Anna May

The trick around this is: counterfeit wire companies shrink-wrapping (low denomination) currency into their spools, the serial won't match obviously, but they don't care because no one probably checks.

2026-10-13 05:25:36 UTC

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This is the worst thing I've seen all day (it's 25 past midnight).

2026-10-01 03:02:30 UTC

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They are still making the 3ds?

2026-10-01 01:47:56 UTC

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Yes.
https://i.poastcdn.org/5a/3b/70/5a3b70cc6c856f5e782d403c41c07ef6f0c65ac197537b77225130408069342d.mp4

2026-10-01 01:38:01 UTC

I wonder how Microsoft feels, watching thousands of people playing ports of Halo 1 that were built almost overnight, running on everything from a web browser to a potato, with 128 player co-op matches, just after they had to shutter the studio that made Halo after they released a DEI-core remake that didn't even have multiplayer.
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2025-09-17 05:26:50 UTC

I am having to work with an Indian at an observatory rn:
He showed up 2 hours late the first night, when we needed to start 2 hours early for calibration.
We all have to stay at a guest house (a 3 room duplex... I'm kind of upset about it), and he leaves the front door wide open all night while we were out (it's almost freezing here and there are bugs everywhere).
He also brought his wife with him... Not exactly upset about that, but then she follows us into the observatory, which is already cramped, and makes it worse.
He doesn't know how to do anything at all. He didn't read any of the support material, manuals, anything. He didn't even know where the guest house was.
He smells like shit, and he walks around snorting, hawking, spitting, and grunting constantly.
He left his computer in the observatory (which was locked by the staff). Then he's upset he can't get his computer. The staff unlocked it for him, and he never showed. Repeat.
He then wanted me to make him lunch (the place is remote, it's bring your own food. I'm not giving you my food, and I'm not making it for you either).
I literally gave up after the first night. I found a hotel 2 hours away and I am staying there for the rest of the time.
God I hate them so much. A while ago I saw something about how degrees in physics are one of the worst to get for job prospects. If most of them are like this, I think I understand the problem better now.
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2025-09-13 23:06:16 UTC

Reminder to all three Australians on here, you should sign this petition.
Dark skies are good for wildlife, but also they are good for the soul. Being able to see the night sky as god intended is a powerful thing, especially for most of us who grow up in urban environments. There is so much you can see with the nake eye, that it will blow you away.
Australia is lucky, in the sense that it's a massive country where most people live in only a hand full of really big cities. This gives you a chance to save your skies before any damage is done, unlike what happened in the US, which is just terrible.
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7346
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2025-09-12 04:49:46 UTC

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Yeah, that's the message that needs to be kept. No deviation from that. Even the "hurr durr israel totally shot him" is probably a bad move in that regard.

2025-09-12 04:39:13 UTC

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My fear is that we are not. Like, I wont make fun of the guy dying or belittle that, despite that I saw him as a human roadblock for the right (he'd debate anyone... unless they were further right than he was). My fear is that we are not winning, this will still be used to go after anyone who says anything that is remotely not in lockstep with mainstream politics.

2025-09-11 19:59:26 UTC

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Israel, Jews: It was the Muslim Brothergang of Cutter!
Alex Jones fans: See how his ring moved to his finger? He isn't really dead! And there was an airplane that turned off it's transponder, that was him escaping to Niburu!
Nazis: It was Mossad! No one else has the technical skill to shoot someone with a gun and then run away during the chaos!
In reality: Troons. It's always basement dwelling troons.

2025-09-11 08:07:51 UTC

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I've been radicalized by the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
Starting immediately:
Rei is best girl
ban pants
saying the nigger word on stream
throwing car batteries into lakes
drinking and driving

2025-08-27 23:38:30 UTC

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NO.

2025-08-27 21:00:39 UTC

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I don't know the exact details, but I knew a scientist who was in charge of a lab on top of a mountain, and they took part of a drill (around 2010ish) to defend it against a SEALs team. The SEALs had to hike up 4000 ft, at an altitude of ~11000ft, and take it from the science team defending the lab. The SEALs never made it to the top.

