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next conclave is going to be woke DEI pope vs super hitler 2

everything in society feels designed specifically to hurt you and make you feel deeply responsible for making society hurt you by fucking up

I still fail to see the moral issue with this even from the other side, they just want us dead simple 'as.

So-called “free thinkers” when they turn the faucet off while brushing their teeth because of a Barney the Dinosaur song they heard when they were 5

Nimble-fingered thieves swarm souqs and markets. A cautious warrior arranges affairs so that a theft does not become a fatal loss. https://cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurity/mobile-phone-security/?s=mc

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Issues surrounding foreigners: LDP calls for “zero illegality,” CDP calls for further acceptance; Ishin calls on restricting number https://www.byteseu.com/1164392/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News

@Nimbius666 I have my credit history frozen or whatever so that nobody is able to do credit checks on me and fuck my score up unless I go in and unfreeze it ahead of time. I haven't applied for any new lines of credit in over a year.

>Youre also not allowed to know the formula or functions that determine your score.

This is so dystopian and kinda fucked up.

So the Pentagon found no risk to US readiness, but Hegseth still paused the delivery of weapons to Ukraine https://www.byteseu.com/1164397/ #Ukraine #UkraineWarVideoReport #UkraineWarVideos #UkraineWarVideoReport

“we publish the truth regardless of the source or who it hurts” can turn into “because of who this hurts, we should publish it, then we look like truth-tellers” if one isn’t careful

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@lain I remember picking up hitch-hikers as a kid. Like, being in the car with my folks driving somewhere and stopping to pick up hitch-hikers and take them down the road with us. It used to be pretty commonplace, as I recollect.

How come all home appliances peaked reliability in the 70s? Freezers, washers and dryers, vacuum cleaners, cars, toasters, everything. It was all figured out over 50 years ago but we've slowly overengineered everything to the point you're often more efficient just doing chores by hand like it's the 1800s.