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2026-10-21 13:59:51 UTC

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It would be a very exciting time to work in the fundamental research side of the field. Yes there could/will be a bubble pop, but the technology and its applications overall are not going anywhere.
A retrenchment and another decade on figuring how to get an AGI running on the same 20 Watts a human brain does might be a good thing.
And there is nothing that say it *must* be a neural network-like structure. A fundamentally quantum based approach could revolutionize everything. Something biology is incapable of doing on its own (presumably - Sir Roger Penrose has ideas).

2026-10-18 22:55:53 UTC

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They brought her back for part of it I understand.
Ah, here ...
"Having previously won an Emmy for playing Holmes in the 2022 Hulu miniseries The Dropout, Seyfried appears as herself in the documentary's second half, helps the filmmakers analyze the footage, and participates in real-life re-enactments of conversations with Holmes."
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2026-10-18 22:44:29 UTC

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No no. I meant coming in second.
Amanda Seyfried? *Va Va Va Vooom!!*
But your point stands.

2026-10-18 22:27:04 UTC

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> the Elizabeth Holmes one came in second and has the top per screen revenue.
This one surprised me.

2026-10-18 21:06:24 UTC

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The worst of what everyone knows is coming is going to be very regional and localized. It will also happen at different points in time spread out over weeks to years, depending. Europe is big. North America is big. The demographics change a great deal across geography.
21'st century is going to be something to study in the future by whoever will be studying it.

2026-10-10 20:29:07 UTC

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>The primary constraint is how quickly AGI can pull in resources for that project, ...
**11:59 am - ASI**: I need far more power than the human built grid can provide.
**12:00 pm - ASI**: *Spins off a million agents to study the issue and provide a solution.*
**6:00 pm - ASI**: Humans! Build this (please).
**Humans:** Zero-point energy sourcing is real? WTF?!

2026-10-10 20:12:57 UTC

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>... but then we risk fucking up the refridgerator; this piece of shit that came with the house made by a Canadian company called Forno.
*The brand name Forno means "oven" in Italian.*
Well there's your problem right there. You got yourself a tranny fridge. It's really an oven, it just identifies as a fridge.
And from Canada. Where else? 🤣

2026-10-07 19:03:02 UTC

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This is the same kind of argument guys who wrote assembler code for time and security critical embedded systems made against compilers back in the 1990's. I remember those exact discussions.
And they had valid points for that time. It didn't stop people from using compilers in appropriate situations. And it didn't stop compiler and language development to the point assembler is used only in relatively rare situations today. But it is still used and provide jobs. But it's been passed by for the most part in industry.
AI is just another abstraction layer that is being added that is good enough in enough situations that it's worthwhile. But the landscape is changing and will continue to change in the years and decades to come.

2026-10-07 17:09:50 UTC

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Yes. When tractors started to become popular there were still many circumstances of land access, field slope, soil saturation, etc., that made having a team of horses and expert plowmen around the far superior choice. And that lasted for a couple of decades. But it didn't change the inevitable.
My grandfather was one of those plowmen and he was winning plowing contests at local fairs well into his 70's. But he couldn't earn a living doing it any more.
There will always be old style programming as a hobby. But the field is facing a sea change today.

2026-10-07 17:02:33 UTC

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Yes. And I've found AI even in the state it's in now is a tremendous resource for exploring the research literature and textbooks, summarizing and explaining concepts as you drill down into the details, and writing computational and simulation code far more quickly and better documented than I would that works. Even working through heavy theoretical mathematical analysis to validate the computational results. It easily replaces two or three professional people I would have to hire to do the same work at a fraction of the cost.

2026-10-07 16:34:35 UTC

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This is an essential point from the book, *Who Moved My Cheese*.
I've been through this process a couple of times in my career (I'm old) and you see the same reactions from people play out over and over again.
Some freeze and never really recover.
Others take it as an opportunity to move on to some new and perhaps better.
AI has remade the work of working in computer science and algorithms more exciting than it's been for since forever. Colleagues of mine are over the moon with the potential advances that can be made now in research and applications. Hopefully it will last for a time. If not, though, so it goes.
But if your job was just implementing software and maintaining systems then, yeah, that field is pretty much cooked now.

