Summer mode:

Front right pocket, phone. Left pocket keys and slimline wallet. Optional, pocket knife in little coin pocket.

I hate that this is totally out of touch with real conspiracy people.

They genuinely believe this is some Capricorn 1 style psyop with an empty rocket. Once the rocket leaves their view, “we’re just supposed to trust NASA to tell is what’s going on?” Which, sadly, isn’t bad logic in is face, but during the Apollo missions, it was possible to use third party radio telemetry to prove they were, at least, in orbit.

Reverse the roles. The standing one is the conspiracy but saying “You see how much money they’re willing to spend to fool us?!” That’s legit how they think.

No, just the one.

Now I need a second one! This is adorable.

Are you in my house?

I have that cat. Both of them, actually. And that office chair.

if you look at the comments on YC Hacker News, it’s a relatively sane group of people RE: AI. Skeptical first adopters that have experience in the industry usually. It’s worth your time.

Any “senior MP” is guaranteed to have been installed quite a while ago by the West

Wow, how positively denigrating. “Those poor Africans can’t even manage their own elections,” hm?

Educated in the US or UK, maybe. Installed? LOL. Local elections in Ghana are hotly contested at times and tied to ethic group, family, and age more than anything external. I’ve seen plenty in person. There are plenty of average, and even well-educated Ghanaians that think slave castles should be torn down, not out of abhorance for the practice of slavery, but rather out of shame for having been a part of it.

And it’s been a pretty rapid turn since Ghana brought the issue of reparations to the UK parliament and didn’t get immediately shut down. So they have momentum that has quieted the more hesitant MPs. 6 or 7 years to pivot? Now it’s about the money.

Please don’t forget, this is the same county that buried their only skate park because it might “introduce homosexuality to the youth.” Don’t assume anything about their politics until you’ve spent time there experiencing it.

Practice. I had a friend that was in her residency living with 2 other baby doctors.

They always had a pile of string on the table in front of the TV and would practice tying surgical knots (whatever exactly those are, IDK). They wanted to develop the muscle memory so they could tie them without looking.

Not the whole country, just a handful of MPs. But they were senior MPs and well-respected. These guys were genuinely worried about this.

And it was because they thought they’d be on the hook financially for reparations, which Ghana can’t afford. Especially for the groups who were coastal and “let” the Europeans get a foothold there. Basically a financial penalty for not themselves dying to prevent the Portuguese lamdbin Elmina (In before the Brits).

Also, they worried, IMO rightfully, about the Western propensity towards making blanket decisions that affect the developing world and not caring. UN level reparations policy might very well penalize source countries in some zero-nuance fuck up. Look at us. We are a zero nuance fuck up place right now.

Somewhat a bold move for Ghana. Only a few years ago a few of their MPs were terrified of highlighting anything to do with either the Trans-Saharan or Trans-Atlantic slave trade because of the heavy involvement from some local ethnic groups in capturing, transporting, and selling slaves. Which is not honestly actuate considering the lies and economic pressure from the Europeans. Probably just turned the corner after their Year of The Return stuff was so successful.

I used to live in West Africa, where everything is spicy. Grilled scotch bonnet peppers are a garnish in restaurants. It’s sink or swim. Thai restaurants make their “mild” Thai mild, swimming in peppers.

At some point you cross a point of tolerance where the lovely flavors of hot peppers open up to you. Orange bonnets and habaneros are wonderfully delicious. Zingy with a fruity chili flavor that is unlike other milder peppers. 10/10 my favorite. But only something one can taste once you learn to tolerate capsicum exposure.

I’m 85% sure this lion is Ginger in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park. Him and his brother Garlic are the main two of two Mfuwe pride. Ginger is balding like this, and it’s awkward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8L9--GPrO4

In my own subjective opinion, Odysee, Bitchute, and Rumble are all pretty sadly the same in terms of allowing some of the worst alt-right garbage on there, and promoting it.

Rumble, sure, it’s literary connected to Trump, so no surprise there. But Odysee and Bitchute tried to draft on Rumble.

It would be nice if Odysee’s decentralized structure could exist without being full of Nazis. Can you clear Nazis out of a Nazi bar? Yes, but how long does it take to stop being a Nazi bar after that?

Boobs. Sunsets. The smell of the desert after rain. Big rain storms. A clear starry night. Lever action rifles. Gelato. Boobs. Nice bourbon. Eating something I made myself that takes more then 24 hours, like sourdough, beer, hot sauce, pickles, etc.

You can’t invoke Article 5 if you did the attacking.

I live in both worlds, metric and imperial. I know one is objectively better. That’s not what I’m saying.

What I’m telling you is that the world is full of convoluted, arbitrary standards. Even the length of 1 meter or 1gram was arbitrary to start. Using 100 divisions of liquid water’s STP points is very arbitrary. Science uses what it wants. Great. Science used to demand people speak Latin or French, too.

What you’re also missing is that 99% of Americans do not care one bit that people going to university need to learn something else. They also learn fancy words! They learn how to use the weird v on the calculator! They’re expected to learn strange esoteric nonsense (per the average person). That’s work for them.

Whatever the large, large number of people on the left side of the IQ bell curve learn as kids is what will stick because many undereducated people deal with a lot of fear and living life around loss aversion. Changing something like units of measure is a fundamental element of their experience in life. To change that triggers huge loss aversion biases. Idiot patents will wage culture wars so they can raise kids just as stupid as they are. You don’t even understand this is a psychological issue.

Go look at the panic around the redesign of the US dollar I’m 1996. I forget who said it, but “Americans are creatures of habit.” We treat our post-WWII “traditions” like they’re older than the sun. It’s a conservative country, and this change of any sort is fought tooth and nail.

You’re trying to use logic to make a case against an emotional and cultural artifact. Disagree all you want. Shout it from the rooftops. Doesn’t make it so, or even you “right” or me “wrong.” There only wrong is if you think it’s a choice the average person makes any more than they choose their name.

And that list should have educated you on how many actually practical things there are that are potentially easier or more practical to change (LOL) before worrying about metric units, like it’s some holy war for science. Science don’t care about your feelings. It doesn’t need you to convince random people online of anything. Go DO science instead.

Mostly metric, but I’ve lived in metric land long enough that temperature and distance are intuitive now.

TBH, it’s a foolish “argument” to have as some hard dividing line when electric voltage, plugs, which side of the road people drive on, money, language, alphabets, shoe size numbers, for a while video format, the size of printer paper, the age where adults can drink alcohol, car safety specs, governance systems, whether or not eating horse meat is OK, the day on which Christmas falls, marginal tax rates, flags, what we call headache medicine, what medicines are over the counter, and standard fuel grades, among a million other things, are also varied globally.

The human drama is the central focus, the mechs is just changing the set pieces.

there’s only so many plots.

For example: It’s a standard workplace love story exploring the ego and id. It’s just that the workplace is an underground base where some dudes are letting teenagers pilot alien hybrid mechs to bring about the end of humanity.