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FaceDeer

@ FaceDeer @fedia.io

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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.

  • Are you people all bots?

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  • If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.

  • Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark

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  • Oh no, the orange toddler would get angry?

    How angry do we need to make him before blood vessels start popping? Would be such a shame if that happened.

  • If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?

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  • Wouldn't be the first time in history that a major power started a war and then promptly proceeded to decisively lose it.

  • YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos

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  • Youtube isn't the way you think it should be, though.

  • If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?

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  • Currently there are 12,331. These weapons are divided up among many nations, and only a fraction of them are actually "ready to launch" at any given time. If launched most of them will be targeted at military targets, which are often located in remote places - silos in the middle of nowhere, carrier groups out in the ocean, forward military bases or stockpiles, and so forth. They wouldn't be fired with intent to "wipe out" humanity. There would be entire continents that nobody bothers firing at - why waste precious nukes on countries that are uninvolved in the conflict?

    Nuclear winter is no longer thought to be as bad as the most extreme predictions from back in the 1960s. And even with those extreme predictions it still wouldn't lead to human extinction. Humans are an incredibly robust species. We don't need infrastructure to survive in harsh conditions. Inuit survived in the arctic for thousands of years without anything fancy, and you're not going to see conditions that harsh everywhere on Earth regardless.

  • The second PR has just been merged into OpenChaos

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  • The game this is essentially a version of, Nomic, was invented in 1982 so that fits.

  • If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?

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  • By some standards WWIII is already in progress. And no, America isn't winning. Its power and influence are contracting rapidly.

  • If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?

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  • I assume you're worried about nuclear war? It'll be bad, but there simply aren't enough nukes in existence to pose a threat to humanity as a species.

  • YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos

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  • "Why did they take that feature away? I was busy abusing it!"

  • Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom issue joint statement on Donald Trump's Greenland tariffs

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  • And in the meantime we're signing a bunch of things that hurt Trump just as much, if not more; mutually-beneficial trade agreements with a bunch of other countries and trading blocs.

  • I need help to block a data center...

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  • If you include all of these requirements in your prompt to ChatGPT it'll probably do a good job keeping the response succinct. A lot of people think its overly-verbose style is somehow inherent but you can simply tell it what style of email you're going for.

  • Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act to clear convoy protests unjustified, appeal court rules

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  • As much disdain as I have for those convoy protesters, I did wonder at the time "why not simply arrest them and impound their trucks with normal police actions first? Surely deliberately blocking roads like this is already illegal under ordinary laws." Only if that doesn't work would there be a bigger issue at hand.

    Seems like my thought was correct.

  • Adam Kadyrov ‘In Intensive Care’ After Car Crash, Reports Claim

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  • It's okay, he's apparently in pretty dire straits too. His son was supposed to be his replacement, so having them both go out at the same time is even better.

  • New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic

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  • Oh I'm well aware of how weak denazification was. I'm saying I doubt the US will even get that much.

  • Doug Ford slams Canada’s 'lopsided' new EV deal with China

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  • Does this mean that John Tesla is a good guy? I'm confused.

  • Doug Ford slams Canada’s 'lopsided' new EV deal with China

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  • It's what representative democracy is about. It would be nice if they'd recognize a little more that their personal fiefdoms would be forfeit if the US annexed us, though.

  • Doug Ford slams Canada’s 'lopsided' new EV deal with China

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  • An established dictatorship that you can actually make a deal with and expect it to be respected, and that isn't currently threatening to annex us with military force.

  • New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic

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  • Nuremberg only happened because Germany was utterly defeated and occupied by foreign powers. I'm not optimistic America will have a reckoning like that.

  • Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland

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  • Wait to see if anyone actually caves.