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10,040karma·2,605submissions·May 27, 2017
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I always wonder how many caught up in these federal mass firings voted for Trump. I can't imagine they could've foreseen this outcome. USAID was probably a stronghold of Dem voters, but what…
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Brought to mind Isaac Asimov's Nightfall, about a world where the stars only appear every thousand years or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRJO4dYZ4NQ …
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Thanks. I needed this today.
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So just men of property, right? Preferably also only direct descendants of Magna Carta signatories.
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This was the "normalize Indian-hate" guy.
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Lord of the Rings doesn't dwell on the day-to-day details of how the various kingdoms functioned, and yet it's still a great story.
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I got all my sisters with me.
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Demonstration of power? We don't even know if it worked.
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Just like in the movies!
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Creators will never accept it.
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*Yudkowsky.
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Here's one for There's Something About Mary (1998), if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqW_uPlCH0 …
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>IOC Immediate or cancel?
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But also a bit more reliable.
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Also interesting is his Notes On The Gambia, which for some reason is the premier destination for female sex tourism: https://mattlakeman.org/2023/07/10/notes-on-the-gam…
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>where it's theoretically faster but not actually faster when run on real hardware Aka a galactic algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm …
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It's not a downturn, it's a trade war, complete with effective blockade.
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Extra History's Bronze Age Collapse series is a good watch right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMP328eU5Q …
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Hold on to your culos.
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Call for a good time.
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Comment cited here: https://www.themotte.org/post/1827/culture-war-roundup-for-t... …