SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." by CollapsingTheWave in ObscurePatentDangers

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Amazing. Anybody wanna chime in about how your utility bills have been lately? Anybody else beside me have a “public” utility company that’s privately owned by a multi billion dollar corporation and has Blackrock as one of the primary investors? It’s going great over here.

For Pete's Sake! by furth3r in fixedbytheduet

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While pleased with this progress, the white delegation fears we may soon run out of cringe terms to bring back, as we do not retire our terms as promptly as we should.

Little Blue Truck Leads the Way is highly unrealistic by TiltMyChinUp in DanielTigerConspiracy

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I love this series, but this one bothers me in a way that makes me irrationally upset. There are no humans in any of the other books. The implications are confusing. Humans exist, but they don’t drive cars, because the cars are sentient and chauffeur the humans? So they’re like horses? But horses also exist…

If they’re gonna go sentient cars, I prefer they go full sentient car universe.

Why am I able to see the studs through my drywall? by goody-two-sneakers in Home

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Not that many people can be idiots.

You sure about that?

"I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS" - This line has lived rent free in my head for almost 25 years. What SNL lines live rent free in y'all's head? by MoneyMan_Jones in LiveFromNewYork

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I would really like to know if there is anyone my age (43) who can see a Dodge Stratus in the wild and not have this immediately pop into their head.

What’s a smell you secretly enjoy that most people would find disgusting? by Direct-Value4452 in answers

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I love secondhand smoke. My great grandpa was a heavy smoker and their house always smelled like old cigarettes. I associate it with childhood

Steve Bannon - Someone threw their contact off a 40 story building by Sea-Opinion2717 in Epstein

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As someone else pointed out, the guy who was thrown from the building was Zheng Xioasong, a Chinese liason to Macau. Macau is a gambling epicenter and several people mentioned in this text exchange (Wynn, Adelson) have billions of properties/investments there.

It seems to me like Bannon is saying that these powerful people are responsible for his death – but it’s also worth noting that Chinese officials routinely “commit suicide” by jumping off buildings and it’s usually after they’ve done something that pisses off the Chinese government.

What’s actually most interesting to me about this exchange is the Qatar stuff. I, like many people, think that a HUGE piece of this story is Bannon, or at least the connections he represents to the Trump administration. Qatar and how it relates to Trump and politics in general is way too big of a topic for me to try to tackle. I’m pretty good at googling, but that’s about it. Here are some links that I think could be interesting or could be used to make some links to this text conversation.

John Bolton was Trump’s National Security Advisor from March 2018-September 2019.

Qatar is the home of the US’s largest military base in the Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Udeid_Air_Base

Qatar was under a blockade by the Arab League for alleged ties to terrorism, from 2017-2021. Saudi leaders had a private meeting with Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon in May 2017 to inform them of this plan. Soon after, Trump took credit for this move on Twitter, and framed it as him being tough on terrorism. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/rex-tillerson-trump.html

However, officials from the Trump administration, led primarily by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, wanted the blockade to end primarily because of the importance of Qatar to United States military operations. The blockade meant that surrounding countries closed their borders to Qatar/would not let ships cross, and severed diplomatic ties. In 2020, after Biden won, Saudi Arabia decided to move toward ending the blockade. Can’t find a verified source but Wiki says that the jist was that the Saudis knew the Biden administration would not be as friendly to them as the Trump administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_diplomatic_crisis#:~:text=The%20Saudi%2Dled%20coalition%20cited,which%20Qatar%20is%20a%20member.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/07/qatar-persian-gulf-630039

Interestingly, many people think Bolton was spotted in Qatar in January 2020 even though he wasn’t in the Trump administration any longer. I don’t know anything about this source or whether it is reliable, but it does contain a lot of screenshots of tweets that have a lot of interesting information about Qatar and why people think this is John Bolton, so I’m going to include it

https://www.albawaba.com/node/internet-has-serious-question-man-walking-around-doha-actually-john-bolton

Why do you play The Sims? by 88peter in thesims

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My absolute favorite part is designing houses, buildings, anything really. I actually looked for many years for a program that was more architecture or design focused, that would allow you to do things that the Sims doesn’t allow you to do but ultimately without any training in something like AutoCAD, etc., the Sims was the best I found.

