Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
11hr ago
We are in uncharted territory. This is the first war in which one of the adversaries is going strictly after the elite and is able to actually get them. Which is actually the right way to wage war. If ukraine and russia could reasonably kill each other's key people - there would have been peace years ago.
I am sure that Iran are smart and brave, but I have suspicion that the smart are not brave and the brave are not smart. For a war they have been preparing for 40 years - they don't have a single trick up their sleeve so far. In Ukraine war - we had impressive Ukrainian actions very soon after the start.
There are a lot of "middle managers" in Iran that are both scared for their lives and looking at career advancement opportunities. Soon some of them will figure out that by strategically leaking info to Mossad they will be off their hit list and help weed out opponents.
USA will always be on top, because of two huge oceans that are unmovable at least on human scales. The only real danger is Brasil getting their shit together. But when it comes to odds - Brasil getting powerful is up there with the new Ayatollah becoming catholic.
And when it comes to them hitting west techies first - this scene is the biggest perversion inflicted on source material ever. But is illustrating about various defenses to that approach. https://youtube.com/watch?v=B203twyaMfM&t=34
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Seems to me we need to do "forum shopping" with the different LLMs. Like the fucking X-files - the truth is out there.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
In the most important thing so far - code codex wipes the floor with claude
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
It's also arguably backfiring with GCC countries (though this is largely irrelevant as they have little offensive capability beyond hosting American forces and allowing the use of their airspace, which they've been doing anyway).
They could totally pool together 100B dollars and offer them as rewards for the heads of 2000 strong list of the Iranian elite. There will be takers.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
You are tearing me apart Lisa!
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
That's how you grow and become mature.
Only if the errors are recoverable from.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Umm. His net worth was sub 5b. He couldn't donate large sums even if he wanted to. Relative to what Ukraine needs.
For the rest of post - we may stumble into unpleasantly Puritan era or we summon Slaanesh. No middle road.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Is he Elizabeth Holmes long lost brother? Same vibe.
Anyway couple of thoughts - yes killing yourself will make any kind of preservation easier. They could even start the process before you are dead. That is not a big break trough.
Anyway - there are a lot of lab mice in the world. If the technology was real - they could show something with a lab mice after it is preserved.
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Which means that in the next 72 hours we will hear a lot of hot takes about onlyfans. Then it will be Trump all over again.
One of the things I noticed when trawling reddit was absolute lack of sympathy from anyone. The guy may have been the most exposed to culture war dude in the world - some hate him because of onlyfans, some hate him because he is jewish and aipac donor.
For onlyfans - I don't think this is boon for humanity. And I think in a way it is just Sports Betting but for women. Mild to severe ruin of your life for the slim chance to make it big. There could be such things as too many creators, too many influences, too many habibis living in Dubai and Bali.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Probably but in 2022 it was the "globohomo" in charge of EU that were pearclutching hard.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
federal government to feel that way.
Federal government has always felt this way. There didn't seems to be any bad blood towards Russians even though their military advisors helped kill a lot of US soldiers in Vietnam.
The biggest allegation would be that Khamenei jr is currently directing the Iranian government from Russia, which would be a lot worse.
That is the greatest gift Russia could give you. So many communications that can be intercepted.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
No. I am referring to supporting Ukraine unconditionally instead of cutting Realpolitik deal.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
So basically no issue at all.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Any reason to treat sharing intelligence with Iran different than sharing intelligence with Ukraine? I think that the Administration has - "yeah it is fair game" approach. I doubt that there is something physical with which Russia helps Iran - they don't have much to spare and shipping right now will be hard.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Hyperbolic a bit? No the next few days won't change the world even if Iranians start singing Flintstones, meet the Flintstones.
It is a boring local war to which US has committed tiny portion of its force, oil takes 3 months from well to tank so any shortages and price rises are artificial right now. With Venezuela secured - chances of physical shortages for the US is low - IIRC the US has capacity in this type of heavy oil. With Qatar gone Europe will import more LNG from the states. And if Europe is left without oil - it is their own fault for antagonizing Russia.
Also there is no such thing as civilian energy infrastructure. It is not as if you can separate the electrons by spin and split them into separate conductors for the military and for the general population.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
By that logic Russia too couldn't have been enemy for decades and decades.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Ukraine has totally been USA enemy in the decades before 1989. Ukraine is exactly as Russia by any conceivable metric just scaled down a bit. Third - Ukraine is too weak to be an ally. Potential client state is a better description no matter what Churchill of the 21st century thinks.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
How did AI impressed you this week?
I have been playing STS2 this week a lot. When I ask AI to create me advanced savescum script and just pointed it to the save directory, I was not impressed when it succeeded on the first try. When I asked it to check if something is editable in save (that was the literal prompt) and made it create a script to edit a save with more gold and max and current xp, I was not impressed. When it had to figure out the Courrier artifact and add it to a new game - I was also not impressed. When the AI started showing awareness of the game itself talking about maps and exit nodes, when it tried to help me because I was stuck - (if there are no relics to be had, the chests didn't generate a circlet, but get stuck) - and figured out on itself that is should ask me about which path to take after the check. Well I was impressed.
Also Codex cli as personality is a lot less annoying than its ChatGPT version.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Has USA actually lost a major-ish battle after the Civil War ended?
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Hell with Chuck Norris is heaven
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Sts2 is so gloriously broken right now it is great. I am actually archiving pirated releases so I can play the fun versions before "balancing" starts to rule.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
On the same day as Chuck Norris. Let's hope St Peter doesn't mix who's who.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Context: Saleh Mohammadi was executed for demanding democracy by way of killing police officers.
Context: Iranian justice system has the same relationship to truth, facts and reality as cryptobros, tech startup founders, instagram influencers and astrologists.
It will work because USA has limited goals in Iran. No nuclear program, inability for Iran to close the strait and no long range missiles. And they will be left to live and roll in their islamic sty of their own devise. Freedom for Iranian people, secular regime are nice bonuses, but not that important. If you kill the people that can only say no, eventually some that are amenable to yes will come to power. So the deal that the US is offering Iran is pretty sweet. Eventually there will be a clique of takers. Rule however you see fit a nation of 90m with reintegration into the global economy and the massive growth is nice.
Whereas Israel wants Gaza to not exist. Their dehamasing special military operation needed to be much deeper. And Israel didn't had the guts to conduct it properly.
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