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median wraith
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so that's what I asked, why is different then? one is more recent than the other

cursive crypt
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Each day different color

proud jay
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they are different colors

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the 2 on the bottom are different too

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surprise

median wraith
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and why the hell they are using different samples, is to show you and pick?

proud jay
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yes

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now I pick one for the whole house

mild gust
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and then he came to ask us

summer cedar
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Go with 4.

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It will accentuate the bricks at the end.

summer cedar
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Ok.

proud jay
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I don't dislike it

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just not my style

summer cedar
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Ok.

proud jay
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how are your new slippers

summer cedar
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cosy. ๐Ÿ™‚

proud jay
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Wanna see the changing table Iโ€™m making?

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just needs some more paint

summer cedar
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Needs a narrow sliding shield that can be positioned according to the baby, to protect from catapult launches.

proud jay
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of course

median wraith
# proud jay

QUESTION! Those things they sell made of plastic to cover bad wood, that pretend to be wood, are pasted to the actual wood with glue or using something thermic?

proud jay
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both

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it uses glue and is applied with high pressure and certain temperature afaik

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if you buy the boards

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if you apply it yourself you can do it with just glue

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also depends on what you get

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you have the cheap stuff that is a layer of resin

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and then you have an actual thin strip of wood that can be used

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like the super cheap stuff is literally just paper and raisin

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then you have the middle shit which is multiple layers of that

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and then the higher quality is actual wood

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but this is just painted mdf

median wraith
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yeah i need something for an old table, had it and some corners are gone

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so better cut out all the side and put a new one

river sable
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I like 1/2, question is just how much darker are you expecting it to turn over time from rain and cars? if not by much definitely hard commit and go 2 otherwise consider that they will probably all approach 3/4 anyway?

light stuff looks great with the grunge on the blocks, dark stuff is really distracting to me

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let's see paul allens mortar

proud jay
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do they actually ever show the outside of his apartment? ๐Ÿค”

median wraith
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wasn't there a demo from Epic for audio?

mild gust
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Some in content examples

median wraith
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mmm I don't see so

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for MetaSounds?

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I do remember a video with a sphere and such, but unsure now if was for the dev tools of Fortnite only

mild gust
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Not yet

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That I know of

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Has metasounds

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But not specific to metasounds

white oxide
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just get FMOD like every other studio who doesnt have a solid audio engineer

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or willing to pay one

tulip orbit
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never understood what that stuff actually does

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course, never bothered to look it up either

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and now I have, still dont understand ๐Ÿ˜‚

white oxide
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FMOD or audio?

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audio works by turning thousands of little vibrations into something the hairs in your ear can transmit into brain signals we call "hearing sound"

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FMOD? no fcking clue, thats my developers and audio engineers jobs

tulip orbit
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Fmod. Looked at the page and dont really understand it

steady stone
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The only audio centric epic content sample is the 'spatial audio temple' thingie which is really no longer relevant in UE5, it largely focused on audio spatialization using the mostly-no-longer-updated 3rd party spatializer plugins.

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there are a few members of the unreal community who post tutorials on youtube, most prominent is Brian Michael Fuller - https://www.youtube.com/@brianmichaelfuller

the #audio channel is also pretty active and even has some epic employees who frequent it, but it's largely focused on native unreal audio, I don't really know where all the FMOD/Unreal users post, if anywhere.

tulip orbit
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Eh, I havent had any issues with the default in-engine stuff, but I've also never gotten a project to a point where I need to refine sound.... I barely even have any audio in my projects to begin with

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and with the way things are going atm, I'm not even sure how far I'm going to get into game dev for a while.... loads factorio

river sable
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#audio is great, you guys helped me out so much with my silly problems ๐Ÿ™‚

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isn't there some metasound stuff in the electric dreams scene? (soundscape plugin? i forgot what it's called)

at the very least there's an amazing livestream that goes into some detail for metasounds about it

(a lot of it is about the car engine which sadly isn't included in the project as far as i know)

zinc wagon
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love me some constructive criticism lmao

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"it's really nice. but man, making it good kinda ruined it for me...sigh"

primal summit
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Someone played a really weird prank on me today. I went to go to lunch and they had moved my car! And washed it, and painted it, installed a roof rack and new rims... But they took it a step too far when they changed the locks!

summer cedar
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@proud jay https://store.steampowered.com/app/2400160/Glyphica_Typing_Survival/ - I found a typing game fashioned as a roguelite.

Typing tutor meets horde survival in this fast-paced roguelite that challenges your speed, accuracy, and strategy. Step into a minimalist arena and dominate the battlefield using your typing skills and your trusty keyboard.

Not Your Ordinary Typing Test
Type the word above an enemy to finish them off. Challenge your focus and speed as biggerโ€ฆ

Price

$7.49

Recommendations

799

โ–ถ Play video
summer cedar
celest musk
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there used to be a cool flash game... (hell'o'ween but i can't find it online...)

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guess most browsers don't support flash anymore anyways ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

summer cedar
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tough game, good game. ๐Ÿ˜„

summer cedar
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152 wpm. ๐Ÿ˜„

fading tinsel
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@frank canyon WHERE U

median wraith
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#NoAI

summer cedar
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#EmbraceAI

soft night
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goat puppeteering

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violinst i listen mostly is linday stirling also the game videos i think was those what oh those look interesing

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day when switch 2 is showing

median wraith
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what the heck

cursive crypt
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No probably. Can't make an orc.

median wraith
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Actually you don't make the character in this game so

soft night
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some not hit for sure of those

errant raven
proud jay
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I guess it's just epic trying to work on a tagging system?

median wraith
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but this was like the worst question for this game

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I like the new download tab but is on different window, is a bit strange

zinc wagon
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i guess that's why Not relevant option exists there

soft night
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modern games coming to switch 2

river sable
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god damn switch 2 gonna be expensive for US folks

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is it gonna be affected by tariffs?

queen isle
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450$ nintnedo switch 2

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nintnedo is budget no more

rare sparrow
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Sick, I can't claim the free games on the mobile Epic Games store because it crashes every time I try to open it

river sable
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90$ physical

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isnt the console closer to 600$?

