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by spwa4 6mo ago
In it's entire existence? I believe it shot up a couple tens of thousands of schools during the cultural revolution, and not by mistake. But yeah, I guess that's not bombing. China clearly prefers shooting the students, keeping th
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Are you implying China treats foreigners well?
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Are we now not at all allowed to reference problems in other societies? We can complain about western society, and complaints from 100 years ago, when even my grandfather wasn't born yet, are valid criticism of America/Europe&#x2F
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by spwa4 6mo ago
> This is how a caste system works. Not at all. In a caste system a lower caste person will get attacked if he (or especially she) has any success at all. Whether or not what they did was legal or not does not factor into the equation. F
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by spwa4 7mo ago
Yes, but you're leaving out the other 9 countries the Soviet Union occupied, and immediately started killing the population to keep their conquests: Poland, Austria’s Soviet zone, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, La
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by spwa4 7mo ago
I live in the Netherlands. The closest one was about 260 km from where I live. Of course, not any more.
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by spwa4 7mo ago
Let's compare with the Soviets and conclude the obvious: the US did retreat.
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by spwa4 7mo ago
It's driven by attempting to outinvest eachother in AI, which is very different. They're not replacing job functions by AI. They're dropping more and more stuff on the floor, abandoning it and using the money to invest in dat
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by spwa4 7mo ago
You do realize that the Axis (Nazi Germany, Japan) were attacking everyone with the explicitly stated goal of conquering the world (and subjecting it to the holocaust, we might add), and US stopped them, conquered Europe, North Africa, half
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by spwa4 7mo ago
> There’s a whole world of social work that isn’t desperately trying to regulate people who were in Toddler Fight Club out there. 1) You have a very weird idea of fighting sports. Fight club is just drunkards hitting each other like girl
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by spwa4 7mo ago
You don't seem to realize the difference between those 2. > The way to fix it is to empower one government agency to do aggressive pentesting against every other agency, hospitals, banks, infrastructure, and big corporations, with s
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by spwa4 7mo ago
Of course you can go higher. Haven't you read how Kim Jong Un does it? Well, communism of course, and [1] Sure you can afford the best room. But can you afford 100 prostitutes on standby? Choice matters. Sure you can afford the best ro
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by spwa4 7mo ago
ssshhhh ... in reality it's of course the case that the poorer a country is, the more unequal it is. In Pakistan the gulf between rich and poor is easily 100x what it is in the US. The most luxurious hotels in the world, the most decad
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by spwa4 7mo ago
Given where the world is headed, I'm starting to see the wisdom in that more and more.
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by spwa4 7mo ago
1) they'll know it exists in the first place 2) they can figure out a plan for when it happens 3) they can see if any countermeasures would be effective 4) they can figure out what to look for and find those weapons before they're
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by spwa4 7mo ago
The problem is always the same. It's not just MoD (is it MoW now?) that will have access to this. YoloV8 + optical flow works fine on an esp32. You want to give a drone rough coordinates for a refinery and hit something in it, like a s
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by spwa4 7mo ago
This is not a forensic psych ward. The only way to get into those is to commit an actual serious crime, which is pretty hard to do before you're 18 years old. This environment is referred to as "closed", sometimes even "
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by spwa4 7mo ago
The social worker in question forced confinement on children, when I was one, and got to experience her own tactics firsthand. Her reaction to her own tactics was indeed to quit the job entirely, the second she got loose. Of course, the sam
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by spwa4 7mo ago
I don't claim they are. And even if my experience is a 1% case, you still need to make people aware they're a possibility. And it's far more than 1%.
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by spwa4 7mo ago
... services that use force against individuals. Never ever, ever tell a social worker of any kind that you think of suicide, or that anyone else does. ESPECIALLY not if you're young. Help, or social worker's kind of help, does no
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by spwa4 7mo ago
Unsloth quants available: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6
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by spwa4 7mo ago
Yeah what that doesn't say is of course that those tensions have escalated from "critical" to "critical-and-also-FUCK-you". But as I pointed out in the post you're replying, seizing vessels by either party is n
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by spwa4 7mo ago
> At the heart of this deal is Amazon’s custom chips: Graviton (a low-power CPU) and Trainium (an Nvidia competitor and AI accelerator chip). The Anthropic deal ... Yeah, totally not desperately seeking investment to keep the party going
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by spwa4 7mo ago
Of course not. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/timeline-irans-recent-... https://www.reuters.com/article/world/britain-says-iran-seiz... https://www.reuters.com/wor
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by spwa4 7mo ago
See https://github.com/zeroecco/holos/blob/5f5e60f753c5e99c421db... Qemu command-line calls
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by spwa4 7mo ago
> How in the world does a belief in US/UK meddling ... Because you exclude all other meddling as an explanation. The Kremlin is the other big source of meddling (if you rate them by success in actually changing things, US is on top.
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by spwa4 7mo ago
What is the cause then?
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by spwa4 7mo ago
I'd get a bit informed about what exactly Chinese dominance entails. Ask a few Uyghurs, Cantonese Hong Kongers, or even Tibetans. Then decide ...
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by spwa4 7mo ago
No. This will get worse. A LOT worse. Remember all the discussion about how no human contact was a big improvement in the Waymo/Tesla/robotaxi discussions?
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by spwa4 7mo ago
I wonder what political and trade consequences can be expected when oil actually does start seeing real decreased usage. I mean one obvious thing has already started: governments taxing the sun (well, solar panels) pretty heavily (meaning a

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