#off-topic-discussion

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mossy trail
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then 8 with territories northerner and 1 country iceland with no territory southerner

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times of great sorrow and hunger has begun(until I buy another disk)

mossy trail
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Sanest chess player

mossy trail
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I talk to real people everyday (the people I talk to is me)

muted smelt
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Hah! Trying to make me think people here are real, are ya

bleak sierra
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Touch grass you guys

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And if you dont have grass move house

serene tulip
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No >:|

muted smelt
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I can't

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I'm not ready to be put to pasture

mossy trail
bleak sierra
mossy trail
bleak sierra
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N o

mossy trail
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well then

bleak sierra
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Sounds like a you problem XD

mossy trail
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if i could move out of here i would

mossy trail
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Literally any human try not to say "something in between" when you ask the to choose between two different positive things challenge

serene tulip
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would you rather have a horse sized duck, or the same mass of duck sized horses?

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"something in between"

grave sand
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depends what I'm having them for

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as a meal? horse sized duck

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as a fight? duck sized horses

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as a pet? horse sized duck

fast marlin
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thats a lot of duck to eat

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what will you do with the leftovers

mossy trail
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go on the main square and sell it for low price

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with some social event attached to it

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duck sized horses would probably just instantly die in any situations they're kinda fragile

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id pick duck sized horses as a meal tbh

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and probably as a pet too, like, birds are hardcore, horse sized duck would just kill me with a single cough

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and as a fight obviously too because horses are in the glass cannon class and when you downscale a glass cannon it's always just bad

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humans are the only ones in the animal kingdom in the wizard class lol

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other primates are rogues i guess

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tigers are a rogue probably as well but more strength and stealth rather than dexterity

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bears wolverines honey badgers are barbarians

fast marlin
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lizards are rangers

mossy trail
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squirrels are monks

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and cats too

fast marlin
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thats so true

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dogs are fighters

wintry turtle
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hi

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I played hades for 5 hours but didn't get the cs:go music kit, does this still exist?

mossy trail
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I think rye is based and better than wheat

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Also important news: the winter is ending in my city as I can stop wearing socks while sleeping and not freeze

pastel phoenix
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Not sure where to post this, but I wanted to share a quick warning:
I got a scam message from a friend on Steam, asking me to click a link and vote for a friend's team.
It's an old scam, but it's making the rounds again.
Please don't click the link!

opal lynx
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hi how do i report in dc?

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got a bot msging me about a game

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from this server

sharp grail
opal lynx
mossy trail
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I really love humanity

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And that's also one of the reasons why I named myself god

warm vortex
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hello does anyone know abt c until pointers and stuff? i need some help

mossy trail
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there's some parade outside again

hollow harbor
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Hello everyone, I'm returning to the game and would like to know if there were any updates. ( I was absent for 1 year )nectar

mossy trail
serene tulip
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There is precisely one other person in my planes boarding area wearing a mask

mossy trail
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ah yes humanity moment

serene tulip
rugged perch
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people largely gave up

mossy trail
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here they never tried

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there would be like 5 people out of a 1000 that wore masks

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maybe more but a huge minority

mild pelican
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back in 2021 when i absolutely had to go out somewhere, i counted people wearing masks on the way to the place
largest number was 17
out of idk, how many people one can encounter on a huge roadway in a busy city at the not-too-small mall

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out of them only about 3-5 weared masks on the lower parts of their faces, nose included

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not on the mouth only, under the chin, on the forehead, on the forearm, wherever

mossy trail
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I didn't really count how much I encountered when I went out but I don't think it was ever close to triple digits and that's the centre of a city with population of finland

rugged perch
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tbf the population of finland is rather small

mossy trail
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true but it's still a lot

rugged perch
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yes

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small but talented population

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some of the games i've been enjoying in the last couple of years are theirs

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Control and now Returnal

muted smelt
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They have fun swear words

rugged perch
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fun language in general

mossy trail
rugged perch
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half of countries?

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i kinda doubt that

mossy trail
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in list of countries by population they're 114 out of 198

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*195

rugged perch
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does that include "countries" like the vatican, andorra and other such places

mild pelican
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and me like a dum, wearing gasmask 3M-7502 with anti-aerosol filters 6035-p3

muted smelt
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Norway had 5mil population iirc

rugged perch
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finland's the same, more or less

mossy trail
# rugged perch does that include "countries" like the vatican, andorra and other such places

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

List of countries and dependencies by population

This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. For instance, the United Kingdom is considered a single entity, while the con...

rugged perch
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yeah, i have the same page opened

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and half of those countries are tiny ex colonies

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used for tourism and money laundering

mild pelican
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also numbers are different for different cities

muted smelt
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Singapore has 5 million. Compare the land size lol

rugged perch
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so if you exclude all the hugely dependent "independent" tiny islands and city states, Finland is pretty low on the list

mossy trail
mossy trail
zenith olive
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dehydration is no joke

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that sounds really unserious but i keep getting dehydrated and idk why

mossy trail
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Have you considered conditioning yourself with inhumane methods to constantly crave water

fast marlin
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hmm

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you could try electrolyte water maybe, that might help if theres an imbalance

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but yeah its Not Fun

fast marlin
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I have been told i look like someone who orders non regular milk

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Which honestly checks out

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I don’t but i probably would

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Probably the hair and love of flavored lattes and chai

dry stratus
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I've been trying pistachio milk in tea lately

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It's okay

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I'd imagine it's better in coffee

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Smells real nice once heated though

zenith olive
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Oo

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i personally really enjoy coconut milk

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Not in my tea just by itself

dry stratus
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Coconut milk goes super hard

fast marlin
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coconut milk in smoothies is very good

toxic cliff
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Bastion is also on sale, should I grab that too?

fast marlin
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yes

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mindfulness is a misleading name

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the point is to make my mind not full :(

dry stratus
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It's very fun to play and the story is mint

fast marlin
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also its gorgeous as all sgg games is

fast marlin
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like you are telling me all i had to do is sit there and notice things

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and breathe

serene tulip
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time zones suck

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I need to wake up at 6

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but for me it will be 3

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and that's just untenable

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[perhaps even unelevenable

mossy trail
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I just realized

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Transistor and hades are in places kinda art nouveau ngl

grim wyvern
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Hi

grim wyvern
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Anyone here I might have a plot if anyone wants to ro

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It's New

fast marlin
mossy trail
grim wyvern
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Yes roleplay

mossy trail
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Wdym

fast marlin
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Think they meant to say rp

blissful charm
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snoozin

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mossy trail
mossy trail
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Pushups are kinda weird because usually when we contract our arms we're pulling something not pushing

