KoboldKomrade [he/him]

The real conspiracy “theory”: the US gov pushed 911 truthers to delegitimate any narrative except the official one.

(“Theory” because this basically has to be true at this point. Also see the push to platform cranks like flat earthers and associate them with “conspiracy theory”.)

I’ve heard a few different people argue that all of them are really just pride/greed. Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth are just Greed in different “areas” of life. Wrath and Pride are more similar, but could be seen as either Greed itself, or as a reaction to greed. Like, wrath as a protective reaction to one’s greed, and pride as a reaction once greed has been achieved.

I think one of them even suggested its all pride, as Christianity largely sees pride as the #1 sin. To me it makes sense, because a medieval peasant could run this show better then god at this point. If the poors think they’re better then the dumbass running the show, they might do something. Make even the thought of replacing god a crime and you got a self controlling populace.

A random meteor hitting us is a bigger problem and somehow these “journalists” print this crap. “Freedom of the press” really just means “Freedom to print nazi opinion pieces”.

The failure to denazify west germany by shooting any “solder” or “officer” and its consequences.

Seriously. These people have zero respect for you. Have respect for yourself.

What are they going to do, sue you for a 30 year old game? That no one at the company made? Really, it proves that the average software dev isn’t a creative. They have 0 respect for prior work, even if its their own creation. And I say that as a dev. Like sometimes old code sucks and isn’t worth the bytes. But a whole work? Gone because a company decided it cut into their budget by more then a dollar?

Rome total war has problems, but its still probably the best TW game. CA released a “remaster” that is… just trash. The original got a patch, and that patch completely broke it on windows 10. They pushed that patch onto steam, hid the original, and now only sell the remaster. Its a fucking joke.

Meanwhile I’ve see the source code for one of the original MMOs because the devs threw it out there, and people picked it up and got it running. Its impossible for me to follow (I wanted to pull the sprites because they’re amazing), but I respect it because it was and is impressive for the mid 90s. Incredible to think that if these dorks were in charge, it’d just be gone.

Probably plenty? Because of diabetes. Or because they remember high school science/chemistry. Our education system sucks, and we suck at remembering shit, but there are some things a huge number of Americants remember because our system(s) forces us to.

Some are jokes at this point (Mitochondrion are the powerhouse of the cell), others are dangerous (Shit about the Slaving Fathers), others are just wrong (“Everyone” thought the world was small, because Columbus sucked at math). Sure average joe might not know what glucose exactly is, but even I sometimes mix it up.

I like mentioning chirality to people, but even I couldn’t remember if dextrose WAS glucose or if it was an isomer the other day. The average American might have some trouble with THAT sentence, but thats because its been 20 years since they’ve had to think about chemistry.

Couple personal examples: We had a program about maple syrup, and the older (like 30+ older) understood me better when I said “carbohydrates, like sugar” versus just saying “carbohydrates”. Neurons sometimes need to be reattached, but the ideas are still floating around our mixed up brain gunk.

Grandma and family knew what glucose was, because they actually were trying to not die from diabetes. They didn’t understand the full complexity of shit like fructose, etc. But they did understand both are sugars and could spike their levels.

And honestly, good for companies putting what sweeteners they’re using in bigger text. Having to dig into a giant block to figure out if this is “real” sugar, some crappy artificial shit, a decent artificial one, or stevia is fucking annoying.

Lovely that libs think socialists are bloodthirsty devils, then buddy up with the nuclear demons.

Literal Iraq/Afghanistan repeat. God must be using chatgpt, this writing is getting lazy.

Redditors will keep posting about social credit score, meanwhile America does worse without even any public knowledge or oversight.

I feel like even before I became a socialist I realized this. Like it shouldn’t be that hard (in the sense of breaking from stated liberal theory) to recognize it for the average lib… I could imagine a lib even being moderately successful in being aggressive against “conservative aggression costing us so much abroad”.

Some conservatives and chuds seem more aware then the average lib about foreign meddling. Often its because they want to be isolationist/bring home fascism, but a lot of “average joes” at least say they don’t see the point in constantly stepping in shit (that we left) overseas. Its really funny. Its like the conservatives yell about X thing abroad, but (some number) don’t actually believe it to be a threat. But then the libs pick it up and unironically believe it. Like at this time, I’d expect more conservatives to say something like Iraq was bs that obama kept us in, then a liberal saying it was bs that bush dragged us into.

During college I got a lot of the “intellectual elite” libs saying that liberalism, free trade, etc, brings global peace and prosperity. Peace of Westphalia, magna carta, or w/e shit they pull out for “modern civilized” global-national organization… All of it is just the weakest cover to pretend to be nice while being 20x as evil as they say Stalin was.

They’re so desperate I saw airforce recruiter pamplets in a tropical smoothie. I guess its the only branch appropriate for someone who likes “healthy” food and/or cold smoothies. (Funny since I briefly thought about the chairforce before realizing I didn’t want to die for oil.)

