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2026-08-03 17:39:30 UTC

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@nprofile…gtgt I can't take AI announcements like this seriously. She doesn't even get her boobs out.

2026-07-24 17:13:10 UTC

The first and most important question that consumers need to ask when they see the latest gotta-have new technology is "Do I actually need this?"
Alternatively, "What current problem exists in my life, to which this is the solution?" The answer is usually "none".
Society would have much better mental health if more people got an answer to that question before giving in to the hype.

2026-05-16 23:11:01 UTC

The only way mass deportations can fix society's problems is if you start with the political class.

2026-05-05 16:41:51 UTC

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@nprofile…qr25 @nprofile…jmep
Your sarcasm is noted. But it's also misplaced. In the article, the author points out that the obvious AI entry points in the browser (the toolbar AI button and the omnibar) don't even use the local model. They still send your queries to Google.
So you've got a ton of wasted bandwidth and storage space, no consent, no user action, no respect for user preferences (eg: deleting the file), and no privacy benefit because they route everything you type through the Google cloud anyway.

2026-04-08 17:12:28 UTC

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@nprofile…a0pk @nprofile…9qjf @nprofile…thll Choose your fighter.
https://bemrose.social/media/476b98634492dc704a5abebb8c53d07f4b144ffecf1d022611128aeb237b1f1f.png
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2026-04-04 18:46:05 UTC

It is not possible to be a leftist and a Christian at the same time, for the same reason it's not possible to be both buddhist and muslim. Religions almost always espouse incompatible beliefs. Eventually you're going to have to decide which one you truly believe in, and which one you're only playing at.

2026-03-29 08:58:04 UTC

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@nprofile…u8sq
> What does "right to exist " actually MEAN?
When used in leftist propaganda, it's generally an example of a motte-and-bailey rhetorical reversal. The motte is an attempt to compel your speech, your actions, and your culture into accommodating their progressive demands or behaviors (in other words - outside the Overton Window of culturally acceptable). Understand that this, like everything in the Marxist ideology, is about power dynamics. It is a domination-play, to get you to submit to their emotional power over you.
If you refuse, then the bailey is the reversal. By refusing to capitulate, you are denying THEM their right to have psychological dominance over you. You are denying THEM their right to revel in mental delusions, and you are denying THEM the emotional comfort of everyone around enabling and reinforcing this antisocial behavior.
Surrounding themselves with submissive enablers who will confirm their narcissistic fantasies is what it means to "exist" to these people.

2026-03-29 04:18:39 UTC

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@nprofile…h2rj What would YOU do for fun in the Klondike?

2026-03-26 21:41:19 UTC

Presidential trivia: Donald Trump is the third person in US history to have multiple non-consecutive terms in the White House, after Grover Cleveland and Barack Obama.

2026-03-26 20:14:21 UTC

The security theater that is the TSA has caused more terror at the airport than terrorists have in the entire history of air travel.

2026-03-26 17:47:22 UTC

A surprisingly effective and totally fallacious form of online rhetoric used by people on both the left and right is to dismiss an argument as “old” or “tired” or “overdone” without addressing the content of the argument at all. The technique is a form of bad-faith argument employed by commenters who want to discourage or demean their opponent by suggesting that the argument has been made countless times before.
The implication is that the argument has been repeatedly refuted, and that by making it yet again, you are wasting everyone’s time and energy, and everybody would all just be happier if you would shut up and go away.
It is bad-faith because the speaker has no valid refutation at all. The argument beind ridiculed is valid, but it is one that they would prefer that you just drop because it harms their own position.
Use of this technique often comes with a false affect of world-weariness or superiority, used to further demoralize the opponent into conceding. Another much more childish variation is the use of MiXeD-CaSe sEnTenCeS aNd WoRDs in order to convey a feeling of immaturity - an example of projection and reversal.
Use of this technique is a strong indicator that the person making the argument is not here to gain knowledge or reach an understanding, but rather to spread propaganda. (optionally, just here for the lulz). They will be completely unreceptive to counterarguments. If you find yourself in a conversation with one of these people, then it is you, ironically, whose time is being wasted.

