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2024-10-08 00:57:12

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Pffft!
Two through five, here.
Nothing wrong with any of those, as long as its not ALL that you do!

2024-10-08 00:49:21

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*Ahem* lets not look too closely at my family tree just now.
No reason.
(About 1/4 Polish Jew, but no serial killers on that side AFAIK)

2024-10-08 00:25:27

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IDK, poet John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost", this would be totally his style.
If a 30-ft tall Fallen Angel in Ancient Greek armour walks out of the storm surge onto the beach and starts playing classic Heavy Metal anthems on an oversized guitar, we'll know this storm was named after the poet and not the economist.

2024-10-08 00:15:26

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(Hugs)
I'm sorry man
Took quite a while to be real for me, too.
I found writing down memories helped, as did keeping in touch with family and a couple of his friends.

2024-10-08 00:07:15

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This is true. I have about a shelf on each, I forget most people don't read...

2024-10-07 21:51:53

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Context?
Runaway Haredim?

2024-10-07 21:40:45

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Nigeria does it better

2024-10-07 21:32:01

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Hard disagree, visit any international film festival!
USA hasn't been competitive in that field for at least a decade. I hear the incentives are broken.

2024-10-07 20:57:40

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That salute was sloppy, do it again :D

2024-10-07 20:56:14

America, you do not hate these warmongers enough.
Your democracy is being worn like a mask by the Permanent Establishment who make these calls regardless of which Party is in power.
(We have this problem too)
#nevent1q…suwg

2024-10-07 20:42:09

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I have never slept with a Thai girl, but I have buddies who are crazy about them.
If you actually like the "young" look, but want a girl who can cook, care for children and be legal, Thai is where its at.
Myself, I like my women with better hips and breasts.

2024-10-07 20:25:24

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No, but two of my great-grandparents were. They converted to Christianity.

2024-10-07 13:38:08

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100%.
Misanthropists, yes, but I see opposition to sustainable hunting as overwhelmingly about class snobbery.

2024-10-07 13:08:33

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Had a friend who spent a lot of time in the Pantanal. Her videos of capybaras had audio - those things make the same range of squeaks, squeals, chirps and grunts as their little guinea-pig cousins.
Traditionally hunted and eaten. Catholic Church classifies them as fish so the locals there can eat them on Fridays.

2024-10-07 13:00:48

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I think its safe to say the transition will be ugly, disorderly and involve both bangs and whimpers. "Slowly then suddenly" applies to institutional bankruptcy as well as personal bankruptcy.
Civilised mid-wits will panic if dumped head-first into freedom, true, but that's why we need decentralised protocols NOW as institution replacements, so that the midwits have many points of contact with systems that work even before other systems finally fail.
Bitcoin is one. Nostr is another. Mesh networks.
Have given thought to "aostr", "arbitration and other stuff transmitted via relays", but need to write a lot more notes and some code proof of concept.

2024-10-07 12:35:23

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GM!

2024-10-07 12:26:03

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I agree a parallel economy, in the narrow sense, is not enough.
I see developing and negotiating decentralised protocols to replace centralised statist monopoly functions as the key preparation we can make here.
"Shadow self-governance", by analogy with revolutionary shadow governments.
Yes, that's a gargantuan undertaking, but a lot of good work we can re-use has already been done by people who lived outside the grasp of a modern state.

2024-10-07 11:06:16

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Barium partially substitutes for potassium, and slows down a lot of metabolic activity, especially in the brain. Its salts aren't very soluable, but, as you pointed out, the required dosages are very small. Works by inducing hypokalemia, even if potassium is available in the diet.
I have read that barium sulphide was added to a lot of prisons food in the first half of the 1900s, not merely in Germany, but I can't find a reference online.

2024-10-07 10:54:13

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I'm a cruel man... :D

2024-10-07 10:49:38

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Dude, cheat harder, you know the spenders of your taxes will!
That said, 20% is pretty sweet compared to any Western country

2024-10-07 10:30:33

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Y'all sinking to our level...

2024-10-07 10:27:27

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Fair.
Charles de Gaulle told Ben Gurion to GTFO of Lebanon in '48, and when he was ignored he sent a fleet.
Ben Gurion GTFO at double-time.
A tragedy there has been no followup.,.

2024-10-07 10:24:24

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The way Bezos et al was allowed to keep operating while "mom and pop" or just "mom" stores were shuttered for COVID was very telling.
Bezos, at least, has created a lot of value for realz, but a lot more of his fortune has been simply appropriated via privileged access to state violence. "Putting society to work for you", as the Senator who wrote "Confessions of a Monopolist" put it.
That's still a dumb meme in the picture, though..,

2024-10-07 10:17:37

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I thought that was barium? Did they use both?

