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TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it (en.wikipedia.org)

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...

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LessWrong are a bunch of pretentious loons, so you’re not wrong.

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Look, if Rafael Cruz was willing to listen to voters on anything other than oppressing minorities he wouldn’t be GOP.

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Last I heard, he decided to bow out of politics after his anti-semitism blew up in his face. Maybe someone finally forced him to take his meds?

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Hey now, Orban cares.

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Just cross the equator.

TallonMetroid ,
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Yeah, Switch pointer controls were pretty YMMV, simply because the joycons themselves aren’t nearly as reliable in that regard as the Wiimotes were.

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I mean, Likud is the successor organization to the original Zionists, so they’ve always been genocidal ethno-fascists. But this guy decided to form his own party because Likud apparently wasn’t ethno-fascist enough for him.

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For a large corp 38.3M is chump change, though.

Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording (apnews.com)

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media Monday. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return “to a place of godliness.”...

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Of course compromise is impossible when you’re a hardliner who refuses to engage in good faith.

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Link is for the wrong trailer.

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Are you telling me that Elon Musk might be, perhaps, quiet quitting? The horror.

Seriously, fuck that guy.

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Because he’s a self-proclaimed Zionist and the end goal of Zionism has always been genocide. Now, why is he a Zionist? shrugs

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Neither are the Israelis, but that doesn’t matter, because Palestine is. Well, I say that, but to be fair the US isn’t directly operating in Palestinian territory, “merely” aiding and abetting Israeli operations. I personally feel that should count, but I won’t be the one arguing in court. 🤷

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So long as there are still Palestinians capable of bleeding, the red line will continue to be extended, so of course the IDF hasn’t crossed it yet.

Honestly, I don’t know why anyone expected any different from a man who proudly declared himself a Zionist.

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This is the group where the founder turned out to have been having threesomes with her husband and another woman, which came to light because the other woman accused them of sexual assault.

All 9 South Dakota tribes endorse Gov. Kristi Noem's banishment (www.usatoday.com)

On Friday, the second-term governor spent part of a 51-minute press conference in Pierre lamenting the seven prior banishment measures and continued to emphasize her claim that Mexican cartels are using South Dakota’s Indian lands as “safe havens” to distribute drugs in the state.

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She’s GOP. It should be assumed as a matter of course that she’s talking out of her ass.

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Yeah, they aren’t mass murderers, they’re genociders! Get it right!

US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel, rebuking Biden (www.reuters.com)

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with Hamas....

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Incidentally, Greene was one of the 3 who voted no.

TallonMetroid ,
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That’s because pretty much everything does cause cancer eventually. That’s just a consequence of how cellular division works. The trick is knowing how much exposure to any given thing is needed to cause cancer, and whether you’re likely to reach that threshold before you die of anything else.

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If a full fifth of your workforce needs to be sacked, it’s clearly a management issue, so let’s start at the top.

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Also everything was orchestrated by the Illuminati before they got hijacked by a splinter faction of even bigger dickbags than the normal Illuminati.

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I mean, wouldn’t paying for Truth basically be bailing President Loser out?

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They can’t do anything. The only arm of the UN that actually has the power to do anything meaningful here is the Security Council, and so long as the Security Council veto exists the US will just kill anything with actual teeth.

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The way I see it, if you’ve bought a game from GOG you’ve already paid, so no one can truthfully say in good faith that subsequently grabbing a cracked version of the Steam release is a lost sale.

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I have a MOLE?!!

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The BIGGEST loser! Nobody loses like he does!

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Defendants also argue that Musk needed additional incentives to stay on at Tesla or he would spend more time at SpaceX, where he could fulfill his galactic ambitions to establish interplanetary travel, colonize Mars, and potentially earn more money in the meantime.

Not like he even actually does anything at Tesla anyway, between all the people they’ve got to babysit him and his spending all his time shit posting on Twitter.