2026-03-25 18:11:06 UTC

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@nprofile…thll It does a bit fatiguing, sometimes.

2026-03-23 22:07:46 UTC

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@nprofile…lsen That's way more than 24mph

2026-03-23 22:00:41 UTC

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@nprofile…enc3 @nprofile…f57k It begs the question of what exactly is "open source".
The root problem with knowledge stored in Discord is that it has no mechanism for anonymous read access. With most projects, this includes changelogs, documentation, all records of design and implementation discussions, help and technical support (past and future), and usually the issue database and official feedback mechanisms.
Basically everything except the raw, undocumented source code. (that's generally in github, which has its own gating issues, but at least allows anonymous read access)
So the question becomes: Can a project be considered "open" when every non-source project artifact is gated inside of a walled garden?

2026-03-23 20:49:02 UTC

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@nprofile…f57k @nprofile…enc3 There's a term for a project that behaves like this: "closed source"

2026-03-23 03:47:38 UTC

A really good analysis of what systemd has just done to the Linux community by merging an age verification API: https://www.webpronews.com/systemd-now-has-an-age-verification-api-and-that-should-worry-everyone-who-builds-or-uses-linux/
(Also, yet another reason that systemd is malware, that has infected 90% of all linux distros...)

2026-03-20 16:47:50 UTC

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@nprofile…9qjf @nprofile…7fxa @nprofile…8c9a @nprofile…a0pk Do you honestly think you can trust any "opt-out" mechanism they offer? That company has been caught red-handed farming and selling data that they swore was sacrosanct so many times by now, you have to assume anything that passes through their servers is being monetized, regardless of what they claim.
The preferred "opt-out" method is to not use fakebook or whatsapp or instagram or any other product that company is involved in.

2026-03-05 17:08:44 UTC

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@nprofile…ru3j @nprofile…8zdt Often I think these leftist redefinitions of terms come *after* the whitewashing of the original definition. "Democracy", "equality", "diversity", "hate", "recession", "vaccine". In each case, the original definition is inconvenient to their rhetoric, so they just claim it means the opposite for the sake of propaganda and lying.
Then, afterward, some woke self-appointed arbiter of language like Wikipedia or Merriam-Webster quietly updates their official definition as if it had always been that way. It's Gaslighting on a societal scale. And we keep falling for it whenever we use their terms.
"The Party told you to ignore
the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

2026-03-04 23:08:36 UTC

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@nprofile…8zdt I wouldn't spend too many brain cycles trying to understand the logical meaning behind leftist-defined terms. They tend to be long on connotation, and nearly devoid of denotation, befitting a group whose rhetoric is long on emotional reactions and nearly devoid of rationality.
I always assumed "christian nationalist" fit into this category. It's an information-free invective that can be wielded against thinking types who will be thrown off trying to parse what it means.
It means nothing. They just want you dead, on a deep emotional level.

2026-03-04 22:47:05 UTC

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@nprofile…rmu3 @nprofile…8zdt When you cancel, silence, censor, or otherwise eject from the discussion everyone who doesn't hold your prefererred point of view, that's not consensus. It's groupthink.

2026-03-04 22:28:06 UTC

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@nprofile…8zdt The word "democracy" in the modern leftist vocabulary has no meaning. It is a made-up rhetorical MacGuffin used as a placeholder for the polar opposite of whatever it is that leftists hate.
No screeching leftist will be able to tell you what "democracy" is, because they honestly don't know. They only know that it is good, and that it is in danger from the bad orange man (or whomever is their hate target du jour), and that it is absolutely critical to be seen "protecting" it in order to signal to the other members of their cult that they are virtuous.

2026-03-04 06:15:52 UTC

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@nprofile…h2rj
https://bemrose.social/media/4e302dfdb1ab2f4bc06efbc7c46c4b03d64e0a2d06a90083e62cd3c4e7a35248.jpeg

2026-03-02 20:55:50 UTC

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I'm not. My argument was that this would happen if the leftist argument has validity. That doesn't imply the converse.
It does, however, imply the contrapositive - that if it doesn't happen, then the leftists are wrong.

