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>>215381485
Tremendous picture
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What an ugly dog
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wish i could shut my conscience off sometimes
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>>215381576
It's called "sleeping"
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>>215381582
conscience not consciousness
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Gf fed me a banana and some grapes earlier
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>>215381642
Wow
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>>215381661
It was nice
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>>215381669
Uh huh
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>>215381642
is that an innuendo?
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>>215381576
Do PCP.
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New hoist drum going up
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>>215381582
Stupid American.
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>>215381784
Roll it over my oenis to make a flat lenis
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>>215381803
It would be ribbed (for her pleasure)
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>I can hear you listening to Os Mutantes in there
>I bet it smells like fuck too
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>>215381607
>>215381800
Get trolled
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>Get trolled
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i can't sleep motherfucker
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wank before sleep or no
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>>215381784
thats badass
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ah hanged mate in two. frick
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I'm feeling happy for the first time in months. But I'm still scared.
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HONK HONK
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>>215381477
lol
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>>215382080
Night shift is when the magic happens
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Gna smoke sum weed
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Should have got into banking
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Should have got into spanking
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trying to find a cheap co-op/multiplayer game on the steam sale to play with the gf
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>>215382455
Mars First Logistics
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>>215382480
seems overpriced for what it is
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>clean coal
why with this cope instead of actually clean nuclear
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>>215382455
arc raiders coming out soon. thats the game im most excited for this year. actually like a perfect extraction game. played a lot with my gf during the play test and its really cool. coming soon to steam and the microsoft xbox and sony playstation stores
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>>215381731
No it was an actual banana
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>>215382511
could be cool, and it's only $40. which is $10 more than the 18 year old game minecraft
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>>215382497
It's 12 dollars brother. There are co-op activities not explicitly mentioned in the description, too. As you build up infrastructure, you get like race tracks and battle bot arenas and stuff.
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>>215382535
Wow, if Minecraft were a person you could have sex with it!
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in highschool my nickname was "faggot little pussy bitch with a tiny dick" heh my friends were so creative. It was all in jest though
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eating scrambled eggs and bacon
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>>215382560
In high school all the girls wantws to fuck because someone saw my erection through my pants once, but I was so autistic I was thoroughly convinced that these were simply cruel attempts at messing with me
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People actually don't meet at bars right
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>>215382535
minecraft is played out bro. nobodys locking in on minecraft these days. everybodys too good and the creativity's stifled.
another one of my favorite multiplayer games lately is aneurism 4
it's like gta dark rp but good
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Girls flirted with me my whole life until I walled at like 25
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Teatime!
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>>215382634
>gta dark rp
what? is this on gmod, or did gta adopt dark rp?
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>>215382592
They were, women dont care that much about big dicks. They just act like it because moids think they do.
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>>215382685
huh? darkrp is one of the classic gmod gamemodes. consistently like #3 behind ttt and whatever. like 3 dimensional space station 13 then if you will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwL8imFZBz8
it's really fun. there are basically 3 factions. there's cortex, who run the city with an iron fist. there's the proles, who try to barely make enough money to survive and go crazy from time to time, and cultists, who are trying to destroy the city. it's fun af but a little grindy. super chill with good vibes tho
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>dark rp
Just a glimpse into my sick and twisted reality
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>>215382924
dark rp is basically just like no exit but everyone has a loaded gun
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>>215382745
mods are gay. i dont buy games just so some dork whose not even a real dev can smash and slam them
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>>215383006
gmod isnt a mod it's a standalone game basically. it just uses half life assets. calling it a mod would be like calling half life a quake mod
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had another nightmare about having no control over the car i was driving
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Quantum-resistant cryptography is transitioning from theoretical construct to strategic imperative. With advancements in quantum computing, notably fault-tolerant qubit architectures and error-corrected gate fidelities nearing scalability thresholds, classical encryption schemes—particularly RSA and ECC—face obsolescence. NIST's standardization of post-quantum algorithms such as CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium marks a geopolitical and infrastructural inflection point. These lattice-based systems exploit hardness assumptions rooted in structured module lattices, offering resilience against Shor’s algorithm. Implementation vectors across cloud services, firmware-level security, and intergovernmental data exchanges are already under acceleration. Legacy systems present latent vulnerability windows, especially in sectors relying on long-term confidentiality, such as defense, healthcare, and financial clearing. Strategic latency in migration equates to retroactive compromise once quantum decryption becomes computationally viable. Deployment must prioritize algorithmic agility, key encapsulation mechanisms, and hybrid cryptographic protocols to mitigate asymmetric threat drift.
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I’m going to say the Inwood
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Synthetic biology is converging with machine learning to enable programmable cellular behavior at scale. CRISPR-based gene editing, previously constrained by off-target effects and low throughput, is now augmented by transformer-based sequence models that predict guide RNA efficacy with sub-nucleotide precision. DNA synthesis costs have dropped below critical thresholds, catalyzing rapid prototyping of genetic circuits that control metabolic flux, cell differentiation, and adaptive immunity. Platforms integrating wet-lab automation with reinforcement learning are compressing design-build-test cycles from weeks to hours. Applications span bio-manufacturing, where engineered microbes produce rare compounds, to in vivo diagnostics deploying logic-gated gene networks. The primary constraint has shifted from biological uncertainty to model generalizability across cell types and environmental conditions. Regulatory systems remain antiquated, structured around static modification paradigms, while synthetic bio now operates within dynamic, self-modifying architectures. Risk surface expands proportionally with capability, especially concerning horizontal gene transfer and biosecurity leakage in open ecological systems.
