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meanolmrcloud posted:is there any way to know the actual strength of the output of the US, without the financialization aspect? as in, how much do we actually produce that isn’t numbers inflated on a spreadsheet. the orthodox line when I was growing up is that despite a large amount of the GDP being fictitious finance bullshit, we still have pretty substantial manufacturing output. it would be pretty hilarious if the rest of the world realizes the only thing we export is toxic culture and assault rifles. the US domestic manufacturing sector is still pretty good at precision stuff, on par with anyone but really remarkable industrial sectors like the Swiss the reasons for this have mostly to do with the existing workforce (now aging rapidly, i think the average age of a CNC machinist in Oregon is like 54. anecdotally i've been in the industry for six years, i'm 38, and i've never not been in the youngest 5 machinists at any company where i've worked) and general capability of basic math education, both of which have been absolutely eviscerated as a matter of policy for longer than i've been alive unless somehow everyone decides to A) pay machinists for the number of workers' worth of work we do nowadays or B) hire an average of 50-100% more people to do the same amount of work, so that we can pass on our skills and institutional knowledge in a seamless and coherent fashion, as happened pretty consistently until the 80s, i can't see the US machining sector retaining its relative dominance on the world machining stage in the last few years, PRC companies have started putting out some really high-quality tungsten carbide and other powder-deposition-made cutting tools which they're able to consistently sell to US shops at undercut rates so it's only a matter of time before the rest of US domestic tool-and-die poo poo is pushed out of business or acquired from overseas.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:16
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the only safe place to live or work in the neighborhood is inside the Archimedes Ray tower
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Apr 14, 2023 03:49
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"well you see i, a willing rube, find the Middle Path to be most appealing,"
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Apr 15, 2023 17:04
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Crazypoops posted:I had severe Democrat and they put me on SSRIs
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Apr 15, 2023 20:20
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gradenko_2000 posted:and I know that what I'm essentially describing is The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall, and in turn explains the capitalist logic of planned obsolescence and the conversion of everything into X As A Service, but like... and then what??? *u were assassinated by a drone strike*
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Apr 24, 2023 16:33
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SKULL.GIF posted:Is this prodromal schizophrenia? is this just fantasy?
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May 2, 2023 04:31
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Raccooon posted:I don't really know how to take this stuff? Like are we actually close to a real AI or is this just a really good pattern matching algorithm. Another way to think about it is it took ChatGPT analyzing a data set of text the size of the internet to be able to generate text like a human. A human doesn't have to analyze nearly that much text to be better than ChatGPT at it. i think the best layperson way to look at the large language model stuff is that it's like the AI player from an RTS, but souped up and for paragraphs
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May 2, 2023 22:20
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Paradoxish posted:I think the best way to view them is as what they are: systems that can output plausible text responses to queries. That's really it, with everything else being kind of a side effect of the specific training data that went into the model. this is more or less the picture i was trying to paint, an RTS computer player can produce units and move them around the simulation space and by those abilities alone it provides a threat credible enough to the human player that the human needs to learn and use counters for it, but it's not playing the game in any meaningful sense and its purpose is explicitly not to do that but just to provide the sensation of a credible threat
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May 2, 2023 22:33
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Nodelphi posted:a dude named Millionare Pewdie. threaf tortle
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May 6, 2023 17:42
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Nodelphi posted:I thought AI turned out to be just global south tech workers propping up a glorified chat bot… The media thought this would matter then they realized that CEO’s didn’t care and it was full steam ahead for AI regardless. before ChatGPT became a buzzword this was true of an awful lot of AI-branded “technologies,” and it can be expected to still be true for a bunch of poo poo going forward the LLMs just don’t have the same scale of backend human guidance which is required for a lot of grift “self-navigating” demos and poo poo due to how they’re built and how they operate
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May 11, 2023 23:28
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poor people will die, making it a win for the policy and owner classes blue man's PR machine said it was good imagine red men wailing and gnashing teeth, so good right?