2026-03-02 20:46:11 UTC

If Trump was actually the dictator that the leftists constantly shriek hysterically that he is, Anthropic would be nationalized by now.
And the pretentious CEO who thinks he can tell the federal government how to conduct national defense would be out on his ass or in jail.

2026-02-28 22:36:43 UTC

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@nprofile…rq7v Wow, guess I hit a nerve I didn't know was there. Projection much? This was my first post on the topic, but somehow YOU are sick of MY whining? I actually like and agree with most of what you post, and really appreciated your perspective. I didn't realize this was a sensitive topic for you, or maybe I'd have softened my criticism. I would like to have continued following, because your content is good.
Unfortunately, I also didn't realize you were the kind of ideologically stratified cultist who hammers the 'block' button the moment you encounter someone who you perceive doesn't share your groupthink. I didn't even criticize you; just your demigod idol, but you're so woke and fragile you can't even handle a real-life conversation. Welcome to the fediverse. Open conversation is the whole point of being here. If you want to be a fucking child, go back to twitter.

2026-02-28 22:17:52 UTC

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@nprofile…rq7v
> one of the most evil people in History
Neat, but why go all the way around the world to find one? There's no shortage of the most evil people in history right here in America, running free, often in positions of power. Maybe we could start there, LIKE YOU CAMPAIGNED ON?
I don't even need them killed in spectacular fashion. Arrests, perp-walks, orange jumpsuits, and convictions will be sufficient. Even just arrests, at this point. Someone. Anyone. At least one?
Nothing Trump does in Iran means jack shit to make life better for the average American. You know what would make lives better? If the evil people at home destroying the American way of life had any risk of actually facing even one single consequence, once in their lives, for doing all this evil. GET TO IT, ORANGE MAN.

2026-02-22 20:17:55 UTC

Not one person outside of Hollywood gives a shit about the current imbroglio over AI-generated actors.
Hollywood has always been fake. The only controversy is who gets to be the puppetmaster.

2026-02-21 17:00:00 UTC

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@nprofile…thll lol, "back". Right.

2026-02-21 01:13:02 UTC

> Here’s our guide on how to make OpenClaw safe and secure to run:
> Step 1: Don't use it.
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/why-trying-to-secure-openclaw-is-ridiculous

2026-02-20 06:23:39 UTC

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@nprofile…p4t6 @nprofile…cz7d
He's kinda an edge case. The communist lab where Newsom was hatched went out of business under his party's disastrous tax policies. Then all of their records were lost in the fire that was set to collect on the insurance fraud.
Trust me, Gavin, things are much easier for humans.

2026-02-10 03:55:44 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj The last option - and the one which seems at the moment most palatable to me is "kick the can down the road".
It's not a solution per se, but I figure I've got maybe 25 more years left in this world. If the inevitable societal collapse can just wait until 2050, then it all becomes someone else's problem. Selfish, sure, but it's an effective cop-out.

2026-02-10 03:47:58 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj Not in a state with all-mail-in ballots I'm not.

2026-02-10 03:27:01 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj
> I thought you had already thought the issue through
I have not. At least not so far as a solution. I'm uncomfortable with the "we have to shoot our way out of this" solution, but that continues to be the only one that I see which doesn't involve the expansion of federal power - a solution I like even less, because of its limitless capacity for unintended side effects. The only other option I see at this point is a national divorce, or otherwise an end to the American experiment, which I also don't like.
Like I said, it's a fair criticism that I came without a solution. I guess I came in hoping someone might propose something I hadn't seen. Barring that, you may simply accuse me of trying to "raise awareness".
My original post came in response to seeing yet another thread about the political theater of the moment, and my thinking was merely that the specifics of what the government is doing with its illegitimate power is far less important than trying to address the fact that the power is illegitimate.

