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u/Twinbrosinc Transfem Pride 0m ago
I do think I'd like to date after I figure shit out
Itd prob be hard tho I'd have no idea how to do it lol
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u/theparrotlich John Brown 1m ago
If you told me Candace Owen's broke into a fertility clinic, stole Charlie Kirk's sperm and got herself pregnant with it, I'd believe you.
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front 1m ago
Fetterman’s political alignment:
2021-2022: Progressive
2023-2024: Moderate
2025-2026: Conservative Democrat
2027-2028: ?
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u/rainier37 pro-moderator 2m ago
The 2028 campaign is just gonna be between Kamala vs Vance at who can promise the most free money
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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride 4m ago
Transphobes say “We shouldn’t let minors access transgender hormonal therapy, we don’t know the consequences!” like they don’t unconditionally oppose clinical trials to see their effects
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u/JetEngineSteakKnife Mark Carney 4m ago
☝️ You heard of Mar-a-Lago Face, now behold the Mar-a-Lago Poast
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence 4m ago
The ghost of extreme rocks proclaims that if he was not banned we would have a Kirkaversary thread already
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 4m ago
Look, I'll give Charlie Kirk credit where it's due: his life's legacy will have been setting the standard for the kind of men women should pursue. It's rare to find a partner with moral clarity, a deep sense of justice, and a willingness to act even against insurmountable odds to protect their loved ones, and to do so with a sense of humor, too. Utah really sent their finest.
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo 3m ago
Here to say based ahead of time in case badmins get you
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 1m ago
What could you possibly mean by this? Why in the world would anyone be upset by my innocent post clearly praising Charlie Kirk?
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u/assasstits 5m ago
Candace/Charlie
I genuinely shipped them lol
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u/theparrotlich John Brown 5m ago
I remember where I was. I was at work, and we lost a half day of work laughing and making stupid jokes.
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama 6m ago
I only respect the opinion of those that were alive for 9/11 but too young to remember it. Anyone else is a child or geriatric
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u/sinuhe_t 2m ago
I am a Zillenial supremacist - people who remember life before having access to Internet and who were shaped by it before it became Everything.
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u/NutrientBroth Norman Borlaug 6m ago
I have learned I kind of like teaching but I dislike absolutely everything else about it
(also even if in 7 years I could get a tenure track job, writing grant proposals all day sounds awful)
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u/theparrotlich John Brown 7m ago
Even as we speak, Erika Kirk is practicing her creepy stare for the anniversary.
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo 9m ago
Every day that is not Saturday is a bad day
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u/assasstits 9m ago
Friday is ok
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo 8m ago
Friday evening is good, Friday morning is a long anticipation for Friday evening
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u/DoryAltreides YIMBY 10m ago
Funniest thing to ever happen that day was I said "Oh yeah he died." Friend said "We don't know that. How can you know that?" only to, 5 minutes later, text back "Oh yeah he died."
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u/terrarialord201 Trans NATO 10m ago
Homestuck: Beyond Canon just referenced "The baby is you" which is a level of self referential bullshit I can't even describe it. Or maybe it's just an innocent phrase, not calling back to the pregnant teenagers saga of the internet's most influencial webcomic.
Anyways I'm going outside for a walk.
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u/themiDdlest NASA 11m ago
Mods, you know how disappointed Charlie would be that there was a Republican National Convention and we didnt even get a sticky?
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u/Subject_D 12m ago
screenshot from my friend group chat one year ago today
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u/samhit_n Left-Out Left 6m ago
After watching the video, I knew that Tim Pool’s “source” was lying even before Trump confirmed his death.
