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And the voices. "Billy..."

"You fucked the whole thing up."

"Billy, your time is up."

"Your time... is up."

  • ‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal

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  • There is a particular type of propaganda account that likes to insert nonsense into the discourse, just to interfere with people who want to have reasonable discussions. This article has more about it -- search for Peter Pomerantsev; he's quoted in that talking about it.

    Of course I'm not saying the person you're replying to is doing that. I for-real genuinely have no idea whether it's that, or they're just a person with some odd ideas about geopolitics, and anyway it would be illegal for me to make that type of speculation.

  • ‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal

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  • It’s about 6 months too late, maybe more, but I’ll take it

    Now maybe try some kind of fuckin consequences maybe, before another 10% of the population of Gaza gets buried under rubble or dies of scurvy or infection or being shot by a sniper

  • ‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal

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  • Oh COME THE FUCK ON

    At this point MBFC bot is just taking the piss on purpose

  • happy non-engineers will slowly transition into sad underpaid engineers

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  • I think the AI code gen tools can be great. But, you have to understand and be able to take what they give you and actually build something coherent with them, because (at least with the current generation) they clearly have pretty firmly bounded limits to what they can generate and figure out.

    I actually think this makes a huge advantage for the previous generation of engineers, who didn't grow up with them. Because we all spent time sitting around creating octree classes and ring buffers, new ones with incredible amounts of repeated effort for every new project, we actually had to learn to be comfortable with reading and understanding and writing code. The muscles had to get strong. I feel like, whether or not AI progresses (soon) to the point that it can make a whole codebase for you and it'll all work, the engineers who grew up having to develop strong coding muscles will always have some level of advantage.

    It's like the old-school carpenters who can knock in a nail with 3 hammer strikes and have everything organized in their minds to have what they need in their tool bag every single morning and not have to go and get something new. You can always learn to use the power tools. You can't go back and force yourself through the time consuming apprenticeship to work out how to work without them, though, once they exist.

  • JD Vance says he was asked in front of his wife if he had 'any secret family' during vice presidential vetting

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  • I mean it is sensible for them to ask about it. It is maybe a little foolish of them to do it in front of his wife.

    The truly hilarious part about it is that he is so stupid that he thinks (a) it’s something unusual or personal to him, instead of just vetting of candidates like they always do (b) he thinks talking to the media about it is a productive way to react to that perceived unusualness.

    All I can do is look upon the GOP and smile and encourage. “Good… good… let the stupidity and incompetence flow through you.”

  • JD Vance says he was asked in front of his wife if he had 'any secret family' during vice presidential vetting

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  • Sounds like somebody’s got a secret family

  • Russian Wagner mercenaries spotted amid Venezuela election protests

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  • Oh yeah no doubt. I just meant that I didn’t think anyone from any of the great fuckin-with-people states was trying to involve themselves, UNTIL all the vatniks on Lemmy started going nuts about it.

  • Blinken: Overwhelming evidence Venezuela opposition won election

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  • Prominent journalist and Russia expert Peter Pomerantsev believes Russia's efforts are aimed at confusing the audience, rather than convincing it. He states that they cannot censor information but can "trash it”

    The effect created by such Internet trolls is not very big, but they manage to make certain forums meaningless because people stop commenting on the articles when these trolls sit there and constantly create an aggressive, hostile atmosphere toward those whom they don’t like. The trolls react to certain news with torrents of mud and abuse. This makes it meaningless for a reasonable person to comment on anything there.

    Fuckin spot on

    I would replace “torrent of mud and abuse” with “torrent of mud and hostile opinions presented in the most argumentative possible way”, but yes pretty much

    Look around this comment section, and then come back and reflect on that “meaningless for a reasonable person to comment on anything”

  • Mysterious "Protect Patients Indiana" group drops $50K on vague health care ads

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  • I mean, if the pure fact of it being completely based on vague good-sounding appeals and devoid of any facts or explanations wasn’t already a giveaway, then:

    reducing red tape

    minimizing government interference in medical decisions

    government regulations will affect your care

    … should also be a massive red flag that this is some sinister patient-killing bullshit.

    There’s also:

    addressing “workforce challenges,”

    if there’s enough staff

    staff shortages and workforce concerns

    So they want the ability to mistreat patients and doctors and nurses, free from government red tape that might interfere with their ability to do so. Got it.

  • Prisoner Deals Stoke Fears of Perverse ‘Incentive’ to Grab Americans

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  • I won’t say I 100% disagree, but it is a hard thing. It’s like the Coast Guard rescuing someone when they ignored every warning and put themselves in danger - it’s like yeah they definitely shouldn’t do that but also if you have the capacity to rescue them, and if you don’t they will literally die on your watch while you sit at home. I get the idea of saying fuck it and going and bailing them out, even if it is costly to do it.

