@DschlopesIsBack Somehow Colorado got Strength coach confused with βDiversity is their strengthβ coach.
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LOTR is arguably the single greatest example of moral realism in all of literature.
Injecting moral relativism into Middle Earth fundamentally misunderstands Tolkien and flies in the face of everything he stood for.
And don't come at me with 'moral complexity.'
Relativism isn't complexity. It's confusion. It's a collapse of distinctions that has nothing to offer but meaninglessness and despair.
In order to have meaningful 'moral complexity,' you have to establish a distiction between light and dark, right and wrong, good and evil. The complexity arises among characters that must navigate a world where both forces act around, upon, and within them.
What modern Hollywood calls 'moral complexity' is actually just the erasing the distinction between good and evil.
If a story can't show you light and dark, it can't say anything meaningful about them. Classic storytellers understood this. Modern Hollywood has completely memory holed it.
Injecting moral relativism into Middle Earth fundamentally misunderstands Tolkien and flies in the face of everything he stood for.
And don't come at me with 'moral complexity.'
Relativism isn't complexity. It's confusion. It's a collapse of distinctions that has nothing to offer but meaninglessness and despair.
In order to have meaningful 'moral complexity,' you have to establish a distiction between light and dark, right and wrong, good and evil. The complexity arises among characters that must navigate a world where both forces act around, upon, and within them.
What modern Hollywood calls 'moral complexity' is actually just the erasing the distinction between good and evil.
If a story can't show you light and dark, it can't say anything meaningful about them. Classic storytellers understood this. Modern Hollywood has completely memory holed it.
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I used to review officer-involved shooting reports generated by a D.A. explaining the decision to exonerate officers, and recall often thinking βI mean, could that *really* be how it went down?β I suspected there may be some fog of war or selective memory or post-hoc justification to give the officer a rational justification and paint the victim in a negative, irrational light.
But with the post-2020 adoption of body cams, I now believe it all. There is no behavior too insane for a huge number of suspects when confronted with literally any command by an officer requesting some form of compliance.
Even I thought body cams would shine a light on some substantial percentage of clear officer abuse, but itβs clearly negligible, while dangerous and erratic behavior by suspects is widespread. It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count.
But with the post-2020 adoption of body cams, I now believe it all. There is no behavior too insane for a huge number of suspects when confronted with literally any command by an officer requesting some form of compliance.
Even I thought body cams would shine a light on some substantial percentage of clear officer abuse, but itβs clearly negligible, while dangerous and erratic behavior by suspects is widespread. It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count.
"Don't go for the knife!"
"Dis knife?"
"Yes! Don't go for it!"
"Dis knife right hurrr?"
"DON'T DO IT!"
"Keisha! Wut deez races cop b doin?"
"SIR! PLEASE DON'T!"
(goes for knife)
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"And thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes." -The Silmarillion, Chapter III (Of the coming of the Elves and the captivity of Melkor)
"With them they brought Gelmir son of Guilin, that m they had captured in the Bragollach; and they had blinded him. Then the heralds of Angband showed him forth crying: 'We have many more such at home, but you must make haste if you would find them; for we shall deal with them all when we return even so.' And they hewed off Gelmir's hands and feet, and his head last, within sight of the Elves, and left him." - Of the Fifth Battle
"For the Men of Brethil had waylaid at the Crossing of Teiglin the Orc-host that led the captives of Nargothrond, hoping to rescue them; but the orcs had at once cruelly slain their prisoners, and Finduilas (Orodreth's daughter) they pinned to a tree with a spear." - Of Turin Turambar
"But at last Haldad was slain in a sortie against the orcs; and Haldar, who rushed out to save his father's body from their butchery, was hewn down beside him." - Of the coming of Men into the West
The orcs are, in fact, rampaging monsters, and this attempt at subversion of the canon by the showrunners is particularly grotesque.
"With them they brought Gelmir son of Guilin, that m they had captured in the Bragollach; and they had blinded him. Then the heralds of Angband showed him forth crying: 'We have many more such at home, but you must make haste if you would find them; for we shall deal with them all when we return even so.' And they hewed off Gelmir's hands and feet, and his head last, within sight of the Elves, and left him." - Of the Fifth Battle
"For the Men of Brethil had waylaid at the Crossing of Teiglin the Orc-host that led the captives of Nargothrond, hoping to rescue them; but the orcs had at once cruelly slain their prisoners, and Finduilas (Orodreth's daughter) they pinned to a tree with a spear." - Of Turin Turambar
"But at last Haldad was slain in a sortie against the orcs; and Haldar, who rushed out to save his father's body from their butchery, was hewn down beside him." - Of the coming of Men into the West
The orcs are, in fact, rampaging monsters, and this attempt at subversion of the canon by the showrunners is particularly grotesque.
