Just a passive observer
@escapetherace.bsky.social
No agenda, just here to watch the fireworks as humanity dismantles everything we once held dear. Vociferously anti AI however forced to use it at work to remain employed.. Part of the machine, but have an unhealthy addiction to surviving
created May 22, 2025
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Palantir should be nowhere near any element of Government. Or any sensitive data at all.. Even though they have already bought the entirety of NHS data (I opted out, but have zero faith that it was respected) They are an evil company.
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My only note is on the online safety act which is a gross overreach of our government and does nothing (literally nothing) to protect children. Aside from that, absolute stellar take down of this bloviating cunt of a human. He is an embarrassment to our country
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Or - "Tried not being female? How dem menstruals?"
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The more we know, the better we can be! I recently found out that a beer I've consumed for years (Boddingtons), a staple of the UK brewery industry is now US owned So I've fucked it off entirely for truly UK and EU owned breweries with no US ties at all It's almost like reading makes you smarter!
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I know which I'm most angry about.. and it's not someone who has a tax bill that will be paid, but the cunt that sold us down the river, made us all poorer just so he could get marginally richer
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Rayner paid what she thought she owed, then used a tax expert to tell her she was wrong. Exactly how she should. No one willingly gives HMRC more than they have to.. and it's not like this would have gone ignored by HMRC Did Rees Mogg pay tax on shorting UK businesses while campaigning for Brexit?
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I know loads about the ingredients of Shampoo.. because going to the bog without a phone means you pick up random shit to read 😆
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Jesus fucking holy Christ... what is wrong with people? Are they really THAT media addicted that we now need to mark time in "Tik-Toks" If so, then just let us die out. We failed as a species and I'm sick of watching us create amazing things just for them to fall into the hands of the stupid.
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I'm a developer by trade, but I don't understand just how they pulled this off unless it was just by sheer weight of decision trees. Fuck being on those scrum calls 😆
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I knew Baldur's Gate 3 was sprawling with an insane level of branching dynamics, but I wasn't quite ready for just HOW different my new playthrough would be.. just by playing a different class and behaving slightly differently - and discovering things in a different order, it's an entirely new game
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Would just LOVE some proof of drugs on the boat. Ya know, by tracking the boat and arresting them as they disembarked Not liquifying them and spreading them around the seabed without charge. He's a straight up fucking murderer
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But that said, it's a top down problem. All of my US colleagues are great, and most of them are more disgusted than I am.. and I work in Finance where you expect to find the worst of the worst (not true BTW. Just people doing jobs mostly) Must genuinely be hard experiencing this, there in real time
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Yeah I can understand this for sure. Looking in from the outside, I was enamoured with the US for many years (David Bowie is rarely wrong - and he loved the place) I spent time in NY for work and loved it, but it's now on my "never again" list. It's not easy walking back from literal Naziism
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There definitely seems to be a culture of "As long as someone is suffering worse than me, I don't care that my quality of life is declining" Or words to that effect.. Probably too eloquent to accurately reflect the kind of person that adheres to that belief system
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When I called them to remove people from my business who were refusing to leave and being threatening, they arrived and arrested me instead (violently - got the full paddy wagon treatment - I'm a big fella so they saw ME as the threat) Fucking clowns, the lot of em..
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One of my businesses got burgled with sledgehammers, and I had to walk out into a main road and physically stop a police car to get any help whatsoever. They basically told me to get fucked.. CSO came in hours later, sighed a bit, wafted around their fingerprint brush and fucked off
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I don't necessarily mean that the parties themselves are where the money is, but the lobbying of MPs and the Lords (and the lobbying done BY the Lords against the MPs) Labour are manifesting their own doom. We really need a proportional representation vote STAT! Or we end up with Ref/ory coalition
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Yeah my gut reaction was "This is murder.. " No trial, no proof of anything on board. Just a vessel going from A to B - if they were under suspicion and tracked, arrest them on arrival. They don't have cloaking technology ffs.. Murder. To cover up Kiddy rape.. That's all it is
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Yeah no disagreement there I work in tech, and tech disgusts me.. I want out ASAP - it's not the new exciting frontier anymore, it's now the staging ground for brainwashing kids in to voting against their own well being (Or put more simply, voting against the rights of brown and non straight people)
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We don't have a Constitution, but a Parliamentary system, but the same issue remains. Those with the most money (Lords) decide what becomes Law. Meaning money dictates the curtailment of rights and the upwards flow of money If you work for a living, you're fighting a losing game.
