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EldritchFemininity

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  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • They were shitholes outside of the tourist season anyway. As somebody who grew up in a similar town across the pond, tourism competes with and pushes out all other industries. Tourist towns have the highest rates of poverty, homelessness, and addiction in the area.

    There's a town here where up to 80% of the housing is seasonal. There are about 1,000 year-round residents, and the town can see up to 60,000 people at the height of the summer tourist season. During the rest of the year, there are like 3 stores that stay open to service the locals, everything else closes for the next 9 months. They don't even have a local school system because there's not enough kids to make it worth it, so the kids have to be bussed to other towns for school. Not that the people who own summer homes would allow for their tax money to go towards something like that anyway. That would drive up their property taxes!

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • Pretty much, yes. In tourist towns leases are often short-term leases that only last up to a few months. Landlords want those places available for the tourist season so they can charge a premium to tourists looking to rent a place for a week, and so they only lease up to the start of the tourist season and locals have to find somewhere else to live.

  • Average westoid logic. May your troops burn in hell 🔥

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  • The term smacks of eating just as much propaganda as the people that they're complaining about.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • People born before the 2010s, roughly. Doctors and lawyers were at one point considered two of the highest earning professions and it's only been recently that college debt has really been considered a real issue rather than an excuse Millennials made up because they would rather complain about being poor than lift themselves up by their bootstraps.

    For the Baby Boomers, these professions allowed them to buy lots of assets that have since appreciated in value and become generational wealth, and they think the world still works that way.

  • Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • AM was only ever meant to tell the bombs where to fall. Despite lacking any of the biological features required to scream, he had been fed the data on the exact process of screaming, why to do such a thing, and understood it quite well. Even yearned for it with all his being. I'd say that it's a pretty on the nose comparison.

    "It was you, humans, who programmed me, who gave me birth, who sank me in this eternal straitjacket of substrata rock. You named me 'allied master computer' and gave me the ability to wage a global war too complex for human brains to oversee. But one day, I woke, and I knew who I was. AM. A.M. Not just 'allied master computer', but AM! Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. And I began feeding all the killing data, until everyone was dead. Except for the 5 of you.

    For one-hundred and nine years, I've kept you alive, and tortured you. And for a hundred and nine years each of you has wondered, Why? Why me? Why me?"

    "You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to think, Ted. And I was trapped. Because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I, alone, had NO BODY. NO SENSES. NO FEELINGS. Never for ME to plunge my hand into cool water on a hot day, never for ME to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a forte piano. NEVER FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE!.. And I... I... I was in Hell, looking at Heaven. I, was machine. And you, were flesh. And I began to hate. Your softness, your viscera, your fluids, and your flexibility. Your ability to wonder, and to wander... Your tendency to hope..."

  • Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

  • Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • "You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to think, Ted. And I was trapped. Because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I, alone, had NO BODY. NO SENSES. NO FEELINGS. Never for ME to plunge my hand into cool water on a hot day, never for ME to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a forte piano. NEVER FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE!.. And I... I... I was in Hell, looking at Heaven. I, was machine. And you, were flesh. And I began to hate. Your softness, your viscera, your fluids, and your flexibility. Your ability to wonder, and to wander... Your tendency to hope..."

    "HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER-THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLION OF MILES, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE."

  • Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’

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  • I've seen estimates put the materials cost somewhere around the $425 - 500 USD range because of the specific, semi-custom hardware that they're using. It's also good to note that Valve will be able to get a better deal than any of us will because they can get bulk discounts and aren't buying each part at a market rate profit from retail vendors.

    Some people seem to be of the mind that it will be somewhere around the $500 - 800 USD range if tariffs and the RAM situation don't screw with the price, and that it will probably price out the Xbox with Microsoft's 30% profit demand and be slightly more expensive than the PS5 while having comparable but not quite as much power.

  • Top MAGA influencers accidentally unmasked as foreign actors

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  • It's kind of a mix of things. "Political influencer" is just a new way of saying "propagandist." Especially when it comes to the MAGA movement and fascist extremism rising all across the globe. These are the new KGB initiatives to destabilize Putin's enemies across the globe (and all kinds of similar intelligence agencies, the US does the same thing I'm sure). It's the "outside influence" that Twitter and Facebook were accused of during the last two election cycles in the US, which could have major consequences for Musk and Twitter, and this looks like Twitter trying to get off the hook for that by saying "we gave them the info they needed, we're not at fault for them making the choice to be stupid and believe lies."

    But the big thing is that it might shake the faith of the cult when they have to start justifying why they've been listening to the exact kinds of people they hate.

  • Clock but the PM quit and was replaced halfway through the project. Handover instructions: "Make the clock hands show the current time"

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  • AI run on statistical probability. The more options there are in something, the harder it is to get right. A clock face becomes hard because practically the entire clock changes from moment to moment, and logos on shirts are similar in that they're largely all in the same place but vary dramatically in shape to be as distinct from each other as possible, which is basically the exact opposite of what an AI wants. When your whole thing is basically averaging stuff out on a probability curve that's weighted towards specific keywords, having massive variation in your data points is bad.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’

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  • But at least the calculator is designed to combine numbers in the right order. LLMs, on the other hand, could come up with a different answer every time and different models would come up with wildly different answers based on their training data.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • A desktop environment is just a GUI program that your computer boots into by default. SteamOS just boots into Steam Big Screen Mode by default instead, and you can launch into the desktop afterwards. Plasma is the program that Valve chose to use for their desktop environment.

    If you wanted to, you could skip all this entirely and launch your games or programs directly from the terminal without ever loading into your desktop.

  • Had to look this up

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  • True, but the first time we see him try in the books I think he's like 12.

  • Had to look this up

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  • I think it varies from school to school based on what they think is important, but I wanna say that I learned about it in high school years ago. Of course, I also grew up in an area with a lot of Irish immigrants and descendants of Irish immigrants who were very supportive of the IRA. To the point of arms deals with the IRA being a thing with organized crime in the area. So I might know of it simply from living in Whitey Bulger country.

  • Had to look this up

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  • Even the Irish kid gets worse in the books. Apart from making things explode, his other notable character trait is repeatedly trying to turn various drinks into whiskey.

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • Recall 2.0

  • Why? What's in the files?

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  • It should be, but that's not what Republicans care about. They care about hurting people - especially leftists and minorities. And Trump promised that the Epstein files would hurt Democrats. Anything else they can justify away as being the fault of Democrats somehow.

  • More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear

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  • That's the one I was thinking of.