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https://t.co/Xtt5zylA3u pic.twitter.com/pSbycShtzt
— TaxSeek R1 (@hindookissinger) February 7, 2025
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https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1iht4so/mpr_news_trump_administration_launches/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1iht578/mpr_news_trump_administration_launches/
Also kill Connecticut.
https://old.reddit.com/r/StamfordCT/comments/1ihlrfj/stamford_board_of_reps_calls_special_meeting/
Chicago is also full of nazis and they should all be killed
https://old.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1ihx4c5/white_supremacist_remark_sparks_city_council/
The Australians are all Nazis and the abo-eaters must be gunned down and the land returned to the indigineous people
- Impassionata : they ban me because they're afraid
- realdonaldjtrump : I'm the President
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As part of my Banlog, I am somewhat inclined to give @BIGBILLYKONGDONG a serious ban for the outrageous boomerphilia on display.
As a work of ironic praise for a 78 year old man's fantasy, it's a solid piece. Truly let us celebrate that we are all collectively engaged in a public arts project to facilitate the transition of boomers out of public life.
It's truly funny that we are all pretending that this old man is a president. That he is mentally capable, and not just lashing out with random whims with other aged decrepit men. The elaborate practical joke we're pulling on our elderly is a riot of laffs.
But:
For me the choice is easy.
This is the first time Impassionata has made dramaslurs angry enough to use a 'touch grass' award.
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!nonchuds !chudmoment !g*mers !goyim
ON THE LAST EPISODE OF THE GREAT NIPPONCAUST OF 2024-2025:
https://rdrama.net/post/303041/effortpost-culture-war-chimpout-cwc-32769
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News thread is FILLED with redditors suddenly caring about "muh freeze peach"
CUAD about to get evaporated with a 2000lb bomb
https://old.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1id0pom/trump_administration_to_cancel_student_visas_of/
Neolibs snarky as ever
DNC Headquarters secretly love it but still gotta rail against orange man
Personally this is the guy I want to see deported most:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Abdullah_Akl
Mr. -ACKl over here was responsible for this chant at Harvard, which I found quite revealing at the time:
With no shame, @WOLPalestine leader & @Harvard grad student Abdullah Akl calls for mass murder of Israelis, asking Abu Obaida, Hamas' military spokesman, to bomb Tel Aviv. WATCH: "Ya Abu Obaida, ya habib, udrub udrub Tel-Aviv! (Abu Obaida, my love, hit, hit Tel Aviv!)"β¦ pic.twitter.com/7Jn6UvGD6S
β Canary Mission (@canarymission) April 1, 2024
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At his annual Super Bowl news conference Monday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell strongly supported the league's policies designed to promote diversity at the club-employment level and said they would continue.
But during Super Bowl LIX, and with President Donald Trump apparently planning to attend on Sunday, the NFL might be making another kind of statement on the Caesars Superdome field itself. According to two league sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions, league officials recently changed one of the slogans expected to be stenciled in the back of an end zone from "End Racism" to "Choose Love."
The game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will mark the first time since February 2021 that "End Racism" is not included as a message in the back of a Super Bowl end zone.
The switch, conveyed internally to high-level employees earlier this week, could be perceived as a nod to the current political climate. Following the lead of Trump, who was inaugurated last month, many corporations and institutions are abandoning their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Goodell did not follow suit when asked about the league's policies on Monday, saying he was "proud" of the league's diversity efforts.
"We got into diversity efforts because we felt it was the right thing for the National Football League," Goodell said. "And we're going to continue those efforts, because we've not only convinced ourselves we've proven it to ourselves β it does make the NFL better."
!mensfootball discuss
- Arran : r-slur alert
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- T3D_SIMP : CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) crashes out at a hearing, repeating a slur: "Tranny, tranny, tranny. I don't really care."
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) February 5, 2025
After objection, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) says he will "look into whether that's offensive." pic.twitter.com/TbkbePs7E2
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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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no really, it bothers me but not like it does some people
i have my excuses (my spine is deteriorating haha) but it is what it is
worst part imo is how far ive come. i used to be a pure antisocial shut in, but it took until my mid 20s to become social. people seem to view me as charismatic now.
im going to ask a girl out soon. ive been on a few dates but its been way too long. i have no money and no car (of my own) so frick it why not.
but there's plenty of things in life that make me happy. my r-slurred cat is sitting on me and i love her so much, but shes making my legs way too hot, but i love her so ill endure it until i cant and then tell her i love her
of course i kinda wanna die but thats more due to the constant crippling pain. lol
its like 3am and i kinda want to kiss my self right now. haha
is it genuinely over? AMA, talk shit, give advice, manifest destiny, idc, i clearly just need attention. i just want to hold someone in my arms thst genuinely wants to be there with me. xD
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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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Soft power (soft rangs of soft power) cost is "but our allies" divided by "many lives will be lost" multiplied by "America will fall behind".
That means 50 million gibouts for Iraqi Sesame Street equals 69.420lb of soft rangs of powaaaaaaa!
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Years of transgenders harassing me and abortion being essentially a sacrament in my state . I have to stand my ground and fight for my religion here . Christ is Lord i am sorry .
β FarmerRigz (@FarmerRigzDTS) February 3, 2025
Neighbor's pronouns are was/were πβ οΈ !nonchuds
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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
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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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