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The idea of the country is great, but if it can be taken over by a Russian asset and Democracy destroyed while the constitution is used as toilet paper, it's not great at all. I'm from "Great" Britain, and we have the same problem. Politicians are just well suited con-artists
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Needs a distraction from the kid fucking.
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Treated by RFK science will do that to you
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Re-watching South Park, and I can't help but realise how much I despise the credits replay of their "prime" joke for each episode from series 10 I have no idea if that was an artistic or Comedy Central choice, but it detracts from the whole episode Like saying "Hey, idiot - this was the funny part"
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I've been a dev for fucking years and never heard of a warrant canary in honesty.. but yeah, being able to pinpoint his server by other apps is probably my main issue. The rest is a nothing-story IMO Just security bro's out securitying each other. It's imperfect, but still useful.
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Just think of the guy with a trolley of a few hundred mobile phones that creates "traffic jams" on google by rigging the data It's only ever as good as the input. You can't really blame the developer for that
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The problem is misuse, rather than the app itself The issue with these kind of apps (loads cropped up during Covid, for QOL stuff like supermarket queues) is that it requires the social element to be "pure" and that is never guaranteed Hotspots where multiples reports happen quickly is the solution
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"You mean we can fuck kids and face no reprisal? Fuck yeah! Give me some flyers, I'll hand them out at Church on Sunday"
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"I stopped 7/10/12 wars!" He can't die fast enough. A literal bullet to his dome (a real one this time) would be a few microseconds too late
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I fell out of love with gaming because I was addicted to MMO's, and when I tried to reset and go back, it was hard.. so I stopped gaming as my primary hobby for a while Glad to see it's all in good hands (aside from the usual offenders who iterate rather than innovate)
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So after shaking off my utter despair at finishing Death Stranding 1 and 2, I've consoled myself by going back and playing Baldur's Gate 3, also knowing that I have Divinity: Original Sin 1/2 to play, Metal Gear Solid V lined up and Silksong on the way That should keep me occupied for a while
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"Born to be criminals" is very telling. Oh so Nazi of him
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Chris Bryant is a top tier madlad :)
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Dumbphones are on the rise due to people (usually younger) wanting to digitally detox and get away from notification hell I suspect this will increase due to privacy concerns as well
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Even more reason to never set foot in the US If Trump doesn't die soon, I can see this being installed on your phone as a condition of entry to the US NEVER travel with your devices. Use burners and common sense, and never hand over your device to anyone
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The AI rendering is taking longer than expected
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Straight from the medical advice - Any close physical contact with mpox blisters or scabs (including during sexual contact, kissing, cuddling or holding hands) touching clothing, bedding or towels used by someone with mpox the coughs or sneezes of a person with mpox when they're close to you
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They aren't working together. Trump works directly for Russian interests. All more reason why a direct land invasion is almost a zero probability until that relationship sours Why risk nuclear war when Putin already steers US policy making?
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And yes, he is STILL a Heroin addict. By the US' own 12 steps (deeply steeped in religious iconography) you're never "cured" you can only seek god to help you stay clean (Utter hog-shit - I'm just using their own bullshit against them)
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Why does the scientific community even listen to him.. Research speaks for itself. It has disclosures, peer reviews etc - it's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it's certainly better than a Heroin addict that eats road-kill, right?
