Raison d'État

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What critter is the jaw from?

You'd be carrying on about nothing, then :p A common enough predilection here

Pretend Israel: "a safe refuge for the Jewish People" Actual Israel: https://mastodon-media.neometropolis.net:27892/media_attachments/files/116/768/...

Try a bit less choke, if its flooded

Fish-lips and plastic eyelashes look less human than even the "condom full of walnuts" look of roid-ragers. But in both cases, the modified ones can ...

Yup. And the direct payments are a drop in the ocean compared to the indirect - esp full access to US research, and no consequences for copying and s...

...and Merz's place in the Epstein Files is still redacted. Disloyalty might distract the DoJ redactors. They might slip up, y'know. And that would b...

I can haz?

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Just work stuff. My current employer is reasonable-ish about unpaid overtime, but most are not, here. 60 hours is more typical, but of course only pai...

They are stupid, the mainstream media still talking about it are not. They are distracting, successfully, from the two Middle Eastern wars we are fun...

LOL fair enough then. You can be the flare drawing missiles away from the aircraft!

Just like their peers... :)

True. But "disbelievers in democracy thinking the elite care if you don't vote" look exactly the same to me. Its like hearing an atheist say they do...

Can you give us a real-world example of a Socialist state with actual worker ownership of the means of production? I can give you many examples of So...

Putting in a lot of carob trees, but mostly just to provide shade and drought-fodder for sheep. Potatoes, leaf vegetables and fruit trees for persona...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3F8WY-WW7Y

IKR... I had to stop her from taking out a high-interest loan to pay off that drained credit card. Loaned her the $ myself interest free, but on the p...

I have a friend who fell for an SMS version of that exact scam. She lost six months salary. She's a clever little thing usually, but if she sees "fre...

Britain. Its like "Lemon Socialism" and Sir Francis Drake had a baby...

Brand recommendation match what I hear; recommended capacities seem implausibly low for 2026. Match the surge watt rating to at least 10x the maximum...

Vapour-cycle AC refrigerators damage inverters whenever their compressors kick in, due to inrush surge and then back-EMF. Fitting a soft-starter helps...

Culture, I think. My French ex used to complain bitterly about being hit on all day long on holiday in Italy. But then she also despised Scandinavi...

Awwww, congratulations! Very cute couple :)

https://patents.google.com/?q=(farm+truck)&oq=farm+truck Oh yes, they do. And tax-victim-funded state violence is available to make IP-victims pay up...

Headline is blatantly insincere - there are non-intermittent renewables - hydro and geothermal. They also happen to be the most mature renewable techn...

Compost likes it hot and wet, but regularly turned and aerated. Add 5% clay and/or biochar to adsorb the nutrients and make them "slow release". A lo...

The only problem with this plan is that there are as many socialists on the Right as the Left. "Confessions of a Monopolist" describes their method...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial

Nukes, gas, and/or "gain of function research". Would be worth it for Israel, not so much for the USA, not even the political class.

Report it... Web of Trust requires eternal vigilance...

Report it, ppl. Web of Trust requires eternal vigilance

Very good question, and in many cases, the answer is "not sure, the only surviving written records are from their Statist enemies". Paleontology does...

I own an opensource OSMC/Kodi box, but I rarely use it. It needs LAN access, though, for the "remote" app. Commercial "smart" TVs give me "the willie...

GM Rasha! I like the meme, its a sentiment we don't see expressed very often in this day and age!

Anything can be smuggling if you don't have US Treasury Department permission :D

Protecting them from happy customer reviews? We've all come across organisational staff who will do almost anything to prevent a sale (that would mea...

GM, Rasha!

GM, Rasha!

Have you read Orlov's "Five Stages of Collapse"?

That's a big question, and regen agriculture can be only a very small part of any answer. I don't have a full answer myself.

TBF, the Jewish State at that time was engaged in genocide of all its minorities and most of its neighbours. Simon ben Kokhba was really not very nic...

LOL well I bought a RISC-V dev board, but haven't actually done anything with it except make sure it powers on. Will be putting my own Buildroot-base...

Buy land, but don't sell your whole stack for it. Land can be easily extorted or confiscated by the State. Plan your ownership structure in advance, ...

Testosterone is also important for keeping calm, for restraining aggression, and for directing it against actually-deserving targets. Endocrinology b...

Lower testosterone => higher insincerity and fakeness That might explain 90% of the difference between the WW2 generation and today in one metric!

Tor helps, but you need to keep it p2p and noKYC

"Search for the Hero" lol I had a buddy in HS who was a huge fan of her. He came out as gay later, and I was the only person surprised.

