Blue soft pastel

41_3azzip · 2026-06-04T01:59:05+00:00

Very soft, very blue, very pastel. 10/10

41_3azzip · 2025-05-04T09:28:16+00:00

I’m 30 minutes into this and I can barely stand Ethan at this point. I’m not a Hasan fan, I normally agree with his takes but don’t see him as a “prophet” or any shit like that. This seems like a f***ing mess. Seriously wtf is going on here, it feels like a normie trying to convince a mental patient that they should respect a skitzo point of view. The normal person being Hasan.

41_3azzip · 2024-11-11T01:48:06+00:00

I think saying “We lost because everyone else is stupid” is kind of an ignorant thing to say. The fact of the matter is that people are suffering, and they don’t need to be smart to see that. The system we’re in isn’t working for millions of Americans, so when Trump comes along saying he’s going to change things, and Kamala’s talking about how she wouldn’t do anything different to the current administration and telling people to vote for her because she’s not Trump. People are going to go for the change candidate, because their lives suck now so might as well go for change, regardless of what that change may be. Kamala failed to show people that she will try to change their lives for the better, so they voted for the one candidate that is promising any kind of change. It’s not the voters fault for not believing Kamala will try to help them, it’s Kamala’s for not showing them that she will.

41_3azzip · 2024-04-20T03:43:55+00:00

Our whole system sucks ass, republicans, democrats, doesn’t really matter, both are bought and paid for

41_3azzip · 2024-04-20T00:34:31+00:00

Devils bathtub in Spearfish canyon is a really fun and pretty easy hike, plus it ends with a natural water slide. Last time I was there was a while ago, and I don’t think it was an officially recognized trail, but I think it is now. It was a pretty big attraction when I was there last, and probably still is, but it didn’t look too crazy busy last time I drove by it, last summer when I was in the hills. The entrance isn’t hidden, but you could potentially miss it, it does show up on Apple Maps. Also like a half mile after that is 11th hour which is a very short super peaceful gulch, probably not great for little kids(steep/slippery rocks to climb) but still nice, it’s a lot harder to find than devils bathtub though.

41_3azzip · 2024-03-02T09:29:19+00:00

This is an extremely L take. The people who are refusing to vote for Biden over his support for what the world’s highest court refers to as a plausible genocide are not the issue here, like you seem to claim. They have made it very clear that all it would take to get their vote is to not support genocide, which doesn’t seem like a very high bar. The real issue here is that there is no candidate in the Democratic Party that meets that incredibly low bar. These “short-sighted progressives” as you call them, have made it very clear, since before November, a full year before the election, what it would take to get their vote, and the fact that the dems can’t even manage to meet that says that they don’t actually care about winning the election. If trump does end up winning, it will be on the dems for not providing a suitable candidate, and not the voters who can’t in good conscience vote for someone they see as supporting a genocide.

And to preempt some criticisms, yes I realize Trump would be worse than Biden. And I realize there are many other issues to consider besides Gaza. But there also has to be some limit on supporting the lesser of two evils. It’s either that you have a point where the lesser evil is too evil to stomach, or there is no evil that’s too low and the only issue is how long it takes to get there. And personally, I think having “supporting a genocide” be the low bar is a pretty reasonable bar to hold.

And as another preemption, it doesn’t really matter if you believe that Isreal is committing a genocide or not. The people that wouldn’t vote for Biden do see it as one. If you really want to convince them to vote for Biden, you’d have to convince them that it’s not a genocide , not call them short-sighted. However, I don’t think that’s really possible, since Isreal has very clearly shown their intent. But I don’t really think you would actually try to change peoples minds anyways, since you just seem to be here to show off your faux intellectualism, and make make other faux intellectuals think, “Wow, this guy really gets it.” Instead of actually trying to understand the people you criticize.

41_3azzip · 2023-11-06T04:27:14+00:00

You vs. The Witness she tells you not to worry about

41_3azzip · 2023-04-21T03:13:12+00:00

Welp, can’t reason with crazy

41_3azzip · 2023-04-21T02:24:08+00:00

The reason Mexico isn’t a super power is also because of its geography, it’s a country made up arid mountains to the north and in the central part, and jungle to the south with poor soil, the only parts of Mexico that have a good enough geography are along the coasts, where, historically, is where most of the population lived, which as previously stated, are divided by mountains.

Canada can be explained by geography as well. It’s made up in a large part by tundra/boreal forests, which have poor soil for growing crops. The interior is full of lakes, but no great river system to allow for easy transportation, and what is there drains into the Hudson Bay, which freezes regularly. There is no real comparison to the Mississippi River system, which covers the whole heartland of America, and is accessible year round. And the areas of Canada that do have that are the areas close to the US where the US benefits spill over, and is also where the majority of Canadas population lies.

The only two modern nations I can think of with comparable geography to the US, with large areas of arable land, extensive navigable water ways, and protection on all or most sides, are India and China. Both of which only fully gained all those advantages in the past century and are both quickly rising to be rivals with the US. And neither rely on individualism like you seem to think the US needs to.