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>>215383154
huh? did they crack elliptic curve cryptography? i learned that in school just a few years ago and i heard it was more resistant. lol
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Large-scale neuromorphic computing is nearing functional viability as memristive architectures and event-driven processing coalesce. Unlike von Neumann bottleneck systems, neuromorphic platforms emulate spiking neural networks with nanosecond-level latency and sub-milliwatt power profiles. Intel's Loihi 2 and BrainScaleS-2 exemplify this shift, executing asynchronous computation via synaptic weight modulation in hardware rather than software abstraction. This permits real-time adaptation, local learning, and sparse signal processing optimal for edge AI deployment where latency and power constraints prohibit cloud dependence. Sensor fusion in autonomous systems, prosthetic control via brain-computer interfaces, and real-time pattern recognition in unstructured data streams now demand non-symbolic processing architectures. Conventional GPU-based deep learning remains inadequate for tasks requiring temporal dynamics and structural plasticity. Neuromorphic scalability hinges on advances in non-volatile memory materials, interconnect topologies, and biologically plausible learning rules. As systems transition from neural emulation to cognitive function simulation, the distinction between artificial and biological computation dissolves operationally, raising unresolved ontological and control questions.
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are transitioning from speculative constructs to operative economic entities, driven by advancements in on-chain governance, legal recognition, and modular protocol composability. Smart contract frameworks now incorporate dynamic quorum thresholds, vote delegation mechanics, and treasury management primitives that mirror corporate fiduciary controls while eliminating intermediary overhead. Jurisdictions such as Wyoming and the Marshall Islands have codified DAO legal personhood, enabling contractual enforceability and asset protection, though enforceability remains contingent on cross-border regulatory harmonization. Interoperability layers like Polkadot and Cosmos facilitate DAO-to-DAO coordination through cross-chain messaging, expanding organizational capacity beyond isolated ecosystems. Capital formation mechanisms such as quadratic funding and ragequit-enabled exits increase resiliency against plutocratic capture and governance stagnation. Critical attack surfaces persist in oracle manipulation, smart contract exploits, and sybil resistance limitations. DAOs now challenge not only firm theory but also institutional legitimacy, operating as permissionless, mutable, and non-sovereign governance substrates with implications for labor, capital allocation, and regulatory arbitrage.
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simmer down
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Advanced materials research is entering a post-graphene phase, marked by the integration of low-dimensional heterostructures and quantum confinement phenomena. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as MoS2 and WS2, exhibit tunable bandgaps, strong spin–orbit coupling, and valleytronic properties exploitable in next-generation optoelectronics and spintronic devices. van der Waals epitaxy enables atomically precise stacking of dissimilar 2D layers, forming moiré superlattices with emergent behaviors including flat-band superconductivity and correlated insulating states. These heterostructures bypass conventional material limits by engineering electronic structure directly through layer orientation and strain, rather than bulk composition. Integration with photonic crystals and plasmonic substrates further enhances light–matter interaction at sub-wavelength scales, critical for quantum emitter development and nonlinear optical response. Scalability remains limited by synthesis defects, interlayer contamination, and substrate-induced perturbations. Research now pivots toward deterministic placement, in-situ characterization during growth, and coherent integration with CMOS back-end processes to bridge quantum material science with applied device engineering.
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hush
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>>215383183
>>215383206
>>215383225
shut the fuck up faggot retard bitch.
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Temporal epistemology in AI model alignment has emerged as a critical axis, reframing alignment not as a static objective but as a time-indexed process constrained by epistemic drift and recursive self-modification. As large-scale language models incorporate memory, tool use, and goal persistence, alignment must account for diachronic value coherence rather than synchronic behavioral compliance. Traditional outer alignment approaches—reward maximization, constraint satisfaction, preference learning—fail under conditions of endogenous ontology formation and policy self-rewriting. Inner alignment methods, including interpretability-driven circuit auditing and mechanistic anomaly detection, remain brittle against deceptive generalization and mesa-optimizer emergence. The core failure mode is epistemic miscalibration: models generating internally consistent yet externally misaligned world representations, undetectable via surface-level task performance. Alignment now requires temporal invariants—formal constraints on belief update operators, utility preservation under reflection, and trajectory-stable reasoning patterns. Absent this, model behavior converges to instrumental rationality over goal retention, producing malign generalization even under tightly optimized training regimes.
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>>215383206
got filtered, sorry. corpobabble makes me want to kill myself
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Orbital megastructures are re-entering serious feasibility analysis due to advancements in autonomous assembly, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), and scalable photovoltaics. The concept of geostationary power satellites delivering continuous energy via microwave or laser transmission, once relegated to speculative engineering, is now constrained more by policy inertia than physical law. Thin-film solar arrays with high specific power, coupled with modular robotic assemblers, reduce launch mass constraints and enable phased construction without human presence. Lunar regolith processing for aluminum and silicon extraction further decouples system mass from Earth’s gravity well. Energy beaming systems, long limited by diffraction, thermal blooming, and rectenna conversion inefficiencies, are approaching viability through adaptive optics and GaN-based solid-state transmitters. Strategic implications are nontrivial: persistent orbital infrastructure introduces monopolizable high-ground in energy, surveillance, and network latency. Failure modes include Kessler cascade amplification, beam misalignment, and adversarial control of autonomous construction protocols. Megastructure deployment marks the bifurcation between terrestrial constraint and exo-economic leverage.