2026-02-10 03:07:07 UTC

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While it's true I'm on Pleroma, which affords more than 500 characters, it still doesn't provide enough to make every post a scientifically rigorous treatise, nor did I realize that I was expected to do so. The parts of the fedi that I federate with sport a higher-than-twitter average IQ, but I don't think even they demand that from every opening post.
If you want to engage and don't think I've provided enough information, feel free to ask for clarification before whipping out the gotchas and accusations. If I want to be accused of bad faith in every reply, I'll follow Maggos again.
For all you know, my proposed solution might have been "We need to jettison California and have a stronger country without them".
(Actually, that's unlikely. I prefer not to invoke the name of the Statist God "We", as it too often leads to solutions with high popular appeal and almost no chance of working)

2026-02-10 02:45:31 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj As to the actual question of how to secure elections, the answer is complicated and nuanced, and I don't have all of the answers.
As a rule, I don't tend to favor "nationalization" of anything, which is why I would want to review the details before pledging "support" of such a thing. In general, I think local control - as local as possible right down to the individual where feasible - produces the best outcome.
But there are other solutions that haven't been tried at a national level, such as decertification of elections that aren't secure, or stripping representation from jurisdictions with incompatible laws.

2026-02-10 02:43:15 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj I was prioritizing a problem without offering any particular plan to fix it. I didn't provide details, because I wasn't proposing a solution. You may fairly criticize me for that, but not for failing to give details of something I didn't suggest.
Of course you assumed a solution, then you asked if I "support" your given solution. I'm unable to answer that without either more detail, or some kind of extrasensory mind-reading ability.

2026-02-10 02:22:20 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj The devil, as always, is in the details, and your two-word hypothetical proposal is woefully short on those. What are you getting at here?

2026-02-09 22:56:48 UTC

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@nprofile…thll I am insufficiently blackpilled to believe that is the only option we have remaining. Though I'm getting closer.

2026-02-09 22:50:42 UTC

ICE, Ukraine, Epstein... All bread and circuses. The only political issue that matters is securing elections.
Without that, the public vote is compromised, and cannot be trusted on any issue. Both parties will continue to do whatever the people in power want: Filter tax money through massive fraud machines; Pass draconian laws that infringe rights and further tyranny. They will claim that they have a mandate to do so because without trustworthy elections, nobody will be able to prove otherwise.
And the public vote that should be distrusted most of all is when they argue that the public doesn't want secure elections.

2026-02-09 18:16:27 UTC

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@nprofile…8zdt
> no vote for president, no voting Congress reps
They have the same rights as citizens of a state with Dominion machines or all-mail-in ballots. Except the system doesn't gaslight Puerto Ricans into thinking their votes are counted.
> and Congress can override local choices.
How is this different from any other place in the USA?

2026-02-09 18:02:23 UTC

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@nprofile…h2rj We had them. Most people weren't listening. Then Twitter and Facebook banned their accounts.

2026-02-08 21:20:10 UTC

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@nprofile…thll You can do either one, or both if you prefer. You know there's no judgment here.

2026-02-08 18:18:38 UTC

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@nprofile…enc3 And I'm not replying to your virtue signal about not commenting.

2026-02-06 05:31:16 UTC

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@nprofile…43na @nprofile…uewc My body signals me to take frequent breaks when I'm reading a book (as I said). Because unlike a glowing screen that produces the illusion of depth, my brain knows it's up-close work.

2026-02-06 05:27:41 UTC

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@nprofile…43na @nprofile…uewc It's also your eyes.
Focusing close for hours on end is not good for the eyes. We are built to focus in the distance. The warning sign is eye fatigue and headache, which incentivizes you to take breaks.
Screen time causes the same close-up eyestrain, but it is tricking the brain into thinking you're looking at something far away, so you don't get the warning signs. Staring into screens of any type, for hours and hours every day, has damaged the long-term eyesight of entire generations of modern humans.

2026-02-04 06:06:06 UTC

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@nprofile…jn7d That sounds like a bug in the software. There shouldn't be any difference between mute and block in that situation.