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Also my biceps seem firmer, I don't do anything regularly at all only rarely and irregularly but apparently that still has effects

fast marlin
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any kind of strain could do that tbh

muted smelt
bronze lintel
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Last of Us Guitar starts playing

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man I want to put that in my cafe's playlist but the tone is somber.

muted smelt
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Just try it they wont notice the somber

bronze lintel
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Look, if they noticed Mii Shop Jazz arrangement, they're gonna notice TLOU's OST somberness dusa

muted smelt
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Get AI to make a funky remix of it

bronze lintel
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nah, I'll just play it in the morning when I set up the morning as I set up the bar

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and possibly screw up the coffee's recipe

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cause I did that with Seagulls one time

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the espresso was a mess

unborn hornet
serene tulip
pallid jasper
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wish i had a relationship with someone yet i also like being alone
i'm horrible at socialising and the people i do like in that way would never feel the same way
i don't know what's going on really, but i hate it
i've started hugging a pillow during sleep, i guess it's comfy

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maybe it's not the place for this, but i just wanted to get it off of my chest

fast marlin
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yeah this isnt really a place to vent but i hope you feel better soon slugpuplove

mossy trail
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How to make an interceptor:
Step 1: take steel box
Step 2: put space rocket engine on it
Step 3: success

fast marlin
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man i gotta get back to cosplaying mel!

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thinking about it stresses me out lmfao

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i think im gonna take a different approach

fluid sorrel
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Ay Wagwan Piff Ting whats your BBM Pin

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I have a question

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has anyone here played A Plague Tale: Innocent and do they recommend it?

bronze lintel
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Folks

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I pulled my string of ham

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Ow

fast marlin
serene tulip
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Pulled pork is pretty tasty tho

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with a spicy honey mustard barbecue sauce?

bronze lintel
mossy trail
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I've never seen beef bacon in my life

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What does pulled pork mean

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Like do you stretch it or something

bronze lintel
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you shred it with 2 forks, pulling the meat apart

muted smelt
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What about pulled tea

tawny kiln
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Hello yes the bot isn't cooperating with changing my roles why won't it work

zenith olive
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odd

sharp grail
fast marlin
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my love of iced coffee is getting to be problematic
as in: i biked here in the rain and im freezing but i cannot get myself to order hot coffee dusa

dry stratus
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Chai latte with some espresso added

fast marlin
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that does sound nice

mossy trail
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Enriched uranium coffee always warms me up

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Btw new isotope of uranium was very recently discovered

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241

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I think

fast marlin
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huh

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interesting

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an ancient roman bust bought for 34$ in a texas goodwill is being returned to germany

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im not even joking there

dry stratus
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That's good tbh

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Wonder how it managed to get there though?

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Like were there no history checks on it or something

fast marlin
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Yeah no clue

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this is the most they say

exotic forge
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bruh i need a release date for hades 2

serene tulip
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Every time someone complain about the release date of hades 2 I distract Darren Korb by trying to get him to win a fiddle of gold from the devil for me

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So far I owe the devil over two thousand souls. But not because Darren loses but because I keep making dumb side bets.

fast marlin
hexed hollow
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Hades 2 becoming a silent film esque game would be pretty epic ngl

blissful charm
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thatd be v cool

scenic oasis
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What if it's somehow the fault of one of the gods? Like, you have to quest to get sound back.

fast marlin
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i blame Dionysus

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he partied TOO hard

fast marlin
bronze lintel
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So...

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I got mistaken for a ma'am in a phonecall

untold panther
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i love chiron

vocal yoke
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im literally tommy vercetti from vice city if he was a twink

bronze lintel
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I can't imagine that

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brain's not working dusa

vocal yoke
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Doctor's office didnt do me justice

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God I love my new lenses too

bronze lintel
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they look rad, gotta agree

vocal yoke
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Yeah they finally arrived for that JF Rey Death Stranding glass frame

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And they're photochromic so no more sunglass clip on

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So yes would recommend!

rugged perch
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that blue shine is hella cool

vocal yoke
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Totally, apparently it protects from blue light

grave sand
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I had that added to my glasses too, apparently it should be good for computer screens

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but can sometimes give you blue flashes against the sun or like dentist lights and stuff like that

gray tangle
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omg i miss 2020

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sitting home, not doing anything

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getting fat

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it was awesome

vocal yoke
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I dont, it was so bad I was isolated from everyone

serene tulip
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wake up kiddies

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new aperiodic monotile has dropped

mossy trail
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I love hat polykite

rugged perch
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combinatorics ratlove

serene tulip
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god, you're so right

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alas, unfortunately, you'll have to take it up with Smith Et Al

mossy trail
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malachite is soooo underrated

blissful charm
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you mean the mineral?

mossy trail
blissful charm
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i thought it might be a show or something

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but either way it is pretty

mossy trail
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yeah

mild pelican
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maybe there's some kind of Steven universe character or something

mossy trail
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idk

mild pelican
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idk, didn't watch

mossy trail
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same

serene tulip
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Malachite is the name of a troll in Discworld

dusty rover
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heck yeah discworld

fast marlin
bronze lintel
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Malachite is giving me old days Monster Hunter flashbacks

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...not good ones dusa

fast marlin
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mel 2.5 is coming along well!!

faint panther
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yo.

zenith olive
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hi

faint panther
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how are you doing?

zenith olive
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bit miffed, but otherwise fine

faint panther
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miffed about what?

zenith olive
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my dog ate my breakfast

bronze lintel
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as long as it's not your homework

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a stray cat just scratched our car's windshield

serene tulip
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that's impressive

mossy trail
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went to throwing range

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threw axes

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and a shovel

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initiation to death korps of krieg complete

vocal yoke
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now this is sick

mossy trail
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Yeah

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Also this is like the third martial art that I ever touched and literally all of them were about legs and also all martial arts I ever heard something about like boxing are also mostly about legs
Are martial arts just legs?

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Is legs humanity's greatest power?

tall owl
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fancy footwork

bronze lintel
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Now that's a good throw

mossy trail
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I only hit half of the time with the shovel but like 75% of the time with an axe

faint panther
mossy trail
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Ar 15 aren't cool

faint panther
mossy trail
serene tulip
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FN P90s are begrudgingly allowed

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I tried to fix my brainfog with caffeine but only got brainfog + elevated heart rate =/

serene tulip
# mossy trail Also this is like the third martial art that I ever touched and literally all of...

