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I mean I thought thorium reactors were figured out already? The economics of it and lobbying by big oil was the problem. It ain't that surprising that China could make a thorium reactor though.

The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or "the sharty". They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I've heard and seen from the website.

Bluesky has a lot of artists. Posting this video here: https://youtu.be/I4mdMMu-3fc

Decadence? No. Moreso vanity, moreso arrogance, moreso pride is our downfall. The American people feel the need to feel as if they are superior to everyone out there. We fucking placed tariffs on Taiwan. They basically already agreed to cuck themselves and build a chip fab on US soil, thus eventually removing our need to protect them for their chips. But no, we fucked their wife, and now we're going for their ass too. Vanity, arrogance, pride. We are going down the same path as the Qing. Autarkic, Insular, leading to falling behind and getting fucked.

It'd be hilarious if egg imports into the US were blocked because of the global tariffs.

Imma just post this video here: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

What the current administration is doing tracks with this video fairly accurately. Basically, "Network States" are what they want. It's basically what exists in Honduras right now in the form of "Prospera, which is a network state that operates in that country.

Doesn't that just make it easier for the US to conscript people?

I wonder if this has all just been a campaign to make Signal look untrustworthy to the US public? It would be bad for the fascist federales if the US public started using Signal en masse. Surveillance would be made significantly harder. They're currently blaming signal for the leak rn.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

You hate the culture as a whole? Or hate just the regressive/reactionary/conservative/more traditional(to a westerner) elements of it?

Basically, although base intelligence/smartness perhaps has two parameters that make it? Effort and speed. Everyone can put in a bit more effort, but base speed may be baked in, unless one trains it, and max reachable base speed will depend from person to person. Hell if I know, we haven't really created a definitive definition for intelligence yet.

Edit Addendum: As for what can be considered dumb or smart? I agree, lack of effort can be considered "dumb". Though the word dumb is a bit broad. I guess we can say many people are, out of habit, "intellectually heedless"

I'm of the opinion that most people aren't dumb, but rather most don't put in the requisite intellectual effort to actually reach accurate or precise or nuanced positions and opinions. Like they have the capacity to do so! They're humans after all, and us humans can be pretty smart. But a brain accustomed to simply taking the path of least resistance is gonna continue to do so until it is forced(hopefully through their own action) to actually do something harder.

Put succinctly: They can think, yet they don't.