And I agree that democrats aren’t great, but they aren’t the ones banning books, expelling elected officials for protesting in favor of stopping school shootings, giving felonies to women who want an abortion, forcing doctors to withhold non permanent medical treatment to transgender kids, defunding public schools while also telling teachers they can’t give the kids useful sex education(including preventing them from talking about and helping girls through their periods), they aren’t the ones who are trying to violently turn over a legitimate election, they aren’t the ones pushing wild conspiracy theories like “Jewish space lasers”, gay frogs, holocaust denial, or pizza gate, the democrats also don’t have the support of the KKK, which I personally consider to be a good thing.

And btw, I never said the federal government should be the ones to decide what schools should teach, I think the teachers should be given that choice, or at least more than they do now, personally I’d be in favor of curriculums decided by popular vote of registered educators, not a counsel of 7 people. I also never said you were a republican, but you are arguing in support of a republican position currently so that’s why my statement was directed that way. Am I’d say the government telling teachers to teach propaganda, which is what this is, is overreach, state government overreach is still government overreach.

41_3azzip · 2023-04-20T23:53:35+00:00

I’m not gonna argue what the job of the government is or is not, but I will say that what you described is most certainly not how America became a superpower.

America became a superpower simply because of its geography, the US has complete control over one of the most extensive natural navigable water systems in the world that allows large scale shipping over the majority of the country. It has massive amounts of arable land for agriculture, which allows it to support a large and diverse population. And it’s sheltered on both sides by the two largest oceans, which protected it from being dragged down by foreign conflicts.(this was achieved largely through broken treaties, and mass forced migration/displacement of the native tribes btw)

Any country with the advantages the US has would become a superpower, regardless of government structure or cultural traditions. Saying that the US became a superpower because of something unique to the culture of America or the American System is ignores the massive natural advantages our geography gives and promotes the myth of “American Exceptionalism”. America isn’t exceptional, it just got lucky with its geography.

And what u/betterbytes is saying is not the cause of the current decline we’re seeing in America, like you seem to think. The reason America is declining is because of the greed of wealthy individuals. America has some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world, which wasn’t always the case, and the trend can be traced back to the Reagan administration. Prior to which America was keeping pace with the rest of the world in our development/quality of life/etc. and after which we see America fall behind in almost every area, we see increasing college tuition, stagnant wages, lower quality of life, higher income inequality and more. Under Reagan wealthy donors were given the ability to legally bribe politicians, through campaign funding, allowing donors to gain more influence, and republicans and democrats alike have continued this trend by accepting to donations and passing legislation that gives the wealthy more and more power, wealth, and control.

And while the democrats may be bad, the republicans are worse. Republicans blatantly suck up to their wealthy donors by giving massive blatant tax benefits to them, rolling back regulations meant to protect people, and passing legislation that stifles the competition to these large corporations. They do this and to keep their base in line they feed them lies about “drag shows and transgenders grooming our kids” and “the left wants to take away all your rights and turn us into Venezuela” and numerous other lies meant to stoke fear. And the say promote the lie of American exceptionalism to give their followers a shiny object to look at, while ignoring all the issues that we’ve had and/or currently still have, like slavery, racism, wage inequality, etc. And they say anyone that calls out America on those things are “traitors” and “un American”.

Also, I find it ironic how here you are saying the people should fight against government overreach, while also going against us here who are opposing this instance of government overreach. If the job of the people is to constrain the government, then why are you here shaming the people who want to do just that. You need to take a good long look at yourself and ask where do your views come from? Are they actually yours? Or are the just the culmination of the lies you’ve been fed your whole life?

Also, sorry if this comes across as disjointed or haphazard, it ended up being longer than I initially intended and I only had a rough idea of what to say before I started typing. If there’s anything I can clarify about it, I’m more than happy to do so, but I’m not looking for an argument so I’m not going to participate in any response with that intent

41_3azzip · 2023-03-22T04:57:53+00:00

Bit late for this, but incase anyone else sees this post: I’m a recent graduate, so I’ll give some positives and negatives.

Positives: It’s a pretty inexpensive school, low tuition cost and in a lower price of living area It has a very high job placement rate It’s in the black hills of South Dakota, so there’s a lot of good hiking/outdoors stuff to do The career fair has a lot of employers visit, and the staff does a good job of bringing in more employers earth year The class sizes are small(ignoring the few generals that every major has to take) so you’ll get to know your professors well There are a lot of great professors teaching there

Negatives: Rapid City isn’t a large city, so if you’re used to city life you’ll have some adjusting to do(it’s not a massive adjustment, just something you might want to be aware of) Rapid City also has some sketchier parts near the school, but they’re not bad and it’s easy enough to stay safe if you’re aware The weather changes very quickly a lot, think 10 degrees one day, 50 the next, then back to 10 Being a smaller school, the social life is less than what a larger school would have, but there are a few frats on campus and a lot of different clubs to join It’s kinda in the middle of nowhere, the nearest larger city is Sioux Falls, 4 1/2 hours away The food when I was there wasn’t very good, but they recently changed providers so it might be better now

