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WoodScientist

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  • 'Unlock my f---ing anime': Houston man arrested after threatening call to governor's office

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  • Ranma 1/2.

  • better than half our interns

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  • better than half our interns

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  • The future is going to be very strange indeed. Humanity is taking up more and more of the world's land surface. More and more of the available habitats are inside human territory. Wildlife can live within human cities and suburbs, but it requires a great deal of adaptation. Imagine a future where hundreds of species are as adapted to living in our cities as pigeons or raccoons are. If we don't blow ourselves up in atomic fire or fall in an ecological collapse, this is a likely future for our species.

    Cities are a habitat. They offer certain opportunities for resources such as food and water. They offer spaces for nesting and reproduction. Cities represent one of the few ecological niches on this planet that hasn't been fully exploited by evolution. And nature abhors a vacuum. Any ecological niche will be filled eventually. They do require extensive adaptation however. Behaviors that are adaptive in the wild are maladaptive in cities.

    If we manage to somehow keep our crazy way of life going, I imagine in a few millennia our cities will be swarming with dozens of semi-domesticated species similar to raccoons and pigeons. And I imagine they will exhibit any number of clever and surprising adaptive behaviors like this coyote here.

    Hell, people may even find ways to harness this wildlife. Maybe instead of hiring people to pick up trash, we could train crows to collect it for us. Maybe you could train crows to gather up trash, take it to a bin, and have the bin dispense a treat for the crow.

    I hope the future will be strange indeed.

    (Wrote this before I saw that it's AI. I'll leave this here as the point still stands.)

  • My time has come guys 😔

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  • Don't forget the post doc!

  • Dr. Thanos, PhD.

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  • Your hobby is inventing custom definitions for words and then working yourself into a tizzy over them.

  • Dr. Thanos, PhD.

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  • Population control is not eugenics, you silly goose! One's concerned only with the number of people. The other with who reproduces. Your definition of eugenics is so broad that any teacher teaching sex ed counts as a eugenicist.

    Words have meaning. Don't water them down for cheap points.

  • Dr. Thanos, PhD.

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  • Eugenics is concerned with who reproduces. Simply giving out free birth control to anyone who wants it is a population control measure.

    You have Nazi vision. Everyone is Hitler.

  • Dr. Thanos, PhD.

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  • That has no relation to what I wrote.

  • Dr. Thanos, PhD.

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  • Population control is eugenics in the same way dressing up as a ghost for Halloween makes you a Klan member.

  • Dr. Thanos, PhD.

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  • What he accomplished was to teach otherwise isolated civilizations that unless they put aside their differences and worked together they were vulnerable to devastating attack.

    One point I liked about Alternate History Hub's version of this is that they pointed out that very few people actually knew what happened. Imagine if half the people on Earth today turned to dust in an instant, and imagine this was a world where Marvel had never existed. Most people would interpret that as some sort of act of Divine judgment. A quote I loved from that video was something like, "people will come to many conclusions. Giant purple man with magic space gems is not the explanation they'll go to first...or ever."

    I don't think Thanos taught anyone anything. Billions of species throughout the universe saw half their population turn to dust. Then a few years later, all those people just mysteriously came back. They have no idea what a Thanos is. They've never never heard of the Avengers or the Infinity Stones. It's just this completely inexplicable event outside all known laws of science. It's unambiguous proof that some sort of supernatural forces exist in the universe, but everything beyond that is open to interpretation.

  • MAGA Melts Down as Progressive Dem Surges in Crucial Senate Race

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  • Stop treating politics like it’s still 2008…it ain’t. Vote for the best policy, not for the one CNN tells you is better.

    Centrists are insane. Literally definitionally insane.

    A definition for madness is "trying the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result."

    We nominate corporate centrists election after election, and they lose again and again. Yet somehow these losers always get portrayed as reasonable and electable. Biden only squeaked out a win in 2020 because of covid. Even with a million Americans dead and in the ground, in large part due to Trump's mismanagement, corporate dems were so unpopular that Biden was only able to barely get over the finish line.

    Stop treating politics like it’s still 2008…it ain’t. Vote for the best policy, not for the one CNN tells you is better.

    This is the core of it. Some people form their opinions on what electability looks like in one era and then blindly carry that assessment forward for the rest of their lives. In the 90s and 2000s, being centrist was electable. Pre-2008, things were going pretty well in America. We were still riding the post-Cold War high and the long-term effects of neoliberal economics hadn't really come home to roost yet. The social compact was still reasonably intact. Not for all, but for most. If you played along with the system - get an education, work hard, get married, buy a house, avoid drugs and other destructive behaviors - your life was most likely going to be fine. Racism still existed. People still had their lives derailed by medical emergencies. But for enough of the population, things were well enough that "don't rock the boat" was a viable political platform. Some folks still protested of course. But most folks were comfortable enough to simply focus on their own lives.

