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    3. ArmoredBunnyPrincess on

      “And it’s great for your skin!”

      *Has visibly terrible skin*

    4. rainier37 on

      How do you even ban all sex work and onlyFans? How do you stop people from selling it on whatsApp or snapchat? Do you issue fines? what if they don’t pay the fines, or if their content is profitable enough to keep paying the fines? If they still insist on making content, do you raid people’s houses and imprison them to force them to stop?

    7. erasmus_phillo on

      The problem with this is that for the 80% of Americans who like skilled immigration, immigration is a very low salience issue. Whereas for the 20% of Americans who hate any immigration at all (usually white nationalists/ ethnonationalists) blocking immigration is a high salience issue. This is why the xenophobes get their way… because of highly-motivated political minorities essentially capturing one side of the political aisle

      https://preview.redd.it/cf5aub1za13h1.png?width=672&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e742175099146c584aba7fab8d058d8e036d684

    8. AskYourDoctor on

      John owns a hardware store. One day when he’s alone in the store, he hears a booming voice from the heavens:

      **JOHN, SELL YOUR HARDWARE STORE**

      John looks around, but he’s alone. He decides he imagined it, but he hears it again:

      **JOHN, SELL YOUR HARDWARE STORE**

      John starts to get nervous. Not wanting to believe he’s hearing voices, he tries to ignore it, but it continues, for days:

      **JOHN, SELL YOUR HARDWARE STORE FOR TWO MILLION DOLLARS**

      Finally on the third day, John breaks. “Okay fine, I’ll sell the damn store! Will that make you happy?”

      John finds a buyer and sells the store for $2 million. As soon as he gets the money, the voice starts again.

      **JOHN, TAKE THE TWO MILLION DOLLARS AND GO TO VEGAS.**

      “Vegas?! That’s so irresponsible, I worked my whole life for that store. I’m not going to-”

      **JOHN, TAKE THE TWO MILLION-**

      “Fine!” So John takes the money to Vegas. As soon as he gets there:

      **JOHN, TAKE THE MONEY TO THE BLACKJACK TABLE AND PUT IT ALL ON ONE HAND**

      “No! One hand!? You’re crazy. I could lose it all at once. I worked my whole life-”

      **JOHN, TAKE THE MONEY-**

      “fine!!”

      So he’s playing blackjack. Soon, there’s nineteen showing! The dealer asks “hit or stay?”

      **JOHN, HIT**

      “I’ll go over!”

      **JOHN, HIT**

      “Alright, hit!”

      It’s an ace! Twenty showing!

      “Hit or stay?”

      **JOHN, HIT**

      “That’s two million dollars! That’s my entire life! I’ve already probably won, I don’t want to lose it-”

      **JOHN, HIT**

      “NO!”

      **JOHN, HIT**

      “FINE, HIT!!!”

      The dealer draws another ace! Twenty-one! John’s won a fortune! And the booming voice calls from the heavens:

      **UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!**

    12. themiDdlest on

      And when I reach the other side,

      Ill find a place to rest my spirit if I can

    13. scndnvnbrkfst on

      I thought about posting “somebody tell me to go to bed”, but then I realized I can just go to bed without posting it, so that’s what I’m going to do. Thanks DT

    14. Argnir on

      Ngl having general AIs that are this good is something I didn’t expect for like 15-20 years in 2020

      The saying was always “general AIs have been a waste of ressources but specialized AI happened to be very powerful and useful tools”

      (I know we’re not to AGI yet but)

      It’s like if in 2 years we actually crack nuclear fusion and we have unlimited energy and we’re all like “wtf, I knew it was possible but I thought it would never like… actually happen”

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