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May 29, 2023 19:09
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Antonymous posted:we should use that money to fund free education *u were assassinated by a drone strike*
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May 30, 2023 04:17
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Jun 10, 2023 23:31
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cool av posted:20 eggs often my dinner
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Jul 14, 2023 23:37
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RadiRoot posted:https://twitter.com/business/status/1682011251038208005 GOON PROJECT: Toward a Protracted Very Goofy Peoples’ War in the Florida Everglades
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Jul 20, 2023 15:58
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Nodelphi posted:Legit can’t tell if this is parody or not but I really don’t want to think it’s real. no way it’s in earnest, at the end there’s a shot of him talking on two phones at once like an 90s cartoon businessman
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Jul 23, 2023 16:00
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who would get bent out of shape about Bidendident Joe Presiden, win or lose
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Jul 24, 2023 01:52
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can’t wait for a White House Annex to be established in some Club Fed facility
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Jul 24, 2023 03:06
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just buy an ice cream horse or a bread goat lmao
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Jul 28, 2023 17:54
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i expected billionaires bragging that they can still afford fast food wouldn’t happen for at least a year or so more, we’re all truly hosed
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Aug 2, 2023 15:51
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webcams for christ posted:yeah the closest "normal" comes to mean "ought" is like, Normative ethics you misunderstand, if you do intention magic by insisting on different meanings for words, you can help defeat capitalism or something
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Aug 4, 2023 15:30
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screaming at my passenger to hold on as I floor the accelerator and magdump the dashboard gun to activate the speed boost
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Aug 5, 2023 16:14
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:Is it ethical to cross a picket line to obtain necessary medical services, say if the employees of your HMO's hospital are on strike?  whut abbt if u r starving & will die b4 u can get to an un-struck grocery store
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Aug 7, 2023 14:39
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Gorson posted:We got the nightmare version of the future I was promised - most of the manual labor and manufacturing has been automated or outsourced, but we didn't get the cheap goods and extra free time that were supposed to come with it. if they were honest about it beforehand nobody would fall for it
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Aug 11, 2023 14:04
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elon attempting to force one of us to become more divorced than him by making us re-ex our exes for more engagement
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Aug 11, 2023 14:28
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yeah right now we are waiting for particularly large chunks to give way so we can laugh and clap
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Aug 12, 2023 00:32
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SardonicTyrant posted:I think you'll find that a car that sets itself on fire is a greater technical challenge than any drone considering how drones developed as a parallel to Tesla widowmakers, Teslas still need half a decade of setting themselves on fire and then about two decades to work out guidance software and hardware which mostly keep them from leaving their mission boundaries
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Aug 12, 2023 19:36
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StratGoatCom posted:That is an optimistic read. oh absolutely, the meta-joke there was a contrast between the rolling poo poo-show of early autonomous drone poo poo, and the hilarious effective-impossibility which is two tons of steel and plastic driving on the same roads as us, in basically the same fashion drone air superiority jets will have less poo poo to keep track of and be better suited for their task than autonomous cars ever will be
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Aug 12, 2023 20:57
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Chad Sexington posted:What if there is a parent shepherding? if the problem is that too many kids have gotten splattered in traffic trying to get to and from school, i don’t feel like i would sign off on an exception as long as a parent is also risking their own life
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Aug 14, 2023 19:38
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Re: bus chat, In my area the city busses take the kids who don't walk or bike. It's not even that urban of an area. The yellow bluebird busses are only for field trips and maybe there's a few rural routes. There are school shuttle companies but they are private and only take a few kids usually also to after school care. school buses in the us are part of the framework which lets parents work, mass transit in the us is a check-the-box-we-have-it thing which is deliberately starved of funds and functionality the rot has set in for a lot of poo poo but to keep parents at work the government forced them to send their children back to school in a plague, that level of services is still grudgingly seen as important for the grift
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Aug 14, 2023 21:11
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Palladium posted:grabbing cum blame thread title
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Aug 16, 2023 15:06
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SardonicTyrant posted:Learning this exact same thing happened after hiroshima briefly shut down my brain. of loving course it did, jesus gently caress my mind christ
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Aug 16, 2023 19:20
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Vox Nihili posted:Please do not attempt to trick lurkers into becoming lawyers. in order to escape being a lawyer, each serving lawyer must convince or trick someone else into going to law school
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Aug 18, 2023 03:38
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become a contract killer, and by that I mean go around destroying agreements between parties
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Aug 18, 2023 17:33
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SlimGoodbody posted:Long ago, the by far most absolutely hosed up thing I ever did at a Costco was create a meal I had theory crafted for years called "The Godkiller." I finally made and ate one when I was probably 20 or so, after first conceiving of it at 14 on a Costco run with my mom. dropped my phone, stood up, and clapped despite desperately trying to regain control of my body
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Aug 19, 2023 16:42
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and elder being arrogant or conceited either in their past or in their present lucid moments doesn't make it not elder abuse, which it unquestionably is even if she's coherent enough to actively want to hold onto power, it's the responsibility of her next of kin to prevent her continued abuse of herself
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Aug 25, 2023 18:51
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Oglethorpe posted:weren't they still alive for like 30 seconds the story i'm familiar with is someone scheduled to be executed arranged with a friend that he would try to keep opening and closing his eyes until he was actually dead, as a way to get an idea of how long sensation might last after beheading, and his severed head kept doing it for at least this long, yeah there are deffo worse ways to go but the humane goal of the Barber wasn't, in my opinion, fully achieved
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Aug 26, 2023 06:14
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Poppers posted:This is fake btw. You instantly lose cerebral perfusion and black out. thanks, i specifically said “the story” because it’s got that quality to it though
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Aug 26, 2023 17:20
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:yeah this is exactly what happened did u knoe u cld just not be like this, or failing that not tell on yourself.
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Aug 27, 2023 15:21
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for less than $3500 i can get y'all wearable devices with googly eyes on them, which also don't work with Siri
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Aug 27, 2023 21:39
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