2026-02-03 19:56:41 UTC

Reminder of the difference between mute and block:
Problem: Somebody is posting things you don't want to see.
Mute = Solves the problem.
Block = Solves the problem spitefully.
If the only thing you need is to filter your timeline, then Mute is the correct solution.
If your goal is to raise the overall level of hostility and resentment on the fedi, then block away.
I, for one, think there's already plenty of hostility and resentment to go around.

2026-01-30 19:21:29 UTC

Advertising is theft.

2026-01-28 04:12:04 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj Well, shit, if I knew that it was a valid argument to just shout YOU’RE WRONG, YOU’RE WRONG louder than the other person, I would’ve used fewer words.

2026-01-28 04:06:18 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj The "I've had enough" attitude is, at least to the party strategists, a calculated populist response to the pendulum of government moving too far toward special interests. Trump's origin story may be exceptional, and his personality was ahead of its time, but his political playbook is straight reactive populism.
He appeals and plays up to the working class that were abandoned by the other party when their pendulum turned them into the party of war and bankers and globalism. Trump's popularity is a direct result of opposing what the opposition was doing; a tried-and-true political platform if ever there was one.
This is easily transferrable to the right MAGA disciple. The talking points are becoming mainstream, and there are already quite a few who can emulate the attitude.

2026-01-28 03:32:10 UTC

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@nprofile…7ypj LOL, have you learned nothing from the past $YOUR_AGE years? Political idols are interchangable. Trump will anoint his successor sometime in 2027 (probably Vance, but who knows who will be in and out of his whims), and when he does, all of the blind loyalists will transfer their admiration like the flip of a switch.
It works pretty much exactly the same way the left does, but with less misplaced empathy.

2026-01-26 01:55:20 UTC

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@nprofile…h2rj Those are rookie numbers. Maybe they just aren't killing enough.

2026-01-20 18:11:10 UTC

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@nprofile…enc3 Someday soon psychologists will be reporting on a widespread epidemic of AI Anthropomorphism Psychosis.
If you're truly fluent in bash, you could've done that faster by yourself than by "asking" the LLM to do it (including checking it to make sure the thing didn't hallucinate). And nobody ever says "please help me" to a screwdriver or wrench.

2026-01-19 09:28:59 UTC

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@nprofile…9ant
You seem to have an undiagnosed case of Trump Derangement Syndrome which is occluding your perspective, so I'll lay it out for you. Trump is a classic New York liberal who was in the Dem party for decades. He jumped to the opposition party, which was rudderless since Reagan, and brought with him a huge dose of the populism that the Dems abandoned when they became the party of Bankers, Globalists, and Warmongers.
Trump's actions only seem out of place in response to the left going full-on Communist and declaring war on humanity. All the sane and moral people jumped ship and needed a place to land. "Republican" is just a label. As is "far right"; a label which the leftist media paints with a wide brush, but really it's a catch-all for everyone who isn't on board with the new Marxist world order.

2026-01-19 07:23:34 UTC

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@nprofile…43na @nprofile…7cv0
Please remind me exactly what "wars" the Republicans have started? In the last hundred years, Congress has only declared war once, and it was in 1941. Both sides of Congress were controlled by the Democrat party.
The last time before that was 109 years ago - in 1917 - with a Democrat-controlled Senate and a House that was controlled by a coalition of Democrats and the Socialist party.
So I assume you must mean the undeclared "police actions" since then, which are started by Presidents and not Congress.
Did you mean Korea? Oh, wait, that was started by Truman, a Democrat. Maybe Vietnam... Oh, nope, technically started by Truman, but really the significant US troop commitment was by Johnson (another Democrat). Okay, what could you mean. Maybe the Contra thing? Nope. Started by Carter (a Democrat). No, no no.
What's really considered a war? Oh, I know, the Gulf war. Started by Bush, of the Globalist Deep State party. Okay, I'll give you that. Not technically a Democrat. What's next? Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo? No, those were all Clinton (a Democrat).
Ah, here we are. Afghanistan and Iraq. Totally started by another Bush (still of the Deep State party). This must be what you're talking about. Anything after that? Libya, Benghazi, Iraq, Iran.... Nope, all Obama (a Democrat)
What's next? Peace for four years? I don't believe it. Here we go - Ukraine and Gaza! Oh, nevermind. Started by Biden (a Democrat).
Tell me again how the Republicans are somehow the party of sending Americans off to war?