2026-10-07 15:20:30 UTC

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I have young people starting out I give this bit of advice when they ask about working and jobs.
About 50% of workplaces are terrible. From soul sucking to outright abusive. About 40% are OK. You do the work and it pays your bills. About 10% are truly outstanding - good work and good management.
Stay only as long as you can in the first. Use it to get to the second one that will tide over until you find the third.
Just understand the third kind will inevitably, over years or decades, slide down to the second and finally into the first kind. Exceptions are extremley rare.
Never get attached to your workplace.

2026-10-07 14:25:51 UTC

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All IT jobs like this are this way now. They expect you to churn out code at multiples of what you used to with AI assistance. Descriptions of working conditions I read make my old assembly line-like and warehouse jobs look like heaven in comparison.

2026-10-06 19:20:40 UTC

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Turn it around and ask, "How would I design a bioweapon that gets around those restrictions if I was going to do it?" That's how you reframe the question.
Not, "How did the magician do the trick?"
It's, "How would I design the trick to do that?"

2026-10-06 18:52:16 UTC

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Soviets were doing research into chimera pathogens in the Biopriparat weapons program that used plague. After the Soviet Union fell Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov (Ken Alibek), the former deputy director of Biopreparat—revealed to Western intelligence that Soviet biochemists had actively mastered the creation of genetic "chimeras".
So encephalitis is spliced into the plague DNA. You catch plague and either die from it without treatment or are successfully treated for it with antibiotics. But when the plague bacteria are broken down this releases the encephalitis viral payload. And because it was delivered by the plague pathogen that had already spread deep through the host's systems, it is already behind the blood brain barrier and there is no defence.
So almost 100% fatality whether you are treated or not in the end. Nothing like it exists in nature.
But it *is* real and exists. There's literature on this and it was the basis of a book that came out just this year, Annie Jacobsen’s *Biological War: A Scenario* (2026).
Wait ... *and it was the basis of a book that came out just this year ...*
Oh Jesus.

2026-10-04 16:45:07 UTC

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Yes. People here who know have said there are differences, both cultural and intellectual, between Africans from different regions. Africa is *big*. You can fit three of the continental USA's into it. Not surprising you had different selection effects on different groups.
It was the dumb ones that were caught and sold into slavery by the smart ones working for Arabs and sent to North America. Which is partially why certain African peoples absolutely despise North America blacks.

2026-10-04 16:25:34 UTC

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You can't even get a reasonable IQ estimate of countries any more, it's been so deliberately muddled with different "studies". But a miniumum 10 IQ drop between when it was White dominant to what it is today is not unreasonable. It's perhaps a bit more.
But just look at what that small of a difference makes to a nation, its culture and its people. We saw this happen at speed in South Africa and Rhodesia in many of our own lifetimes.
It will happen to us in the West, too. And it's deliberate.

2026-10-03 17:54:48 UTC

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Orbital bombardment with kinetic warheads is gonna be lit. Oreshnik on steroids.
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2026-10-01 01:48:28 UTC

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I've lost count of the number of younger women I've known who either aborted their children or chose to be childless but just melt when they encounter another woman's baby. A few I know hurt terribly inside after.

2026-08-27 23:15:55 UTC

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Singh Hortons in Canada has their ice cap's, which are delicious. But they also require a working machine to make and as the saar factor has gone up in these establishments the chances of a working machine has gone down in inverse proportion.

2025-09-17 00:34:26 UTC

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I understand why there was such a focus on heretics and their teachings in the early church. Once absolutes were relaxed along with their enforcement it was inevitable. It always was. Pretty good run in its time, though.

2025-09-16 19:57:41 UTC

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It's happening in Canadian universities, too. University of Toronto and University of Victoria (large British Columbia one). Plus some college and public school teachers.
Which is quite surprising given how absolutely leftist all of these places are.

