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olives black posted:Wait where was this? New York. A guy put a homeless man in a chokehold for 15 minutes and is being protected by police while the world's most disgusting people claim it was a "difficult situation" at best and an act of heroism at worst.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I happily beam horrendous takes into my brain on Twitter all day every day but the responses to this story has been truly dark. There’s no comical stupidity watering things down, just straight up evil, psychopathic response to a public murder. It’s really really bad when a country accepts the killing of undesirables.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:All the hype over ChatGPT and A.I feels to me like the same pattern of bullshit as blockchain and NFTs a year or two ago. Although I can see potential in the technology, the current feeding frenzy smells mostly of bullshit; especially the talk of how it's going to "revolutionize" the world. Unlike crypto bullshit, I’d argue some of the AI advancements can actually address real problems, so are thus at least useful. I think the problem is that there’s a perception they’re a magic wand, but really, they’re like a handheld power tool - quick, convenient, easy to use, but still requiring an operator that knows how to use them, and when not to use them, to make anything worthwhile. Maybe that will change, but in the meantime, I’m sure there’s going to be tons of money wasted on poo poo like “have an AI do your taxes because we lobby aggressively against just having the government do them for you so we can charge you  ”
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:All the hype over ChatGPT and A.I feels to me like the same pattern of bullshit as blockchain and NFTs a year or two ago. Although I can see potential in the technology, the current feeding frenzy smells mostly of bullshit; especially the talk of how it's going to "revolutionize" the world. I think it's a very different kind of bullshit (though a lot of the same people are peddling it). Even the simplest NFT stuff quickly got too complicated and stupid for the average person to follow (and so they felt like they were missing something) while a big part of the appeal of AI is that it's genuinely easy for anybody to pick up. AI is good (or good enough) at some things that seem hard so there's a natural tendency to assume it'll be good at other tricky things.
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thetoughestbean posted:The term “jobbing” or “jobber” is overused in nerd discussion and often shows that the nerd using them only cares about how many fights a character’s won rather than anything else about them The proper term is "enhancement talent."
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Los Angeles and its many hangers on is the worst city I’ve heard LA described as a bunch of suburbs they decided to call a city and I pretty much agree with it. There’s no city “feel” to LA and it’s just so spread out. New York is a city, LA is Advanced Suburbia. Edit: I do like LA though. It has a lot of neat things, just didn’t feel like a “city” to me.
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LA has a really great feel to me in the outskirts, the hills and deserts and the almost mediterranean feel of the flora. I don't like the overpriced houses or their denizens but the streets can be very seductive when you're in the right state of mind. Listening to some RHCP or Sublime or something, maybe Lana Del Rey.
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Micheal Mann makes LA look alluring, Refn too. It's really not though, there's maybe a dozen cool spots in a city that's approximately the size of the Korean Penninsula. It's nothing but endless suburbs and roads leading to roads. There's a reason two LAnians when left alone will surely degrade into conversation on traffic given enough time for interlocution. You know when you're cruising through the middle states and you hit the part of the country where every twenty minutes you're driving through a town with the highway as its main road and absolutely no reason to pull off unless you need to piss or get gas. Imagine that but forever, that is LA
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Hey, what else can I say? I love LA: because over and above all, it's just another day. And this one begins where the last one ends, pick up where we left off and get smashed again.
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Gripweed posted:Any American who watches the coronation should lose the right to vote or give testimony in court. Second.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:All the hype over ChatGPT and A.I feels to me like the same pattern of bullshit as blockchain and NFTs a year or two ago. Although I can see potential in the technology, the current feeding frenzy smells mostly of bullshit; especially the talk of how it's going to "revolutionize" the world. I asked it to create a very basic function and immediately recommended to management to not let anyone use it. It was nonsensical garbage and would have taken at least twice, probably three times as long to decipher as it would someone who is actually competent in fortran to write from scratch. also the coronation is only boring because you can tell nobody involved really cares. Just a bunch of old people reading off of cards. If they took it seriously it'd at least be a little entertaining.
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Charles III is going to be the last monarch of most of the commonwealth because basically everyone outside of a small group of weirdo royalist think he's a disgusting creep. His reign will probably accelerate a lot of positive change because he's a hideous inbred mutant with a unappealing personality that is a living embodiment of every anti royalty argument.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Charles III is going to be the last monarch of most of the commonwealth because basically everyone outside of a small group of weirdo royalist think he's a disgusting creep. Sure, but his personality is not why he is crowned. Is Britain ready for such a social change? Are they ready for an independent Scotland? Free unified Ireland? Getting on their knees to beg admission back into the EU? You can keep your funny hats and sticks, just let Scotland and Ireland piss on you and join the rest of the EU. doverhog has a new favorite as of 01:12 on May 7, 2023 |
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Charles III sincerely cares about art, culture, the environment and food. All of these are in desperate need of a staunch advocate in the PR space. Capital is clearly aligned against each. Capital wants art to be cheap and disposable, culture to be universal and shallow, the environment to be as lovely as possible and for food to be homogenized swill manufactured as cheaply as possible while being sold with extremely high margins. Because of that there have been decades long propaganda campaigns against him. He's a lot like Hillary Clinton in that regard. Sure, he sucks. But most people hate him for the wrong reasons. The people whose values align with his on the part where most people hate him, hate him for other (much better) reasons leaving him with no natural allies.
