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I realise it's not ego confirming to be told you're wrong but you could really see it as an opportunity to learn.

It is a fact that you have no idea whether you know more than me, but you affirm it with no foundation because you have no integrity.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the elephant telling someone else their ears are big.

Unfortunately, your parents didn't really put that much time into you and it shows.

The fact that you are telling me (someone you don't know) "...you know far less than I do" and "You don't know what's historically accurate" and all the other "you don't know"s, tells everyone everything they need to know about who they're speaking to.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions!

I don't really care for Musk

I'm laughing so hard right now. You resoundingly do care about Musk; you're obsessed with him.

Second, who said anything about me alleging that "they depicted a roman army that was no entirely Rome-inhabitant looking"? Those are your words not mine, and if anyone is looking for the king of strawman arguments, we have a winner with you.

Rome was a very ethnically diverse place, including the demographics of its slaves, contrary to America's slaves.

The only thing I said was that they recast the Gladiator as black, not being true to the original MOVIE character. If you didn't understand that, the solution is not to put words in people's mouth. The solution is to work on your reading comprehension.

More times than I can count, bubba. And if you can't differentiate between a producer making a movie in English because its main audience is English speaking and producing a movie that is either: (1) accurate historically; or (2) true to its original story -- than I can't help you, bud.

I disagree, Solid Fuel.

Like seriously, how do you even put your shoes on without strangling yourself?

Because I'm not you: a grown man who is 45+ years old and never matured; never learned to emotionally self regulate; and has a constant chip on his shoulder, to the point that you use the very limited profile space to tell the world that you don't care about whatever crypto coin they're into. Do you not see yourself? Do you not see the perpetual bitterness and rage that emanates from your person? That is who you are, Solid Fuel. That is what you are.

Insults is all you have to cope with the cold hard reality of what I am confronting you with: a mirror.

Bud, it's "narcissist". And all one has to be to love what one sees in the mirror is grateful and confident in who one is. I completely understand how that would be foreign to you.

I'm done with companies whose only goal is maximization of profit via manipulative, engineered outcomes.

Modernity, ladies and gentlemen.

Still nah :)

Nah

I say this in all seriousness: are you that ideologically brainwashed that you think Americans can't talk about Gaza whenever we like? Haha. Bud, stop living vicariously through headlines, touch grass, and understand that the headlines your wonderful algorithm is feeding is not real life....."WTF?"

Your last paragraph is a bit incoherent, so I don't know exactly how to respond, but no, I am not demanding the killing of Jewish people nor the killing of any Palestinian.

I can always tell when someone is off the rails in ideology because the picture they paint is so detached from reality that it doesn't hold under the most minor scrutiny.

That someone is you.

If you're not going to give reliable sources and at least point to a couple specific examples, then your comment means nothing.

"in fact Europeans are significantly more informed on this", "US free speech seems to be performative".

And then there's the, "Are you casting a spell?". You really think you did something there lol.

Sources. Examples. Otherwise, you're just someone who can string together complete sentences and break up concepts into paragraphs for easy reading.

I understand everyone has different beliefs, and personally, I fall extremely short of what I should be, but I just took some time to pray for you and your procedure. I really hope the root cause is fully resolved.

Me: I'm tired of this, grandpa... Microsoft: Well that's too damn bad!

Same thing with Alexa. I ask what is the weather outside. She gives me the current weather, what tomorrow looks like, and asks me if I would like an hour by hour breakdown or a full forecast for next week (or something like that).

So then I have to stop her mid-sentence and say, "Alexa, stop." Only for her to misunderstand what I said and say, "Now playing 'On the Rocks' by [artist name]."

I'm in the process of going as analog as I can.

This was so spot on I felt like standing up and yelling, "Yes! Exactly!"

I like it.

I 100% believe you! We're planning on doing a custom build for our next home, and I'm going to budget for solar. Like you said, it's gotten so much easier these days and I think that we don't take advantage of this because it requires budgeting/saving and because paying a monthly bill can be so much easier in the short-term. But I'm 100% going to do this.

Uh, that's absolutely badass...

As an adult, one of the things that fascinate me is self-sufficiency: the idea that you can buy a solar power system, install it, and use your own power -- without getting a bill in the mail every month, many times feeling like a victim of modern day suburban subjugation.

I'm still a good little obedient peasant, but I hope one day I can rely more on well water/rain catchment system, solar power, and propane.

Getting 70% of your electrical usage from your own solar power system has to be a good feeling.

Fair point - I could totally see that now. It's Friday Eve so we'll leave it at that. Cheers to a good weekend, friend. This one's on me ;)

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Fair point and certainly a rarity in world history.

I never said "every people". I said "every major power or even near-peer power". Isolated mountain villages and their people do not fall into the categories I referenced: (1) every major power; (2) near-peer power.

Not to engage in whataboutism, but every major power or even near-peer power has engaged in those types of atrocities. We like to talk about international law, but anyone who has paid attention understands that the only international law that exists is power.

I wish it were different, but the language they spoke back then was conquest, and every nation and ethnicity spoke that language, and embraced it. And they weren't just unaliving people. They were having their way with the women and unaliving the male children. The Arabs did this. The Persians did this. The Europeans did this. The Asians did this. Everyone.

There's a reason why 0.5% of the male global population today has Genghis Khan's DNA.

I'm not white, but it boggles my mind how modern society has been so radicalized and brainwashed that a particular segment of our population actually thinks white people are the only people in history that have done this.

But yeah, the French...

As an expression of my free will and freedom of speech, I am going to call it Gobble Gobble.

tromboner

I think this is my sign to learn video editing.

HAHA....giga Chad to giga Chad, no worries ;) LOL

I'm sorry, but that doesn't sound like an absolute Chad. That, sir, is a Giga Senior Alpha Chadus Maximus.