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Just when I thought this show couldnβt sink any lower or misunderstand the source material further.
[NEWS] βMarnΓ»kh is a character meant to challenge long-held perceptions of Orcs. Heβs such a departure from past depictions that within the production, MarnΓ»kh has picked up the catchy nickname, βthe Orc with an arc.β
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@PhillyMayor Add a couple zeros to the billion dollar bailout that Philly already needed. Gotta love Democrat governance.
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RT @Vermeullarmine: With all due respect, βpersonhoodβ is not a magical trump card that overrides the basic principles of the republican foβ¦
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@CaseyMattox_ You can debate ideas with words or you can debate them with violence. Men understand that but modern women are largely shielded from it. That's why some seem so eager to declare others as total enemies.
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@HannahDCox @CaseyMattox_ It's hilarious how little you know about the origins of debate and logical argumentation so instead of trying to understand the point, you immediately jumped to emotionalism.
There's a reason men were the ones who founded academia and debating societies a 1000 years ago lol.
There's a reason men were the ones who founded academia and debating societies a 1000 years ago lol.
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@_for_america_ Seems to me they're priming things for 2028, not 2026, with how they rolled out these legal challenges and all.
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A couple things here. 1) He's right, 2) his statement is incomplete, and 3) you're fishing for clicks using racial resentment.
1-All Christians are united in Christ by the Holy Spirit. It's the church universal. I pray for brothers in other parts of the world, especially when I hear of evil like what happens to Nigerian Christians persecuted by Islamic fanatics.
2-Our duties tho are not to everyone on the planet. I have a greater duty to my family, my church here, my neighbors, and my country than someone on the other side of the world.
3-Stop doing retarded engagement baiting.
1-All Christians are united in Christ by the Holy Spirit. It's the church universal. I pray for brothers in other parts of the world, especially when I hear of evil like what happens to Nigerian Christians persecuted by Islamic fanatics.
2-Our duties tho are not to everyone on the planet. I have a greater duty to my family, my church here, my neighbors, and my country than someone on the other side of the world.
3-Stop doing retarded engagement baiting.
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I think Singal is representative of a lot of liberals in that he sort of concedes the necessity of immigration law in the abstract, but finds the actual act of deportation to be shocking and cruel unless it occurs under impossible to satisfy circumstances.
Immigration advocates make these circumstances impossible, in the same way advocates have made a clean death penalty impossible so what remains to be incompetently administered provokes public sympathy.
Immigration advocates make these circumstances impossible, in the same way advocates have made a clean death penalty impossible so what remains to be incompetently administered provokes public sympathy.
@MrAndyNgo so your understanding of how this works is if the government thinks you defrauded the US and you don't have legal status here, you should be deported to a country you have no connection to and just dropped there with no money?
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We believe access to capable open-source cyber models is our constitutional right as Americans under the 2nd Amendment.
It is our duty as technologists and patriots to help protect the digital infrastructure that powers the world's largest economy.
As such, weβre serving our cyber models βat-costβ, in US data centers only, with ZDR enabled by default.
We do not plan to make money serving these models.
If you run a company that is considering how to best protect against cybercrime, reach out to me or @atbeme. Weβd be happy to advise.
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It is our duty as technologists and patriots to help protect the digital infrastructure that powers the world's largest economy.
As such, weβre serving our cyber models βat-costβ, in US data centers only, with ZDR enabled by default.
We do not plan to make money serving these models.
If you run a company that is considering how to best protect against cybercrime, reach out to me or @atbeme. Weβd be happy to advise.
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deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-cyber is now available on @inference_net.
This is the first of several highly capable cyber models we'll release over the coming weeks.
We believe it is our duty as technologists to help people protect themselves and their digital properties from the current onslaught of cybercrime ravaging much of the world.
As such, weβre serving our cyber models βat costβ, in US data centers only, with ZDR enabled by default.
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Open source models and access to compute should be protected by the second amendment indeed
Amen
Amen
We believe access to capable open-source cyber models is our constitutional right as Americans under the 2nd Amendment.
It is our duty as technologists and patriots to help protect the digital infrastructure that powers the world's largest economy.
As such, weβre serving our cyber models βat-costβ, in US data centers only, with ZDR enabled by default.
We do not plan to make money serving these models.
If you run a company that is considering how to best protect against cybercrime, reach out to me or @atbeme. Weβd be happy to advise.
KYC required. Apply below.
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