2025-08-27 19:43:08 UTC

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If it's true that Ukraine has lost close to 2 million troops, I wonder how much longer they can keep the war going. It's kind of an interesting question, because if Ukraine can continue to stall Russia with people who barely know how to shoot a gun, then it suggests that troop training might not be very important again. A steady supply of advanced weapons is all that matters.

2025-08-27 19:07:39 UTC

>Be a tranny
>Be mad at Israel, Jews, and HIAS aparently
>Shoot up a Catholic School
>Write a long ass wall of text that basically says nothing.
People are already trying to spin this as an Islamist shooting, or a Nazi shooting, but it's clear this is just a mentally ill tranny shooting. He's probably fetishized other big shootings (Christ Church, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Nashville), and self-diagnosed himself (falsely) with cancer.
It actually makes me mad that we keep allowing events like this to happen. Like, we know the cause of these problems is disaffected youth. They feel they have no future, they feel powerless as they have no constructive way to deal with their anger, and so they want to lash out at society for having harmed them in some way. There is no mistake that almost every major "mass public shooting" over the last few years have been carried out by trannies. They are the biggest victims of this system, and as such the most likely to go off in this manner. Yet, "we" are content with doing nothing to stop this.
Instead you go onto sites like Reddit and YouTube, various popular video games, etc., and you see all of them promote lifestyles like this, knowing full well it'll send them down a path of isolation and despair. So many other groups run cover for them. It's a conveyor belt to the mouth of hell. Every death caused by freaks like this is on the hands of those who enabled it. They should be sued into oblivion, as a start.
https://i.poastcdn.org/27/80/7a/27807ae63f86c04c6fd3f05bd6a31e5c288d9a96e154e6e0805387458258145e.jpg
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2025-08-26 03:23:25 UTC

What a steal.
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2025-08-26 03:21:17 UTC

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mfw post 90s
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2025-08-25 17:41:19 UTC

Japan literally had half a century of modern examples of why this wont work, yet they still went "huh, well maybe this time?" They didn't pause to ask if they shouldn't fuck with things that can't be unfucked, in the astronomically tiny chance that it'll work. Even after all the foreigner streamers and tourists fucking with them, they still did it. This, after Japan passed a law making it illegal to carry tools without a ricense because "someone" keeps stealing copper.
Why is humanity collectively so retarded?
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2025-08-20 14:39:11 UTC

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I liked New Vegas more, but 3 was the first that I played and I really liked it. In hindsight, I can see why long term fans of the series don't like it because of it's below average story, it suffers from the fact that Bethesda couldn't really write good stories by that point.

2025-08-19 23:44:22 UTC

What is your excuse?
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2025-08-18 19:08:11 UTC

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You are wrong. AI data centers are going to where energy is cheap, not paying for more power plants.
Local utilities are not going to make more energy until there is demand for more energy. Once there is demand for more energy, prices go up until people are on the verge of not paying, then it levels off at that point. Data centers are not going to put up with high power costs, so they will make a long term deal for cheap power ahead of time, and so the locals will be the ones footing the bill as demand increases.
https://i.poastcdn.org/f4/44/a8/f444a8b471667ec51b5c2effc6278191b9d4be263168bd0b5efa37bfacce7ede.png

2025-08-13 22:16:39 UTC

America does not have a culture. It's "culture" is fagotry, nintendo games, a pinch more fagotry, yet to be categorized paraphilias, and undertale.
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2025-07-31 05:15:54 UTC

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Okay fine we will back off on this, please stop calling us constantly and flooding out inboxes with spam.

2025-07-31 05:13:49 UTC

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Realistically, the objective here isn't to boycott, but to annoy the shit out of these people.

