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 No.15225[Reply]

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Should it be illegal for LGBT marriage to occur and be officially recognized in the United States?

Are these marriages, seen most Americans as immoral and against traditional religious values about families while a minority of individuals see them as a matter of core personal freedoms, fundamentally good or bad for the country?

I personally take the view that smaller government should exist over time and people should do more or less whatever they like in their own lives, but I understand that this opinion is a rare one, relatively speaking, and seek other thoughts.


 No.15210[Reply]

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What did Donald Trump mean by this?
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 No.15222

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"You look like a bot."

Oh, okaay.

 No.15223

Ask a Republican and he'll say he's playing 4D chess and joking and trolling the libs and it's hillarious

Ask a Democrat and they will say that he's Hitler reborn who is planning to rip up the constitution and elect himself a dictator god emperor for life

Ask a based centrist and they will tell you that they don't care, nothing ever happens and that they just want to grill

Take your pick

 No.15224

>>15223

> Ask a based centrist and they will tell you that they don't care, nothing ever happens and that they just want to grill

If tomorrow an asteroid hits the surface and wipes out all of humankind in an instant, on a cosmis scale nothing really happened either


 No.15213[Reply]

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Just a reminder that Fallout3 predicted it

 No.15214

The first Fallout predicted it.

 No.15216

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People called Fallout 3's plot dogshit. But who's going to be laughing when they install an AI as president and someone convinces it to blow itself up?

That's right. Todd. Todd always laughs last.


 No.15207[Reply]

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What do you think about pennies no longer being manufactured?

 No.15208

this is a pointless distraction

 No.15209

>>15208

yes

>>15207

this has been suggested for about two decades. guess it only took an executive order to do? but without a penny, that would mean items should only be priced no less than in terms of nickels... for example, $1.00, $1.05, $1.10, $1.15, etc.

But according to https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1776?amount=0.01, "$0.01 in 1776 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $0.36 today, an increase of $0.35 over 249 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 1.45% per year between 1776 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 3,527.64%."

So, a more moderate position would be to stop minting nickels and dimes, as well. With quarters, however, being worth less than they used to be, I would also consider stopping minting them, as well (and perhaps bringing back the 50-cent piece into regular circulation).

A new coin that changes value, such as an inflation-adjusted penny could be minted and set to an initial value of 36 cents. Or, a regular 36-cent coin could be produced as the lowest denomination coin and a new inflation-adjusted lowest denomination coin could be minted every year at a higher value to help citizens keep track of inflation in an easy-to-understand way. (Other coins and bills would not be inflation-adjusted - just the new penny)


 No.15203[Reply]

What do you think?


 No.15174[Reply]

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 No.15190

good to see darkmatter2525 still making videos

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 No.15166[Reply]

How can this guy be so stupid. He and his companions complain about the cancel culture and about being called fascist.
>Now they are dropping Nazist salutes.That's not even >Literally 1984
That is giving off >Man in the High Castle Vibes.
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 No.15170

>>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.

 No.15184

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 No.15189

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 No.15188[Reply]

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As noted by BBC News, by the 3rd of February in 2025 a full "[t]hirteen hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have so far been released as part of a long-awaited ceasefire deal with Israel, which began on 19 January 2025." As well, "[f]ive Thai nationals have also been freed under a separate agreement." This all means that "[f]ifteen months after the 7 October 2023 attacks, Israel says 79 of the 251 captives remain unaccounted for, although it believes only 45 of these are still alive."

There's a lot about the hostage crisis here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67477240

At the same time, the Israeli government has held a lot of Palestinians as prisoners over the recent past. And the Israeli military has also killed a great many Palestinian individuals during its armed actions in Palestine over that time. A great deal of suffering has occurred in the region.

What do you, personally, think should happen during these recent days of peace related negotiations? What thoughts do you have? What should happen in the near future?


 No.15178[Reply]

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Is a takeover of world governments by advanced AI something that ultimately is inevitable, like the Sun expanding when it becomes a Red Giant or other natural processes?

Is there any clear way to prevent it from happening?

For context, the screenshot is of a public commentary done by Sam Altman who's the CEO of OpenAI.
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 No.15183

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>>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

 No.15185

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

 No.15186

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


 No.15160[Reply]

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Are you proud to be an American where at least you know you're free?
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 No.15175

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.

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 No.15177

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


 No.15169[Reply]

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live in an area with a pretty bad homeless/drug problem
lots of drunk guys hanging around the local third-rate pubs they love so much

walking home one day
see two of them outside one of those places
one guy standing there with a beer and a cig
the other dude, younger guy, is face down on the tarmac
arm twisted under his stomach, not moving
looks like he's either blackout drunk at best or straight-up overdosing

slowly walk toward them to see what's up
standing guy immediately starts waving me off like >nah nah, we're good
ask him
>You guys alright? Need me to call someone?
guy just says
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 No.15168[Reply]

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Shaming men for having beards and for wearing hats is stupid.

I value and support both.

I don't care how much of an anachronism those two things may be.

Honestly, I think this dude looks awesome. R.I.P. Garth Hudson


 No.15158[Reply]

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i wanna get on on the side of my tummy but idk who it should be or what it should be

 No.15159

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...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


 No.15107[Reply]

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Why do humans live next to volcanos, like with basically everywhere this occuring throughout the history of time?

Couldn't you literally just choose to not be besides volcanoes?

This seems like something that the human species collectively should learn at some point?
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 No.15124

>>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.

 No.15155

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

 No.15157

>>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


 No.15142[Reply]

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Suppose you lived in the United Kingdom, or maybe you already do, and are trying to compare as well as contrast your viewpoints from everybody else that's around you!

Try this quiz!

https://www.britainschoice.uk/the-quiz/

It breaks you up into one of seven little factions and then describes what's going on in the U.K. right now!
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 No.15146

>>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?

 No.15149

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...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.

 No.15154

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>>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!


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