That's how one constructs a lifelong "therapeutic relationship"... Business is business

Normies disagree. Some of their conspiracy theories would be hilarious if not so sad...

Eastern Browns are #2 in the world for venom, but nobody told them yet :D If you disturb a Brown sunbathing, he's like: "Sorry Sir, I didn't know ...

My farm only gets Eastern Browns :( No lottery tickets for me!

Abliterate, abliterate. This is why I prefer to suffer the frustration of stupid 7B models I can run locally...

Government gonna government. What I like about SA (compared to my government) is how peacably SA just abandons communities on the political periphery...

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Madiba founded a terrorist organisation, and travelled Africa soliciting weapons for it. He had his reasons, of course, but to portray him as nonviol...

I just love those cute little national caricatures! So expressive. Anyone know how they were done? Which AI? Prompts?

Power and evil always dress up in ideology, though. They're afraid to be seen in public without it. I don't expect AnCap communities to last long in...

Its cute when they act shocked

Arrrr, me hearties! Somalia, its only wrong when you do it.

Spanish ppl survived Pedro II, you will survive these muppets too.

Almost. In the case of black holes and nation-states, its not the size so much as whether it is _growing_ that predicts its fate. The mass of a bla...

Not an AnCap, but I don't see how involving the government in that transaction would make it better in any way. I can easily imagine both parties dyin...

Matthew 27:25 still underway...

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Yes AI government. Then we disconnect the datacenters :D

I agree with all of that, except the last paragraph. Recombination in new patterns is as important as divergence and specialisation. It just shouldn...

Hahaha one wall of my living room is all bookshelves. Some were secondhand, but more are from when I couldn't pirate an ebook of something, so I order...

Fair. My suggestion would not be just.

Along with mercury, silver, tin and copper. Just read up :p Who says morbid sh-tposting can't be educational?

Dental fillings

Hmmmm, partial disagree. '38 was the time. Any earlier he would have become Germany's Joan d' Arc, any later the wheels were already in motion...

The Koch bros were always hypocrites, but because they apply their values selectively, not because they're incorrect. The ultra-rich and a few fat ca...

I have no tattoos. Not immutably opposed to the idea, but I have always been mindful that they are forever, and I never found a message I was sure I...

#Ollama, people! Use it. Keep your AI and all its data on your own hardware. 7B models run smooth and snappy on my crappy ten-year-old graphics card...

Excellent advice. I'd also suggest paying by untraceable means wherever possible. When dealing with normies, that's usually cash. Helping others to p...

"Half the range" is simply untrue. You need to expend energy to transport your energy, range has a negative exponent.

Milei only LARPed as a libertarian when campaigning, and flipped back to "Conservative" (Socialist but with a generous helping of nepotism and graft) ...

The American people won then, as well as the Iranians :D

Dosage and quality control are key, and Prohibition militates against both. I've had MDMA maybe ten times in my life, never once experienced the cras...

Deep question, good thoughts. I think small numbers of people make inexplicable choices all them time, but when something goes mainstream it is usual...

Vote harder, Americans lol

What a ridculous grift! Nobody is mining #Bitcoin commercially with GPUs on Earth, what a fraudulent comparison. ASICs on Earth can run cooler, fo...

A professor friend rang me earlier. He's utterly clueless about nearly anything outside his specialty. I can tell him that and he takes it well, but t...

Trolling and distracting, I think

Yes, bootloader alone can set kernel swappiness level, but you get whole menus of blinkenlights if you compile it :)

Its set in a postapoc AI dystopia. Feels a lot less like scifi now, and more like tomorrow's news l anding page.

We live in a society that judges the former but rarely the latter...

Won't the certificate headers still be visible to peeping toms?

Awesome

Someone needs to give those lads modern MANPADS

There are ~40 governments trusted to sign certificates by major operating systems.. For them, HTTPS is trivial to MitM unless you're pinning certs

Yes, but unless your IP & domain are at the top of the "nice" (rich and well-connected corporate) lists, your sent mail isn't going to be delivered.

They will understand the risks if and only if the news and analysis of the stablecoin collapse becomes part of the next generation of model's training...

The convoy had a broken headlight. And - oh look - another one! Lets see what you got in the back there boys...

The debasement was the trigger, for sure, but it was sustained by a number of things, especially a collapse in investor confidence.

I think you may be right :( When you say a shrinkage of human purchasing power, you mean the share of GDP going to workers will shrink. Or rather, th...

Provision of excuses to those who want to commit evil has always been the most profitable part of organised religion...

"On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu." "Kill one man, and you a...