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You have to admire the dedication this father has to damaging the development of his child.
ZDL
51m ago
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Surely you meant impedance?
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52m ago
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Justice for money, what can you say? We all know it's the American way! — Styx, "Half-Penny Two-Penny"
ZDL
1d ago
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But there's no such thing as "politically neutral".
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2d ago
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Most political slurs ("tankie", "Nazi", "fascist", "communist", "leftist", "liberal", "centrist", etc.), if they ever even start from a position of actually knowing what the words mean, rapidly transform into a general slur that means "someone that I disagree with who's in a different political tribe from me".
ZDL
2d ago
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They are, yes.
ZDL
2d ago
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I'm not going to name them. The point of this isn't to expose which instances I dislike, but rather to show that every instance has its fans and its antifans.
ZDL
2d ago
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Whichever instance you choose, someone will have complaints about it. Personally I don't have issues with .ml, but there are quite a few "tech"-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.
It's all a question of which subset of human stupidity you're willing to deal with. Because all humans are stupid, we're just different in how and where we express it.
ZDL
2d ago
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They're supposed to help it cross to the other side.
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2d ago
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We have naturally summoned eggsorcists.
It's quite a fowl spirit, I'm led to understand.
ZDL
3d ago
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His what now?
ZDL
3d ago
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I'm pretty sure OP knows this, but some of the replies? Wow.
The Chaser is a parody news site, just to be clear. It's a really funny one, and just like good parody anywhere it strikes close to home. But it's not actual reportage (more's the pity).
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Again, you're so close to the truth but your bigotry blinds you.
Which is hilarious, to me, coming from a person on a German server.
But hey, it's not as if Germany has a history of intense bigotry or anything.
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3d ago
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His behaviour indicates that it clearly does matter to him.
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3d ago
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Like the promising announcements of full autonomy? Like the promising announcements of … well pretty much everything Apartheid Manchild has announced ever?
ZDL
3d ago
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You're so close to getting it, and then you turn away from it at the last second.
So yes, you're bigoted. Very bigoted. Much like the people who were spouting off about "cheap Japanese goods" in the '70s and '80s were. And their related ones doing the same for Taiwan and Korea later. And now China.
Or, you know, the ones spouting off about "cheap German goods" before that.
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This specific one? Not yet. But there is a rather long history of nations, including the USA, using seemingly harmless items to target people for assassination, etc.
And an even longer history of the USA dropping bombs on civilians willy-nilly.
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I would think it's pretty obvious? I'm saying it's not particularly centralized.
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The big issue is the typical issue of survivorship bias. For obvious reasons they can only study the PAWs who are, you know, successful PAWs. So one of their claims is PAWs are willing to take economic risks if the return is high.
But what about the people who took economic risks and had it collapse under them? They'd be UAWs by their nomenclature ... yet they did a PAW thing.
In reality you learn more about what led people to failure than enumerating the things that supposedly led to people's success.
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In the same place you assumed I lived outside of it, I presume.
Hence their name: the Minutemen.
futurism.com
> "Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car, or do you not want the best car?" *[Apartheid Manchild]* told audiences at an event in November. Well, for starters I don't want a car at all. I'd rather use public transit. You know, an actually **effective** means of reducing emissions. If I were in the market, yes, I would want the best car. Which is why I'd never buy a Tesla. I'd buy an XPeng or a BYD or the like.
www.theverge.com
Except the bill never does come due, does it? Apartheid Manchild has been peddling bullshit for decades, proven bullshit, often proven ***while he was peddling it*** and he's never called out on it by anybody influential.
"Just one of them managed to ruin the sky for everyone. The sky."
Cody's Showdy has a little romp over the Cybertruck.
I honestly have no idea how they pulled it off.
* 22 Sep (Sun) - Greg * 23 Sep (Mon) - Ian * 24 Sep (Tue) - Greg * 25 Sep (Wed) - Ian * 26 Sep (Thur) - Greg * 27 Sep (Fri) - Ian * 28 Sep (Sat) - Greg ...the Gregorian calendar!
