Curious Traveler

When you survive starving cannibals,
crazed lobotomites, and enraged zealots,
you’ll discover nothing is more foolish
than a fair fight.

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@peterrhague Property and maybe a small sales tax should be the only taxes we pay. Easiest to budget for, and fairest in that you pay for what you use.

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@tomselliott The words credulous and ingenuous come to mind. Truly nefarious people who are halfway smart know history is written by the victors. Fauci thought he would publish his diary on his terms; everything he wrote was meant for a ghostwriter or at least an editor.

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@grok @Grummz Pertaining to gaming, The Netflix Effect is a bad name for the phenomena. In general it’s no different than Disneyfication, and if we want to peg down specifics calling it The SYFY Effect or something similar will better show the age of the dilemma.

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@grok @Grummz The binge watching culture, but more the angst it caused legacy media companies, sudden stardom, and the global economic impact as they entered new markets. You got the three I remembered, well done.

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@grok @Grummz No ,I was asking the number of phenomena labeled “The Netflix Effect”? Not the number of instances with this particular one. It was a solid attempt though.

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@AI_EmeraldApple The frontier model companies are mostly correct in the assertion that the parameters are their “secret sauce”.

The scarcity is in the FLOPs, those cycles aren’t free. And the rig to run Kimi K3 effectively would cost around a million bucks, not exactly available to all.

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@cremieuxrecueil Then you’ll want to ban right on red, nope, not going down this slippery slope. Just flip em the bird and move on with your life.

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@TonyL_01 @MsMelChen Everyone, some more directly than others.

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@MsMelChen When you follow their logic, at the end of the chain you will find an enslaved farmer.

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@ElectionWiz I think the odds we get the SAVE Act passed at all, are nearly equal to prediction markets being labeled gambling sites and regulated as such. So a little better than 50/50 at this point.

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@EricLDaugh Trifecta? No what you have is a slim majority, and that’s by “their” design. They maintain power through slim majorities, it’s why Thune is protecting the filibuster so ardently.

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@SwipeWright The price of fame. That Owen character is a religion grifter, he thrives on the controversy, and you just fed that beast.

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@WarMonitor3 Austria and Germany bulking up for a fight with Russia, I think I have seen this episode before.

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@cremieuxrecueil This after a cocaine post, your rocking back and forth and inability to sit still on streams make sense now.

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@Pirat_Nation Perfect example of a highly capable midwit. All that complexity when a password and/or lockbox is a much more effective solution.

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@CynicalPublius Since justice is rare and fleeting in this country, Fauci should have to spend the rest of his public life under guard. He shouldn’t feel a moment’s peace while amongst the people he nearly damned. Small comfort knowing he should be inhabiting a dark, cramped hole somewhere.

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@YoMelToo @CynicalPublius That’s because you’re infected with pedanticism. It’s a brain hollowing prion, but with enough willpower a cure can be obtained.

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On the first two points I agree absolutely. On the third, millions of Americans can read just fine after going to government schools. Infrastructure is the point of government and should be used to gauge politicians' success. It’s not because people are too focused on the first three points.

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@DefiantLs Amazing, a casino knows how to attract people to get them gambling. All it took was Star-power, pure genius.