Varyk 9 hours ago • 60%
I don't think that article is correct.
I've never understood subsequent realization to be integral to the dissonance itself, which already exists regardless of one's awareness of it.
It's like insisting that you are not depressed unless you "realize" you're depressed.
unless by "realization" that article simply mean experiencing conflicting emotions, which is the cognitive dissonance itself.
requiring "realization" feels like putting a hat on a hat.
Casual Conversation
What's your favorite pick-me-up?
Varyk 10 hours ago • 100%
if it's a task I have to do, I literally just make myself physically take the first step no matter how much I don't want to, because once I'm in media res, inertia kicks in.
Casual Conversation
any plans for the holidays?
Varyk 10 hours ago • 100%
There are a ton of October holidays in India, including Diwali, the festival of lights, the biggest holiday in India, so I'm going to travel around the country in October and observe some celebrations!
and hopefully eat like the best fucking food everyday.
Technology
AI videos of US leaders singing Chinese go viral in China.
Varyk 11 hours ago • 100%
I was hoping for a much higher quality, but they're still kind of funny
Varyk 11 hours ago • 87%
holding two conflicting beliefs at the same time.
like you don't believe in the death penalty, but you read about a child molester and want them to die.
PalestineVaryk 13 hours ago • 100%
if you don't understand the comments or you're confused, ask for help.
which part don't you understand or cannot find sources for?
"Israel cannot exist in its current state without the aid and protection the US provides it".
israel is a technologically advanced independent country with a functioning government, they have an enormous GDP across various industries, and they receive economic and military support from dozens of other countries.
it benefits Israel to receive billions of dollars every year from the US(as it benefits the US) as a historic mutual defense ally, but Israel is in no way entirely dependent on or explicitly beholden to the US.
"If the US actually wanted Israel to stop murdering civilians, it could have it done tomorrow."
how? there is no evidence for this.
The US is a third party to this conflict that, more obviously than ever, has limited diplomatic control over the actions of the current Israeli government and its military.
Varyk 13 hours ago • 100%
"The iron dome is funded and built with American hardware"
this is partly correct, as obama matched the billions of dollars israel spent on the iron dome.
"If the US disassembled it..."
the US has no right or obligation to "disassemble" another countries infrastructure any more than Nigeria has the right to disassemble the French metro; this is a non-starter.
"Israel would be unable to act with impunity towards its neighbors..."
this is entirely incorrect as Israel does not require US funding to maintain the iron dome, their military, or their aggression.
The annual GDP of Israel is something like 600 billion now, taking away the 3 billion the US gives them each year isn't going to make the difference you think it will, even ignoring all of the other countries that fund israel.
Varyk 20 hours ago • 100%
a lot of aggregators just throw shit together, but 1440 works pretty hard on making sure their articles are simply reporting significant news from reliable sources.
Varyk 20 hours ago • 100%
as far as a collection of news, I get a lot of it from 1440, which compiles current, objective news stories reliably.
I get ideas from the posts here, but I'm pretty careful about checking multiple sources before accepting any of the articles people post here as legitimate information.
Varyk 20 hours ago • 100%
none of those sources are at all relevant to the topic: provide evidence for either of these baseless statements:
"Israel cannot exist in its current state without the aid and protection the US provides it".
this statement is incorrect, as explained above.
"If the US actually wanted Israel to stop murdering civilians, it could have it done tomorrow."
this statement is incorrect, as explained above.
VeganVaryk 22 hours ago • 25%
"Israel cannot exist in its current state without the aid and protection the US provides it".
israel is a technologically advanced independent country with a functioning government, they have an enormous GDP across various industries, and they receive economic and military support from dozens of other countries.
it benefits Israel to receive billions of dollars every year from the US(as it benefits the US) as a historic mutual defense ally, but Israel is in no way entirely dependent on or explicitly beholden to the US.
"If the US actually wanted Israel to stop murdering civilians, it could have it done tomorrow."
how? there is no evidence for this.
The US is a third party to this conflict that, more obviously than ever, has limited diplomatic control over the actions of the current Israeli government and its military.
Varyk 1 day ago • 100%
Dana, Dana, how could anyone be this right?
amazing.