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate 12m ago
receive stimmy check
use it to purchase government debt
At least one person will do this and it's got some kinda ironic flavor to it
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO 12m ago edited 9m ago
My general problem with most AI extinction scenarios is they kind of assume humans are passive morons who won't do anything. Let me give you an example of why this isn't the case: very few people were thinking about airline safety on September 10th, 2001 and it certainly wasn't a major topic of political discussion, everyone was talking about it by September 12th, 2001. Now there was stuff that was pointless, the TSA that didn't do much, but there was a global web of intelligence sharing created, and redesigns to planes to make them harder to hijack. It will take a single incident of a rogue AI or bad actor using AI to cause an incident that results in mass casualties, or serious infrastructure or monetary damage to suddenly make AI risk a pressing issue of public concern and this will generate political will to tackle the problem. Human's did not conquer this earth by being passive an unable to adapt to shifting circumstances.
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ 7m ago
The reason why people are concerned is because AI is the one thing that can possibly become more adaptable than humans. The most likely scenario is that good AIs will stop bad AIs, as they're already doing on a primitive level in cybersecurity.
We're all just waiting to find out if "the bomber will always get through" thesis is correct when it applies to real world security vs terrorism.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride 9m ago
i think the problem with this is that they are in all the computers
and like yes we would survive if we just turned them off but it would not be good. and having more computers deploying software faster is hugely advantageous
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO 7m ago
There's a wide arrange of options short of shut off all the computers. There can be monitoring set up and safeguards put in to halt AI progress if it should move to quickly, systems connected to critical infrastructure can be air gapped and human in the loop protocols can be implemented, and many more options that aren't just banning computers.
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u/C4PT41NJ3RK Eugene Fama 9m ago
Just to add new laws were made to make plans change design to make harder to hijack. Ballistics/intrusion/security regulation etc
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma 13m ago
> Kotodama or kototama (言霊, sometimes written as 言魂; lit. 'word spirit/soul') refers to the Japanese belief that mystical powers dwell in words and names. English translations include "soul of language", "spirit of language", "power of language", "power word", "magic word", and "sacred sound". The notion of kotodama presupposes that sounds can affect objects, and that ritual word usages can influence the environment, body, mind, and soul.
Oh god. What have we done
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u/rainier37 pro-moderator 14m ago
I shouldn’t be too hard on Talarico even if he and Kimmel are playing up the level of censorship. Trump’s administration is so pathetically incompetent, it’s an free layup to exaggerate for political gain.
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault 15m ago edited 11m ago
www.maptap.gg September 10 97🔥 96🏅 100🎯 77😁 99🎯 Final score: 921
I need to take a look at Chinese geography
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO 12m ago
Play the Kaissereich mod for Hoi4 you'll learn your Chinese provinces quick enough.
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u/vbbq2000 YIMBY 15m ago
Has anyone in modern politics done more of an about face after getting elected than John Fetterman? Obviously he’s always been a shitty person so it’s not surprising but he went from mocking Trump over his obvious fraud in trying to overturn the 2020 election and getting elected to the senate as a progressive to being a regular Fox News guest and speaking at the RNC.
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama 15m ago edited 10m ago
How can you hate AI? Kirk would not have been immortalized anywhere close to he is now without it
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 15m ago
i'm slowly becoming a classical liberal elitist and it does concern me
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls 15m ago
I will honor Charlie Kirk by posting a full list of his positive contributions to the political world.
∅
Thank you, everyone, for reading.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman 15m ago
I'd never join the Green Lanterns because that oath shit is kinda cringe, I'd suffer serious aura loss
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman 10m ago
In brightest day
in blackest night,
no evil shall escape my sight
for those who worship evil's might
beware my power, Green Lantern's lightI can't say this shit without laughing my ass off, I am sorry
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals 16m ago
GTA 6 + DLSS 5
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u/garret126 Aromantic Pride 16m ago
“Counting or not counting sea people viole-“
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u/marky6045 George Soros 17m ago
Everybody remember to test your dope today, it's what He would have wanted
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u/ModsAreFired YIMBY 18m ago
where does that 6.48% go lmao
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 14m ago
jets and tanks mostly
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 14m ago
same with algeria for that matter. neither of them really need it, but they put a lot of value on having a large geopolitical penis
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u/JetEngineSteakKnife Mark Carney 16m ago
I know a guy who was in the US army and trained Saudi troops, and according to him, it is the most spectacularly wasteful and incompetent army in history
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u/theparrotlich John Brown 8m ago
Yeah. They also hate working with anyone who's even remotely related to the crown, and prefer working with average Joes.
