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I think that’s the joke

I’m wondering if there’s any way I can pass myself off as too gay to serve without getting slaughtered by the regime

If both parties promise the same thing, then it isn’t really a democracy, it’s a single party dictatorship with multiple personality disorder.

I mean, it’s the Israeli special so yeah probably. but at the same time, it doesn’t seem like Iran seriously expects them to agree to it either, so they’re at least prepared for the sudden but inevitable betrayal.

real talk; the answer is that the Mechanicus are too powerful for the Imperium to actually fuck with. For one, they were an already established and very strong empire on Mars while the Emperor was just getting humanity back together after a great collapse on Earth, so they negotiated the alliance from a position of power. For two, the Imperium gets every gun, every ship, every tank, every drop pod, every Titan, literally everything other than I think food and manpower for their armies from the Mechanicus. If you wanna start investingating their “definitely not-AI,” you gotta be prepared to have your shipments of Leman Russes to suddenly start getting lost.

The future is coming whether we fight it or not. High schoolers fuckin love AI slop. Eventually, all of us who remembered the old days of human created media will die, and the people who grew up with slop being the only thing they know will take our place, and our societal standards will lower more and more.

yeaaa.

It’d be nice to go out and get whatever food I want, but I have to eat the cheap groceries I have in my apt because I need money to be allowed to continue living

this is why I don’t look at my phone at all when I get off work. I save all my shitposting for my salaried hours

currently have a stack of students’ academic records on my desk, the state of grading in the U.S. is just insane. I hate GPA with a burning passion. Very talented kids burn themselves out over a number that might as well be set arbitrarily, because schools do some very fucky math to inflate their numbers, and they all seem to do the math differently. Why do they do this math? Well, it’s because they’re allergic to giving out grades lower than a C, so their entire scale would cease to function if they didn’t heavily weight different classes over others. It’s like a tower of self-caused problems.

I dunno if it was the best, but the pizza that lives in my memory was a whopping 24" pizza from a local place. That’s over 450 square inches of 'za, or 11 square meters for the Europeans.

It was glorious, and took four incredibly high stoners about a day and a half to work through.

I’m talking from a US perspective, but I work in an education adjacent field that reviews a lot of homeschool student’s academic records from across the country. IMO, there are two types of homeschoolers. There’s the students who are truly brilliant living in a part of the country that doesn’t value education, and they’re practically forced into homeschooling (or a popular online program like Stanford Online High School) in order to receive an actual education that could challenge them. They do get less socialization than their traditional schooled peers, but they’d get mercilessly bullied at a traditional school so it’s hard to say how much value that socialization has.

The other type are the religious fundies. I have even more hands-on experience with this style, as some of my cousins were homeschooled in this manner. IMO, this shit should be illegal. It’s accepted because someone is typically monitoring these students’ academic progress, but I can say with confidence that Republican states are letting a lot of shit slide. It’s religious indoctrination at a level beyond what you would even find at a religious private school. Typically, these students are better socialized than the other homeschool students, though with the caveat that all their socialization happens in religious settings.

sorry full of valuable resources? what, corn? dataservers? pedophiles?

the U.S. is not some piggy bank waiting to be cracked. Realistically, the current US military exists to defend America from all the nations it’s pissed off by invading them in the past. It’s a self-fullfilling system.

actually, from a historical perspective, it’s been the Dems who have accelerated ICE. Biden and especially Obama were much more instrumental in the agency coming into more and more power. Trump’s getting to play with the toy now, but it was bought by Dems.

I’m about to take a super shit on the villain of the week

finally, all of that training with my crackhead cat will pay off!

don’t let the others get you down, wanting to lick/bite is perfectly normal bottom behavior

past me is an asshole, and future me is a chump.

definitely a hole duh

I have terrible news for you; people are not generally literate then.

the issue is that it seems quite likely that humanity will always have a subset of the population that lords over the rest of them, and that subset has a vested interest in keeping tribalism alive.

Sure, you can be an optimist and dream of a future that is radically different to how human culture has existed in recorded history, but the realistic expectation is that the widespread education that would need to take place just…won’t.