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re: Your goth girl fix for the day...

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 4/15/26 at 11:50 am to boxcarbarney

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Mesmerizing.

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re: When did become ok for gov agencies to post like this?

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 4/9/26 at 12:25 pm to GreatLakesTiger24

Most communication has become puerile, informal, and coarse since the advent of social media. People speak and write in childish memes and tropes.

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re: How are people able to just up and move states like it’s nothing and why

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 4/9/26 at 9:27 am to Galloglaich

Are you an AI chatbot? That post reads as if were meant to be a response to some ongoing conversation, or a rejoinder to some challenge to the legitimacy of your move to Texas, not an original post.

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re: Software Engineers are Freaking Out

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 4/7/26 at 4:10 pm to prplhze2000

AI and its mindless, empty-headed evangelists can go die.

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re: Walker Percy

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 4/4/26 at 4:08 pm to ecb

I loved Lancelot was I was younger.

I also enjoyed Thanatos Syndrome, Love In The Ruins, and The Moviegoer.

His novels (especially the later ones) are a fusion between traditional narrative and philosophical/existential/religious commentary.

Interestingly, Walker Percy was also the person who ensured that Confederacy of Dunces was published posthumously.

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re: Sharks smell blood with social media apps and their parent companies.

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 3/25/26 at 12:56 pm to Cell of Awareness

Will be interesting to see what magnitude of punitive damages the jury awards in the California case. That will determine whether the defendants view the result as a victory or a defeat.

Edit: Apparently, the jury only awarded 3 million in punitives. Very modest.

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re: Things everyone except you seems to like

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 3/23/26 at 3:15 pm to TIGERHOLD

AI.

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re: I have a bad habit of letting life math get to me

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 3/15/26 at 6:36 pm to Violent Hip Swivel

I will admit, I have become fixated on the fact that the heart of my youth is behind me. I cannot help but conclude that the overwhelming majority of the best moments in my life (falling in love, wild adventures with friends, getting married, the birth of my children, the light openness of being alive) are irretrievably behind me now. It casts a black shadow over my mood and drives me into depression. I have trouble finding hope or things to truly look forward to. The future seems to be hard work, obligation, pressure, decline, loss, death. I will never give up, because I have a family to support and children to rear. But life feels shabby and predictable and gloomy. Something vital has been lost. Really struggling with it. I hope it passes. Probably too candid a post for this forum.

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re: What is your worst fear?

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 3/9/26 at 10:33 am to VolsOut4Harambe

My children being abducted and murdered. Not a likely outcome, obviously, but one that terrifies me.

More generally, the death of my children or any severe injury or illness that might afflict them.

Also, being diagnosed with some dreadful, incurable neurological malady (like ALS or dementia) that orphans my children when they are still too young to fend for themselves.

Children are a gateway to so much fear and anxiety.

Depressing topic.

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re: Anthropic just studied which jobs AI can be theoretically replaced.

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 3/6/26 at 12:42 pm to GumboPot

The company that makes and sells AI projects that AI has widespread application and uses. Shocking.

frick AI and its sycophantic evangelists.

I'll take a shite on a Nividia server farm before I ever resort to AI for writing, the arts, or any fundamentally human endeavor.

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re: Fortune: America is becoming the ‘uncool’ country that people want to move away from

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 3/2/26 at 3:38 pm to Kinderman

What nonsense. For all of its faults, America remains the best nation in world for intelligent, diligent, ambitious people who cherish liberty and opportunity. I've traveled the globe and there is still no other country that rewards hard work and talent like the United States. The meritocracy is under assault by various forces, but it still persists today.

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re: Have you turned anyone into ICE, yet?

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 2/27/26 at 4:00 pm to TheOcean

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Have you turned anyone into ICE, yet?

Yes, my sister Anna. It was a terrible accident.

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re: Cartels retaliating at Guadalajara airport after a cartel leader was eliminated

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 2/23/26 at 9:52 am to hawgfaninc

Mexico is what happens when the rule of law is undermined by rampant corruption, indifference, and incompetence. Lawless hellhole.

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re: Of all the industries AI should replace that rarely get discussed: Sports Coaching

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 2/17/26 at 5:25 pm to ghost2most

frick AI.

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re: Could Epstein files prove another "ridiculous" Conspiracy theory? Reptilians

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 2/13/26 at 5:18 pm to magildachunks

I despair for the future of the human race. Stupidity increasing exponentially every hour.

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re: Is a secksless marriage reason enough for divorce?

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 2/10/26 at 5:09 am to Turnblad85

Yes. No person should be forced to abandon one of the most wonderful and pleasurable aspects of human existence. Both partners need to contribute to a successful sex life by maintaining their attractiveness and prioritizing intimacy and romance, but if it becomes obvious that no effort will rectify the situation, or that one partner is unwilling to contribute, divorce is warranted.

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re: The older I get the more I can’t stand people

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 2/7/26 at 1:42 pm to TechDawg2007

People have become increasingly insufferable over the last ten years, particularly since COVID, in my view. Many have transformed into overbearing ideologues and political zealots who feel impelled to trumpet their views in every interaction. Often times, they are ignorant, but that does not prevent them from taking absolutist positions on things they know nothing about. It's exhausting and depressing.

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re: Fernando Mendoza on 2025 Indiana vs. 2019 LSU

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 2/7/26 at 10:05 am to Purple Spoon

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2020 Alabama*

Literally never had to play a single fricking snap in front of a hostile road crowd, in a season where numerous opponents suffered from opt-outs.

Total joke.

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re: Dow to cut about 4,500 jobs as emphasis shifts to AI and automation

Posted by DmitriKaramazov on 1/30/26 at 10:56 am to ragincajun03

I abhor AI. Potentially extremely promising for scientific and technological applications, otherwise just a mechanism for eroding independent human rationality and eradicating the jobs that hardworking families depend on.

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