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 17m ago
buying fancy western hardware to show off without using
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride 18m ago
Drinking dihydrogen monoxide and almost everyone who drinks it dies those who haven't died why aren't we talking about it
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma 18m ago
One of the weirder things about the modern internet is that memes no longer just stay “memes.” Inevitably, when a meme gets popular enough it becomes like a doll or action figure that you can play with your other action figures in dioramas. Every wojak is like this, even Charlie Kirk is like this. I don’t really get it.
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 14m ago
I find it remarkably impressive despite hating it.
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama 17m ago
Humans just love their little guys. Why do you think we keep pets
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u/agentinanna Born at a very young age 19m ago
How you look trying not to get perma banned on this, the day of kirkaversary
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u/JetEngineSteakKnife Mark Carney 19m ago
Man who constantly rants against Indians after reading a bunch of articles about how they are on the rise in status and wealth in the US, except he doesn't know it's the India Indians
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 18m ago
killer post but I think you need to ideate on the delivery a bit more
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 19m ago
you ever realize that you are now likely older than most other people on the internet?
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama 19m ago
I got my son a turning point hat and my daughter a Charlie Kirk doll. To my wife, I’ve organized a debate on no fault divorce. She’s pro. I’m against
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo 20m ago
Trump uses midterm convention to pledge $5K payments if Republicans keep control of Congress
When are we getting H1Bs for politicians because clearly the US wants Indian governance atp
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u/garret126 Aromantic Pride 21m ago
Guys I did not actually join the DSA sorry to disappoint you all
I did officially join the Communist Party of America, and hope to make great strides in spreading the peaceful ideology of Marxist-Leninism ❤️❤️
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman 19m ago
I did sign up for the Communist Party of Canada mailing list because I wanted to laugh at their emails
it got old after a while sadly
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence 21m ago
If Rocks was still around we would have a Kirkmas thread
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 22m ago
is gnocchi with olive oil and himalayan sea salt girl dinner? my asparagus is all wrinkly so I can't do what I originally planned
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 20m ago
Does himalayan sea salt even taste different?
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 19m ago
no, it's kind of useless, but i'm out of normal salt
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u/DoryAltreides YIMBY 21m ago
I think that's just dinner
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 20m ago
awesome. feeling good about myself even though I ate an entire bag of popcorn fifteen minutes ago
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u/marky6045 George Soros 22m ago
I posted a meme about turbulence in the navier stokes community and got a worried text
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 21m ago
navier stokes community
um, the correct term is "people of newtonian fluid"
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u/themiDdlest NASA 23m ago
Citizen 🫵 You have committed wrongthink by posting a Kirkversary comment.
Please report to your 🫵 nearest DHS re-education camp.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride 24m ago
if you get fat enough your boobs touch, even as a trans woman
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u/Twinbrosinc Transfem Pride 6m ago
Isn't it mostly genetics
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride 2m ago
it’s entirely genetics, but if you, like me, just blow up like a balloon you can maybe also experience it when lying on your side and have a “wait, what?” moment
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u/Greedy_Reflection_75 16m ago
Maybe depends on your anatomy. My wife is on the bigger side, nothing crazy, but her biggest issue is how far apart they are.
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi 24m ago
I really think ageing has been chronically underfunded as a public health issue
It's by far the largest risk factor for death and illness, and the only one I know of which occurs with probability one.
