thrance

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by thrance 9mo ago
You'd think the guy that appears >1M times in the files would at least have its existence acknowledged in any article about who was in Epstein's sphere.
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by thrance 9mo ago
Not a single mention of Trump. Really fucking impressive journalism.
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by thrance 9mo ago
I hope, in decades to come, that whenever the old and tired "2A protects us from tyranny" argument gets made, we can point back to the Trump years and simply reply "the guns were freaking useless, man".
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by thrance 9mo ago
Fresh water and gas turbines, I'm afraid...
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by thrance 9mo ago
Even moreso as a paying customer: being one is a strong signal that you have disposable income.
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by thrance 9mo ago
What you're proposing is awfully dystopian. If people don't want kids anymore, then let them not have kids. Society should adapt to the will of its members, not the other way around. And with all our technology we can live very de
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by thrance 9mo ago
The last times so many tech ads made their way to the Superbowl was during the crypto craze and the dot-com bubble. These are symptoms of an overly speculative economy.
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by thrance 9mo ago
To play DOOM. telnet doom.w-graj.net 666
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by thrance 9mo ago
Funny, because the impact of introducing ads on the editorial line of any publication that does it is very real. I'd expect the same from ChatGPT.
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by thrance 9mo ago
Thanks, that was very interesting. Another reminder of how fucked up our world is.
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by thrance 9mo ago
We absolutely have proof that Trump is, in fact, a pedophile. Still doubting that is weirdly delusional, more probably plainly dishonest. > Continuing to call him a pedo just looks like more partisan politics, which uninterested people
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by thrance 9mo ago
Is it really better if it's made by slaves in the Global South, from a mix of plastics and crops grown in an unsustainable way, then shipped across the globe, and made to last about seven washing cycles before being disposed? Debatable
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by thrance 9mo ago
At the time, the quality of machine-made clothes was noticeably worse than human-made. It's debatable wether the "consumers" (the term certainly wasn't used at the time) won in the end. Terry Pratchett's "Boots
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by thrance 9mo ago
Nothing new here, that's basically what the luddites complained about: the machines that replaced them output worse quality garments and sent them all to the streets. It only benefitted the owners. Capital will always seek to rid itsel
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by thrance 9mo ago
I'd say it goes beyond nationalism. Even countries that haven't succumbed to the far right are forced to play by the new rules. I've heard some refer to it as "neomercantilism".
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by thrance 9mo ago
There's Freeciv [1] for IV , and Unciv [2] for V . I doesn't have many fans, VI is too recent, and VII , well... Let's not talk about VII . > Civ fans tend to prefer [...] I'd say, each entry in the series get
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by thrance 9mo ago
Trump's BBB brought more than $1 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy.
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by thrance 9mo ago
> It took a disease killing a massive portion of the working population to weaken feudalism in Western Europe. Erm... sure, but I don't see what that has to do with my comment? Transitions between political systems are rarely pleasa
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by thrance 9mo ago
> Why is that only a problem for democracy? Because democracy at least pretends to give power to the people. Except letting a few individuals wield enough wealth and power to buy media, politicians and judges is completely antagonistic t
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by thrance 9mo ago
Billionaires should be taxed away from existence. This much wealth and power is hugely detrimental to society. It's not even good for themselves, with how miserable and wretched they look and behave.
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by thrance 9mo ago
Then why are billionaires so anti-taxation? This is completely incoherent.
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by thrance 9mo ago
Weak public servants mean strong private actors: that's what's currently eating the US republic from the inside. You have a few billionaires (Trump, Musk, Bezos, Thiel, Ellison, Zuckerberg...) able to buy their way into power and
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by thrance 9mo ago
"all those not in favor of maximising immigration" is an hyperbole. Do you think the comparison between ICE and the Gestapo is completely unwarranted? Obviously the scales are very different ( for now ), but it feels justified e
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by thrance 9mo ago
Mussolini literally coined the word "fascist" to name his movement. Hitler never hid the fact he based his own movement on Mussolini's, so he'd probably describe his party as fascist too. Later, the word became extremely
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by thrance 9mo ago
I get it too, in France. You can disable it in the settings.
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by thrance 9mo ago
I think the limiting factor is capital, not code. And I doubt GPTX is anymore competent at raising funds than the other, fleshy, snake oilers...
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by thrance 9mo ago
There is no mediocrity Republicans won't embrace. They have absolutely zero values, and can be made to accept and defend literally anything with sufficient propaganda.
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by thrance 9mo ago
Yes, and these laws are getting blatantly broken, while neither X nor the US Government are willing to do anything about it. Which is why French authorities have decided to take the matter in their own hands.
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by thrance 9mo ago
You really believe that? You think the Trump administration will force Musk's X to give the French State data about its users so CSAM abusers can be prosecuted there? This is delusional, to say the least. And let's not even touch
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by thrance 9mo ago
Generated by a stranger, then posted online on X for the whole world to see. Are you really OK with that, even if the subject was your 10 years old daughter?

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