Trump looks strange without hair over the forehead, monochrome, and with a beard right? Image below in another reply. Terrorist is a terrorist. I was too lazy to change the rest, but I took out the main offensive stuff, like what bin Laden was wanted for in this original poster from '99. There is nothing bigoted about it whatsoever; quite the opposite really, to the point I gotta ask what you’re going on about here? The man just hurt millions of families, and the poorest Americans likely leading to the deaths of tens of thousands in a conservative estimate. Bin Laden killed FAR FAR fewer Americans and others abroad.

I’m not a violent person, but I have gone down on a road bike many times and one of the common injuries is skinned up knuckles. I have some deep scars as a result. It would be easy to assume they were the result of violence. My size and build also supports this assumption. I am entirely the opposite type of person.

thumb stick: “Face-down ass-up Apple Bottom.”

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sells it for about 20 grand

Those are always rich people evading taxes in a way that boosts some initiative with absurd publicity

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4chanGPT has spoken (racism redacted)

You’ve still got time.

I was in Geometry class when 9/11 happened. The day stopped. The news was turned on in class a few minutes before the second plane struck. I watched it in real time. I had been in those towers 6 months before too…

About the worst rabbit holes for me were giving any audience to perpetual motion trolls, and Brown’s gas nonsense in car stuff.

Everyone tries to simplify messy complexity and we are all tribal in scope. I’ve learned to only pay attention to people with academic credentials. I don’t watch translated nonsense from general news outlets. The information I pick up elsewhere is more collectivised where I expect to see a bunch of people talking about something from different angles before I view the information as relevant. I also do not care for any outlets claiming to bridge some divided narrative as these are controlling where the line in the sand is drawn. If two parties are Right and Right-Jihadists like in the USA, calling one party Left is manipulating by validating the status quo and outdated perspective.

What changed me started with stratification of rock layers and realizing deep time was not compatible with my religious narrative. I encountered a sharp personal dislike for biases and prejudice against others without logic or reason. I encountered a lot of plausible seeming arguments, but ultimately the people making those arguments had nothing to offer; they are trolls with no depth, interests, personality, community, richness in life. Look at such a person’s profile and they are not real. There is no greater engagement or value they add to the world. All they do is make arguments that muddle political narratives. I learned to view these people as either getting paid to post or idiots. I care about real people and that means your politics should only ever be a small part of your person and profile. Any person that lacks a serious passion project and hobby(s) but posts their politics is a joke to me.

In a way, I extend this to any group now. Like do people in your group include Nobel laureates that contribute significantly to the advancement of humanity. Because if they don’t, why bother wasting time with fools that lack top aspirations. Live life with no excuses. Excuses are for fools. Do the best you can with the cards you’re dealt in life.

I was raised Right. Change is a long series of events that no one person or interaction triggers. Dogma is only truly changed from within.

I know my weakness is my emotional depth. I keep protections in place mentally with a zero tolerance policy of trust. Like if my boss or coworker cheats on their partner, I know I will never trust that person or their character/ethics. The concept is one of the few that I retain from my religious past: “faithful in little; faithful in much.” Any person that shrugs off little lies or dishonesty is revealing their true ethics or lack there of. I do not try to hide who I am or lie about anything intentionally. Therein lies my lack of depth. I am unaware of how people filter and mask who they are in intentional ways, so anyone that shows harmful potential is someone I avoid and never trust more than is convenient or that I am forced.

Imagine being disabled 11 years ago, falling through the cracks and getting no where with disability benefits, in California where this should be easier than most places. I’m looking at homelessness and dying in a gutter somewhere on a cold rainy night because of a super unlucky bicycle commute to work when I encountered two SUVs crashing directly in front of me at speed. The person responsible had a two page long traffic violation history, the cognitive capacity of a third grader, and could only drive for work but was self employed. They literally drove directly into a passing SUV I was behind/beside without looking.

All I can hope for is that this breaks out into violence because that would indicate hope and that someone cares. No one cared before. There have been around 100k homeless people within 100 miles of me in the greater Los Angeles area for a decade but no one cares. Even the Dems mistreat these people as feral subhuman animals. The Nazis housed and fed people before gassing them. This is the level of ethics we were already at, so getting much worse is rage bait and an act of war and violation of fundamental unalienable human rights. A prisoner of war has more rights to be housed and fed than a disabled or homeless citizen of the USA.

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Don’t break things you only have one of. Neck and back sux

but they are watching TV and the text is commentary

If this is a lemming, which instance is it?

a bort! a bort!

US intelligence has said Xi has ordered the PLA to be capable of invasion by 2027, although military experts have noted that a number of variables – including ongoing corruption issues in the PLA and the unpredictability of US support for Taiwan under Trump – could push that in either direction.

Regardless, the PLA is now undergoing one of the biggest military buildups since the second world war. Xi has overhauled the command structure, boosted missile and nuclear stocks, and strengthened paramilitary arms including the coastguard and the paramilitary fleet of fishing boats known as the maritime militia. The different groups are cooperating more than ever on joint operations.

Satellite images show the barges were escorted by at least two civilian ships from a nearby civilian dock, and that several other boats – including some marked as fishing vessels on their tracking ID – were sailing laps behind them, appearing to practise running interference.

At least three more barges are under construction or in early testing. The barge design suggests they have been built to work with the roll-on, roll-off ferries that China has been repurposing or building to bring tanks and another heavy armoured vehicles across the Taiwan Strait.

Intel announced they are relying on TSMC even more heavily and without letup in a recent investors call. This is WW3 building up. We have an atrocious auto industry that is incapable of integrated engineering, Boeing is a shitfest, and Intel that makes iterative downgrade products that are several generations behind its own products and nowhere near AMD.

When China invades Taiwan, North Korea will invade the South at the same time. That takes out all leading edge silicon hardware instantly. We’ll have tanks that go dead when they stop and play an ad, planes that drop doors instead of munitions, and antique new computers.