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He as a person is irrelevant. Maybe there could be another hypothetical King who could bring support back to the Monarchy, but he is not that. If he wanted to start, he could make a Royal decree where he endorses Scottish independence, and the reunification of Ireland. But such a thought is impossible to him, and to anyone that supports him, or the Monarchy as a concept. So he and his suckers, suck.
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The drone attack on Putin was a false flag. However the idea that his assassination would be a moral wrong is absurd, everyone was happy when Hitler died too.
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Ciao Wren posted:Charles III sincerely cares about art, culture, the environment and food. All of these are in desperate need of a staunch advocate in the PR space. Capital is clearly aligned against each. Capital wants art to be cheap and disposable, culture to be universal and shallow, the environment to be as lovely as possible and for food to be homogenized swill manufactured as cheaply as possible while being sold with extremely high margins. only the destruction of capitalism and the establishment of socialism can actually bring about positive changes for those, friendo
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doverhog posted:The drone attack on Putin was a false flag. However the idea that his assassination would be a moral wrong is absurd, everyone was happy when Hitler died too. The Putin-Hitler comparisons are a bit absurd. Mussolini would be a much better comparison.
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doverhog posted:To your mind what is the meaningful difference? Hitler killed 12 million people in the holocaust and launched a war of global domination.
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So he was more successful in his goals than Putin has been so far? Seems like a reason to oppose Putin more. Resist him until he is defeated, no matter the cost.
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doverhog posted:To your mind what is the meaningful difference? If Hitler won, he would have killed every single Ukrainian, along with everybody else between Germany and the Urals. As lovely and brutal as Putin is, and as much as I hope he follows Mussolini's example, I doubt he's aiming to annihilate all of Eastern Europe.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Los Angeles and its many hangers on is the worst city Nah. New York and the way every New Yorker will inevitably start talking about bodegas is.
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olives black posted:only the destruction of capitalism and the establishment of socialism can actually bring about positive changes for those, friendo I'm not sure about that. The freaking CIA of all things kicked the rear end of every Communist country when it came to art and culture. The eastern block was famously polluted and environmental programs in most of the world up until recently operated on a "pollution in China at the end of the game does not count against your total score" rule. To say nothing of failed agricultural practices...
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Ciao Wren posted:I'm not sure about that. The freaking CIA of all things kicked the rear end of every Communist country when it came to art and culture. wat
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Byzantine posted:If Hitler won, he would have killed every single Ukrainian, along with everybody else between Germany and the Urals. As lovely and brutal as Putin is, and as much as I hope he follows Mussolini's example, I doubt he's aiming to annihilate all of Eastern Europe. He routinely uses nuclear war as a threat, blames all of NATO and the west for a war he started, has used systematic terrorism, murder and rape of civilians, destruction on infrastructure, as a tool in war. The only thing making Putin better than Hitler is that he and his poo poo kleptocracy nation is so weak it loses every battle, so he is unable to act out his fantasies.
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Ciao Wren posted:"Local man passionate defender of what he imagines Communism to be" this from the goon defending the loving monarchy in the Milquetoast Opinion thread because they think having an inbred pedophile is exactly what the UK needs to defend art and food quality
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I asked it to create a very basic function and immediately recommended to management to not let anyone use it. It was nonsensical garbage and would have taken at least twice, probably three times as long to decipher as it would someone who is actually competent in fortran to write from scratch. That's how it is now, it's getting better all the time. Also, how would management prevent someone from using it?
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ishikabibble posted:Nah. New York and the way every New Yorker will inevitably start talking about bodegas is. As a tourist New York is infinitely more interesting than LA.
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There are so many transplants in San Francisco now that are trying to make "bodegas" into a thing here. We don't have bodegas. We call them corner stores! Even if they aren't on a corner. gently caress off with your brownstones and chopped cheese, bbiiiiitch!
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FreudianSlippers posted:I prefer crew iron I’m a sound and lighting tech for extremely low-to-no budget theatre as a side gig and I appreciate this post and this poster
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Los Angeles and its many hangers on is the worst city I see you’ve not been to Auckland, or Auckland’s sleeper suburb, city of the future Hamilton
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Mu Zeta posted:There are so many transplants in San Francisco now that are trying to make "bodegas" into a thing here. We don't have bodegas. We call them corner stores! Even if they aren't on a corner. gently caress off with your brownstones and chopped cheese, bbiiiiitch! There is like one alley in Manhattan where film crews are permitted to shoot, which makes people think that NYC has alleyways, when in fact it has very few. That's why the entire city smells like garbage all the time, we have to put all our trash out on the street!
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