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  • Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

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  • I read it as tongue firmly planted in cheek, especially after he noted they were using the courts to address issues with their “post apocalyptic fantasy” community.

  • We’re going on an adventure

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  • Can’t be. No burlap-sack wallpaper.

    But yeah, the general point is well taken. They’re so value-priced institutional. You could just imagine the bean counters in Salt Lake revising the approved architectural drawings and paint colors for Tithing Generation Facility, model 1988, rev. 3.

  • Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI

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  • Mostly, I think he’s just so egotistical and so far up his own ass that he has completely conflated his own self-interest, instincts, hobbies, and ego with literally saving the world. Legitimately held beliefs are not necessarily legitimate beliefs.

    I do have to admit I enjoy his big-ackshully energy that reveals itself when people call him out on the Palantir name.

  • Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI

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  • It doesn't get a lot of play, because it's kind of obtuse, but he has extremely strong beliefs; they're just ones that don't preclude him saying this stuff to fool investors. There were a few pieces that have been written about it, and they flared up again after his weird antichrist lectures last year.

    The article hints at it it, but basically, he subscribes/contributes to an extreme variant of an obscure religion-adjacent philosophy that posits that the social stability benefits of an authoritarian Christian monoculture, preferably over the whole world due to some quirks of Christian theology, but certainly at least in the parts of the world where Christianity is a majority religion, are so amazing that they're worth pretending that it's all actually factually true, and that a surveillance state to preserve harmony (and, surprise side effect, it also locks in the power of the elites who establish it all!) is completely acceptable. Theoretically the Christianity part is optional, but there is a lot of risk inherent in not relying on the historical social glue.

    To him, seeking this is for the good of humankind. Anything that opposes any of it with any sort of sway, and especially from a Christian context, can be fairly called an antichrist. It's some serious Leto II God Emperor of Dune shit.

  • This might even some violate international humanitarian laws

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  • Around here (Texas), it’s the cream cheese and smoked salmon that make a place call it a Philly Roll, and the avocado vs cucumber varies by restaurant. Avocado is pretty popular though, because anything that evokes Tex-Mex will find an audience.

  • This might even some violate international humanitarian laws

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  • This is also a grocery store Philly Roll. We’re already past simple fusion and into some Red Giant Helium-to-Oxygen shit. If my man wants some ranch, then so be it. He’s not denying himself an unsullied cross-cultural experience.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • You’re only slightly off, and the point is well taken that it’s far from the point of the show.

    Specifically, there’s the mildly force-sensitive medic on Yavin who gets Bix to believe in something bigger. I think there’s also a few other offhand references.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • Third season of Ted Lasso gets to be pretty saccharine and certain plots are rushed, but by then the characters have built up so much goodwill that you’re willing to ride it out.

    Also, if you find him immediately grating, give Ted himself about three episodes at the very beginning to turn into an actual human. It’s worth it.

    We will see if the upcoming season four can recapture any of the magic.

  • We're lucky I'm this normal

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  • Thank you I hate it.

  • We're lucky I'm this normal

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  • Thank you. I'd have had to see some of them if i were to look up what they're called.

  • We're lucky I'm this normal

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  • The weirdest part of ren and stimpy for me was always the smash cuts to the grossout oil painting-like still frames.

    Pure nightmare fuel.

  • Think

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  • I am a heathen, so usually NO-Key, but in culinary circles people who want to nod in the general direction of proper Italian will say something closer to knee-YO-key. Mid-word vowel sounds in American English (all English?) can be extremely variable, though

    If you want a proper IPA transcription, this video seems about right.

  • Jucika's meeting with Gagarin

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  • Shout out to Star City, on either Apple TV or the high seas. It’s alt-history set after Gagarin, but his presence looms large, and we might get a flashback eventually. It also shows a similar Soviet tour for the fictional first woman on the moon.

  • AMD ‘had to re-engineer’ the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for a re-release — 10th Anniversary Edition chip had ‘a whole body of engineering work’ put into it

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  • Consumers turn to older DDR4 RAM since prices haven’t gone up as much as DDR5

    In absolute dollars, sure, but hoo boy those percentage jumps are ROUGH! I bought 16GB of no-name DDR4 for my aging desktop 15 months ago for USD 22. That same listing is now USD 100, and still pretty close to the cheapest retail I see, though that's only with an admittedly superficial search of Amazon and PC Part Picker.

  • ‘Please avoid chugging your ranch’: TSA forced to issue warning as foreign World Cup fans fall in love with American condiment

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  • Their sauce is okay (I prefer Layne's), but that's good because it's fuckin' necessary, since I think somebody saw a recipe for the batter that included a pinch of black pepper and said , "Whoa there motherfucker! We ain't makin' ethnic food here!"

    Admittedly, when the Cane's comes out it does always look very sanitary and photo-ready. Like, I don't feel like I'm gonna get Salmonella from eating there, but it's just so joyless.

  • ‘Please avoid chugging your ranch’: TSA forced to issue warning as foreign World Cup fans fall in love with American condiment

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  • Raising Cane's

    Ugh. even within the limited circle of fast-food and fast-casual chicken finger franchises, Cane's is bland nonsense. Fried chicken as interpreted by a Star Trek replicator, and not one from the Enterprise, but the Cerritos.

  • Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class

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  • Yup. Give 'em laptops or tablets if you like. Maybe you break their distance vision in exchange for saving their backs from the half a dozen hardback tomes and trapper-keeper we used to lug around. Textbooks can be updated quicker, incorporate video, and if there are public domain texts, they can be provided for free. Completing worksheets with a keyboard and trackpad also doesn't worry me, and I actually wish we had class discussion boards when I was in school.

    Leveraging tech because it provides some practical benefit is just common sense, but thinking the tech is the benefit is stupid, so of course that's where we are, driven by the olds you mention, as well as a healthy ecosystem of ed-tech grifters.

  • A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen

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  • Fair enough, I may have inferred a bit too much, so here is what the CEO said:

    And so third parties, the reason you saw some of these really high numbers, is we’re like, ‘A Rivian? And what’s a Rivian?’ So they they don’t know the car, and they quote an enormously high number, the insurance company agrees to it, and then that happens.”

  • A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen

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  • TL:DR: Poor scale and awareness due to being a niche brand, overly large aluminum body panels requiring either massive replacements or complicated welding, small shops guessing that it must be even more exotic and expensive than the CEO claims, and insurers shrugging and moving on because the volumes aren't hitting their financials hard enough for them to care.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Stanley the tool company is different from Stanley the cup company