- T3D_SIMP : CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES
California could end the United States as we know it 
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My favorite part about DOGE is how one of the guys will be some kind of insane prodigy who decoded the Herculaneum Papyrii at the age of 20 and the hit piece authorβs bio trying to take him down is like, βassociate staff writer for general topics, hobbies include having a cat.β pic.twitter.com/wgXE2RkVCL
β Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) February 3, 2025
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A later statement confirmed: "There has been a shooting at the school. Four people have been shot. The extent of the injuries is unclear. The operation is still ongoing.
That number has since been raised to five - while police also denied local reports that officers had been shot.
The shooting took place in a campus area which includes several schools for both children and adults.
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De minimus entries from China shut down effective Tuesday.
— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) February 2, 2025
Maybe American Apparel can come back
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— mr. joshua (@pants) February 5, 2025
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RFK Jr putting Methylene Blue in his water while flying is prime weβre so back.
— Vance πβ‘οΈ (@VanceE) February 5, 2025
MB while flying
- Mitigates any radiation burden
- Protects against oxidative stress
- Anti viral so you donβt catch a cold
- Boosts autophagy if fasting on flight
Also that dose I donβt recommend,β¦ pic.twitter.com/nVsVuk0oEf
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The article:
The comments are full of alcoholic boomers in denial, furiously 
ing and 
ing:
A lot of these guys seem like they have quite serious alcohol addictions.
This is the classic Daily Mail alcohol "gotcha" - completely ignoring that if you're an alcoholic then you'll die 20 years earlier and in severe pain after decades of poor health.
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Astronomers have been left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid β only to realize that the supposed space rock was the remains of Elon Musk's cherry-red Tesla Roadster and its spacesuit-clad driver "Starman."
The misidentified object, which was launched into space on board a SpaceX rocket in 2018, highlights a growing problem in astronomy that could lead to costly errors, researchers say.
On Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) added a new object, dubbed 2018 CN41, to its list of near-Earth asteroids. The supposed space rock was identified by an unnamed amateur astronomer in Turkey using years of publicly available data, Astronomy.com reported. However, just 17 hours later, the MPC released an editorial notice retracting the discovery after the citizen scientist realized they had made a mistake.
The Tesla Roadster, which was previously used by Elon Musk, was launched into space on Feb. 6, 2018, as the test payload for the maiden launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. The publicity stunt garnered widespread attention at the time, partly due to Starman β a mannequin in the car's driving seat that was wearing a likely defective spacesuit and "listening" to David Bowie's album "Space Oddity" on loop.
The car and its driver headed toward Mars after escaping Earth's gravity and were supposed to enter a stable orbit around the Red Planet, which raised alarms at the time that it could become a potential Martian "biothreat" if it accidentally crash-landed there. However, the pair overshot their target and instead entered a stable orbit around the sun. Now, it circles the sun and occasionally zooms past Mars.
The Tesla has now completed roughly 4.5 trips around the sun, traveling at roughly 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h), according to whereisroadster.com. This means that the car has now exceeded its initial 36,000-mile warranty around 100,00 times.
However, the car is probably unrecognizable now after being exposed to years of intense radiation from the sun and bombarded by tiny fragments of space rocks, which have likely stripped the outer layers of the car and shredded Starman.
This is not the first time that human-made objects have been mistaken for near-Earth asteroids. The MPC has temporarily listed a number of spacecraft as space rocks over the last two decades β including the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, NASA's Lucy probe, the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission and others β as well as rocket boosters and other debris, according to Astronomy.com.
This type of confusion will also likely increase as more human-made objects are launched into space.
These misidentifications could lead to more false alarms for near-Earth asteroids, which could in turn result in costly errors, Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Astronomy.com. "Worst case [scenario], you spend a billion [dollars] launching a space probe to study an asteroid and only realize it's not an asteroid when you get there," he said.
While space agencies and private companies are required to accurately track their products in orbit around Earth, there is currently no legislation that forces them to do the same for spacecraft and debris that escape Earth's gravity, like the Tesla Roadster.
However, "such transparency is essential for promoting space situational awareness, reducing interference between missions, [and] avoiding interference with observations of natural objects," members of the American Astronomical Society warned in a 2024 statement.
Lands 4 Steam forums!
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It all started when some nazi chud made this racist post:
Thankfully he was swiftly banned by the 24/7 online shemale jannies:
But G*mers not having it, so they did the only thing they could think of, spam the entire forum with the same message like toddlers:
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ing too hard
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Not trying to play devils advocate for a racist weirdo, but how are you sure? Not trying to argue, just curious what gave it away.
This is, of course, assuming it's the OK hand gesture. If it's something less obscure, the answer is self explanatory
He was taking a selfie in the mirror. The hand that was at his side was doing the white power gesture. Hands do not naturally fall like that⦠so no.
