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FYI you don't need to dump your Windows PC, you just need to avoid buying a new one

"To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU). "

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@bigtuffal Yep. I think the biggest risk of these is your employer using them, but with that kind of dependency you're not likely to see one for 5-10 years, if ever

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It's not a coincidence that both Zionists and anti-semites argue (falsely) that 80+% of Jews are Zionists

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(it's because they're both telling racist stories about Jews to further their ethnic nationalist political agendas)

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By the way if you're trying to use MSFS to recreate the Darkstar flight from the movie:

You can't really, but if you go into the weight settings and take out the superfluous stuff (the bomb and the pilot) now you can exceed mach 10.0

Which is funny because the whole thing in the movie is pilots are the past and Maverick is like "not yet!" and this MSFS implementation flips the script like "wanna bet"

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Top Gun: Maverick is a bad movie for anyone except aviation geeks who want to geek out over aviation, for whom it is an extremely generous lil treat

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The practical jets have negative value on an already mediocre story: you just want to escape the plot as soon as possible and get to the next jet scene

The mission is hilariously video-gamey which also drives interest in the flying: the whys and hows are too stupid to focus on

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@pkw In general, liking planes sucks because all of the cool planes are exclusively for blowing things up or practicing to blow things up

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@pkw Oh yeah STOL is great. Bush planes are still essential to civilian operations in much of the world: delivery vans, ambulances, and taxis

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This Black Panther Lego set features a Wakandan shooting range and a tactical skateboard, neither of which were in the movies

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If you find yourself trying to define genocide more precisely,

that should be a big "oh oops duh, I am deploying semantics in active support of a genocide, my bad" moment for you

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About the Qur'an's prohibition on usury:

“One of the last verses to be revealed was the verse
on ribā, and when the Messenger of Allah died, he had not explained it. So avoid ribā and any
dubious manner.” (Musnad Ahmad 350, Book 2, Hadith 255)

Musnad Ahmad advises that you avoid "any dubious manner" of financial transaction, just in case it might be usurious

This is sound advice and it's how you would behave if you genuinely wanted to avoid the sin

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So it seems like, if you genuinely wanted to avoid sin while committing yourself to a military campaign, you'd probably try really, really hard to avoid doing anything that might resemble or in the aggregate approach genocide, just in case it is actually genocidal, and you'd probably care more about the spirit of your actions than the legal definitions that do or do not apply to them

Which sends the semantic squirming up a level: arguing over "intentions"

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Which is, ya know, public

Rhetoric

Privately, if you're honest with yourself, you know if you're engaging in the exercise of defending the intentions behind your sin, this activity is happening because you are fully aware of the fact of your having sinned

To argue about the relative spiritual criminality is to acknowledge the criminality

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Comparing the price of gold for casting to the price of cast gold rings and Skyrim is feeling a lot more realistic suddenly

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