2024-10-07 10:13:21

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But that expires everybody's money holdings equally, oligarchs as much as deplorables.
Unacceptable.

2024-10-07 09:53:12

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Okay, that's very cringe.
Change of orders, you miscreants. Elon Musk is now to be addressed as "Simp".

2024-10-07 09:42:04

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In the Halakha it depends entirely, true.
Modern Western Jews don't care. Even Lubavichers visibly upgrade me from "livestock" to "subhuman" when they find out, and yet their Rebbe taught that instead of a soul I have a kelipot containing nothing but evil.

2024-10-07 09:32:37

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You can still call me fren. Even Hitler had at least one "du" fren.

2024-10-07 09:30:20

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Nice! I'm in the market for a good Nostr web client - any idea where we can find the source for this one?

2024-10-07 09:25:13

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Musk has the same percentage as me, and Hitler!
Nazis, remember, you must address quarter-jews as "Führer", and salute us.
Traditions are important.

2024-10-07 09:06:12

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"Random digit dialling" by callcenter bots is a thing. Can't escape that.
Avoiding letting your number end up on a list cuts spam and scam calls by 99% though. Those people want targetting profiles...

2024-10-07 08:59:31

The only such agreement that would be accepted in Washington is "war eternal".
You don't hate these people enough.
#nevent1q…hn9p

2024-10-07 08:54:33

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And 9 times out of 10, those villains are the govt

2024-10-07 08:53:45

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I can build a backdoor that only I can use. (Unless my key gets stolen in a breach.)
What I can't do is build a backdoor an institution can use without leaking, breaches, or abuse of trust. Especially the last...

2024-10-07 08:47:19

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Bisq or Haveno

2024-10-07 07:27:49

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Then we have to be MORE relentless!

2024-10-07 07:03:39

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Arch has, like, documentation, man!
Its even kept up to date.
Unheard of in the Linux World. Must be a PsyOp, <insert meme here>.

2024-10-07 07:01:33

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Muhuhaha.
If we all start treating Lesser Trolls with bored condescension and mockery, they'll abandon Nostr in dismay.

2024-10-07 05:40:49

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I googled and couldn't find it.
NGL, it doesn't sound a thing like Putin. He's very calculating in what he says publicly, more Obama and not at all Trump.
Zhironovsky, though, I could totally imagine him saying something like that, if LDP flipped from Islamophobic to Islamophilic.

2024-10-07 04:51:00

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Depends completely on who's giving the sermon.
I've met a number of really interesting and based ministers of religion, but I've also met bores, and two self-confessed embezzlers. I judge that hard, they thought it was edgy or something...

2024-10-07 04:43:51

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This.
The volatility attracts the NGU crowd, but repels normal and business-oriented users.
Bitcoiners on Nostr: "this is fine"

2024-10-07 04:13:17

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They're so cute!
Wait... you don't mean for eating, do you...?

2024-10-07 04:02:13

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The correct terms are "cringe" and "try-hard".
A true Greater Troll would have no need for such.
(He has relationships with adult women, don't believe a word he says about himself)

2024-10-07 03:38:43

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I'm a skeptic, defo.
No little girls are taking microscopy classes.

2024-10-07 03:37:33

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I recommend this villain:
https://libgen.st/book/index.php?md5=C01EB57CC60D48060E99060B9862755E

2024-10-07 03:35:48

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Gravity doesn't exist, nothing is pulling you down in the Classical, or even Newtonian senses. It just feels that way because of the curvature of space-time.
Extreme example (General Relativity)

2024-10-07 03:09:37

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I'm too cheap to have a cellar full of vintage wines. I stockpile cheap hard stuff as a hedge against exactly this.
I have precious metals too, but once you admit to having some... definitely not for small transactions or untrusted counterparties.

2024-10-07 03:00:43

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I remember the Amethyst XMR clone expected us to have a line in our bios
xmr: some-long-pubkey

2024-10-07 02:40:54

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Yup.
A lot of people are running LLMs like GPT or Claude as a local, private alternative to search engines.

2024-10-07 02:23:47

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All that, or my paranoid guilty government shutting of the internet outside its borders except selected megacorps for whatever the panic of the day is.
BTC / XMR would still have value in the "Free World" assuming there is one, but getting there might be hard and/or expensive

2024-10-07 02:20:27

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Whoever that was addressed to, Jessica loved them the way a politician loves lying.