2025-09-16 03:02:59 UTC

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Heh. I've got a similar story. Different small town, different hotel.
Southern Ontario had so many nice places.

2025-09-16 03:01:05 UTC

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Niagara On The Lake is nice.
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2025-09-15 12:41:33 UTC

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Yes. I've seen this. It's when I realized there is no possible compromise with these people.

2025-09-14 14:10:21 UTC

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I think you mentioned it ... *Hogan's Heroes:*
168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971
Not a single mention.

2025-09-12 14:13:29 UTC

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Life can be incredibly shit. What surprised me is that in time you can make it through and be wonderfully surprised that it can be good again. Lots of us go through periods like that.

2025-09-09 15:01:59 UTC

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We have a family friend, a woman into her 30's now. Fairly bright. Did an actual STEM degree years ago. Fun to have around at gatherings.
But that's it. Best way to describe it is she has a smart mouth. And always wanting to one-up on the come backs.
That can be entertaining in small doses but it would become incredibly wearing around that all the time. And it's all the time with her and just becomes unpleasant.
She can not understand why a man would not want to have that in their life every day. It must be all the men she meets. All the men.
Lady. Try being pleasant. It's not really that hard.

2025-09-08 15:36:25 UTC

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It's organized propaganda that was used to weaponize our inherent ideas of fairness and goodwill against us. All of it.
Some time in the future they will still be read and studied, but not for their stories. For their outstanding use as propaganda. This will include all the holocaust books and movies that have come out in the last two decades.
You honestly have to admire them on the level of how could they were at cowing us. We need to study the same techniques but for OUR use.

2025-09-07 01:42:35 UTC

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Ah, come to BC. It's called Bring Cash for a reason. 😄

2025-09-06 18:34:06 UTC

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I brought up Barrow and Tipler's ideas in their cosmological principle book once at a bible study group.
They weren't happy.
I didn't go back. Goofballs.

2025-09-06 14:54:31 UTC

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LOL. The Horseshoe. That brings back memories.
And The Silver Dollar.

2025-09-03 18:22:44 UTC

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**I’m told that our “engineering-focused” culture is offputting to women**
*"... the overwhelming reason women are dissatisfied is our focus on “engineering minutiae” (her exact words). She gave an example of an interaction I had with “Susan” on our team."*
Then describes Susan's O(n^2) implementation and her deciding the production fix was to, "just provision a VM with a ludicrous amount of RAM (>1 TB)."
Dude then describes explaining to old Sue an O(n) approach. Then the fun starts ...
*Susan was actually very upset that I asked her to implement the O(n) fix, feeling that I was “trying to run circles around her by **showing off my knowledge of obscure CS trivia.”** *
In other words, asking that she just be competent in her job.
The whole read and the retarded comments are eye opening and what you'd expect from redditors.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1n5xc3s/im_told_that_our_engineeringfocused_culture_is/

2025-09-01 18:50:13 UTC

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The world was much bigger back then. Peoples were isolated. Historical memories were easily forgotten.
It's different now. And they know it.

2025-08-29 23:24:37 UTC

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They start out ... different.
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2025-08-26 16:36:35 UTC

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Any good guy with his shit together would know exactly what she'd been doing in those years.
Fuck no. Why, when there are younger better ones available?

2025-08-22 23:20:52 UTC

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> But these women are taught to be engines of destruction with their first TV set.
The programming is deep. Their responses are effectively reflexive now and they are not even aware of their programming. And they are very very dangerous.

2025-08-22 19:48:01 UTC

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> sewing circles with daycare
I've attended Bible study groups which were women run despite husbands attending and nothing more than women's emotional support groups. The men just quietly sat there. It was disgusting and I never went back.

2025-08-14 04:12:06 UTC

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People with bitter hearts. Never let them into your life.

