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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

  • Scientist from all over lemmy. What is or was the most scientifically correct movie or at least made an honorable attemt?

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  • Oh, I wasn't disagreeing or thinking you were saying otherwise, I just wanted to make clear that it was more than just the woo woo that was unrealistic. The "love is a force that transcends causality" thing was obvious but the actual physics stuff was just as silly for the most part.

    For example, if the black hole's accretion disk was putting out enough light and heat to keep orbiting planets habitable, then trying to fly down to the event horizon would be basically the same as trying to land on the Sun. But the plot needed that to happen so down they went.

  • Iran state media confirms killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US-Israeli missile strikes

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  • Ah, less than a day into the fight and Trump is already frantically looking for a way to TACO.

  • Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump

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  • The real problem for Anthropic is the clearly vindictive "supply chain threat" designation they were immediately slapped with, which prohibits the Defense Department from buying services from anyone who uses Anthropic's services themselves.

    This can be contested in court, at least, and is almost sure to be ruled on in Anthropic's favor since it's so blatantly unjustified. But that might not matter. It'll take a while (costing contracts and momentum) and once the ruling is made I wouldn't bet on the Trump administration obeying it anyway.

  • Iran state media confirms killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US-Israeli missile strikes

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  • They've got the tiger by the tail now, then. Either the US and Israel pursue this all the way through to full regime change, or when they finally withdraw they're going to be left with an implacable enemy for generations.

    I'm sure Trump thought this all through in thorough detail, though, and has a long-term plan.

  • NDP statement on Iran bombings

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  • "Negotiation" can be an attempt to come to a deal, or it can be an attempt to keep Trump distracted until some different jangly keys come along to occupy his attention.

  • Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window

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  • Biden wasn't on the ballot.

  • Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window

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  • This kind of binary "the moment you do something even slightly against my views you're a totally evil villain" thinking is what leads to the sort of ultra-partisan mess that the US has fallen into.

    I don't like Carney's position on this matter. That doesn't mean he's instantly a US toady.

  • Trump says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead after US-Israeli strikes

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  • Sure would be a shame if that particular leopard ate that particular fat orange face.

  • NDP statement on Iran bombings

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  • Unfortunately Carney is stuck in a harder position. The NDP is free to make statements like this because they have no real significance, but Carney is still trying to thread the needle with the Americans on various trade matters so he can't go straight to negative statements.

    I don't like it, this is the first time I've found myself seriously disagreeing with something Carney said, but at the same time I can't really fault him too badly. Ultimately it's more important what governments do rather than what they say, so we'll see if Canada continues to stay firmly out of this one.

  • Scientist from all over lemmy. What is or was the most scientifically correct movie or at least made an honorable attemt?

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  • There's an old, obscure one that's a favourite of mine from childhood; Plymouth. It's a made-for-TV movie and had a pretty low budget, but aside from a quick excuse about everyone having "magnetic boots" so that they didn't have to simulate lunar gravity all the time they kept everything very well grounded in realism IMO.

  • Scientist from all over lemmy. What is or was the most scientifically correct movie or at least made an honorable attemt?

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  • Unfortunately the visualization was the only thing it got right, there was so much other stuff about the black hole and the setting around it that it got wrong that I would not rank Interstellar as a remotely realistic movie. It really bothers me how much of a pass it gets for its huge volume of nonsense just because one or two things looked realistic.

  • Scientist from all over lemmy. What is or was the most scientifically correct movie or at least made an honorable attemt?

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  • Both the Martian and Hail Mary depend heavily on the "one freebie fantastical element" thing that a lot of science fiction uses to get their plots going. They're still better than most others, so they might meet the "honorable attempt" criterion, but IMO they shouldn't be at the top.

  • It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

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  • OP provided no context whatsoever.

    Over the years there have been so many conversations I've been in online where someone asked something where the answer was trivially found with Google or some other search engine, but the conversation was interesting so I would Google it and provide the answer as part of my response. Is that blockworthy too?

  • For Trump, the Iran Attack Is the Ultimate War of Choice

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  • Yes, surely that's why Trump chose now to do this. Not any of the other giant pile of scandals he's trying to distract American attention from, or to further his plans to use a "state of emergency" to excuse various constitution-breaking actions he wants to take at home.

  • It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

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  • I seem to recall that the Fediverse was keen to bring in Reddit refugees. Only ones that agree with the existing preferred opinions, I guess?

  • It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

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  • You don't have to use it. Other people who do find value in it use it.

  • It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

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  • I'm pointing out that people find excuses to hate on AI regardless of what you do with it. Makes it pointless to compromise or otherwise try to satisfy them.

  • BREAKING: Israel Reportedly Believes Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Has Been Killed

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  • Yeah, two awful authoritarian regimes are currently fighting and one of them is worse, but that doesn't make the other one good.

  • Carney backs U.S. air strikes on Iran

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  • The first major issue that I've been 180 degrees opposed to him on. Unfortunate.