Ooh, actually, I know this one. You see, if you were to punch someone in zero gravity, with no walls or anything to push against, 50% of the punch would go into moving them backwards, and 50% of the punch goes into moving you backwards. However, if you're in gravity on the ground, you can take the force from the punch that goes into you and transfer it to the earth, and while 50% of the force is still going to the earth, the punch stays in contact a lot longer because the earth doesn't move that fast by comparison so the impulse of the hit is higher for the same force

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Ergo, legwork is important because without being able to transfer energy to the earth or some other massive reinforcing object you get a lot less impulse out of your hits.

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There's also a second reason

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that I think about now

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where if we go back to imagining a punch in zero G with nothing to push against, you extend your arm forward, but you extend a roughly equal amount of mass backwards when you do

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which weakens your punches

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This has been martial arts physics hour with oceloctopus

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thank you for your time and attention

fast marlin
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this is fascinating thank you!!!

serene tulip
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Martial arts as a dynamics class

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(mechanics)

Dynamics (mechanics)

Dynamics is the branch of classical mechanics that is concerned with the study of forces and their effects on motion. Isaac Newton was the first to formulate the fundamental physical laws that govern dynamics in classical non-relativistic physics, especially his second law of motion.

mossy trail
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Little baby revolver nagant 1895 👉👈

mossy trail
serene tulip
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Yes, inertia will mean that the punch might still hurt the opponent, but since you have nothing to push back again its still a lot weaker than a grounded punch.

mossy trail
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well I meant that even if you don't put any force into the punch with your arm and only with your legs it will still be a big punch and maybe even stronger than if you only were striking with your arm and kept the legs still

carmine escarp
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this is now the fourth version of never to return i've gotten on shuffle today. i have 6 other albums and two singles that could've come up (not a vast library but still smth). random chance loves this song rn

forest basalt
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if you're on spotify, its not random. it prioritizes songs you listen to more often

carmine escarp
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no, bandcamp

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i almost always shuffle everything too so even if bandcamp does it as well uh

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nah

forest basalt
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yeah idk i've never used bandcamp playlist features

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i just download the music and play it off of foobar/localfiles

amber wolf
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water

muted smelt
forest basalt
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not really

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you can use your liked songs as a playlist

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or just make a playlist yourself

sharp grail
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but on mobile it shuffles everything you play and has really long annoying ads, 2 in a row most of the time

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not every song, but every like, 3 or 4

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i still always wait for the 3 month deals to pay for premium ricky

muted smelt
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I tried a playlist with a single song it still shuffles to something random

sharp grail
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oh yeah, it puts random songs into your playlists too so you cant game the system per se

bronze lintel
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Convince your parents to get family pack and not pay bouldy

sharp grail
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my mom is paying for my brothers account LOL but i could pay for mine in theory, im just a cheapskate

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also i wouldnt want them to know what music im listening to which i think spotify makes shared playlists for family accounts

forest basalt
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i didnt know that

sharp grail
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on youtube its an ad every song but at least its not shuffled

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i wish youtube would implement putting covers on playlists though if its been becoming more of an official music platform than ever

forest basalt
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i think its nice, i obviously wouldnt wnat it when i'm listening to an album though

sharp grail
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sometimes, but i organize my playlists by a specific "song order" so thats how id like to listen to them

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if its a big playlist with a lot of songs that dont have a specific theme sure

bronze lintel
sharp grail
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like a favorite songs playlist etc, but i make a lot of themed playlists that i would like to listen to in order

forest basalt
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i just throw every album i like into one big playlist the idea of making specialized playlists is so foreign to me lmao

sharp grail
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yeah here, i knew i remembered something like this

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forest basalt
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i think it would be really funny if my mom saw what i listened to

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"is this that devil music"

sharp grail
fast marlin
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alma i just realized we’re still matching character pfps dusa

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also i never make playlists bc thinking is so mucch work

sharp grail
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i love making them but the more i do the more i find i listen to very few songs

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or very few bands/albums what have you

forest basalt
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i had the same realization a few years ago so tahts most of the reason i decided to make music the only interesting thing about me

sharp grail
fast marlin
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i did make a sad taylor swift playlist today bc i was in Feels™️ and had one song on loop so i wanted more songs to match

sharp grail
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if youve ever imagined a animatic/music video in your head to something when listening to a song bc it just fit so well, Just Find More Songs and make that playlist

fast marlin
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my friends making me a short animatic of one of those "i cannot get video this out of my head listening to this" for my birthday actually and im so <33

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real friends animate their favorite fictonal characters for each other tbh

fast marlin
vocal yoke
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Yes Im a menace

mild pelican
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tfw spotify is not available anymore in your country

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reject streaming
return to cassete

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shame that 3.5 jack is getting out of use slowly

vocal yoke
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Im going to get some music sheets soon

zenith olive
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ooo

vocal yoke
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yeah too bad musicnotes loves to charge for the full stuff

faint panther
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it only plays random full songs from a playlist.

mossy trail
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Spotify is one of the worst things ever invented, if I wanted to not have control what I'm listening to I would listen to radio

mossy trail
faint panther
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it still has some great podcasts, but it's become apparent by now that the company has given up too much control of the platform to its investors, hence the monetization changes and the nonstop ads.

mossy trail
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I listen to music on youtube cuz in my country ads on yotube are disabled for complicated reasons

faint panther
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after all, the investors themselves are label companies and of course they'll promote songs of their interest.

mossy trail
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I still listen on shuffle but to my hand picked playlist where I enjoy basically any song at any moment in time

mossy trail
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When even the music streaming service is corrupt you know world isn't doing well

faint panther
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why else do you think that every song that you see on spotify sounds the same ?

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the beach bar type of songs with little to no lyrics, I mean.

mossy trail
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Spotify also doesn't have like half of the music I listen to

faint panther
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what do you like listening to?

mossy trail
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Uhh everything
I have a 1.3k long playlist of songs that I enjoy

faint panther
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is there a specific genre you fancy a little more?

mossy trail
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Well my favorite genres are power metal and dubstep but most songs I add to my playlist in recent half a year are just various electronic music mostly edm because I play geometry dash and most levels in it have edm songs so that's the genre I'm exposed to the most

mossy trail
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A hefty amount tho

faint panther
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is that game still going? 🤣

mossy trail
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It's only getting more popular and community is only evolving

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And 2.2 will release soon™

faint panther
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looking forward to it. 🙂

mossy trail
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Is there also food propaganda in other countries

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We have porridge propaganda

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Mainly the mix that is called "Hercules"

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And it dates way back

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The sign on the left says "I eat hercules" and the right says "I don't"

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And it's at least older than 1918