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ah nevermind its 450

dusky shuttle
rare sparrow
# cursive crypt 2 small cat games

No, the literal android epic games store app with it's own set of games for android which you can only claim through the android app and not the website

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I can't even open the pages for the games to see what they are before the app crashes

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Just remembered you can clear cache, and that fixed it. It's really silly how many times I've had apps not work and the fix was to just clear cache. Like, if that's a common problem, then just do it automatically with every app update. Don't make the user who most of the time won't be tech literate have to figure this stuff out on their own

median wraith
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I'm the only one that gets Discord to turn total black randomly time to time?

soft night
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i have seen it on browser

median wraith
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it's lovely

summer cedar
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very informative

onyx root
errant raven
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@broken sigil

winter coral
unborn lotus
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My job is in danger

summer cedar
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why?

unborn lotus
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Oh wait I misread

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Maybe this will fix the fab slop

summer cedar
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what did you misread?

rare sparrow
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Probably seeing AI and thinking generative

median wraith
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this is scary

queen isle
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Developed for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2; 'THE DUSKBLOODS' is a PvPvE title with online multiplayer at its core, where up to 8 players vie for supremacy among themselves and against challenging foes.

How had extraction shooter soulsborne gane on their bingo board?

mild gust
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Now make it a roguelike

summer cedar
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Someone here was asking about Unreal Fest details, the other day. The Orlando festival registration is open now, apparently.

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@wet bay I think you were asking about the Orlando festival, right? Registration links are in #unreal-news

errant raven
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They sent me the manga and not the light novel

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I am taken aback

mild gust
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Rekt

wet bay
mild gust
mild gust
proud jay
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lmao

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Trump just declared tarrifs for every country

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mfer is on some wild shit

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american bankruptcy speedrun

white oxide
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both yes

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and its fun to watch while i have my house and a bunch of savings

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plus survival gear and tools to defend from the roving hordes of starving city folk

mild gust
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Yo Canada and Mexico arent on the list.

white oxide
mild gust
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Yeah they get automobile tariffs

mild gust
# white oxide they get their own special list
Ground News

Canada will be exempt from the sweeping reciprocal tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump is implementing on most other countries, though 25 per cent tariffs on some Canadian goods remain in place, and 25 per cent tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles are coming into effect as of midnight.

river sable
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uhm guys

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why is this guy quoting Goebbels?

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wth is going on

dark palm
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Guys anyone here?

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Needed some suggestions

mild gust
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On how to lounge

unborn lotus
cursive crypt
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I heard is not.

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Taiwan 32%

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No gaming for americans.

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Game is Over.

regal pecan
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What did Cambodia and Sri Lanka do? 97% and 88%

summer cedar
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To quote someone on another server, they didn't s&@k Trump's d**k enough.

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Which might actually be frighteningly accurate.

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New PoE 2 league patch notes out. ๐Ÿ˜„

cursive crypt
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Look at the yellow column.

mild gust
regal pecan
cursive crypt
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Yeah, some ppl figured out the Excel used for these numbers.

queen isle
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"Single player is dead" - Michael zaki

summer cedar
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--- In order to work around a common crash that was occuring on nVidia hardware with recent drivers the game can now recover from "Device Removed" events. When this occurs the game will display a loading screen (and pause) while it attempts to recover. This only applies for this specific type of client crash, not all client crashes. ---

regal pecan
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Oh I'm sorry, Vietnam and EU get an extra 1% in the yellow column for shits and giggles

summer cedar
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So that explains what the latest NVidia drivers are doing.

pearl elk
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10% tarrif on drivers now aye

summer cedar
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Made in China, so probably existed beforehand. ๐Ÿ˜„

summer cedar
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Michael Kosta recaps surprising wins for the Democrats, including a victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race despite Elon Musk's financial interference, and a record-breaking 25-hour speech by Cory Booker. Plus, Trump launches his "Liberation Day" tariffs, and Republicans scramble to supply cover. #DailyShow #Wisconsin #Tariffs #CoryBooker

S...

โ–ถ Play video
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From 8:30

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Money Monk

summer cedar
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True. He's commendable.

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But money monk rules. ๐Ÿ˜„

mild gust
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Best nickname

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Money Monk

proud jay
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except for canada which was explicitely exempted by the senate afaik

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the whole list is garbagio though

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the "tarrifs charged to the US" list is full bullcrap mode

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first of, it's not charged to the US

mild gust
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Yeah it's insanity

proud jay
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second, they somehow calculated it based on trade deficit

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which has nothing to do with tarrifs

mild gust
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Yeah he had some book

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That he said they were giving away

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๐Ÿ˜‚

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Wouldn't believe if we read the book

proud jay
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well, his presidency really is unbelievable

summer cedar
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These tariffs have been calculated with an intelligence we can't possibly understand.

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It's beyond our ken.

proud jay
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one could call it artificial

mild gust
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Only billionares would understand

summer cedar
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Best comment from YouTube, "He called it Liberation day. I thought he was going to resign ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ !"

proud jay
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americans are getting liberated from their economic stability

summer cedar
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That's something they really needed.

proud jay
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now he's just gonna grant tarrif exemptions to companies that give him money

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corruption at its finest

summer cedar
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Buy Orange Coin, get exemptions.

mild gust
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Both do

summer cedar
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Thank you. ๐Ÿ™‚

mild gust
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Imagine owning 2 domains

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Money bags

summer cedar
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I have 6. ๐Ÿ˜Š

mild gust
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Dayum

summer cedar
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What surprised me more is how many restaurant chains in the US have filed for bankruptcy.