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Well this is genuinely saddening. RIP Graham Greene Small parts, massive impact Reservation Dogs is a show the just tugs on my heartstrings, but as a Gamer nerd, of course Defiance was a highlight for me And of course not forgetting Dances with Wolves Blew the doors open for First Nations talent
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The funny thing will be the scrabbling for headlines once we have confirmation that he's now a sock puppet. RFK will be saying "Oh yeah he got the Covid jab" Actual doctors will say "He was old as shit, obese, terrible health indicators and a poor diet" Noam will be sucking his taint in hell
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(Numbers pulled out of my rear. I'm not a financial adviser)
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BTC was a hedge against the damage they knew they were going to inflict They can point at the fund and say "Look, we hedged against this catastrophe we created" and red hats will love them for it USD is cooked though.. If I was a currency speculator, I'd be looking at a £0.5 valuation in 18 months
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I hate to say it, but El Salvador is going to do well by de-Dollarising to an extent through a BTC Sovereign fund It's purely by accident, and with the worst motivations - but their detachment from relying on the $ is going to pay well. Fully Dollar pegged countries are in for a rough time..
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It's strategically brilliant IMO.. Getting in with Russia and China while the eatings good? Might cost in foreign aid in the long term, but the doors it opens in terms of trade will dwarf that A defence pact is likely. We're going to have a new version of NATO - But Rus/Ind/CN. All nuclear powers
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To put it bluntly, another global recession is on the way. But most regions that are now insulated from American protectionism (because of tariffs) will weather the storm much better than the US
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BTC is a bet against the dollar, so it was cynical in the extreme. The only reason it exists is to protect against central banks inflating away wealth (and a 2008 repeat), so any centrally owned fund is a bet against their own economy. Good for people hedging risk, not good for Government policy
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USD is fucked. Rather accidentally, the BTC fund could hedge against a crashing dollar.. But the profits will end up being siphoned off If the USD goes tits up, all dollar pegged Countries also go to shit.. EUR is likely to spike, GBP and JPY will follow Owning USD bought BTC is likely to play well
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This is hyperbolic nonsense based on nothing but personal conjecture. Anonymous used to be about data and objective truth.. Russia can't even push into Ukraine... It would take Russia + India + China to declare a simultaneous war on the US and even with Trump, the US would push back any advance
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I avoid buying American wherever possible since they started their slide towards authoritarianism (which was before Trump got fraudulently voted in the second time)
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Just fucking die, the world will thrive
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And is directly responsible for miscarriages through promoting raw milk consumption.. The stupid burns..
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I'd call you a liar (scones are a hot button topic in the UK.. we have been close to war with Devon previously) But I'd gobble those down like a maniac, they look amazing Just needs clotted cream and jam to avoid the inevitable fallout
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I'm not believing for a second that Trump is up and about until he is on camera talking to the Press. His recent posts contain AI markers in the text, AI images and the fat grotesque cunt hasn't gone 4 days without being in the spotlight ever.. He's dead or dying. Ordering drinks and nibbles
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After Death Stranding 1 and 2, I had the crushing realisation that I bounced off of Metal Gear Solid V a bit too easily I think I was deep in a WoW hole at the time, so even a masterpiece would have been challenged to draw my attention. Replaying it now, and I just "get" it more this time
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If he's dead already, the only reason to sock puppet him, is because the P2025 movement doesn't have enough momentum yet. Vance isn't credible.. he was planned to be a stand in for the people pulling the strings, but the machinery isn't fully in motion yet.