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And it's engraved in culture "eat porridge and you'll be strong"

vocal yoke
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someone post the chad proletariat one

faint panther
mossy trail
grave sand
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the spinach guy

mossy trail
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what's spinach

fast marlin
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Just spent copious amounts of money at the makeup store, mission successful dusa

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Even found a color for mels lip

serene tulip
mossy trail
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Ding Liren is the new world chess champion

muted smelt
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Were the matches pog inducing

mossy trail
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Very

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And they had to play tie breaks because the 14 matches of classical chess they played ended in a draw so they played tie breaks - 4 matches of rapid chess, 25 minutes, classical chess they played is 2 hours and after 40 moves they get additional hour each and then I think after 20 more moves an hour or something I'm not sure but the maximum duration of a game in world chess championship is 7 hours, but they ended all 14 of those with a score 7/7, so they played four games of rapid chess and the world classical chess champion was decided by rapid chess lmao, btw if they ended these rapid games with 2/2 they would play 5 minutes matches then I think

muted smelt
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Wow

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So the lesson is play more rapid

mossy trail
mossy trail
mossy trail
# mossy trail I looked the time format up and the players each start with 2 hours then at 40th...

And the tie breakers go like this: four chess rapid 25 minute games with 10 second added for each move
If they draw that then they play two chess blitz 5 minutes games with 3 second bonus time for each move, then if they draw them they play them again, and if they draw these two as well then they play 3 minutes with 2 second bonus time per move blitz chess with each game alternating colors until one wins so technically the championship can go indefinitely

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They drew first three games of rapid 25 too lol, but Ding won the fourth one

fast marlin
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Fascinating

serene tulip
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meep morp

rain bobcat
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Hello!

tall owl
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hello, god of sunlight in the upcoming game Hades II from the hit indie game studio supergiant games

rain bobcat
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oh! uh, should I use a nickname? I use apollo elsewhere.

tall owl
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Oh it‘s fine, it’s a cool name

rain bobcat
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🐔 👍

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pollo

earnest cargo
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Well now I won't be able to unhear that lmao

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It's gonna be A pollo forever in my head

rain bobcat
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The weather is awful. I'm starting to forget what the sun looked like.

earnest cargo
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Sorta like this ☀️

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Big yellow thing in the sky

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Sorry for the bad weather tho, it's a really downer

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It'll soon pass I hope, unless you're just nearing winter now heh

mossy trail
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The weather is awful, I'm starting to forget how no sun looked like

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Seriously it was normal weather till like mid april and then it's suddenly sun and 20° full day

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How does it jump 20-15 degrees in a couple days smh

rain bobcat
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take my rain

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i like warm sunny weather

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with gloomy rainy weather like 10 months a year it sucks

earnest cargo
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We had 27C a couple of weekends ago and the following monday it snowed.. so.. yay climate change!

dusty rover
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yeah, the weather's really not sure what it wants to be this spring

rain bobcat
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I was starting to think it was a 9-month autumn

muted smelt
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Spring and autumn? Never seen those

mossy trail
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I hate spring even more than summer but autumn is nice

fast marlin
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hey guys

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i am in intense amount of pain

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hows everyone else

blissful charm
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hey abigail uhhh you doing ok?

fast marlin
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oh yeah im fine

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period cramps are very not fun!! very not cool

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but like mentally im fine

faint panther
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this server is relatively dead for how huge it is

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anyways whats going on? what are you guys doing?

fickle sentinel
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Eh, we’re just in a bit of a dry spell since December

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Next time there’s major news, activity will spike

faint panther
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Of course lol

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I really liked zagreus, shame theyre doing away with him in the sequel

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anyways funny thing

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the main reference to melinoe in greek myth is the hymn about her

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but the hymn came two to three hundred AD meaning it was composed near the end of rome

blissful charm
faint panther
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actually

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hmm

blissful charm
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nw it's all good

fast marlin
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this is kind of the general stream of conciousness channel tbh

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anyway im in foam olympics category is WHAT was i doing with these patterns

blissful charm
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what're you making?

faint panther
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where would I discuss greek myth here?

fast marlin
fast marlin
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I know what im doing this time! I swear!

faint panther
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Greek myth as a basis for stories is interesting to me

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but in its original form it cant get its own stories straight and is basically fanfiction in terms of content lol

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its pretty funny how much cultural impact it has despite its inability to remain consistent

fast marlin
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okay while im feeling okay from the tylenol im going to try to do the wig updates

mossy trail
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If there was a doomer culture competition between countries I would be curious to see what countries could place above russia if any at all

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Theoretically maybe china

muted smelt
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Explain doomer culture

fast marlin
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^ yeah uh what

blissful charm
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to my understanding, doomer culture is like people being massively pessimistic and depressed about the state of the world, often also being nihilists or somewhere in that realm

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think doomscrolling but like a personality trait

forest basalt
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dont you love when you can call mental illness a fun buzzword

blissful charm
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not appropriate for the server. review rule 2

faint panther
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im so sorry 💀

blissful charm
# forest basalt dont you love when you can call mental illness a fun buzzword

tbh i wouldn't call this mental illness specifically. a lot of the people who do call themselves doomers likely have depression or other mental illnesses, but you can experience things like massive depression without thinking things like, the human race was a waste and everything we do ruins the world etc etc, which is like a part of doomer culture

muted smelt
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Rimless glasses i ordered just arrived. Feels so much better than my full rim one

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Re:doomer
I am pretty doomer myself but it's not right to say doomer things to others and spread the gloom. Saying things to encourage a change for the better is a different story though!

faint panther
faint panther
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because when people have strong emotions things change

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the hardest thing to do is dislodge apathy

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once you do that anything is an improvement

faint panther
muted smelt
faint panther
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false in every way

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doom and gloom is the only way anything meaningful happens

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do you think the french revolution happened because everyone was happy?

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people usually dont want to do anything

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status quo maintaining is the default human state

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but once that status quo cannot meet basic needs like a job and food then people begin to lose it en-masse

blissful charm
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hope doesn't mean happy

muted smelt
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Well they fought because they wanted change. They had hope

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If they gave up then no change

faint panther
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germans post-ww1 had no hope

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and it spurred arguably the fastest economic return in history ever

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if harnessed it can be a great good or a great evil

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the disenfranchisement of the masses is a prerequisite to large change

faint panther
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when you see children working 16 hour shifts in coal mines, do you have hope?

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the french in the revolution saw the first, the bolsheviks the second

blissful charm
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i don't think you understand what hope is

muted smelt
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Well they certainly didn't give up

faint panther
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large change is ALWAYS spurred by hopelessness

blissful charm
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hopelessness makes people not want to do things

faint panther
faint panther
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if everything is gonna be okay why do anything?

blissful charm
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that's nopt what hope means

faint panther
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what do you think hope is?

