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benroyce

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the tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

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benroyce, to Ukraine
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lekp48n78o

The great irony:

#Putin, in his #imperialist #ethnofascist venom to make #Ukraine a loyal lapdog vassal to #Russia, has succeeded in making Russia a loyal lapdog vassal to #China

China, still bitter over 百年国耻, its century of humiliation, has not forgotten that the imperialist #colonial power that took the most land from it was Russia

And now, with a few desperate, obsequious hugs from the downtrodden mafia ghoul Putin, #Xi takes it all back, and heck of a lot more

benroyce,
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@Dutchinvestor

won't happen, and doesn't matter

all you need is a large population there, which China has, a little coordination, complete economic dominance, and corrupt local officials- which, being Russia, is not exactly difficult

then you de facto run the place, pesky national borders be damned

If some Russian Nationalist yells "China owns the Far East!" you pat him on the head, point at the border and say "clearly this is Russia" and smile

then continue on running the whole thing

br00t4c, to random
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Raw Milk Sales Soar as Misguided Notions of Bird Flu Immunity Spread

https://gizmodo.com/raw-milk-sales-soar-as-misguided-notions-of-bird-flu-im-1851484879

benroyce,
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@br00t4c

see, if they only killed themselves with their stupidity it would be one thing. But they're providing a vector for h5n1 to possibly make the jump, and then spread and kill us as well

what a world

benroyce, to random
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Jesus Fucking Christ

'Members of the audience laughed when he mocked fresh graduates of Columbia University, which had some of the earliest encampment protests in the country. He said they’d have a hard time on the job market and described their views as a “pagan religion infecting our universities” and “an infection inside of our society”. (He’s made these comments before.)

“The peace activists are war activists,” Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

benroyce,
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scares the shit out of me

Fuck

And especially fuck this raging douchebag

'As the moderator asked general questions about the panelists’ views on the future of war, Schmidt and Cohen answered cautiously. But Karp, who’s known as a provocateur, aggressively condoned violence, often peering into the audience with hungry eyes, palpably desperate for claps, boos or shock.'

StillIRise1963, to random
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If you “get it,” yet you do nothing, then you don’t fucking get it.

benroyce,
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@StillIRise1963

At the very least, fucking

benroyce, to ontario
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The wages of

"A young child in has died of "

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a-young-child-in-ontario-has-died-of-measles/article_3f5e6e14-13d1-11ef-bef6-2b5f14b1ee24.html

mekkaokereke, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about US notions of decorum, is that people are expected to be silent when Black women are attacked.🤷🏿‍♂️

If a Black woman is attacked and no one says anything, it's allowed to slide. But if a Black woman is attacked and people say anything in response, either calmly and politely like AOC did, or with an in-kind response like Crockett did, then all the "neutral" parties come pouring out of the woodwork, worried about "decorum."

Deeply unserious.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/greene-called-bleach-blonde-bad-174434071.html

benroyce,
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@mekkaokereke

We've all seen those videos where a bully is physically abusing their victim, and a bunch of people are standing around watching.

Then just as soon as the victim fights back, those same passive witnesses are suddenly "HEY HEY WHOA WHOA."

Same thing.

billyjoebowers, to random
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Man, you guys were really into Winamp.

benroyce,
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@billyjoebowers @ampersine @peterbutler

It's making something of a comeback

https://english.jagran.com/technology/remember-1990s-winamp-music-player-its-now-making-a-comeback-with-new-streaming-platform-10161188

nixCraft, to random
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😂 best 12 bucks ever spent 👇

benroyce,
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@nixCraft

buy gruthub.com gribhub.com and grithub.com

you'll get all the hungry programmers with low blood sugar and thus slippy shaky fingers

metin, to Meme
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benroyce,
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@metin i know you're just joking around but...

i just found out about anendophasia, people without an inner voice

they think, without an inner voice

"i think, therefore i am"

becomes

... ... ... ...

but it's the same thing

that blows my mind- my inner voice momentarily shuts up in awe

https://neurosciencenews.com/anendophasia-inner-voice-memory-26107/

benroyce,
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@BonehouseWasps @metin

amazing. i don't want to be intrusive and ask a million personal probing questions. it's just that her inner life is so different from many

GottaLaff, to random
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I parked near some asshole who had a big Trump bumpersticker, and a smaller one that read: "Trump was right about everything."