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Hm, don’t remember seeing that with the Switch demo. Yeah, that’s skeevy though.

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What usually gets left out of the story is that the taxes were imposed in part to pay for the French and Indian War, which the colonists started. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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“Fuck brown people”, probably.

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Todd Howard? Wasn’t expecting that. Anywho, looks like this’ll mainly be in 1st person? That’s kinda neat actually, I don’t think we’ve had a 1st person Indy before.

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When I caught COVID I had symptoms for two weeks, and you’re telling me that if I hadn’t been WFH I would’ve had to go be around people for 13 of those 14 days while super contagious? Sure, people are supposed to be vaccinated now, but still, what a fucking joke.

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Flushing isn’t exactly silent, though? The toilet getting clogged should make a very noticeably different sound.

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Just go back to first principles and celebrate the actual solstice.

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This fuck is still alive? After I stopped hearing about him for awhile I assumed he’d done us all a favor and followed Rush to hell.

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Maybe he’s racist against immigrants? Alternatively, maybe he’s hoping that they’ll care more about him being a fellow rich person (if he is in fact rich) than about his gay blackness (they don’t).

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It’s all about the framing. Instead of viewing it as over 3 years, think of it as under 4!

Wait…

Israel-Hamas latest: IDF determined despite heavy losses in Gaza; ambassador says two-state solution not possible (news.sky.com)

The Israeli ambassador to the UK has rejected the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Meanwhile, Israel has vowed to continue its bombardments in Gaza in the face of wavering international support - despite heavy losses.

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Of course a two-state solution is not possible if one of the parties is committed to sabotaging it at every turn.

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Eh, kinda sorta but not really? Hamas is only in a position to even do anything specifically because they got propped up by Israel for decades. While I’m sure Fatah certainly wouldn’t complain if Israel disappeared overnight, they’ve also made a better faith attempt at two-state solutions than Israel ever has, low as that bar is.

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I mean, I hate playing with internet randos anyway, so that’s not actually a downside for me.

TallonMetroid ,
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Yes, thank you, I’m well aware that internet randos are people. And I like not having to deal with them while I’m unwinding. Why is that a “problem”?

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Pretty sure it’s just typical “fuck you, got mine” mentality.

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That can be fought without the looming deadline of a pregnancy coming to term. Dunno if she’s willing to go through with that, or if she’s just not planning to ever return to Texas (it’s not like, Cali, say, would ever extradite, and Texas sending troopers across state lines to bring her back is some Fugitive Slave Act 2: Electric Boogaloo shit that would absolutely not fly).

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I doubt it would ever actually happen, but a UN peacekeeping force getting sent into Gaza would be some wild ass shit.

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Welcome to FPTP voting. System is working as designed.

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Frankly, given it’s being hosted by a petrostate whose head stated that we shouldn’t be trying to phase out fossil fuels, I think it’s safe to say that we’re going to have 28 fruitless meetings.

Israel and US are at odds over conflicting visions for postwar Gaza (apnews.com)

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, this week announced that Israel would retain an open-ended security presence in Gaza. Israeli officials talk of imposing a buffer zone to keep Palestinians away from the Israeli border. They rule out any role for the Palestinian Authority, which was ousted from Gaza by Hamas in 2007...

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The problem is that you can’t just roll in an army, shoot anything that pokes its head out, and call it a day. Without extensive efforts to build infrastructure and create jobs to give people a sense of normalcy and belief that their lives are improving, you’ll just build up resentment. That’s what the US did for Germany and Japan post-WWII, and any other such endeavors will require at least that same amount of ongoing commitment. Admittedly, German and Japanese rehabilitation was also greatly helped by the fact that the USSR existed as a convenient external enemy to point at, and I don’t think there’s anything nearly as convenient in the Middle East, given that for most Israel would be said external enemy.

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The US also didn’t continuously send in armed squatters to kick the Germans and Japanese out of their homes, which is a state of affairs that works directly counter to the notion that things might get better.

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