IIRC there are experiments where a tomato top is grafted onto a potato bottom. So in theory you can have the tomato fruits and harvest potatoes when the plant is done. Tricky part is grafting it and (I assume) keeping a close eye on it since its seperate species.

They’re distant cousins so it works. IDK how far tobacco is, but I assume its a bit further and thus harder.

Fun fact, all three have some level of nicotine in them. Just the potatoes/tomatoes have such a low level you’d die of one of the other alkoloids before you could get a noticable nicotine dose.

$4m is nothing lol. Thats 80 researchers pay at 50k/year, for 1 year (or basically the pay of like 2 people for their career). An acre of land near here is at least 10k, so 400 acres. More realistically, its like 25k, so <200 acres. Its the price of a ‘good’ mansion + some land for ONE rich family. $4m is fairly reasonable for a “middle class” person in America to earn in a lifetime, or to have total in assests for a small business. It’s nothing in the scale of a state (country or provence) level budget.

And that’s not going into comparisons with mil-tech. Besides the cost of the planes that can’t fly, there’s like 200+ people on a carrier. If you’re paying ALL of them minimum wage, you’re nearly at $4m a year there. (84052*200=~3.3m)

Like, congrats, a dumbass like me could find as much waste off the top of my head for free, as you did over 4 months for unknown cost. These people should be locked up for the rest of the solar lifespan just for this butchery of reason. Again, not even accounting for the crimes against LGBT+ peoples, minorities, etc etc etc etc. The worst leftist (IE, me) could balance the budget, have every program they want, and be 10000x more ‘efficient’ then the best government these nerd could think of.

Yeah this seems to be following the logic of “there’s still snow on the ground, so it can’t be getting warmer.” Of course _something macroscopic survived each of the mass extinctions, otherwise we’d all be microbes right now.

We know larger species of plants and animals survived all major extinctions. We have similar fossils before, during, and after, that also are relatable to species currently extant. Best example would be birds, many “bird” “ancestor” species went extent during the Cretaceous event, but yet I saw a turkey a week ago. Mammals survived, many reptiles, etc etc etc. They had to survive 1 year of the event, and 75000, and 250m.

I’d say that saying all vascular plant families/genera survived the mass extinctions is misleading. Sure, ginkos still exist, but it is ONE species that was rare until humans spread it. Cicads, tree ferns, horsetails, all were much more common, and now are largely outcompeted in the cooler, dryer environment. Not _extinct but collapsed.

For the 75,000 years? Yes, a short time, but the glaciers were several miles high above where I’m sitting 15,000 years ago… Is it that surprising that portions/all of a land mass could have _some coverage by 75000? By this article’s logic, its absurd to say there was no life where I am, because the biodiversity is about average now.

“…estimates indicate that over the past 500 years, less than 0.1 per cent of known species have become extinct.” Yeah, because the effects haven’t full become reality. This isn’t as clearly defined as a meteor dumbbutt. Its 250 years of steady atmospheric change, complicated by mass damage to natural systems by noxious chemicals and improper use. Like, when the great oxygenation event started, it probably took more then 500 years for oxygen levels to get to “dangerous” levels. Would anaerobes be wise in saying “oh only 0.1% of us have died so far” then?

We’re primed to think of post-nuclear mad max worlds. But “mass extinction” doesn’t mean “no life” or “no life bigger then a bacteria”. Mass extinctions are something people study ~because its a time of greater then usual change~. All saying “there were no extinctions” is either a critically poor misunderstanding of a well proven field or trying to downplay currently above-average extinctions. (To me, the 2nd to last paragraph reads more like its the 2nd, not the 1st.)

(Might have gotten some of the specifics wrong, I misremembered PT as the end of the dinos for a minute. I’m not a bio major, and I’m tired.)

Zionists never wonder about the millions of hostages Israel has. Got reminded the other day that to leave Palestine it costs serious $$. Like more then the average American could scrounge up, let alone a person in the middle east (even outside of a blockaded, bombed, and de-industrialized place like Palestine). Last quote I was hearing was minimum $1-2k, 2 years ago. Likely at least double now.

Real “I don’t think, but I am smart” vibes from all these jerks.

We need a Nuremberg 2.0 but actually need to punish Nazis this time.

No more letting these freaks be free. If you can’t behave yourself and not act like a Nazi, sorry, you’re not going to have a free life. 100 years hard larbor or death, for everyone from the newest “agent” to the highest officer.

Source? @gork is this true???

$100 for 1m views??? Cheap asses. Ad payouts are all over the place, but one site I just checked has a minimum of 25 cents for 1000 views. Thats $250 for 1million views.

Why target their bounty when youtube will likely pay you double ~at minimum~ for the same ai slop.

Mutually assured destruction brought to the logical conclusion.

I learned how to rotate text in paint/.net. So I put more effort into this then Biden put into his entire presidency.