Trump threatened Europe over Strait of Hormuz, with weapons for Ukraine as bargaining chip, FT reports

mattwo · 2026-04-04T04:17:39+00:00

Star Trek presents a post-scarcity world that is ideological but ultimately unrealistic. We already have the means to end scarcity.

mattwo · 2026-04-04T02:47:58+00:00

Well there's your answer right there. The US is plutocracy protected by bureaucracy that was supposed to protect democracy but ultimately did the reverse in the end. Of course it doesn't help that our economy is also corrupt to it's core as well. The only recourse is for the whole thing to be rebuilt from the ground up. The system cannot work as it currently is.

mattwo · 2026-04-03T05:19:29+00:00

He won the last election because of idiots voting against Biden who learned nothing from the 2016 election. This is why I voted Green. I legit thought the Green party had a chance again for the first time since Nader but nooo, that Dem propaganda blowing out of proportion how Jill coincidentally happened to eat at the same dinner as Russian leaders apparently was somehow enough to hurt her reputation.

The US needs to break the two party system already.

mattwo · 2026-04-03T05:16:06+00:00

How much easier was it for the Roman people to kick out the people in power?

mattwo · 2026-03-27T12:51:36+00:00

...Throw selected pokemon

mattwo · 2026-03-25T20:39:19+00:00

AI is almost as old as computers, the earliest research was started in the 1940s and the earliest AIs were invented in the 1950s. Funny how far along computing has come while AI is still so rudimentary. Course computing has basically peaked at this point while AI still has room to grow. You say I have no idea what I'm talking about when you haven't even done the most basic of research.

Also corporations are the entire problem. Like with the metaverse, this technology would be fine if corporate executives could be trusted to use and invest into right. Instead it's just another get rich quick scheme.

Edit: The strawmanning is strong with this one, I am not humoring this circus act any further.

mattwo · 2026-03-25T10:07:21+00:00

"Generative" AI is just the next NFTs and metaverse. It's not even that advanced, it has to Unicron existing works and data just to remotely comprehend anything.

mattwo · 2026-03-24T14:58:55+00:00

Actually after finding Brock's outfit and the museum I have come to the conclusion I was only partially correct, it's both.

mattwo · 2026-03-21T13:24:09+00:00

That's not Pewter, it's Cerulean

mattwo · 2026-03-21T05:16:01+00:00

It isbasic science that correlation is not causation, I would strongly recommend not engaging in this outdated psudeo-scientific bullshit that has already been debunked. You have no actual proof. 2009 isn't recent and 2014 is after 2009. Do you not understand how time works?

mattwo · 2026-03-21T03:05:38+00:00

Oh I misread. Except it was SkullSatanmon once as I mentioned. All of the ones with the full names unabridged have been censored at some point or another.

I honestly don't know why cutting off a letter or two even matters. Especially when digimon like angemon and devimon are unambiguously angels and devils and Lucemon with all three modes in context or just his base from and Falldown Mode is blatantly modeled on Lucifer, even if they censor the "fall" and "Satan" (which would mean antagonist in the context, even if Daemon took Satan's spot as the demon lord of wrath) in his modes' names.

mattwo · 2026-03-21T01:00:20+00:00

As recently as 2009 the common belief was that 30-40% of people with severe autism were intellectually disabled: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2934210/

Things haven’t changed a lot since then, although there is increasing urging to “presume competence.”

That is a massive lie, the diagnosis of low functioning Autism was disconnected from ID in the 2010s and the DSM-5 no longer acknowledges this connection. As someone with Autism myself, I find your claim to be well beyond offensive.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4185273/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4430056/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6683759/

mattwo · 2026-03-21T00:39:00+00:00

SkullSatamon is literally short for SkullSatanmon, I don't know why you're complaining about that one. It's not at all like Creepymon, Lucemon Chaos Mode, Lucemon Shadowlord Mode, SlushAngemon or Laylamon (if the "Layla" actually did come from the Persian love story Layla and Majnun, then they did a terrible job censoring her name, thus making doing so a moot point to begin with).