EDIT: Hinge has actually emailed me to say they've taken action against him, so I'm not mistaken as you're inferring.
Her previous posts indicate she absolutely hates men, but is having trouble finding her disney prince on dating apps because they all love hitler. 
https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1chuwpl/i_feel_like_giving_up_online_dating_men/
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.webp?h=10 "Emoji Crown (hearts and shooting stars) - π«This is techically the dizzy symbol, but it looks like a shooting star for Apple users π")
s debate over...muscle mommies
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this thread caught my eye so i had to look
sure emough:
OP post is 
She is the definition of independence. When the world tells her to shrink, she chooses to expand.
Muscle mommies do not ask for permission.
They take what they deserve.
btw this is the same guy that huffed nitrogen
You forgot to mention that they are great cuddlers
posting
All these women are fat nowadays
Muscle mommies is the kind of thing that looks great drawn
Haters to the left
this post sums it up
Porn Addition: The Thread
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Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement.
"The POTUS has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so," Musk wrote. "Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long."
Now generally, at Ars Technica, it is not our policy to write stories strictly based on things Elon Musk says on X. However, this statement was so declarative, and so consternation-inducing for NASA, it bears a bit of explication.
lmao bullshit, Ars loves to sneed about everything Elon does; it's basically TMZ but only covering Elon.
Foremost, NASA has gone to great lengths to stress that the two astronauts referenced hereβButch Wilmore and Suni Williamsβare not stranded on the International Space Station.
The astronauts are clearly stranded as has been covered extensively over the last year by even leftie organisations:
NPR also released an article insisting that the astronauts aren't stranded - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278636/iss-astronaut-rescue-spacex-trump:
Ars comments are of course mad:
Why wouldn't the US government want to bring two stranded astronauts home? Why is this the top comment? What are you mad about?
They were meant to be there for eight days. The eighteen month stay was planned.
And yet they're still stranded there, curious. Why don't they just fly back home? They must want to be there.
The bottom two comments - note the guy who's had an account for 17 years.
and 
) go on a date and its as gay as you'd expect.
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- also /r/PS5 
how /u/Turbostrider27 is the only one allowed to post major news on all gaming subs! 
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/r/games re- ACK!ts: https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1iciwl6/sony_corp_shake_up_hiroki_totoki_named_corporate/
ReetardEra re-ACK!ts: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hideaki-nishino-elevated-to-solo-ceo-role-at-sie-herman-hulst-remains-as-ceo-of-the-studio-business-group.1094379/
4chuds chudlebrating: https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/701522090
Kiwiggers are also chudlebrating the return of glorious Nippon: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/sony-hate-thread.87498/post-20448374
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I recently polled my people and this is what they wanted me to write about. Fortunately I can use declassified CIA documents for most of my research.
There were multiple huge crises in the Middle East in 1958 that seemed like they were going to lead the world into war. There was even a major deployment of US troops there. But you never hear about them. Why? Because there wasn't a war. I'm going to tell you some stories about what scared the heck out of everyone in the USA and the Middle East but they managed to get it under control. Think of it as the anti-Chernobyl.
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue. Yeah, those were the days. 
Syria
The first big crisis of the year, the one that got everything rolling, was Syria's admission to the United Arab Republic. Or to say it another way, Syria being annexed by Egypt. Every state in the region and the superpowers had been expecting something like this to happen eventually since World War II. Now it seemed that the balance of power had been overturned and all of the pent-up conflicts in the Middle East were about to blow up.
I'm guessing it wasn't really a 99.99% vote in favor of it because Nasser had grave misgivings about this and could barely be persuaded to.
Syria was the most failed "failed state" that you could imagine. It owes its existence to the French demand at the end of World War I that after all their sacrifices they deserved their own chunk of the Ottoman Empire. In 1946 it gained its independence but it didn't have much of a national identity other than being the land that France used to own. It was widely expected that it would soon be absorbed into a larger Arab state with Iraq and Jordan. But for extremely complicated reasons this didn't happen and little Syria survived.
Notice how everything he mentions being in "Syria" is in what we call "Lebanon" now. 
Soon it wished it hadn't survived. After independence Syria had about one successful coup every two years and countless failed ones. By 1958 most of the factions had been purged from political life and it was Ba'athists who held a tenuous grip on power. They couldn't even trust their fellow Ba'athists, and worse, the Communists were becoming dangerously powerful. And nobody likes a commie. In order to make sure they didn't seize control, in January 1958 Syria's leaders came up with a creative strategy: Become part of Egypt.
One of the main factions that briefly held power there in the early 1950s was the batshit crazy SSNP. I heard the British were supporting them back then.