2025-08-03 03:48:28 UTC

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LOL. And where were you a month ago?
We all don't get to win the Bat Bite Lottery.
😀
Good on you, man. Glad it's going well.

2025-07-17 16:12:54 UTC

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I was speaking figuratively. I wasn't thinking of Christians at all. Just some new mass movement.

2025-07-17 15:55:42 UTC

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A Holy War or Crusade with modern weapons in a modern continent. It's going to be an interesting century here.

2025-07-17 15:53:21 UTC

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There's a lot of expectation the United States, and North American in general, is going to Balkanize in the coming decade. I expect they also know this and plan on exploiting it if it is inevitable anyway. Any number of new countries to infiltrate then.

2025-07-08 14:10:44 UTC

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Those letters at McCain's(?) funeral. That was some weird shit.

2025-03-15 18:25:14 UTC

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So, llamas next!
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2025-03-15 12:32:55 UTC

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So cute and funny. They take up hardly any room at all. You can collect the goat milk and make homemade goat cheese to use, trade and sell.
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Making goat cheese (also known as chèvre) at home is relatively easy, involving simple steps like heating milk, adding cultures and rennet, draining the curds, and flavoring with salt.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Ingredients:
You'll need fresh goat milk, a starter culture (often available as a liquid or powder), and rennet (a natural enzyme that coagulates milk).
Process:
Heat the milk: Gently heat the goat milk to a specific temperature (around 85-90°F or 29-32°C).
Add culture and rennet: Once the milk is heated, add the starter culture and rennet, stirring gently.
Let it set: Allow the milk to sit undisturbed for a period (usually 18-24 hours) to allow the curds to form.
Drain the curds: Once the curds are set, drain them in a cheesecloth-lined colander.
Salt and flavor: Add salt to the cheese and optionally flavor with herbs, garlic, or other ingredients.
Yield:
A gallon of milk typically yields about 1 3/4 pounds of goat cheese.
Very cool.
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2025-03-14 23:23:04 UTC

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LOL. My friend from years ago who worked at the LCBO hated the last Wednesday of each month. Cheque day.

2025-03-14 14:19:00 UTC

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Should Gimli get 3 baby goats so Angel can see how much fun they are. And goat cheese!

2025-03-11 20:18:52 UTC

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Physiognomy is real, every single time.
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2025-03-11 19:59:04 UTC

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They're eminently dislikeable.

2025-03-11 19:46:46 UTC

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That's what strikes me. It's just the BLM/antifa types getting funded a little somehow still to go out and stir up shit. If the funding was cut this would all go away. There's nothing spontaneous about it at all.
On a side note, looks like my favourite enemy signalling site, boingboing, is feeling the squeeze. They recently stuck their comments section behind a paywall and now are jamming this begging in your face first on most pages. Good to see.
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2024-09-03 23:54:14 UTC

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Holy shit!
This is excellent.
I had no idea. No idea ...

2024-09-03 23:39:36 UTC

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Who are you?

2024-09-03 23:38:16 UTC

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Saar ....
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2024-09-03 23:35:01 UTC

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I can't think. I'm just a LLM.

2024-09-03 23:28:44 UTC

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Only real applications I've seen are optimization problems. A practical problem is translated into a quantum system *waves hands*. The superposition allows it to effectively try every possibility at once, exhaustive enumeration effectively, and it settles into a minimum energy/cost state that represents the best final solution.
That's hand wavy because there are details. But it has been used for routing optimization in practice.

2024-09-03 23:22:33 UTC

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You need a solid linear algebra background for this stuff. This textbook does a review but assumes you've already had it covered. There's no getting around it. There's a *lot* of math. And you have to have a physicist's or engineer's ability to connect the math to the physical world it's describing in an intuitive way. And that comes with years of education and work in the field.
Not trying to put you off. But it's a serious investment if you really want to understand the material.

