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Angepain posted:The important question is, can artificial intelligence finally replace the art of forum posting? It would be pretty funny to set up a few ai accounts on here and then watch the people who don't realise arguing with them, yes!
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I thought that was just ronya
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Pistol_Pete posted:It would be pretty funny to set up a few ai accounts on here and then watch the people who don't realise arguing with them, yes! Let's be real, we all already have a list of a few posters we have suspicions about
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Pistol_Pete posted:It would be pretty funny to set up a few ai accounts on here and then watch the people who don't realise arguing with them, yes! Any collection of words, sufficient advanced, will be indistinguishable from a shitpost.
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Blindsight ruled and the vampire part is minor but really novel and it adds to the world IMO. I read it (for free on the author's website) a while back and I still think about it. Not sure I've ever read a first contact story quite like it, parts of it really stuck with me. Also that short film that some fans made of it is so loving good too.
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's a faintly puzzling thing to include, like if you write a novel about an exploration spaceship and all the engineering crew happen to be werewolves for some reason and the rest of the crew just kind of roll with it and it doesn't really impact the plot in any way.
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's a faintly puzzling thing to include, like if you write a novel about an exploration spaceship and all the engineering crew happen to be werewolves for some reason and the rest of the crew just kind of roll with it and it doesn't really impact the plot in any way. See to me that sounds more like a fetish than anything else.
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's a faintly puzzling thing to include, like if you write a novel about an exploration spaceship and all the engineering crew happen to be werewolves for some reason and the rest of the crew just kind of roll with it and it doesn't really impact the plot in any way. It would be pretty good if the engineering staff were constantly searching for planets with a lot of moons so maximise full moon time.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:And the enhanced cross linking in their previsual cortex makes em vulnerable to simultaneous vertical and horizontal visual stimulation. Can you repel vampires with graph paper? It's just a ton of crosses upon crosses.
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Guavanaut posted:This just dredged back something I remember thinking ages ago. I want to say yes? I think part of the reason they went extinct is because humans started building stuff and buildings etc had right angles which is what fucks them up.
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Guavanaut posted:This just dredged back something I remember thinking ages ago. Discworld spoiler: in Carpe Jugulum the vampire children are defeated because their father has inadvertently taught them to recognise patterns. As a result, with a little assistance from Granny Weatherwax they suddenly realise that they can see religious symbols everywhere.
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the "vampires" thing is just a marketing hook because it's off-genre. no one says "Blindsight is an amazing book, and it's got a cyborg in it!" because cyborgs in science fiction novels aren't surprising, even though Szpindel fulfils the same thematic role as Sarasti (and the rest of the crew)
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Guavanaut posted:This just dredged back something I remember thinking ages ago. I like the old Doctor Who approach to this one - what repels them is faith, in whatever symbol you're using. The priest doesn't have enough faith so he gets eaten, cross or no, while the Soviet soldier's hammer-and-sickle works because he absolutely believes in the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism.
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Pistol_Pete posted:It would be pretty funny to set up a few ai accounts on here and then watch the people who don't realise arguing with them, yes! Interesting, and how do you feel about set up a few ai accounts on here and then watch the people who don't realise arguing with them, yes?
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Arron Banks lost the libel case against Carole Cadwalladr https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...n-brexit-russia I guess that means the court found that vote leave lied about not taking russian op money jiggerypokery fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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mrpwase posted:Interesting, and how do you feel about set up a few ai accounts on here and then watch the people who don't realise arguing with them, yes? Well, that explains the username.
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Hearty lmao: https://mobile.twitter.com/PA/status/1536279217947791361
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jiggerypokery posted:Arron Banks lost the libel case against Carole Cadwalladr I was truly convinced she was going to lose horribly. Fighting for journalistic freedom isn't exactly a winning battle across the world, and will get worse... but not here, today, just for once.