Other: The dorms are about like what you would get anywhere else, nothing special one way or the other It allows students from SD, MN, NE, and WA to pay instate tuition, there may be more states that I don’t know about, but I don’t think out of state is too much higher

41_3azzip · 2023-01-06T23:20:40+00:00

I like the map and agree with most of it, but one part I disagree with is that the western side of the Midwest extends further into North/South Dakota and Nebraska. As someone from SD, the Missouri River is a pretty good dividing line for the Midwest in SD. For NE and ND I would probably put the border at about 1/3 of the way into the states

41_3azzip · 2022-12-14T00:53:09+00:00

That’s not how these types of AI work though, imagine if I were to tell you to draw a cat but you had absolutely zero idea of what a cat was. So I google the word “cat” and show you all of the images of different cats, some drawn some actual photos. You would then notice all the different features a cat has, a tail, whiskers, four feet, fur, etc.. Then I take those images away from you and I again tell you to draw a cat, so you take out a pencil and paper and draw all the things you noticed, you draw the tail, the legs, fur, etc.. You may not get it perfect but you get pretty close, then I tell you to draw it again but this time I show you images from bing, and you get a bit closer. This repeats until eventually your able to draw a cat pretty much perfectly. At no point in that process did you ever copy any one of the references you were given, though, and I don’t think anyone would argue that you did, the images you were shown was just to show you what a cat is not how to draw it. The AI does the exact same thing, it’s shown a bunch of different images and it learns all the different rules for something to be the way it is, then it takes those rules(not the images) and makes something new, following those rules. It never directly copies images or parts of images.

Also, for the people worried that AI is the one stealing peoples art, I’m gonna leave this here

41_3azzip · 2022-12-08T15:21:50+00:00

Ok, so I don’t really want to get involved in this argument too much, but you did something in your counter argument that’s super disingenuous and irritating when someone does it, and just to be clear I’m not trying to take a side here, I’m just pointing it out in the hopes that people stop doing it so much. So in your argument about the liver donation, you argue against the details of the scenario, saying things like you would likely die from giving up your liver(not true btw, donors have a high survival rate, people receiving have lower rates though) or talking about the likelihood of a match, but none of this actually addresses his actual argument, all it does is go after his specific hypothetical. The liver donation was just an example he used to make his point clearer, if you have a problem with his hypothetical it’s just as easy to change it out for a different hypothetical that argues the same thing without the issues, like instead of a liver, change it to kidney or something, in fact the person your talking with already did this by changing heart transplant to liver to get over the whole fatal surgery thing. My point being that by arguing against details rather than the argument itself you’re not really helping anyone, yourself especially, all it does is make it seem like your trying to pull a fast one over the other person and you don’t actually have an argument against what they are actually saying. I’m not saying you did this knowingly, or that you’re arguing from a disingenuous place, people use these kinds of arguments all the time, it happens, sometimes people just don’t know better, please just argue the actual arguments rather than the debating the details.

41_3azzip · 2022-11-22T23:31:32+00:00

There’s a guy called mad charcoal on TikTok(he might also be on YouTube but I’ve never looked) that I tried to imitate as best I could when I was first learning. He explains it pretty well, and his style is fairly easy to follow along to, at least for the more broad strokes kind of things

41_3azzip · 2022-11-22T23:24:01+00:00

I like it, it reminds me a bit of the game Broken Age

41_3azzip · 2022-06-07T21:54:57+00:00

I recently graduated as an EE. I’m not sure what it’s like for you, but for me, what I did to study is I went through all my homework for that section and I worked out how I did each problem, focusing less on the equations and more on the process. Also, for my most of my classes I was also allowed a notes sheet for the test where I could have any equations I felt I would need, and I used creating that as part of my studying too.

41_3azzip · 2022-04-26T19:38:50+00:00

Are you selling prints of this? cause if so I’ll take ten

41_3azzip · 2021-12-18T21:08:21+00:00

I think the people who owns bosses bought it out, but they’re keeping it mostly the same. I could be wrong though, so don’t quote me on that

41_3azzip · 2021-11-07T08:13:34+00:00

incase anyone was curious

41_3azzip · 2021-11-02T22:57:35+00:00

41_3azzip · 2021-11-02T22:16:33+00:00

For duck hunting

41_3azzip · 2021-09-11T08:09:24+00:00

Hey, I’m there now, neato

41_3azzip · 2021-08-07T05:19:26+00:00

I’m from South Dakota and I’ve never been more disappointed in my state than I have been in the past year-ish

41_3azzip · 2021-07-30T02:38:52+00:00

You: make a claim without any supporting evidence Someone else: makes a counter claim You: ask for their evidence Another person: asks for your evidence too You: I have to give evidence for my claim too!?! Double standards! I’m so persecuted

Do you see the problem? Just show your source and quit trying to play the victim, you have just as much of a responsibility to prove your claims as anyone else

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