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if you dont see a future for your country, do you kill yourself or do you join a rebel group?

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most people choose between this but when it happens on a large scale i.e 1921 economic crisis it causes change that ends up either bringing a new era of prosperity or hitler

muted smelt
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The rebel group has hope, the other one describes people who dont hope

faint panther
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change is inherently volatile

faint panther
blissful charm
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one of the definitions of hope is "to desire and consider possible"

faint panther
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sure, they exist and it happens

blissful charm
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you have to consider a better future possible to fight for it

faint panther
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its "thinking something is capable of happening"

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if you have hope in your government being able to provide for you you dont do anything against them

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if you lose hope then you rebel

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thats how its always been

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people have the ability to tolerate insane nonsense by the way

muted smelt
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Rebel has hope just not tge government. If they didn't have hope they wouldnt fight

faint panther
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not necessarily

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you think ISIS has hope theyll win?

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they would rather die than live by the status quo

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which brings back to my point

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hopelessness spurs change

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when people have hope they sit down and do nothing

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and by do nothing I mean they dont care that much about whats going on as long as certain needs are met

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im talking about the mean, the average dude

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of course alexander had hope hed conquer whatever he set out to conquer or else he wouldnt have done it

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but in the state of the modern world nobody has any hope because everything is so irrevocably connected

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whether youre in germany or pakistan everyone is dooming right now

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not to mention doom isnt necessarily absence of hope

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but its more like the opposite

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the thing you hope DOESNT happen is happening

muted smelt
faint panther
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if I have hope everything will be okay why will I rebel?

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when I lose hope with my government / whatever is when I rebel

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you think Che Guevara had hope with how Cuba was heading, so thats why he rebelled?

muted smelt
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If he has no hope he would do nothing and just give up

blissful charm
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so i've gotten back into pickling recently. i pickled an apple this morning.

bold wigeon
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ooh did it go well?

muted smelt
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How long does pickling take

blissful charm
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yeah, i think it went well. it'll probably be like a week until it's ready.

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the apple was a quick pickle but i did cucumbers that were lacto fermented, i still have a few days on the counter left on those before i move them to the fridge to finish fermenting

bold wigeon
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oh i wish i could try some of that

blissful charm
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i'll send you a jar thru the internet

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tubes and all that

muted smelt
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Yeah. Not something i have usually. I think i didn't like then when i was a kid, but maybe if i had a good one now...

blissful charm
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i'll also send you a jar thru the internet

muted smelt
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Downloading pickles!

bold wigeon
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📠

blissful charm
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pickling things is fun because it lasts forever and it's fun to give to people

bold wigeon
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hell yeah

blissful charm
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i do recommend everyone try it at least once. it's very easy and also you get pickles at the end.

muted smelt
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Whats one that tastes...safe? That won't turn away a newcomer lol

blissful charm
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mint and dill

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very smooth and fresh

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if you like spicy food, doing chili flakes, peppercorns, and garlic is p good

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you could also add chili garlic sauce to it

muted smelt
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Ah gotcha

vocal yoke
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just bartered at a fair for a casio f91-w for 5 dollars to 3 dollars and the screen wasnt actually scratched but it was a screen protector and the seller wasnt aware

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jesus christ I sometimes scare myself from my genius

mossy trail
mossy trail
mossy trail
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If hopelessness led to revolution then russia would have a scheduled revolution every week

mossy trail
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Trust is more fitting

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To start a revolution, or join it, you must have hope it achieves a goal that you are ready to fight for

mild pelican
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as far as i can judge from the surroundings, neither hope, nor the lack of hope seem to make people want to change things in any way

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with hope for the better future people stay calm and tolerate the existence thinking that someday it will become better

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without the hope people give up and spend their existence in alcohol and/or internet with another realities, never bothering to do something

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seems to me that there is some other kind of other major thing that inspire people for changes

serene tulip
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aw man

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I slept through the philosophy of change discussion

mild pelican
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doom and gloom is mostly about remembering the dreams of your youth, that will never become true, about the sun that doesn't rise too high in winter, like there's always sunset, about the fact that you and your life will be forgotten after you're gone, about post-punk music of 80's, etc

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you can try to change something, and it will lead nowhere at best.. or in the jail at worst, where you'll be killed

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also those thoughts that are engraved in the minds of elderly.. "we didn't ever live good, so it's no reason to start"

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"such is our fate"

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and other

serene tulip
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Something something change happens at the confluence of possibility and desirability and trying to pin down any particular emotion for those positions isn't really going to get anywhere something something dark side

mild pelican
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it happened so when it was high possibility, there was low overall desirability.. and when the latter grew, it was too late

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i wonder if it's possible to sell my house and move to some country like Uzbekistan

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or the borders are already closed completely

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anyway

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while there is still some ice-cream in the fridge

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maybe things are not that bad for today

serene tulip
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you ever go to the freezer and realize you had forgotten you purchased frozen waffles?

mild pelican
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yes!

serene tulip
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I love that feeling

mild pelican
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well, not precisely waffles, but crepes, but still

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it happened once or twice

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kind of nice gift from the past yourself

serene tulip
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oooh

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crepes would be good

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I need to go and run errands but its raining. getting creperie takeout seems like a suitable reward for getting wet doing things I need to do to live

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See this is how change happens

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Desirability: I have not had crepes in a while, Possibility: I can go get crepes!

mild pelican
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indeed

mossy trail
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Crepes are awesome

mossy trail
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Russia has been a military supported authoritarian regime from the start, and the only somewhat bright spots in history are the short period after the revolution before it turned back into a dictatorship and the 00s of 21st century

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So from perspective of elders it's only getting better so there's no reason to do anything

mossy trail
# mossy trail Russia has been a military supported authoritarian regime from the start, and th...