Egypt
This was pretty crazy but not as crazy as it sounds. There was a strong desire across the region to unite into one Arab nation. What is the heart of the Arab nation? Egypt. And its leader Nasser was the only one who could do this. Two years earlier in the Suez Crisis, Eisenhower ordered Britain and France back into their cucksheds and forbid them to invade other countries anymore. But Arabs saw this as a great victory where Nasser stood up to the colonial powers and defeated them, which at least had a kernel of truth to it. Many people across all the Arab world considered him to be their leader and were annoyed that their country hadn't joined him yet.
Some of the most extreme cope I've ever seen. British troops withdrawing in humiliation from Egypt under American orders, never to return.
The only problem is, how do you get Nasser onboard? He wants to to unify the Arabs, but he doesn't want to start out by being responsible for this basket case country that doesn't have its shit together. Eventually he agrees on a few conditions: The Syrian people have to vote for him. All political parties will be dissolved. The army will get out of politics.
The conservative monarchies are not about to take this lying down. The Saudis try to arrange a coup before unification can happen, but it is terribly inept. The King of Iraq, who kinda hoped he was gonna be the one to annex Syria and lead the Arab world, proposes merging with Jordan. It's another pro-British monarchy ruled by his brother so it makes sense in these dangerous times. The problem is, the Saudis are afraid of Nasser but they're also afraid of Iraq and Jordan getting too powerful, so they have trouble coordinating a response.
This is what the government of Iraq was like in the 1950s. I wonder what will happen to them... 
The UAR
On February 22 Egypt and Syria join together as the United Arab Republic.
The kings of Iraq and Jordan are worried that this will lead the many Nasserists among their own people to overthrow them.
King of Saudi Arabia is too busy dealing with getting overthrown by his brother to do much.
President Chamoun of Lebanon is extremely alarmed. The domestic situation is already really screwed up and the last thing he needs is Nasserists on 80% of the country's border.
Israel doesn't really care since both Egypt and Syria are already hostile to them. Their only problem is if Iraq and Jordan merge because Iraq would be the senior partner and they are not fans of the whole Zionism thing.
The British are desperate to keep alive the Arab monarchies they set up after WWI. Their whole imperial plan was to build these up and now they only have Iraq and Jordan left.
The USA is ambivalent. Nasser is hard to deal with, but at least he kept the commies out of the region.
The Soviets are probably as mad as Boris Badenov when one of his plots fails.
Epilogue
Nasser soon sends Egyptians to take over key government positions away from Syria. The Ba'athists are understandably butthurt as they're the ones who invited the Egyptians to come and now they're getting pushed out of power and having their newspapers shut down. The Egyptians probably figure that if these people are so incapable of running their own lives that they ask us to take over their country, they can't be trusted in leadership roles. There's also less obvious divisions, like business people being butthurt about how the Egyptians don't understand that their economy is different. These tensions were already obviously before the year was out. In 1961, a coup topples the Egyptians. Like so many others who tried to control Syria in this era, they lasted about two years.
Damascus, 1950s. According to some redditor.
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It's Ameriover: Deepseek releases new image generation model that beats Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 3 
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https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus/blob/main/janus_pro_tech_report.pdf
USA lost, China Won, glory to the CCP! 
Orange Site:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843131
BREAKING: DeepSeek officially announces another open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.
β The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) January 27, 2025
This model generates images and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across multiple benchmarks. pic.twitter.com/FSJkelcaYP
NEWS: DeepSeek just dropped ANOTHER open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.
β Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 27, 2025
It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks.
This comes on top of all the R1 hype. The π is cookin' pic.twitter.com/yCmDQoke0f
JUST IN:
β Megatron (@Megatron_ron) January 27, 2025
Another blow is coming from the Chinese DeepSeek AI
They launched now a multimodal "Janus-Pro-7B" model with image input and output. pic.twitter.com/akEfi9Zyzq
π¨
β Liang Wenfeng ζ’ζι (@LiangWenfeng_) January 27, 2025
DeepSeek just dropped ANOTHER open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.
It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks. pic.twitter.com/HVB1wBns1z
DeepSeek open-sources Janus Pro, beating Stable Diffusion and OpenAI's DALL-E 3π€― pic.twitter.com/C50jQGHOHl
β Casper Hansen (@casper_hansen_) January 27, 2025
WAIT A SECOND, DeepSeek just dropped Janus 7B (MIT Licensed) - multimodal LLM (capable of generating images too) π₯ pic.twitter.com/2kzaCJfLPt
β Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav (@reach_vb) January 27, 2025
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104075936
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104077316
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104077293
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ibd5x0/deepseek_releases_deepseekaijanuspro7b_unified/
https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ibe4j7/deepseek_drops_multimodal_januspro7b_model/
https://old.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1ibfed1/news_deepseek_just_dropped_another_opensource_ai/
https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ibdyou/deepseek_just_dropped_janus_7b_mit_licensed/
https://hexbear.net/post/4363677?scrollToComments=false
https://hexbear.net/post/4364578?scrollToComments=false
BlueSky:
DeepSeek has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAIβs DALL-E 3.The models are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro. They range in size from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters.Read more here: tcrn.ch/40Bc5Qm
β TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com) 2025-01-27T21:38:20.589Z
https://rdrama.net/post/337205/deepseek-drops-multimodal-januspro7b-model-beating
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Darklands Series
2 - Darklands LP Part II: Charles Bronson Edition
3 - Darklands LP III: Nuns and Coins
4 - Darklands LP Ep IV: Introduction to Equipment & Combat
5 - Darklands LP Part V: We finally briefly go out into the dark lands
6 - Darklands LP VI: We actually start a quest!
