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Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites

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By the logic of the regime he supports, that US citizenship should be revoked, and he should be deported, because he illegally immigrated to the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/26/elon-musk-illegal-immigration

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-illegal-immigrant-abused-162201531.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/10/26/elon-musk-powerful-critic-of-illegal-immigrants-worked-illegally-in-us-at-start-of-career-report-says/

If Trump and Elon and MAGA don't need to abide by US immigration law, I can also just say fuck no, no he is not a US Citizen, by their own logic.

Eitherway, he definitely wasn't born in the US.

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How is this not the standard view?

Because mentally diseased sadistic, psychopathic and sociopathic, malignant narcissists require the world to conform to their delusions of grandeur, and our entire society is built around worshipping them.

Capitalism is their theology.

In the old days, they just made up (or had scribes make up for them) religions, take what magical or supernatural ideas were floating around the society, and formalize them into a narrative that placed regional or city state rulers/tyrants as god kings, placed in their social roles by fantastical supernatural personalities/powers.

Court sponsored propoganda, legitamizing itself, describing and perscribing the bounds of thought and action for different people in that society.

We are still doing the same thing for the same kinds of people today, the theology is just more complex, often disgusing itself as secular.

Its still all a grand delusion, built and acted out to glorify violent psychopaths.

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Airbnb hosts are furious they can no longer make guests do their chores

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Theyre actually also relatively (by their own standards) strapped for cash these days.

Yeah, this will happen, but the smarter ones will wait it out another year or two ish, for prices to crash further, before they switch from 'survive downturn' to 'exploit market bottom'.

Hrm. Either that or negotiate private sales at something like a 30% to 50% lower price, but for cash, and also in a way that somehow doesn't get publically recorded.... some kind of shell company / legal fiction shenanigans.

They'll want to be confident in future property tax hike and climate disaster / insurance rate hike projections before they do that though, and that just will take some time.

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I had considered more fully explaining the entire onion of irony of this being a massive self report on the many ways in which these people are contemptible evil failures, but I settled on just directly insulting them.

But yes, yeah, what you say is true. The levels of delusional self caused shittiness, the different ways that ... threatening a 'strike', in this situation, reveals both how stupid and how evil one is...

Its comical. Like, 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' levels of irony.

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Japan months away from running out of yttrium as China cuts exports 98%

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This is also true and very immediately relevant for the near/medium term.

But, if the US as a state/cabal of rulers is even still at all capable of long term planning, presumably they would realize the near medium and long term... 'problems' that could be 'solved' by at least starting the process of controlling the territory with the thing they need now and almost certainly will need in the future.

I mean this is simplifying but think of it like iron in a civilization game. Its a critical strategic resource... very likely 'worth' fighting over, unless you are exceedingly competent in many other realms of statecraft.

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"What if Larian had shut down after Divine Divinity?": Star Trek Online exec scorns publishers who close teams like BioWare in favour of "AAA veteran" start-ups and AI "magic beans"

Alright so we're now doing an exploration of alt history fan fiction based on a ... bluesky tweet? A bleet? ... from another game dev, about our escapist virtual fantasies.

This is 'video game journalism', apparently.

Its very very obvious that nobody reads these outlets and takes them seriously other than AAA game developers and parasocial virtue signalers.

All of these people are unimaginably high on their own supply and incredibly out of touch.

Yeah, the holding company shut down a decade-long underperforming subdivision, after getting bought out, due to it being massively in debt, materially significantly due to said underperforming subdivision.

Wow, how surprising.

How do the sellouts not comprehend that they are in fact sellouts and have no basis to complain about any of this?

What, its impossible to make a game without a publisher or outright owner?

Obviously not.

Maybe the specific game you want to make with near infinite resources, sure, but like... where does this indignant sense of entitlement come from?

This idea that you specifically deserve to be immune to capitalism, while you knowingly engage with it on its own terms?

What, you rainbow capitalism'd so hard that you should just be... special? No, sorry, that's not how that works, liberals.

You'd need to actually be as economically radical as you are socially progressive for people to not view you as hypocrites. Literally put your money where your mouth is, otherwise very few people are going to actually sympathize with you.

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What is skinny

Same kind of thing here.

If you compare the drawn body to a real body's actual size and proportions, 'full figure' is basically 'somewhere between normal and a healthy skinny'.

'Tall and thin' is in actuality 'starvation/anorexia/muscular dystrophy/something like that'.

The proportions are fundamentally unrealistic, which, on the one hand, duh, but on the other hand, does literally create an unrealistic body size/shape/proportion standard.

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I genuienly don't believe you.

Either you are mistaken, or you likely have some kind of genuinely concerning medical condition.

Like I'm not trying to dox you, but take a picture of yourself, wearing fairly tight clothes, in the same pose as the anime figure, line them up at the shoulders, and overlay them and compare the outlines.

Use a camera that is further away but also zoomed in a good amount, and if you do actually want to post the image, blur out your face and any tattoos or scars... totally fine if you want to just keep such an image to yourself.

What you will likely find is that you are mistaken, you misjudged the proportions, or perhaps you are a skinnier lankier dude, but not literally the same limb thicknesses as the anime figure, or, perhaps you actually are that skinny, in which case, if you are past puberty, you likely have a relatively rare medical condition like chrones or muscular dystrophy, or anorexia, or are malnourished.

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What is skinny

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This is like saying 2 = 3 because 2 != 4.

This yellow firetruck is red because it is not blue.

The aircraft is grounded because it is not flying at above 20k feet.

Etc.

Skinny literally means 'thin or very thin'.

It does not mean 'not plus size'.

Look up any English dictionary's definition.

They way OP from the image used the word was nonsensical.

The only thing that is 'literally skinny' is the drawn-as-skinny figure, based on the picture of Swift, who is herself not skinny.

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That is not a problem except for men who are way more interested being pedantic over semantics than they are in talking about a visual phenomenon.

Hi, I'm autistic.

What you call pedantry, I call accuracy, precision and consistency in communication.

If you want to use words in a way where they have multiple different possible meanings that are context dependent, you can do that, but its always going to be confusing for me and probably most other male autists, unless there are clear and consistent guidelines as to which context should connote which specific, similar but substantially different meaning.