HUGE collections of Spanish, Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean propaganda. Here are some samples.           This is a very small sampling.
[I already showed one of mine](https://ttrpg.network/post/9974154), but here's another. This is a 莫兰迪 (Mòlándí) brand and it's ... ah ... decidedly inexpensive. Everything you see in this picture (the brush with suction reservoir, 50 ink cartridges, ten copybook pages for calligraphy practice) cost the equivalent of about $1.40. After shipping. That being said, though cheap, the only part that's chintzy is the really badly plated plastic of the brush mount and the little plated plastic disks top and bottom. The cap and barrel are decent metal with fairly good what seems to be electrostatic vapour deposition coloration. (I chose "champagne" coloured.) Disappointingly, though the barrel is long enough for it, something inside of it prevents putting a spare ink cartridge inside of it. It will only hold one. It has one advantage over the linked one, however: it's long enough that I can use the standard grip for Chinese calligraphy making it a perfect practice pen to carry with me. (Carrying a traditional pen and an inkstone is not practical.) This means I'm likely to start learning how to do it soon.
I've had this one for a while, but am looking to get some more because the entire concept tickles me pink.  
For me it was "Hollyhock God" from *Nobilis*. Why do game designers do this? Does anybody, anywhere, actually use these weird terms while actually playing?
…because they take everything literally.
www.economist.com
The funniest line from social media: > "Maybe it's because we don't need a computer to automate mansplaining when there's already an excess supply produced by men," answers one woman.  
[This is a Pixelfed post for further information.](https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/559201471896821472) TL;DR summary: Wooden barrels with machined brass section adapters and caps.
The "ethnocentric" in the title is coded language¹. It was triggered by a [paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03570-9)² I just stumbled over but is the product of by now over two decades of observation (and, to be fair, festering resentment). I bring attention to a key phrase in the conclusion of this otherwise meandering and unclear paper: > Thus, we suggest that policymakers in China consider emphasizing more on the reciprocity benefits and build a collaborative effort across the scientific community. What. A. Coincidence. A study published in the (western) journal³ *Humanities and Social Sciences Communications* comes to the conclusion that the **Chinese** government needs to emphasize the benefits of open data sharing. Yet the very same culture that preaches loudly "open data sharing" and other such nigh-utopian ideals, in a stunning example of "do what I say, not what I do" also practices the precise opposite. For example the Chinese are [specifically barred from cooperation in space ventures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Amendment)⁴ with anything that NASA is affiliated with (which is, essentially, all space ventures and most such conferences). This is not, however, just the USA and just China. Canada (my nation of citizenship), for example, routinely issues thundering condemnation of any nation that treats indigenous peoples badly (unless that nation is aligned with Canada, in which case Japan's treatment of the [Ainu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people#Ethnic_rights) and Taiwan's treatment of their [assorted indigenous groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_indigenous_peoples) gets passed over with an embarrassed cough) while it treats its own indigenous peoples in ways that are positively shocking even to this day, despite the facade of rapprochement. (Keep in mind that the last of Canada's horrific [residential schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system) was closed in ***1997***—I was 31 years old at the time!—and that in Canada being a native means you are not a "visible minority", a term fraught with its own weird baggage.) And you'll find similar ethnocentric, hypocritical bullshit all over the west, even down to all the (*well-deserved*!) official condemnation of Hamas over the October 2023 attacks while standing by in embarrassed silence as Israel commits open genocide both in and out of Gaza starting well before October 2023 and continuing to this day. So... My current view is that western powers are a large collection of hypocritical twats whose views can and should be safely ignored by other peoples of the world as far as is possible when so many (chiefly) American guns and bombs are pointed at them threateningly. Change my view. --- ¹ Decoding it: "white supremacist". ² https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03570-9 ³ Yes the primary authors are Chinese in Chinese universities. [There](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex) are [reasons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandering_(politics)) for [this](https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2018/05/16/communicating-respect-know-your-audience/). ⁴ The fact that this has backfired, both directly and indirectly, on the USA multiple times is a never-ending source of amusement to me.