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Using fascist technology to fight fascism still promotes fascist technology.

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I think there was probably one or two people in power with fascistic tenancies a bit before guns. Pretty sure you wouldn't have too much trouble finding a fascist in Mesopotamia. Anyone with a slave would qualify if you ask me. This whole thread and your arguments are pretty weak.

Llms are useful, and they can help people against fascism. Certainly they are not used that way predominantly today.

Looking forward to the downvotes. Till next time.

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The problem did exist though. The problem was that the company wants to make money, but they weren't making money. So they came up with an idea, however stupid, that they thought would sell. So they tried it and it sold and now we have highly complicated, advanced tangentially expanding hinges.

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Why they need all those data centers

It was a clear evening so we looked up and it was twilight so all the satellites flying above were well lit up. I've never been able to see so many satellites flying overhead and you can clearly see the Starlink grid. It is really dense. They are realizing the horrible sci-fi future. It's what they want.

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Double-slit

Fyi, there's a lot of woo woo (edit: apparently racist term) crap out there that tries to make you believe that somehow the photons can feel that a human is watching them and they choose to behave differently as a result. This is not true. It just means that when you use a detector or some sort of probe that physically interacts with the photons they change their behavior. It's not magic.

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Cinnamon Stick.

We were at a very authentic Chinese restaurant and and a family showed up and asked waiter for recommendations they said the roast duck is very good which is very true. The roast duck shows up to their table and the guy takes a bite and bites straight into bone and he starts loudly complaining how there's bones in it and why isn't there meat and that chicken has a lot more meat and why doesn't the duck have more meat and that this is a rip off and then it's all bones and he's mad that they sold him this. The restaurant ended up taking back the dish and giving them a refund simply because of the customers ignorance it was so cringe.

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Who is this for?

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This is the correct answer. It's a safety device, not for resting your head. When the foam is not compressed it is not good neck alignment, but in an accident, your head slams into the foam and crushes it, that's when your neck is in good alignment, preventing damage.

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Peter Thiel (yes *that* Peter Theil) will give a four-lecture presentation on The Antichrist

Imagine I give you $100,000 today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. How long until you get tired of getting $100,000 each day?

After only a few days, most people's financial problems would be solved. After ten days, you will have received 1 million dollars. After a few months, you will have been able to purchase anything you've ever dreamed of.

How long, then, until money is meaningless to you?

Do you know how long it takes to have received 1 billion dollars?

27.4 years.

27.4 years of receiving $100,000 every day. A billion dollars is 10,000 $100,000s.

Some people have hundreds of billions of dollars. It is an astronomical number.

You can't imagine how much that amount of money changes a person. You will absolutely lose your mind and yourself.

No one should ever even possess anywhere near that level of money. It's way too much power.

People conflate rich people with millionaires and casually lump billionaires in with that group.

They are not the same. Billionaires are shells of humans, filled with the putrid sludge of a soul completely consumed by greed.

Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.