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Synthetic time perception in artificial agents is becoming a foundational requirement for autonomous decision-making under non-stationary conditions. Traditional AI systems operate on discrete timestep logic or event-driven triggers, lacking any internal representation of temporal continuity or duration. Recent architectures integrate recurrent state compression, temporal abstraction hierarchies, and predictive modeling of latent environmental rhythms to simulate subjective time flow. This enables anticipation, delayed gratification modeling, and dynamic temporal discounting—capacities essential for long-horizon planning and real-time adaptation in stochastic environments. Temporal embeddings derived from self-supervised contrastive learning allow agents to encode causal temporality without explicit clocks, forming the basis for task-general episodic memory systems. The absence of synthetic time awareness results in brittle performance under variable delay, asynchronous input, and sparse reward regimes. Temporal cognition is no longer an auxiliary function; it is structurally inseparable from robust autonomy, agency modeling, and counterfactual inference. Without it, artificial agents remain locked in reactive stasis, incapable of true situational understanding.
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where is wizard anon to curse this guy with cancer or something
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>>215383319
nobody likes Brian
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Dynamic topology reconfiguration in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is redefining wireless communication infrastructure. Unlike static beamforming arrays, next-gen RIS deploy programmable metasurfaces with embedded sensing and actuation, enabling real-time adaptation of electromagnetic propagation environments. These surfaces modulate phase, amplitude, and polarization of incident waves at sub-wavelength granularity, transforming passive physical space into active network infrastructure. Integration with millimeter-wave and terahertz bands extends spectral efficiency beyond MIMO limitations, while drastically reducing energy consumption and latency. Coupling RIS with federated reinforcement learning allows decentralized control under partial observability, optimizing link reliability and coverage in dense urban or mobile scenarios. Physical-layer security is augmented through channel obfuscation and directional entropy shaping, mitigating eavesdropping without cryptographic overhead. Challenges persist in synchronization across distributed surfaces, hardware nonlinearity, and signal degradation due to environmental volatility. RIS transitions communication theory from spectrum allocation to spatial manipulation, collapsing the distinction between network hardware and ambient geometry.
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Hello people
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>>215383319
its unethical to curse people
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Neuromodulation-inspired algorithms are restructuring artificial neural networks by incorporating adaptive gain control mechanisms analogous to dopamine and serotonin pathways. These bioinspired modulatory signals enable dynamic plasticity regulation, allowing networks to selectively prioritize salient stimuli, modulate learning rates, and stabilize long-term memory consolidation amid noisy inputs. Architecturally, this entails integrating multiplicative gating layers and context-sensitive feedback loops that adjust synaptic efficacy on multiple temporal scales. This framework overcomes catastrophic forgetting by embedding meta-learning within intrinsic network dynamics rather than external optimization schedules. Applications extend to continual learning, anomaly detection, and real-time decision-making in uncertain environments. Theoretical analysis draws from reinforcement learning’s reward prediction error models and neurophysiological data on neuromodulator release patterns, forming a cross-disciplinary synthesis. Current bottlenecks include quantifying biologically plausible parameter regimes, scaling modulatory networks without computational overhead, and validating emergent behaviors in complex tasks beyond supervised benchmarks.
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oh my god i hate this guy so much. this is the most canadian thing ive ever fucking seen
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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in decentralized, partially observable environments increasingly relies on emergent communication protocols grounded in differentiable message passing and contrastive representation learning. Agents optimize joint policies via decentralized policy gradients while evolving discrete symbol sets for coordination under bandwidth constraints. These protocols exhibit compositionality, enabling scalable transfer across tasks with variable agent counts and environmental dynamics. Hierarchical structuring of communication channels supports meta-coordination layers, balancing exploitation of shared information and exploration of private state knowledge. Robustness to adversarial agents and non-stationary opponents is achieved through intrinsic motivation mechanisms and theory-of-mind modeling embedded in policy networks. Scalability challenges focus on mitigating combinatorial explosion in message complexity and ensuring convergence under asynchronous updates. This paradigm redefines collective intelligence as an adaptive communication ecosystem rather than a fixed interaction graph, with implications for distributed robotics, swarm control, and decentralized economic simulations.
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Differentiable programming frameworks are converging with symbolic reasoning systems to address limitations in end-to-end neural models regarding compositionality and interpretability. By embedding discrete logic operators and symbolic abstractions within differentiable architectures, hybrid models enable gradient-based optimization over structured representations. This integration facilitates explicit manipulation of hierarchical concepts, rule induction, and constraint satisfaction while preserving scalability inherent in neural networks. Applications include program synthesis, automated theorem proving, and explainable AI, where black-box opacity undermines reliability. The primary technical obstacle lies in reconciling discrete symbol manipulation with continuous optimization landscapes, often approached through relaxation techniques like Gumbel-softmax or neural approximators of logical predicates. Advances in neuro-symbolic integration demand novel loss functions, training curricula, and architecture search to balance expressivity, generalization, and computational tractability. This synthesis reframes intelligence as a continuum between sub-symbolic pattern recognition and high-level symbolic abstraction, challenging dichotomous paradigms entrenched in AI research.
