Well done, looks good.

This is actually because of the current administrations dismantling of the TSA and hiring skeleton crews with no experience, or benefits to replace them.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=b3ciOdLCW5k

No worries, they did meet during their careers. Liszt got all the girls, then actually went on and became a priest after he retired from music. He did have 3 daughters though. One of which would go on to become Richard Wagner’s second wife. So, it’s not even 6 degrees of separation.

You can’t freely download and edit society. You can download and edit this piece of software here, because this is FOSS. You could download it now and change it, or improve it however you’d like. But, you can’t, because you’re just pretending to be concerned about issues that are made up. Or, if being generous from what I can read here, only you have encountered.

At best these browsers are going to have some efficient CPU implementation.

Means absolutely nothing in context to what I said, or any information contained in this article. Does not relate to anything I originally replied to.

Scrapers can send these challenges off to dedicated GPU farms or even FPGAs, which are an order of magnitude faster and more efficient.

Not what’s happening here. Be Serious.

I would prefer if you would just engage with my arguments.

I did, your arguments are bad and you’re being intellectually disingenuous.

This is very condescending.

Yeah, that’s the point. Very Astute

It is basically instantaneous on my 12 year old Keppler GPU Linux Box. It is substantially less impactful on the environment than AI tar pits and other deterrents. The Cryptography happening is something almost all browsers from the last 10 years can do natively that Scrapers have to be individually programmed to do. Making it several orders of magnitude beyond impractical for every single corporate bot to be repurposed for. Only to then be rendered moot, because it’s an open-source project that someone will just update the cryptographic algorithm for. These posts contain links to articles, if you read them you might answer some of your own questions and have more to contribute to the conversation.

It’s the red-pill movement. Everything since Gamergate. The endless videos of Jordan Peterson coinciding with Joe Rogan’s tilt to propaganda. Andrew Tate, certified rapist, Sex Trafficker and disgraced MMA combatant. Pushing the idea of individualism and hyper-masculinity. In order to normalise misogyny in young men. Incels, 8Chan and influencers in that sphere have always been disproportionately shown to men, especially young men. It’s part of Curtis Yarvin’s "Dark Enlightenment.’ Dude writes like a 15 year old on Myspace, but the tech billionaires worship him like a prophet. He directly takes credit for even naming the movement. It’s all to spread disinformation and divide the public. Stop us meeting in public and having discussions, just look what Just Eat, Uber, Doordash and all those food apps have done to restaurants as a communal meeting place. Tech, or more precisely those that use tech to damage the social fabric. Want you anxious, alone antisocial and completely dependent on their “services” because they’re all on your phone.

That’s actually hotly contested within musicology to this day. Poland is a very socially conservative place and they adore Chopin. He is very much a cultural icon there. Even though Chopin spent most of his life in France, studying at French Conservatories. Speaking in French, writing in French etc. His music, contextually is part of the French Romantic Tradition. He has streets and Buildings and Bridges named after him everywhere in Poland. The story of him and Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil is that they were lovers and yes, she wrote in a letter to a mutual acquaintance of theirs after meeting him, asking if Chopin was still engaged to Maria Wodzińska. Maria was his pupil and it lasted one year. They never so much as slept together. -Funnily enough, he was leaving Poland forever and then the last note he sent to his betrothed said “I shall never forget you” and then he immediately forgot her. But, the details of any physical romantic relationship between Chopin and women are very suspect. He did not write love letters to Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (George Sand) He wrote love letters to Multiple men. Amantine idiolised Chopin, because of his talent and she definitely loved him. She was 6 years older than him, had two kids and was fairly standardly Parisian for the time. Liberally promiscuous and wealthy as well. Also he was a very sick man. By the time they were living in Majorca he had been consumptive for 20 years or more. Being diagnosed with tuberculosis multiple times, whooping cough, Laryngitis. At his healthiest he was 170cm (5ft7") very tall for the time and 45kg (99lbs). He was poor, he needed someone to take care of him, so it is largely considered a one-sided relationship. Most researchers today agree that Chopin’s much-described relationship with George Sand was not a romantic relationship in the traditional sense. She was more like a mother, or caretaker.

What is clear is Chopin wrote dozens of letters proclaiming his love and affections for men. Particularly Tytus Woyciechowski. In one such unpublished letter Chopin wrote: “You don’t like being kissed. Please allow me to do so today.” and “You have to pay for the dirty dream I had about you last night.” Letters to Woyciechowski would finish with “Give me a kiss, dearest lover.” In a more famous letter to Tytus, Chopin wrote: “I confide in the piano the things that I sometimes want to say to you. In 1829 he wrote to him saying “I have my ideal, whom I faithfully serve, not having spoken for half a year now, about whom I dream, with thoughts of whom the Adagio from my Concerto came to be, who this morning inspired the little waltz that I am sending you." A translation was published by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Poland, described his “ideal” as a woman, despite the original letter using the masculine version of the Polish noun and it being written to Tytus. He would visit him a year later and write a letter afterwards recalling the time. “I tell you sincerely that it is pleasant to recall all of this. Your fields left in me some sort of longing; that birch under the windows just will not leave my memory. That crossbow! How romantic it all was! I remember that crossbow, with which you really wore me out - for all my sins.” This is a man Chopin openly kissed and held hands with in public and proclaimed his love for in writing. The only mention of female relationships in these letters to Tytus and his other male “friends” are in footnotes. To this day, the veracity of these footnotes has never been verified. It is very possible they were added to the letters at a later time, to obfuscate his sexuality. It’s also the case that bad-faith translations have be used outside of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute incident. There’s numerous translation errors, between Polish and French, as his original biographers, did not speak Polish and a lot of historical materials have been edited, translated, republished, re-translated and there is a lot of straight washing.