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This was before the tariffs.

mild gust
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The penguins will pay the tax!

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or we will bomb them!

summer cedar
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Hooters and a whole bunch of them gone bust.

mild gust
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Hooters went back to franchise

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og owners

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Also closed a shit load of locations

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Because they were chains

summer cedar
# mild gust The penguins will pay the tax!

You don't understand.
Penguins have been observed by high-level intelligences to possess level 5 construction yards, with which they build fish farters, thereby polluting the environment and consuming valuable sardines, tuna, and salmon that are reserved for human shitholes.

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The tariffs on penguins are well-deserved and proper.

mild gust
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Yo they can be trained to mine

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and collect supplies for the overlord

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Epic!

summer cedar
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Indeed. Penguin colonies ftw.

mild gust
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I need me some penguin pets

summer cedar
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Well, Hooters is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings in court. They HOPE the restaurant owners can buy their stores back.

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Otherwise, poop.

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Apparently, Tex-mex and a couple of others are facing the same situation.

mild gust
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They likely won't

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Restaurants are dying

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Over-saturated

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Also nowadays people don't want a hooters on every other block

summer cedar
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Yes, AI women ftw!

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Screw real sex and relationships.

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๐Ÿคฃ

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Actually yeah, e-commerce, home delivery, all of that is coming home to roost.

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All these restaurateurs should just wheel their joints around on large bicycle carts.

summer cedar
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@proud jay

mild gust
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Drugs?

summer cedar
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Of a kind.

mild gust
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I love food drugs

summer cedar
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Finger millet bread.

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Very high on drugs.

mild gust
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Yum

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I used to know someone who would eat the spiciest food they could make to get high on it.

soft night
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not like windus play schedule 1

mild gust
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Why not

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Schedule 1 is a great time

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It's top 4 played game rn

summer cedar
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The best part of finger millet drugs...er, bread is that there is no tariff on it. ๐Ÿ˜„

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It's also very tasty. ๐Ÿ™‚

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$2, EUR 1.5 ๐Ÿ˜„

mild gust
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That's balling

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No eggs?

summer cedar
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I don't think so.

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But I can't be sure.

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Our eggs are cheap though.

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If you don't mind losing a testicle to a cock, you can steal a few chickens for free too, on the road.

mild gust
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I don't wanna lose nothing to a cock

soft night
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bread tariff let it cook

mild gust
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I seen some of those cocks from mexico

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They terrifying

summer cedar
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Ours are street smart though.

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You COULD bribe them.

mild gust
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There's that new company that does frozen bread boxes

summer cedar
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Well, no one likes the environment.

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Even cocks.

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That's why they are terrifying.

mild gust
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Me either

summer cedar
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You tell them to be eco-friendly and they'll go wild.

mild gust
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If it ain't hollywood

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It ain't for me

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Living in the mountains

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Ftw

summer cedar
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Imagine telling a cock he can't buy his morning plastic-wrapped coffee from Starbucks.

mild gust
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You'd get cut

soft night
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lucifer have you played weed shop games?

summer cedar
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pecked even.

mild gust
soft night
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those games had tv so you was able to watch content from tv

mild gust
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In schedule 1 I just got to meth phase

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I am now Walter White

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Just need a pawn shop to sell the weed stuff to go all in on meth

soft night
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fancy on weed shop games the store was set from start so there was some customers comng to store in diapers

summer cedar
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This is why Canada shouldn't be antagonised.

mild gust
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There's been an influx of them I noticed

summer cedar
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Where else are you going to ship all those weed breads?

mild gust
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Canucks love their flower

mild gust
summer cedar
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Basil Smikle, Democratic Strategist and Columbia University Professor, Everett Kelly, President, American Federation of Government Employees and Mini Timmaraju, President of Reproductive Freedom for All join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the mass layoffs at Health and Human Services and the cruelty of Republicans when ...

โ–ถ Play video
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First 20 seconds.

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Only the BEST people folks, BIGLY.

mild gust
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Yikes

summer cedar
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Of note, that's a health worker whom he called a clown.

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The brain worms are spreading.

proud jay
summer cedar
proud jay
summer cedar
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Gotta get it right.

soft night
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gotta get it blight

summer cedar
median wraith
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magically Outer Wilds is gone from my Epic lib

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or wasn't that one the one they gave away?

summer cedar
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See if you enabled any filters.

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@oblique stag What do you need? You can message me here itself.

pearl elk
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umm

unreal ether
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Now that's a shock, whoda thunk

river sable
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there's a channel for that sir and it's not this one

river sable
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kindly delete your message before the mods give you a slap on the wrist ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†•๏ธ

median wraith
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maybe mixed it with that one

river sable
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big brain maffs time @proud jay

summer cedar
river sable
pearl elk
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digital pimp hard at work

pearl elk
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man discord is starting to get annoying with these ads

river sable
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yeah I'm paying money for this app why are you showing me any ads at all, just go away

pearl elk
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I coulda sworn society rejected popup ads yet here we still are

river sable
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have you tried browsing the internet without an ad block recently? it's a hellscape out there

soft night
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really?

river sable
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recently got a new keyboard I had been looking at for a while (ducky matcha) and was so close to giving up because it was out of stock everywhere. eventually found a single b-ware in stock after hours of searching haha. very happy with it STEAMHAPPYSPIN

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however the capslock / numpad toggle lights are so bright it should be noted as a health risk

summer cedar
celest musk
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FAIR ENOUGH FOR CAPSLOCK

river sable
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YOU HAVE A POINT

summer cedar
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ARE YOU SURE?