2026-01-08 19:45:16 UTC

Maybe the United States can arrange a territory swap with Canada. We'll take Alberta, and they can have Minnesota.

2025-12-29 20:18:33 UTC

Wokeness is about celebrating and elevating every minority group except the individual.

2025-12-26 04:57:01 UTC

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@nprofile…kqnp Coincidentally, this played today on the NA stream right after the No Agenda Christmas special.

2025-12-15 20:37:06 UTC

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@nprofile…d605 Shhh! You're not supposed to ask questions that weren't in the press release.

2025-12-12 07:20:11 UTC

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@nprofile…ln72 Wokeness is a hell of a drug

2025-12-11 20:55:36 UTC

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@nprofile…ln72
um, no.
But I must admit I'm kinda curious about the schizophrenic fever dream that you somehow mistook for logic in coming to that conclusion.

2025-12-11 20:42:43 UTC

Anything that would be destroyed if the truth came out deserves to be destroyed when the truth comes out.

2025-12-09 18:57:26 UTC

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@nprofile…pt5f And of course the military provides legal counsel on the battlefield so that everybody understands the intricacies and nuances of hundreds of thousands of pages of political bullshit that keeps getting put into these laws, right? Or do they just make charismatic appeals to your instinct, ultimately boiling it down to a question of morality?

2025-12-09 18:54:53 UTC

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@nprofile…pt5f
> lawful orders
> morality is irrelevant
https://bemrose.social/media/3fbdc554983d88771618c59d0950534a814b702cfc7c978bfc13f1136c659ef0.png

2025-12-09 06:16:58 UTC

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@nprofile…d605 I assume this takes into account that $300k will buy about two month's worth of groceries in 2044, assuming there will be at least one Democrat administration within the next 20 years.

2025-12-06 05:30:39 UTC

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@nprofile…d605 Denying food to a citystate because its leaders won't capitulate to some demands. This is literally what a modern medieval siege looks like.

2025-11-28 17:16:46 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk @nprofile…lfln @nprofile…50h4 @nprofile…6y53 Please explain to me again exactly what you think the fundamental difference is between communism and socialism, outside of degree and nomenclature.

2025-11-28 16:51:14 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk @nprofile…6y53 @nprofile…50h4 @nprofile…lfln
https://bemrose.social/media/a3b90662722900b385d350ebb715f97a912deb3baeb13478f27cc2bfef41f9c9.png

2025-11-27 17:11:08 UTC

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@nprofile…50h4 @nprofile…efpk @nprofile…lfln
Open borders work perfectly fine and comport very well with liberty. What nobody here is taking into account is the system that lets immigrants into the country and directly into taxpayer-funded social safety nets. Nets which would NOT be supported by a libertarian.
Revise the system to end the free handouts and make everyone responsible for their own groceries, housing, jobs, jail time, etc, and you’ll see the number of immigrants go down, as the average quality of immigrants goes up.
#IncentivesMatter

2025-11-26 23:22:59 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk @nprofile…lfln @nprofile…g25d
A flawless argument! So independent thought = "elitism". Thus, the only way to not be an elitist is to shut off your brain and participate in groupthink - to let a political party do your thinking for you. Game, set, match!
I guess you can count me as an elitist too under this stellar leftist redefinition of terms.

2025-11-26 23:06:59 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk @nprofile…lfln @nprofile…g25d Clearly today is not that day.

2025-11-26 23:00:24 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk @nprofile…lfln @nprofile…g25d
Someday, William, you are going to realize that in the 2020s, "liberal" and "leftist" are no longer the same thing. You're eventually going to be forced to choose which one you really are. On that day, you'll become a much wiser man.