Personally, I believe he was a homosexual, born into conservative Polish society. He sought to become married, as his mother wanted him to. Proposed to Maria, knowing he was moving to Paris which is much more liberal and as a sick man, used Amantine Lucile. Poland, only recently outlawed “LGBTQ+ Free Zones.” The last minister for finance in Poland maligned that the country was overrun with a “Rainbow Plague.” In conclusion, Chopin was gay. He’s also an incredibly important symbol of nationalism is Poland. Which is inherently Right-wing and intolerant. So, they edit stuff and try to push the narrative of George Sands and say he was flamboyant that’s why he kissed his “friends” on the mouth. It’s better now, but, outside of big cities homophobia is an expected part of Polish culture.

Source: Did 4 years of Western Musical History as part of my BA in Music. Backpacked through Poland in the 2010s. Still Love Poland, especially Polish girls.

Wrong, that was Liszt, that’s where Lisztomania comes from. Liszt is also the one with the big hands, he’s the reason modern pianos have harps in the back of them, because he would play so hard they’d break under the strain of the cumulative resonance created by the strings, because of the speed at which Liszt would play. Chopin was gay.

Bright Light!

Ceramic, Stnoe

Worms Armageddon was a classic

Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.

and you’re a big smelly smell-bag who smells :P

God, you’re a melt.

Grifters gotta grift

These are two excellent videos by Kyle Hill, explaining where we are with nuclear power. They’re Invidious Links, because I block all trackers from Google, which means youtube doesn’t work for me. I put the titles beside the links in-case people want to search them up themselves. The War in Ukraine, The Far-right, the intolerance and the propaganda on social media. It’s because they want to push us to war. Electric cars, plus modern nuclear power means the end to the artificial energy crisis. Means the end to Petrostates like Russia, Saudi Arabia and what the US is fast turning into. The fossil fuel industry has suppressed this technology for the last 70 years. That is why they need us at war, because there are no electric tanks. Anyone who is skeptical about nuclear power, I urge you to watch these. I promise you, threatening Denmark over Greenland will make a lot more sense with this context.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BcoN2bdACGA Why Isn’t Thorium Changing the World?

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago

Money, They cornered the market and then they started yielding the profits from it to exert political influence. That’s why molten Salt Thorium Reactors were abandoned by american scientists in the 60s. With nuclear power it would mean the end of for profit energy consumption. That plus the surveillance network of the billionaire class is what’s fueling all of the political tensions and far-right (See Fascism) around the world. Denmark is already capable of producing over 140% of its daily energy usage through wind alone. The guardian wrote an article about it in 2015. Wind is still less than 1% of all global energy production. Alberta gets 300 days of sun a year, but have been brainwashed by big oil to invent and reflexively disavow any information otherwise. Then the fossil fuel industry and tech industry launched the Brexit disinformation campaign to weaken the EU that same year. With the advent of China as well as Copenhagen Atomics producing working prototype reactors capable of producing staggeringly vast amounts of energy with less than 1000x the nuclear waste of traditional light water reactors, the change is inevitable. That’s what all of this is for them the war in Ukraine, Trump, Italy, Romania. It’s the fossil fuel industry. With the advent of nuclear power, the obviousness of the effects of climate change and advanced battery technology, the only way they can ensure a continuous demand is war. There are no electric tanks. Russia is a petro state, Saudi Arabia is a petro state, trump is trying to turn the US into an authoritarian petro state. It’s oil, they are the reason for all of this bullshit. Coal power plants are the most dangerous form of energy production, they kill approximately 1,000,000 people a year. We’ve had the technology to move away from them for over 70 years. That’s 70,000,000 dead people. That is more people than died in the entire second world war and we aren’t even talking about it because we’d rather just fall into arguing about transgenderism online than actually stopping them. It all goes back to fossil fuels.

That’s what the denigration of the term conspiracy theory was about. Did you notice? Conspiracy theory was a term made up by the CIA in order to dismiss peoples claims about government experimentation during the MK Ultra experiments. Media called those questioning 9/11 “truthers.” Which just so happened to include guys saying the planes were CGI and people who questioned how a group of goat herders from a country with literally zero infrastructure, living in caves, managed to hijack and divert commercial airliners in a perfect sequence of synchronistic events and American intelligence agencies, had no idea.

Now conspiracy theory means, The pyramids are ancient batteries, the flat earth conspiracy and heliocentricism. We have been conditioned to associate the term “Conspiracy Theory” with lunatics and junk science. This rejection of intellectualism is all carefully co-ordinated on platforms like tiktok and Youtube. They don’t want you to know things, if you see them for how they are you might rebel.