MayorofOysterville
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Because I already have the information, but putting it into the fiddly little forms the bosses want is incredibly annoying because you have to slice and dice your natural outline into these tiny specific chunks. Now I already feed my info into the AI and have it do that but then it's just endless copy and pasting and easy to mix up what goes where because of all the fiddly boxes and even that just copying and pasting takes an annoying long time. An AI that could interact with the form directly would instantly automate an incredibly tedious task.
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2mo ago
Joe versus the Volcano with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. It's a romcom with Meg Ryan playing several characters and Tom Hanks working a dead end office job, after being told by his doctor he is dying he is hired by a rich man to go jump into a volcano. It's a little off the wall but It is one of my all time favorites.
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2mo ago
The wokies can't win a straight vote. They universally hated Biden but it didn't matter.
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2mo ago
Kamala was never that popular without a coronation there's no way she gets the nomination.
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2mo ago
I think Kulak severely overestimates the offensive capabilities of the Iranians. They can't bring millions of human wave tactics against the US Army. Any attempt to mass such forces and they'll be flattened in short order by the US Airforce. Also given the fragility of the Iranian regime I question their ability to give millions of unvetted conscripts guns. If going against the Americans means certain death and going against the Mullahs means that airforce fights for you... well I expect any mass conscription to end it short order. And speaking of conscription the Gulf states lack the population base for his proposed cannon fodder, they have a tiny population of citizens and those citizens are fat and happy they aren't going to go die in the Iranian mountains for Israel nor will their monarchs send them to.
We don't need a draft anyway though because America could conquer the two provinces he mentions with just the national guard. He whole analysis assumes they Iranians will be able to fling millions of men at the US which they won't because of America's overwhelming airpower.
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2mo ago
I'd say their cultural achievement runs the other way. There one of the best maintained non western cultures.
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2mo ago
What would be a good paid (or free!) LLM to do paperwork? Basically I want to upload a formatted word document and have the LLM spit out the completed formatted document ideally in word, per my instructions. This seems well within their wheelhouse but I've only ever used the free chat function so I wonder which service has the capability to interact with a word document like that?
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2mo ago
Maybe in the Qing dynasty. But now there are huge new centers of entrepreneurship in Shenzhen and Shanghai there's a lot of new wealth and new money. When I walk around Chinese cities thay they seem a lot more prosocial and trusting then Western ones these days.
I would guess that's the Israeli's reasoning I'd like to here Trump say that as eloquently as you. The administration has offered up half a dozen reasons and win conditions. So I'm not going to read tea leaves to figure it out. If what you said is correct then they should consistently say that.
Yes sure the Iranian regime sucks but it's not they job of the US to overthrow every bad government in the world. The US has explicitly said this war is not for the people of Iran and that we don't care about civilian causalities, also that we won't be doing nation building and that they'd be fine with someone internal taking power. They've said... many other things too. But that is the whole problem there is no consistent communication of reasons and goals. You can certainly derive one from the Jackson Pollak of ideas they've thrown around but I don't have any faith in it when they can't keep their story straight.
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2mo ago
Well this is pretty unpopular according to polls and I don't think they claim that democracies produce wars stands up to scrutiny. Most modern democracies are extremely peaceful. It's mostly the US and France mucking about which suggests that Empire produces wars more than democracy.
I don't think I've actually attacked them over it. Just said that one dead civilian or American is too much because I fundamentally disagree with the war. I'm not saying we should stop because we killed one hundred school girls and I find the people waving them as a bloody flag on other sites distasteful and kind of missing the point. Tragic accidents happen in war but we shouldn't be at war at all. That was one of the selling points of Trump to end this endless adventurism in the Middle East.
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2mo ago
Yes these blustering lies are unbecoming.
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2mo ago
Yes but there is a cost. I don't think anything the US is doing in this war is worth the death of a single child because the whole war is a farce. I think going to war should almost always be defensive after sober deliberation for the cost of taking human life. I don't see that here and the obvious lies by our leaders make it worse. At least own your mistakes with somber dignity instead of blustering about phantom Iranian tomahawks. The whole thing was also a cowardly sneak attack in the vein of pearl harbor.
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2mo ago
For this war zero. Because it's pointless unjust war of aggression started for no reason. At least not one our leaders can articulate.
Yes well that is exactly why we shouldn't have started another pointless war. Accidents happen in war, but that's why it should be a last resort.
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2mo ago
Yeah I pretty much agree with this and I'm very opposed to the war, but the school doesn't do much for me because if the war was worth fighting it wouldn't be an issue. i'm sure we bombed a school or two when we fough the Nazis.
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2mo ago
I feel like that's what the transnational Thursday thread should be for.
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2mo ago
What do you mean got our military to win again? We always had the power to do this. See Obama and Libya.
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2mo ago
The concept is because sports in high school can be a really big deal. Especially in the South, or small towns really. The high school football team can be something of local stars not just in their social circle but in the town at large, unrelated adults go to these games and they can be a big deal. But there's an expiration to all that, think of it like Kpop girls or a boyband. This applies to girls to but less so. It can be easy to rest on your laurels in this situation because your never going to be a bigger deal than when you were the town darling but nobody is very impressed by a pudgy 45 year old who keeps going on about the glory days. That's basically it high school sports can turn American teens into kinda sorta child stars. Now there's other archetypes like cool burnouts who remain losers but the concept comes from America's focus on high school athletics which is why it's so interwind with the jock archetype.
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2mo ago
There was definitely a whole network of organizations run by earnest young Russian libs who want Russia to be Western. Unpopular in general doesn't mean unpopular in St. Petersberg and Moscow.
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2mo ago
It was just an example, if you tried setting up an exclusive religious community, you'd be treated largely the same way.
I disagree with this America has tons of exclusive religious communities and is probably the best place to do that. The Amish, the Hasidics, Scientology, Polygamist Mormons, dozens and dozens of New Age type cults and compounds in California. America is probably the best place in the world. The ones who I can think were deliberately uprooted were the FLDs and Branch Davidians but they were both violating Federal Law. No illegal guns and no underage brides and they would have been left alone. The US is full of of autonomous religious communities outside the mainstream and the Federal government has not destroyed them.
You're acting like these rainbow flags are put up organically, like the English flags in the UK, and aren't put their by paid NGO mercenaries, backed by it's own apparatus of repression.
Sure once they've won they can get repressive but they definitely have enough woke lib Russians in St. Petersberg to hang up some rainbow flags organically. As for the NGO cadre, they function a lot more like missionaries then mercenaries. All throughout the FSU (even in the Muslim countries) there are earnest young liberals who want nothing more than for their countries to become Western Europe and are eager to take money from the West to spread their message.
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2mo ago
Well first you need to create a mediocre podcasts.
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2mo ago
If Trump had ran on war with Iran he would have lost. He ran on the opposite as the "peace" candidate.
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2mo ago
Well Khomeini died peacefully in bed after achieving his wildest dreams. If your going to advocate for attacking a country maybe at least know the name of it's leader?
It did backfire with that Lufthansa flight. Since then they have a two person in the cockpit rule which seems to have mostly worked. If the pilot or copilot leaves then they call a stewardess in.
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