frmersdog

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by frmersdog 8mo ago
Well, we're certainly not collaborating with West Africa to bomb France. Not even the Philippines, Taiwan, and Uyghur and Hong Kong dissidents to bomb China. I mean, it could just be the evangelicals hoping to start a holy war that her
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
I believed these sorts of statements a few years ago, but not anymore. Results were hit-and-miss enough to give the benefit-of-the-doubt. They're now so bad that I assume bad faith, either on the part of the speaker or Google.
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
AI is not and cannot be search. Search is dead and has been for a few years now. Search has seemingly been subsumed into the LLM monster, considering how "fuzzy" queries have become (probably because they're not hitting the s
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
It's also wrong to think that company performance has anything to do with stock prices nowadays, anyway. Look at Oracle, supposedly an established company with a predictable runway for future earnings, jumping 40% (40%!) and then shedd
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
(Obviously I'm being facetious. There will, of course, be jobs. And also, a lot of capital owners sitting on the sidelines, debt payments incoming with no income stream.)
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
You're correct. Iteration is grand!
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
The guy who runs it does not seem like the most trustworthy fellow. The whole Worldcoin debacle and all. Even the people who like ChatGPT were quite unhappy about the sudden deprecation of 4o and replacement by 5. On that note, there seems
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
*chomping at the bit. Ironically, China has also proven that you can't easily import expertise. At best, you can "steal" it over a long period of being the current industrial center's gopher.
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
The logical conclusion of the scenario being floated here is that if enough workers resist their own exploitation, the "job creators" will take their capital and go... somewhere. And then there will be no jobs.
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
Helped along by a little clandestine sabotage, of course.
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
> Mastroianni’s explanation is that the weirdos and freaks who actually move culture forward with new music and books and movies and genres of art have disappeared, potentially because life is just so comfortable and high-quality now tha
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
War makes things a huge mess. It makes things an even bigger mess than resistance, by inuring the public to its devastation via distance from the front line, and by offering soldiers a respite when they're able to rotate out. The viole
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
This is a good rundown of (the history of) the appeal, particularly to male viewers. I hesitate to call the melodrama "incidental", though, as the female viewers it drew in were the ones who saved the franchise (per Tomino) when i
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
Jamaican Daninghan. Not to be confused with Cuban Pete. And please do not forget that 'Kamille' is a man's name.
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
The Expanse has been called, "The closest thing that we're going to get to a live-action Gundam series," in the past. And it's certainly better in a lot of ways. You do have to thank Gundam (and Alien) for dragging us ou
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
He learned that the Russians had greater resolve. The hard way.
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
GBF is a love letter to the franchise and to the gunpla subculture. Its animation quality is high, the characters are fun, and Easter eggs are fun to look out for - including more than one where characters who met unhappy fates in their ori
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
Sure, but it doesn't require throwing young people who don't care to fight into pitched battle meat grinders. Obviously, either path is undesirable. It would be nice if we could use some of those "undermining and overthrowing
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
Russia in Afghanistan. America in Afghanistan. America in Iraq. America and France in Vietnam. France in Algeria. France in Haiti. Britain in Ireland. Honorable mention to Britain in America and Germany in France, where guerilla/resist
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
Wars are won on resolve, and mercenaries don't have any. The reason so many of these people fled to Europe in the first place was to avoid getting caught up in violence. They have zero reason to fight anything except the insistence t
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
History shows that the best way to resist, in these circumstances, might be to let them in, and then blow them up in the streets and countryside until they leave. It's cheaper and (morbidly enough) probably has a lower human cost.
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
When the alternative is regular and predictable violence. The corporate elite who don't cause issues will vouch for a stronger rule of law wrt their actions, out of fear of becoming an undeserving victim of the zeitgeist. It's bet
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by frmersdog 10mo ago
I don't know if that's it. Speaking from outside the tech space: most of my office jobs since 2012 have been "doing the easy/annoying tasks that had to be done, but more senior people didn't want to 'waste time
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
I think you misunderstood. I was pointing out that, in the country which came into being (twice) through a war fought principally to preserve rich, slave-holding landowners' right to hold or gain further land and slaves, it's goin
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
I'll take Charms, mouse gestures, and the Start Screen over Copilot any day.
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
It's also not very good at any of those things, if you ask it to generate something far enough outside of the mainstream, or something particular, or something consistent, or- But, yeah, the insistence that we deprecate every other eve
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
Depends on how deep the pillow talk went during the Obama admin.
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
>We in western democracies used to regard with disdain those corrupt, ridiculous leadership figures in so-called banana republics and third-world dictatorships, with their openly corrupt dealings and amoral excesses. Not that I wholly di
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
High school never ends.
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
AFAIC, the correct take on the situation is thus: https://files.catbox.moe/ufn8qa.png And if even these guys can see it, we're screwed.

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