2025-07-24 19:44:34 UTC

I thought this was common knowledge.
It's crazy, back in 2012~14 (I think) I was really naive in thinking that the internet, where only the most popular content would rise to the top, would defeat corpo media. I had a notion that big companies could not complete with niche "unsafe" content, that by itself would get, maybe, a few thousand views. Not enough to invest in, but enough to break the hold that big companies had over entertainment.
I also had the impression that people, sharing their ideas, would allow ideas to spread that certain groups who had influence over the media would like to hide. During this time, I didn't know much about Jews, but I could tell that "liberals" seemed to control the media, and that conservatives seemed pretty powerless to change that. The internet, I thought, would finally fix that. I assumed internet companies, like google, would want to encourage that.
I was too retarded to think that they wouldn't just buy out every other creator, that ethnic nepotism would trump capitalism, and that someone could pay companies like google to promote their content over everyone else. Nor could I have imagined that so many governments would throw free speech and civil rights into the trash, and promote ideas like "Algocracy", a comical idea that only the ruling powers are allowed to influence people by bombarding them with their propaganda, and no one else's.
Mister Metokur's 2015 video, Wake Up, turned out to be one of the most accurate predictions of media trends from the 2010s. The concept of a "serendipitious conspiracy" ends up being the biggest thing I took away from this video. Conceptually similar to "stocastic terrorism", if anyone ever asks for a description of a mechanism for how these groups operate in unison without talking to each other, remember that all it takes is for people to hop onto trends.
https://i.poastcdn.org/70/22/ed/7022ed8fd3e8d4b1d52996ff6985baef1382331b6966d380358f780604512e6b.mp4
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2025-07-23 05:32:39 UTC

A few days ago I bought a Germans children's book because I liked the illustrations in it (I don't speak German, though maybe I'll learn someday). Stuck to the first page was a piece of paper with some text on it. If I understand it, even a children's book needed approval from the US government to be published and sold.
There are lots of little bits of information I've picked up over the years, stuff that doesn't get taught in most history classes, about the insane conditions imposed on Germany after WWII.
I had a teacher who was the daughter of a US general during WWII, who lived in Germany in the aftermath of the war. She told a story about how the Germans would take her dog and threaten to eat it unless they got chocolate. Now she didn't speak German either (as far as I know). I think it wasn't chocolate they wanted, but food, and her father told her something else to shield her from what was going on.
This lines up with a British film I saw some years ago, which talked about how they deliberately starved the people, while blasting air raid sirens randomly.
I think most people here know about how the people were told, and sometimes blamed, for war crimes. Some famous examples include stories of children in the Hitler Youth setting barns filled with people on fire, or people being shown displays of shrunken heads and bars of soap (while being told they were Jews), gas chambers that didn't exist till the Americans arrived, etc. These people were often punished, as a group, for a crime that, at best, they had no knowledge of, and at worst, never occurred, or was even perpetrated by the other side.
Meanwhile, high ranking individuals were forced to undergo prolonged struggle sessions to reenter society.
Probably less known is how the Allies made nearly every patent public (this is why there were so many Leica clones from this period, which is how I learned of this). Someone will probably squabble on this, but their counter is usually something like "Well there were some patents that were made secret" and "the Germans burned some, so those couldn't have ALL been made public". This deliberately misses the point. The point is that the whole of the nation was looted, in a way that I don't really think had ever occurred in history (or not since the Romans stole Pizza and Cheese cake).
When you line a lot of this up, it starts to match, 1 to 1, what cults do to "program" individuals (depriving them of all their valuables, sensory deprivation and overload, social isolation, nutritional deprivation, control over everything they can say, think, and do). Of course, they'll tell you they were "deprogramming them".
All of this reminds me of the phrase "history gets written by the victor". I think it gets said so much that most people don't really think about what it means. Probably, a better way to say it is "the victor chooses which history to write and which history to burn".
Anyway, I've written a lot of this before, but I wanted to compile it again after this new find.
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2025-07-15 15:59:55 UTC

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I don't want the future to suck.

2025-07-15 15:56:46 UTC

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It matters to me.