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When I was her age, I was shithoused with my friends every night, didn't have many cares, but knew we would be ok.. We didn't have literal Nazi's roaming our streets rounding up anyone on the "off white" shade of skin tone
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Just bring her back generally.. The US really needs a dose of her passion, eloquence, argument and barely contained rage tinged with sadness I'm amazed she hasn't been more widely circulated I wish she had more time just to be young and carefree, but the fuckwits running the world have other plans
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I say this as a lifelong animal lover, but this needs to also have Dog and Cat companionship as a category. They won't be as much as a fully formed human being, if that's being tracked across a full 70+ years, but they are obligate carnivores
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Soul Calibur brings back so many amazing "couch vs" memories... (none of this co-op stuff..) Mate always used to play Li Long and smash the shit out of me But hey, I was sat on a couch, drinking heavily with my best mate :) The game was hardly the point!
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Keep your chin up.. there is a non-zero chance he could already be dead Can't find any public sighting or quote from him aside from social media ramblings for a couple of days. And for a rapist narcissist that lives for the public glare, that is really out of character
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I'll be doing plenty of walking this weekend. And I'm taking a guilt free lazy day where I nap in between meetings next week. Centralised Devops can be a wonderful thing, but in this case they didn't even give me a courtesy lick before ramming me hard..
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So Mounjaro fixed my lower limb water retention and inflammation in a couple of days. This week of being superglued to my desk because some other fucker decided to uninstall shit from servers that my major platform depends on, resulting in a 90+ hour week sat down with no exercise, unfixed it...
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His handlers have his socials. It's not always him posting You can tell by the cadence of the mania and the incomprehensible use of caps and punctuation For the last couple of days, it could as well have been a staffer or bot - I think he's at the least incapacitated
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I think the fat cunt is either dead or dying and being Weekend at Bernies'd
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I've been asking this tonight and scouring pages that usually show recent pictures to go with their articles. Even the Guardian has an image from "Earlier this year" and the wording around what he has "said" is very carefully chosen - but if you click through, it's all his bullshit social platform
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"If you don't test for Covid, the cases drop fast" - The same guy
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Yep, she's a fucking pig alright.. And turning in to a Mar-a-Lago faced side of ham in front of our very eyes
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Presumably her veiled meaning (that, ironically, will go over the heads of the MAGA base because they are 99% illiterate fuckwits) is that Black = DEI = Incompetent = Babbitt was a hero Opposed to the truth, that she was an insurrectionist storming the Capitol and got shot by someone defending it
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Saw "Meta Ethics" trending here and honestly thought we had reached a new "Fake News" level of delusion, where the abstract concept of performative ethics had taken prevalence over the actual meaningful expression of ethics. Just turns out Zuckerberg is being a complete piece of shit as per usual
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Serious question... has anyone seen Trump in the last few days? I suspect he is really sick, hiding due to his clear physical decline or potentially dead and being sock puppeted via his bullshit social account I know which I'd prefer..
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Not read into the detail yet, but insurers taking up contracts with AI providers, paying a bonus for creating reasons not to treat seems like the first use of that data And right after the CDC takes away vaccinations and says that medical procedures will need pre-approval based on other factors 🤷
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At risk? No it's already stolen. People are just waiting to see how it's used - it's not at risk, it's actively being weaponised right now Palantir have shown that they can link data from multiple sources, so this is the tipping point of a data war against the public
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With Measles rates climbing rapidly in the US, the CDC run by a Heroin addict, Covid vaccinations being shitcanned - how long before Countries start closing off travel routes for US citizens as a health concern? Would honestly be hilarious for Muslim Countries to ban travel for "unclean" Americans
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You mean the fights I have in my head while in the shower don't count? WTF?!
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So... AA is just a straight up cult right? www.aa.org/the-twelve-s...
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We trained that out of him though, in a similar way with aggressive affection!
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Oh wow.. hope the little'n is ok!! My ginger sack of nonsense has no malice in him at all, he just gets hungry and likes to play I'm 100% their butler, and I give in to their whims because I love them :) It used to be worse. He would try to stab you in the eyeball when he got REALLY hungry 😆
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Your president doesn't follow those laws. I think you need a reboot.. Trump rapes kids
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If someone doesn't see the value in that and chooses to break our laws, then act appropriately. But the default should be kindness for people escaping horrors we can't even begin to imagine
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Awesome. I'd have socialised healthcare, dignity, respect and the ability to work towards a gainful life with my family! Basically what I already have as a resident of the UK Why should I be a jealous, withholding bitch and deny others the same because they rolled different dice at birth?