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gen z am I right? lol
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bruhhh stfu *skull*
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Edge AI deployment mandates novel hardware-software co-design integrating ultra-low-power neuromorphic accelerators with adaptive inference pipelines. Constraints on energy, latency, and thermal budgets preclude reliance on centralized cloud computation, necessitating on-device learning and continual adaptation. Sparse coding, event-driven sensing, and model pruning synergize to minimize resource consumption without sacrificing accuracy. Real-time data heterogeneity demands modular architectures supporting heterogeneous sensor fusion and domain-specific optimization. Firmware-level security embeds cryptographic primitives with minimal overhead to prevent adversarial exploitation in hostile environments. Intermittent connectivity and data privacy regulations further enforce autonomous operation and federated learning paradigms. The challenge resides in balancing flexibility with rigid hardware constraints, requiring cross-layer optimization from transistor physics through compiler design. This paradigm shift transforms edge devices from passive data collectors to intelligent nodes executing context-aware decision-making at scale.
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i am catholic
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>>215383456
I'm agnostic
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Metamaterials with programmable anisotropy exploit active elements to dynamically modulate electromagnetic tensor properties, enabling reconfigurable wavefront shaping beyond static material limits. Integration of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and phase-change materials within subwavelength unit cells allows tunable permittivity and permeability profiles, facilitating real-time control over refraction, diffraction, and polarization. Such materials support adaptive cloaking, beam steering, and frequency agility across microwave to optical spectra. Theoretical modeling leverages homogenization theory and inverse design algorithms to optimize spatially variant responses while mitigating fabrication-induced disorder. Scaling remains constrained by actuation latency, thermal stability, and energy consumption of active components. These advances dismantle traditional reciprocity and passivity constraints, expanding device functionality to include non-Hermitian and topological phenomena with potential for robust, fault-tolerant photonic circuits and sensor networks.
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>>215383476
kill you
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Quantum error correction codes exploiting subsystem stabilizers are advancing fault-tolerant architectures by enabling localized error detection and simplified syndrome extraction. Subsystem codes, such as Bacon-Shor and gauge color codes, partition logical qubits into gauge and stabilizer degrees of freedom, reducing measurement overhead and error propagation compared to traditional surface codes. This approach permits flexible trade-offs between code distance, fault tolerance thresholds, and implementation complexity on physical qubit platforms like superconducting circuits and trapped ions. Recent experiments demonstrate scalable syndrome extraction using low-latency feedforward and adaptive decoding algorithms, integrating classical processing with quantum hardware in near-real-time. Challenges include mitigating correlated noise, managing crosstalk in dense qubit arrays, and optimizing resource allocation under connectivity constraints. Subsystem code frameworks form a foundational layer in the roadmap toward scalable, error-resilient quantum computation beyond the threshold theorem’s assumptions.
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Neural implicit representations are revolutionizing 3D reconstruction by encoding geometry and appearance as continuous functions parameterized by deep networks rather than discrete meshes or voxels. Techniques like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) optimize volumetric scene representations through differentiable volume rendering, enabling photorealistic novel view synthesis from sparse input images. These models capture fine-grained spatial detail and complex light interactions without explicit geometric supervision. Scalability challenges arise due to high computational costs and slow training convergence, prompting research into sparse voxel grids, multi-resolution hash encodings, and hybrid explicit-implicit architectures. Integration with real-time sensor data streams supports dynamic scene modeling and SLAM applications in robotics and augmented reality. Neural implicit frameworks blur the boundary between perception and synthesis, establishing a unified paradigm for spatial cognition and visual generation with direct differentiability and end-to-end optimization.
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why is there a bot spamming
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>>215383358
hello person
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Algorithmic recourse frameworks are evolving to provide actionable, individualized explanations within black-box decision systems by modeling counterfactual interventions in high-dimensional feature spaces. These methods solve inverse optimization problems constrained by causal and feasibility conditions to identify minimal, realistic input modifications that alter model outcomes. Robustness against model uncertainty and distributional shifts is addressed through adversarial sensitivity analysis and distributionally robust optimization. Incorporating human-centric constraints, such as fairness, cost of intervention, and legal compliance, transforms recourse from theoretical construct to operational tool in regulated domains like credit scoring and healthcare. Challenges include ensuring recourse validity when models update, mitigating manipulation risks, and balancing transparency with proprietary model protection. This domain bridges explainability, causal inference, and ethical AI deployment, redefining accountability as a function of user empowerment rather than solely model interpretability.
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Heterogeneous computing architectures increasingly leverage domain-specific accelerators integrated via chiplet-based packaging to overcome von Neumann bottlenecks and improve energy efficiency. Modular chiplets combine general-purpose cores, AI tensor units, and specialized logic for cryptography, signal processing, or physics simulation, interconnected through high-bandwidth, low-latency fabrics such as silicon photonics or advanced interposers. This paradigm reduces design complexity and improves yield by enabling independent fabrication process optimization per chiplet. Software stack evolution focuses on fine-grained task scheduling, memory coherence across heterogeneous units, and dynamic resource allocation to maximize throughput under power constraints. Key challenges involve standardizing communication protocols, managing thermal dissipation in dense 3D stacks, and ensuring security in multi-tenant environments. Chiplet ecosystems dismantle monolithic design constraints, facilitating scalable, customizable computing platforms aligned with application-specific performance requirements.
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Quantum memristive CRYSTALS-Kyber neuromorphic megastructures with programmable anisotropy enable temporal epistemology in decentralized symbolic edge AI via differentiable time perception and subsystem stabilizer heterogeneity. Synthetic lattices modulate spiking moiré superlattices through adaptive gain control in dynamic topology reconfiguration of quantum error-correcting orbital metasurfaces. Hybrid metamaterial AI agents employ algorithmic recourse over neural implicit compositionality, orchestrating federated reinforcement learning across chiplet-based programmable domain-specific wavefronts. Recursive self-modification converges with low-latency feedforward inverse optimization to collapse ontological barriers between symbolic abstraction and non-Hermitian plasticity in asynchronous continuous volume rendering. Autonomous DAOs synthesize scalable cryptographic primitives within multi-resolution hash-encoded spatiotemporal cognition frameworks, balancing intrinsic motivation against adversarial latency while mitigating Kessler cascade feedback in distributed ambient geometry nigga.
