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2024-10-19 at 10:16 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
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2024-10-19 at 9:56 PM UTC in Is it a sin to...If it's a 24-hour fitness, they should force you to exercise for 24 hours, otherwise it's false advertising.
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2024-10-19 at 5:48 AM UTC in A Short Analysis Of Social Cohesion In The USA"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." - Preamble to the USA Constitution
I'll get to the point. Societies across the globe are held together by a certain "glue" in order to keep subsects of said societies from breaking from the state and forming their own states. This "glue" is oftentimes predicated on ethnicity, religion, language, or culture. Some shining examples are France, China, and Italy.
The citizens of these states, are, by and large, of a single ethnicity or belong to a single ethnic group. In France, you are likely French, perhaps Occitanian. In Italy, you are "Italian" which may mean you are Milanian, Sicilian, Neapolitan, etc. But you still belong to the Italian ethnic group. You also speak Italian, write in Italian, eat Italian food, etc. Same for Chinese people, who are part of a vast nation that spans from Tibet and Xinjiang, to Beijing, from Manchuria to Guangdong.
However, the national identity of USA citizens is not predicated on any part of an individuals identity that is, by and large, static and consistent.
In China, people in Guangdong and in Beijing speak the same language, eat the same food, watch the same shows, read the same books, etc. They have an identity that is composed of various things that are shared by all people across the nation. These things also do not change, or if they do change, they change more or less uniformly throughout the state, and usually at a slow pace.
The USA's demographic profile is composed of many different ethnicities, cultures, languages, etc. This is not to say that USA citizens lack a uniform portion of their identity, however.
USA citizens all share (supposedly) the ideals that are expressed in the preamble above: The rights to life, liberty and happiness.
This fluid identity based on ideals and values allows people to assimilate to the US society and generally be accepted by other citizens. If you pay your taxes, are kind, and don't hurt other people, most people will at least tolerate you, no matter if you are Swahili, Vietnamese, Venezuelan, or German.
This lack of a cohesive, static identity is a double edged sword, though.
The USA is not a old country, but it is also not a new country. The ideals that are shared by it's constituents are, and have been, subject to change. We have seen this in party switches, for example. The Liberals of the 20's and 30's are not the same as the liberals of the 60's and 70's. The USA was founded under the pretense of being able to freely practice any religion, but people in the west are becoming less religious.
The constant development and change of this identity leaves US citizens divided, unable to relate to each other on the basis of heritage, cuisine choices, shared history, or other characteristics shared among ethnicities, such as in many European nation states.
Do you think that a fluid national identity based on ideals instead of shared characteristics is a good or a bad thing? Why or why not?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-19 at 1:11 AM UTC in What are you listening to right now, space nigga?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-18 at 8:08 AM UTC in 5000 rockets hit IsraelThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-18 at 5:23 AM UTC in 5000 rockets hit Israel
The jedis murdered the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
This footage shows a jedi surveillance drone entering a bombed out ruin of a house, where he is sitting in an armchair. He throws a stick at the jedi drone in an act of defiance.
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2024-10-18 at 5:02 AM UTC in Chinese Quantum hack breaks AES encryptionChanks ruined bitcoin forever!!!!! We need QUANTUM bitcoins now THANKS A LOT YOU SLANT EYED FREAKS!!!
http://cjc.ict.ac.cn/online/onlinepaper/wc-202458160402.pdf
https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/10/11/chinese-scientists-report-using-quantum-computer-to-hack-military-grade-encryption/Despite the general-purpose quantum computing field still being in its early stages, with no immediate risk to modern cryptographic systems, scientists are increasingly exploring specialized quantum computers for potential uses — and, in the case of cybersecurity, vulnerabilities. In their recent study, Wang’s team utilized a quantum computer from Canada’s D-Wave Systems to breach cryptographic algorithms, marking a significant milestone.
According to SCMP, the research team employed the D-Wave Advantage quantum computer to target the Present, Gift-64, and Rectangle algorithms, called key representatives of the Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) structure. This structure is foundational for advanced encryption standards (AES), a system widely deployed in military and financial encryption protocols, according to the newspaper. While AES-256 is often labeled as military-grade and considered the most secure encryption standard available, the study suggests that quantum computers may soon threaten such security
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wtf middle of the mall cheap chinese knockoff roman characters are these????
Are these guys retards? The experts say maybe
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366613737/Experts-slam-Chinese-research-on-quantum-encryption-attackInfosec experts are throwing cold water on reports that Chinese researchers successfully cracked RSA encryption using quantum computers from D-Wave.
In a recently published paper titled "Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage," academic researchers from Shanghai University described two methods to break RSA encryption. Both methods incorporate quantum annealing, an optimization process used in D-Wave systems and cloud services.
"Quantum annealing is the fundamental principle behind D-Wave special quantum computing. It has a unique quantum tunneling effect that can jump out of the local extremes that traditional intelligent algorithms are prone to fall into," the researchers wrote.
