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Red_October

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  • The Yin/Yang of SciFi

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  • Just different approaches to the trolley problem.

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  • Well the kid definitely can't enjoy life now that his mom caught him and put him on blast in front of the entire nation.

  • New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why

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  • The Engineer was also told they would get a bonus if they could make maintenance more common and more expensive under the guise of improved technology.

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • Investors and venture capitalists fronting money and riding the Hype-Go-Round, but when the music stops and the lights go out someone's going to be out a shitload of money.

  • Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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  • The problem isn't one of motivated learners being forced to drag their heels amidst their unmotivated peers.

    The problem is that the core function of LLMs, the whole basis for their existence, is completely and entirely truth-agnostic. Not only do they not know what is the truth and what is not, they don't even know what the difference is. LLMs are very good at guessing what word looks like it should come next, they can make very convincing statements, they can be very persuasive, but those words don't MEAN anything to the machine and they are made without any consideration for accuracy.

    They are literally making everything up on the basis of whether or not it sounds good, and every crackpot bullshit conspiracy theory from flat earth dumbshittery to very sincere-sounding arguments that birds aren't real have been included in the training data. That all linguistically SOUNDS fine, so to an LLM it's fair game!

    And even curating your training data to ONLY contain things like textbooks wouldn't cure the problem, because LLMs just aren't capable of knowing what those words mean. It's why they can't do even basic Math, the one thing Computers have been incredible at!

    Using an LLM as an actual teacher is genuinely worse than no education at all, because it will just create a generation that, instead of knowing nothing, will very confidently be wrong all the time.

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • The vehicle, certified for airworthiness and flight-tested over 170 hours with more than 500 takeoffs and landings, is now headed for mass production.

    Jesus fuck please tell me that's a typo and they left some zeros off. Your average commercial pilot has more than that before any airline is even willing to consider hiring them, that is absolutely not sufficient testing.

    Still, early adopters may face bureaucratic turbulence. Potential buyers must be both licensed drivers and certified pilots.

    No shit. And that is never going to change, becoming a certified pilot is a lot fuckin harder than getting a driver's license, and for very good reasons. If some BMW-driving cunt can't even be arsed to use his turn signal do you really want to ease the "bureaucratic turbulence" just so he can fuck up and crash into a packed airliner? These things still have to use runways, the people flying them still need to know how to behave themselves at airports, how to identify and avoid restricted airspace, how to communicate with ATC and how to behave if (let's be honest, when) they get Intercepted.

    And all of this so you can have a car that's worse at being a car, and an airplane that's worse at being an airplane, but hey at least you won't have to book a rental car at your destination airport, which I remind you they still have to use.

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  • Elon really hoping that he can skate by without legal consequences as long as he just pretends he didn't actually bribe voters.

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    What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?

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  • Concern troll is, as I understand it, more directly faking concern for a person. Things like "Are you okay? Do you need to talk to someone?"because you rebutted their argument, or "Suicide/self harm are never the answer" because you posted an opinion they disagree with. Sometimes it even rises to the point of reporting comments as self harm in a way that gets an automated or admin response.

  • Don't look a bribe horse in the mouth

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  • With this administration you don't need listening devices. If they didn't already add you to the group text you can just slide a cheeseburger across the table and ask.

  • Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?

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  • To start, it's a large scale demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect. They obviously understand very little about the law, if anything, but they think they understand one loophole and the sense of understanding breeds confidence. When you understand nothing, the feeling that you now understand something can be a powerful one.

    Follow that up with a conspiracy-theorist's mindset and it starts to make more sense. The SovCit thinks they understand this loophole, but that They don't want to allow it. Who are They? Pick one. The Deep State, Corporate Elites, Rogue Judges, whoever it is that the SovCit feels has the power and will to ignore the rules just to personally thwart that SovCit's stunningly clever application of the law. Now, their case isn't failing because literally everything they thought they understood about the law is wrong, it's because that Judge is willfully ignoring the law in an abuse of power specifically intended to put a stop to this. It's not that the SovCit was wrong to think their signature on legal documents was meaningless because they wrote "Rights Reserved" beside it, the Deep State just doesn't want people to know that's how you avoid consequences!

    Finally, wrap it all up with mythical "experts" and a self propagating network. One person trying all that shit alone might realize they don't actually know what they're doing, but they'll select their contacts to surround themselves with people who will reassure them that if the first letter of the name on that legal document is capitalized it actually means a shadow-account created at birth and not the biological person. They'll get support to help them overcome their doubts, fed by rumors of a friend of a friend who totally got it to work, or someone who got away with a warning on a traffic stop because they didn't recognize the cop's jurisdiction, or a friend's cousin who has been using a fake "Private" license plate for months and has never been puled over. None of these experts materialize and provide solid, actionable information in a crisis, but the rumors and support are enough to keep any doubts at bay.

  • Republican senator asks for more tariffs

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  • Just really wants to get his nose up diaper Don's ass to make sure he's orange daddy's favorite.

  • Woman says security guard at Liberty Hotel in Boston confronted her in bathroom, asked to prove gender

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  • That's just it, these pricks who keep throwing a fit about who uses which bathroom are really much more interested in hating transgender people than they are about protecting anyone. You can point out stats about who is actually assaulting who and how it's happening, and it won't change a thing, because protection was never the point.

    The cruelty is the point.

  • JD Vance jokes about deporting tourists attending 2026 World Cup

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  • No morals, but maybe self preservation isn't too much to expect.

  • What is this for? (Wrong answers only)

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  • Soup bowl.

  • The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.

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  • The Sheridan was the size of the Sheridan, and they want the transportation capability of the Sheridan, but the Sheridan itself was also a wildly unsuccessful tank. It was also fully reliant on the MGM-51 Shillelagh missile, which also was not good. Nobody actually wants the Sheridan back, they want something they can transport like it.

  • Could wastewater plants simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?

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  • I am aware yes. It was not a stupid question, but the answer was No. What strayed into Stupid territory was people trying to act like the simple physics of heating up water will at some point change enough to change the answer.

  • Could wastewater plants simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?

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  • And it's a stupid point. Just to power this one single endeavor we would have to increase the TOTAL NATIONAL POWER OUTPUT by more than 11 times. For this one thing. That's not just a new invention, that's not suddenly figuring out how to make Thorium-based nuclear reactors work, that's not squeezing a few percent more in efficiency out of Solar or figuring out how to recycle wind turbines or investing in pumped hydroelectric storage. It would take a literally world changing development. More than an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more output. For ONE project. If you can make that kind of leap in energy output then investing it all into this wildly inefficient and dubiously effective method of cleaning up waste water is the least of your concerns. That kind of energy output is the stuff of post-scarcity utopian dreams, and your plan is still to just use it all to pressurize and superheat water to get rid of SOME of the pollutants in it.

    It's a stupid idea.

  • Could wastewater plants simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?

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  • Which doesn't change the fact that it would require more than 11 times the total energy production of the entire country. If the solution to a problem requires some miracle technology that increases energy production by more than an order of magnitude, it's not so much a solution as it is a fanciful dream. When step one is "Solve cold fusion" then it's not a serious solution.

  • Could wastewater plants simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?

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  • Heating water is a matter of physics, not technology. The amount of energy used to increase the temperature of water is literally how the units are defined. Do feel free to make a breakthrough on Fusion power though, I hear it's still only 20 years away.