Maybe, if you have amazing physical talents in your activity and the right situation for it to develop in.

if the horses were large enough to ride, chariots would be a pointless waste in battle, which in fact they were by Roman times.

interesting, because if you look at the horses pulling chariots in paintings from the battle of Kadesh about 3500 years ago, they are clearly much smaller than modern horses; would be like riding a pony

The First Annual Kadyrov Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence goes to...Kadyrov!

I need a live view of this and a lot of mushrooms to eat

when will they be able to pull money out of my butt?

let us know where China can buy 10000 GeForce RTX 3090's on alibaba.

Just because some chips get through doesnt mean the ban is doing nothing. I dont think China will be able to easily outfit many huge data centers with tens of thousands of latest Nvidia chips to enable AI surveillance of its population, for instance.

bans are still useful in that China will not be able to obtain them in unlimited quantities as they otherwise would

sad that his country is being destroyed and countrymen are dying around him and he's still engaged in selling it out

i have nerve canal narrowing issues from too much sleeping on my side

>Yet I wouldn't say the same for democracy, which is only useful to the extent it is able to produce those goods.

True on its face, but what is the alternative to democracy that produces better results?

I was never at best friend status, but 'not gonna tell em I got married' seems like the red line you draw between long-term friends you value and 'friendly acquaintances'.

He killed it with an asteroid.

This headline should generate at least a week's worth of late-night monologue jokes.

I feel like this when a long term long distance friend doesnt bother telling me they got married. OK, guess I'm out.

I bought an HP touchscreen laptop and used it for 8 years while barely using the touchscreen. Laptops are for keyboards and touchpads.

I had a touchscreen Windows 8 laptop for 8 years and almost never used the touchscreen. Waste of time.

Once you get to a certain scale it will be impossible for a single person to handle that task, especially if they are trying to do it on a part-time unpaid basis. A big social media company like FB employs large teams to handle moderation issues in all regions of the world and many different languages, as well as AI to detect problematic posts. It's a huge job.

The thing is, once Mastodon reaches critical mass it will have harmful-content moderation challenges like every other platform, but no revenue base to fund handling it; it's all on the lone instance maintainers to do that work.

the military are the actual bad guys. she is guilty of being afraid they would throw a coup if she tried to criticize them, which turned out to be accurate.

a bit of history I didnt know about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1882)

Jewish Jaws was a lot better than the Gentile version

Maybe, but change doesnt come without fighting for it, ever.

> Gotta play the game

a 'game' which makes some voters important and others not is not a fair game.

>you can't focus on urban populations to the detriment of more rural areas.It's obvious bulls*t which is why no other country copied it in the 250 years since it was created.The preamble of the Declaration says 'all men are created equal' not 'rural populations must have extra political power per capita because the real equality is between chunks of land, not people'