2025-07-15 15:54:38 UTC

That this cheap stuff so easily stunts men makes me really depressed.
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2025-03-15 19:14:57 UTC

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2025-03-14 15:58:46 UTC

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This one pretty much matches my feelings right now.
https://i.poastcdn.org/09/f6/08/09f608a89db9289c9effca2ad7d5813394dc056d098959a0b0493c08f2f740b5.jpg

2025-03-14 15:45:29 UTC

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>Mercury Retrograde
No wonder this day has been shit.

2025-03-14 13:09:53 UTC

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2025-03-11 17:51:50 UTC

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I think I first heard of Anonymous when 4chan got pissed off at Scientology for some reason. In hindsight, I seriously wonder if that was them being used.
As for Anonymous, it's not a real group. It's leftist slant is because 4chan was mostly leftist up until the mid to early 2010's, which was around the time antifa started to organize (which at the time wasn't called antifa either), explicitly as a way for shitlibs to intimidate anyone they didn't like.

2025-03-11 04:53:43 UTC

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Well, I guess the most honest way it can be said:
There's some process where the brain, using three distinct photodetectors with overlapping sensitivity ranges in the retina, is able to generate colors by somehow measuring ratios in activity in a single area of the retina. The eye itself is able to measure intensities and also controls the amount of light it receives by opening/closing the iris and by increasing or decreasing the sensitivity of specific cone cells to light (which seems to be the cause for "after images" and temporary blindness (snow blindness)). All of this together determines how we perceive color.
The unknown part then is what exactly is the algorithm or process that the brain uses to decode the signal and determine color? The opponent theory seems like it works really well. Like I said, this was something I had just learned about, and I'm not a psychologist or neurologist, so maybe there is something I haven't seen yet, but I haven't heard anything about it being widely discredited.

2025-03-10 22:46:30 UTC

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Yeah, I recently learned that our color vision is a lot more complex than I originally thought. I assumed we had three cells responsible for color (rgb, or LMS), and that mixing ratios of light of those primary colors is what causes "all of the other colors".
That's partially true, but not the whole story. Our brain is also doing an "opponent process" which actually causes 4 "primary colors", red-green-blue-yellow. The brain links multiple colors together, so yellow and blue are linked, which is why when you stare at a blue object for a while then look away, you'll see a yellow after image.
I think it's supposed to be something like a gain setting on a camera. The brain sees a lot of blue, and so it reduces the sensitivity to that signal, but for whatever reason that's also linked to the color yellow (which is perceived off a mix of red and green), and the brain doesn't know to reduce the "gain" on that.
But this makes me wonder if the brain is doing other things regarding image sharpness with two eyes, beyond just stitching two images together.
Optical interferometry (basically, linking two optics together to produce a sharper image) is something that we still have to do in real time by combining light paths from each optical surface. There isn't a computer/ camera that's even close to being fast enough to store the signal at an instance, and then combine them together afterwards. But I've wondered if the brain is actually doing that somehow. Possibly it found a more efficient way to do this.
https://i.poastcdn.org/80/ef/ad/80efadaf96f40f6147fa63ef7163428146aa73432d8bd8e6a0715b81c37724f3.png

2025-03-10 22:22:57 UTC

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So, is the brain actually performing some sort of real time interferometery? I didn't realize it was mixing signals between the eyes.

2024-09-05 20:47:16 UTC

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https://i.poastcdn.org/e5e95ce8571903c059bc56a2bbb1fc527bd48a2526c71035db01acab577aad50.png

2024-09-02 22:52:34 UTC

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Rowling started it. She's made it so African wizards are so good they don't need wands, making Voldemorts whole decades long quest for the "best wand" seem kinda silly. Of course, she also tried to imply that "actually Hermione was black!" which is funny because she drew pictures of the characters before the first book was ever published, and we have an example of a Black guy right next to her.
I really don't get it, why do these people have some disease where they want to force everything to be diverse. Rowling originally forced them to hire British actors only for the movie, but if it were made today I almost imagine she'd force them to hire exclusively from India and Tanzania.
https://i.poastcdn.org/6774a7548087f3083709ee6d44de06322a0825c552d8b09950466242b32e83f8.jpg

