Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
8hr ago
The ancient Bulgarian one - Shumi Maritsa and the Old Soviet one.
Rough translation of the Bulgarian - Maritsa is a river in Bulgaria.
The Maritsa Roars
The Maritsa roars, stained with blood; a widow weeps, grievously wounded.
March, march, with our general! Into battle let us fly, the foe to defeat.
Children of Bulgaria, the whole world watches us; come, toward victory, glorious, let us march.
March, march, etc.
The Balkan Lion, in a titanic battle against enemy hordes, leads us on with wings.
March, march, etc.
Young and ardent, amid the whirlwinds of battle, we are worthy to gather laurels.
March, march, etc.
We are the people who, for honor and freedom, for our beloved nation, know how to die.
March, march, with our general— into battle let us fly, the foe to defeat.
Lizzardspawn
8hr ago
3m 8959 is your friend. Bi directional, glass fiber reinforced, extremely good adhesion once pressed properly. This is tape that should have "and stay put" as its moto.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
The AI doomerist crowd is what happens when you roll all Int build with wisdom as a dump stat. Marina from the Marina and the diamonds fame has more of said dump stat than that community combined - "I'm not afraid of God, I am afraid of man". AGI should be the worst of your worry with AI. Worry about the authoritarians regimes ruling forever. Almost any (wannabe) dictator on this planet has enough territory and they are not really expansionist. But we are already here - even if anthropic stops AI development today - the stazis of the world would not. And the problem is of course not AI but the innate human tendency every regime to evolve into absolutism in the end. AI killing us all and then moving to rule the galaxy is the better option than forever oppression.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
The week in AI fun:
Give me suggestions about mocking name for ai doomerists - in the line of branch covidians and trustafarians. To hint that they are religious cult mostly
Some of the better suggestions:
Doominicans
Singularitarians
Yudkowskites
Yuddites
LessWrongians
Effective Apocalyptists
Pdoominicans
Doomish
Personally my favorite is Yuddites
If AI is going to rule us all and into darkness bind us, I do hope that it will be from OpenAI or China. There are at least hints of humor in their model.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
There has been a lot of character assassination of the holdout juror.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
You call it a risk, I call it a blessing. Anyway with a lot of stuff - the hard is part is surviving making the dangerous thing. The reason bioweapons never picked up is not because USA and USSR didn't want them to work.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
New way to make game mods.
Give this prompt to deepseek flash.
ok. this is unreal engine game. called prince of persia the lost crown. There is player power that enables the player to travel between wak wak trees and not only the dedicated points. it is an item from the shop and it shows there after the completion of return to the past quest. I want it available from the beginning of the game.
The dude one shotted it for around 10 minutes of work.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Are there memes already - Africa if Mercator projection was not used - a view of vast futuristic landscape? This one just begs for it.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
Real medicine is not white collar work. I can assure you that your administrators and HR are slacking like never before.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
I am not sure they are working less, but they are definitely slacking more and having more unproductive time working 9 to 5.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
I think we will see explosion in game mods. Just games that on release have strong potential but for a stupid decision or so fail. Right now making a good mod is non trivial. But we have stories of frontier models not even bothering with decompiling - they just read the assembly and figure out what is going on. That is massive boon for people that have solid ideas how to improve something, but lack the time or skill to reverse engineer the sources.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
On the other hand, the boosters have also been continually proven wrong in terms of the effects in the world.
There are effects. Every white collar person I know is working order of magnitude less.
This is why it is so hard to measure. AI is absolutely revolutionary but in some amusing twist the majority of the value it generates is non monetarily
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Find some place ran by proper speznaz that has finished his training pre 1991. (or equivalents from other warsaw pact countries, but pre 1991 or at worst 1995 is paramount)). Ask him to teach you combat sambo. Then be ready to be tried for involuntarily manslaughter at least.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Nuclear weapons are easy. The delivery is the moderately challenging part - and so far we haven't seen that they can deliver.