2024-10-07 02:15:40

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I switched to Linux in my teens mostly so my buddies would stop nagging me to play Counterstrike instead of studying :p
Nowadays Linux supports nearly all the same games as Windows, but I still don't have time to play.
If your PC has a beefy graphics card, consider using it to run ML yourself, or you can rent out your graphics card on various platforms to people wanting to use it for ML.

2024-10-07 02:07:07

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There's a MacOS version here - https://xmrig.com/docs/miner/build/macos
You probably want the "binary releases" page.

2024-10-07 02:01:54

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No.
Good Lord I don't know why anyone does it without a corporate IT department standing by to catch the pieces!

2024-10-07 01:49:41

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Yes :)
You'll need a program called "xmrig", and an XMR (Monero) wallet for the payout to go to before you convert it to bitcoin.
Is your laptop running Windows?

2024-10-07 01:33:41

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Yes.
Unfortunately, this problem is in no way limited to Russia...

2024-10-07 01:31:21

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If the guy can't handle regular military discipline, that's a question mark.
If he can't handle Wagner's military discipline, that's a red flag!
Very sad for her and her family...

2024-10-07 01:03:08

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To paraphrase Cat Stevens:
"If you were right, I'd agree"

2024-10-07 00:54:41

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I'll have a look :)

2024-10-07 00:47:28

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Its framed on the wall of my office

2024-10-07 00:46:39

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Bro, any accounting package will let you choose any fiat denominator you like.
The good ones will let you choose any commodity as well.

2024-10-07 00:43:54

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Here in Australia, publications always use AUD. In Britain its the pound.
BTC or gold would be my choice. Maybe XMR if the context is DNMs.

2024-10-07 00:41:32

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That's actually quite incorrect.
Basic economics.
Read up on "Purchasing Power Parity", and then throw AML/CTF and sanctions into the mix.

2024-10-07 00:33:01

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I am the best modern racist! I judge people on their character, and ignore their skin. Very offensive to people currently in power.

2024-10-07 00:24:41

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All skepticism is valid.
What counts as evidence / disproof, though, is always up for debate.

2024-10-07 00:18:58

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Facts.

2024-10-07 00:15:08

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Fatah refused to step down, and both Western countries and Sa'udi sent them money and weapons to help.
We like elections, except when people vote wrong.
No elected Palestinian government has been allowed to controlled Gaza's borders, waters or airspace except for 1921-1947.
We ended that

2024-10-06 23:54:55

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Regression to the mean. Govt doing govt.
China leads the West in that, but not by much. Only the US of A lagging behind.

2024-10-06 21:55:29

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Melbourne had the "Ring of Steel" during COVID lockdown, just needed more laser beams

2024-10-06 21:43:13

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Yes, that's what should have happened once the power of ring signatures was obvious.
But that requires a hard fork unless you use some sidechain.

2024-10-06 21:35:36

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If you believe in the Many Worlds hypothesis, then there is a reality somewhere in which Eris has sincere feelings.
Then again, perhaps not - some things are simply impossible!

2024-10-06 21:26:36

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That will work, too. I prefer video because the work of scanning everything is (even more) resource-intensive

2024-10-06 12:40:10

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I found some code on Github to do this, but can't claim to be an expert :)
Basically it converts data into very small shifts in the pitch of the different harmonics of the speaking voice in the audio. This can survive audio compression, and be recovered afterwards by the same program, but is completely non-obvious to listeners.
A government could try to scan all video for signs of steganography, but because there is so much video made in so many ways and so few are altered, they would be wasting their time unless they already knew what they were looking for.
And I'd encrypt the message first, with my conversation partner's GPG public key, so it looks random if discovered and nobody can read it.
That's the best I could do.
SimpleX probably nearly as good as long as its legal to be caught with and servers are accessible

2024-10-06 12:28:05

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Can you recommend any good non-scam no-kyc Lightning <> Monero exchanges?

2024-10-06 12:11:26

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TIL.
It wasn't the Stamp Act, it was soggy peas that touched off the American Revolution.

2024-10-06 11:55:48

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Do I have a chance to exchange keys and code with my communication partner "out of band" first?
If yes, encrypt message with key and steganographically embed it in a TikTok video's audio, using only the harmonics to resist compression artifacts stomping all over the signal.
If no, SimpleX.

2024-10-06 11:07:11

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Respect to Macron then, if true.

2024-10-06 10:25:15

Macron urges countries to ‘stop delivering weapons’ to Israel over Gaza war
https://qudsnen.co/?p=48798
Sadly it probably wasn't the deaths of children that persuaded this preening narcissist, but rather Israel's massive attacks on French-owned gas infrastructure in Lebanon (TotalEnergy).

