HiGuyOhMy

Supposed to have a bio I think. After almost 4 years (3 of them inactive) I finally put up a banner image. WIP.

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@SYNESTHEIZURE @adesertdryad It would almost be bearable if Turkey wasn't also insisting that their English name include a blasted diacritical mark—that doesn't even better clarify the pronunciation!

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@roseromaunt To be fair to the Japanese the second part of the story is that a bodhisattva personally vowed to enter hell and fight the oni to save the children from them, struggling against them until the end of the world, making him arguably the most beloved/venerated bodhisattva in Japan.

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@FawcettKid Also coming back to say, knowing this isn't his main point, but OP seems not to get why the character on the right (the fictional Pope Pius XIII) was such a compelling, and to some (Catholic and Protestant alike) potentially heroic character. His outfit has little to do with it.

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@FawcettKid They split ostensibly over Vatican II when their founder claimed to have received a vision from Mary and the angels telling him that Satan, through the Jews and Freemasons, had conquered the Church and it had to be refounded by him.

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@FawcettKid -they also believe that their first Pope was given authorization by the angels to rewrite and expand the Bible. BUT they dress up in ways so spiffy it would make guys like the OP you quote tweeted blush.

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@FawcettKid D'oh, sorry. El Palmar de Troya is the place where the Palmarian Church have set up their own rival Holy See.

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@hardflics No, they wouldn't. Are you stupid?

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@adesertdryad Various American labs have been doing the reverse in turn, it's just not talked about nearly as much because 1) admitting Americans engage in theft or indigenization of foreign tech is considered gauche and 2) the Chinese genuinely don't care so they don't make a stink when we do

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@tenbillionswans To that point, i'm still astounded that this was 1) made in the first place and 2) posted onto their public profile without any shame.

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@CDMorlock Forgive my lack of brevity.

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@EuropaAdAstra Also missed by these people, but China pays attention to the lessons learned by countries that develop technologies before them and applies those to their work. Why would you build the OG Falcon from 2009/2010 when you can build what the Falcon *would* be like if built in 2026?

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@EuropaAdAstra He doesn't understand the subject, he just sees an exterior that looks like a Falcon and assumes that every rocket has the same magic fire spell engraved inside it or something. Musk would be the first guy to talk about how innovative the ZQ-3 and what it does different!

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@tenbillionswans @evilvillain1231 @sahararelic It's a small thing but I always lose it at the part where they just transpose a map of South America onto yet another map of South America.

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@ChristianityOn Cassie is smart enough to know it benefits her more in this instance to know as little about the matter as possible while commenting on it; the move is intentional on her part.

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@tenbillionswans Which is, I realize upon re-read, I mean to say (in another way) that older analogies and metaphors were not consciously (or really even subconsciously) invoking first or second order simulacra.

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@tenbillionswans -we've given up on this so now when people talk instead about "connectomes" or "reinforcement learning" we mean "if we can make a map or drawing of the thing that'll be the thing, somehow, maybe, idk." which if we were more self-aware, we'd recognize is already us conceding.

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@tenbillionswans The actual starting point however is - even if one sounds like a naïf when saying it - that the brain is the brain.