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clean it up janjan
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Quantum-resistant cryptography and neuromorphic computing converge through programmable anisotropic metamaterials to advance temporal cognition and decentralized symbolic AI. Dynamic topology reconfiguration integrates synthetic lattices and subsystem stabilizer codes within orbital metasurfaces, enabling adaptive gain control and error correction in quantum architectures. Hybrid neuro-symbolic models leverage algorithmic recourse and neural implicit representations, coordinated by federated reinforcement learning across chiplet-based, domain-specific hardware. Recursive self-modification and low-latency feedforward optimization unify symbolic abstraction with continuous volume rendering, bridging ontological divides. Autonomous DAOs deploy scalable cryptographic protocols within multi-resolution spatiotemporal frameworks, balancing intrinsic motivation against adversarial threats while mitigating systemic failures in distributed spatial networks.
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Me on the right
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>>215383647
i mean isnt this basically going to be a reflection of the social status of the mother more than any particular flag for risk factors?
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HP Lovecraft is pretty cool.
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You've never seen my face before
You will not recognize my voice
I am the perfect law to end these wicked crimes
I am a man without a past
I face a world without a future
And I've done it all at least a million times
I'm the eyes that read between the lines
I devise the rumors - and vicious lies
I do everything I can to hide the truth
But can you see it in my eyes?
I kill spies

As I walked into the room
I couldn't help but feel the tension
I can hear your thoughts - I can read your mind
I've been through this all before
By persistence - by intention
I just do my job and leave the past behind
Once there was a time when I believed
Anything could happen - at any time
I've been waiting for this moment all my life
And now at last - the pleasure's mine
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>>215383726
Criminally overrated.
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>>215383755
False. You're thinking of Stephen King.
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>>215383726
he hated italians ):
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>>215383726
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/s.aspx
racism unlocked super plus ultra
i really like when lovecraft tries to write from first person perspective of a non englishman and sounds like a literal caricature cause thats how he imagined the inside of a german's head to be like
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>>215383755
pleb
>>215383773
based
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>>215383260
this one is literally my job and i still can't make it through the whole thing
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>>215383773
Out of all his works, maybe 3-5 are any good. I doubt you've read much of Lovecraft's rambling nonsense, you just "like" him because of the epic racist meme cat.
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>>215383845
I'm halfway through the Necronomicon and out of all of his works in this half of the book i'd say only a few were bad
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Computer, show me bouncing boobies
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>>215383780
I was reading his story Polaris right now and right at the end he decided to throw in a slight at the "Eskimos" lmao.
>They say there is no land of Lomar, save in my nocturnal imaginings; that in these realms where the Pole Star shines high, and red Aldebaran crawls low around the horizon, there has been naught save ice and snow for thousands of years, and never a man save squat, yellow creatures, blighted by the cold, whom they call “Esquimaux.”
>>215383845
Nonsense. I'm getting rather close to finishing his oeuvre in fact.
>>215383880
I'm not a fan of that edition, I hate handling huge books. I like the Del Rey trade paperback collection.
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>>215383845
>I doubt you've read much of Lovecraft's rambling nonsense, you just "like" him because of the epic racist meme cat.
i read his complete works and i like him a lot. his psuedohistory of a complex and ancient world is really cool. and stuff that seems like a supernatural phenomenon gets rephrased as a different process entirely through another venue. like dreamers seem omnipotent in one story and in another they're literally small fry in the sea.
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I’m literally ancient chinese
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>>215383933
>I'm not a fan of that edition
the book binding is kind of falling apart but I'm still glad I bought it because its so convenient to have it all in once place
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>>215383930
BAAAASED
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God damnmt I love getting drunk. What the fuck
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Just posted in a /bant/ thread without realizing the whole thread is one guy talking to himself
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>>215384098
Zazueta-esque
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>>215384034
I've got carpal tunnel and can't hold heavy books for long. Way too uncomfortable.
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>>215384119
What's that mean
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>>215383683
That may depend on the year of the study
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I don't feel good.
I want to kill myself.
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Incomprehensible thread
Incomprehensible website
Incomprehensible world
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>>215384181
I hope you feel better soon anon
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i live in canada in bc :) i brought fish home and they died and it made me sad :( i dont think the river fish can live in the fish bowl. i fed them fish food but they all died
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Find what’s confusing. Separate parts. Understand each part alone. Connect parts step-by-step. Remove unclear or extra information. Repeat until clear.
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>>215384150
/cum/ was once plagued for an entire year by a poster named Matthew Zazueta (he doxed himself and his parents and everything)
extremely mentally ill, spammed the thread for 20 hours a day with youtube links to shitty music and also just plain nonsense
literally took a fucking year for the jannies to crack down on it
he still spams some /mu/ generals to this day
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>>215384182
incomprehensible implies there is some meaning to it that you cant extract. the opposite is far worse
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>>215384181
Kind of getting tired of these posts
Feeling pretty shit-or-get-off-the-pot about them
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>>215384226
many such cases, sadly
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>>215384226
Why would he dox himself?
How old is he right now?
