paganel

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by paganel 5d ago
> Because it was forbidden by law. You were forced to be put in an institution or directly went to prison Seems like a very good law, don't you think? And this reminded me of how come one of my favorite childhood books from when I
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by paganel 5d ago
> Currently Berlin is under high demand, and that’s why drives prices up Yeah, I know the written logic of all this, but as things stand right now we didn't have homelessness East of the Wall back in the day, while the West had. Tha
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by paganel 5d ago
You need sound logic against the evils of neo-liberalism, there's nothing logic about housing being as expensive as it now is.
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by paganel 9d ago
Yeah, that sort of thing, where the law sort of dictates the current morality based on the "morality" the of above mentioned neo-liberal order/current state of things. Of course that all this is kind of circular, meaning the
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by paganel 9d ago
In a Gramscian understanding of the world it is, yes. Forget Gramsci, right now I'm finishing reading a book by Maurice Gauchet [1] (not a leftist by any means) whos's saying exactly that, i.e. that neo-liberalism is very much def
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by paganel 10d ago
> and legislative integration Does Canada's agricultural output follow EU's (quite strict) norms? Not sure if this falls under "legislative integration" but I'd say that it would be quite important to have settle
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by paganel 11d ago
> remigrate Found the German. As the Italians put it: "non c'e due senza tre", it seems like you guys are dead-bent on doing it for a third time. Morgenthau was 100% correct on his plan, too bad things didn't go his w
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by paganel 11d ago
> I hope western countries will respond in kind with the mass sabotage acts I live in Bucharest, the closest NATO capital to the clusterfuck in Southern Ukraine, when you'll get conscripted/when you'll volunteer and when y
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by paganel 11d ago
> comrade My grandfather was a Communist Party member, as was my dad, unfortunately I ended up living in this neo-liberal hell. Which is to say that I had sincerely wished to be a "tovarăș", but those days are by now long behin
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by paganel 11d ago
> also sells to the military... where have you been hiding? And the Western-built railway system has been used for war/military reasons since its very inception (almost), it's how Prussia got the best over the Habsburgs at Sad
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by paganel 12d ago
Romanian here, the same applied here on all counts. Back in the '80s and going into the '90s we also used to name an infamous and poor Bucharest area as RFG (FRG in English), which was the capital letters of those three neighborho
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by paganel 12d ago
The author of that tweet is obviously very biased, seeing how he's employed by a petro-state to build a LLM system for them. Come to think of it, I wouldn't take the opinions of people employed by petro-states at face value, to th
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by paganel 13d ago
Generated via ChatGPT, as google-ing it would have taken too much time: Rank Cloud Approx. annual revenue Growth My assessment 1 AWS ~$129B ~20% Clear leader 2 Microsoft Azure ~$90B ~40%+ Strong #2, rapidly closing 3 Google Cloud ~$59B 36%
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by paganel 13d ago
AUR (our local extremist party here in Romania) is also at 40%, the thing is that the powers that be have stopped having elections here because of that. Don’t act like this it will last, because it won’t, the wealthy regions in countries li
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by paganel 13d ago
There are? Which ones? Are they going to make our lives livable?
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by paganel 14d ago
There's a general malaise throughout this continent of Europe that neither these journos nor most of the (quite financially well-off) computer programmers from forums like this one are willing to look up straight in the face. The 40% A
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by paganel 17d ago
I also can't fathom paying $2,200 for a phone, which is to say that we're not all working for US big tech companies in here.
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by paganel 17d ago
> The benefits of a mass surveilled world are enormous - epidemiology is gonna rock in 20 years. If you suggest mass surveillance as a "solution" to the next pandemic (I might be wrong on this and maybe I've misread your c
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by paganel 18d ago
> Advertisers on Google should be paying a lot less than they were a year ago. I wonder how the Google Search page traffic has been affected by the recent AI surge. Very anecdotally, of course, but in my social circle (middle-class urban
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by paganel 25d ago
I agree, this is pure (US) boomer behavior, they still think that the world will care about them almost a century into the future from the moment of their deaths. The world won't do that, one of the reasons being that said boomers have
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by paganel 27d ago
The Portugal to (approximately) Macao one is quite interesting, thanks for the links!
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by paganel 27d ago
The chaos is already here for us, the majority who are suffering the higher prices. Why do you think we're voting for the "extremist" parties? It's not because of "Russian propaganda", it's because life fo
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by paganel 27d ago
Thanks for the input, wasn’t sure if he was just copy-pasting his finds directly or not, looks like he isn’t.
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by paganel 27d ago
You won’t mind higher prices? Are you rich? Because most of us Europeans certainly aren’t.
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by paganel 27d ago
> so the non-LLM options here are some posts that are much sloppier than my normal posts (in a human slop kind of way), or almost no posts. I'm a little confused, but as far as I understand this is a LLM-written post, isn't it?
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by paganel 29d ago
> painful & unsustainable MFA trends. This very web-forum was a very big proponent of those politics a few years ago.
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by paganel 29d ago
We did grab pitchforks further East, in Romania, they were called Mineriads (the last one took place in early 1999 [1]), it's only that the Westernized elites painted that as barbarism (i.e. the miners were seen as barbarians) versus t
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by paganel 29d ago
A pedo talking about AI is still a pedo and his opinion should be discounted on the spot. You know, because of him being a pedo. Unless you entertain discussing the opinions held by pedos, in which case I have nothing to add.
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by paganel 29d ago
Fuck this Epstein pedo, how come we're giving voice to this class of people?
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by paganel 29d ago
> Most of the "human tokens" at companies today are spent this way It sucks that we got to this point when it comes to our civilization. At least guys like this one here can be happy with their AI-sourced money.

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