collegeburner

i don't understand what you're trying to say?

the funny thing is no, this is how basically every organism works. take an invasive species and introduce it somewhere, if there are no natural predators and the environment is good for it the species will multiply and thrive and explode in population. it will suck up resources until it runs out and then there will be a die off.

man is just better at avoiding this last die off part.

^^^ we have large parts of the country that effectively export water via ag. America has plenty of water, plenty of land, plenty of resources to maintain our current diet and way of life, it is exporting to the rest of the world that we can't do.

this is a really screwed up trend. people should be able to use phone infrastructure completely anonymously. KYC in telecommunications, finance, gun purchases, etc. is always a morally wrong option for "fighting crime".

single fire muskets... or fucking warships and cannon.

legalize nuclear bombs... bees make honey

no, it wouldn't. the government wants to be able to freeze and seize and track money too. this is why it doesn't like crypto, or facebucks, or e-gold etc. because the government always wants control. so the next generation of digital payments will be made to run off fedwire (not shitting on it specifically, it's not a bad idea by itself) and later some CBDC.

next time the canadians have a civil disobedience problem they will not have to go to a bank to freeze money. they will just do it directly.

^^^ this comment was posted by someone who does not know what an assault rifle is. it is very difficult and expensive to get ahold of a assault rifle these days and has been for almost 40 years.

though yeah i think we should repeal that law, there is nothing wrong with civilians owning assault rifles. the federal government is literally not allowed to pass or enforce laws against this because it clearly infringes the individual right to keep and bear arms. we can only hope some time in the next few years the NFA, GCA and FOPA are struck down, along with all the asinine regulation that has forced so many small gun manufacturers out of business, increased gun prices for American consumers and retarded innovation in civilian small arms.

fr i don't think it's a coincidence that our market has been flooded by software-controlled chinesium. not to get too tinfoil-hatty but it makes sense from the chinese perspective.

it's ridiculous that the propaganda arm of a totalitarian illiberal petrostate claims to "give a voice to the voiceless" or "promote truth and transparency". i also really dislike them because their "aj+" brand puts out heavily left biased faux-intellectual junk similar to vox or buzzfeed which makes me want to punch through a wall regardless of who puts it out.

i am curious how/where you learned about this years ago if it was not common knowledge until recently?

wow pretending that that's the only way it would happen without unions. the conditions there are more due to lack of health and safety regs than unions.

oh damn

i can tickle myself reliably and in a bunch of diff places but pretty sure i'm otherwise normal. not a schizo not an autist so idk why... or at least pretty sure i'm not (◕‿◕)

no, i can actually tickle myself. in most of the same ticklish spots on my torso as others, not just my feet. no idea why ig i'm just weird lmaoo

thank the stupid loose monetary policy with interest rates never coming back up and balance sheet never coming back down. the fed wanted to make sure people could buy housing and its strategy was to do that by making loans cheap but this distorts the market.

you realize that was one of the big reasons manufacturing left in the first place? yes hmm why not go unionize right away so nobody moves back after all.

idk man seems plausible that the social pressure of not wanting to be the PIP bozo could be effective. also love how you assume that "anyone.. on any sort of performance improvement plan" is 100% not at fault, it must be the evil kkkapitalist boss "trolling" or "gaslighting". there are retards who don't do their jobs well and a PIP is sometimes trying to push them into doing better instead of firing.

funny enough this is exactly what gab/dissenter did, giving any website a comments section. it's actually a really cool concept, though obviously dissenter ended up hella toxic.

someone made a clone, zeeker, but it doesn't have a lot of users: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zeeker-on-site-dis...

actually no, a big part of the GPL3 these days is fighting "tivoization" which is not really protected by any "system" the same way as copyright. the only system protecting that is a cryptosystem locking it to manufacturer-authorized stuff.

also GPL is mostly trying to fight closed-source code which is just as possible without the current copyright system, it can still be kept private like any trade secret. GPL relies on the system to force releasing source.

i mean i got really good at piracy as a kid so it's easy. i value it somewhere between the sale price ($10 or whatever) and what i'd pay (idk $1?). like, i don't feel like i'd pay more than $5-10 a month for all my media, it's just not worth more than that to me. because tbh i'm not a huge media consumer (mostly music and books, and a lot of that is old stuff i already have). so anything priced more than the percentage of my media consumption it represents times like $5 isn't worth it to buy.

so if i can pirate it i do, nobody loses. if i can't i just don't consume the media.

idk i just got the point where i can eyeball distance and adjust a little if needed.

you can get UHD blueray rips in great quality from the right sites. unfortunately the best are mostly invite-only trackers with ratio requirements that make membership a pain in the ass, especially when dealing with such large files.

ngl me personally i never pay for media (except very rarely a good book i want for my shelf after reading it). if i can't pirate something i just don't consume it. like, there's so much media now no single piece is worth that much.

in other words nobody is losing out on anything because i pirate. the alternative (which sometimes happens when i can't find it) is they still get nothing.

i don't think people realize how much they spend on media, like lots of my friends are spending $25/mo on video streaming plus another $10 for music. like sports? add espn, another $10. like ufc? add more for pay per view. big reader? another $20/month easy. read lots of news? they all want "just" $10/month or whatever even though most people aren't reading all of one paper like they used to, just a few articles from each.

am i gonna spend $700/yr for media? hell naw.

isps stopped providing it years ago and it's way too obscure to be mainstream. torrents are lower barrier to entry so they get the heat though nzb indexers sometimes get killed.

ngl i thought it was an andrew tate joke for a hot second there, took me a little longer to remember the what color are your bits post.

ngl first time i read that title i couldn't figure out if it was a reference to matthew skala or andrew tate

he has to make it clear he's not actually gay because that's core to his point, which is anybody can claim it. obviously irl he's not gonna fill out the diversity section with "i'm gay (not actually lmaoo)".

except writing in opencl is a dogshit experience compared to cuda. khronos is incapable of producing an API that's even remotely pleasant to use, vulkan suffers from the same thing. it is one of the worst "design by committee" groups.

dang what is anybody who isnt in that group supposed to do?

i don't much honestly. a few bi friends have complained but i don't much agree with the whole "appropriation" angle.

it does matter if people start getting advantages from it, though, and that's literally the subject of this thread. hell if it meant the difference between grant and no grant i'd claim it, what can they do?