The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijackingšŸ”« thread🧵 ⁉

@ODaily, you’re in, or were in the NE part of Arkansas right?
I’m planning a trip to Fayetville to reunite with an old friend and looking wanted to see if you had any does or don’ts in that area.

South West. But…

Do check out some of the parks. It ain’t called ā€œThe Natural Stateā€ for nothing.

Don’t bring up politics. No matter where you land left/right. People are angry and confused.

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Yeah, my stint in Little Rock and south of there with a crew of varying degrees ethnicity and politics was…interesting?
Neither the friend I’m seeing or I would really be talking to strangers, let alone talking to them about hot button topics.

you never needed to worry about that

Yeah, the ability to edit your threads/ posts expires after 1 month, But I can edit it for you.

Just reply here or DM with the post and new link and ill sort it

I think people will be more likely to miss an edit rather than a reply; with the reply, I would, highlight the old link, quote, reply with new one, which will liven that thread and discussion again…if you wanted that…

The choice is yours ny friend

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That’s generally good advice no matter where you are.

And it’s even more important when talking with people from other countries. One country’s left wing might be surprisingly simple to another’s right wing and this makes it very easy to get misunderstood. As if political stuff wasn’t bad enough already…

We should probably abolish all governments. Without politics everything would be significantly easier.

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which is silly, because, generally most people agree on most topics, it’s just a few things where there is a different viewpoint or opinion.

People just need to chill the fuck out.

But yes, if you can’t have civil discourse,
Shut the fuck up

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(Not saying good or bad in any of this, just my take on the current state of mood.)

This is weirdly different than that. Arkansas is a MAGA hotbed. If you ask the faithful what their positions are you’ll get a laundry list of things that they’re definitely absolutely against. Almost nothing they’re for. They define themselves in opposition. Frankly, I think they’d have been much much happier as a minority party.

Well, they won. It’s like the old saying about being careful what you wish for.

Now that they’re in control, they have nothing to rage against. If they don’t like something they can’t rant about it, cause they’re in control of it, and just end up getting what they demanded.

Then what??? If your identity is opposition and you clear out the opposition, who are you? Most MAGA adherents I know seem a bit lost. They try replaying the greatest hits, but they already got/won that.

Another layer is starting to form on top of that. Basically, most of them weren’t prepared for the results of what they demanded. Punishing your enemies with tariffs is great, but why are MY prices going up. Sticking it to Wall Street Elites is amazing, but WTF happened to my 401k?

There’s nothing more dangerous and highly charged than a large group of people who feel lost and angry. If it brews into a proper storm, it could, rapidly, coalesce onto a focus person / group / idea. The results would be… not good.

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Always quick to help!! :robot:

so this is the Thread:

On the very first post there’s a blurred link. that’s what is broken.

And this is the new Link: Install Video
(Blurred, it’s a video with blood)
And as you can see, I could not be assed to set up a whole new hosted space for it… :sweat_smile:

the thread is quite long, though.
And I’m not changing the video, just fixing the link that got broken because I did not pay my domain… :sweat_smile:

So my thought is that someone new would get in there, see that the video isn’t working, and not scroll all the way down to see the fixed reply.

Either way,
Thanks for tydiing thing us as usual! :unicorn_starstruck:

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Abolish all politicians, make everyone pass a civics test, people with higher scores go into a lottery type system where random people are chosen to govern for a short while. Without campaign / re-election concerns, lobbyists would have very little footing to fundamentally affect the process of governing. If you want to keep voting a thing, modify the lottery process to simply making it a lottery pool of people you can vote for in a snap election with very little window for campaigning.

… or something.

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Let Watson run us for 4. Can’t be worse…yet

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Pretty sweet seeing all the new DT offerings this year. I’m excited!!!

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Do we or can we have something similar for the FlexM1v2?

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Done, good request, thanks
Not case sensitive, the
FlexM1 still a valid link to discontinued product

Flexm1v2 linked to, well, the V2

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Soon enough that will be 19 years ago… then 29 years ago… one shudders to think of generations 100+ years from now… digital archeologists… sorting through old text based ā€œpostsā€ with their neural interfaces… and seeing humanity’s problems haven’t really changed all that much.

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100+ years from now:
ā€œBlinky neural interfaces when?ā€

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I was trying to sort a problem a little bit back on Mastercam. I thought I’d found the answer, until I realized it referenced V9, which came out in 2002. Yup, that’s 23 years later.

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Soonā„¢

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Thanks @Pilgrimsmaster !!

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