Chaos Control makes no sense.
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    ItalianMessiah
    3d ago 100%

    Chaos tends towards order in aggregate, literally chaos control in action. Atom's don't really follow the traditional energy level model, they just have a reasonable probability of being somewhere along those lines. But the structures can be relatively stable and rocks don't blink out of existence.

    Also spontaneous order is a well studied part of Chaos Theory. You're wrong again.

    In conclusion, Shadow haters get the wall and you're not a communist. ban-hammer

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  • Enver Halil Hoxha - New General Megathread for the 16th-17th of October 2024
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    ItalianMessiah
    5d ago 100%

    "I used ChatGPT to make Excel Macros which do my job, this is why ChatGPT is an amazing unique product"

    Anyone with a mediocre knowledge of Excel/any programming language also could have done this. The scary part is how an company relied on this for presumably years.

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  • Update regarding Hexbear's misogyny problem - planned actions and request for feedback
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    ItalianMessiah
    1w ago 100%

    A wife also has the right to know if her husband is cheating. It's not about ownership, it's about STDs. Everyone is entitled to make informed decisions about who they have sex with.

    I know situations can be complex but safe sex and informed consent is the backbone of the LGBTQ+ community and I don't think we should throw it away to get some extra dunks.

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  • What happened here???
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    ItalianMessiah
    2w ago 100%

    However, I disagree about the ending. It whacked the movie over the head with a theme-shaped bat until its subsequent paste-form could be anything but misinterpreted.

    The ending is often misinterpreted but it's extremely good and subtle in a lot of ways. The speech to Murray at the end isn't meant to be an actual explanation of the character's beliefs. It's Arthur breaking down and embracing a role forced upon him. He didn't kill the three people on the subway because they were awful, it was self defense for the first two and the third because his story wouldn't be believed even if it was the truth. A morally good Arthur would still end with him in prison because the third guy would lie and say the evil clown attacked him and his friends.

    It's a lot like Joker's laugh. The traditional Joker laughs at the world, finding some macabre humor in the things he does. But in this movie it's just a medical condition. He's forced to do so and people project motivations on to it. He never wanted any of this to happen but society denies him the opportunity to be anything but the villain.

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  • Presented with no comment
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    ItalianMessiah
    2w ago 100%

    Not morally, but the "You agreed not to fact check" was probably a bigger blunder to the American people than supporting per-emptive genocide.

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  • Sputnik 1 - New General Megathread for the 4th-6th of October 2024
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    ItalianMessiah
    2w ago 100%

    Holy fuck curry is amazing.

    I thought it would take a long time to make and just be like a normal sauce but this took me 15 minutes and it's the most flavorful thing I've ever eaten. This and rice beats 99% of the meals I've ever eaten.

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  • Saladin's Conquest of Jerusalem (1187 CE) - New General Megathread for the 2nd-3rd of October 2024
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    ItalianMessiah
    3w ago 100%

    Let's suppose, hypothetically, we wanted to prove your ears hang low.

    debate-me-debate-me

    Let's say your ears wobble to and fro. We can deduce from that that you could then tie them in a knot. Following that, we could argue you could also tie them in bow. With both of these things proven by judeo-christian logic, we would now be able to conclusively prove that you could throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier. If we can say all this, ergo ex facto, your ears do hang low.

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  • Can they tho?
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    ItalianMessiah
    3w ago 100%

    I'm driving my electric truck down to place without power to provide power for 3-4 hours and then immediately getting stuck.

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  • Trail of Tears - New General Megathread for the 30th of sep-1st of October 2024
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    ItalianMessiah
    3w ago 100%

    Being in to weapons when you don't intend to kill someone is fucking weird.

    All things in life are secured by violence, if not your own than the state's violence. Refusing to learn weapons and self-defense is to abdicate your life to the mercy of Capital and the Fascists. The only reason people think otherwise is because they live in isolated, safe pockets of the West where they're unlikely to be violently killed.

    What most people don't understand beyond the theoretical is that all the horrible war and destruction you see on the news could one day happen to you. All the muffins in the world won't mean anything then. You're smart enough to recognize the need to prepare, refuse to do so at your own risk. At the very least, don't call the people who see the writing on the wall "weird" because you want to keep your head in the sand.

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  • Making a realistic budget?
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    ItalianMessiah
    3w ago 100%

    Max out employer-matching 401k if you have it. Shove a lot of money in your IRA for tax purposes if it makes sense. Invest as much as you can as early as you can. Putting down 10% more in your 20's is going to be much more useful than putting 50% more in your 60's

    High yield savings accounts are good but a lot of them require $100,000 to reach the top amount.

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  • I'm just doing a head count to see how many liberals we still have on this site.

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