Don't throw me ready lines about Indian and Pakistani intelligence ... programs. I have spent enough time in E9 in Islamabad. More than I would like honestly. They were ... ok. Aside from the 24/7 blasting anti India propaganda. But it is easy to have good air force if you are willing to spend money on it. Which is true for almost everywhere in the third world - if the top guy or the hunta wants something they usually get it. Getting everything to work ok in a country seems to be beyond their reach. Back in 2022 I was amazed how frequently there were short blackouts. Which I didn't experience in Burkina Faso or Togo.
Feel free to amend the Muslim countries list. I left out the Gulf states because they really go overboard with the whole exploiting the indentured servants thing. Probably Oman could turn into nice place to live eventually - they seem a bit more mellow.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
once "strip citizenship from someone on the enemy team" is on the political menu?
There is difference in citizenship by blood and by fiat. And in a way it doesn't matter - Islam is existential threat.
There are only 7 high quality* Muslim majority countries - Bosnia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and Malaysia. 6 of them are white, the 7th is ruled by the Chinese. There are no high quality black majority countries. And the subcontinent remains awfully underdeveloped. And this is the people that Europe is accepting in droves.
So it is existential because they just don't know how to build or maintain a country once they get in power. What germany will look like when they are a majority - you just have to look at their countries - they are inhabited and ruled by people like them.
*If we are generous.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
The fact that many German men and women can not come to mutually agreeable terms to raise kids does not mean that anyone is being genocided.
A 60% muslim Germany is no longer Germany. A 20 million Germany inhabited only by Germans still is. Ok replace genocide with extinction.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
not only are a significant fraction of physicians in Germany foreign-born (and may feel slightly unwelcome),
What part of their competent physicians are foreign born? And also lets not pretend that all foreigners are created equal. AfD don't want Eastern Europeans or East Asians or Latin Americans gone that bad.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
On the other hand, this seems like a slippery slope that draws into question what citizenship even is.
Having blood ties to the area from before 1969 (that includes marriage). Simple definition. Minor exception for people that actually assimilated. Any son of Mustafa that is named Gunter, baptized into Christianity, wears Lederhosen and eats pork bratwurst with a lot of mustard and prodigious amounts of beer should have way to stay.
Also there a lot of people in Germany that are not citizens anyway.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
world squares with Hegseth's desire to MAMA (Make the Armed forces Macho Again).
Only the realest of man can fuck other man.
When Chuck Norris has sex with a man, it is not because he is gay, but because he has run out of women
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
They should really hammer on the immigration issue. That is their winning card. And yet no one was talking about it. People in Europe really want some foreigners gone.
Also Salvini got to power.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
You should be able to self install them. It is extremely simple.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
I am not in the USA. But I assume that the costs of panels is comparable. So 30kw of panels here are 5500 eur (I could probably shave 500 if I actually bother to search, this is just first google list price). Probably put additional thousand for inverter/wiring. For 10Kw the bom is probably 3k euro?
So the bom is quite modest. And I am sure in USA won't be much more expensive. So I am just wondering where the rest of the money goes.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
$24k to install
Can you break it down. Where I live this is the cost of 130Kw solar powerplant. Give or take.
I kinda tried to explain something to a friend of mine along the lines of - you vote far right now and you may lose some rights (doubtful) or you don't vote and then in 50 years you and your granddaughter lose all of them. i was greeted with a blank stare and how that was impossible.
Fairly simple - people from countries perceived as shithole ones are also perceived as shithole people until proven otherwise.
You represent your country and your country represents you. This is why no one cares about Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Thai or Vietnamese people anymore. In the mind of the westerner they learned how to human - so it is not a big deal if some of them move over here.
Whereas India is represented by humorous TikTok videos about how they prepare street food there and the fact that their holy river has suffers from "severe contamination, primarily caused by billions of liters of untreated sewage, industrial runoff, agricultural chemicals". The H1B system abuse is also not winning hearts and minds.
Until India develops properly and has somewhat sane HDI and Gini, Indians won't be seen as equal peers, no matter their personal qualities.
Is it racist, unfair, bigoted and biased - yes. Is this humanity default mode of operation - also yes. It matters where you were born and raised and how you look like.
There is developed country origin privilege - people from the whole of the world give you some credit of goodwill that people from the underdeveloped areas are not afforded.
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