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- Comment on Humans, I tell you 1 week ago:
Can I have some of whatever you’re smoking?
Two party systems are a consequence of something called Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, specifically as applied to First Past the Post voting. Which is technically Duverger’s Law
If you want a video instead, this one is a classic.
The names of things rarely have any actual meaning behind them, especially not political names, which were originally chosen to make people think they were patriotic for supporting said party. Or are chosen by the opposition.
But yes, the tensions that caused the war did exist before the shots were fired, that’s how civil wars work. And yes, reconstruction was halted and reversed by Johnson.
But the TLDR, being a defeatist is worse than useless, work towards a better tomorrow today. Also, civil wars, the kind with neighbors shooting neighbors and all, are fucking nightmares. Don’t try to start it all early, it will come all too soon on its own, the fascists will make sure of it.
- Comment on c o n s e r v a t i o n 1 week ago:
A data center without power or AC is not a functional data center, and damage to such systems could cause massive damage inside, all without risk of premature detonation, theoretically speaking.
- Comment on c o n s e r v a t i o n 1 week ago:
Explosives are a bit too dangerous for the average person to play with.
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else remember those assholes from a few years back that were taking pot shots at power substations?
- Comment on Humans, I tell you 1 week ago:
I’d argue the exact opposite.
The civil war kicked off after the second longest pause to constitutional amendments in history, only topped by the current one.
Just like any other system, you need to keep security patches coming or else malicious actors will step in an wreck everything.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Corpo housing isn’t mcmansions. They’re factory built homes shipped to site and dropped on locally poured foundations, sometimes with basements.
Sure, they can be decent sized, but the mcmansion is overly large and aimed at a different crowd, a crowd that’s increasingly unable to afford them.
Source; I grew up in a corpo housing development from the 60s or 70s. The houses all looked identical from the outside, but had a few different floor plans, one down the street was actually two of the wrong halves put together, which meant that one of the closets didn’t have a door and could only be accessed by someone crawling in through a gap near the ceiling.
Thankfully there was no HOA, so the houses quickly picked up some individuality.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 1 week ago:
I do believe so, yes.
- Comment on I'm sure it'll be fine! 1 week ago:
I’d imagine that one is because of medical more than anything else. There are all sorts of regulations around medical devices. That slows shit down.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 1 week ago:
Mindustry is a industrial based tower defense with RTS elements. It’s quite addictive. It’s $10 on steam or free on itch.io
- Comment on The Iranians HAVE to realize that demanding the release of the unredacted Epstein files as a condition to re-open the strait of Hormuz is probably the strongest card they have right now... 2 weeks ago:
Better? I’m not sure you’d qualify that, but local, that I’m sure of.
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 2 weeks ago:
A box without a lid, no way to check on the cat, and no air holes. That cat is dead. It was always going to die.
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 3 weeks ago:
Personal Jesus you say?
- Comment on Fixed it. 4 weeks ago:
Yup, it’s actually an interesting demonstration of the power of training data on a chatbot, after all, they’re just feeding it back to you.
- Comment on Fixed it. 4 weeks ago:
I’ll have to find the post, but you did it in two steps, changed the units of mass, and object.
The post, which is extremely hard to find with the latest slop release from Nvidia, asked the chatbot to consider the exact wording, without babying it into the correct answer. All because the close variations of the phase “X pounds of bricks and X pounds of feathers weigh the exact same” have been used in various textbooks and such for at least the last hundred years or so.
That means that the chatbot has seen that exact combo of words, in roughly that order, quite a bit more than your use of “100 kilograms of rice”. At least in English.
You can baby it through when the training data is sparse, but not when there are hundreds of uses of the same phrase over and over again in the training.
- Comment on Fixed it. 4 weeks ago:
They did ask it to consider and repeat the exact wording of the question, yes.
- Comment on Fixed it. 4 weeks ago:
Someone posted yesterday with a question asked to AI.
What weighs more, 20 pounds of bricks or 20 feathers?
The useless chat bot will always answer with “they both weigh 20 pounds” because that’s what the training data always says when asked about bricks and feathers.
