/int/ - International

it's dead, it died a few hours ago

I often see apartment buildings with air conditioners installed like this, uncovered, turned to the street side of a building, and I wonder: Doesn't exposing the air conditioner the whole day, uncovered, to the sun and rain, shorten its use life? Being under the sun the whole day probably increases the temperature of the air conditioner a huge deal. The air conditioner seems to me like an expensive object, and covering it or positioning it in a shielded region of a building, would preserve it better. Or am I ignorant and this actually doesn't matter?

I would like to welcome any potential Ernst refugees with a heartfelt GET IN HERE, NIGGERS

I was reading about the concept of priming, and apparently, there has been extensive studies made on Alzheimer's patients and priming. If you don't know what priming is, it's essentially a type of psyop that can be done to people in order for specific desirable traits to show in them and become more pronounced. Anyway, not to go too deeply into what priming is, you can look it up yourself, but before reading the fact that they had used Alzheimer's patients to study on, I was myself thinking of some type of human being that was essentially a blank slate to conduct studies upon. Alzheimer's patients fits that description pretty well, I was more thinking about some type of severely disabled person instead. Sort of like some type of half brain-dead person or something similar to that. I, of course, am empathetic and have very humane qualities, so I would never actually promote anything similar to that, since it's sadistic. But breddy interesting nonetheless. That was my thunk of the day, rate, subscribe and comment.

Are these things considered animals?

Bernds with a common ball, how do you still show personality and not blend in with the other balls of your kind? What’s the best way to get people to know it’s you, but also stay on subject matter?

Trump's tariffs are already working with the purpose of covering the budget deficit. Murka has three financial problems: persistent budget deficit, persistent growing debt-to-GDP-ratio, persistent trade deficit. All of this rests on the attractiveness of the dollar as international currency. If they ever lose that, even a little, the whole thing will start cracking. This is the republican plan to fix the issue: tariffs to fix both the budget deficits and trade deficits (which would eventually fix the debt issue), and also to try to bring back industries and force other countries to absorb murkoid fiscal irresponsibility. No tax on the rich, in fact more tax breaks to the rich and poor to make up for the higher prices caused by the tariffs. Also kick out the illegal workers to try to make wages higher to also compensate for the higher consumer prices. No subsidies for industries. Democrat plan: tariff only as a way to keep murkoid industries competitive. Complement it with subsidies for industries. Tax the rich to fix the budget deficit and eventually the debt issue. No tax breaks. No kicking out immigrants. Wages will increase with union participation. People used to think that the duality of politics and parties in murka was always going to be about one nationalist and protectionist party versus another internationalist and global trader party. In fact now we have two nationalist, merchantilist, protectionist and industrialist parties, but with little overlap in their policies. When it comes to foreign policies, Trump is a bully against murka's closest allies, but a docile dog when talking with other major powers. Biden on the other hand invented friend-shoring to try to bribe the silence and support of its main allies about his use of subsidies. In other words, Trump is more honest and upfront about his america fist policies and trying to make other countries absorb murka's fiscal irresponsibility. Biden tried to bribe. Trump's use of tariffs has three dimensions, as I have already explained. This makes tariffs very powerful but also a very rigid tool for him. Another final issue is the murka's internal geoeconomics. Traditionally you had one urban-industrial protectionist party vs one rural-agrarian internationalist party. We still have republican sea vs democrat archipelago. But now the two parties are industrialists. The old rust belt is dominated by democrat-connected labor unions. Southern states managed to pull some industries to themselves in these last decades with right-to-work laws which make labor unions ineffective there. So, one thing that needs answering (probably in the future) is how the republican party will consolidate power among industrial areas. Also, where will farmers end up. Do you think this system of two industrialist and protectionist parties is stable?

I fucking hate it when videogames get halberds and pikemen wrong. Civilization 5 and Stronghold do that. Not only do they literally call halberdiers pikemen, they also settle them in normal middle age when in fact they came in 13th and 14 century. On top of that, real pikemen came even later than halberds at as early as 14th century. Imbecile game devs ...

Orange man was standing next UK censor man reporter women asked censor man they say US is christian country, is UK christian country? also about people arrested for social media post Censor man says 'he was christened and all live at christian church' moves on to say UK loves free speech but not people 'advocating pedophilia...suicide' he kinda pauses then repeat these two things as if he thought better against including racism

is google AI based?