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I had to factory reset my phone the other day and today I forgot to put the calculator app back on. Being able to use that feels like such a basic tool that all phones should have...but android does not. Outside of calling and texting using the mini-computer in your pocket is what makes these things "smart".

Once upon a time I had known a channel that delivered news from a communist perspective in spanish, but it's been a while and I've forgotten it. Can anybody help remind me, or give me new recommendations?

Trying to find a Spanish-speaking anticapitalist medication management provider in Florida for my referral network

Any Cuban-American folks who can provide more insight on what this response might imply? It feels a bit dismissive, but I want to believe he just didn't want to be too explicit in writing

I'm aware that the best defense is the threat of total annihilation to any country or group that shoots a missile at north America.

Consequences and strategic viability aside, what would happen if one, two, or a true promise number of missiles were launched at Ottawa? Is it that they would need to take an orbital trajectory and as such would be defended by similarly launched defenses?

What about the UK? Are there THAAD batteries dotting the perimiter of london just hidden?

Or is it just one of those fun illusions of safety that could be broken by a sufficiently determined group?

I (probably obviously) don't know anything about the military beyond stuff posted in the news mega

Some otherwise very well-informed comrades of mine have invited me to an AI-related groupchat where they discuss all matters LLM but one thing that really dominates the discussions is doomerism about how we're getting Skynet any second now or how LLM's are the first step to the machine that turns our blood into paperclips.

I've studied computer science but I'm by no means an AI expert or anything. I just have a hard time seeing the development going from these glorified autocorrect functions to AGI or "real" AI or whatever.

When I bring up problems generated by "AI" in the here and now that worry me (environmental impacts, loss of jobs, the obvious bubble etc.) they agree with me, but then often pivot to AI safety issues and they mention Yudkowsky a lot. I read some of his Harry Potter fanfic a few years ago and listened to a TrueAnon episode about some futurist doomer cult or something in which his name came up, that's basically all I know about him.

Can someone explain what this dude's deal is?

(either before Maduro kidnapping, after, or both)

I think this whole fiasco will become an issue with the Republican stamp on it, when really both Obama and Biden were 'tough on Venezuela'

For example,

"Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro," reads Biden's June 20, 2020, post on X, then known as Twitter. "As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy."

In January 2025, the Biden administration upped the bounty on Maduro to $25 million.

I would rather not let the Democrats off the hook for this one, so ITT we post their actions too.

literally unusable if you don't want to be seen as an illiterate chatgpt monger. so depressing. I'm tired of using semi colons and commas in their stead, they're just too clunky in certain situations. burn the data centers down. fuck and when all actual writers have switched over, like I have (not calling myself a writer fyi), then the ai will just start using those instead. nothing good comes from generative, recreational ai. opium crisis of our times, no use. genuinely, no use. fuck them all. fuck the child herder elon and his (possibly) bastard son peter thiel. karp fuck you too

Ignoring the obvious reason of why that's not going to happen (nukes and mutually assured destruction, etc).

But just for fun, what would these Russiagate perverts do if it became super obvious that Trump opposed Russia?

If Trump announced plans to invade, would they still try to find some way to keep asserting he's some kind of Russian spy?

Will they ever read a history book and find out that the Soviet Union ended and Russia has been capitalist for decades?

Are Russiagate libs blue Qanon?

These are the questions that keep me up at night.

I tested out a few swings of a baseball bat onto some rice, and then I started to verbally degrade it. It was okay, but kinda plain.

I then tried oobleck, but it got too dense to physically abuse.

Any tips?

I'm reading Red Plenty with a book club of mostly libs, and my job is to keep my temper down and also know more than everyone else about central planning.

I don't have time to read a book on it, ideally like a good article or something.

It should have been me, not them. If I just owned the mods hard enough in debate, maybe they could have been saved.

Libs are bad for my health dawg

I'm admittedly pretty ignorant about the whole thing

How is it gonna help me increase shareholder value ?

Specifically how it's structure was formed and how the Bolsheviks spread the revolution across such a large area. Does anyone have any lib-free resources on the mechanics of the revolution?

I imagine he would just blurt out loud to the kids "they hit the tower! And we're gonna have a war! They'll burn and regret attacking us!"

There's a video of a random traffic stop there. An ICE pig said "This is gonna be your one and final warning." He's clearly not a native speaker. I don't know when the video was taken. I assume within the last few days. The screengrab is a bit later. Bearded Pig got out of one of the cars and then he sauntered over to the car they were hassling. It's obvious but I think it's still worth pointing out he's maskless. He doesn't give a fuck and that scares me.

I think ICE can barely contain their rabid desire to start shooting and murdering more people in broad daylight on the street.

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New link - https://subium.com/profile/noturtlesoup17.bsky.social/post/3mc3pkyculk2j

Catbox is - cough - poop. The vid doesn't work. I reupped the vid but that link doesn't work either. Sigh.

Old link - Catbox - https://files.catbox.moe/orckrc.mp4

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Is this accurate?

That dude has a Spanish first language accent. [...] The inflection at the end of sentences gives it away.

I'm broke atm(probably for a long time.) I'm not serious about buying anything right now, but the next time I come across money way into the future, I will need to buy stuff. I'm most focused on learning how to buy clothing from OEMs. I will not be buying accessories first thing, but I'm still interested in how to window shop for them to learn how to buy them later on. How do you find single items from OEMs of both, luxury and non-luxury brands?

For those who haven't heard about OEMs, idk much, but I saw both, Chinese manufacturers and customers talk in video shorts about how you can buy things like a genuine Hermes purse for $2. (Idc about Hermes purses, but they stated something important.) From my memory of what the people on social media keep saying: Workers in China start and finish the genuine designer product. Then it's shipped to a different country where they apply the logo... If they apply the logo in Italy, it will say "Made in Italy." If the logo is applied in France, it will say "Made in France." Even if it's all made in China minus the logo. That logo is what you're paying hundred to thousands for. The product alone without the logo is much cheaper. You can buy high quality designer goods for cheap from OEMs.

Tl;dr: People on social media have shared that you can buy logo-less genuine designer clothes and accessories for little money if you buy it straight from original manufacturers in China.

I know that Ukraine is not the good guys. I'm looking for books on how the war started and why it continues to go on.

Since we're real deep in the decade right now.