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ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:

How? It's like the internet or social media, there are going to be all sorts of goofy downstream effects but the genie is out of the bottle.

And if it can produce things, the least beneficial thing you could do for yourself is to give away control of it to rich people aka, das kapital.

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ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Soylent Pudding posted:

Right now the biggest limiting factor in AI is the high end chips you need absolute shitloads of to run your models efficiently. A big part of the CHIPs act and other export restrictions to China is based on keeping them from accessing the hardware needed to operate equally powerful AI models. So one avenue of attack is to regulate the chips and look really close at anyone buying up large numbers of them.

Alternatively we could just start the Butlerian Jihad.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Orcas for fun kill every. single. other animal they can get at. Except for humans.

:thunkin:

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Baconroll posted:

They are doing something weird off the Iberian Peninusla in Europe - A few years ago small number started attacking rudders on small boats. This behavior had spread and now 3 boats have been sunk with dozens damaged, and hundreds of interactions. All very very odd.

Sadly its only going to end one way - the Orcas will end up all being killed in that area.

There is another important passage in a memoir by a shipwrecked whale hunting sailor, actually the book that Henry Melville based Moby Dick on, about being attacked and other survivors eaten by what is clearly orcas.

Yes. Moby Dick is about the wrong whale (or dolphin) sort of

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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MrMojok posted:

I remember reading an account written by somebody in the late 1800s or early 1900s about orcas coming under the ice and smashing it trying to break it, but I thought it was also made clear that they likely thought the men were probably seals, seeing only their shadows/silhouettes from under the ice.

Is this what you were talking about? I don’t remember any stories of anyone actually getting eaten.

The only hostile interactions I’ve heard of other than that are the things orcas have to done to trainers and idiots who stay after park closing to try and swim with them.

And none of those involved people being eaten either.

https://www.amazon.com/Shipwreck-Whaleship-Essex-Narrative-Melvilles/dp/1510715789

was what I was thinking about. I hope I've not gravely misunderstood what he wrote, but then again I also can't vouch for a guy 200 years ago (!) being completely accurate about his fisherman story

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Yeah well I maintain that orcas are shifty and they'd bite ya as soon as look at ye, by a mile if they'd be a foot! Arrgh.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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The Eyes Have It posted:

We are listening to him in court but scientists SHOULD be cutting apart his brain to figure out what the gently caress is wrong with him.

Ah, so you have met the schoolbook definition of megalomaniacal clinical narcissistic personality disorder complex before

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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But... but gym class was created to foster strong conscripts for the army, how can such corruption to the system be tolerated? This is very un-german.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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The day they stop crashing more into mountains than other planes will be the day I believe that

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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RFC2324 posted:

Wtf is white culture?

Made up. Like gender and other eugenics

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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My Spirit Otter posted:

white pride is a complicated beast. white pride has always existed, but its always been cultural pride because we havent had our unifying moment yet. we've really only been oppressed by ourselves and until someone else oppresses us, our differences in culture will be enough to keep us apart.

I can't parse this because it's more than 14 words

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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My Spirit Otter posted:

i cant tell if youre calling me a nazi because i think white people have been the oppressors instead of the opressees and we havent experienced such mistreatment that weve been able to put our differences aside and unify to the point where a white pride thats not a racist dogwhistle can exist, or not. if you are, youve actively chosen to name your account after john wayne and your opinion of whats racist or not doesnt mean poo poo.

I'm not, I'm making a joke because I'm reading the term 'white pride' a lot on this page which is absurdly funny. No offence ment

And I haven't watched a John Wayne movie in my life and you can't make me

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Or a porn site from 1997

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Stultus Maximus posted:

Given his diet and lack of exercise, his genes probably are pretty drat good for him to be alive and functioning.

Considering all his psychological issues and mental decline, I'm more doubtful

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Crab Dad posted:

in my work career of 30 years I have never once given a gift to anyone over me from a boss to a lol CEO. Who are these idiots thinking the CEO cares who they are I got a bridge to sell them.

Might I interestes you in a bussness opportunity for black fuel saving engine boxes? We only use the high-tech usb cable! I also got a crystal that will make new horsepowers

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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CBJSprague24 posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726989224073896365

Just the biggest fuckin' punchable nerd to ever have nerded.

His biographers say he was viciously bullied as a child, and while it's hard to defend I can't help thinking about him being the richest person on the planet for some time now. He cringes like this. And all his childhood bullies are still alive. I can't understand.

The one person who could be an actual hollywood villain, is instead Elon Musk.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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But it would be the third? time it's rebuilt, right?

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Having to teach children irony is sad but it explains so much. It should be comedy's job, which is funny and that's ironic in a meta sort of way

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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I got a nice bottle of Vietnamese plum wine I've been saving for a special occasion.
It's in the air tonight

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Steezo posted:

There was a multi part Behind The Bastards on him. It's worth listening to.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPPW9eQnOCc

Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FvQ-ugEA8

Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrHzmJU0BrI

Part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eFM70ahkg

Part 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnAMu3LLhQ



Choice quotes include the part about Kissinger wiretapping himself because he doesn't know what that wiley bastard, himself, is doing.

He did not kill 2 million people in Cambodia, he killed 300.000. But he is responsible for the majority of the 5 million dead in Viet Nam between 1954-1975, ie from january '69 onwards.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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bird food bathtub posted:

Is there a way to fly national flags at double mast in celebration?

A rocket would get it higher I think. Fireworks counts as rockets. Ergo anything that takes work and is on fire would count as well

And

Milo and POTUS posted:

Rest in peace little hamster

:patriot:
(He's not hibernating right? You know they do that yes? :ohdear:)

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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Milo and POTUS posted:

I've got good news and bad news.

The good news, Shane Macgowan outlived henry kissinger

Of course. Of course that's how a man who gets songs written about him when he's alive goes out. Beating Henry Kissinger.

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ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
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davecrazy posted:

I saw some “justification” that Nobles intention wasn’t that the peace prize good to good people per se but to folks who negotiated with their enemies to end conflicts, and if you follow that logic it works.

IIR His North Vietnamese counterpart got it too, but refused it.

That's how the norwegian equivalent of congress, who are the ones that award the peace prize, interpret the wording aye.
People don't even accuse them of treating the prize as a political bribe anymore, they get accused of treating it like a backstage pass to hang out with their favourite celebrities.

And I forget what Lê Đức Thọ said but it was to the effect of the only reason the war didn't end years earlier, was Kissinger.

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