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Thanks to the prevalence of sperm banks, genetic sequencing, and 15,000 years of animal husbandry, we don’t need men.

1,000 rounds of .22 ammo is $.069 per round.

With approximately 4.1 billion men on the planet, 2 in the chest and 1 in the head, you could rid the planet of men for ~$850 million
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
I’m - incredibly- partial to the original because I’m a giant fucking dipshit.

100% buy any take on the Crow except Jared Leto.
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in classically human fashion it turned out the threat from AI was not AI wiping out humanity but humanity wiping itself out with AI.
a just world would be one where the ability to generate video & imagery, let alone false ones of the dead, would be treated w more restrictions & rigor than nuclear arms. these tools have no business existing. the real danger & harm they pose greatly outweighs any potential benefit they might offer.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 16h
The latest version of OpenAI's Sora can quickly turn text prompts and simple images into studio quality videos, which left the entertainment industry deeply uneasy.
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Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...
Looked up Django Unchained to see when it came out because it’s a REALLY good easy primer on the below and remembering when it came out that I thought to myself “Some dumb motherfucker is gonna intentionally miss the point try and mainline phrenology again” and 12(!)* years later…

*Fuck, I’m old.
"His beliefs during that period — an explosive mixture of race science, libertarianism, and rugged capitalism — might strike many people as noxious, but at least they followed the internal logic of an extremely powerful tech billionaire" Can you all just admit that white supremacy is illogical???
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my biggest crank belief is that these videos are part of a coordinated attempt to induce mass suicide in the aging population but i have to admit that Lee Zeeppin rocks
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“athletically allergic candidates” is the exact kind of SISSY DEI LANGUAGE that I THOUGHT our virile male leaders had eradicated from the government
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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yeah, you didn’t love sifting through shit at blockbuster, you loved having more time to bullshit with your friends and no responsibilities but maybe mowing the lawn
Yeah, I think I see the problem here - it's not that the video store was good, it's that you miss being a teenager
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I think the Plane Pooping President isn't something we should let go of to be honest, I think this is something everyone should bring up on a daily basis. Forever.
A US president, furious about protests essentially clarifying everyone thinks he sucks and responding to it with AI videos of him in a crown flying a fighter jet dumping shit onto American citizens & Nancy Pelosi kneeling to him as a king? Fuck dog, not even satirical Cyberpunk scifi predicted this
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Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.
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Low key I want a campaign promise from the next Dem nominee to immediately gut whatever gets built here. What goes inside it I don't really care but everything within gets trashed by the end of February 2029.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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[eyes blazing, in the lotus position, levitating]: The Lord of the Rings films are a reverse heist film
sneakers, italian job (remake), oceans 11 (remake), a fish called Wanda, jackie brown, heat, the score, inside man, thomas crown affair (remake. maybe, might be A tier), snatch, maverick, thief, the sting, taking of Pelham 123 (original), thief, entrapment.
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Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"
Actual Voters have takes so much wilder than anyone online could imagine
I read this as Tim Robbins and I was like “Sure, why not?”

Then? Then I learned to read.
Rephrased:

Option 1: 100 people with 1,000 rifles
Option 2: 1,000 people with 100 rifles

You pick 2 every time.

Even if you lose 50% (people / rifles), you end up with 500 people and 550 rifles.

And every one of those 500 people now has a reason.
“I have 10 guns, my buddy Crazy Steve has 10 guns, and Right Wing Rick has 10 guns. What are you gonna do about it?

Buddy, that’s 30 guns between 3 people.

I’ve got 10 guns and 9 friends who need em.

And it looks like we just found 30 guns.
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I think that the fall of our society will be traced, in part, to the decision to treat attention as a core KPI.

I think the impact of this metric is to the digital economy as Reaganomics is to the physical one.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?