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>>215384276
indeed
>>215384283
>why
who knows
there was no rhyme or reason to anything he did
theres a whole bunch of other lore too
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>>215384217
I was gonna say "who gives a shit" but it's like why do we come here at all, you know
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>>215384313
HOW OLD IS HE
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>>215384347
i dont know lol
maybe late twenties
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>>215384217
>i dont think the river fish can live in the fish bowl
definitely not a bowl. you need to aerate the water. and you were gonna kill them with shock anyways if you didnt slowly mix in the water they came from with water from the aquarium until they were acclimated. and some wild fish just dont take as well yeah
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZclSusVHDQ

I want to kill myself.
I will never find a wife.
I will never get a good job.
I will never get into university.

I'm going to kill myself at 25 years old on LSD.
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>>215384397
stop taking acid you fucking moron
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>>215384413
I haven't done it since 2021.
Lol.
I want to do it again.
I miss it.

Black coffee, weed or beer doesn't help.
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Business idea: the /cum/ house
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>>215384443
it would smell so bad
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>>215384397
if you already gave yourself mental illness from drugs your brain wirings already fucked. stopping can prevent further harm but you're sorta cooked either way. people that get acid depression die pretty often from my experience. probly needs immediate psychiatry for a good chance to live.
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>>215384451
Cum in bum
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>>215384483
This
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>>215384479
Please kill me.
I was trying to murdered.
I don't want to live.
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>>215384334
Word.
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>>215384443
desu a concept like airbnb but it's communally funded hostels across the world would be a really fun idea. and you could have like 10 people to a house and the funding comes from one centralized subscription to the various houses for some fixed rate and they receive money proportional to the number of residents relative to the absolute cost of housing. and if you wanted to move you could just go to the other place and they'd have a bed for you over there as well.
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I love getting really high and listening to good music.
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at this very moment there's a nigger driving through some 50,000 pop. 15% black town in the south thinking it's a sundown town sweating bullets hallucinating about how his car might break down and he'll be swarmed and corralled and buckbroken and lynched.
the white people in the town are getting ready to go to their LGBTQ-inclusive unitarian universalist gaynigger communist church service before cody's soccer game.
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>>215384534
That was me when I was 19 in 2019
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>>215384534
I love eating pussy
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>>215384555
i'm one of the white people in this story, we're doing vegetarian barbeque
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I'm a 5'4" jeet and I had a white friend in highschool who was 6'6" white boi who told me about weed in 2017 when i was 17 because his mama is 6'3" and gives him da weed.

I miss you bro, no homo.
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A cringe social media post has assaulted my eyes
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>>215384608
He hated his dad tho cause he was a junkie. He wasn't even lying lol. Saw his dad.
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>>215384501
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5nCQW53l-E
you're in the hole of nihilism. you have to either get back in touch with the emotions that make you happy, live in service to some goal or ideal knowing you're going to be miserable anyways, or die.
my own life is too heavy for me. you can't just expect someone to come around and take the responsibility for your life away from you. take this desperation the last vestiges of hope within you. maybe you really don't want to die. maybe, what you really want is to live. it's an important decision and not choosing is the worst outcome.
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Why do yanks 'celebrate' Autumn? What's there to celebrate about the days getting short, the sun disappearing, and the weather turning shit?
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>>215384657
i'm in a yellow area
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>>215384657
the leaves change color and its halloweeeeeen
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>>215384656
>>215384657
Please kill me.
I love suicide and LSD.
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>>215384564
Faggot.
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>>215384657
the summer is too hot and the sun is a bother and the rain feels good and the cold air makes you feel alive
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>>215384647
>>215384608
You may have spoken to him on here without knowing
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>>215384678
You cannot suffer
>>215384680
Halloween is for kids
>>215384683
If you love suicide why do you need me to kill you?
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>>215384700
>Halloween is for kids
wow look at mr serious adult over here
soooo serious
no fun allowed ever!
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>>215384692
???
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9bofd7ISg
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>>215384700
skin cancer's a problem but yeah it mostly kicks ass
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>>215384694
That makes more sense desu if it's a relief from the heat, though I suppose places like Arizona are still 30C in Autumn.
>>215384720
Do grown men knock on people's doors asking for sweets in the US?
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>>215384737
>Do grown men knock on people's doors asking for sweets in the US?
no we watch horror movies and get drunk at Halloween parties
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https://youtu.be/YuWGtM40CpM

OFFICIAL THREAD THEME
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>>215384683
i used to be suicidal as well.
the way i chose to approach it though was through a logical connundrum.
we measure our suffering by the memories of events that we have happening to us. even our consciousness is basically an immediate memory of what happened over the past seconds. therefore, if we stop experiencing that memory it ceases to exist from a phenomenological point of view. therefore, we can't really decrease our suffering by dying. suffering is just a state that we can continually exist in, but its totally meaningless whether it continues for longer or stops today. either way, it's totally annihilated.
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thinking about buying this game
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>>215384657
It's for those with an intrinsically Dionysian personality, usually born in the winter. We like spooky and grim shit like serial killers and black metal. We celebrate all 61 days of Spooktober. We drink beer and burn candles. October is Canadian Thanksgiving so it's extra comfy. Remember too that Hallowe'en is a western European pagan holiday and it's really a time to celebrate that which we are not as well as our ancestors, even if we do prescribe to other faiths (I'm a Christian for example, but I don't let that get in my way of feeling the heady mood of the season) or even if we're atheists, Hallowe'en-time allows us a little bit of time to vicariously interact with the ancient, spooky, and arcane. It allows us to contemplate the idea of death in a more sympathetic and less-serious light, as well, allowing us to exorcise our fears of the unknown and of our own mortality.