The paper – which is primarily written in Chinese – was initially published in May, but recent media reports on the research have caused a stir in the infosec community. Encryption experts say that while the research might be valid, the devil is in the details.
Where did they even find those bastard letters? And it turns out their math sucks too. Bitcoin is probably fine, these chinks don't know anything.Frederic Jacobs, an engineer on Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture team, said in a post on Mastodon that the research hasn't changed the practical security of RSA encryption. "Yes, you have reasons to migrate away from RSA to post-quantum hybrids, but it has nothing to do with D-Wave or this algorithm," he wrote.
phewSTARKs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
STARKS stands for “zero-knowledge scalable transparent argument of knowledge.” It’s a type of cryptographic proof that requires little to no interaction between the prover and the verifier. The key advantages of STARKs over SNARKs are that they have fast prover times and are easier to scale as they offer more computing power. Also, using hash functions makes them quantum resistant.
Notably, STARKs were invented by Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founder of StarkWare, the team building StarkEx and StarkNet.
https://chain.link/education-hub/zero-knowledge-proof-projects
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2024-10-17 at 12:49 PM UTC in Male Hormones/TRTMy wife has more testosterone than me. I ate a blue chew though and gave her 5 orgasms but before I could finish she left to get Chinese food and my fortune cookie said "cuck"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 8:37 AM UTC in What happened to fox and solstice?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 5:23 AM UTC in For Trump + Harris SupportersThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 4:52 AM UTC in For Kamala supporters
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2024-10-17 at 3:51 AM UTC in Tools For Political/Conflict/Geopolitical/Economic Analysis.Hi there.
The following are some easy to use tools for analyzing politics and conflicts, but especially for geopolitics and economic analysis.
https://www.oilmap.xyz/
Map of world oil/gas drilling sites, lines, fields, and bid rounds.
https://oec.world/en
This is easily the best site on the entire internet for analyzing export/import profiles of different nations and interstate trade relationships. My personal favorite.
https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/agricultural-maps-of-the-world/
This is a set of maps, allbeit 8 years old now, of global agricultural output by crop.
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/aglands/maps/gallery/search
A set of maps of total croplands for regions of the globe.
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/major-deposits/map-us.html
A map of major mineral deposits around the world
https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-4d9jnh/The-World/?center=36.38591%2C45.39551&zoom=5
An interactive map of the world's topography
https://liveuamap.com/
An interactive map that displays the locations of events in conflicts, most notably the Israel-Palestine and Russian-Ukrainian conflicts.
https://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#3/20.00/10.00
A map of the world's population density.
https://maps.worldbank.org/projects/wb/country/IN/India?status=active
I have not used all of the features that this tool has to offer, but it is an interactive world map that allows you to look at ongoing projects funded by the World Bank and their respective datasets.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-15 at 4:02 PM UTC in I miss the 2003-2006 totse era so much
Originally posted by They Are Not Alone This was such a great time to be alive and on the internet. There was so much value in totse and similar websites (like erowid) that I failed to appreciate. There were so many more intelligent people talking freely. I deeply regret not taking advantage of the knowledge that was available. I regret not experimenting more. I regret passing over the spiritual and hallucinogenic knowledge that was available on totse and erowid. I regret that a full archive of totse posts isn't available. I regret not going on an ethnogenic spiritual discovery mission in the Western United States. I look back on the 2003-2006 era of the internet as being like a golden age of info and free expression. An era we lost and failed to take advantage of.
nope.
nostalgia has a way of reflecting the ugly things of the past in fancy, beautiful lights.
people are just as retarded then as they are retarded now and the onky reasin you think they were smart and knowledgable was because you were dumber and knew less then.
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2024-10-15 at 2:56 PM UTC in i made a mc launcheri made a mc launcher
it doesnt have that many features atm but ill be adding more soon
if anyone wants to try it out its on my github
https://github.com/xorsirenz/cherrylauncherThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-14 at 2:48 AM UTC in Fona's Great 2024 Leaf ChallengeIn his final moments, fona catches leaves to relive the joy of youth.
He got out of breath and it made him sad :c -
2024-10-13 at 10:44 PM UTC in What will you be for Halloween?I will be a disgruntled middle age man
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2024-10-13 at 5:34 PM UTC in What does 450mg of bunder do to a girl like meThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-12 at 2:21 PM UTC in I took my anti depressants for the first time in almost 3 years.
Originally posted by 🦄🌈 MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING - vaxxed and octoboosted 💉 (we beat covid!) 👬💕👭🍀 (🍩✊) Does your girl like that?
My gfs always complain I take too long - no not a humble brag, it's a real problem. I take at least 30 minutes to cum.
Idk we’re not together anymore. She never complained about time, but when i went off ssris it did make me nut a lot more quickly
And its always nice to be able to dish out some punishment with your cock. Just like blundgeon her with it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-12 at 12:51 PM UTC in Pull Request: Blocking FeaturesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-12 at 1:17 AM UTC in The legal weed market is strangeWeed makes me 420% more retardedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