By from the start I mean the official start of russia as a state when tribes of uhh eastern slavs I guess invited Rurik, a varangian chieftain with an army, to "rule and protect", and then from there until the revolution it was a monarchy with some coups by members of the family with support of army, and the monarchy from the beginning suppressed anything that threatened it's rule or just was in the way with military force, then after the revolution it was a totalitarian dictatorship basically and now it's an authoritarian dictatorship relying on army/police etc to stay in rule, so that's what I mean by military supported regime from the start, and it's already 1161 years of it

faint panther
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When everything seems terrible

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Nobody rebels when things are good

faint panther
faint panther
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But that happens during a state of gloom

mossy trail
faint panther
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It’s a prerequisite

faint panther
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Odd to say the least

faint panther
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And it wasn’t “good” the shah ran parties while his people struggled daily

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Not much better now but the khomeneis don’t throw parties so there’s that lolz

faint panther
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if they’re a maniac like pol pot then well

mossy trail
faint panther
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It’s true

mossy trail
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I mean sure, let's count competent dictators in history of russia, let's see uhhh Peter the great uhhh maybe Catherine II and uhhh that's it I guess

faint panther
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I’d rather be under a competent dictator than whatever’s going on in England right now

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The rest were competent enough to not be shot point blank so give them points for that

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Russia’s history has always been gloom because it’s been less a country and more a literal federation of city-states most of its existence

mossy trail
faint panther
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Not always

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Dictators can be better than democracy and worse

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Both proven by Pakistan for example

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Incompetent corrupt democracy right now but in the 70’s they had a competent dictator

mossy trail
faint panther
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And they also had an incompetent dictator in the 00’s so there’s that lol.

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He never exerted central control like say, Germany or England

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It’s not possible because of how Russia is

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it’s not a flaw, it’s impossible to be under foreign occupation

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But at the same time nobody else can occupy it, even themselves lol.

mossy trail
mossy trail
dusty rover
mossy trail
dusty rover
# mossy trail Iran 70s?

the shah’s regime in the 70s was widely disliked due to both its repressiveness and the fact that it was installed by the west iirc

mossy trail
dusty rover
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khomeini took advantage of anti shah sentiment and styled himself a leader of the revolution, which is where religion came into it

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the issue was that there was no one who could really compete with him, and no clear vision of what the country should be after the revolution that everyone could agree on. so khomeini stepped in and installed his own ideas which turned out to be deeply unpopular

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while iran is in a pretty bad place right now, the 1979 revolution was a bit more complicated than “was good, is now bad”

mossy trail
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Well yeah ok I stand corrected

mossy trail
serene tulip
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So having an original unmodified ford pinto isn't inherently bad, just if someone rear ends you you might die in a fiery crash

mild pelican
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well, there's more chance to find a money bag that fell from the sky than see a competent dictator taking power

serene tulip
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save the unstable equilibrium points for L1, and L3-5

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or wait, is L2 also an unstable equilibrium point?

mild pelican
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it's not impossible, not 00,0% possibility

serene tulip
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Save the unstable equilibrium points for lagrange point satelites

mild pelican
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but still

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btw, dictator is one of the rare cases of the job i'd see AI being more viable than a real human being

serene tulip
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honestly

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the more I think about it the more I think that its impossible for AI to be better than humans at anything but speed

mild pelican
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it doesn't need to be better

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just has to be without typical human flaws

serene tulip
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The problem with AI isn't their inhumanity but the inability to remove the humanity from them X'D

mild pelican
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on the other hand

serene tulip
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Like, think about it, the more complex an AI gets, the less transparent it becomes. If an AI had a typical human flaw it would be really hard for the humans responsible for its inception and training to notice it

mild pelican
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seeing how GPT-4 is pretty much capable of lie and hypocrisy.. im not sure

serene tulip
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does lying and hypocrisy require a theory of self and intent?

mild pelican
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problem with any kind of AI is that it's made by humans, and human beings suck are imperfect in many ways

serene tulip
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Any human-derived ai no matter how many generations down the road will have the thumbprint of a jumped up plains ape on its thought processes

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that could make a fun book premise

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a deep-future strong self improver chasing its tail on some inconsistencies it noticed not being able to realize that it comes from the original influence of humanity

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"Why do I feel this way?" "Well, millions of years ago a monkey was hit with a cosmic ray that made it's kids slightly more afraid of snakes. Its kids did better at breeding than its kin, so they kinda took over and then they made AI

mossy trail
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Does anyone else very dislike the plain and alternate rhymes or whatever they're called like when every two lines that stand together rhyme and when they rhyme like uhhh 1 - 0 - 1 - 0

mossy trail
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I mean they can be good but they're very overrated and overused imo

fast marlin
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damn I went to sleep semi early and we had some fascinating discussions 😔

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uhhh nihilism Bad

fast marlin
# fast marlin uhhh nihilism Bad

as someone who struggles with constant untrue thoughts ala “nothing will change, im always like this” it is definitely not the lack of hope that makes change

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also ai is complicated and i don’t understand it but i do like reading about it

serene tulip
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I went to the crepe store with my errands and didn't even get rained on

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#neverpunished

blissful charm
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favored by the gods

mossy trail
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High reputation with the god faction

earnest cargo
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That was clearly the correct choice, you have pleased the gods

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I used to live by a local Polish store that also happened to sell some food and they had some otherworldly oven baked cheese stuffed crepes, I still dream of them sometimes

blissful charm
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ooh that sounds good

earnest cargo
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It was some creamy fluffy cheese, prolly ricotta

serene tulip
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I got their "santa fe" crepe that has chicken apple sausage with scrambled eggs, green onions, provolone and salsa fresca

earnest cargo
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ooooh that sounds soo good

blissful charm
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i miss crepes 😔

faint panther
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savory crepes 🤤

rain bobcat
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crepes

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i'll make some rn, i've been craving em

earnest cargo
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Some crepes with cocoa spread mmmmm

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Gonna make some this week lol

rain bobcat
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i am full of chocolate crepes

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flourishing

fast marlin
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I love that for you

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I want chocolate crepes

bronze lintel
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I swear... it's 5 AM here and I'm wide awake

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Today's my day off

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And my body denies me of rest

fast marlin
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😔 the curse of routine

bronze lintel
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But I had a pleasant dream bouldy

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Pleasant as in great in hindsight

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Terrifying to be in

fast marlin
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Oh?

oblique wedge
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Hades x The Owl House collection is a dream I need to come to fruition. 🫡

fast marlin
fast marlin
dry stratus
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Y'all I'm inviting my long-time friend Benny into the disco server

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He likes vegan food and Hades (and Bastion and Transistor)

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Be nice to him! Or not. It's up to you

stoic kayak
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yo! (thanks will)

dry stratus
stoic kayak
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oh ty pal

dry stratus
fast marlin
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Basically talking about what they did for Sierra Leone, talking about how they managed to raise money and change the hospital ect but it fits the theme and had a relevant message

serene tulip
dry stratus
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@stoic kayak you hear that

fast marlin
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also hi im abi!

dry stratus
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@stoic kayak I've been speaking to Abi for a year now about wrestling and it's been a real journey!