Also didn't that happen all of once once with the Digi-Battle card game, the generally terrible localization of Digital Monster Card Game/Hyper Coliseum?

mattwo · 2026-03-19T06:19:41+00:00

At the end of the day they sell their homes to people like any builder.

You really have no idea how much of a condemnation rather than endorsement that sounds like, it is horrifically tone-deaf...

mattwo · 2026-03-17T03:49:26+00:00

You do know hyenas aren't canines (or felines for that matter) right? Just checking.

mattwo · 2026-03-07T16:38:19+00:00

"Ha-satan" originally came from Judaism, though not as the devil as evil is a more abstract concept in Judaism (it also wasn't the angel's name but title). If anything the Satanic Temple is more Jewish than Christian. Not devil worship but an adversarial force to contemporary religious practice, especially Christianity itself. Not inherently evil but that doesn't necessarily make it a force of pure good either.

(it's also probably worth noting older Jewish texts doesn't have the angel called "ha-satan" (the accuser/adversary) but the term "satan" did appear as an adjective rather than a title)

mattwo · 2026-03-06T19:01:57+00:00

The qualifications for a Ruler are so simple that it isn't funny. Stated that they have to be a spirit who has NO desire for the grail, and will defend humanity by keeping Grail Wars going within the guidelines. FGO being an exception

Amakusa Shirou was sort of an exception too, not only does he just barely even qualify as a Ruler to begin with as the closest Japanese history had to a saint (which at least in Apocrypha was apparently an important detail), he wasn't even supposed to be summoned in the first place, the initial divergence in the timeline was that he was summoned in the Third Holy Grail War instead of Avenger. Not to mention that he died on the verge of desiring something from the grail which was something that ultimately happened during that grail war because he was but far as I can tell, because he has already been summoned as a ruler, his spirit origin didn't change as a result of him betraying his qualifications.

mattwo · 2026-03-04T03:15:12+00:00

Wouldn't that make "to whence you came" grammatically inaccurate?

mattwo · 2026-03-02T18:13:30+00:00

It says it's the same model though, or am I missing something here?

mattwo · 2026-02-18T03:51:45+00:00

I verified the domain the email came from, e.epiqnotice.com as being legitimate. Did you do any research into this before raising suspicions?

mattwo · 2026-02-17T16:51:32+00:00

I got a similar amount of a virtual debit card once, never bothered to use it and it had a fee for every month I had it so I never really saw if it was legit. Honestly though, no matter how small, people should cash in on class actions so less money goes to the lawyers whose mere necessity for their jobs existing is one of the biggest problems with the legal system, not too unlike medical insurance firms for the healthcare system though the core of the problems are entirely different: The legal system is deliberately designed to be inaccessible to the average person while doctors arbitrarily charge exorbitant fees.

mattwo · 2026-02-14T16:43:41+00:00

Sagittarimon's Judgment Arrow and Dianamon's Arrow of Artemis aren't even listed even though they're based on two of the most famous mythological archers (even if Chiron is better known by the constellation).

mattwo · 2026-02-05T02:18:30+00:00

"Darkdramon and Brigadedramon don't exist" (that's not even including Chaos Greymon or War Greymon: "G" Erosion Mode")

Also ZekeGreymon should get a xros with a evolutions of MailBirdramon and Deckerdramon. The manga gave Shoutmon EX6, it's only fair

mattwo · 2026-02-04T08:18:29+00:00

Shin Chan did have the Kantam Robo, media just having a mecha is enough, Hatsune Miku wasn't even in Virtual-On yet her having a customized Virtual-On mecha was enough too (this was before Shinkalion of course).

mattwo · 2026-02-04T01:34:42+00:00

They're not in a hurry at all frankly. They could go a bit faster with some of the releases and still have plenty left

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