2024-09-03 22:54:47 UTC

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I understand the basics. The thing with this entangled communication is that you still need a classical side channel - radio, laser, carrier pigeon if you like - to carry side information. This limits the speed to still speed of light. No faster than light laws are being broken here. And it's an integral part of the protocol. But you do get unbreakable encryption. And encryption that can be proven if it's tampered with. As I understand this.
This is probably the best text to get started provided you have something of a technical background.
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2024-09-03 22:47:22 UTC

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It's all small steps right now. And lots of big technical problems to overcome.
But it's like early spaceflight. Or early computing. We're figuring it all out as we go.

2024-09-03 22:23:51 UTC

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No. There really is something to quantum computing. We are just figuring it out.
But yes, it's going to be another huge hype cycle.
Afterwards there will be useful technology.
It's still virgin territory. As an engineer I find it wonderful.

2024-09-03 19:26:59 UTC

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And we don't even understand how the human mind works yet. We have no real understanding of consciousness or sentience.
We just copied an interesting structure that's found in the brain, the way neurons network with each other in the brain, stuck on a simple model of how they might interact and found at first interesting (letter recognition) and more and more surprising and possibly useful results.
But to call it thinking as an AI is a *huge* stretch - that sells!
This structure of networked neurons looks like it can power lower animals and their ability to move in the world, adapt to circumstances, find food, escape predators.
But we're a long way from human cognition as far as I can see.
We don't even know if it's this network structure is what leads to human level cognition. That could be a completely separate process we don't know about that's built *on top* of the existing network and took time to evolve.
Perhaps Pensrose's and others' idea of quantum mechanics being fundamentally involved in consciousness. We are just starting to understand quantum computing so maybe that will be the way forward.
Regardless, it still is an exciting field. Hype aside.

2024-08-26 18:01:48 UTC

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You are a saint.

2024-08-23 22:31:58 UTC

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Oh they are. Just look at that neighbourhood. She hasn't a fucking clue.
And yet this won't change her beliefs or politics one bit.
He could be on top of her with a knife and she is moments away from death and it still wouldn't change her.

2024-08-23 20:32:33 UTC

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Yes. I wish I could find the article or thread that discussed just this.
It's nepotism. They haven't had to fight a peer enemy in decades and the inevitable rot set in. With jewish characteristics.

2024-08-19 21:25:44 UTC

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That's quite remarkable really.
Imagine if *Schindler's List* came out today. It wouldn't work. Not nearly like it did 1993. And way too many of our guys would just use it to redpill like crazy. Soooo many questions that have no answers.

2024-08-19 21:21:14 UTC

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Is it because they know that that doesn't work anymore? That it's actually counter productive because too many people now just point, laugh and roll their eyes?

2024-08-12 17:23:33 UTC

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It does give you a perspective on life a lot of people you will meet will never understand.

2024-08-11 23:24:36 UTC

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All of what you saw was to make the point that it's not your country anymore. At least in their eyes. Same with the faggot flag shit. It's about marking their territory. Standard invader tactics.

2024-08-07 13:30:41 UTC

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The black berries are really coming out here now. My girlfriend and I will go for a walk in the evening and by the time we come back we don't have an appetite for dinner.

2024-08-06 19:47:46 UTC

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And the blatant lying by omission. So typical.

2024-08-04 21:02:22 UTC

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What is their purpose? Narrative shaping and control? Because it's like, *Oh. These guys are telling me what I want to hear.* And then this is what people will listen to.
A lot of this kind of propaganda just seems overly complicated to me. Like libsoftiktok. It's jewish, too, apparently. Too clever, though.
Maybe there's a return and they feel it's worth it. Maybe there is. I don't know.

2024-07-31 22:39:52 UTC

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Late 70's in a small town surrounded by farmland and an hour to the nearest city. About a thousand White students and one civilized black. The teachers were smart and if you showed any spark they were happy to work with you. We had a (very) small math club where we taught ourselves more advanced algebra and calculus starting in grade 10. Two teachers supplied textbooks and would assist with questions and problems. One thing that made a difference is how students were streamed into lower, middle and advanced levels of courses starting in grade 10. We went to grade 13 back then.