2024-09-01 15:06:18 UTC

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Starting in the mid 2000's, radio astronomers began to detect high energy radio signals that last only a few milliseconds, now called fast radio bursts. A majority only occur once, only a few have been found to repeat. Of those that repeat, they do so randomly, only one is known to repeat periodically.
To date, no natural cause has been definitively proven, though it has been proven that the signals are coming from outside of our solar system. The only way the signal has been reproduced experimentally is by opening a microwave oven's door prematurely.
https://i.poastcdn.org/3601d3145e7ccd1bfa82de7a67fe4d533de7a8fb3f13e4c21847b921238daaeb.jpeg

2024-08-28 17:32:02 UTC

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Everything is hosted on Fandom, but there's a good chance no one will care about this enough to do anything, given it can barely get 100 players.

2024-08-28 14:58:50 UTC

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lol, I imagine they could become the admin of the page easily, or even make a fake dustborn wiki, and then do even more.

2024-08-25 21:36:42 UTC

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It's from dustborn. The me-em thing looks like a gameboy but acts like a ghost buster gun or the vacuum thing from Luigi's mansion and it sucks ideas out of peoples heads. You use it to get new abilities.

2024-08-25 21:29:43 UTC

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Something you missed:
The main character uses something called a Me-Em (pronounced meme) to combat something called "whispers" which according to the characters are "disinformation" that misleads people, but it strongly looks like they are brainwashing people (because they are literally ripping out ideas out of peoples heads from anyone who disagrees with them).

2024-08-25 15:02:44 UTC

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https://i.poastcdn.org/c13b78f380344b287cfb3b44b9face0314c2bfb2d944cf94da9f1440fb351b8f.jpg

2024-08-23 18:53:31 UTC

Oh, you're from ancient Egypt?
Name five Yugioh cards.
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2024-08-23 16:59:56 UTC

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2024-08-22 18:42:37 UTC

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Remember, Misty canonically says no to trans rights.
https://i.poastcdn.org/281d0b47f956309137b332dbc34fbc66e35f69ac4f2b1c17cd2289a9b79d10ec.mp4

2024-08-22 02:20:19 UTC

This is light pollution measured by a satellite. It's fairly stable for about a decade up to 2019. It decreased in 2020, and then spikes rapidly up since then. I'm wondering what the cause it.
https://i.poastcdn.org/e88f380ea9fdf858b3d546fb6efe6e2d85a27aec4436fdf9f37dc05faa4b0ac2.mp4

2024-08-20 18:12:01 UTC

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1990 ->Video games are for losers.
2000 ->Vide games are kinda cool.
2010 ->What if Metroid was a girl???
2020 ->Video games are for losers.

2024-08-20 18:09:15 UTC

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soon it will need to be ordered by decade.

2024-08-19 19:30:37 UTC

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I watched it and I don't remember a damn thing about it. It didn't leave much of an impression.

2024-08-19 17:12:56 UTC

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I like how conservatards are crying about how "the polls are rigged!!!!".
No you retard, it's that Blacks and Mexicans operate on a significant delay and are only now learning that a black woman is the candidate.
"she isn't Black, she doesn't look Black!!!"
Cope.

2024-08-17 23:35:26 UTC

The other day I watched another episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Most Toys".
It features the most stereotypical Jewish guy ever as the antagonist. He poisons a well so he can sell the antidote to the Enterprise. But this was only part of his plan, as he also used it to kidnap Data (a unique one of a kind android). He collects thing, aka hordes unique cultural artifacts so that only he has them. He also literally has a small hat.
https://i.poastcdn.org/306ea445335a4db3c3eee70093a8709d23dead80ec224e9a40ccd89ebd567341.webp
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2024-08-15 14:32:04 UTC

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I think it's a woman thing. Women tend to over-empathize, which means they project themselves onto almost everything. As such they usually end up roleplaying themselves.