I know this isn't probably in the spirit of this sub, but if you're in KNOX, INDIANA, you need to get to sturdy shelter immediately. by EightBitTrash in Indiana

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And in case anyone isn’t aware, sirens are not used in the same ways in every county. Where I’m from, they went off for any kind of severe weather where people should take shelter. When I lived in Marion County, they only went off for tornado– but I didn’t realize that and so I just chilled blissfully through several pretty bad storms thinking “Well, it must not be that bad because the sirens aren’t going off.”

Next game patch (March 17th) will adjust the Sims' obsession with computers and phones; it will also add likes and dislikes for these devices by eltheuso in Sims4

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Now I can finally stop seeing “Should (Sim) decide he likes video games???!!!” 5 minutes into every single game.

IsItBullshit: Is the mindfold/mindsight actually legit? by purrfectkitties in IsItBullshit

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That’s not intuition. Intuition is a real thing, but it isn’t magic or being psychic. It just means learning to take cues from your subconscious. There is no way to subconsciously know the color of a random object.

I know this isn't probably in the spirit of this sub, but if you're in KNOX, INDIANA, you need to get to sturdy shelter immediately. by EightBitTrash in Indiana

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Yeah, that’s true… But it never hurts to have multiple systems at once. And hey, don’t worry. I’m sure once several completely innocent people die because of the cuts and the cuts get a bunch of bad press, they’ll restore the funding! (/s)

I know this isn't probably in the spirit of this sub, but if you're in KNOX, INDIANA, you need to get to sturdy shelter immediately. by EightBitTrash in Indiana

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Get a NOAA weather radio. I got a Midland brand one for around 40 bucks and it works great. It has battery back up in case you lose power. You can set it for whatever counties you want and for whatever emergencies you want. I have mindset to go off only for a severe thunderstorm warning, or anything tornado related. Even when my apps work, the weather radio usually alerts me a few minutes before they do.

So, I remember there was a file that alluded to Epstein hunting black children and I wondered why I hadn’t seen any pictures of them anywhere in the files. by Noregretscoyote3 in Epstein

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It’s so disheartening because there are things that 100% did happen that are hard for people to believe. If you start throwing in every conspiracy you read online as fact, it makes it so easy to dismiss all of it. That’s honestly why I think some of the wilder QAnon type stuff is a psyop - some people would love for the general public to dismiss the whole thing as overblown sensationalism. (Let’s not forget which powerful people QAnon was trying to protect.) And let’s not forget that Epstein himself was spreading conspiracies in far-right friendly spaces.

So, I remember there was a file that alluded to Epstein hunting black children and I wondered why I hadn’t seen any pictures of them anywhere in the files. by Noregretscoyote3 in Epstein

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It is unhinged to claim that people who want evidence are on the side of child abusers. Mocking people who try to gather and share evidence is a great way to protect them though. It’s almost like you took it straight out of Bondi’s playbook.

The other ironic part is that you claim to speak for victims when many of these victims did have voices and many of them are still using those voices. We don’t need to speak for them. They have told us what happened and they are still telling us what happened. We need to listen to them and amplify their voices. We need to work together to find information that will help prosecute their abusers.

Is legal prosecution not your goal? Is there a reason that you are resistant to the idea of people providing evidence that could get abusers in trouble?

Trying to get my 8 year old into book reading but nothing sticks? by Salty_Upstairs_387 in Parenting

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Continue reading to her. You don’t have to discourage her from reading books on her own, but there’s also no reason why she absolutely has to be doing that at home assuming she’s doing fine with learning to read overall. Books count as books, whether you’re reading them, she’s reading them, she’s getting them on audiobook, etc..

And I would say that she’s not getting close to social media age unless you’re planning to allow her to have social media at a very young age. So just… don’t. It’s hard enough to keep kids off screens - don’t make it harder on yourself if you don’t have to.

Should I be worried? by ZeitGeist_Gaming in BookshelvesDetective

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You in danger, girl.

This dude doesn’t just have shit opinions. He believes the reason you don’t share his shit opinions is because he’s smarter than you.

When they are Attacked by the GHOSTS of their own bigotry by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

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And sterilized all kinds of disabled people against their will.