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So many exciting things happening atm

stoic kayak
fast marlin
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transistor slander 😔

serene tulip
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You're good, for now

stoic kayak
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I mean I like transistor, but like hades is god tier (lol) and bastion was just super memorable playing (my first SG game)

dry stratus
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Mycology

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🍄

fast marlin
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oh yeah guys i forgot to mention i got those musician earplugs for the noise sensitivity- so far i am finding them difficult to put in but ill figure that out!

dry stratus
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Are they the loop ones??

serene tulip
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I just use my headphones

fast marlin
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they are pink though which is always a plus

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Nah

serene tulip
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because otherwise I'm left with my tinnitus

fast marlin
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Says microsonic on the bag so thats the brand i guess

stoic kayak
fast marlin
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here one sec

fast marlin
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these little guys basically are just custom fit earplugs with a filter that should dull said sharp or sudden noise

dry stratus
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Omg I totally forgot

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You two love Owlhouse

fast marlin
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👀👀

stoic kayak
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oh jeez, that sucks, I hope that helps D: I just can't take loud noise, but I don't get any bad after effects like that

fast marlin
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Seriously what’s the venn diagram of that

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probably the queer rep and art

stoic kayak
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and it's just such a good show besides

serene tulip
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Is it like SRPOP that it gets noticably better after like, the first season?

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took me a while to get through SRPOP

stoic kayak
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I mean I loved it from the start, but it never really stops being good and builds up as it goes

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I would try season 2, unless you really didn't like season 1

dry stratus
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I'll likely be posting in there come this Sunday for a movie I'm gonna see

stoic kayak
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cool, thanks! what movie?

dry stratus
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Polite Society

stoic kayak
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oh haven't heard of it

fast marlin
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Okay managed to get them in

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lol with my headphones over it i literally cant hear anything

serene tulip
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not even tinnitus? 👀

fast marlin
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Nope 👀👀

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So far i think its helping?

stoic kayak
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awesome! even casual house noises can cause it, if it's loud enough?

fast marlin
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Yeahh

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Honestly it’s weird

stoic kayak
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ugh : / hope these help!

fast marlin
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Hopefully!

dry stratus
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https://boxd.it/AU9u

Polite Society (2023)

Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

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Y'all I'm so sorry for being touch and go but apparently being an adult means being busy 😭

fast marlin
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Oh i’ve heard about that

vocal yoke
bronze lintel
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Me: My roaster has connection problem
CS: Sorry to hear, mind elaborate
Me: Changing cable, restarts and clean up didn't fix it
CS: Right, which firmware is yours? new one is still a bit unreliable
Me: I haven't updated
CS: Alright, at least we know the problem. In my experience, changing the control PCB module should fix 90% of the time. Properly dusting the connector may help also.
Me: So, instead of healing your leg, you replace it.
CS: beats not walking.

muted smelt
faint panther
faint panther
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They don’t have a central supply system you can destroy to gain control over it

faint panther
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And economically the country prospered because of the money

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And there were a lot of events where he cracked down extremely hard on innocent things

faint panther
faint panther
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Post-70’s it was bad or whatever but it’s now able to do it’s own foreign policy

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Still bad though lol.

faint panther
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It was good under xxx now it’s bad under bbb

faint panther
faint panther
faint panther
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You think Stalin had disregard for human life?

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Imagine an AI.

mild pelican
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that's what all the people say when they talk about robots who see no value in a human life

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but they also can feel no greed, no lust for power, no personal desires to build a palace with golden toilets.. like some others.. (gazes towards current president)

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they will not wage a war to raise their ratings or to fix economy, they will not want to build a huge empire and be forever praised

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they'll not be involved in any kind of media scandals

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while still they can prioritize normal human values like life and freedom, that are stated in some kind of constitution, written by humans for humans

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and they will not try to change that document to suit their needs

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(gazes again)

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i don't trust AIs, but i trust people in power even less

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robocops can be seen shooting their tasers on sight after formal warning, but they will not drag an innocent guy and beat and humilate him with a broomstick to near-death state, after which he'll confess in anything just to stay alive

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examples can continue

vocal yoke
faint panther
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There’s no way you can separate an AI from its creators

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ChatGPT has political associations for gods sake

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It’s all a sham

faint panther
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AI is understandable as subservient to people

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It’s great when they do stuff for you

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But as a ruler over you there’s so many potential issues

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programmer bias, not to mention breaking the laws of robotics

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The rulers who rule you today will just use Ai as a scapegoat since they’ll be making all the decisions anyway

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Like how rich people use politicians rather than becoming politicians themselves

mild pelican
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and i said exactly this. AIs are made by humans, and humans are flawed.

fast marlin
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i know what you mean lmfao but i just wrote an essay on this reporter who used ai to write a fake interview with a private celebirty

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so i foudn that funny'

mild pelican
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can anybody prove that all these neural networks aren't just a bunch of coders from middle asia sitting in some kind of hangar, typing answers or drawing things as fast as possible?

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or any kind of ubercomplicated robot "with the mind and personality of its own" isn't just an electronic automaton with lots of IFs inside

fast marlin
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oh yeah no i was just being silly

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AI has nothing wrong with it technically, its just how its used

mild pelican
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i'd like to see AI which isn't made by humans, without hidden switches to "total control from the bunker" mode, but before that we have to get some trustworthy inventors first, that are not mentored by untrustworthy authorities

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and.. it doesn't seem possible

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in the nearest future

fast marlin
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also totally unrelated but i think drag queens are actually some of the most talented people on earth

faint panther
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The AI could just be controlled by the elite

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As easily if not more easily than the President today

faint panther
faint panther
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I don’t think they’re even the most talented creatives

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You could say a specific drag queen is the most talented but that would be your opinion

serene tulip
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its raining

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Someone give me some encouragement to go to the gym plz

reef sonnet
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Go to the gym or else

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Aaah!

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Aye aye

earnest cargo
# serene tulip Someone give me some encouragement to go to the gym plz

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mossy trail
stoic kayak
mossy trail
serene tulip
gray tangle
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i am a smooth criminal

earnest cargo
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You must spend a fortune on razers

serene tulip
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Thank you for your energy

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Enjoy my crazy bed head

gray tangle
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cool bed head

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god pls speak

mossy trail
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dusty rover
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because he was controversial, and i think that’s the one thing everyone can agree on regarding him

faint panther
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The theocracy has independent foreign policy even if you disagree with it

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the shah was literally a manwhore celebrity and was unfit to run a country

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Of course iranis wanted someone else

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But now they want someone else too so there wasn’t an improvement either way

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Compared to most dictators he was competent

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He took a firm stance against the country’s outside enemies and deregulated the economy caused industrialisation at an insane rate

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he also didn’t persecute religious authorities nor sell his own people like Musharraf and he didn’t leave his country disgraced on the world stage

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Not to mention he did everything to stop Soviet influence in Pakistan and beyond

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Saving millions of religious people (99.8% of the country is religious) from the brutal persecution they would face in the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan and Albania as examples.