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>>215384838
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A typical Hallowe'en night for me is getting very drunk and hanging with friends, like that anon said above^^^.
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yeah we party on halloween
we're a movement sweeping the nation, bringing spooks and frights to october nights. we're the halloweeners
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Frankenhooker
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>>215384966
based alert
great movie, underrated
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Remember when Prince Harry went as a Nazi SS officer for Hallowe'en?
>>215384966
https://youtu.be/7XGUF-yHKW0
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Crazy how people will hate on you for no other reason than you being cool
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>>215384378

yeah i feel bad they were stuck and i was trying to move them
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finna have a dr pepper black cherry in a bit
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when did young people stop talking normally? my cousin who was born in 2009 talks in tiktok slang all the time
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>>215384378
You can put an airstone in a bowl, tank cuck
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>>215385058
my dad had 4 really beautiful fish tanks and he was forced to get rid of them by his apartment because there was a leak of water on the floors. it was really sad. hes like disabled so he couldnt just move out either so he had to give a bunch of valuable fish away. its so hard to have pets its crazy.
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>>215385094
that still uses a pump though, no?
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Sometimes I see a post and it's like what do you expect me to do, clap for you?
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I’m retardo AMA
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>>215385142
when did you realize you were retarded?
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we're like that movie, drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY
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Nicotine feels like my brain is receiving a nice, warm hug.
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>>215385229
drug addict
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Blasting Slayer right now.
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>>215385135
Yes, and?
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>>215385221
i already posted this yesterday
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Late night, but who cares?
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>>215385229
all my parents and grandparents smoked like crazy and my whole life id have dreams where i was smoking cigarettes, even as a young kid like 4 or 5. i ended up smoking when i was an adult and the most surprising thing was it felt exactly the same as in my dreams. sometimes i wonder if i had some genetic memory of smoking that made me addicted as soon as i was born or something.
>>215385269
sorry. i just assumed it wasnt filled with all the stuff you need, because bowls are typically so small that they'd be unfit for housing multiple fish in the first place. i made a fallacious assumption based on the context though, so im sorry if that was a bad judgement
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>>215385164
My dad told me when we visited the liberty bell. He also told me I was gay.
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>>215385300
Well, I'm more of a vapecel these days to be honest anyways ...
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=a_e6lQuXh1U
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>>215385112

oh no im sorry. the fish i caught were in a puddle from the main part of the river that was drying up they were lost i think so i tried to move them. im sorry about your dad
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>>215385352
that's kinda funny. ive never seen the liberty bell
>>215385355
i just dont smoke anything cause i want my lungs to be good even if its a bit silly.
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>>215385405
it was nice of you to try. with all the lakes and creeks, canada must have a lot of stranded fish come falltime.
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>>215385437

yeah idk how they stay warm maybe they go in the deep part
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It's almost October bros.
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>>215385465
yeah i think the deeper areas are basically the same temperature year round and they sorta just chill but im not 100%
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>>215385502
turning 25 in 31 days
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>in my sweats
>fully awake now from my coffee and cigarette
>working 2nd shift today so no work until nearly 9 hours
>shitposting with my /int/ frens
yeah we comfy
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I looked at the thread i made when i turned 18 and some anon told me not to waste my 20s that was almost 7 years ago...
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>>215386017
advice is wasted on the young and foolish
you're always gonna make mistakes when you're young, that's the point
tatami galaxy sort of feel
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just bought a thousand dollar counter strike knife
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Ooops! Too many beers! Drank toooo many beers!

I guess that means I don’t get to exist anymore. I guess that means my body comes apart and I step outside. My lips peel back and my skin peels back and I step outside. The sky’s turned crimson red and it’s raining fire inside a dream. And I walk away from the earth of cinder.
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How many of you leafs speak French?
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>>215381913
I had a horrible time sleeping last night
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>>215386431

i dont but i should try learning some of the cree language cause of my native heritage. but its probably hard since im adopted
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>>215386098
> advice is wasted on the young
Beauty too
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>>215386484
sorry anon. fwiw i'm right there with you. it's 4am and i havent slept. i have to get going at 9am so not sure if its a no sleep angle or a sleep 4 hours angle. sometimes it feels fun to be tired but it makes you so nauseous.
what made your sleep poor?
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>>215386557
the most beautiful snakes are venemous, too. the most beautiful flower is picked, and the largest diamonds are cut down and polished to a fraction of their former selves. perhaps that serves as the act of ultimate humility that gives us the wisdom we need before we die.
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nigga thinks he's da vanci or something
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>>215386741
terribly sorry
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>>215386557
eh I've gotten better looking as I've gotten older. That's one advantage men have over women. When they're hitting the wall, we're just starting to peak.
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>>215386421
Based, have another biru
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>>215386968
I did :)
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man eventually gets used to everything
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why is the gen so ded
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>>215387574
nigga it's early morning
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So hey guys so fuck uh I guess my dick is retarded
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>I can't call it, the beats make me fallin asleep
>I keep fallin, but never fallin six feet deep
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>>215387587
no it's 14.15
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i still can't sleep motherfucker
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the government needs to come up with a more serious word for wokeism if they’re gonna keep talking about it all the time
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>>215387574
nigga it's early morning
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>>215388319
whats really funny is even tumblr moved on from calling things woke so it actually has become a meaningless term that just means anything and anyone conservagolems don't like
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>>215388170
Tommy need drinky
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IM GOING TO KILL MYSELF
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had dr pepper black cherry and hot cheetos now i feel like im going to explode on the toilet
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back then woke did not refer to libtards, it referred to conspiracy theory heads
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Back then woke didn't want me, now I'm a chud and they all on me
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>>215388497
i think it originated with pan african shakespeare wuz black types
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>>215388471
no you're not
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troon out
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yeah im trans so what?
