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Soleos

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  • China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law

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  • I think part of growing up in western media and feeling the decline of it, part of it is certainly seeing ongoing erosion of norms and positive institutions, but a good amount of it is also from disillusionment and learning more about how things have always been, just less apparent. The perceived reality of the western world is much more compromised and complex than when you're a kid, doesn't mean the truly good parts aren't good.

  • China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law

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  • I mean, they learned from the best superpower of the last half century. At least they haven't gotten to exporting liberation by force stage of the playbook quite yet.

  • China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law

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  • Note how the response is no longer along the lines of "your record is much worse than the USA's"

  • U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

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  • The how does matter. You can appreciate the removal of a despot and still oppose unilateral regime change by force--especially one so explicitly motivated by resource exploitation. This is very different from the UN-sanctioned and NATO-led intervention that deposed Gaddafi.

  • U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

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  • Would you describe China attacking North Korea or Cambodia or another SE Asian dictatorship to depose their leadership as "accidentally doing something right"?

  • Make it make sense

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  • Part of the reason why it may seem like there's little paying user demand is that you may be thinking of demand in terms of individual consumers as the source of demand. However there is also the world of B2B, where I imagine the bulk of demand is coming from. Business requirements for service tend to be more extensive and they will pay for it.

  • Fuck AI.

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  • Right, but in the same spirit, we're not just talking about LLMs. If we're being accurate, the common interface we're used to with ChatGPT or Gemini, they are a system of different models including LLMs and other models for images, or sound.

    If we're talking AI in movies and music, besides LLMs for writing, we're mainly concerned with diffusion models

    If we're talking AI for wearables... That's usually more on the sensor/classification side of ML, so it's not even generative.

  • Australia announces gun buyback scheme in wake of Bondi attack

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  • It's a common mistake to assume that gun buybacks are being proposed as a solution. The solutions being proposed are a set of laws/policies to tighten gun controls, like who's allowed to buy guns, what guns are allowed to be owned and how many, improving checks and mitigating newer loopholes.

    Tighter gun controls are shown to reduce mass shootings. In Australia, the laws have loosened a lot since the big wave of gun laws in 1996. The buyback program is a consequence of bringing people in line with the new laws.

    The realistic goal is not to make it absolutely impossible for a motivated extremist with lots of resources to plan and commit a mass shooting, it's to make it much harder to prepare to do and to create more opportunities to notice their preparation.

  • Word.

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  • Like I said, I agree it sucks. I've had the exact same thought many times.

  • Word.

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  • I agree lots of things about word sucks. But FYI single page landscape is achieved by using two section breaks. It's not ideal, but its somewhat understandable given how styles are prioritized. I've tried others that work well, but they also suffer on things that word does well that we take for granted.

  • Jack White has spoken

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  • Holy fuck, I think I conflated this with his BrownU comment, I saw some headlines referring to this one... But Jesus I didn't know it was that bad.

  • Wish I was her

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  • Some people who face reasonable trade-offs in doing so have a choice. Others who face unreasonable trade-offs have less of a choice. It's usually quite difficult to tell when it's a stranger you're overhearing without making assumptions.

  • It will trickle down any second now

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  • True, but if Elon gave you $1 million in Tesla stock you could still easily sell it, be taxed on it, and use the remainder to buy a lot of bread.

  • That's interesting

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  • Why did you have to draw my attention to this

  • Women's rights vary

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  • The counter-claim is not that racism is exclusively a men's issue. The counter-claim is that the claim "men's rights don't vary by state" is false, as evidenced an example of how men's rights do vary by state. The implied part that should have been explicit is that the way racism manifests from state to state also has gendered aspects, with some disproportionately affecting women (e.g. hair/dress policing in the workplace) but some also disproportionately affecting men (e.g. incarceration). That is to say, racism and sexism are intersectional. Another example might be how custody rights typically vary from state to state often unjustly disfavoring the father, given all other things being equal.

    I'd suggest that this argument does not go against the underlying position of OP that "patriarchy bad", rather it corrects OP to highlight how institutional sexism typically falls along normative/conservative conceptions of gender for men too. That is to say "patriarchy bad mostly for women, but also bad for men too".

  • Me scrolling through this community after blocking all the political posts

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  • What do you mean when you say "political"?

  • Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine

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  • I think it echoes that video of those two Apache crews blowing up civilians in Baghdad and then targetting people who came to help the injured. One of the most chilling parts of that video was probably how casually routine it all seemed. Can only imagine what footage existed that never got leaked.

  • Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine

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  • I agree, I'm separating the justification of the engagement from how they label people. So the parallel I'm drawing only has to do with how they loosely label people as part of a group based on broad characteristics once they decide a group can be a valid military target, i.e. "insurgents" or "narco-terrorists".

    Declaring drug smugglers as valid military targets is certainly new, but ordering strikes on military targets on the thin rationale of "hey, they look like the group we said we can hit" is not new for the US military.

    If it's not obvious, I disagree with both of these issues.

  • Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine

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  • I agree, but it's also consistent with how the US operates. Through Afghanistan's and Iraq, anyone appearing as a military-aged male in the vicinity of an operation (e.g. a village where insurgents were shooting from) was labeled an enemy combatant and treated as valid targets.