2024-08-15 14:28:24 UTC

I still can't get over this image, specifically the last part.
...Why would you want a smaller bed? That's the best part about being small!
https://i.poastcdn.org/4abae01f5d396f4a5956484e5498b7a47a62e97b59dd5c3c7ba9db60153d4e0a.jpg

2024-08-13 20:09:04 UTC

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Yeah, something I've noticed is how certain cultures will have memes they apparently subconsciously inject into almost every story. So Americans will usually write a story about a bunch of underdogs from different backgrounds working together to destroy a seemingly unstoppable evil empire. The Japanese try to rationalize why they lost WWII (usually with something like "there are no bad guys, just different sides") and have an atomic bomb metaphor somewhere. The British write stories about something fantastic mixed with mundane bureaucracy.
Jews always make the main character this really ugly guy who is oppressed by a bunch of unfair rules, the whole world is unfairly against him even though he never did anything wrong to anyone, and everything that does go right for him was because of "luck". In the end he wins because of some technicality. The plot usually pits him against some element of traditionalist culture, and there is almost always a not-so-subtle holocaust and/or anti-racism message.
For example:
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2024-08-13 01:46:21 UTC

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It's literally just "do you guys have any proof that doesn't come from the USSR?" No documents, no impartial eyewitnesses, no physical evidence. Just "coded language", confessions from torture, and "this Jewish guy who claims to have killed 7 thousand Jew in a 40 seconds using imported South American honey ants".

2024-08-11 19:46:37 UTC

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Yeah. I do astrophotography for a hobby, which I comment on here from time to time. Last month the last major telescope maker in the US folded. If you buy a telescope made in the US now it's a total boutique thing that you are probably either overpaying for (but you went on a wait list for several years to get it so it's fine) or it serves a very special purpose and isn't made anywhere else. Everything else is either made in China, made in China, or made in China, or maybe even made in China.
Maybe it's not completely their fault, but they didn't even try to compete, and they were overcharging. Like, imaging charging 50+ dollars for a threaded part. Ridiculous.)

2024-08-11 19:37:59 UTC

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You see this in a lot of technical hobbies, which inevitably are composed mostly of older men. Things like 3d printers and the Chinese have totally obliterated a section of the economy they carved out.

2024-08-08 22:43:04 UTC

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I think most people react to strong character design, usually monochrome or very few primary colors, with a distinctive silhouette. The other winning factor is... being blonde. I guess blonde is best.

2024-08-08 18:54:40 UTC

Wait this is real I thought this was a joke!!!
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2024-08-08 17:32:16 UTC

No owl last night.
Instead, there was someone already in my spot. He was (is? why does it feel strange to say 'is' instead of 'was'... whatever) a photographer who dropped his keys or something. Of course, we're about 50 miles from the nearest major or even minor city, no moon, and it's 11pm, so it's pitch black out there, so he had flashlight. Might have scared away the owl. Kind of a shame, I bought a real tape recorder to get a high def recording. Maybe the owl will be back tonight.
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2024-08-07 18:51:42 UTC

I think it's a barn owl.
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2024-08-07 14:05:31 UTC

Does anyone know what animal makes this sound? Taken late at night, it makes it every 5 seconds to about once every minute. I've heard it in the same location two nights now, but didn't hear it about a week ago when I was last out at this spot.
https://i.poastcdn.org/f873848bb1715ffb8b45e18af25b165bb8c6f1ff30b082661b6ccba0b3975900.mp4

2024-08-06 17:54:59 UTC

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Yes, I'm aware of all of that, except the second guy really did go to jail for just stickers, his political views were incidental.

2024-08-06 17:42:33 UTC

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Academics please respond.

2024-08-05 16:02:55 UTC

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You're angry cause itty bitty tiddy in a mini's off the job.

2024-08-05 15:22:41 UTC

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I don't get the hate for the video. They were just having fun.