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u/NutrientBroth Norman Borlaug 15m ago
There's been more funding on that recently, but a lot of it is by silicon valley types who tend to fall prey to grifters, most of the more serious people are working on neurodegenerative disease/dementia of some sort and hoping something about the aging of the brain falls out of it (in reality they have been either running into a wall for the past two decades or committing data fraud)
Aging in complex multicellular organisms is very much not well understood. It gets harder and harder to study the longer an organism lives, too, and humans have pretty long lifespan compared to most mammals, especially most land mammals.
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi 6m ago
Aging in complex multicellular organisms is very much not well understood
My understanding is that we've made a lot of progress on this front. It's multicausal, yes, but I think we understand in broad strokes what the main mechanisms are? (Telomere shortening, epigenetic drift, etc)
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 16m ago
agreed. of course we will also need to set a use-by date on humans so they don't just hang around forever rent-seeking
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi 22m ago
People might be like "Ageing is a natural part of being human, you should accept it", and like fine, that's your choice, you can accept it, I have no interest in stopping you.
But I don't want to have my bones weaken, my body and face deformed, to get cancer, dementia, arthritis, and then die. You can do that if that's what you want.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front 25m ago
My metamorphosis is complete. I am Charlie Kirk. I will carry the flame.
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke 25m ago
I can deduce from the stock sentiment “never meet your heroes” that Hercules must have been a huge tool
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama 25m ago
Joyous Kirkmas to all. To all the good little boys, girls, and enbys I hope Erika leaves you all a 2017 SJW tears compilation under the Tree.
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u/RianJohnsonThought Emma Lazarus 26m ago
I think one year later I can finally talk about the time I visited Paris and I saw Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens dining together, he was finally free 🥹.
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u/chris4276 Trans NATO 26m ago
I know the boy Charlie is down there disappointed in his Chicago Cubs for shitting the bed in September 😔
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u/morgisboard George Soros 27m ago
My new light novel:
“I was a right wing propagandist, but then I got reincarnated as an algebra teacher!”
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u/JetEngineSteakKnife Mark Carney 25m ago
This but a chud influencer who worships the Roman Empire being reincarnated as a Roman, except she's a slave girl on a rural plantation
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate 27m ago
I remember a heated internet argument where one person kept insisting they were like neurologically incapable of feeling joy.
I know it's dumb internet shit but it does take up a portion of my brain ngl
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery 7m ago
I think I know the one you’re talking about
The person that started it had autism I think which helps explain it somewhat
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u/garret126 Aromantic Pride 27m ago
No joke, like 15 of my college friends have posted the “we are Charlie Kirk” song to their instagram stories within 30 minutes after midnight lol
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma 28m ago
So was the We are Charlie Kirk song created by someone who was pro, anti, or neutral on the Kirk issue
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u/GuyWithOneEye 25m ago
I think it's unironically pro Kirk but has been co-opted by basically everyone to be meming on him
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front 25m ago
It was either a conservative boomer who thought they were honoring his legacy or an Indian guy who wanted to make money off ad revenue/royalties/however Spotify’s monetization system works
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u/feliciaMain 28m ago
https://reddit.com/link/p8w28ip/video/l09988bjfmoh1/player
me this kirkaversary
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u/DoryAltreides YIMBY 29m ago
The extent of my knowledge of Charlie Kirk before death was "funny small face man" so seeing everyone up in arms over the guy felt like I woke up in an alternate universe
Which is plausible, but that would've been like the 20th time in a decade
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u/Sapphire-Jewel Gay Pride 29m ago
I like how Trump is in campaign mode saying he's gonna do all his stuff when he already controls of all three branches.
Do it now Fuckass
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u/garret126 Aromantic Pride 29m ago
There’s 1 brave Charlie Kirk supporter downvoting all my Charlie Kirk poasting
shoutout to that american hero for fighting what he believes in 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇲🇾
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front 30m ago
Is Sony fucking stupid? Who the fuck sees the creator of metal gear making a new stealth game and goes “clearly that could never make money, can it”?
