I’m so far beyond the point of caring how people look at me, and so far past the point of wanting to talk to anyone.

What you’ve just described would be considered total victory.

My strategy for overcoming this is to congratulate myself out loud so they know not to answer until I’m done.

Curious if it’s for gaming applications specifically, or if people want the extra memory for things like stable diffusion

Not a loophole. Ambiguous and subjective criteria are designed to give decision makers cover to ultimately do whatever they want, unbound by the rules. When the system permits, the system is flawed.

What’s so hard to understand about that?

It’s just a case of art imitating life imitating art imitating life imitating art imitating life. What’s so hard to understand about that?

It’s not even close

This is why as much as I appreciate the philanthropy of the ultra wealthy, it’s NOT a substitute for taxation

Yes, we can accept that we’re all multifaceted. We contain multitudes. We can love some things about a person, and hate others.

Difficulties really only arise when we choose to make the broadest judgements into the narrowest categories. The whole must be good, the whole must be bad.

I hate how brutal he can be. I love how brutal he can be.

I think people are too obsessed with assigning a binary state to a whole human. It’s downright offensive.

It’s been 30 years since I used mega blocks, but damn they sucked.

I’ve always wondered if it was QC, or if there was some material properties of Lego that made them so much better? Like can they use tighter tolerances because of better plasticity/flexibility of their material?

I think it’ll strengthen everyone’s nuclear resolve. Strategic ambiguity (with the common knowledge that you are a nuclear state, like Israel) is pretty much the only option now.

Iran was playing the game of “we aren’t a nuclear power, but we COULD be” wasn’t enough. Everyone sees that now. The only real deterrent is a literal nuke, now.

I forget how old I am sometimes. I think it was generally missed, which is on me.

It’s the first, iconic line from “The Godfather”.

A man tells his story to Don Corleone, about how he can to America, made his fortune, and did his best to be a “good American”, to trust the police. To trust the system of justice.

He tells how his teenager daughter was savagely beaten by some men who tried to rape her. He went to the police, the men stood trial, but the judge suspended the sentence.

“Suspended sentence? They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom, like a fool.”

The whole scene is brilliant. The whole exploration of the failures of Western justice systems, the alternatives…

The resolution really is, he DOESN’T believe in America anymore.

I understand Toronto isn’t “America”, but I think the parallels in the events, and the story from the film are uncanny. A teenager was brutalized, the sentence was suspended, and the fury brewing in the stomachs of everyone has no legal outlet. The film, a work of fantasy, the father could appeal to Don Corleone. Who do we have?

Maybe I underestimated the cultural impact of The Godfather.

I believe in America.

Edit:

For clarity, I’m referring to this:

https://youtu.be/eZHsmb4ezEk

Guess we doin rockets now

Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake

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Me

It isn’t about the achieving the stated results (deportations), it’s about putting on a circus for his base and building himself a personal army built entirely of members of his personality cult.

Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.