2024-10-06 09:18:54

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We needed to invent canvas that can cough.
Well, the '50s did...

2024-10-06 09:15:21

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I hear they threw a lot of taxpayers' money into hairbrained development schemes up there, and then tried to give it away to anyone who'd take it :D

2024-10-06 08:33:20

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I think you give the Israeli government entirely too much credit. The ruling clique there couldn't keep the lights on without direct and indirect subsidies from other cliques based in the West.
Re thinking non-Jews don't matter, on Nostr its easy to lose sight of the fact many people want to be used as tools, and are happy to believe themselves to be second-class humans as long as they can scorn somebody else as third-class.
But that requires the "first-class" to keep winning, publicly even if not profitably. That is the value Israel brings to the big table. Or should I say, brought.

2024-10-06 07:20:49

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LOL! I have in-laws in Arlington, VA, but Arlington really deserves it, can I have a few hours notice to get them out?

2024-10-06 05:56:32

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If I can't use hyperbole in a discussion about the very people who coined the word, when can I use it? :)

2024-10-06 03:47:51

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Great movie potential!
It ends with her staring at the sky from her prison yard, convicted of being an unlicensed money transmitter.

2024-10-06 03:24:51

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It drills deeper than that...

2024-10-06 02:38:08

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Valid

2024-10-06 02:36:21

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Verita, there would be no use for the internet if we followed your advice.

2024-10-06 02:34:51

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30% is a number I've seen in a few papers, but TBF its impossible to agree on an academic definition of rape, so the number will also vary.
I'm not sure that "gay ones" is a useful term, either, since it comes loaded with modern Western cultural baggage inapplicable in other contexts.
"Men who experience at least some same-sex attraction" might be more apt.

2024-10-06 02:24:34

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Truth, but there is more to it. If you read any of Israel Shahak's books, there are both religious and cultural reasons why Judaism seems to produce disproportionately more collusive elite cliques than other cultures, even when compared to other precociously urbanised but dispersed minorities.

2024-10-06 02:11:04

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ROFL never thought I'd see you use that term!
FWIW, I would phrase it differently.
The defining power structure of the modern West is the transnational collusive elite clique. Usually built around mutual blackmail, financial interests and ethnic affinities; and structured as a network of networks. Zionism is uniquely positioned at the intersection of blackmail, financial interests and ethnic affinity, giving its members the greatest ability to trust one another's discretion, in clique-to-clique competition.
But it does suddenly seem to be failing hard at reining in Bibi, who seems both ungrateful and unfraid of being seen committing any crime. Major liability and beyond anyone's control, or even influence.

2024-10-06 01:58:45

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https://archive.org/details/courturier-2012-rape-of-men
There's a good start...

2024-10-06 01:52:14

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Mail him your empty shell.
It will be symbolic.

2024-10-06 01:40:28

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Don't mind Eris. Her kind moult their shells regularly, whenever their heads grow too large, but it makes her grumpy.
https://www.treehugger.com/thmb/mVydjehaKJPksuJCp2vhLWqGQ7c=/2154x1392/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-520891138-2e0f9f03f9eb4e77a463fe8628c7032f.jpg

2024-10-06 01:03:00

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They're about as smart as normies, but with nearly zero bodyfat.
There used to be a huge class stigma attached to eating native critters, but thanks to various celebrity chefs people can buy and cook kangaroo openly now

2024-10-06 00:53:13

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ROFL I would never trust that tiger, well-fed or not.
And it shouldn't trust me (they make such good rugs!)
We are animals just like tigers, but gifted opposable thumbs instead of claws.

2024-10-06 00:39:44

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The predator improves the prey.
Need to apply this to deer.
Also kangaroos and politicians.

2024-10-06 00:29:50

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Not just us making the mistake in that case.
In Canada, studies have shown the most frequent predator of ground-nesting baby birds is in fact the reindeer.
Save the baby birds, eat venison today!

2024-10-05 13:30:55

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I would reverse the roles of "Israel" and "the United States" in that sentence, but agree with the drift. Lands and resources it is.

2024-10-05 11:52:31

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Back in the day, I had a housemate challenge me on this just as I came home with a $1 secondhand copy of Origin of Species. I was very calm and step-by-step about it, but the poor guy had a crisis of faith afterwards and then a mental health breakdown.
Just wanna say 90% of the world's Christians belong to churches who make no effort to deny evolution, so everyone should DYOR, and changing your view on variation, selection and reproduction does not require you to change your views about God.

2024-10-05 11:40:31

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This is the solution.
But sometimes its nice to be forced to stop and think "do I really want to say this?"