It took every ounce of self-restraint to not deface it.

benroyce,
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@GottaLaff

i see them too around town

just yesterday: a black ford f-150 (gee, i never could have guessed) with a "don't blame me, i voted for " bumper sticker

my problem is when i pull up next to them at the stoplight, i have to restrain myself from gawking. and if i catch their gaze, smiling and laughing my ass off. i don't need the road rage

it takes all my composure to not engage

the intrusive thoughts are going to get me in trouble some day

of course they always look like this:

benroyce, to HashtagGames
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"Red Stapler"

by Milton Waddams


dugglebutt, to random
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I don’t really use Twitter anymore, I have a burner that I just use for sports and weather and news and never post from. But every time I open it, I have to question my sanity.
I just read an article about how there is an ice cream that is designed to, and I am not making this up, “taste like your grandma”
I subsequently read another article about how the New York Knicks won an NBA playoff game because someone let out “an epic fart”
These are real things. You can look them up.
Are people just getting more insane? Should I double up on my meds?

benroyce,
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@dugglebutt

on certain crappy sites you see these panels of clickbaity links to dubious stories about celebrity scandals or weight loss tips, etc

i read an article about how they shove this miasma of emotional enthrallment bait out there and based on which crap gets more clicks they adjust the algorithm and drill down on that topic and that outrage/ drama angle for even more low quality engagement

based on your experience, apparently, this cesspool of link crap is now all is

benroyce,
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@dugglebutt

The downside of is if you don't follow anyone you get no content.

I "solved" the problem by overfollowing, I just follow with abandon. Then lists for posters I don't want to miss in the massive firehose I created.

?

Twitter has an algorithm for what is delivered to your eyeballs.

And that algorithm is in the hands of a .

You get what he serves and you like it or you suffer.

Fuck Twitter. Fuck all legacy .

verge, to random
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Google’s Gemini AI plan for schools promises extra data protection and privacy https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158484/google-gemini-ai-workspace-education-school-privacy-accessibility-chromebook

benroyce,
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@verge

"Invasive exploitative data mining of children for LLM means privacy"

Da fuq?

yurnidiot, to random
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can't tell me this isn't skilled labor 🥑💨

woman packing avocados in a box by tossing them from one hand to the other rapidly without looking at the catching hand

benroyce,
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@yurnidiot

context:

harvesting in the or

someone up high is cutting off the fruit and dropping it down

it's a heavy hard fruit, a hit to the noggin is definitely life threatening, and durian has killed

it also has lots of big sharp spikes, that's how it catches in the burlap

i'd be dead within the first hour of work

catching durian

benroyce,
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@yurnidiot

the view of the harvesting process from the guy or gal up in the tree:

harvesting durian

auscandoc, to random
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Calgary hosting town hall on https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/05/14/calgary-ucp-vaccine-misinformation-town-hall/

“The claims made by these and the other four individuals set to speak have all been disproven and deemed false by medical professionals.

“many of the individuals that are participating in this event, that have been invited to speak have been discredited, have lost their license, and I know for them, they may hold it up as a badge of honour, but the reality is their perspective does not accord with what the science says,”

benroyce,
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@Snowshadow @rwba @auscandoc

"The point is to make money. This is the holy directive. Human lives? Pffft who gives a crap.

...

Why is our business down?"

"People are dead dying caring for loved ones and scared to go outside."

"Doesn't matter! Insist they get out and spend or they're not patriotic!"

adhdeanasl, to random
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Plausible

benroyce,
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@mentallyalex @adhdeanasl

I grew up around and was infamous in New York City for not paying his vendors way back in the 1980s. Sue him as many did and he played legal games to stonewall you and you go out of business.

Then "The Apprentice" hits and the rest of America thinks Trump is some sort of business genius because that's how the grifter deadbeat is portrayed on the teevee.

What a world.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

verge, to random
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Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24156755/hugging-face-celement-delangue-free-shared-gpus-ai

benroyce,
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@verge

da fuq is that name

Mrfunkedude, to random
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If you don't boost this that means you like Threads more then the Fedi.

Sorry. I don't make the rules.

benroyce,
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@Mrfunkedude i gave you a favorite instead of a boost. what camp am i in?

benroyce,
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@Mrfunkedude 😅

philip_cardella, to random
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Folks, there is a full blown, certified by experts (including previously reluctant ones) fascist party in the United States, the

It's part of a larger neofascist movement that crosses national boundaries.

Until the run party is no longer run by fascists I am a : I'm voting against .

And no. isn't a fascist. You can level many complaints against him and the Dems but being fascist isn't one of them.

benroyce,
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@faerfyr @philip_cardella

"choosing the lesser evil"

that is the only choice you will ever get, in every democracy that ever existed and ever will, for all time

the real issue is your toxic perfectionism leading to the worst choice being elected

you either realize this and are a vatnik/ wumao troll cosplaying

or you genuinely don't and you are a privileged entitled fool to be so cavalier about what is on the line with the choice

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