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good to see darkmatter2525 still making videos

>>15166
Man, the memes had me convinced this was something it wasn't. Like it was anywhere even close. He isn't even doing it straight on. It's to the side like a fucking dab.
Dumbest nothingburger of my life.

>>15178

>Is a takeover of world governments by advanced AI something that ultimately is inevitable?

Nah. Nothing is inevitable.

>Is there any clear way to prevent it from happening?

Eh, why would you want to?

>For context, the screenshot is of a public commentary done by Sam Altman who's the CEO of OpenAI.

...

>cnbc

If this goes too far, the government and state could be dismantled within the next century.

>>15183
What exactly is wrong with the photo? It's accurately described.

And you're actually going to cram "illegal" immigrants, unwanted criminals and leftist protesters indefinitely in an offshore prison known for detaining and torturing terrorists.

The price for freedom.

If America no longer stands for human rights and civil liberties, then it is a failed state by all accounts.

...one of these, maybe - unless you are more of an earth element, in which case a symbol of Ferio's or Master Mage Clef. i don't have any tattoos

>>15122
This is very a good question, and the smattering of news articles that I've seen that I remember appear to describe six eruptions happening in the past four years, counting what just happened as well as these including calm-ish situations where not that much material got actually squirted out.

I'm aware that "six in a period of four years" can be converted by easy and simple math to "???? per year", but I'm too mentally fried at the moment to do that, honestly.

Feel free to check this for yourself, using other news agencies if you want, of course.

I'd say that it is mostly calculated risk as the soil around the vulcanos tends to be the most fertile also.

>>15155

Yeah this, also the predominance of natural springs near volcanoes. Like look at Japan for instance, the main island in the archipelago has a ton of natural hot springs that can provide an abundance of fresh water

Maybe. What do you think?

I would love to make more eurobeat some day. Haven't got a professional studio, but it doesn't stop me from giving it a go in some less expensive software.

I mean besides the obvious impact on the road safety on a global scale, people would simply follow the philosophy of.
>Make JDM meets, not war.

>>15143
Nothing against you, or against that result, but I'm now wondering... what's with that guy's arm in the image? It looks off?

...which is weird because I'm not highly-educated, not urban, not in work, hate Labour (at least right now), and try to be apolitical on social media.

But otherwise it's kind of a 'tell me something I don't know' situation.

>>15142
And doing it myself (again)...

This isn't a surprise for me personally, but there's a lot of context that's also important, particularly since as an Irish-American I wish to see both the destruction of the United Kingdom as a political entity through a United Ireland and also the elimination of the British monarchy as a political entity.

There's also the fact that my hatred for the psychotic and nihilistic rich people in the United Kingdom running the economy into the ground (alongside other forms of idiotic financial policy meant to benefit elite property owners at the expense of everybody else) doesn't mean that I support what're essentially open borders. Neither do I like getting rid of what might call the assimilation process in promoting classical British values. To be frank, I'd agree with the immigration resurrectionists and patriots who talk about heritage and moderating social programs mostly if not maybe entirely, with those groups being on the right-wing usually.

I don't view the British monarchy and the cream-of-the-crop gentry as on 'my side', though, so there I'm totally against the right-wing in the U.K. If anything, I think having endless waves of downtrodden immigrants who destroy health systems, labor union systems, education systems, and other things by their sheer mass is exactly what the oligarchs who live in mansions and hate the poor want. I also share the desire to be far, far tougher on crime and criminals. Which, again, is something that appears to me to benefit the poor rather than the powerful elite, who likely would prefer to rule over a quasi-anarchy keeping the other groups below them unorganized.

From my point of view, left-wing social viewpoints and right-wing economic policies go hand-in-hand while right-wing social viewpoints and left-wing economic policies go hand-in-hand. I suppose. Hard to say that clearly, though.

Eh, it's still all quite interesting! I really think so!

My great-great-uncle lied about his age to go fight the Nazis in France. Two days in he got shot by a sniper and died. Presumably he never even saw combat.

A lot of people die like that in modern warfare. They get blown up or shot somewhere vital and that's it. Taking a human life, robbing two parents of their child, is really too simple.

So honestly? On the face of it, it's just another state-sanctioned murder. But going down staking one's life on a personal test of strength, skill and determination is a far better death than most get. You might still die in the end, but you'll die having forced your killer to look you in the eyes and respect you as a fellow warrior.

Maybe the guy is rolling in his grave reading this post from a person on their PC posting an anime cheerleader, but I'm just trying to see the good in the situation.

>>15136
I honestly hate living in a world in which "Human Safaris!" are a normal, natural thing, with regular civilians living their ordinary lives being intentionally killed by military aircraft.

At the same time, well, I'm positive that this is going to get much, much worse given that less and less governments across Earth care about protecting civilians in wartime, especially when it comes to disabled and elderly people who might be perceived as of less ethical worth than others.

Note: this video does not include clips of the actual "hunting" involved by Russian aircraft and anything related to that. In American terms, it would be something like a 'PG' or 'PG-13' video.

>>15140
>>15141
Yes. That individual, Passionate Lion, is thinking correctly and is right.