My boy Keith on point as always. I recommend checking out his videos.
Congrats man! Crazy how anything can happen in the playoffs. Rangers looked bad at times throughout the year then just steamrolled everyone. Just gotta get hot at the right time.
Soak it in; you never know when the next one will come. Hope my Indians can win one some day before my dad dies...
Yeah I'm not sure how the public awareness was on those Kansas and Montana issues. From the outside it kind of seemed like a blitzkrieg where they just overwhelmed by putting it to ballot relatively quickly with confusing wording.
Regarding the August issue, I remembered 10 points but I guess it was like 15. The point is though that means you only have to sway like 7.5% which I think is very doable.
The issue will almost certainly come down to turnout though, so I suppose that kind of reasoning is useless. The leftists had a huge advantage in turnout last time because they tapped into a subsection of normies that don't usually vote; I had coworkers who I know never vote ranting to me about how "they" were "trying to steal our democracy."
Gonna be difficult but I wouldn't throw in the towel yet. Just speaking from a signage perspective, it is much closer this time, whereas last time NO signs were a supermajority in my area (that usually votes close to 50-50 in national elections).
Don't wanna lose hope in Ohio yet. Issue 1 last time only lost by a few points, and this should be closer. I personally know multiple people who voted against issue 1 last time who won't be voting yes this time. Really it will just come down to turnout, which for a constitutional amendment is pathetic and sad (which is why issue 1 back in August was necessary, but I digress).
Edit: also many churches have signs all over their property. Last time, most churches stayed out of it because it was a civics question and they didn't want to throw their weight behind opposing anything that didn't directly go against their beliefs. This time one can't twist this into anything other than a blank check for unlimited abortion. Should be close next week.
Yeah in this case I think it was a combo of big creators and a reddit mob.
I'm happy for them, but they still have an enormous pile of shitty p2w microtransactions and obnoxious cosmetics. Hero pass was dumb and shitty, but a part of me couldn't help but think "you tolerate all this other bullshit but this is what you consider a step too far?"
Really makes me think the only reason it sparked so much outrage is because they kept teasing some major update and got people excited only for it to be more microtransactions. If they would have just quietly introduced it without the fanfare they probably could have snuck it in.
The sad part is, normies will read that and think "well sounds like that judge was right to destroy him financially and give the wife sole custody."
Not the person you are responding to, but I appreciate the genuine and good faith response that doesn't resort to shit flinging.
First of all, the experts say thing. Is it untrue? As far as I know, it's just pure statistics, isn't it? Hasn't this study been reproduced?
I personally have no difficulty believing that statistic to be true. However "married men" artificially selects for men who have yet to be divorced raped, or cheated on, or have their kids taken from them. Statistically speaking, a good chunk of them are unknowingly hurtling towards that fate.
Also, is your goal in life purely to avoid suffering? Do you go outside? If so, why? Do you undergo any kind of painful experience such as exercise or work in oder to gain something later? If so, do you do this out of choice or because you're being coerced?
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm not a hedonist that only seeks to maximize pleasure and minimize suffering. I despise hedonism actually. But I think it is disingenuous to compare going outside and exercising to dealing with modern women.
The probability of something very bad happening to you from going outside is astronomically low. I don't think I need to explain how the probability of ending up divorce raped and only able to see your kids a couple times a month is orders of magnitude higher.
And exercise can be boiled down to a science. You input a predictable amount of strain and discomfort for a whole host of health benefits that have next to zero downside so long as you utilize proper form to avoid injury.
Regarding your view on women, exactly what do you mean by beta male? Are you a beta male, and as such are incapable of receiving the love of a woman?
This answer will vary by person. In my case, I have slightly above average looks, make well above average money for my age with good career prospects, and have good social skills. I am of average height though, so that alone makes me invisible to a huge chunk of women.
I dont consider myself a beta male, but I think when people complain about things like this, they are pointing at phenomena like the one I explained above. One superficial negative trait that shouldn't be a huge issue being blown out of proportion.
Personally, my issue is more on the opposite end though. Similar to what onetruephilosoraptor detailed above, you can meet thousands of women and find a handful that are true marriage material. And no, this isn't me being hypocritical and disqualifying huge swathes of the female population for superficial grievances. I'm talking huge personality flaws or similar things that might as well be the human equivalent of poison dart frogs loudly advertising their toxicity with bright colors.