river sable
river sable
proud jay
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as the blizzard man said, you think you do, but you don't

river sable
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heh

proud jay
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but you do you

river sable
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I just enjoy having a numpad

proud jay
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I have 58 keys atm and would consider going for less next keyboard

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I have a numpad under a layer

river sable
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single key keyboard

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I also like the 90s office aesthetic

proud jay
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so where normally type xcdrstwfp on colemak layout, I hold a layer key and it becomes 123456789

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puts the num pad rright under my fingers on the home row

cursive crypt
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hmm left handed numpad

proud jay
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you could put it wherever tbh

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I just have mostly symbols on the layer for my right hand

cursive crypt
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I have there some mouse buttons

proud jay
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since I use those more in coding

river sable
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sure! yeah I've used a mini for a bit when I stayed with a friend. I could get used to it but idk I like full layout

proud jay
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whatever floats your boat

summer cedar
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Baby need supa dupa keyboard with just TWO BIG spacebar keys to mash.

errant raven
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The interview is monday

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I'll be working soon

river sable
summer cedar
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No one else has had this amazingly cool idea, because I WAS the baby who banged a typewriter constantly.

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Apparently, I was the only one in history. ๐Ÿ˜„

river sable
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can recommend this course

summer cedar
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gutter mind. ๐Ÿ˜›

river sable
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yeah sorry for that image lol

winter coral
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Tina just said on stream that some UDN answers are coming to the forum

proud jay
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tarrifs working well I see

summer cedar
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This most indefinitely turn out to be bigly suksheshful, just you wait and see.

proud jay
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the stock market is maybe getting tired of all the winning

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needs a rest

summer cedar
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Winning is life, bro.

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Gotta win much much more and surrender the #1 spot to other countries.

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It's how winners have always done it! ๐Ÿ†

river sable
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this is going great you guys

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I'm getting really nostalgic for the year 2008 for some reason

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with a hint of 1776

mild gust
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Movie Civil War looking more likely every day

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What's next The Purge

river sable
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Kristallnacht 2: Electric Boogaloo

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are they getting paid in the orange man coin?

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this is so fucked up lol

white oxide
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texas would nuke cali if it could get away with it

river sable
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also who the hell wears red sunglasses

mild gust
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or did she delete it after posting

river sable
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posted on march 29

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it's not an official us gov app

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(yet)

median wraith
errant raven
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The other cat gave birth

soft night
queen isle
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This fighting game last dlc was Christian Renaldo

river sable
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I have put way too many hours into building conveyor belt autominers in that game

soft night
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the co-op game more

river sable
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ah so more like groups of 4 and there's a hub world? I've never played multiplayer in astroneer, curious to see how much base building and crafting will be in this

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because that's what I played astroneer for, I love the lonely astronaut feeling and base building / automation

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not sure if exploration / combat without the base building stuff will keep my interest tbh

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still very cool to see

soft night
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different concept for this one in same universe

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from dev stream

mild gust
summer cedar
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For the very pro Switch devs here. ๐Ÿ˜„

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--- Loci, an industry-leading developer of AI technology for 3D content understanding and tagging, has joined Epic Games. ---

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Another acquisition ๐Ÿ’ฐ

mild gust
summer cedar
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Ignore those creatures.

mild gust
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Yet another thing owned by epic basically they were like

mild gust
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Well they are Consumer Action Taskforce lol

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They look for anti-consumer things

mild gust
summer cedar
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you are indie dev.
not consumer.
stand above the pile of corpses.

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take all their ๐Ÿ’ฐ

mild gust
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I can't help but want to fight against things like asus anti-consumer etc

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Epic for the most part is fine to me

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In terms of consumerability for myself.

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Asus was doing some shady shit for a while

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So does John Deer

summer cedar
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We don't fight Asus for anti-consumerism.
We fight them because their products must equal the kidneys we sell for them.

mild gust
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Fuck John Deer

summer cedar
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Also, ๐Ÿ”ฅ is bad.

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in some places.

mild gust
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When you lock your vehicles hardware maintenance behind firmware that only engineers can access preventing farmers from plowing fields that's a problem.

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John Deer = cancer

summer cedar
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while true, not our problem.
we must dev and spam.

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also steal ๐Ÿ’ฐ

mild gust
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It is our problem when food costs all our $

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Because if farms can't harvest less product in the market

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Prices go up like wild

summer cedar
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that's why you must get a brain chip asap.

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it will stop you from feeling hunger.

mild gust
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Lol

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As long as it's a chinese brain chip

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I don't trust no neural link

summer cedar
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There are 13 patients trying that one out now.

mild gust
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I'd rather risk China having control of my will than Elon

mild gust
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I saw some chick was able to talk again after being paralyzed for years using one.

summer cedar
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Good, good.
All the secret cultivation techniques will become reality now.

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Master Iron Stomach and you won't feel hunger ever again.

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I just used AI to generate a bunch of questions and a summary for my student, thereby avoiding doing all that work.

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#embraceAI

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And the student's like, "How did you do that so fast?!!!" N00b. ๐Ÿ˜

mild gust
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Good idea

summer cedar
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No, no. I turned the idea into action.
Good wisdom, is the right compliment. ๐Ÿ˜„

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I love this headline --- NVidia has bigger problems than tariffs --- ๐Ÿคฃ

mild gust
proud jay
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resharing cause you cool cats probably aren't in programmer-hangout

summer cedar
#

That's funny. ๐Ÿ˜„

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But totally in keeping with how this Black House rolls.

mild gust
#

Let's be honest they just asked chat gpt or grok

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and it gave them some bs

summer cedar
#

Oh noes! The Indian rupee is strengthening against the dollar.

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This is bad for me, which is all that really matters.

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๐Ÿ˜ฑ

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Quick! Go to the Black House and get rid of the rotten orange.