    It’s good for US journalists to go into authoritarian countries and report, just like they do for war zones and other dangerous places. It’s bad for US Marines to hear all this stuff about putting their life on the line for their country when they know they are Marines just sitting in Russian prison and the US isn’t doing a thing to try to get them out (whatever stupidity it was that wound up getting them put there).

    I think it’s also kind of national pride - like it makes us look like chumps if there are Americans sitting in prison that shouldn’t be there and we’re just not doing anything about it.

    Like I say I won’t say I 100% disagree with you but there are other factors involved than just whether or not the person put themselves at risk on their own.

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  • And, that problem of starting from a super-slanted perspective bleeds into their assessment of “factual”. Outlets are dubbed as low factualness if they write true stories that make Israel look bad, if they then take the step of adding to them editorially “and that is why Israel is bad.”

    And, the assessment of reliability is based on picking out randomly anecdotal individual articles / claims and then doing a very substandard job of assessing their truthfulness, so outlets that write a ton of stories or that report breaking stories or that have video content with free-form conversations can get randomly dinged for one dubious thing that someone said on a panel show, or one breaking story from 10 years ago that turned out not to be true in retrospect. Whereas an outlet like sciencetoday where every single article is just sort of half-assedly rewritten from some primary source usually with a few exaggerations or misleading framings in EVERY SINGLE ONE, is perfectly factual, because look, it’s based on a science paper, and those are never wrong.

    And, yes, they’re trying to represent the US political spectrum where the NYT is “left center” but the US political spectrum is so badly tilted that half the stuff has fallen off the table and it’s not even possible to use it as a coherent scale at this point.

    And they don’t rank some smaller outlets where it actually kind of would be useful to have a ranking, because that would be work

    Other than that it’s a fine idea

  • Russian Wagner mercenaries spotted amid Venezuela election protests

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  • Yeah. Venezuela has a TON of oil which makes it of interest to anyone in the world who likes to go around fuckin with people and taking their stuff.

  • Russian Wagner mercenaries spotted amid Venezuela election protests

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  • Personally I don’t think it’s wrong to have it up; there is enough bullshit in the “factual” news that I think it’s okay if people see this interesting thing while still being aware of the context that maybe it is a weird mistake or means nothing at all. I was just - maybe for the first time - sort of actually wanting the bot to tell me more about this news source.

    As a general rule, to me the model of “let me take the information and figure out for myself and based on comments whether I think it is well founded enough to take seriously” is better than “the mods and MBFC bot will keep me safe, anything untrustworthy should come down, anything that does stay up I can just accept uncritically because it’s had a stamp of being definitely trustworthy”.

  • Russian Wagner mercenaries spotted amid Venezuela election protests

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    1. I watched the video and honestly just this one dude standing in this unidentified location for unknown reasons with a patch that maybe looks like a Wagner patch if you zoom in and squint, doesn’t really mean anything.
    2. I had no particular opinion about the Venezuela elections and no idea that anyone in geopolitics cared, until some of the Lemmy propagandists who also don’t like Ukraine started going HARD that Maduro was the best and totally won and González was a tool of US imperialism and Elon Musk.
    3. Fact check bot? Where you at? I sorta want to know what’s up with this site I’ve never heard of

  • TIL that his museum says that "Roald Dahl’s racism is undeniable and indelible"

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  • An old video site known for having some stuff that was too extreme for YouTube (people dying or etc)

  • TIL that his museum says that "Roald Dahl’s racism is undeniable and indelible"

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  • In “The Ballad of Bill Hubbard,” Roger Waters plays a clip from a World War 1 veteran talking about some of his trauma from the war. He talks about finding a friend of his who’d been lying alone in a trench for days and nights with a probably-fatal wound, and then trying to get him out. How did the guy summarize his situation when the speaker first found him?

    “Cor, hello Razz, I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here. I’m feeling bad.”

  • TIL that his museum says that "Roald Dahl’s racism is undeniable and indelible"

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  • This is just British way of speaking.

    “I’m in a spot of trouble”

    “Off, that was a nasty business”

    A lot of times the mild language is used for stuff that would get kicked off Liveleak for being too extreme

  • Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave

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  • Yeah

    And we already consumed most of the easily available resources, and used them to build up the infrastructure that we’re currently using to get the hard to reach stuff. So that means not only is the loss of our comfortable place going to be permanent on any conceivable human historical timescale, but if we lose the current industrial base, then we probably won’t be able to develop another one in another geologic age, however much time goes by, if the species survives on our changed and shattered world.

    If we lose what we have today, it will slip down and away and escape from our grasp, probably forever.

  • Removed

    You guys are worse than Nazis

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  • Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave

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  • Oh I wasn’t saying it as a good thing. The destruction of the safe and stable earth we grew up in, more or less on purpose for profit, will probably be the greatest crime and tragedy ever to exist in human history. I was just saying that, grimly enough, going through the kind of dangerous life that’s coming soon is in our programming too.

    It just would have been better if we could have kept the paradise. 😢 But maybe this is how we learn.