2025-11-26 22:02:40 UTC

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@nprofile…lfln @nprofile…efpk @nprofile…g25d Yeah, I'm old enough to remember back when Trump and all of those evil hashtag-MAGA conservatives were censoring people and getting them fired from their jobs because of widespread mass-hysteria about the common cold.
Oh, wait, that wasn't hashtag-MAGA Doing it. Who was it, I wonder...
(It wasn't that long ago either, but it may as well be centuries for people training their attention spans by fervently reading every single post on social media)

2025-11-26 21:14:48 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk
> I'm sure you will say you didn't see that
Yeah, just like I was sure you'd claim to have said that while I was asleep or otherwise not tuned into the All-Maggos Channel.

2025-11-26 20:32:52 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk Yeah, see my point about meandering word salad...
I know that you love to go back to that well of "Oh, but Ryan, you didn't say anything bad about Trump so you must be a Trump lover". It's part of your inherent need to avoid the message at all costs and only discuss the messenger.
I don't need to criticize Trump. Half of the Internet is constantly spewing hate about Trump's existence, and criticizing everything from his immigration policy to his word choice when rebuffing a disrespectful journalist. It's already been said. What could I possibly say that would add to that discussion?
When you add to the chorus, you look like a brainwashed madman. Think for yourself for ten seconds and say something I couldn't hear a hundred times over by accidentally clicking on a bsky link.
I'm not asking you to "speak up bad about Dems". I'm asking you to use some goddamned objectivity and original thought.

2025-11-26 20:08:25 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk Coincidentally... That you think it is somehow worse for the country to have a President say mean things than it is for one to collapse our social safety nets by flooding the country with foreigners on the taxpayer dime... That is strong evidence of your cult membership.

2025-11-26 20:05:13 UTC

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Someone has to translate from word-salad gibberish

2025-11-26 19:59:59 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk That you think Trump is the first person worthy of disrespect to occupy the Oval Office is strong evidence of your illness.

2025-11-26 19:41:34 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk Your mental illness is so fascinating.
https://bemrose.social/media/6af4007f759cefed96931b5b954ac24297cfd0e541a77d255843e9e79b96d843.png

2025-11-26 17:22:50 UTC

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@nprofile…d605 This would be huge if true, but I can't find anything about it, and it smells like AI hallucination or wishful thinking. Do you have a link? Or the name of the case?

2025-11-21 16:48:09 UTC

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@nprofile…9v0p No working clock has ever shown that time. With the minute hand pointing down, the hour hand should be between two numbers.
You're not exactly vindicating Gemini here.

2025-11-20 18:45:40 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk I still find it fascinating that you think it is an aggressive act to ask for clarification of your policy position.

2025-11-20 18:31:56 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk Aside: I get that there's no way I can convince you I'm not an "edgelord" as you say, so you'll have to just go on believing that. But if you do ever run into someone who knows me, they would attest that I'm just like this offline too. All piercing questions, with no patience for equivocation or apeals to emotion, and a complete lack of empathy as a core value.

2025-11-20 18:02:11 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk What the hell are you talking about? Did you reply to the wrong post?
> would you say that AFK? or would you get upset if somebody you loved got such a reply regularly online?
You are always talking about how online discourse needs moderation. I asked a clarifying question about it, and you reacted like I called you vaxxed or something.
So yeah, I guess if somebody I loved got a reply asking for them to clarify their policy position, I would encourage my loved one to answer with the rationale that led to that position. If they couldn't, then their position is unsupported, and they should re-think or abandon it.

2025-11-19 18:37:08 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk Agreed re: bubbles, but what is your prescriptive definition of "abuse"?
Part of the reason we have ideological schisms and resentment online is that every rule about "abuse" or "harassment" has been reactive and not prescriptive; has been defined with the Potter-Stewart-esque "I know it when I see it" approach. It is impossible to enforce such a rule equitably in any society where people have differing values and tolerance levels.
(... as long as you're encouraging replies from people you don't like ...)