2024-07-31 15:45:20 UTC

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The "actually trains are better than cars" people.

2024-07-31 05:13:13 UTC

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What exactly made it hard?

2024-07-31 05:10:01 UTC

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Out of curiosity, can you explain the problem, if at the very least in vague terms?

2024-07-30 19:46:57 UTC

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Did they ever say what they objected to?

2024-07-30 17:35:50 UTC

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Ah, you're right.
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2024-07-30 17:23:20 UTC

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https://i.poastcdn.org/35c4afd383f29f9365d0fe78dab244b5c5073d95a5868f1c436480456d727634.png

2023-02-27 08:22:27 UTC

Time to migrate another schizo thread of mine.
Spiders do not bite: a conspiracy (Part 1)
Photo 1 was staged by Gil Wizen(1,2). Using a molt of a Brazilian Wandering Spider, he made it look like he was being attacked. Curiously, can you find a real video or photo that shows, beyond a reasonable doubt, someone being bitten by a spider?
You can do it for almost any animal. you can even easily find videos of insects as innocuous as locus and cicadas biting people, but spiders? Very few, and almost none are convincing. I don't actually believe anyone's been bitten by one (within certain caveats).
So you googled it now, and this picture of a person getting attacked by a huntsman spider came up(3). This image might be real, but again, these photos are easy to stage as previously shown. Honestly, getting a photo of the exact moment a spider bites like this would be crazy hard to pull off.
Searching YouTube for videos of it gives sparse results at best. For example, Here is one where a guy is not even sure if he was bitten. Think about that, he couldn't tell. If anything, he psyched himself into thinking he was attacked. (watch?v=4yV2XI5C3JU)
Then there’s this one. Is it a bite? Seems like an attempt was made. But it not only didn't it hurt, he laughed. (Remember this one, it'll be important later.) (watch?v=gpNh5nmoSZ8)
This looks like a near bite, but then it let go when it realized he was not food. Notice how it ignored his finger afterwards. You should also notice that these are all fairly large spiders so far. Are you still afraid of that little jumping spider? (watch?v=f6LPrD7eCwY)
"Okay!? But how about this one!?" Actually, this is not a bite. Let me explain (watch?v=DQvoVGMonKg)
First, watch as they struggle to get the spider to bite him after insisting that it was "pissed off". To really understand what really happened, you need to understand spider mouths. Spiders diverged into two groups millions of years ago, the difference being in their mouths. They can have one of two types of "mouths". The most common is the Araneomorphae. Basically, their "mouths" swig side to side, and they "pinch" their prey. Most spiders fall into the group today. The other type is primative Mygalomorphae. They move up and down. (Also, spider fangs are no more a mouth than your teeth are). These are rarer, usually only Tarantulas and other ground spiders are like this.(3)
Since Mygalomorphae fangs move up and down, they can actually use them to help them move or to hold onto something (like if they are falling, which is dangerous for them). What you are seeing is the spider trying to move. It's legs are restrained, and so it's trying to use its powerful mouth to move.
Not only that, we cannot properly bite when held like this! A true bite by a Mygalomorphae requires a full upward motion of its body. Basically, they were being chewed on in a struggle to escape.
That said, a Mygalomorphae can bite you if it wanted to, and whether it's from mechanical tearing, or from the poison of the Funnel Web, it is a painful bite. But remember how I said spiders diverged millions of years ago? Araneomorphae are also known as "true spiders", while Mygalomorphae are not. Are they still considered spiders? Yeah kinda. Is this a cope? Kinda, but it's the best kind of cope.
But what about Araneomorphae? Sometimes true spiders do bite in this position. Here is a video of a man intentionally getting bitten by a woodlouse spider. The thing to notice, again, is how this bite occurs. He had to press it against his skin. (watch?v=Lz6pirQT_5o)
This is actually how nearly all real "bites" occur. Often, they are trapped and put in a situation where their fangs pierce the skin through external pressure. It's like literally walking into someone else's sword.
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