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Only one I can think of is a young professor, but that's just because it usually takes quite a while to become one, so it's prestigious.

And we're operating under the assumption you will live a fulfilling life as this animal. We do not talk about the ~~war~~ climate.

I'd like to be a grizzly or a raccoon.

And way more expensive too

I have memories of ordering something express post from Japan for like $10 AUD and it would be at my door the next day.

Now if you order anything overseas it's like $40 AUD if you want express and it still takes like a week.

For example, I (based in Australia) just sold something 5 days ago on eBay to the USA. The customer payed for express. It was $40 AUD. I also get a copy of the tracking and the tracking says it's still in fucking Australia. It's been five days there is no reason the customer shouldn't have it by now and yet it hasn't even left my state. Lmao what are we even paying for?

So imagine you have a bunch of photos on your phone, and then some software finds all your photos from your recent vacation to Brazil, automatically creates a slideshow out of it, and then generates a video where while the slideshow is scrolling, there's 2 AI podcast hosts talking about your life in the photos. Specifically in this scenario, the vacation to Brazil

One clear reason I can piece together is that it's narcissistic to want 2 AI humans to talk about your own photos like that

But there's also something deeply unsettling about this that I can't exactly piece together. I'm not against generating an AI podcast for like study notes or something for you to listen to while driving or cooking, but it's super weird if it's on your own photos right?

Is it the fact that it's weird to just listen to AI voices talk about your photos and yourself? Like it's some sort of artificial social interaction?

This is a narrative I've been seeing crop up in some radlib places. Is it at all true? I thought the US backed SA pretty extensively mostly. Anyone have any good sources on this claim?

The narrative is that Musk has some long term grudge with USAID over this.

My pillows are shot, I put my head on them and all the fluff separates and them my head is just on the mattress. I got some Christmas money burning a hole in my debit account and figured I'd splurge for nice pillows cuz I need sleep goddammit! Anyway what's a good pillow company?

Like the title says. I just heard about it a few days ago from YouTube. It sounds really cute and gay, but I was wondering if it's just nostalgia bait or if they're actually achieving some sort of community over there. Also, whether there are a lot of leftists there or if they tend to get pushed out. Is it still up and thriving or did it peak a couple of years ago?

And uuuuh... if you made a cute lil website of your own, can I see?

Is this real

Also what's a good way to look at twitter if you don't have X, the everything app

I bought pants recently

I'm short so I got them from Uniqlo since you can get it altered to have a lower inseam

I am overwhelmed by the amounts of pants styles and fits out there

I got the straight jeans since they seemed like the normal option idk

Tell me about your pants

While it is vital for revolutionary socialists in Norway to learn from the failings of previous revolutionaries in this country, it is of course just as important to learn from countries with similarities to Norway, and to this end, Japan has always struck me as having a number of similarities to Norway, in terms of geography, topography, land use, and political status, et cetera.

For this reason I find it interesting that the Japanese Communist Party established paramilitary units in mountain villages in the 1950s, inspired by Mao's idea of protracted people's war — namely the establishment of a revolutionary base area in isolated rural mountain regions to wage guerrilla warfare against the government. Yet the JCP's guerrilla warfare campaign is described as a failure, and the party would eventually take on a reformist route and distance itself from political violence.

In Norway, one of the main historical communist parties (AKP-ML) was also influenced by Mao Zedong Thought, yet to my knowledge never tried to wage a protracted people's war in practice, even with its calls for violent revolution. AKP-ML did at the very least publish a book called Gerljakrigføring i Norge ("Guerrilla Warfare in Norway") which you may still find on Nasjonalbiblioteket's website, however this book was written based on the premise that its tactics would be used in case of a Soviet invasion of Norway, rather than being used to further the revolutionary cause.

All of this is essentially to say that my questions are:

1. Why did the JCP try to start a protracted people's war, but AKP-ML did not?
2. Why is the JCP's guerrilla warfare campaign (seen as) a failure?
3. What lessons can we learn from all of this? What should have been done differently?

After seeing all those mask off moments in recent week I sorta start understanding their argument.

I basically just want to know what you'd wish for if you didn't worry about others. So that's the real question, but it's not as catchy. Three wishes for something only for you. If it helps then assume all the other stuff resolves itself.

The rule is spirit of the law. If you wish for something that happens to help others, it's fine, but if you wish for something with the goal of doing something good for anyone but you, then you're turned into Elon Musks right thumb (you retain sentience and sapience, but you're a thumb. No ability to do anything and you don't control yourself, Elon does, you're his thumb.)

Example:
Okay: Your mom is sick and you wish for her to be cured, because you would miss your mom.
Not okay: Your mom is sick and you wish for her to be cured because she doesn't want to be sick.

And don't try to rules lawyer it, the genie will get you for that too.

Also only three wishes, it's a limitation on the genie, not a rule. It's physically incapable of it. It cannot give you more than three wishes, nor can it be made into something that can do that, nor can it make something that can do that, nor can it make something that can turn it into something that can do that.

Okay, so if I take for given that me being born under a constellation that looks like a crab has some immutable affect on my personality, what exactly is causing that?

Does the constellation represent a deity who is projecting psychic energy on me that molds me in a way representative to itself? Are the stars themselves having some kind of gravitational effect on my brain chemistry? Does the cosmos function in some strange way where people born under a certain alignment of the celestial bodies end up having a different psychology?

Sorry to be a nerd about this but I don't like the idea its just pure vibes, I'd like some understanding of the actual causation here.

Only applies to real people. No fictional ones. (Sorry Stirner)

I have a surface level understanding but are there any decent reads/watches/listens that have more detail?

I've worked at three hardware stores and each one had one of these ladies.

Seriously, one just spent like half an hour ranting to me about how she thinks the local gas and electric company is conspiring against her.

Only on things I've seen before and I'm a huge rewatcher. I still am primarily engaged in the show or movie and usually just use my phone mid watch to make posts about it before I forget.

My money is on the US forcing the EU and the UK to open TREATy ports, so american companies can sell the garbage they produce, after RFK Jr. bans them from the US.

It is similar to the one by Robert L. Poston from 1921 that was posted on r*ddit almost a decade ago. I can't remember who wrote it but it included a line of the perpetrator (maybe a Klansman?) getting blown away with a coach gun