    We are no longer in that world. "Go along with the system and live a private life" is no longer a reliable path to a life of stability and dignity. It hasn't been that way since the Millennial generation came out of college. And elder millennials are in their early 40s right now. We're reaching a point where the majority of the electorate has had to live their entire adult lives in a condition of economic precarity. Neo-liberalism is toxic because more and more of the electorate has had to grow up under its effects.

    This has completely transformed what an "electable candidate" even is.

  • MAGA Melts Down as Progressive Dem Surges in Crucial Senate Race

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  • Because progressives do not do the ground work. Not effectively. It’s as if taking people who are social outcasts and asking them to compete in a battle of popularity puts them at a disadvantage.

    What are you smoking? Progressives are all about ground game. How do you think progressives kick centrist ass? It's all about ground game! The DSA is an actual old-fashioned membership organization.

    I really don't know what you're smoking. Centrists buy TV ads. Progressives focus on ground game. Centrists give their money to corporate consultants, progressives on knocking on doors.

    Look at the recent Michigan Senate primary. Stevens outspent El-Sayed 12 to 1!.

    Progressives can't match the dollars of corporate Democrats; their only hope to win is a massive ground game. It's the only way to win if you're being massively outspent.

    Like, seriously. I am honestly curious how you reached such an insane conclusion. Like, if progressives are known for anything, it's rejecting corporate funding in lieu of the ground game. What possibly lead you to such a bone-headed and farcical conclusion?

    It's like trying to argue that Republicans are better at protecting abortion rights than Democrats. It's just pants-on-head silly.

  • MAGA Melts Down as Progressive Dem Surges in Crucial Senate Race

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  • No, you can still push for change in the party.

    That's exactly what people are doing in the primaries.

    Centrist propaganda messaging:

    General election: vote blue no matter who! Don't like the candidates? Fix it in the primary!

    Primary: we must choose the electable candidate. Don't rock the boat. Work to change the party from the inside in vague ways I can't get into because reasons.

    It's interesting that no matter what the time is, it's never the time to push for progressive candidates. It's always "the wrong time."

  • MAGA Melts Down as Progressive Dem Surges in Crucial Senate Race

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  • I don't think you're capable of voting strategically. Voting strategically got us Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Kamala in 2024. Neo-liberalism lost each election. Biden only eeked out a win in 2020 because of covid. If it weren't for covid, Trump would have won in 2020.

    You do not know what an electable candidate in 2026 looks like. Your opinions are a generation out of date.

  • It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.

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  • I’m arguing if I’m incorrect then prove it,

    That isn't how debate works, you chungus.

  • It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.

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  • No. You're telling people their anecdotes aren't good enough, but you're here arguing your gut feelings are enough. The problem is you're a hypocrite demanding a higher level of proof than you yourself are willing to provide.

  • It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.

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  • Where's your source that progressives stayed home more than centrists? You demand sources from others but provide none of your own.

  • All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

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  • Honestly, you know what would be hilarious? Imagine if this wasn't done by an anti-surveillance activists at all. Imagine if it were just done on a lark by a bunch of drunken frat bros who had never even heard of Flock's privacy implications.

  • All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

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  • Pro tip: don't use a wireless jammer. Those are illegal and will produce signals that can themselves be tracked. Don't commit crimes while committing crimes. Instead place the camera in a metal tool box or a Faraday bag.

    A practical method:

    1. Obtain a metal toolbox and a big plastic tote.
    2. Carry camera in metal toolbox. (Metal box will block wireless signals.)
    3. Carry toolbox home, do not open it.
    4. Place toolbox inside plastic tote. Fill tote with water to short out the Flock's electronics.

    If you intend to recycle the Flock's components, that will require building a Faraday cage big enough for you to walk inside.

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    Graham Platner gets more primary votes than any other Democratic Senate candidate in Maine history

    www.nhpr.org /2026-06-11/graham-platner-gets-more-primary-votes-than-any-other-democratic-senate-candidate-in-maine-history
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    Could the Supreme Court use a Writ of Outlawry to Rein in a Rogue President?

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    Is it possible for a US citizen to open up a bank account in a foreign country and transfer money to it from within the US?