AwesomeLowlander @ AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works

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ROMAN-ticized too much

How else would you describe the ROMAN empire?

I'm not a video guy. Honestly, the book synopsis sounds interesting and I'll probably put it on my reading list. Videos in general are a no no for me.

While I'm sure it's probably a very interesting book, I'm not watching an entire video or reading a book just to figure out if you have a point to contribute in an ongoing discussion. Cite it or use it as a source sure, but not just throw random media titles around with no context.

3 dollar notes, the remaining balance in his account

Oh I'm pretty sure he knew it about 4 strips ago

Calvin looks adorable.

Kids always do when they're trying to get out of trouble, don't they?

What's the odds Hobbes pulled some reverse psychology to get Calvin to do it, so it's actually Hobbes at fault?

China will lose for the same reason the United States is losing. Making decisions that benefit people generally, either short term or long term, is exactly what autocracies are terrible at.

Autocracies are not inherently terrible at anything in particular, except a stable system of governance across generations. Autocrats are perfectly capable of prioritising the people, and there are many cases in history of them doing so.

China's central leadership will burn their nation's children to fuel their expansionist ideology

That's honestly hard to judge. China hasn't entered an actual modern war, so it's hard to tell how ruthless their war leadership will be when they actually take losses. Especially considering Chinese culture and the 1-child policy, high casualties might provoke a domestic retaliation.

They're certainly expansionist, and their neighbours are being very wary of them with extremely good cause.

If their goal was ecological harmony, neither of those things would make sense.

They have more than one goal, like any other country. Ecological harmony may not be at the top of the priority list, but they're making significant progress on that front. Whether that's due to genuine concern for the environment or a desire to sell stuff to the rest of the world doesn't matter.

The 'China is winning' headline is effective clickbait for jingoistic nationalists

That doesn't make it any less true. It's pretty undeniable that China is catching up or pulling ahead on many fronts, and the US under Trump is determined to squander whatever remaining advantage they have.

Going through nine months of growing a life inside of you is a vastly different context than signing paperwork to form a bond under.

There is a different context for a child who is with their biological parents(s) than an adopted child and their parent(s) to develop under.

What's the relevance of pointing out the different context, since we've already determined it doesn't actually relate to how much the parent loves their kid or vice versa?

Parent-child bonding

Again, see above.

countless generations have developed inside of their mother and being divorced from that biological condition removes countless stimuli

Is there any reason to believe we could not replicate said stimuli and conditions if we needed to?

Could you elaborate? I feel like I'm missing context to understand your statement and the significance of this guy backing her

Unless you're implying that fathers and adopted parents love their kids less than mums, I don't see the relevance. There's plenty of bad mums out there despite spending 9 months carrying the baby to term. We are more than hormone response machines.

Well I know LLMs are currently hated, but a quick Google seems to indicate most of their AI integration has to do with driver systems and such, which I don't believe has the same ethical issues for most people? (If you just dislike using it, I'm sure they're optional / can be disabled). Reason I ask is because I'm currently checking out what car to buy.

What about the Chinese brands? BYD and such.

Yeah, and the entire hospital was in on it, along with doctored cctv recordings

everyone is the duke the first round.

Sounds like every other game of coup

Authors for the most part are not the ones writing the titles for their articles.

I tried element a week ago after a similar discussion. Afaict, it does not fill the same niche. I'm very open to being corrected, but it doesn't seem like element has support for multi-room communities.

Also, multi device login was extremely wonky. I'm not going to recommend something that'll end up with me having to play tech support to get it working.

Discord isn't like reddit though, you don't have the userbase spread out across the same space regardless of the users. For discord every server is a standalone community and they're each going to have their own standards of civility.

I gave element / matrix a try recently. It's a very different use case, as (AFAICT) it does not support multi-channel rooms (or whatever you call it). The closest analogue would be WhatsApp / Telegram / Signal.

Also, multi device login is wonky as hell, took me 20 mins of repeated attempts to get it working.

'that's my lap' doesn't really indicate rejection, just absolute lack of understanding of what's going on. A fairly common case for a lot of guys.