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poor life choices quote:The young NI Catholic attending his first Conservative conference  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-67004699
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I got the Lidl 20 quid whisky lads, it's good.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Alastair Reynolds is one of the few writers that makes space feel big to me and actually examines those implications for humanity. Like when it takes decades to communicate with or travel to the nearest human settled planet, there's no real overarching civilisation any more, and humans kinda start becoming separate, perhaps incompatible species. House of Suns is another interesting Reynolds work despite being softer than Revelation Space. The timescale goes literally off the charts.
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keep punching joe posted:I got the Lidl 20 quid whisky lads, it's good. The islay is excellent and its so cheap it takes a lot of willpower to not just keep buying more
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Skarsnik posted:The islay is excellent and its so cheap it takes a lot of willpower to not just keep buying more That's the one I got. Is it a complex sensory experience? No. Does it taste like a decent peated malt? Yes.
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Z the IVth posted:House of Suns is another interesting Reynolds work despite being softer than Revelation Space. The timescale goes literally off the charts. Just bought for Kindle, thanks! I'll start on it once I've finished Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. I love McCarthy, his writing is so beautiful and evocative. But drat this book is hard-going. Unrelentingly grim and violent. Not good bedtime or mealtime reading!
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Good work whisky goons. Its a warm night so we're on the lambrini. We got the morphy toastie maker but were scared about microwave ball lightning death if it wasn't sealed poo poo. Youtube blokes who review toastie makers assure us its meant to be barely held together and bursting with cheese and onion, so tomorrow's looking good.
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crispix posted:poor life choices "As for the leadership of the party Conor supports, he reveals he backed Liz Truss in last year's race." Ah, insanity.
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Watching this explode in realtime has been amazing  https://twitter.com/chai_ste/status/1711042894449057985
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crispix posted:poor life choices Too northern to be a "West Brit", going with "entitled, self centered gogshite" instead. 
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NO KEITH! You might end up having an opinion or sound like you believe in something! 
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smellmycheese posted:Cringe Ah, gives you a handy line to snip along. And it even looks like someone's already done it!
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OzyMandrill posted:If you like space opera, I recommend Pandoras Star and Judas Unchained (a 2-parter) by Peter F Hamilton. I'm on my fourth attempt to read the Algebraist. Jesus tap dancing christ that book needed an editor. Anything involving the dwellers is a laugh though.
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forkboy84 posted:You call it a space opera and yet I hear no singing. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/v/jack-vance/space-opera.htm Vance at his silliest, it's no Planet of Adventure or Demon Princes series, but still a fun read.
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https://twitter.com/chai_ste/status/1711038056621330668 Hahahahaha 
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Z the IVth posted:House of Suns is another interesting Reynolds work despite being softer than Revelation Space. The timescale goes literally off the charts. Oh yeah that's one of my favourite books of all time. I never know how to explain it to people. Like I feel a few sentence review would put people off, but it is amazing in the execution.
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This is a weird appointment, out of every other available and qualified candidate in the country https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1710811514804854886 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/chai_ste/status/1711078505264423165 https://twitter.com/tomtugendhat/status/1711027381715022327 What a time to be alive 
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Most interesting starmer's been since he ran over that guy. Maybe when he had a lockdown beer
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/chai_ste/status/1711078505264423165 We have truly entered the post-truth era. Nothing will ever be trusted.
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https://twitter.com/leo_hutz/status/1711065591644143630 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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It’s provided an excellent afternoon trolling some extremely dumb centrists
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Would be hilarious if voting intention swung off a deepfake I mean this country is predicated on fakes and lies so why not
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Turns out all the U-turns the last year are deep fakes too.
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I stand corrected. Kal Ross is actually a real and respected expert in his field. LMAO
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If we're talking Lidl I just polished ( ) off a packet of their pork kabanossi and it's very nice.
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keir is literally a man who will give grumpy curt one word answers to grieving families hurt by the police, it’s absolutely in him to be a horrible poo poo to his underlings
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Yeah as OwlFancier said this is just distributing more widely the symptoms of problems of trust inherent to capitalism and hierarchical politics. You could use an AI deepfake voice synthesis algorithm to make Starmer say that he shat in a food bank donation box, but if you were a wealthy donor you could get him to actually say that for 50 grand and a litre of Jameson's.
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Also I feel like the response of a bunch of politico and media people just repeating "it's fake don't listen to it" is itself an issue because I don't think they have any way to know better than I do whether it's real or fake and so really they're just relying on their position to establish what truth is over and above what people can see and hear in front of them, and the fact that they're capable of doing that means that they're capable of doing that and lying about it as well.
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I've been laughing hard at the many people who automatically distrust the multi-party line that it's a fake. Pete Williams however has more pressing matters at hand: 
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah as OwlFancier said this is just distributing more widely the symptoms of problems of trust inherent to capitalism and hierarchical politics. That means deepfakes are democratic.
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Well I guess not everyone has access to a bunch of servers and code and poo poo. But still.
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Democratic in the same way the printing press was, yes. Anyone who could afford a trouser press and a bunch of lead letters could knock out whatever they pleased, which led to an explosion of public knowledge and literacy, but also a bunch of shitheads with hot ideas about what the Jews were up to getting a wide audience.
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If you want to see what someone with very little resources can do producing deep fakes, check out this video. He's a young lad who made some incredible deepfakes of popular chemist youtuber Nile Red. A lot of those actual parodies have since been deleted, as they were so realistic, but the video I linked to is a detailed explanation of how he did it all
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fuctifino posted:I've been laughing hard at the many people who automatically distrust the multi-party line that it's a fake. That concorde would crash and burn on take off guaranteed - they only just removed the magazines used for ballast a couple of years ago. Therefore I agree the Royals should be taken for a flight immediately.
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fuctifino posted:I've been laughing hard at the many people who automatically distrust the multi-party line that it's a fake. I'm sure the best way to get the Royal family to safety in an emergency is to fly them in a 47-year old aircraft that hasn't flown for 23 years...rather than one of the modern, serviced, maintained and regularly operated transports that the RAF have specifically for the purpose. That Concorde that's kept on the BA maintenance depot at Heathrow also doesn't have an interior (it was in the middle of a refit when the Paris crash happened), has never been modified with the post-crash safety features and has been largely stripped of its instrumentation for other museum Concordes. And while it is regularly cleaned and painted its airframe is riddled with corrosion and water damage. Oh, and it has no engines. Maybe Pete Williams is a radical revolutionary anti-monarchist?
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