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    Looks like the US is becoming a dictatorship as expected

    Immigrants is currently the main demographic they target Trans people are still at risk and being targeted but that's to a lesser extent, that was actually to be expected since Trump personally don't care much about that issue to begin with. It's difficult to asses the risk of trans people...
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    Looks like the US is becoming a dictatorship as expected

    Basically what i expected to happen is happening right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPelwwuXVU I was actually thinking about what the best strategy for dealing with annoying courts when you are establishing yourself as a dictator and the strategy that came to mind was "why not just...
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    Free will

    Blood_Such wrote: The freedom comes from being able to access memory and to learn from the past in a non deterministic way. At the very least u/vintologi24 has disproven Sam Harris’ theory of NO free will, even if they have not unequivocally proven THE existence of YES “free will” with their...
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    Can we make poker great again?

    The notion that computer hardware is going to magically improve to solve all poker variant is very much false. Let's take no limit poker8 (variant A) with 8 players. Each player starts with 5 holecards flop: 3 community cards added turn: 2 community cards added river: 1 community card added...
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    not 1 switch 2 upcoming game appeals to me

    One big issue with games like mario kart is the low speed caps and ability to make sharp turns which completely eliminates the need to break. There is the aspect of messing with your friends or whatever that it is sold by but in practice that really doesn't have much of an impact if people are...
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    not 1 switch 2 upcoming game appeals to me

    The new 80$ mario kart looks like the worst mario kart of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjj7fUQ-7mo https://youtube.com/watch?v=XyM6VRXgze4 There has been the general trend with nintendo games becoming worse over time as they cater more and more to bad players. I don't see...
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    The real causes of male "loneliness" and sexlessness

    The transmaxxing option Males transitioning to female will balance out the situation to some extent but males are not going to voluntarily transition at anywhere near the rates requires to achieve balance. And a lot of males also want to have a family and for that transitioning isn't going to...
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    The real causes of male "loneliness" and sexlessness

    Anti-sex policies Politicians often oppose ways that would provide males with a legal way to at least get recreational sex by paying for it. There is also age of consent laws which restricts the ability for males to legally have sex since it reduces the number of legal dating options for them...
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    The real causes of male "loneliness" and sexlessness

    Why males struggle to get female companionship For every 100 females there are around 107 males being born. That naturally result in a male surplus when there is not enough wars or other forms of male on male deadly violence. Furthermore a lot of females opt against living with a male in the...
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    The real causes of male "loneliness" and sexlessness

    I have noticed that a lot of people bringing up "male loneliness" are for one not even understanding what the problem is and they also don't want to see how it's a result of our modern society. First off males do have the ability to make male friends but most males want to have a female to...
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    Private trackers

    Responding to the bakaBT wiki So i did the mistake of joining them due to being annoyed by the H&R rules on animebytes. Turns out BakaBT has basically no remuxes which is very stupid. They are also very lacking in content in general to the point where they are worse than nyaa in that regard...
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    Awesome card games

    6 of 8 poker You select 6 cards out of 8 to make the best possible hand. 0. 6-straightflush. 1. 4 of a kind & pair. 2. double 3 of a kind. 3. 5 cards of the same color connected. 4. 4 of a kind. 5. 3pair & all cards connected. 6. 6 of the same color. 7. 3 of a kind & all cards connected. 8...
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    not 1 switch 2 upcoming game appeals to me

    The only gamecube games i liked was metroid prime 1 and 2 but i still didn't play the gamecube versions due to them having awful controls. I did play the trilogy version via motion control (real wiimote) but primehack is also an option. There is also the remaster of prime1 on switch. I have...
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    not 1 switch 2 upcoming game appeals to me

    They are going in the sony direction it seems. Hardware wise it looks ok but in terms of game it will not offer much if anything of value. Even metroid prime 4 looks lame and underwhelming compared to the prime trilogy. Metroid prime 2 as comparison...
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    About feminism

    Debunking the "Feminism helps men too" rhetoric Professor Suzanne Steinmetz tried to spread awareness about male victims of abuse. She received the brunt of the attacks - feminists wrote and called her university urging that she be denied tenure; calls were made and letters were written to...
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    Can we make poker great again?

    Live poker It is significantly harder to cheat via an AI/solver in live poker where other people can see you directly. That however does not eliminate the possibility of cheating, it simply makes it harder. There are plenty of cheating scandals involving live poker with private games being...
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    Can we make poker great again?

    The AI threat Unfortunately it is always possible to develop AI to master some poker game even if you cannot brute-force your way through the game via a solver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)
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    Can we make poker great again?

    Stack depth and the number of betting rounds Having more betting rounds or deeper stacks does make the game significantly more complex to solve. Unfortunately for texas holdem that game doesn't work too well preflop if it's too deep and this depend on the number of players where more players...
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    Can we make poker great again?

    Tweaking blinds/ante The way blinds are set up in texas holdem make the game prone to having just 2 players after the fllop (if it even reaches the flop) since limping is generally bad outside of the small blind. What if we instead had the player at the BB position have the standard blind and...
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