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That just sounds like waiting with extra steps.
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That just sounds like waiting with extra steps.
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YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective"
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Except chiropractors also occasionally maim and murder people.
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Homie accidentally took off his white hood to reply
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It's referring to a scene involving Sam Riegel in the first Critical Role campaign. He's basically establishing he's a 'fan', though also being a Nazi is weird af.
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Vagina Monologue
Comma should've been a colon.
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YouTube is dying. Yes, it's because of AI.
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Whilst Nebula is great, it's still lacking variety in content imo. Sometimes I just want to switch off and watch a let's play or something instead of a documentary or video essay.
They should make a mindless version of Nebula or something, call it 'Numbula'. (Yes, I did write this comment just to share that name idea.)
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Hurry
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What is the cutest animal in the world?
Long tailed tit:
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Elon Musk's robotaxi will have a human driver for 'safety' reasons
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That's because Tesla self-driving takes a different, and imo way worse, approach.
Waymo relies on mapping, the entire city is basically 3D modelled and loaded into the car memory. It's more or less 'on rails'. It also uses LIDAR for live data alongside imaging cameras, again building a 3D model of its environment combined with image recognition.
Tesla decided that, for some reason, they want their cars to drive 'like humans', only relying on vision and deployable anywhere, without pre-mapping.
Demanding a computer to behave like humans, instead of using a computer's strengths, seems like a very poorly thought out move to me.
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Anon likes a thing
Battle Royale (2000)
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You're clearly missing several possibilities.
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What is the pasta shape you dislike the most?
Honestly, farfalle. The middle is always too hard and the sides too floppy.
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If You Have Choice then Which part would you choose to be born in?
K is clearly the best, but E is underrated. Some highly developed countries there, just have to hope you won't get Myanmar.
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I heard this tip that works decently sometimes.
If you notice it's dirty, don't conclude that you have to clean. Instead, because you're noticing, you should conclude you want it to be clean. That obviously requires you to do some cleaning, but it's something you want, not something you're forced to do.
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im frend :(
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It's absolutely not 1337speak though...
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Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump
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But splitting the vote isn't an issue with proportional representation is it? If the libs lose one seat to the greens that's still one seat not occupied by the cons.
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Supply chain issues are making the Steam Deck OLED go out of stock
Just in the US and Canada, for those like me who were curious.
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How is dating with your mental disorder if you have one?
Well let's just say social anxiety doesn't help.
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When did I get so old
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Good use of patois, but it's spelled with an 's' :)
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What's your monitor setup?
One 7" 800p display.
I only game on my Deck nowadays...
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Shitposting
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Of course there's no easy answers, but your post reminded me of the following:
Hannah Arendt's essay 'On Violence'. Power stems from people collectively working towards change, strength etc. is violence. Anarchism requires a collective desire which is anti-coercion and anti-violence. Arendt was partly inspired by Rosa Luxemburg's views on spontaneous revolution.
Graeber's 'Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology' and le Guin's fictional novel 'The Dispossessed' give some insight into what is required for maintaining anarchist ways of organizing. In brief: you leave, divorce yourself from oppressive systems and start over elsewhere.
Which is of course difficult if not impossible on a planet which has been near entirely colonized. Somewhat more philosophical, anarchism requires the dissolution of notions of property. Agamben writes on monastic forms of life, which seem rather anarchist to me, in 'The Highest Poverty'. Graeber and Wengrow mention the 'sacredness' of objects in 'The Dawn of Everything', which is a terribly deep anthropological and philosophical rabbit hole, but there's some interesting connections between sacred objects and possession.
All books mentioned are worth the read of course, imo.