Varyk 1 day ago • 22%
blech, no it isn't.
Americans largely do not support this genocide.
The israeli government, most Israeli citizens, and the idf are supporting and continuing a genocide they have perpetrated for decades.
The US is one of many countries that sells weapons to Israel and provides them with aid, continuing over half a century of mutual support.
that does not make the US equally culpable as the Israeli government and military making the decision to continue genocide and defy the UN.
The Israeli government and the IDF are choosing to perpetuate this genocide.
"why isn’t the U.S. stopping Israel, as it surely could simply by pausing the constant flow of weapons?"
One of the reasons is that pausing us weapon shipments would not stop Israel at all.
The US is one of a couple dozen countries regularly supplying Israel with weapons.
Israel has a huge stockpile of weapons, and even if they had zero weapons, one country not selling them weapons would not stop the other two dozen countries selling weapons to them after fifty years or more of providing military support.
another reason is that playing this final card removes any tangible control the us has on the situation politically.
at this point, i personally think a sale of weapons pause is the right idea, but the joint Chiefs of staff highly value Middle Eastern stability that they maintain through strong Israeli military support and are not going to sever ties with their largest and most powerful ally in the Middle East without a reason to (go to the protests).
there are lots of reasons why the US hasn't paused weapons shipments, but this article isn't going to supply any real answers because they're pushing a short-sighted, ill-informed, inaccurate opinion piece rather than critically and realistically analyzing the situation.
BuddhismVaryk 1 day ago • 100%
cool, looking forward to it.
slub-scrbd.
"-ish" it for sure, no worries about a strict schedule, don't want to burn out.
Varyk 1 day ago • 100%
Cool. I like this one, I assume I'll like the other one ones.
me and hermits get along.
Electric Vehicles
BYD would still have the cheapest EV in the US, even with a 100% tariff
Varyk 1 day ago • 88%
because the auto industry is a huge part of the American retail market and they're afraid this will give China a huge edge on taking over the global economy, which it totally will, but it is the fault of the USA for not supporting their domestic industries.
AndroidVaryk 2 days ago • 100%
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Varyk 2 days ago • 100%
yup, egg soboro.
woo that toast you make sounds goood
WTFVaryk 3 days ago • 25%
"Very sad!" - okay, Donald.
"troll". how?
is this like how you used "gatekeeping" incorrectly earlier?
Varyk 3 days ago • 20%
If you want to believe that agreeing with what I said is some kind of argument, go for it.
Varyk 3 days ago • 100%
it sounds like you were protecting the Nazi-punchers rather than the Nazis.
That's the right call!
Varyk 3 days ago • 33%
there are lots of topics that people choose to take offense at for any number of reasons, I try to sympathize when possible.
Saying that waves being on the ocean is not exactly "WTF" is apparently on that list.
TIL.
Varyk 3 days ago • 100%
Varyk 3 days ago • 100%
just like violence isn't applicable everywhere, non-violence isn't applicable everywhere.
back in the day, nazis used to get violently run out of shows because they tried to infiltrate the punk movement and punks said "Nazi punks fuck off" and then punched them until they left.
Varyk 3 days ago • 7%
"What a dumb thing to say" - ieatpillowtags
goes on to exactly agree with the "dumb" conclusion that not many people know about waves because they live in cities and don't spend much time on the water.
slick.
also, "gatekeeping" in what world?
that's completely inapplicable here.
Varyk 3 days ago • 7%
i know all about rogue waves, thanks.
people are unfamiliar with waves. I wouldn't have guessed that, but I guess more and more people live in cities these days.
this is good knowledge to have in my back pocket.
Varyk 3 days ago • 100%
sounds great, except I don't know what celery salt is.
what is that?
oh, literally celery seeds ground up with salt.
I don't think I've ever cooked with it before. I'm going to have to give that a try, that's definitely a good combination.
Varyk 3 days ago • 13%
idk, waves? waves aren't unexpected on the ocean.
that's a good swell, but it didn't really WTF break my brain, did this break other brains?
here, this is more wtf: a serial urinator violating the candle section at dollar tree.