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I will pay you in perishable coins.

mild gust
#

Get sat nerd

proud jay
#

time to burn your dollars for heat

proud jay
#

it's what they did with german money in WWII

summer cedar
#

Partially done getting ready to file income tax returns.

#

I'll do the equity stuff later. Clicking download buttons is hard work. ๐Ÿ˜›

proud jay
#

you have to do all the filing yourself in India like in US?

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we just get a document that is the government's best guess, which is correct in most cases

#

and then you can update some info if it would be incorrect or missing

#

or is it company tax?

summer cedar
#

You can do it youself, but I pay a CA $50 to do it for me.

proud jay
#

government does it for us for free

summer cedar
#

they do that here too, but people adjust the govt's guess to reduce liability.

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to save on paying taxes.

proud jay
#

maybe your govt is just bad at guessing lol

summer cedar
#

no. they don't do your deductibles for you.

proud jay
#

I see

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lazy

summer cedar
# proud jay lazy

๐Ÿค” I haven't had a salary in eight years, now. So, I think for salaried people, in the last two financial years, it has worked exactly as you described. The government gives them the aggregated income and tax accrued, and they simply pay it.

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The only time they'll have to adjust their returns is IF they are claiming housing loan and medical insurance deductibles, but I think that's been removed this year. I am not sure about that though.

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For me, I file my returns as a business - professional (just a fancy name for shop owner). So, I need to attach my books of accounts to my return. I could do that myself, but meh. I prefer noblesse oblige, keep the money flowing, so I just pay the CA.

proud jay
summer cedar
#

Technically, no, but essentially yes.

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The difference being, a company has compulsory audits.

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So, more paperwork.

proud jay
#

well that depends on how it's set up

summer cedar
#

As a shop owner, I don't have that.

proud jay
#

there's different legal structures for a company

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I guess that shop owner thing is one of them in india

summer cedar
#

Pretty much.

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The tax obligations for the other forms of companies is very burdensome.

#

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) especially.

#

You have to file returns monthly, quarterly, etc. Pain in the arse.

proud jay
#

we have 7 different company structures in belgium

#

one of them is a "one person business", which makes a business entity but it's completely linked to you as a person

#

and the company's taxes also fall under your personal taxes

summer cedar
#

I think that's what we call (Sole) Proprietorship.

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Shop Owner, basically.

#

But, once you start making something like $30,000 a year, the CA advises you to upgrade your Proprietorship into a One-Person Limited Company (which is a new thing here, like four years old, I think).

proud jay
#

yeah

summer cedar
#

Then, God help you with paperwork. ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

proud jay
#

it all depends on situation and income and liability and crap

#

well you'd need an accountant probably

summer cedar
#

The real problem is when you have to deal with rural educated tax officers.

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And morons in general.

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And local governments are generally staffed with morons.

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Which is why I love everything being online and centralised. ๐Ÿ˜„

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I've heard my dad's friends talk about their horror stories with local tax goblins.

proud jay
#

I have a great advantage

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my brother is a tax accountant for the government

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so he checks my taxes every year lol

summer cedar
#

That is indeed a great advantage.

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Does he have the keys to Fort Knox in Belgium?

proud jay
#

my dad used to be an accountant for the govt too

summer cedar
#

That'd be an even greater advantage.

proud jay
#

but he did VAT things

median wraith
#

@proud jay talking about numbers, how much cost a house as the one you are doing over there +- for the general public

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or a house + land or so

proud jay
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like buying

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or building

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cause building is more expensive

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but my house is also quite big

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I think you can get an average family home for like 350-400k

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but my house is probably closer to 800k or something if I would sell it

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decent house, a bit smaller than I have a few streets down recently sold for 650k without issues

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if you just want a house like one that's not freestanding you could get one for like ~300k I think

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also depends a lot on the area

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where my brother lives in the far west of belgium you can buy a decent home for like 200k

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which would probably be over 300k in the city I live

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and closer to 500k in Antwerp or Brussels

median wraith
#

I was thinking of half million

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then prices aren't that far from here and there anymore except for the 800 one

unborn lotus
#

funny how it's the same prices here too lol

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basically anything under 200k is old and needs renovation

pearl elk
#

Const a house, its the only way to be sure

proud jay
#

I think belgium is not doing bad compared to neighbouring countries though

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I looked up some stats, for closed and semi detached housing the average price in flanders was 299k, for fully detached housing average was 415k

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in brussels it's 499k and 1,1 mil

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these are prices for 2024 first quarter

median wraith
#

here every price multiplied by x2 since 2010

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talking about houses

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about the income still the same

proud jay
#

this is the evolution here

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red = detached, blue closed/semi detached, green apartments

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this is for the whole of belgium, the southern part is usually cheaper

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apparently Colfontaine is the cheapest city to live in in belgium

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80k median house price

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most expensive is Knokke-Heist with a median of 799k

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so yeah, it varies

median wraith
#

with 80k here you get a garabe now lol

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a 60m2 house here is about 250k on any city

proud jay
#

well it's not really a city, more a random outback shithole

summer cedar
#

so, a waffled shithole?

proud jay
#

it's close to a big walloon city though

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but walloon cities are shitholes in themselves

summer cedar
#

๐Ÿ˜”

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I am managing this shithole, now.

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At least, attempting to.

proud jay
#

close to it

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crossing the border from flanders to wallonia is like stepping in a time machine and going back 60 years

median wraith
#

Diksmuine can be a city here

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but secondary ones are more like Veurne

proud jay
#

diksmuide

median wraith
#

yeah sorry*

proud jay
#

you seem to like coastal cities

median wraith
#

well the first one that I found

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not huge fan

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I mean are nice but

primal summit
proud jay
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it's that expensive cause it's right next to the ocean

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and rich people move there to retire

primal summit
#

plus cities are expensive

summer cedar
#

Less of a shithole now.

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I agree with the highlighted choice.

primal summit
#

chuck them over!

summer cedar
#

I chucked one.