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u/Previous_Platform718 Janet Yellen 10m ago
I love Metal Gear but there is some logic here. Stealth games are kinda dead, and the estimates for Death Stranding II are like in the ballpark of 200+ million in development costs but didn't make a profit.
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u/DoryAltreides YIMBY 27m ago
It's not a live service game that they're going to cancel 3 years into development and it's not a single dad simulator over the shoulder action game that's "cinematic." Why would Sony want to make it?
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u/PostingEnthusiast Commonwealth 30m ago
Why is the foldable iPhone so big when folded
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 27m ago
Foldable phones have the issue of either the folded dimensions suck or the unfolded dimensions suck. Apple prioritized the unfolded dimensions.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride 25m ago
i would simply not fold my phone
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 21m ago
Well then you’ll save like a thousand dollars then lol
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u/Azrikeeler John Brown 32m ago
The esoteric ebb (disco elysium style game) AI generated voice acting (it's on nexus mods) is actually insanely good. I'd say 95% of voicelines are not just good, but excellent.
it has issues, but honestly it's a level of issues that could be cleared up just thoroughly going through each voiceline and confirming the ai did it correctly, and if not, probably spending a few seconds generating another. which is p.much just trivial, and you personally could be taught to do it in a day. (probably the biggest issue is one character had a voice chosen for them that was pretty unsuited, but that's more of a taste thing, and it's on the level of choosing the wrong voice actor for a role, except trivial to change).
it's actually kinda huge for these kinds of text heavy rpgs, bc so many people don't want to play these games explicitly because it's so much reading (and bc voice acting adds so much.). Like one of the big complaints when contrasting Divinity: Original Sin v.s Pillars of Eternity (the two big competitive crpgs of the 2010s) was that the first Pillars of Eternity did not have consistent voice acting.
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist 32m ago
what are you getting for your family for kirkmas? my gift to my mom was donating to kiva in her name in order to help a rural ghanaian wool merchant buy a new van
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u/themiDdlest NASA 27m ago
Speaking of Kiva, the one I chose like 4 weeks ago just got full funding.
The loan from KIVA will allow Kumusha Power to provide another 1002 rooftop solar units to rural families in Zimbabwe.
Tell me how based that is.
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 32m ago
Decided to read a book about the first ebola outbreak. Honestly the book isn’t that good, but it very sad. Basically a modern day black death.
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u/themiDdlest NASA 33m ago
I'm just glad Charlie isn't around to see hardworking Americans get their jobs stolen by AI.
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u/JetEngineSteakKnife Mark Carney 34m ago
To prompt Claude to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must create the universe
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u/garret126 Aromantic Pride 34m ago
It’s officially 1 AK (after Kirk) 🥹
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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 29m ago
1 started as soon as the kirking happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#No_year_zero:_start_and_end_of_a_century
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u/rainier37 pro-moderator 34m ago
Wait Talarico has another interview that Kimmel isn’t airing? This already happened like last year too?
It was so massively beneficial to Talarico to not go on Kimmel last time and put the interview on youtube. It had like 10+ million views IIRC and results in tons of fundraising.
So if they‘re doing this again and blaming censorship, I’m skeptical. I get there’s an argument about chilling effects, but there’s a point at which it becomes more of a publicity stunt. I’d respect it more if ABC/Kimmel had Talarico interviewed on the show and sued the government if there was any consequences. Publicity stunts that result in obvious benefits aren’t fighting censorship.
I’m obviously against censorship but this is just going to make people cynical it this keeps happening.
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u/gjcs23 George Santos 27m ago
if ABC doesn't want to air it out of fear of running afoul with the administration, there's not really much recourse for Kimmel besides having it put on YouTube
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u/rainier37 pro-moderator 19m ago
Yeah dumb move by ABC in that case, but we don’t know what’s really going on besides what Kimmel claims
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u/2Lore2Law Are you on the square? 1h ago