Varyk 3 days ago • 94%
boat hits a swell in front/side, stutters, fast moving swell is momentarily moving faster than the boat in the right direction.
that wave was probably hitting the side of the boat right as it was dipping down, so it climbed up the side of the boat and on to the deck
Varyk 3 days ago • 100%
egg soboro right now: crack an egg in a pan, constant stirring, 8 minutes or so at the lowest heat, super fluffy, flavored textured egg curds.
Free Video Game Giveaways
[Itch.io] Death Rings of Jupiter
Varyk 4 days ago • 100%
that is such a good name.
FacepalmVaryk 4 days ago • 100%
I feel like if they took it super seriously and made weekly 1 minute videos, they'd amass a pretty solid following.
Varyk 4 days ago • 100%
okay so a great YouTube channel is a gatherer very seriously stalking and pouncing on plants that they gather, like Calvin hunting the box of cereal.
Memes
We used to be able to just take a duck and now, in this political climate, it's a problem?! SMH
Varyk 4 days ago • 100%
urban foraging
MusicVaryk 5 days ago • 100%
better title is "perry attacks dave".
The altercation didn't look mutual.
I used sink plungers in toilets pretty much my whole life until i scrolled across a similar diagram one day and discovered the truth.
What happened in the vegan community? I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.
for anyone with the same problem, I add a border until the photo is larger than 1600x2650, at which point you can see the entire photo on the screen, as shown here:  This is one of the dumbest things I deal with on the pixel, although there are a lot of dumb things with this phone. OP below: ever since I got the pixel, one of the most frustrating non-Functionalities has been that I have to manually screenshot any picture that I want to make into a wallpaper background because my Google pixel 6 enlarges by about 3x any photo, I choose to make my wallpaper background and cannot make the picture smaller by pinching it smaller. but now even if I save a screenshot, it blows it up more than 3x and I have to manually add a giant border around the picture in an external app so that the picture itself is much smaller if I want to see the entire picture on my phone wallpaper. is this just some shitty thing with my phone or do all pixels do this?
Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!
I keep seeing him but can't figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?
So that,'s a bummer. Fidget spinners I knew about. Fidget guns I did not. hashtag babies need guns too. 
It's here: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Flookaside.instagram.com%2Fseo%2Fgoogle_widget%2Fcrawler%2F%3Fmedia_id%3D3315223092475838181&tbnid=ePm-IWvBiHwkZM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fbenbeirreuge%2Fp%2FC4CCde-M_tB%2F&docid=h-1N1e03nty40M&w=1440&h=1800&hl=en-US&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F4&kgs=071a5391bbb01dd6&shem=abme%2Ctrie
What a cool lady.
I'm having trouble seeing the points and I noticed that they're a dull gray and I believe tinier than they used to be. Has anyone else having trouble reading the points in the smaller new font or is it update panic mode and I'm not acclimatized yet?
archive.org
Thought I'd throw this up since the link is missing from the op and it is a very cool catalog.
www.youtube.com
It's unfortunately such a pop culture joke that I've never listened to it before now. I just listened to it, and it's amazing.
SOLVED by joneskind I have Ubuntu 20.04.1, I've installed ollama and a couple llms, it's amazing, but tinyllama is gibberish and I've just realized I don't know how to remove the llms from my computer or where they're stored, or anything about them. Mistral is very impressive btw
I learned a lot about donestication from this video. I knew domestication was basically eugenic, but I didn't realize it could happen in so few generations.
This is the most fun I've had with any Ninja turtles media since like that comic book where they had to fight a bunch of stuff some kid drew because he had a magic crystal. The art is beautiful and very cool, the jokes were really fun, the turtles have great personalities and everyone is a great voice actor. I had so much fun watching this. There were even a few spots in the movie, like more than one where I was on the edge of my seat enthralled by the action sequences. Highly recommended.
So apparently 60 animated white ninja shorts based on the white ninja web comic aired on Vine, does anyone have any idea where they are now? https://ipf.ca/series/white-ninja/ This place says season 2 is available on toonstar, but I didn't even know what that is. I checked their website but there's nothing, like not even links anywhere to anything so I could poke around the site at all.
What an absolutely perfect depiction of this universe. I'm starting the second episode of season 1 now.
Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything. In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there. As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you're released. The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head). $20-$80 a day according to Rutgers. Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back. https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees
Update: Answered in the comments much more thoroughly and succinctly than I can summarize, so head below for some great answers. --- She's apparently the warrant officer, which I've seen hypothetical explanations state is the XO, the second in command, but she explicitly states that she is the third officer at the end of the movie, and throughout The movie she is the pilot and she checks the electrician's work and volunteers to go fight the alien first, and also states that she is in command while the others were off the ship. So was Kane second in command? And what is a warrant officer? Thank you BTW if there is a crazy Aliens expert, I have a few tiny questions that only a crazy fan who literally read everything ever written and watched every interview about the movie might be able to answer.
It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote. There have been several experiments that indicate people can see without using their visual cortex.
A lot of my regular emails and correspondences with my contacts are getting sent to my spam folder. I'd rather individually block an address rather than have the spam filter automatically capture emails that I'm not aware of.
Incidentally, it's a pretty great show. I am way more jazzed about watching this fan-made fallout show than I was when I saw the preview for the upcoming netflix show. In case you want to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPkaQM4NJKU&t=7522
And there's no way to fix it short of flashing a new rom,as I understand. Just have to deal with the extra step now. I was not impressed with this phone and they just keep making it less-user friendly. I mean how the fuck are they justifying not letting you see which devices are connected to your hotspot? Ri-diks.
So the dog. Opening scene. If it's just looking to infect everyone it possibly can, it doesn't make a lot of sense for it to turn around and stare at the pursuing helicopter. Are there prevailing fan theories about the reason that the dog, presumably the surviving thing, stopped and looked back at the pursuing helicopter?
Sherman: Your methods pretty scientific lady Anne: studied urine biology before I met Steve The movie is way more fun than I was worried about, it was James Cameron's directorial debut. It's very dumb, but the enjoyable kind.
Hit me right away, but face close-up in the comments
Everything takes place over a few hours, or entirely set during the immediate aftermath of an automobile crash, for example? I'd like to avoid "and it was all a dream", time travel, or similar plot devices if possible. I'm curious what a novel of any length purposely confined to a strict time window in-story reads like. Maybe I should be reading more plays. Thanks.
PSA There was a comment a couple months ago now I think about people concerned that VPNs no longer worked in China. I traveled in China for several weeks over the lunar new year last month and tested proton, Nord, astrill, and a few random small ones I found off the chinese-accessible internet via Baidu without a vpn, and all of them work fine with the exception of one rabbit one that stated it refused to work in China. But if anyone had any lingering concerns about the viability of using a VPN in China, they all worked fine, and the three big ones I mentioned worked fine all day every day, the smaller ones disconnected after an hour or so and then you would have to reconnect. But they all worked, even over the holidays when the government is supposed to crack down on VPNs. Right now there's a party committee going on for a few days so vpns are supposed to be shut off, but my friend is using a VPN in China and sent me messages from Gmail, which is inaccessible in China without a VPN, to let me know that they're still working. Corollary PSA, my tickets from NY to Hong Kong were 274 bucks last month one-way, so prices are pretty crazy low right now, or at least they were several weeks ago.
Actors not sweeping correctly when somebody broke a glass or somebody's ashes were spilled on the floor or something like that is infuriating hahha. They're always having some serious conversation with heavy relationship complications, but whoever has the broom is literally tapping at the mess on the floor because they know that the production crew is going to clean it up for them after the shoot, so they, the ac-tors, don't have to actually sweep the mess into the dustbin. I f****** hate that.
  
A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area. All of the permits issued were canceled upon the ruling. It's awesome. https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/02/plan-to-mine-in-ecuador-forest-violate-rights-of-nature-court-rules-aoe
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, talking about anonymous tens of millions of dollars with an obvious conservative bias and the donors not being disclosed being funneled to American conservatives, particularly high level judges and politicians, referred to it as "the dark money monster and the tsunami of slime"
Australia is about 200 times bigger, by landmass, 7.7 million to Taiwan's 36,000 square km
I always assumed credit scores were an integral and historic part of the American financial system. They were not, they are very recent，most of your parents didn't have credit scores growing up, and as you can probably tell or at least intuit, it's mostly just a b******* scheme for those with capital to accrue more capital by invading your privacy.
