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nyahlathotep nyahlathotep @sh.itjust.works

Not a sentient pile of alley cats in a trench coat. You ask a lotta questions.

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Thailand legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for Southeast Asia
  • give the supreme court more time to backslide

  • Final Confessions - by Bill Mayer
  • I think it's saying the third little pig (the rich one) is in league with the wolves. It literally has blood on its hooves

  • Cyberpunk 2077 | Patch 2.13
  • This is at least the third time. FFXIV was terrible at launch and was fixed a couple of years later with the release of 2.0

  • type in the URL about:robots on Firefox
  • if you haven't seen blade runner, please do asap

  • Deckard rule
  • the whole "Deckard's a replicant thing" is lame because it ruins his character arc if he is. IMO the whole film is a comparison of the human Deckard who coldly murders replicants without mercy (like a machine) vs the replicant Roy who kills with passion, and eventually grants mercy to his enemy. The replicant is "more human than human", and the human is more machine-like than the machine. Deckard's story is going from a robot-man to someone who actually feels alive and concern for someone other than himself at the end.

  • JD Vance Booed at Firefighters Conference in Boston | C-SPAN.org
  • "You childless losers probably spend all your time rescuing cats from trees!" Vance reportedly yelled as he ran off stage, mascara streaming down his face.

  • How is Open Source project work paid?
  • AFAIK it's donations, and some companies charge for support if not the base software

  • The Apotheosis of War - Vasily Vereshchagin (1871)
  • Reminds me of this genuine photo of bison skulls from the late 1800s

    The US government encouraged mass hunting of bison to force Native Americans to give up their way of life that depended on them and move to reservations where they would be "allowed" to live. Unless something valuable was discovered on that land later.

    When colonists first started arriving there were upwards of 60 million bison in North America, traveling in vast herds that provided much of what various nomadic tribes needed to live on. At the lowest point in the late 1800s there were around 541 known animals in existence. Now there are around 500,000 in NA, the vast majority of which live on ranches and are farmed for meat. There are around 20,000 living on conservation lands.

  • Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government
  • It's great when dystopic defense contractors take names from the things I love! Palmer Luckey started one called Anduril, and I just can't tell you how much I love these fucking shits co-opting Tolkien's words in their endeavors to profit on oppression and murder.

  • What happens, happens
  • Their point is they no longer care

  • cottagecore was cryptofascist propaganda anyway
  • I think they're not being built in most US (and maybe Canadian?) cities because nimbys only want single-family detached houses to be built to preserve their home's value

    least that's what I've gathered from watching youtube videos on urban planning and reading articles

  • cottagecore was cryptofascist propaganda anyway
  • afaik it's essentially an apartment but you own your domicile, and have a stake in the building as a whole along with the other "tenants" who are also co-owners.

  • Chinese students arrested over drone footage of U.S. aircraft carrier
  • The suspects are aged between 30 and 49 and are studying in Busan

    now, education is possible at any age, but really?

  • anime_irl
  • Isekai Ojisan. it's a show about a nerd in his early twenties that gets isekai'd, then 10 years later comes back and talks to his nephew about his adventures. but he's a really weird dude, and makes utterly bizarre choices. I hesitate to use the word autism, but he's definitely not neurotypical. It's a funny show, I recommend it

  • 24 July 1987
  • yeah, I know. I just get pissed off whenever I hear a parent talking like this

  • 24 July 1987
  • "Is that hundred grand a gift... or a loan?"

    Neither, it's an obligation. You don't get to choose whether or not to provide for your children as you would a gift, nor can you expect a "return" on your "investment".

  • Speculative fiction
  • A "woobie" is a name for any type of character who makes you feel extremely sorry for them.

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWoobie

    Not sure it's used properly here. They seem to be using it as a synonym for harmless. A woobie is harmless, but that's secondary to their pitifulness.

  • The Things by Peter Watts

    clarkesworldmagazine.com Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Things by Peter Watts

    Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Companion to the John Carpenter film The Thing.

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    Should we set a 24 hour voting period on c/Agora?

    Currently there is no rule for when a vote is over, or when the vote is tallied. I propose we allow 24 hours from post creation to allow everyone in the community to have a chance to see and consider a proposal and vote. After 24 hours from post creation, the 'polls' would close and the votes can be tallied. Any votes cast after 24 hours would be invalid.

    Edit: some good points made, I withdraw this proposal

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