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Jedit posted:Well, that explains the username. Does it? Please explain it to me, because I don't understand my own username 
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Marmaduke! posted:I was truly convinced she was going to lose horribly. Fighting for journalistic freedom isn't exactly a winning battle across the world, and will get worse... but not here, today, just for once. yeah I was 90% sure she was going to lose too I know people ITT have mixed feelings about her but losing that case would have been another nail in the coffin of civil liberties in this country that is already nearly 100% nail
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mrpwase posted:Does it? Please explain it to me, because I don't understand my own username It looks like a procgen. E: I am informed that Morrisons are discreetly offering free supplies of sanitary products to women in need if they go to customer services and say Sandy left a package for them. If you know anyone who is struggling, pass it on - it may not be all branches, and supplies may be limited, but it's worth a shot. Jedit fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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jiggerypokery posted:yeah I was 90% sure she was going to lose too Having done some limited reading on it, she had suffered some setbacks in relation to arguing that her saying "Aaron Banks is lying about his connection to Russian businesses" had the implied meaning that he was concealing taking money from Russian businesses. If that sounds convoluted here is a simplified version. Banks' Lawyers: When you did that Ted Talk about my client, you were basically saying he was getting bribes from Russia for nefarious reasons and that he should be viewed as some type of spy or State Actor. Cadwalladr: No I was just saying that there were links between Banks and these Russians and he hadn't been honest about that. The judge ruled against her on that point on the basis the parts had the meaning inferred that Banks side was arguing. (And honestly, yeah I think they were right. The would have had that meaning. Why else are you reporting on it, if that wasn't the conclusion you were drawing or asking the reader to draw.) So on the basis of that ruling, Banks side had a very good case for proving that Cadwalladr had defamed him (IE published something that would reduce his reputation in the eyes of right thinking members of society.) But Cadwalladr would have still had a number of defences open to her, including special defences available for the media. One of these is Truth (IE that what she said was true.) Another is that whether she knew it to be true or wasn't certain, it was still a matter of public importance. Earlier someone asked if this ruling meant that a court ruled Banks had taken Russian money. It doesn't. I mean, without having seen the full judgement, a court could have found what Cadwalladr said was true at which point they would have ruled in her favour. But they also could have found (and I suspect they did) that what she said was in the Public Interest and that she reasonably believed it could have been true. And that would have afforded her a defence.
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Annoyingly that is the correct interpretation based on the summary here : https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/banks-v-cadwalladr/ Ooh, I can't find 'electable' or 'forensic' in here but can find 'unelectable': https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1536119453070630912/photo/2 StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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Just imagine sitting in a meeting with a bunch of consultants explaining that this PowerPoint slide they have up on the screen is everyone's honest opinions about you lol.
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blindsight is like 30% of a really good scifi idea then 6 other less good scifi ideas including vampires, then the sequel is all about the bad ideas in terms of goon book recommendations its better than Malazan at least
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It's hopefully Labor realising the current tide is people voting against the Tories, not for them. Maybe they can replace him with someone with a few good policies and and charisma! Lol no, it will be Boris's mutant clone.
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jiggerypokery posted:Arron Banks lost the libel case against Carole Cadwalladr The witness statement she posted on Scribd is hilarious. Unsure if my fave so far is her calling Yekatarinberg "a closed naval city" or calling the Henry Jackson Society "a think tank which promotes democracy and human rights" A beautifully smooth brain
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Finnish news are reporting Johnson is about to take a big dump on the Ireland border setup today. Do you folks know how serious this is?
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Metal Kier You are above even the Bozza. I hearby award you the title of Big Bozza. (What Kier hears in his dreams just before he wakes up.)
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Ataxerxes posted:Finnish news are reporting Johnson is about to take a big dump on the Ireland border setup today. Do you folks know how serious this is? It’s bad, but it’s not likely to actually get implemented for at least 18 months. By which point it could have been killed. As it is, legislation that can empower a Minister to ignore domestic legislation is awful from a rule of law perspective. As others have pointed out, you can write whatever domestic laws you want, but they don’t give you carte blanch to ignore International Treaties. I mean you can, but from a diplomatic stand point they are a terrible idea. Expect the majority of English people to not care about how bad an idea they are, because they just don’t understand the Northern Irish/Ireland situation.
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It's still funny that every time the Tories bring up the NI protocol and how terrible they think it is, someone goes 'wait didn't you guys negotiate and sign this'
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The Question IRL posted:Expect the majority of English people to not care about The Question IRL posted:Expect the majority of English people to not care about how bad
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Ataxerxes posted:Finnish news are reporting Johnson is about to take a big dump on the Ireland border setup today. Do you folks know how serious this is? WE do. We aren't the people electing this government though, that's the Boomers who don't, so Johnson doesn't give a poo poo.
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Patiently waiting for the latest load of shite to dribble from the mouth/anus (i think it's all one orifice on him) of Boris. 
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