Isn’t oligarchy a loan word from the French language? Or like, if not a loan word I’m sure it at least has French etymology

I don’t know enough to say whether this is valid or just crybaby tech bros having a fit on fox news but like… God I hope deepseek is completely stolen like this because and I hope there’s absolutely nothing closedai can do about the fact that there’s a better thief out there on the market. Fuck them so hard and fuck their hypocrisy about stealing data. Maybe we can finally move away from trying to use a double digit percentage of national electric grid capacity to power a fucking glorified magic 8ball

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China is full of shit about it being unintentional, they’ve been playing grey zone games for quite a few years now and the nations around them have caught on. I’d argue missile deployment is exactly proportional to an unplanned breach of airspace by a military asset. It’s historically a pretty good idea to build up your defense when a neighbor is brandishing their military on your borders

To each their own, lol. I don’t find country boring, I find it actively grating on my ears. Like, to the point that I will mute movies and put on subtitles if the soundtrack goes country. Having that as background noise sounds like my personal hell

I’m both the shorts guy and the music guy, though I do enjoy screamo. Country is my “I can’t listen to this dogshit” genre

Assuming you’re asking in good faith:

“Retard” used to be a largely medical term used to refer to mentally disabled people. It’s common usage in the past 10 years or so has been “bad, stupid, less than, etc”. By using the term that way, you’re passively connecting disabled people to that concept of “bad, stupid, less than, etc”. I think it’s also considered a slur lately

Raisins in particular have a mouthfeel like bugs for me. Fresh grapes are mid but nice when it’s hot out. I like dried versions of most fruits I like the fresh version of

Probably doesn’t help that every consecutive year of physics education is like “anyway everything we taught you last year is a simplification that’s technically wrong. Here’s how it really works now that you know enough math to understand the next level”

It’s been like 8 years, but a chromebook dual booted with debian+xfce got me through undergrad. There’s a set of scripts out there called “crouton” that made it really easy to do