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Another guy simply jumped off the platform next to the docks and drowned.

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Not sure why. Maybe his 401k crashed.

primal summit
median wraith
summer cedar
summer cedar
#

Or at least by one of my passing fishing boats.

summer cedar
#

The power of my devotion to the Emperor is strong!

summer cedar
#

Remember: Furrowed brows are essential before a fight.

regal pecan
#

How many brows does this man have

summer cedar
#

Enough to furrow.

mild gust
summer cedar
#

I love that Path of Exile comes with a pack checker .exe.

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Every game should have one, to get rid of redundant files after a patch.

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Saves you a few GBs.

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Yay! Got 4 GB back. ๐Ÿ‘

mild gust
#

Das it

#

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cursive crypt
#

TIL Twitter has free daily limits for seeing whatever posts.

mild gust
#

They may have changed the limits though

errant raven
#

@fleet tangle I watched my life as inukai-sans dog

zinc matrix
#

It seems that some big name from Blizzard died. A famoust art director. I was curious about the cause, can't find it anywhere.

dusky shuttle
errant raven
#

I've seen that earlier

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I died

dusky shuttle
#

rip

queen isle
#

TiL the rizzler is a rl person. Not a Brainrot term

dusky shuttle
#

Isn't that the name of a character in Tron Legacy?

pearl elk
#

Thats Rinzler

mild gust
#

6.6 trillion dollars gone from the stock market in 2 days.

#

Good job Trump Dump.

summer cedar
#

Hey, it's progress.

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How dare you defy the Orange Lord?

#

Join the penguins!

mild gust
#

I will forever defy the cheeto painted lord.

#

He would never get my vote.

summer cedar
#

Beware the cheetos.

#

They are WMDs.

mild gust
#

This is a perfect use of AI

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Now this is art

summer cedar
#

It's an insult to AI. ๐Ÿ˜›

mild gust
#

Lies

summer cedar
#

I am sure the image generators are weeping with every one of these prompts.

mild gust
#

Anytime we get chubby JD

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It's a good use

#

Anyone ever use cgtrader for assets?

mild gust
#

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summer cedar
#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbZCbBLqkk
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From 6:00 ish

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Where Trump got his tariff policy.

mild gust
#

Bye bye s&p

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Tesla stock looking comical

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summer cedar
#

I want to follow the economic policies of Ducifer Lawn.

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I hear he's a great economist, bigliest book covers on Amazon.

mild gust
#

Penguins for everyone

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We will have a never ending supply of guano

#

Tax the rich

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Even if it's only .01% of their income

mild gust
#

Think this is the third one i've seen in a month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23hpO3IhMA8

An assassination attempt was made on Putin, his work car was blown up in Moscow, the Russian security service is in shock, what kind of sign is this and who is behind it, how will this affect the course of further events in Ukraine and whether Zelensky's statement about the end of the War as a result of Putin's death will come true, we will deal...

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Other one was a limo or w.e

summer cedar
#

There are AI clones everywhere.

mild gust
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Plus his body doubles

#

Some claim the real Putin is long dead

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and a body doubles replaced him years ago

hardy ice
mild gust
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Oh no vibe coding has found me here

hardy ice
#

this is satire, really hilarious

mild gust
#

Primeagen has good videos on it too

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No planning allowed no thinking allowed

fleet tangle
fleet tangle
white oxide
#

i miss when CGI in shows and stuff clearly had some love into it

mild gust
errant raven
fleet tangle
#

Fan service doesn't really interest me.

errant raven
#

You not a fan?

#

Smh

errant raven
#

How the hell do I change audio language on hidive

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Theres no damn option for it

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Had to do it on phone

soft night
#

oh my the fan service give lots of anime options

errant raven
#

Crunchyroll doesnt deserve the shit it gets

errant raven
#

Hidive deserves what crunchyroll gets

white oxide
#

the movie was so good and setup a sequel excelently

unborn lotus
#

Theres still the manga to read

errant raven
#

Alita?

unborn lotus
pearl elk
#

Alita the Hun was my favourite manga

white oxide
#

i know theres the manga

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but like the movie was a cinematic masterpiece

#

it genuinely felt like solid CGI not the marvel slop weve been getting

errant raven
#

I'm confused on what gpu I should get man

pearl elk
#

get a Switch 2

#

it can do 4K, it must have a 5090 in it

errant raven
#

I'll def get a switch 2

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Just for the new fromsoft game

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Playing pokemon would be nice again too

pearl elk
#

fromsoft makes the hardest games

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such confuse

errant raven
#

Plus I'll have a mobile way to play master duel

soft night
#

raspberry pi right mons

errant raven
#

4060, rx 7600 xt, rx 6700

#

What to pick

soft night
#

arc b580 battlemage

errant raven
#

AMD started utilizing their own stuff in GPUs that workstations would use right?

unborn lotus
#

Hows everybodys stocks doing?

summer cedar
#

Stabler than Orange Country here.

#

But, going down, yes. It's a good time to buy, if I have spare cash to throw at it.

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Bad time to sell.

dusky shuttle
#

I quit stocks to do bitcoin, wish I had dry powder

unborn lotus
summer cedar
# unborn lotus Now? I heard its going to keep going down and down

If I have stocks that were previously at a high price, and I want to accumulate them for getting bonus shares, splits, rights issues, etc. - yes.
If I have companies that I target because of low FDI and US-related business, with strong books of accounts - yes.
If the difference between pre-tariff prices and post-tariff prices are high enough to warrant a speculative purchase - yes.

#

In India, we have several stocks like that. It depends on the conditions in your market.

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Conversely, if you have high USA/EU FDIs in your stocks, and/or the companies do a lot of business with the USA, RUN!!!!!

pearl elk
#

I gotta pay for my AI subscriptions in USD ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

summer cedar
#

You'll be paying only 0.61AUD to the dollar, as opposed to 0.63 before.