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If I try to have a lie in, my Main Coon boy will hook my lip with a claw to wake me up.. and he doesn't stop until he's fed 😆 The ginger shitbag...
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One of my cats kicked my toaster off the work surface, one attacked a box of treats and knocked a can of beer over, one cost me £200 and is now high and screaming at me because he has the munchies 😆 1 is peaceful, 6 is utter fucking chaos! But yeah, lovely when they settle in for a cuddle
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Watching all the banned South Park episodes.. cracked up at the Scientology one, where all the credits are either John or Jane Smith after a clear taunt to sue them 😆
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I'm not a Dr (couldn't afford Med school) but I can see that he 100% has a circulatory deficiency, potentially a clotting issue and maybe a congestive heart condition based on his visible factors and age related risks Oh and he rapes kids. Nature, do your thing and rid us of this corpulent monster
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I pretty much live in cargo/combat shorts. Comfortable, airy, loads of pockets for all my stuff I still dress like a 15 year old metaller, just 30 years late to the gig 😆
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Looks like keeping him stable and maintaining his momentum while the chain reseats on the big chainring Would have had to shift the derailleur to the biggest sprocket on the rear and (if there is one) the smaller front sprocket, which can make you unstable
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I honestly thought you were a bot when I first started reading your work, just because of the sheer volume - but it quickly became clear that your standards are way higher than some shitty bot, and your output is just old school hard graft Good on ya!
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When I stop taking it, I already know that my habits are indelibly changed just by being aware of what they are and how they drive behaviour. I consider myself a very strong willed person, and it was genuinely shocking to me to be so enslaved by routine and ritual, and being subliminally blind to it
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I know this probably won't be a popular view, but I didn't realise JUST how ingrained habits were until I started using Mounjaro (medical reasons, not just for weight control - please don't hate me) When that "noise" goes away and the impulse is exposed, you realise how pervasive your habits are
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Ah the good old "Tactical Chunder" Never fails!
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*Into my local community.. should add
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One of the things I look most forward to in retirement is doing shit locally.. I'm in a "reformy" area, but that doesn't mean people should go cold or be lonely: fuck it's almost like that feeds the rot right? Right now I'm extracting as much money from investment banking as I can to inject it back
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"Prettier and younger, but not any better off" still murders me I'm older than these boys, but they have a fucking handle on stuff.. I refuse to drag them for doing good shit for bad organisations.
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Fall out Boy's Infinity on high had no reason to go hard as it did, but as a metaller I fucking lapped that shit up There are a thousand quotes from their songs that just stick in my head, and I genuinely think Stump is the greatest living vocalist right now Crucify me if you must.. I'm willing
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I use Tor a fair amount because I'm a privacy advocate and like the early internet feel of it, but it's more important function is allowing people in authoritarian regimes to get information out.. North Korea, China. fuck the US is likely entering that list soon, so banning Tor is just not an option
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Being a kiddly fiddler or seeking that content is NEVER ok - but here's a novel thought... stop making the surface clearweb SO fucking bad through legislation that people are pushed to Tor. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Yep, proven to be entirely performative now, and the trail of dead kids shows that pandering to cosplaying wannabe Terminators in their back yards isn't worth the cost of entry. Anyone that is pro 2A now is a fascist LARPer and nothing more.
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Yeah aside from 90's scene goth, this is second on my list of "types" I just don't, ya know.. treat people like shit and attempt to use made up scenarios as a stick to beat people with Funny that I love and respect strong Women and even managed to marry one! There is no secret. Just don't be a dick