So, how many IQ point have you traded to earn money?
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❤️Free market competition❤️
That sucks, hope everything is fine now. How long did you have to pay attention to these things? And how is it later, can you play sports, run?
Great things from small beginnings. What a game.
In 2016 I was sitting at home recovering after they removed a wisdom tooth, and finished it during a long weekend.
A very wholesome story. I played probably thousands of hours of 1.6 and Source in high school, really loved this game.
My favorite memory is going to an IT camp with other nerds, and managing to knife 36 people in one day. That was the life.
I don’t have a gaming PC now (nor the time to play this much), but will think about checking out CS2 in the future.
I remember doing smg similar, I didn’t know how to react to girls’ interest, and thought I was being cool.
Damn I was a cringe teen.
They were probably rich (as stayed in a 5 star hotel) and might have some family connections to pull some strings
Tech bro: AI😎 Investors: 😱💵
Non-existent power source for a non-existent tech, a match made in heaven
(meaning what they hype as AI is actually mostly just LLM)
Mainly it’s Russia’s influencing efforts. Many Western right-wing politicians are in their pockets, their money supports many hard-right parties, and their propaganda directly influences and pushes voters to these parties. So primarily it’s a practical relationship of aligned goals, as Russia’s global activity helps them get more power domestically, so they are more lenient with Russia’s fuckery in e.g. Ukraine.
Secondarily there is a sympathy, as Putin did many things they would like to do domestically, building a white Christian anti-LGBT nation with a strong hand (at least in perception). I also once read an article I couldn’t find now, that explained how in global Christian “church politics”, Russia managed to get very close to and influence US Christian leaders, so that might also have an impact.
Trump was incredibly lucky. Shooter guy was also lucky and fairly skilled, but mostly exploited the incompetence or the security. Few cm-s to the right and he would have made history. Though I as an EU citizen would have preferred if he just stayed home. If Trump died, there would already be a civil war, and now he’ll “just” win the election, which is also not great regarding the future support of Ukraine and security of Europe.
Item #: SCP-███
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-███ is to be housed in a hermetically sealed containment chamber at Site-███. The chamber must be equipped with industrial-grade air filtration systems and must be disinfected hourly. Personnel entering the chamber must wear Level A hazmat suits and carry a personal air purification unit. Under no circumstances should personnel remain within SCP-███’s containment chamber for more than 15 minutes.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a 27-year-old Caucasian male, previously known as █████ ███████, who has been the subject of an anomalous physiological change resulting from an extended period of poor personal hygiene. SCP-███ possesses the belief that abstaining from cleaning his genital area will produce pheromones attractive to women. This belief has manifested an anomalous property in SCP-███, generating a noxious odor that repels humans within a 250-meter radius.
The odor produced by SCP-███ has been classified as SCP-███-1. SCP-███-1 has been shown to cause immediate nausea, disorientation, and a strong instinctual urge to flee in exposed subjects. Continued exposure leads to more severe symptoms, including vomiting, temporary blindness, and in some cases, auditory hallucinations.
Addendum ███-A: Extract for Psychological Evaluation
Dr. ███████: Can you explain why you continue this... regimen, despite its effects?
SCP-███: You don't understand. I'm on the verge of a breakthrough. They just haven't smelled it long enough. They'll come around. They always do in the end.