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So, you'll save a few cents overall on your subscription. Use it to buy a killer panda and sick it on the orange clown.

pearl elk
#

nah it'll cost more and because it costs more, more transaction fee too

summer cedar
#

why does it cost more post-tariff?

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Is there some special charge on software?

pearl elk
#

our dollar is weaker its a ratio so 0.61:1.0 versus 0.63:1.0

errant raven
#

Can yall stop talking about big brain stuff

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Small brain people like myself are here

summer cedar
#

Bro, the ratio is in your favour no?

#

You're paying less for 1 dollar than before.

pearl elk
#

no, our dollar is weaker

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we need to use more of our dollar to buy 1 USD

summer cedar
#

how?

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You used 63 cents before.

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Now only 61.

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you are paying less, not more.

pearl elk
#

youve got it backwards, trust me

summer cedar
#

er, no.

pearl elk
#

yes, go back to game design school you failed ๐Ÿ˜›

summer cedar
#

I think you've misunderstood.

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I am not the one that needs to go back to school.

#

It's basic math.

pearl elk
#

61 cents buys us 1 dollar

summer cedar
#

Yes, before 63 cents did.

errant raven
#

These tariffs are more insane than I thought theyd be

pearl elk
#

jeez

summer cedar
#

correct.

#

that's what I am saying.

errant raven
#

I thought itd be small, like 5-10% or so

pearl elk
#

1:1 is dead on

summer cedar
#

Yeah, now it's 0.61:1.

pearl elk
#

0.5:1 is 50% so you gotta pay more

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1.5:1 would be in our favour

#

get it get?

summer cedar
#

If an Australian is buying US dollars, he can buy more at 0.61cents to a US dollar.

#

As opposed to 0.63 cents earlier.

pearl elk
#

NO

#

how do you not know how ratios work

errant raven
#

.61 is weaker than 0.63

summer cedar
#

If I pay 63 cents to get 1 USD and now, I pay 61 cents to get 1 USD, I am paying less for that USD.

#

How do you not understand this?

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eating now brb

pearl elk
#

graph clearly shows down

#

also dont ask me how they get a percentage of 1 cent since thats not even legal tender

errant raven
#

The penny isnt legal anymore???

#

Abe Lincoln noooooooooooooooooo

pearl elk
#

1 penny is but youre not allowed to cut it into pieces anymore

#

they used to have proper halves and quarters, people would just cut the coins themselves

errant raven
#

We have these $1 gold coins

#

They're legal tender

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I wanna buy 500 of em and put em in a treasure chest

pearl elk
#

we got $5 and $10 mint coins

#

I got a silver $1 but its probably worth more than that tbh

errant raven
#

I want some copper and silver coins too

#

Need some variation in my booty

pearl elk
#

woo copper will cost you these days

errant raven
#

That's why its worthy of being in my trove

pearl elk
#

white gold will pass for silver, cheaper too

errant raven
#

Aluminum too

#

Now for some pearl necklaces and gemstones

pearl elk
#

Id sell you some but you'll need to pay the tariff ๐Ÿ˜›

#

I got heaps of aluminium

errant raven
#

800% right?

pearl elk
#

800% aka 0.61c ๐Ÿ˜›

errant raven
#

25% since its aluminium, and 25% since it's the final product with undisclosed aluminum content

#

So 50%

#

But 100% more

#

And I'm 101% sure I have no idea what's happening now

#

Thank god I didn't vote so I cant be blamed for this

pearl elk
#

all of the USA about to be driving around on carbon rims cuz steelies and alloy gonna be too expensive

errant raven
#

These tariffs arent gonna be permanent are they

pearl elk
#

depends if Trump follows through with his plans to have more than 2 terms

#

he could be President for as long as he lives

errant raven
#

Unconstitutional, so nah.

#

His voters care more about the constitution than him. So that's out the window for sure

pearl elk
#

I just think it sucks he thinks so little of the tradition of the USA he supposedly loves

errant raven
#

Hed probably do it a legal way

pearl elk
#

2 terms wasnt written in the early days but became a gentlemans agreement

fleet tangle
#

And it has changed, numerous times.

#

The term limits currently imposed are, in fact, a change to the original, no?

errant raven
#

Get jd Vance to be president, have trump as his vp. Resign as president, causing trump to become president again for the remainder of jds term

fleet tangle
#

You can't be VP if you're not eligible to be P.

errant raven
#

2 terms of 4 years each

pearl elk
#

I doubt JD would win tbh, I think Trump would want something more secure

fleet tangle
#

The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President of the United States to two terms

pearl elk
#

but atleast if JD loses its not Trump being a sore loser again

errant raven
#

The military also serves the constitution and not the president

fleet tangle
#

The military serves whomever the military wants to serve.

pearl elk
#

I thought President holds the highest military rank

errant raven
#

No

#

The only president who did was george Washington

#

The first and only 6 star general

fleet tangle
#

The President of the United States is the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, making them the head of the U.S. military. This role includes overseeing military operations and ensuring civilian control over the armed forces.

errant raven
#

Atleast I'm pretty sure

pearl elk
#

so whats a Commander in Chief? is than an native american rank? ๐Ÿ˜…

errant raven
#

I dont know then lurkin

fleet tangle
#

This is the problem with people. They talk shit ๐Ÿ˜„

pearl elk
#

like Trump talking about US troop movement on Twitter? ๐Ÿ˜น

#

you couldnt hide that guy on a nuclear submarine on the bottom of the ocean

#

he'd still be on social media ๐Ÿ˜น

fleet tangle
#

I'm sure he's keeping the real secret stuff secret.

#

Like how he gets away with it all!

