Bluesky has a lot of artists. Posting this video here: https://youtu.be/I4mdMMu-3fc

They’re thinking like Qing Dynasty or general Dynastic Era China? History really does repeat. They really want “Tribute” now…

Sigh…

Decadence? No. Moreso vanity, moreso arrogance, moreso pride is our downfall. The American people feel the need to feel as if they are superior to everyone out there. We fucking placed tariffs on Taiwan. They basically already agreed to cuck themselves and build a chip fab on US soil, thus eventually removing our need to protect them for their chips. But no, we fucked their wife, and now we’re going for their ass too. Vanity, arrogance, pride. We are going down the same path as the Qing. Autarkic, Insular, leading to falling behind and getting fucked.

You know what I find funny. The US fucking whinges about China nearly all the time. Yet they seek to become Insular and Autarkic. They make the same mistake the Qing Dynasty did.

Edit Addendum: The Qing dynasty, is often seen as prizing its material abundance and cultural legacy so highly that it sometimes failed to adapt to new challenges and technological advancements. This narrow focus is often cited as one of the factors that contributed to their eventual decline.

Equating the greatness or state of the nation with it’s wealth.

Imma just post this video here: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

What the current administration is doing tracks with this video fairly accurately. Basically, “Network States” are what they want. It’s basically what exists in Honduras right now in the form of "Prospera, which is a network state that operates in that country.

Doesn’t that just make it easier for the US to conscript people?

I wonder if this has all just been a campaign to make Signal look untrustworthy to the US public? It would be bad for the fascist federales if the US public started using Signal en masse. Surveillance would be made significantly harder. They’re currently blaming signal for the leak rn.

Which community on the .ml instance did you post this on?

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

You hate the culture as a whole? Or hate just the regressive/reactionary/conservative/more traditional(to a westerner) elements of it?

Brain Drain incoming.

Basically, although base intelligence/smartness perhaps has two parameters that make it? Effort and speed. Everyone can put in a bit more effort, but base speed may be baked in, unless one trains it, and max reachable base speed will depend from person to person. Hell if I know, we haven’t really created a definitive definition for intelligence yet.

Edit Addendum: As for what can be considered dumb or smart? I agree, lack of effort can be considered “dumb”. Though the word dumb is a bit broad. I guess we can say many people are, out of habit, “intellectually heedless”

I’m of the opinion that most people aren’t dumb, but rather most don’t put in the requisite intellectual effort to actually reach accurate or precise or nuanced positions and opinions. Like they have the capacity to do so! They’re humans after all, and us humans can be pretty smart. But a brain accustomed to simply taking the path of least resistance is gonna continue to do so until it is forced(hopefully through their own action) to actually do something harder.

Put succinctly: They can think, yet they don’t.

What makes you say that?

Cuck Schumer primary assfuck him immediately

Tbh, I’m more worried about their advances in EUV lithography. Still around 5-10 years away, but still.

Hmmm, perhaps people should start linking threads from here on reddit…

I don’t know about psychedelics like LSD. You’d think that shit would kill his ego, but it hasn’t.

Free will, fate, and randomness all play a role in our universe, each parameter affecting each other. There is no such thing as absolute free will, nor does absolute determinism guide our universe, nor does absolute randomness. I think however, that our closest understanding to the inherent nature of our universe is a form of randomness.

I’m afraid there may be a resurgence of the HIV denialism movement given that RFK is now secretary of health.