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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.

  • Kristi Noem says people should be prepared to prove US citizenship

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  • Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

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  • There isn't exactly a huge market of people to trade Nobel Prizes to in exchange for political favors, so it's not like a better option is likely to come along.

  • I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is not telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?

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  • Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.

  • Iceland demands answers from US after Trump ally cracks 52nd state joke

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  • He manages to also insult Canada with that joke too, by assuming they'll get past 51.

  • Rep. Don Bacon says House could impeach Trump if U.S. invades Greenland

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  • "COULD???"

  • Owner Of Adult Store Stunned After Pentagon Demands She Stop Shipping Butt Plugs To Soldiers In Middle East

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  • It's pretty standard for American commenters on social media to unthinkingly assume that American law is somehow "universal." I guess that's the level that the American government in general has descended to at this point.

  • Germany, other NATO allies sending troops to Greenland amid Trump threats

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  • I see utterly selfish people taking advantage of each other. I see no "loyalty" beyond the immediate moment.

  • Germany, other NATO allies sending troops to Greenland amid Trump threats

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  • Yeah. I get uncomfortable shades of the "stab in the back" propaganda from interwar Germany, where the Nazis blamed everyone except Germany for World War I. If the Americans can't understand that they've done this to themselves then they're never going to recover from it.

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • Yeah, at the time Voyager came out I considered it the worst of the Star Trek live action series. It's since been surpassed many times over for that title, but there's still a lot of episodes that are not very good individually and the overall premise of the show was wasted.

    That said, there are a few very good episodes, and a couple of the characters were really enjoyable. The Doctor and 7 of 9 became some of my favourite Star Trek characters across the franchise.

    Unfortunately Janeway was an inconsistent psychopath and Chakotay was a block of wood. So they had to struggle against the background.

    It's been too long for my memory to be able to dredge up a recommended viewing list of the best episodes to focus on, but perhaps you could scrounge one up on the web somewhere. Voyager was back in the day when series had a lot of episodes and a lot of them were relatively stand-alone so skipping over a bunch likely won't hurt if you pick them well.

  • 'I don't know how he's alive': RFK Jr. comments on Trump's diet in new interview

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  • There is a tiny shred of logic to it. Trump fears being poisoned, and if he eats food that is specifically prepared for him then that's a perfect opportunity for someone to target him. Whereas if he gets takeout from a random drive-through there's no way a poisoner would know ahead of time which hamberder to contaminate.

    That tiny shred of logic is buried under a mountain of idiocy, of course.

  • What are your thoughts on the mass implementation of AI?

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  • As much as people on the Fediverse or Reddit or whatever other social media bubble we might be in like to insist "nobody wants this" or that AI is useless, it actually is useful and a lot of people do want it. I'm already starting to see the hard-line AI hate softening, more people are going "well maybe this application of AI is okay." This will increase as AI becomes more useful and ubiquitous.

    There's likely a lot of AI companies and products starting up right now that aren't going to make it. That's normal when there's a brand new technology, nobody knows what the "winning" applications are going to be yet so they're throwing investment at everything to see what sticks. Some stuff will indeed stick, AI isn't going to go away. Like how the Internet stuck around after the Dot Com bust cleared out the chaff. But I'd be rather careful about what I invest in myself.

    I'm not a fan of big centralized services and subscriptions, which unfortunately a lot of the American AI companies are driving for. But fortunately an unlikely champion of AI freedom has arisen in the form of... China? Of all places. They've been putting out a lot of really great open-weight models, focusing hard on getting them to train and run well on more modest hardware, and releasing the research behind it all as well. Partly that's because they're a lot more compute-starved than Western companies and have no choice but to do it that way, but partly just to stick their thumb in those companies' eyes and prevent them from establishing dominance. I know it's self-interest, of course. Everything is self-interest. But I'll take it because it's good for my interests too.

    As for how far the technology improves? Hard to say. But I've been paying attention to the cutting edge models coming out, and general adoption is still way behind what those things are capable of. So even if models abruptly stopped improving tomorrow there's still years of new developments that'll roll out just from making full use of what we've got now. Interesting times ahead.

  • Germany, other NATO allies sending troops to Greenland amid Trump threats

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  • Trump is nobody's agent. He is a demented narcissistic psychopath who craves attention and adulation. Since he has no understanding of love or friendship, the only tools he has at his disposal to get it is power and dominance. He wants to be a "winner", which to him means he needs to make everyone else around him "losers." By hurting them, by degrading them, by taking away their trappings of wealth.

    There are other people who try to use Trump, because he's very easy to manipulate when you understand him. He has no principles or standards other than those I described, so there's lots of obvious buttons to press. The problem is that none of those buttons stay pressed. Even if Trump had the mental capacity to remember things from day to day it wouldn't matter to him because no deal or position he holds lasts longer than the moment he thinks of some way to get something "better." Trump can be manipulated in the same manner that a handful of mud can be manipulated. It won't stay in the shape you put it in and it's constantly slipping through your fingers.

    Putin may think that he's responsible for Trump's actions, but only by coincidence and never in any sort of long-term strategic sense. And the reason Trump is in charge of America is because the Americans wanted him to be.

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  • Destroying the shadow fleet is something the US military is doing, and I'm sure trump is doing everything he can to drag his feet.

    Trump has been bragging about seizing those ships. He's not dragging his feet. You really think Trump wouldn't be raging his head off and firing generals left and right if the US military was doing that stuff against his wishes?

    by having the US seize control it doesn't substantially reduce Russian influence, since Russia now has a much stronger hold over American politicians than back when Venezuela was a vital proxy.

    You're delusional. And I say that as a Canadian who has absolutely no love of America. Venezuela was dependent on Russia for its own defense, America isn't.

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  • America lost a bunch in World War II. Since then they've been exceedingly careful not to risk losing them, always putting them up against foes that couldn't hit back. Both because they're expensive, of course, but also to cultivate the very myth that you're falling for - that American naval power is "invincible."

    It's not.

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  • Often called "tripwire forces" when they were NATO troops stationed in Eastern Europe. Their purpose is to force the adversary to kill some people before it can take any territory, ensuring that they can't simply make it a fait accompli and hope there will be no further repercussions.

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  • I wish people would quit saying this. If Trump was a Russian asset, why would he be seizing Russia's shadow fleet and destroying Russia's influence in Venezuela? Why would the CIA continue to give the Ukrainians targeting information and why are American weapons still flowing to Ukraine via European allies?

    Trump is not a Russian agent. He is simply America manifest. He is selfish, narcissistic, and always looking to blame other people for his own failings. Putin may have given Trump a little boost because Putin figured the outcome would be beneficial to him overall, and Trump has a weird submissive man-crush on Putin like he does on any other authoritarian who Trump secretly wishes he could be, but in the end he's not helped Putin and now Putin is irrelevant. This has nothing to do with Putin any more. Russia is a fading regional power on its last dying gasps before China takes it over as a client state.

    America is doing this of its own volition. They can't blame everything on Putin.

  • Nearly a third of Canadians believe U.S. may try to invade Canada: poll

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  • Like how Charlie Kirk's followers all came to their senses when he got shot?

  • Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'

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  • Those would be the Epstein Files. This is still nice to have out there, though. Governments should fear their people.

  • A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

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  • I have a sneaking suspicion that the vast majority of the people raging about AIs scraping their data are not raging about it being done inefficiently.