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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Attempt to form moderate party |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2022, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 38
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| So many parties have never been able to get a toe hold in the US. It's easy to scoff at the idea that this one will fail too. But, the Dem's and Rep's are so polarized right now, that perhaps the timing is right. If they get the right marketing, maybe it can work. To a foreigner like me it's quite ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The patently absurd |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2022, 9:38 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I still think it makes no sense to leave the link to the dislike option and disable it. Oh, well. I've watched social media censorship get worse and worse for years, but nobody here seems to get what I'm talking about. Everybody noticed, but "censorship" is often not the right word. Getti... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Attempt to form moderate party |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2022, 9:18 pm
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Replies: 38
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| The US sure needs some new blood, but a party inbetween neoliberal liberals and neoliberal christian fundamentalists sounds pretty much like they aren't interested in changing anything substantially. What new blood are you wanting? Though by middle ground, they (Yang and Whitman) likely mean betwee... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Attempt to form moderate party |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2022, 8:09 pm
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Replies: 38
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| The US sure needs some new blood, but a party inbetween neoliberal liberals and neoliberal christian fundamentalists sounds pretty much like they aren't interested in changing anything substantially. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: "Rape Ideology" subcategory of "Great Replacement Theory" |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2022, 7:06 pm
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Replies: 4
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| I was going to say something along the lines of "what could possibly go wrong if you interprete 'freedom of speech' to mean people can call their little club 'rapekrieg'" But then I remembered that groups like that over here have names like NSU and actually kill people, i.e., they get pros... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: GTA 6 Will Have Watered Down Humor |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2022, 9:30 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,070
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| Franchises ruined by wokeness so far: Terminator Star wars MCU He-man Men in Black Ghostbusters Saints Row GTA Simpsons Lord of the Rings Get Woke, Go Broke remains true for most of it all. Then damage control comes in and they start blaming and attacking fans because their latest installments crit... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: GTA 6 Will Have Watered Down Humor |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2022, 8:11 pm
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Replies: 45
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| Oh no, they're not going to be edgelords anymore? God help us, clearly all freedom has been lost because they've voluntarily chosen to be less edgy. What's wrong with edginess? Is it required? Are they obliged to keep being as immature as always? You're whining over a non-issue and framing it like ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Democrats funding of MAGA candidates |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2022, 7:55 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,530
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| Be careful what you wish for, as the old saying goes, because you might just get it. Democrats believe extreme candidates would be easier to defeat, without taking into consideration that extremism might just be what's being looked for in more conservative areas. The Dems might just be planting the... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Free Will - the illusion |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2022, 8:41 pm
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Replies: 128
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| I believe in 100% predeterminism and 0% free will. I look at astrology sometimes, when I put my birthday into a website to get my chart calculated I read the interpretation and it was so accurate that I cant believe in free will anymore..and after becoming Christian the bible denies free will prett... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I feel like I live in a t.v show/movie. |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2022, 10:22 am
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Replies: 14
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| As t.v. show, the US basically nuked the fridge. Had a conversation yesterday about someone tweeting something about climate change and first reply was "but socialism never worked"... It's not that I think Americans are more stupid than other people, but they're so much faster at being stu... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: SSRIs under the spotlight again |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2022, 10:35 pm
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Replies: 14
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But prescribing pills is so much easier than telling people to quit the job they hate, leave the city they can't afford and stop chasing a dream that simply can't be achieved by millions of people at the same time.
Our society needs most of us desperate, but in working condition. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Think Bannon's going to jail? |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2022, 9:51 pm
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Replies: 13
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| Hitler was in a cushy prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. He wrote a book there, Mein Kampf, which means "My Struggle" in German. That prison sentence, proof of not being part of the establishment, vote for me scam is getting so old. If it's not prison it's some other public injustice and ... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: lo and behold: FACEBALL, a game you play with your face |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2022, 9:15 pm
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Replies: 5
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| I've always wanted to try something that reads brain waves, it always seemed kind of crazy to me. This here works through apple's ARKit, which is a machine learning model that is trained to interpret faces and outputs numeric values, like "eyebrows up 50%", which you can either use to ani... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: lo and behold: FACEBALL, a game you play with your face |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2022, 12:12 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Technically, yes. I know there are a few devices that read brain waves, but only extremely low resolution, so thinking "forward" could work as a signal, while thinking "backward" may not be distinguishable from "forward", so you'd need to think something very different,... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: lo and behold: FACEBALL, a game you play with your face |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2022, 4:04 pm
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| First: the game runs on PC, but requires a modern-ish iPhone running the facial motion capture app. With that said: here it is: https://shlaifu.itch.io/faceball Faceball, the greatest face controlled game I know of. Yes, you control it with your face via facial mo-cap. Both the game and the unity mo... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: New trailer for Rings of Power Released |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 12:49 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,246
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| The penis-shaped rocket of television series. |
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