ozmodiar

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by ozmodiar 2y ago
So far the only jobs AI seems to be trying to take are the 'good' ones. Creativity, analysis, programming. Sure there's the dream that people in all 3 groups will just leverage it to do more and better, but most of the impact
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Visited 4chan twice about 5 years apart, saw CSAM both times. I have an absolute hatred of the place rightly or wrongly.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
They might not be more successful, but they are still very successful given the difficulties they face, and any Chinese person with half a brain can realize they give lie to the idea the CCP likes to propogate that there's something in
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
I largely agree with this so far, but my worry is that it's only been two months (though it may seem like an eternity). I'm worried he has much worse in store that won't be so easily circumvented, and we may already be seeing
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
That's why I always try to buy from Gog. They have a commitment that you should be able to download the game, back it up to whatever media you like, and play it without an internet connection. Of course this means you can't find e
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
You're not joking, a lot of people I talk to have gone from anti nuke to hard pro nuke. I can see the future having a lot more nukes in it now that there's no reliable world order to believe in.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
There are, or were, talks in Taiwan and China about the possibility of a "one party two systems" style unification similar to Hong Kong. It was pretty fringe but growing in popularity until China cracked down on Hong Kong. I don&#
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
They don't hate them, but it is an emberassment that a group from the same culture is so successful under a different political system that allows for more freedom. That combined with cultural revanchism about not breaking up the count
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
The ethnic cleansing Uyghur concentration camps are probably the biggest one. Also threatening Taiwan, which is a lovely country I would hate to see destroyed. Besides that the social control the government exerts is pretty frightening to m
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
If people try to go back to the way things were in 4 years they're stupid. Trump threatens allies, nakidly goes after political enemies and makes 'jokes' about becoming a dictator and the people love it unless/even if it
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
And considering a lot of them probably are aspiring to emulate it, everyone else should be figuring out how to avoid this sort of power consolidation and capture.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Because he forwards political causes in the US and abroad that are vehemently anti-global warming and anti environmental protection in general (among other things...). This will likely more than undo any contributions he's theoreticall
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
IMO we've really got to start pressuring our own governments to take control of their networks, as well as the companies the population is going through (not just Facebook, but even international contractors for services). Letting a fo
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
We're a bit rural but still too tightly packed for farm dogs. They've got a regular dog but it doesn't have quite the free rein a farm dog requires to keep chickens locked down. Kind of the worst of both worlds as far as the
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
I really wish I could still believe that last part.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Yep, this is a problem right here. Once something does make it in it's a massacre.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
My neighbor has chickens and the predators are no joke. Raccoons constantly trying to weaken their coop, weasels always ready to slip into any little hole, hawks and other birds of prey circling overhead. They've lost a lot of chickens
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Say that to all the Ironman XCom games I've had ruined by a missed 99% shot.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
The problem is they've already threatened most of their allies. In divide and conquer the goal is supposed to be to divide your enemies, not divide yourself from your allies. As it is their enemies and allies now have good reason to wo
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
It's so ridiculous. From an outside perspective the US starts cackling wildly and making threats (and they do seem to delight particularly in trying to humiliate their targets), then when people think they won't actually do it the
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
As a Canadian, with the amount of unprovoked aggression coming from the USA and the turmoil being caused by even the threats of tariffs (yes, companies have to take into account that there might be tariffs and that causes chaos) let along i
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Seriously, I remember the Bush admin going after the wife of a CIA operative by leaking her identity after he spoke out about the war intel being bullshit. As someone who was following the Iraq war from the left side and pretty disgusted by
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
If there's one thing I don't think you get banned for on Bluesky it's porn so that comic made zero sense.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
As a Canadian I haven't heard about the trucker protest since they happened. It was bizarre seeing it come up as the top discussion point in this thread and seems like a big mismatch between American and Canadian perception of what&#x2
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
To try to expand on this in a constructive way, I think the similarities are that they both pretend to be outsiders while being very connected and powerful and have a worrying amount of disrespectful and vindictive rhetoric and a refusal to
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
We've done something very wrong as a society if we need to kneecap ourselves to prop up property investors. My life feels like nothing but "once in a lifetime" financial problems.
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
Sadly I think you're right. As some say the cruelty is the point. I also think much of the AI boom is just an excuse to get rid of people and get them to accept worse conditions. At the local IBM office they cut half the staff with the
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
I assume by unable you mean they had to stop due to persecution? It sounds from this article that this practice that had survived so long also hit an abrupt stop when faced with persecution from colonizers (at least that's why I'm
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
This jives with my experience as well. Chinese has a ton of near homophones that are distinguished by tone. One interesting result of this is that Chinese speakers seem to hate hate hate accents, even just from other parts of China. I hear
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by ozmodiar 2y ago
I would equate this with a form of extreme slander, so your inference is wrong. They aren't a problem because they are real, they are a problem because they can be passed off as real, and the issue is in the reputational damage. I&#x27

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