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- Comment on Preparing for the new America 6 days ago:
Consider the type of person that thrives in a fascist society. If you are not that type of person, you will wither. There is no middle ground.
Do you believe the US can still be pulled back from the brink? Stay and fight for it. If you don’t, leave while it’s still easy.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
Sag zum Abschied leise “Servus”.
- Comment on Struggling 1 week ago:
Please tell me this is a joke.
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 1 week ago:
There are German (of course) Youtube channels that do deep analysis of Tesla build quality. They have improved to “mostly passable” but still quite cheap wherever possible.
- Comment on Depart, men of education. 1 week ago:
Why would the US need scientists when they have stable geniuses?
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
This is the correct answer.
- Comment on Google is replacing Google Assistant with Gemini | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Every couple of years I try out the latest “assistant”. I ask very simple queries, stzff that you might expect it to be able to handle. It always disappoints hilariously.
Questions where previous assistants consistently and utterly failed: “What’s the weather going to be like today?” “I want to go to [address], using public transport, can you tell me which routes I have to take?” “What are my appointments today?”
You’d think these are pretty obvious use-cases, but every iteration of assistants was completely incapable of getting even closer to a satisfying answer. I don’t expect LLMs to fare better this time around.
- Comment on Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot. 2 weeks ago:
This is a well written piece full of astute observations. I have a problem with one point, though:
The new civilizational struggle is between hard and soft*.* Don’t overthink this. Trump is not playing four-dimensional chess and trying to pry Russia from its alliance with China. American foreign policy is now oriented to whatever gets Trump’s hormones surging. He has a lifelong thing for manly virility. In the MAGA mind, Vladimir Putin codes as hard; Western Europe codes as soft. Elon Musk codes as hard; U.S.A.I.D. codes as soft. WWE is hard; universities are soft. Struggles for dominance are hard; alliances are soft.
It’s not the difference between “hard” and “soft” that matters here, it’s the difference between “simple” and “complex”. Trump, in every conceivable way, is a simple man, and his followers find that one of his most attractive traits. He, like them, neither understands nor accepts complexity and that informs his world-view and actions.
- Comment on Teardown is getting a multiplayer update, so you can rough up innocent walls with your best friends 2 weeks ago:
This is fantastic! I played the multilayer mod back in the day and it was always a blast.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 3 weeks ago:
Monthly amount is the way to go! I chip in a whole fiver over at feddit.org each month, because that’s easily worth it. You get what you pay for, after all.
- Comment on After Poland spat, Musk vows Ukraine can keep Starlink 3 weeks ago:
“To be extremely clear, no matter how much I disagree with the Ukraine policy, Starlink will never turn off its terminals,” Musk wrote.
Why did you mention it then?
- Comment on Every morning when I read the latest news 3 weeks ago:
It is and it’s a great movie. Probably the best movie about ai.
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 3 weeks ago:
Quite the opposite. Due to systemic corruption autocracies are economically highly inefficient with low productivity across the board with all kinds of long term effects this brings. And while it might look bad for democracies at the moment, I think many of the current crop of autocracies will be short lived. In the end, economy is where it’s at, and autocracies are horrible at it.
- Comment on Favourite Mario Kart game? 3 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer.
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