I got a spam text that said
Do you have any vacation plans? Itβs a great way to relax!
Which sounds like PokΓ©mon NPC dialogue.
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Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
Among Marx's best-known texts are the "The Communist Manifesto" and the three-volume "Das Kapital", in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.
Marx's political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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the punchline to The Rehearsal Ep3 is so good!
Nathan fielder is breaking new ground in the medium of Television.
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Hoping to do a 100 mile bike ride this year. I think I can legitimately reach my goal by Fall, even if currently I can do maybe 15-20 miles on bike and a 2 mile run in a day.
Always wanted to do this trail, but back when I was biking 30 miles a day for school/work, I didn't exactly have the ability to take a 4-day weekend so casually.
Podcasts and audiobooks presented by New Zealanders fundamentally do not work. Their voices are too relaxing. You end up falling asleep.
Thought I could go to the gym again since my schedule would allow it, but I crashed hard last night. Hoping these 6 day weeks end soon. Still trying to hire someone and it seems they're having a hard time finding someone. I'll probably stick to some light home workouts for now.
some guy named Jerk Fuckass said 600 years ago "hey what if other people did work but i took most of the value" and so now i got to clock a 12 hour day at the piss and shit factory
Is there a reason Pokemon VGC is double battles and not singles?
4v4 doubles is a faster format that 6v6 singles. I dont know if this was an actual conscious reason the pokemon company made, but if you played 6v6 singles on cartridge you can pretty reasonably get 30 minute long games since switching is so much more powerful in singles
VGC has always been double battles
Just realized I made a typo. Meant to ask if there is a reason why thatβs preferred over singles
I dont think there is an specific reason, i think they just choose doubles battle because they were a new gimmick introduced in gen 3 plus the console pokemon games were locked in double battles
So by gen 4 they just decided to keep doing double battles and it stuck
White smoke - new pope
Black smoke - pope hazy, please try again (popen't)
Blue smoke - brisket
Personally, I would not eat that brisket.
Apparently sometimes it shows up grey
Guess that means that they must do battle with a balrog before the smoke can become white.
The great thing about forgetting much of your high school education is you can relearn using Soviet textbooks this time.
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I know that it's slop-brained but I want to see a superhero story with actual realism for once. Superpowers exist for reasons xyz, it ultimately doesn't matter I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for the magic bullshit. How did powers come into being? What effects did it have on the development of society if nuclear level threats are something humanity has had to deal with for potentially hundreds of years? How is damage from kaijus dealt with? I want to see the ways society would fundamentally alter if this shit actually happened and it was actually taken seriously. Fuck it, take different countries and see how different reactions and actions shape how their society handles it. I'm sure stories like it exist but they always end up full of 
or they just never take thoughts to any actual conclusions and I want the writer to be cool for once
Boku no hero academia lol
I started the show and enjoyed it but fell off after season 3 or 4 because I got bored of waiting. The show has bits of what I'm talking about with the hero registry and schooling system and things of that nature, I just don't remember them getting into things in a way that was satisfying. It was still stuck in the trappings of shonen. I could be completely wrong though, I still need to finish the show
No, I feel the same way
So watchman but theres more actual superheroes than a God?
Watchmen but thorough? Like almost a sociological examination on a society with superhumans. In Watchmen, I don't remember them actually talking about society pre/post superhumans and the changes that would be necessary to create some kind of a stable society. It's always just everything is exactly the same as it is now but also superpowers which feels shallow.
nobody looked at the cool video about pantograph mills I posted
was it a waffle iron vid?
Yeah, the cool part is the tool more than the product though
I do enjoy that channel
I watched it! I just didn't have anything to add, really, because I'm not remotely handy in that way (a lot of the technical details went over my head), but it was super neat learning about the pantograph and seeing the dude troubleshoot things. I'm always blown away by the ingenuity of engineers in the days before integrated circuits and how much they were able to accomplish through pure mechanics (the secret is often cams! So many cams!). And I love that it was all in service of something silly--that's most of the projects I work on, too, although I haven't done anything nearly as difficult or cool as this one.
I'm not that interested in learning machining, personally, but seeing projects like this makes me want to get back into learning electronics (like soldering and designing circuits and stuff) so I can build things on my own. Kinda hit a wall and got frustrated and gave up, but...if at first you don't succeed, try try again.
The coolest part, for me, was how a pantograph mill plus a 3d printer makes an ersatz CNC mill. That synergy between two technologies that didn't practically coexist in time is amazing.
The pantograph even replicated the faceting of the STL!
Try tinkering with microcontrollers, it's an easy on ramp to electronics hobby projects
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You can work to work?
edit: should've kept the funny typo
Posting
under a bunch of random shit and seeing who gets mad
I may have finally gotten a job, but itβs a seasonal position so Iβm making an effort to still apply and take the odd interview.
Does anyone else hate when rejection emails always have the βwe received soooo many applicationsβ bullshit? Like is it a demoralization technique, how is this necessary?
To me it reads βWeβre spoiled for choice. Fuck you.β and people wonder why thereβs a youth unemployment problem? Because you need to meet 100% of the qualifications and beat out hundreds if not thousands for any given job.
It's so you know just competitive the job market is. Everyone wants to work for us
I really do hate that though.
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I saw a cool bird today. It surprisingly wasn't scared of me at all so I could take a few pictures, and it only left after I had finally taken a good one (seen below).
what a cute little bird!!! you got such a great photo too 
So pretty!
There are parts of When serfs stood up in Tibet that read like Tom Lehrer wrote them
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