#

๐Ÿ˜‚

pearl elk
#

like where Hoovers body is?

#

oh wait no thats the other guy

summer cedar
#

My bad.

pearl elk
#

Hoffa thats the one

summer cedar
#

So, you're going to be poorer by a few cents.

summer cedar
#

He'll have to play around the rules, such as getting a puppet president elected and pulling the strings.

fleet tangle
#

60% of them, in fact.

pearl elk
#

I guess if Trump takes the office by force then technically he wasnt elected and can continue sitting aye

summer cedar
#

Or declaring an emergency, which is being adjudicated in court.

summer cedar
#

Pundits say that's part of the reason he wants the illegal immigration to be declared an invasion.

#

Then he can declare an emergency under whatever Aliens of Mars Act there is.

pearl elk
#

well he did what he said he'd do, he saved USA 2 trillion by wiping it entirely off the economy ๐Ÿ˜›

summer cedar
summer cedar
#

Even Trump refused to say he'd choose JD as his 'successor'.

fleet tangle
summer cedar
#

Give it time.

pearl elk
#

he needed the christian voters thats why both his running mates were all up in jesus

soft night
#

calamari so fresh so monsy olympus pick next pres

pearl elk
#

I pick whoever is head of Greenland

#

they can take USA by force with an army of penguins by their side

summer cedar
#

Ah fart. I had been looking at usd to gbp before. That's why I confused the 0. with the 1.

#

๐Ÿ”ซ Calamari. ๐Ÿ˜›

summer cedar
#

He's like.... an actual penguin. ๐Ÿ˜„

soft night
#

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pearl elk
summer cedar
#

Pres. Penguin to Pres. Orange.

errant raven
#

Why do they have fent supply chains

#

That Australian controlled island full of penguins is insane

summer cedar
#

Didn't they just use AI to calculate the tariffs and make the list?

#

Like, ChatGPT or something.

soft night
#

PenguinAI the next gen what peat all US ai thingies

pearl elk
#

pengAIn

summer cedar
#

It'll all be fine. After the end of money, we'll plant a few grains outside our huts, sit by our cows, and play drums while they moo.

#

Lifespans can reduce to 40-45 years once more and we can skip wisdom, living in ignorance as humble village people.

pearl elk
#

clearly it'll be another Trump who will succeed current Trump

#

all hail the Barron

summer cedar
#

Assuming democrats don't vote again, that's another way to do it. aye.

summer cedar
#

๐Ÿค” Found a bug in Windows Explorer in its Gallery.

#

Dragging a picture got it stuck and disabled drag-drop. I had to end the Gallery task via TM.

summer cedar
#

I am disappointed Bill Maher wasn't on today.

#

I'd have loved to hear his New Rules on the tariffs.

#

Oh yeah, he was going to meet Trump today. That's why.

pearl elk
#

you get to see Bill Maher 25% less now

summer cedar
#

Actually, I get to see him for 0%. And my number is right this time. ๐Ÿ˜„

#

cough YT cough

#

Oh, cool.

#

A fed. judge ordered the Trump govt. to bring the innocent guy back from El Salvador.

primal summit
#

1-2 inches forecast... think they goofed.

summer cedar
#

Enough to build a snowman, or two.

errant raven
#

2 inches is 2 inches

summer cedar
summer cedar
#

Fake or not, that's pretty cool, ngl.

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March 25th, in the UK.

errant raven
primal summit
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2 inches isn't even enough to call in or delay school for here, but a foot is

errant raven
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Where do you live

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Hokkaido????

summer cedar
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Another shot from the UK.

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At least this time, the videos are in colour and not grainy shit.

unborn lotus
primal summit
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central new mexico, about 35ยฐN latitude

errant raven
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There was no right way to vote

unborn lotus
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it always is - the lesser evil

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until it's sort of ok

summer cedar
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Not if you're too lazy to go to vote.

primal summit
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the choice was short-term corrupt or we'll still be finding out some of the sleazy corruption and damage in 40 years

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which is less bad?

errant raven
summer cedar
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I think the choice was between a terrible guy and a perhaps-corrupt, but-business-as-usual lady. (I give you the perhaps-corrupt, because politics).

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But, I don't blame the Republicans for their choice. They at least voted.

errant raven
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Keep pushing gender politics and dei to hide (failing to hide it anyways) what you're doing to the economy. Or tank the economy, and fuck up other stuff

summer cedar
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The what... 18 million peeps who decided to sit at home; it's their responsibility.

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Far: Lone Sails is 90% discounted on Steam.

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๐Ÿ˜ โ˜ ๏ธ

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Who wants coffee?

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Nescafe โ„ข๏ธ Black Roast

river sable
soft night
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starseeker game is made with ue5

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what comes on 2026

errant raven
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But I'm not a voter

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Dont know how many times I have to say that before English becomes understandable

river sable
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anyway y'all are fucked

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godspeed

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have you ever voted in your life?

soft night
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i voted yesterday 2election on same time

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it was fast so swift

river sable
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next US elections are gonna be really swift, you'll not even need to leave the house. they'll come to your door and even make the cross for you

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how very nice of them

summer cedar
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Meanwhile, in China...

soft night
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US election the ballot way you just get documents for voting then fill them and sent them via mail

river sable
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but voting by mail is fraud janisku, didn't you know?

summer cedar
river sable
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anyway I'm too angry for this conversation right now I'm gonna go and touch some grass

soft night
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windus sorry you need MCP servers for ti

summer cedar
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You can point at your favourite (most hated) person while doing it.

errant raven
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Multiple polls on youtube

errant raven
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And some discord servers for events

river sable
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well maybe you deserve what's happening to you

errant raven
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What's happening to me

river sable
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economic collapse

errant raven
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Uh I farm

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I eat what I grow

river sable
errant raven
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And I'm young, less prone to deadly illnesses