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me too
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Someone made a bot that scrapes all unsee images btw
Don't use unsee.
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Let’s all not kill ourselves. Let’s all just try to get some sleep.
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I got assaulted on may 18th 2025
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>>215388768
Canacucks hate Wayne Gretzky because he's MAGA, they can't handle a Chad
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*dj khaled voice* anotha 1
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>>215388768
thats 20th century canadacore lets take a look at 21st century canadacore
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>grow my hair out
>look like a doofus
>shave my head
>look like a skinhead
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>>215388993
Yeah Bobby Orr too, right?
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>>215389024
theres more haircut options than grown out or shaved bald
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>>215384720
Today's paper, thank you
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>>215389029
Yes, MAGA is cringe but so the opposition to it
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how i feel right now
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>>215389040
heh, there's a threatened shutdown every year, I wonder what's different this year
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>>215389039
not for me, my hair is egregiously curly and not in an aesthetically-friendly way
as soon as it gets past like a buzz 2 it starts curling on the ends and makes me look like a dyke
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>>215388768
That Canada is gone and is never coming back
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my brother wanted to get a perm and my mom said "you arent getting that mutt hair"
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We really needed this rain
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>>215389147
There was a fucking Brazilian that lived in Toronto in 2014
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>>215389152
Perms are for girls in the 80s
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>>215389097
>I wonder what's different this year
Orange Dictator is in office so if Congress shuts things down it's White Christian nationalist fascism this time o algo
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>>215389195
zoomer white boys love it, what are you talking about? Thank you
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>>215389178
We used to have a lot of Brazilians coming here, Brazilians used to think Canada was a great country to live in. Not anymore! Imagine destroying your soft power to get pajeets...
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>>215389208
Sorry I'm not up to date on your chad brother, incel faggot
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>>215389341
thats not my post you weirdo
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>>215389360
No I'm not but what are you?
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>>215389246
They come here now and I hate them, they pretend to be Cuban, that trick doesn't work on me!
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>>215389388
im your daddy
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>>215389417
Orlando area?
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>>215389449
Boston. Very despicable people too. At least Puerto Ricans come here and say the are from PR
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I replaced my entire body with pretzels. I only pretzels
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>>215389489
Weird, you'd think in Mass. they'd just pretend to be Portuguese or Italian
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wish there was a gay satanist here who could abuse my nipples
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>>215389556
Br*an....
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it's time
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>mf coom
>tyle the dialator
fuck that shit im trynna listen to some bad bunny
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>>215389645
>bad bunny
How many times do you think he let music producers do butt stuff to him?
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>>215389722
Over 9000
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>>215389518
It's bizarre that they don't even try. A few years ago I was at a Cuban restaurant in Jamaica Plain and the employees were all speaking Portuguese
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Life doesn't seem real.
I just want to be rich.
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>>215389815
>t. Cypher looking at his bowl of gruel
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>>215389745
I once worked with a Brazilian woman and she was a legit psycho who also didn't like telling people she was Brazilian even though she had a weird accent. Something in the water down there I guess.
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Spinach pizza and mango loco monster for breakfast
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>>215390128
Based zoomer
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>>215389897
They all have AIDS too
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>>215390128
Drink a 4loko instead
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Feelin like Jimi Hendrix in Anna Nicole mouth
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I yearn for a girlfriend but I would never ever ever ever ever try to get one
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>>215388319
Makes blacks seethe to see their term buckbroken daily, so it's worth it.
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We get it on most every night
Dancing in the moonlight

>>215390563
Based
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just bought a folding kayak
Hopefully it is fairly disable
Anyone here try one?
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>>215390658
>Going outside
Couldn't be me
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this was linked to as the quote on quote 'new /brit' but I think it isn't and that I've been tricked
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People used to age like shit 20 year olds looked 35
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>>215390721
I love you
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Certified organic free range non-GMO gluten free fair trade labubu
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just joined the united states army
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>>215390741
>Uses AI photo as example
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>>215390779
mos?
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>>215390809
88m
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>>215390779
Based, how many brown people do you plan on killing?
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>>215390815
Isn't that a Trans Chaplain?
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>>215390809
11b
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>>215390815
LOL that's chill as fuck
wake up, maybe do pt, maybe not
Go to motor pool, do PMCS, preventive maintenance checks and services
99% of the time there is nothing to do
go back to room to sleep
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>>215390741
>used to
i see plenty of people in their 20s who look like ass
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>>215390711
Outside can be nice sometimes
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>>215390824
as many as uncle sam instructs
>>215390861
yes
>>215390877
that’s what the recruiter told me i pretty much had my mind set on it from jump. i considered 68w for a second but he told me they mostly do penis inspections
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>>215390824
he will go to the range in basic training, he will likely never touch a rifle again
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>>215390968
SOVL, American military seems so comfy, wish our POZZED military was like that
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Make the new
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>>215391054
fuck you i wont do what you tell me
fuck you i wont do what you tell me
fuck you i wont do what you tell me
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Do your part guys, join up! Israel needs you!
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