7 - Darklands LP VII: We reach our destination 
8 - Darklands LP VIII: Raubritter confrontation & learning how combat works
9 - Darklands LP IX: I'm not giving you my goddarn alchemical materials
10 - Darklands LP X: We actually do some alchemy!
11 - Darklands LP XI: The Main Plot
12 - Darklands LP XII: Halloween Edition
13 - Darklands LP XIII: Detour
Episode XIV
We're headed toward Denmark to attack the Fortress Monastery, but we're going to run into a few things along the way.
The Castle
I stop by a castle. Let's see what's going on here. (I love the artwork in this game so much it's unreal.)
Well I can't let this continue. I ain't Scheherazade but let's see if I can convince this wicked lord to change his evil ways.
These peepeeheads won't even let me in to confront him! 
I guess we're gonna have to do this the hard way.
Note that there are other saints who can get you up there in different ways. Like levitation.
The castle guards like using their bows. Fine. I'll just shoot back. My guys need some practice.
Since we're in a fairly large castle, we go into non-combat mode until the next time one of them sees us. Time to search the place. These fights get kind of annoying because only one person can go through a doorway at a time. So you have to wait your first guy to get through before you send your second. But this will be of tactical importance in certain situations, like in the Fortress Monastery.
This is the main gate. If we had blasted our way through with a potion we would had have started out here. We could also retreat through it if we wanted to, but we're doing fine.
Frick this. I've searched almost every room and I can't find the castle lord. I'm getting bored. (This virtually never happens btw, this is just incredibly bad luck.) I'm out of here.
Back on the road. I run into another one of those corrupt Dominican friars peddling indulgences. Remember how last time I had St. Dominic himself set him straight? This time I'll use another saint, one who is against church corruption in general.
It's incredible how much content there is in this game. I'm still finding new stuff that I've never seen before.
A Mid-game Quest
Uh oh. WTF is going on here? Suddenly the normal travel music is replaced by something really ominous. 
It's probably some MMO tard who likes flying around on dragons in Guild Wars 2 or whatever.
Goddammit this is gonna cost me so much.
old hags cackle as they stuff carrion into a filthy leather sack
That's just an ordinary thing you see every day in Portland. 
Pagans. I hate these guys... er... girls.
Dammit! I'll definitely need to go replace my equipment after this.
This is what happens when you piss off /r/witches_vs_patriarchy.
Notice how many choices this game gives you when you run into a problem.
Finally we found him. I think we've got him now.
I try to reason with the dragon. I doubt this will work as dragons are satanic beings. But who knows? Maybe they just got a bad rap?
I knew it. Okay, we're dealing with a dragon here so when combat starts it's time for everyone to take a Flamewall potion for protection. Also Hardarmor and Strongedge to improve the weapons of Sasha and Nathan. (Since Yuna and I use impact weapons we would need Greatpower instead and somehow I neglected to make any of those.)
Just to make sure we're protected from flames I also implore St. Polycarp for some help. (He was burned at the stake for refusing to burn incense for the Roman Emperor.)
Or as we call him in Marseyese:
I have everyone take a missile shot and then just charge this bastard.
Redactor is getting the heck beaten out of him. Better take an Essence o' Grace potion just to be sure he isn't killed. And a New Wind to restore some endurance since he was about to fall. That 19 point hit must be Nathan using his alchemically enhanced halberd. Normally it's not great at penetration, but with Strongedge it is and it inflicts massive damage.
We cut through him pretty fast. I dunno if that's a bug or we're really that good. I guess I did do everything possible to prepare for fighting a dragon. St. Polycarp especially gives you a huge advantage. Just pretend that was a really epic fight.
Fame 216: Good reputation!
We're gonna have to stop singing this song now:
And we've got 100 florins now if we need to buy anything.
Meta
Next time I really will go to the Fortress Monastery. I just wanted you to see one of the more complex mid-game quests, but it was a bit disappointing. There's a lot more dragon-related encounters you can have while searching for it. We just happened to run into him early.
I had to go all the way from Bohemia to the outskirts of Koln to bring this quest to you. The things I do for you people.
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