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Musashi was the cutoff point of world history calling someone a warrior poet instead of a serial killer. The PS1 game with the FFVIII demo was good, though.
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# ? May 19, 2024 21:58 |
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Desumaytah posted:Musashi was the cutoff point of world history calling someone a warrior poet instead of a serial killer. Actually, according to military historian Dennis Hopper, it was the Vietnam War
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# ? May 19, 2024 22:03 |
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Desumaytah posted:Musashi was the cutoff point of world history calling someone a warrior poet instead of a serial killer. You probably get a lot of slack when your first victim is a guy who wrote "SOMEONE WANNA FIGHT TO THE DEATH?" and then demanded getting to kill a little boy unless he apologized to him for replying "Sure!" on the public notice and most of your followups were that kind of rear end in a top hat.
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# ? May 19, 2024 22:03 |
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The Iran president and foreign minster have been in a helicopter crash there is some incredibly think fog in the region so it might legit be an accident and also another reason to not get in helicopters
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# ? May 19, 2024 23:05 |
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They're balling with Kobe in heaven now
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# ? May 19, 2024 23:07 |
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Tarezax posted:They're balling with Kobe in heaven now *Mimes executing political prisoners* Ebrahim...
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# ? May 19, 2024 23:16 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:The Iran president and foreign minster have been in a helicopter crash Desperately need more information on this, this could be incredibly hosed up.
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# ? May 20, 2024 00:02 |
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Magic Underwear posted:Desperately need more information on this, this could be incredibly hosed up. Can you elaborate on how hosed up it could be? Unless it's literally "someone sabotaged/shot at the helicopter," it seems like "only" a horrible tragedy for the people who died and their loved one's, and a real inconvenience for the Iranian state.
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# ? May 20, 2024 00:16 |
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Magic Underwear posted:Desperately need more information on this, this could be incredibly hosed up. Mr. Apollo posted:It reminds me of the Smolensk air crash that was caused by incredibly thick fog. going by twitter, no one knows poo poo until the fog goes away
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# ? May 20, 2024 00:18 |
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Magic Underwear posted:Desperately need more information on this, this could be incredibly hosed up. Looks legit crazy foggy, any conspiracy theory got incredibly lucky with that one. On the other hand, the King of Saudi Arabia was just hospitalized.
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# ? May 20, 2024 00:19 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:going by twitter, no one knows poo poo until the fog goes away Really amazing how despite all prior evidence, people fly
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# ? May 20, 2024 00:47 |
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What, when you drive into fog you don't speed up to get out of it faster?
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# ? May 20, 2024 00:50 |
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Magic Underwear posted:Desperately need more information on this, this could be incredibly hosed up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shorts?kUDezYXLc2U
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# ? May 20, 2024 01:37 |
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DynamicSloth posted:Looks legit crazy foggy, any conspiracy theory got incredibly lucky with that one. The real one that's been incapacitated for a while or the prince that's effectively the king? Or did the prince become king at some point?
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# ? May 20, 2024 02:34 |
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MBS has been running the country for awhile. He's not the king though.
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# ? May 20, 2024 02:58 |
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Yeah, around 2017-2018 he had half of his family 'arrested' in a fancy hotel until they agreed to sign over key assets and state companies to him and his cronies. Ostensibly under the guise of a corruption probe, which is low-key hilarious.
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# ? May 20, 2024 03:05 |
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Yes and one of the people detained in the hotel was the Prime Minister or President of Lebanon
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# ? May 20, 2024 03:07 |
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Couple of articles in the Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/politics/political-violence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Threats to politicians and judges are way way up. Pretty obvious why. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/briefing/centrism-washington-neopopulism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Apparently neoliberalism is dying politically. That’s probably a good thing. There’s a new “neopopulist” consensus forming.
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# ? May 20, 2024 04:02 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/briefing/centrism-washington-neopopulism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Given that this article brands Trump as centrist and insists that Congress is way less partisan than it was fifteen years ago, I'm not so sure that "neopopulist" consensus exists anywhere outside of David Leonhardt's fever dreams. Watching him talk triumphantly about "bipartisan" bills that pass with all the Democrats and a couple of Republicans voting for them, I can't help but feel that he put a little too much wishful thinking into this piece.
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# ? May 20, 2024 05:45 |
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The covid response and the tiktok sale specifically feel less like a shift toward neopopulist and more a forced reaction of the reality. The former was a literal pandemic that required an extreme response, while the latter is a realization by the white house/government that they have lost control of the narrative in a major way. The rest of his examples are rather narrow. They're a patchwork means of fixing the economy, the same method they've been doing this whole time, except they're happening more frequently.
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# ? May 20, 2024 06:01 |
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https://www.wired.com/story/extremist-militias-are-coordinating-on-facebook/ Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups quote:After lying low for several years in the aftermath of the US Capitol riot on January 6, militia extremists have been quietly reorganizing, ramping up recruitment and rhetoric on Facebook—with apparently little concern that Meta will enforce its ban against them, according to new research by the Tech Transparency Project, shared exclusively with WIRED.