2025-11-17 03:52:44 UTC

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@nprofile…3mua @nprofile…l9af Is media I/O a bottleneck? The media is stored on a locally-mounted SATA 2Tb SSD. Is there an argument that makes streaming over a network superior to that?

2025-11-17 03:19:43 UTC

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@nprofile…tzku I have not. Do you do it often? Do you notice any improvement in bedroom performance with this technique? Does posting retarded non-sequiturs in serious threads make you erect? I'm sure you're not big enough to bottom out in a standard house outlet, but do you at least scrape the sides?

2025-11-17 02:42:13 UTC

I'm looking to build a media center PC from scratch on the cheap, and looking for suggestions.
Target user is someone who isn't super-familiar with linux, but who is not afraid to open a command shell and read a how-to guide. Plus his computer-averse family members.
Hardware is an old desktop PC with lots of storage (all media local) and an add-on graphics card if necessary. Input via game controller.
At this point, the software is probably gonna be Kodi or equivalent. Am leaning toward a dedicated XBMC distro like LibreELEC.
I know someone out there has gone down this road before, so I'm looking for any important advice you have, before I start to go neck-deep in .rc files.
@nprofile…l9af

2025-11-15 06:13:29 UTC

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@nprofile…efpk I just thought you might be happy to learn that there's an official medical diagnosis for what you have.

2025-11-15 04:41:22 UTC

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Coming soon to DSM-6
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/psychotherapist-confirms-tds-is-real-exploding-patients-cant/
Even worse, O’Neil said, Democrats have turned this neurosis into a political strategy:
shutdowns for the sake of “fighting Trump”
legislation drafted to stop Trump, not help Americans
party platforms built around pure opposition
In poll after poll, Democrats say their top priority isn’t the economy, schools, or the border, it’s simply “fight Trump.”
@nprofile…rec6 @nprofile…efpk
https://bemrose.social/media/eb09c35b55211db9549f0878905f5023668fc732741bed37137b3c364c2b7cce.png

2025-11-12 04:31:58 UTC

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@nprofile…sc2u I moved all the way to Everett 25 years ago for the same reason, and with the same result.

2025-11-11 06:20:04 UTC

So-Cal-ism: (n) A form of government instituted by people fleeing the failed wasteland of California, settling in your town, and then voting for the exact same policies that destroyed cities like Los Angeles and San Diego.

2025-11-09 19:16:57 UTC

Hurting because of the government shutdown?
Reminder: When a private company "shuts down" for any reason, its competitors can immediately swoop in to provide the missing services.
Every single shut down service is a result of government seizing a monopoly on something that the free market should be providing.

2025-11-02 19:05:29 UTC

The most profound effect of the AI revolution is to prove the existence of a human soul, by showing us what creative works are like without it.

2025-10-31 05:28:22 UTC

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@nprofile…g25d Is this Grok? CSB posts these all the time, and they also have painfully overmodulated audio.

2025-10-20 18:50:06 UTC

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@nprofile…0elc Wow it amazes me just how many people act all smug like they know what happens after we leave this world SMH

2025-10-19 19:15:48 UTC

The only reason “block” exists is because someone thought “mute” wasn’t passive-aggressive enough.

2025-10-19 18:17:44 UTC

As a rule, anyone who uses the word “democracy” as a catchphrase or slogan, doesn’t really understand what the word means.

2025-10-16 20:51:06 UTC

This is about the twentieth performative “shutdown” charade the government has pantomimed, and every single time, the propagandists parade out the poor government tax leeches workers who suffer “hardship” because even though they’ll still get their full paychecks, it might be a week or two late.
No sympathy here. This is basic home economics. If you haven’t noticed the trend by now and, oh, I dunno, opened a savings account, you deserve whatever mild and temporary hardship you get.

2025-10-16 16:25:11 UTC

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@nprofile…y7k7 @nprofile…ytej I care a lot more that they can act. That this isn't a hiring criterion is the core problem with DEI policies.