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@talesofmystory The PS4 remake of SotC is an atrocity. It completely ignores the setting, lighting and color choices of the original (not to mention the disfigurement of the protagonist).

This is what SotC's artstyle looks like with better tech:

https://t.co/PpWK0LfJo7

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@juanrallo Tu sueño húmedo.

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@KoushiroBill @CBRenjoyer @juanrallo @CarlosGarcaCue1 No engañas a nadie.

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@andkalysh I remember a showcase video of the FFXV mechs with flamethrowers using Flow but haven't been able to find it again.

[Ayatollah Pies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Ayatollah_Pies]

Here’s something you may not know about the Russell Brand trial.

All 6 complainants pressed charges only AFTER they were contacted by Times reporters. Almost as if they were encouraged to press charges.

But why after 20 years would the Murdoch machine run a huge private enquiry followed by obviously prejudicial wall to wall coverage? A noble quest to right historic wrongs in which a series of groupies who’d willingly performed extreme sex acts had in fact not consented to a handful of alleged other acts?

Or was it a campaign to obliterate a genuinely popular voice who took aim at corporate interests and the liberal establishment, platformed Tommy Robinson and unpicked the narrative on immigration, Ukraine, COVID vaccines for a mass audience?

I know what I think. Today’s crowing full page spread says it all: We got our man.

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@Bairianiani @Inacin10 "Reduce her" lol.

Nobody like a feminist to denigrate pretty, happy women.

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@Bairianiani Hoe detected.

[FullBreed 🇺🇸 🏈 🍺 🚘 @breed_full]

ICE vehicle runs over protestor.

No tire damage reported.

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@LordksOP @tombraider @Flying_Wild_Hog Reminds me of:

https://t.co/m6lDDuiah5

[Danann @DanannOficial]

@elena_reines

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

“Your next assignment is to seduce the CEO of one of America’s largest tech companies”

“Wow, that sounds really challenging. I’ll need to use every skill I have”

“Not really. Just be moderately attractive and not unpleasant to be around. That’s literally all it takes”

[Les Pieds Chromés 🦶✨💸 @LesPiedsChromes]

@nayibbukele "Most of them ran away without even trying to fight."

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Nou kenbe pwomès nou…

Nou detwi kay Lanmò San Jou ak katye jeneral gang 400 Mawozo a.

Pifò ladan yo kouri ale san yo pa menm eseye goumen.

Ala lach yo lach! 🥲

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Men just want to be seen 😂

[청소부 @RFKOREAN]

After failing to get Jensen Huang and Nvidia,

China went after Elon Musk

But….

[naiive @naiivememe]

how to save money as a man

* Nov updated

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

They bombed my home when I was 10, buried me under the rubble screaming “Allahu Akbar,” put me in the hospital for months, then forced my family into an 8x10 bomb shelter for seven years

No power, no water, eating grass while snipers hunted us for the crime of being Christian.

That’s one. Want the rest of the list?

[あきらめるのは簡単です @dklmccp]

🤣🤣🤣

[Gragnorr 🍄🍃 @gragnorr]

A 12 year old has probably never seen an appealing character in a video game released within his lifetime before.
His first instance of it was a 90s remake

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Earlier today I wrote that school destroys critical thinking. Many of you asked for proof.

The proof is Marx.

Marxism is probably the most tested theory in human history. Tested on paper by the best economists in the world. Tested at full scale on hundreds of millions of people, across several continents, for more than a century. And it failed every single test.

A free mind, one that checks its ideas against reality, cannot remain Marxist. If so many people still are, it's not a problem of intelligence. It's a problem of method. They were never taught to verify.

Let's start from the beginning.

In 1867, Marx publishes Das Kapital. Everything rests on one idea: the value of a good comes from the amount of labor it contains. The boss's profit is therefore labor stolen from the worker.

Four years later, in 1871, Menger and Jevons independently show that this is wrong. Value doesn't come from labor. It comes from the usefulness the buyer sees in the good. An hour spent digging a useless hole creates zero value. That's the marginal revolution, and all of modern economics is built on it.

In 1896, Böhm-Bawerk shows that Marx's system contradicts itself: real prices don't match labor values, and Marx knew it. The foundation collapses.

In 1920, Mises asks the question that kills it: without private property, there are no market prices. Without prices, how does a central planner know what to produce, how much, and with which resources? Answer: he can't. Hayek finishes the job in 1945: economic knowledge is scattered across millions of minds, and no central bureau can ever gather it.

That's the theory. Now the predictions.

Marx predicted the revolution would break out in the most industrialized countries, England and Germany. It happened in Russia, an agrarian country. Wrong.

He predicted workers would grow poorer and poorer under capitalism. They grew richer than at any point in history. Wrong.

He predicted the State would wither away. Everywhere his ideas were applied, the State became total. Wrong.

Now the experiments.

USSR: forced collectivization, famine in Ukraine, millions dead, the Gulag.

China: Mao's Great Leap Forward. Between 15 and 45 million dead depending on the historian. The largest famine in human history, produced by a plan.

Cambodia: the Khmer Rouge killed roughly a quarter of their own population in four years.

Then there are the natural experiments. The most brutal ones, because they eliminate every excuse.

Korea. Same people, same language, same culture, same history. In 1945, the North was richer than the South. Today, income per person in the South is about 29 times higher than in the North. Only one variable changed: the system.

Germany. One people cut in two. One side had to build a wall. Not to keep people out. To keep them in.

Venezuela. The largest proven oil reserves on the planet. Nearly 8 million people fled the country. 21st-century socialism ended with Maduro captured last January.

Meanwhile, the other system, the one you were taught to hate, did this: in 1820, about three quarters of humanity lived in extreme poverty. Today, around 10%. And the biggest escape from poverty in history, China after 1978, happened at the exact moment the Communist Party brought markets back.

From Marx to Maduro, 150 years of data. All pointing the same way.

So how does anyone stay Marxist?

With the magic sentence: "that wasn't real communism."

Think about what that sentence means. A theory that fails every time it's tried, whose believers then declare that none of the attempts counted, is no longer a theory. It's a faith. Karl Popper saw it as early as 1945: Marxism survived its refutations by making itself irrefutable.

A mind trained to think for itself asks one question: how many failures does it take before you question the hypothesis? One, two, ten, forty?

That's exactly the question school never teaches you to ask.

Marx isn't taught as a hypothesis to test against the data. He's taught as a morality tale: there are oppressors and oppressed, and the right side is obvious. You learn the conclusion, never the method.

A four-year-old would ask: "Okay, but where did it work?" Fifteen years of schooling later, they've stopped asking.

A system that teaches you to obey has no interest in teaching you to verify. Because the day you start verifying is the day you start being free.

And that day, you stop being a Marxist.