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# ? May 20, 2024 06:09 |
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this is gonna lead to parody outcomes where these militias are over fifty percent glowies by volume, repeatedly getting convinced to do things like stage attacks from out of uhaul trucks that they've been locked into from the outside
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# ? May 20, 2024 06:37 |
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Yeah I imagine the three letter agencies have been very specific with Meta to let these guys do all their coordinating right out in the open
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# ? May 20, 2024 07:13 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:going by twitter, no one knows poo poo until the fog goes away Raisi and the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, are now confirmed to have been killed in the crash
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# ? May 20, 2024 11:57 |
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Riptor posted:Raisi and the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, are now confirmed to have been killed in the crash Should the repeated reference to martyrdom be understood as an accusation that these men were killed for their beliefs/actions, or is it just normal rhetoric for when a major leader dies while on the job?
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# ? May 20, 2024 17:21 |
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Civilized Fishbot posted:Should the repeated reference to martyrdom be understood as an accusation that these men were killed for their beliefs/actions, or is it just normal rhetoric for when a major leader dies while on the job? normal rhetoric for the ruling clique, whether or not they try to pin this on someone else or not. they're up their own theocratic asses about everything and the leadership constantly anoints itself in reference to how all holy they are. raeisi could have died on the shitter and he would have still been promoted to glorious martyr upon death
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# ? May 20, 2024 17:34 |
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Who hasn't felt like they were being personally tested by God while straining on the shitter?
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# ? May 20, 2024 17:46 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Who hasn't felt like they were being personally tested by God while straining on the shitter?
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# ? May 20, 2024 17:59 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah I imagine the three letter agencies have been very specific with Meta to let these guys do all their coordinating right out in the open It’s gonna be so helpful to hear the next extremist terrorist was “on the FBI’s radar” for some time after the next mass casualty event.
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# ? May 20, 2024 18:00 |
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selec posted:It’s gonna be so helpful to hear the next extremist terrorist was “on the FBI’s radar” for some time after the next mass casualty event. The agencies have a very tough role titrating the precise level of domestic terrorism that keeps them employed and astronomically funded
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# ? May 20, 2024 18:02 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Who hasn't felt like they were being personally tested by God while straining on the shitter? Real religions encourage sufficient fiber in the diets of their followers. Maybe you should repent your sins. Or perhaps lean into them, and embrace hedonistic capitalism and the glorious intestinal rocketfuel that is fat laden fast food.
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# ? May 20, 2024 19:02 |
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god would have allowed toilet martyr status for conan obrien after his hot ones interview, but thats about it
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# ? May 20, 2024 19:12 |
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MixMasterMalaria posted:Drake would still be cooked Kendrick is the modern Musashi
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# ? May 20, 2024 19:21 |
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at least once daily these days you can catch me shouting DOT gently caress EM UP at something random. this was not a real battle, it was an extermination
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# ? May 20, 2024 19:27 |
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drake has fallen
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# ? May 20, 2024 19:34 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:So just to be clear, you are aware that there are in fact rules, you're just unsure if China's subsidies are infringing on the WTO rules or the rules of some other international body or treaty or other agreement? Currently I am taking it at face value the statements of the United States the grievance is factual, that China is subsidizing its EV manufacturing in a means or method in violation of some statute, or agreement China agreed in principle to. As statements by ranking officials of the United States are generally pretty authoritative and there's nothing unreasonable in choosing to do so. Hey I know this is old news at this point but I wanted to acknowledge and thank you for coming through on this. You raise a good point about the development of a national US EV industry and based on the links you provided, and taking the US' official statements at face value, your conclusion is reasonable. Agreed that Google is increasingly useless btw. I hope whatever happens is the best for the environment and workers.
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# ? May 20, 2024 19:35 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Who hasn't felt like they were being personally tested by God while straining on the shitter? The Turd of Job
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# ? May 21, 2024 00:49 |
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Well it’s here. Full on relatively convincing deep fake state propaganda. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/world/asia/china-russia-deepfake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare I wonder how much of this the GOP is up to already?
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# ? May 21, 2024 02:12 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Well it’s here. Full on relatively convincing deep fake state propaganda. Are these even actually deepfakes? The article likes to use the words "AI" and "deepfake", but what it actually seems to be describing is just dubbing unrelated audio over real videos. Hell, their first example just sounds like a bog-standard TTS. There's no actual indication that it's state propaganda, either, and plenty of indications that it isn't. The article even says that itself, several times. Though it does like to muddle that up by quickly following it up with mentions of other, unrelated claims of state propaganda.
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Main Paineframe posted:Are these even actually deepfakes? The article likes to use the words "AI" and "deepfake", but what it actually seems to be describing is just dubbing unrelated audio over real videos. Hell, their first example just sounds like a bog-standard TTS. Further in: “These videos looked much more natural, with the woman’s lips synced to the fluent Mandarin. But they are fake, too.” Apparently there is a very wide range in quality. Some of its just dubbed over, some is 3d modeled, some is deep faked.
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