiful
>the USSR died
>but its weirdest larval form survived as a strip mall with a flag
>Transnistria is not a country
>it is a geopolitical haunted house
>it is a customs loophole wearing a ushanka
>it is what happens when the Cold War ends but one county clerk refuses to process the paperwork
>it is the world’s first Soviet cyberpunk company town without the cyberpunk
>just concrete, cigarettes, border guards, and unresolved constitutional questions
>10/10
>would get detained by three different unrecognized ministries again
RT: https://shitpost.cloud/objects/70af451d-0d6e-4e14-9ad3-ca642399dc93
>geopolitics gore enjoyer
>discover Transnistria
>what the fuck is this DLC country
>thin strip of land between Moldova and Ukraine
>flag looks like someone found a Soviet PNG in a cursed folder called final_final_REAL_use_this_one.png
>hammer and sickle still there
>not even ironically
>they are doing Soviet nostalgia with the commitment of a divorced dad who still wears his high school football jacket
>USSR collapsed in 1991
>Transnistria apparently hit “remind me later” on the update popup
>start reading more
>it gets worse
>not recognized by basically anyone
>except other breakaway geopolitics cryptids
>Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Artsakh before the save file got deleted
>international legitimacy of a Minecraft server
>capital is Tiraspol
>looks like if a mid-tier Soviet regional capital was preserved in amber by a museum curator with clinical depression
>statues of Lenin everywhere
>street names still doing communist cosplay
>official vibe: “What if the USSR was a liminal space?”
>think it’s just a weird frozen conflict museum
>nope
>it’s also basically a corpo-state
>economy dominated by Sheriff
>not the police
>not a guy with a hat and revolver
>a massive conglomerate
>supermarkets, gas stations, telecoms, media, football club, probably your grandmother if you check the paperwork
>founded by former security-service guys
>because of course
>every post-Soviet rabbit hole eventually arrives at “former KGB man controls bizarre regional monopoly”
>football team somehow beat Real Madrid in 2021
>imagine getting clapped by the official FC of Post-Soviet Costco Oblast
>imagine if Walmart, Gazprom, RT and the KGB had a baby and raised it inside a Soviet bus station
>that’s Transnistrian capitalism
>mfw communist aesthetic
>mfw oligarchic monopoly economy
>mfw red star on the flag but everything is owned by one giga-conglomerate
>“workers of the world unite”
>under one vertically integrated holding company
>best part
>local tax haven shenanigans
>Transnistrian companies often register in Moldova for trade access
>but don’t exactly behave like they’re thrilled about paying Moldovan taxes
>absolute galaxy-brain arrangement
>“we are Moldovan when exporting, independent when taxing, Soviet when branding, capitalist when invoicing, Russian when geopolitically convenient”
>statehood.exe has encountered a legal paradox
>try explaining this to a normal person
>“so is it Moldova?”
>yes
>“so Moldova controls it?”
>no
>“so is it Russian?”
>kind of
>“so Russia owns it?”
>not exactly
>“so who runs it?”
>a breakaway government and a giant ex-security-service corpo-octopus
>“why?”
>because the Soviet Union exploded and nobody cleaned up all the geopolitical shrapnel
>then 2022 happens
>Ukraine war kicks off next door
>Moldova applies for EU membership
>Transnistria sitting between them like a cursed save file from 1992
>suddenly this frozen conflict isn’t just frozen
>it’s frozen inside a room where someone just plugged in three space heaters and a toaster
>every geopolitical analyst on earth periodically waking up in a cold sweat like
>“WAIT, WHAT ABOUT THE WEIRD SOVIET DLC REGION?”
>Moldova wants Europe
>Ukraine suddenly very interested in not having a mystery Soviet rectangle on its western border
>Russia has “peacekeepers” in Transnistria
>Transnistria wants to continue being a Soviet-themed oligarchic customs loophole
>Brussels opens accession documents
>Moscow opens vodka
>Tiraspol opens another Sheriff gas station
>Transnistria is genuinely the weirdest political entity in Europe
>not because it is powerful
>because it feels procedurally generated
>like Paradox Interactive let an intern design a microstate after eating expired pelmeni
>ideology: Soviet nostalgia
>economy: monopoly capitalism
>foreign policy: Russian hostage note
>tax policy: Moldovan paperwork glitch
>national identity: “please don’t ask too many questions”
>military situation: Chekhov’s ammo depot
>tourism slogan: “come see what happens when history forgets to despawn an NPC”
>visit Transnistrian supermarket
>everything is Sheriff-branded
>buy bread from Sheriff
>buy gas from Sheriff
>watch Sheriff TV
>use Sheriff telecom
>cheer for FC Sheriff
>pay in arcade tokens for a Soviet-themed geopolitics museum with card issued by Sheriff Bank
>walk outside
>Lenin statue gazes over the square
>he died warning about capitalist monopolies
>now he stands guard over one with cowboy branding
>beautiful
>absolutely beautiful
>the USSR died
>but its weirdest larval form survived as a strip mall with a flag
>Transnistria is not a country
>it is a geopolitical haunted house
>it is a customs loophole wearing a ushanka
>it is what happens when the Cold War ends but one county clerk refuses to process the paperwork
>it is the world’s first Soviet cyberpunk company town without the cyberpunk
>just concrete, cigarettes, border guards, and unresolved constitutional questions
>10/10
>would get detained by three different unrecognized ministries again
RT: https://shitpost.cloud/objects/70af451d-0d6e-4e14-9ad3-ca642399dc93
‘The march of Islam’: Chip Roy tells Steve Deace America will surpass France and England in the Islamization of the West
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/steve-deace-show/the-march-of-islam-chip-roy-tells-steve-deace-america-will-surpass-france-and-england-in-the-islamization-of-the-west
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