- Comment on Fixed it. 4 weeks ago:
Also, twenty feathers and twenty pounds of bricks both weigh twenty pounds.
- Comment on Checkers, not chess. 5 weeks ago:
So throwing the cards down a set of stairs, or maybe into some dense bushes.
- Comment on This community in one meme 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, the snakes could be poisonous, and the killer could be feeding you to them, but he’s just telling you his plans for body disposal, not his method of killing you. He’ll likely use a knife, that way he can give the snakes bite sized pieces. You will be alive for this at first.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 weeks ago:
Before Zuck hired Joel Kaplan to specifically cater to right wing interests.
It was kinda nice yeah.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 weeks ago:
It looks like their setup, but I don’t see any recent videos. Jan 15th was their last one. I think they have a patreon with bonus clips and advance stuff.
Might be from that.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 5 weeks ago:
You do know that uranium oxide is water soluble right? The ocean has more radioactive material in it than the land does, also water is very good at blocking radiation. That’s why it’s used for spent fuel cooling pools.
So the physics says that if you’re going to have fallout, the ocean is the best place for it. Provided that the fallout doesn’t float. Then it will most likely end up washing up on the shores of Japan.
The key here is that the bombs available in 1950 were orders of magnitude weaker than modern nukes.
Castle Brovo alone was stronger than every bomb from the MacArthur plan combined.
Using hundreds of Castle Brovo sized bombs would fuck up the world, using the bombs MacArthur had access to? Not as much.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 1 month ago:
Hell, just look back a bit for the shit done in the open.
I submit King Leopold the 2nd of Belgium. In Belgium he’s known as “the builder king” because he spent so much of his own money to build parks and civic buildings and such.
Money that was acquired through what was described at the time as Crimes Against Humanity.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 1 month ago:
The problem with Waco was the firebombing itself. The cops wanted a big standoff rather than just arresting the cult leader when he went out into town, which he did repeatedly.
Leaderless cults can be picked apart without gunfire.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 1 month ago:
That’s the recent trend.
Well, the American government, and the Israeli government, the Russian government, the Chinese government, the UK government, the German government, and a bunch more, add in the dictatorships who can’t fuck around outside their own boarders, and you basically have every government.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 1 month ago:
For MacArthur, that plan, while horrific, wasn’t as bad as you’re painting it, if only because the bombs would have been much lower yield than modern nukes.
It would kill millions, especially if he used ground burst instead of air burst, but the actual global effect would be negligible. Cancer rates would spike in Northern Japan, but the fallout would mostly be over water.
Air burst would have even less effect, because there would be no fallout. (fallout is stuff from the ground that gets mixed with the radioactive material and free neutrons in a ground burst nuclear explosion, it’s heavy so it falls out)
Still an insane plan and MacArthur was justly fired for it and a bunch of other similar insanity, I just wish the Dulles brothers had been similarly fired for the shit they pulled.
- Comment on Goddammnit you magnificent bastards! 1 month ago:
And yet, none of that is what anyone call curry.
- Comment on Cup cake 1 month ago:
Yup, Gin Ekiss had said that the name was just a random word.
- Comment on Cup cake 1 month ago:
Back in the late 80s and early 90s we had these things called malls, and they all played music without lyrics, because a mall is a noisy place and any lyrics get lost.
Also I think there were performance fees for playing copyright music. The laws are obtuse.
Anyway, most of the malls settled on this mass produced milquetoast “smooth jazz”. And then piped that into all of their stores.
This story has nothing to do with the creation of that pattern, which was made for a Sweetheart Cup Company internal design contest. The designer needed a name that wasn’t just Gina’s submission, and so a random word was picked.
The fact that most malls had started using those same sort of pastel colors might have had some subconscious impact, but that’s just my thoughts on it.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 month ago:
The driving was kind of janky compared to previous games. I didn’t mind the random hangers on that you’re saposed to care about, it was the driving that got me.
How do you fuck up driving in a Saints Row game?
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 month ago:
The first game had a phone number to call, that would bring back dead characters as zombies.