I mean, I dont really have a desire to get into a discussion over which goyslop is better or worse than other goyslop, but Shake Shack is pretty good. Run by terrible people, so no one should ever go there, but it is better tasting than most fast food.
I dont know anything about this guy aside from a few comics I've seen since he has a pretty recognizable art style. But it's worth noting he could still be radfem and anti-trans.
So contacting the FBI over foreign governments trying to infiltrate silicon valley? Seems kind of weak.
Citation needed
Seems like a big pile of nothing. Which isn't to say people should trust Thiel, just that this doesn't out him as some spook given the stuff the article says he was giving tips on.
I was in Japan for a couple weeks for work earlier this month. There were multiple posters throughout my company's building about ESG and the company's ESG efforts.
I'm not knowledgeable at all on Hindu; what is the Hindu take on LGBT bullshit?
I donated to Wikipedia once several years ago. Only like 10 bucks but still. Was a time where I was much more naive. They send me emails all the time begging.
Yeah people here often go a bit over the top with things like that. Its kind of like a twisted form of virtue signaling. She should definitely lose her job and be barred from teaching, but death penalty is a bit much. I would say she's likely a bad person, but unless it was forced I would not immediately call her a monster.
When people say something is or is not AI, they generally are not referring to the presence or lack of sentience. I mean, maybe some layman normies are, but the field of AI is not centered around an attempt to imbue machines with sentience.
This brings to mind that one Dijkstra quote where he says something along the lines of the question of whether or not a machine can think is as relevant as the question of whether a submarine can swim. Regardless of what the answer is, it has zero effect on its ability to carry out its intended function.
Something like GPT4 for example, while still very limited, is absolutely the best example of AGI we have right now. And despite, again, still being quite limited, the people who rant about how useless it is really strike me as trying to be contrarian and take the exact opposite opinion of the dumb normie masses for the sake of it.
I've used GPT4 for many things with great success. It has produced code in 20 seconds that would have taken me hours. It has helped give me ideas to help with very technical subjects at my day job (will not go into details for privacy reasons).
Most recently, just yesterday I was using it to double check a Korean translation. I paid a very good professional to translate something for me to be used in a business communication, but I was paranoid about potential errors so I cross referenced the Korean source text sentence by sentence with what little Korean I know myself and also fed it to ChatGPT, and it did a stellar job both translating and giving detailed grammatical breakdowns of its reasoning that were able to then be verified elsewhere.
TLDR: AI is not about imbueing machines with sentience, and ChatGPT is much more useful and capable than many here give it credit for. Note that this says nothing about the cringe and dystopian shit programmed into it to prevent wrongthink.
At some point, is there not some responsibility that falls back on the parent? That's how it was for me.
I'm not so sure it should be the responsibility of society as a whole beyond things like making sure such things don't appear in search results unless you turn safe search off or something. Stuff like that shouldn't appear as a default.
But at some point, if a kid is going out of their way to directly search for something, as much as it isnt good, I'm not sure how much we should let other peoples' privacy be invaded to try and be a nanny state to play a role that should be undertaken by parents.
You're not wrong, but that is an issue that isn't unique to this stuff; it's an issue for all porn in general. So if someone says that they want to ban all porn, and loli/shota shit just happens to be part of that, I can respect it.
If their issue is the security side and how the current setup makes it too easy for kids to find it, I could potentially agree with that as well. The issue comes when the solutions I tend to hear proposed to that tend to be very worrying, like requiring all people ID themselves online and things like that. If there is a solution that could reasonably keep minors from finding that shit without being a huge issue regarding the anonymity of everyone using the internet, I'm all ears.
Absolutely. I dont think I've ever seen loli defenders claiming they want 18+ content of it shown in all ages places. There's zero reason for that to be allowed.
Noooooooo because you claim it shouldn't be banned that means you wanna fuck real kids! And because you don't think Call of Duty should be banned that means you wanna kill people! Reeeeeeeeee! You don't even have to like it, just disagreeing with me makes you the worst scum imaginable. It's what I tell myself to help me sleep at night.
Well they definitely made him proud this time. Had to have felt good to take out the Astros too. Hopefully their reign of terror is coming to an end now.
As for the manager situation, I'm not sure. I kind of tune out after the season barring any major free agent signings. I heard they were interviewing some dude from the Brewers but idk. Kinda just hope they hire from within.