They are such a parody, it’s incredible.

Except it’s not, because it’s about loyalty to the leader, not any kind of efficiency or sense.

This is quite literally the stuff that results in revolutions. People can tolerate in l inequality only up to a certain level. Even some ultra rich can see the situation can’t remain stable.

People have literately been killed by “police” in the USA while trying to protest and do something.

I’m with you, it’s not a fucking competition, we’ve got to fight to unite. And I say this a someone who’s French.

Either I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, or you don’t understand how politics and organising works.

I don’t know, but guessing they connected it to wifi because the thing asked / said it was part of the set up process.

Most people don’t know about the garbage fire nature of connected devices.

I’ll echo something others have said in reaction to other drinks, but it sounds like you’ve not had good champagne then.

Every concert helps fund the war. Here are some who chose to go.

How? There’s no info, the press page explains nothing.

I understand that as a Ukrainian, the guy behind the website hates Russia with a passion, but if you’re claiming people are complicit with war and war crimes for playing sometimes one concert, I’d expect an argument that explains how.

Meh. Can we have the same meme but with old rich men?

If you want to represent the generations that fucked the climate up for gain, let’s pick folks who look a bit more like those who did.

The original steam machine.

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Catch and release fishing is all cruel, it’s not like a hook going through a mouth is not going to be painful, risk getting infected, etc. It’s not the harmless practice some try to make it to be. Just leave the fish be.

That being said I agree with you on the whole.

Thank you for taking the time to explain. Thoroughness and nuance are often leaking when it comes to discussing LLMs, worryingly especially in mostly anti-AI spheres.

Right? Everyone knows the military industrial complex is woke as hell. That’s basically it’s reason for existing in the first place

I think beyond all the infuriating, progressive-baiting shit, the unabashed self -congratulatory satisfaction that he can say nasty closed-minded shit because now he’s in charge, the crux of it is that he and his kind don’t understand war, they don’t understand military operations and they don’t understand how these things are actually won. They are cosplaying army with about as much subtlety as 19 year olds out of high school.

And so they are doing just what you pointed out: making it about warriors when modern wars are won mostly through logistics.

Have we gotten to the point where we have to constantly be in a parasocial dialogue with our computers?

No. You don’t have to use the horrible crap from the megacorps. DuckDuckGo exists. Kagi exists. Ecosia exists. Alternatives to all this shit exists. The more people use them, the less power Google etc. have.

They are broadly the same as earlier computers.

We can use them to do certain things faster that would take horribly long by band otherwise or may not even be doable.

I know it sounds like i’m taking the piss, but i’m not. We need to start reframing things back into simple terms. Remember why we want these things, use them for what they’re good at, make sure those capacities are built with people in mind (Free and open source can help).

OK, support your rant with facts or delete this. Seriously, biological essentialism, “these people are inherently bad”, that’s essentially what racists will say. What the hell.

The Expanse. Where’s the fucking Expanse?

One show on the list is actually not in English: The Bureau (original title: Le bureau des légendes)

Excellent spy and geo political drama/thriller following agents of the French DGSE.

Number one, in a different dimension.