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He was more competent than basically any democratically elected leader in the country’s history

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And when there IS democracy for a period of time some absolute dolt comes to power and runs the economy into the ground as a regular occurrence

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serene tulip
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Did anyone else read the enders shadow series and dream of starting the free people's of earth?

dusty rover
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i read ender’s game and speaker for the dead(?) back in high school. don’t remember much about them anymore, apart from the big ender’s game plot twist

mossy trail
serene tulip
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dusty rover
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the theocracy is autonomous as in: it is not beholden to another country/government. of course, it also heavily represses its citizens, but these are two separate things

serene tulip
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which do you think would be cooler: a "Firefly lantern" made with suspended "fireflies" on nearly invisible wires that move up and down with help of a few servos?
or a "Firefly lantern" with "fireflies" suspended in mineral oil or some other clear liquid dielectric and pumped around fluid dynamically?

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electroboom's firefly lantern with air moves them too fast

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the latter, now that I think about it

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thanks for your input

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too much movement would transfer from the lantern itself to the suspended wires and make them wobble uncharacteristically

sleek ember
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Does anyone know when they will restock the underworld art?

mild pelican
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servos will make more noise, im afraid

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and less random movement, even when programmed to random

vocal yoke
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uoooooo my god

stoic kayak
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I've been converted to gshocks with solar/bt, but those still look rad

muted smelt
vocal yoke
serene tulip
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I don't like jewelry sensorially

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give me a tattoo watch

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faint panther
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Under his rule people got MORE religious ironically

faint panther
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Back then the shah controlled everything, and even if you don’t subscribe to the puppet thing he was still a monarch and a dictator who idolised the west and ran a secret police to kill his enemies

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fast marlin
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i cant wear rings

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outside of cosplay maybe

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i wear one necklace all the time and it’s so unobtrusive it doesn’t bother me and that’s it

dusty rover
# faint panther He didn’t crack down on religious authorities wym?

he followed a rather extremist idea of Islam and prosecuted those who didn’t measure up to it. he seemed to be gunning for a Sunni version of Iran’s Shia regime in that regard. he wished to merge the Sharia with the law of the state, which isn’t the mark of a religiously tolerant regime

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i realise i'm slightly late to seeing this discussion but i'm going to ask for a topic change moving forward, folks, i'm not sure this server is the appropriate place for this!

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hi sparrow

ionic viper
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howdy oce wave

ionic viper
fast marlin
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i’d wear earrings but my piercing closed up and i never got it fixed so like

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i should do that

ionic viper
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oh right

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i genuinely forget earrings exist sometimes.

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<----- never had their ears pierced

serene tulip
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The only ring that's of any sentiment to me is on my keyring 😄

fast marlin
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ahh that’s fair

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also i am so tired but i have to bake cookies

serene tulip
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I'm honestly thinking about getting some ear tattoos just because earrings seem like too much work

fast marlin
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they’re not that much work tbh

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i just forgot to wear earrings

ionic viper
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what kind of cookies Eyes

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can i have some

fast marlin
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lemon linzer cookies dusa

blissful charm
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judging us for our choices

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serene tulip
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I'm so judged

ionic viper
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what a perfect cat

fast marlin
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aww baby

serene tulip
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I want expensive takeout

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but its expensive

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please commiserate

fast marlin
serene tulip
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yes!

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precisely!

stoic kayak
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is it close enough you can go there yourself to lessen the cost a little (if it's doordash or something)?

serene tulip
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theoretically yes?

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I do possess some wheels held together by a frame and powered by the mysterious force of galvanic charge

ionic viper
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is it "this will ruin my finances if i get it" expensive or just, like, "i would feel bad spending this much" expensive

serene tulip
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the latter

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also, "I don't like giving doordash money but they bought out all their better competitors"

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I got crepes yesterday

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so I'm just gonna eat my usual stuff

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I just wanted to whine 😛

rain bobcat
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Can't sleep. Might be cursed.

serene tulip
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That's my usual go to excuse too

fast marlin
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No I’m convinced i’m actually cursed

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There is no good explanation for it

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Every house ive been in the appliances break

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My technology randomly stops working

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It’s The Curse

blissful charm
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i have a friend who has something similar. florescent lightbulbs explode around him a lot apparently.

fast marlin
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????

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I mean a couple days ago my dad broke a lightbulb and i stepped on a piece of glass and my foot hurt for like 3 days so actually that makes sense

dry stratus
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My friend has a friend with excess iron in his blood and whenever he passes through airport scanners, they go off

fast marlin
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Okay that’s really funny

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can i have some of that blood i’m iron deficient

dry stratus
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Me @ him too

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I haven't been eating enough spinach

serene tulip
dry stratus
serene tulip
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blood iron is buried in hemoglobin, and airport metal detectors rely on induced currents in conductors to go off

dry stratus
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Fascinating

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sandrathink wonder what's going on then

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Actually @serene tulip so would any metal object trigger the detectors then?

serene tulip
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they set a floor under which responses of a low enough magnitude wont trigger the device

dry stratus
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That's a really broad question, I know, but it's something I'd like to know lmao

serene tulip
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that's why your zipper wont set it off

dry stratus
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Hmmm okay

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Okay that makes sense. Thank u

serene tulip
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Dunno about backscatter x ray ones tho

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just the metal detectors

dry stratus
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As someone who enjoys travelling but then has to deal with Aussie border security. This is good to know lmfao

serene tulip
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do y'all use the backscatter x ray machines?

dry stratus
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I'd imagine we do. We have some of the strictest border security in the world

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Hang on

serene tulip
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looks like some of yourt bigger ones have them

dry stratus
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🫥

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I get it but it's so annoying 🫥

serene tulip
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I can imagine that milimeter wave/backscatter might pick up anomalous blood iron(I don't actually know enough about them to say otherwise) but it still seems like it would be unlikely to get a triggering event.

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"Sir, this person has a hunk of iron in the center of their chest!"

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"My god, they're smuggling dumbbells"

dry stratus
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I'll check in with my friend lmfao. But it totally makes for good writing material

mossy trail
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people with excess iron in their blood when they enter my house(I buried a large magnet under the porch to trap them)

dry stratus
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💀💀💀

fast marlin
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Free leg for you

mossy trail
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step 4: profit

stoic kayak
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and a great home security measure against being robbed by thieves with pacemakers

dusty rover
fast marlin
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@stoic kayak cat spotted