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I’d say its time to disengage from the conversation.

Having the conversations and sticking to your points is good and all but they didn’t come to their opinions based on “facts and logic” so you’re not going to facts and logic them into a different opinion.

Possibly try to pay attention to when your friend has gotten to the point in the conversation that they’ve effectively shut down and wind down the conversation when it gets to that point. Talk about something else, everybody goes outside and touches grass, or just call it a day.

Misread the post title, thought everybody jumped and left you all alone.

See that parachute over there folks? Its rigged! Rigged I tell ya. Don’t trust it. If I jump out of a plane with that 'chute on and fall to the ground, to my untimely demise, it would be because it was rigged.

Not sure which was first , the Atari 1600(?) PAC-Man or Pole Position.

Hamas: Shit, one of our guys got upset and killed an Israeli prisoner. This isn’t good.

Israel: We have a moral right to r*pe any Palestinian prisoners we want to.

Self defense is self defense, would we expect some different behavior from a country being attacked from outside interests with publicly accessible end to end encryption services?

blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries.

Or… you know… at least for Venezuela, the USA constantly fucking around with their elections and politics and local assets using Signal or something. Maybe, I dunno?

Depositing checks is about the only useful thing I’ve seen on my local bank’s app, but that only matters if you do business stuff with people who pay with checks.

Unless both products had the same amount of sales and generates the same amount of revenue, the lowest seller with the lowest margin would be cut.

If there’s a replacement product somewhere it might be brought in and the cycle would start again OR the shelf space of the “winner” would increase to take over the now empty spot if the products were shelved in the same set.

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I actually had that in the first draft of this comment but removed it for the less salacious “Track and Field”.

All they know is Foxy Boxing, Powderpuff Football, Women’s Track and Field, eat hot chip, and lie about gender.

The Jaws prequels are pretty intense.

Its very odd how there’s always noise but you never notice it until its actually quiet.

No bugs, no fans, no vehicles in the distance, no dripping water, no birds chirping, no breeze… nothing.

It almost feels like a physical presence, this lack of sound.

Like walking from a hot room into a cold room, or suddenly feeling a huge gust of wind when the air was still moments before.

“B2P”

You’re welcome.

Much easier to assume the training data isn’t garbage when the AI expert system only has a narrow scope, right?

Doctor: There seems to be something wrong with the image.

Technician: What’s the problem?

Doctor: The patient only has two breasts, but the image that came back from the AI machine shows them having six breasts and much MUCH larger breasts than the patient actually has.

Technician: sighs

me looking at a very large, very dead, very rotted tree

I absolutely don’t trust parking my car under this.

That would be funny if all the justices got got by this. Just having the SC have zero justices on the bench for any amount of time would be a funny thing to happen while I’m alive.

Hadn’t the Ukraine military been attacking its own cities in the border territories since 2015? Seems like the Ukrainians didn’t really want the areas that much to begin with, so why not let those areas be taken by Russia?

At minimum, it will be a draw.

That would be, as far as Ukraine’s current public statements and NATO’s as well, a loss.

Ukraine’s military can’t push the Russian military back to the Russian border and Russia isn’t going to agree to handing most of the places along the border that are currently being occupied by Russian troops back Ukraine/NATO.