No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
7hr ago
Well.. no implication isn't true. They're non-negotiable. You can't fail them, that's a game over and they're fairly tough, some of them.
No_one
7hr ago
This is way more of a plague in Slovak because there's a regular rule for producing lesser or greater variations of nouns and some people, I suspect women, abuse it greatly and every second or 2/3rds of nouns in certain texts are diminutives.
E.g. dom - house diminutive: domček - houselet (?) augmentative domisko - huge house (not really used tho)
No_one
8hr ago
I believe dozens at least in Britain, possibly up to a hundred. Real stupid policy, they went after basically nobodies too. They also tried to debank Farage which backfired.
More locally, Martin Sellner said he ultimately had to go to .. Latvia, I think, to get a working bank account?. In this lawsuit against Erste Bank, he claims he made 400+ attempts to open an account, and when he succeeded, in 93 cases the account was terminated a few days after.
In the proceedings, Sellner and his attorney demonstrated that 394 banks had refused to open accounts for him upon request , and according to his own statements, he has had 93 accounts closed over the years, with nearly 400 account applications rejected.
Now he's suing Erste Bank in Austria. Mind you, his organisation was acquitted from the organisation charge and doesn't seem to have a criminal record except some self-defense in 2017. He got charged with that mostly on the basis of accepting a donation from Brenton Tarrant and swapping a few emails. That was the guy who made money in crypto and then committed a mass shooting.
Anyway, it seems a low-lvl court ruled in his favor, so I wonder how it'll go from there.
The Commercial Court in Vienna (Handelsgericht Wien) ruled partially in Sellner's favor, stating that bank accounts in Austria are subject to an obligation to contract, provided there are no objective grounds against a business relationship, and that political views or media assessments are not sufficient grounds for refusal
No_one
8hr ago
Dude, stop sanewashing the Russian lost a million. Meduza only got up to what, 130k, which would give 700k total losses.
their bumfuck rural cousins
Yeah, let's just elide the fact the bumfuck 'rural cousins' used to be the most industrialized part of USSR, are getting loads of assistance from Americans, and are, per capita, at least as capable as Russians and likely way more motivated.
The writing ranges from tolerable(dumb but excusable to okay if artless - much of the plot) to barely tolerable (Netflix tier slop - certain characters, notably Karlach).
Otherwise it's a fun game, nice graphics, interesting tactical combat on the higher difficulties. I'd defo buy it for say €30.
I got vastly more fun out of Rogue Trader which is mechanically somewhat worse but writing ranges from quite decent to tolerable.
No_one
1d ago
nearly full-stack offering, so you have options
Try even installing wechat. Last I checked it was an unbelievable pain in the ass.
No_one
1d ago
Putin and Gadhafi mostly dont even bother to wave the fig leaf of democracy)
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Despite some amount of electoral fraud, Putin gets pretty securely elected. It's nowhere near as impressive as the democratic fig leaves in the West, but he's clearly taking care to preserve democratic legitimacy.
No_one
1d ago
This is cancellation for power politics reason, not bc of culture war.
If it happens, it will happen because AI analyzed your online activity and decided it crossed a threshold of dangerous
In Europe, debanking etc isn't due to Americans. Nobody in US cares about random anti-immigration activists who are typical targets.
No_one
2d ago
Le Guin didn't respect physics or common sense enough to warrant the label SF. I don't think she was an SF writer for the same reason I don't think Star Wars is science fiction.
has been that it is only capable of a very superficial, formulaic level of production.
What exactly do you mean by that? What's an example of a work that is the opposite of that?
No_one
2d ago
I can imagine women might be at a disadvantage in complex maneuvers, but the main difference between aces and dead guys was really sharp eyes and paying attention, with proper tactics they could have been quite successful. You don't really want to get in turn fight furballs and people with high scores generally didn't do so.
There just weren't many women involved.
No_one
3d ago
Let me quote a famous screenwriter
AI. I just sent chatgpt a script I'd written some years ago and asked for improvements. In five seconds it responded with notes as good or better than I've ever received film a film executive.
AI slop for entertainment,
Older LLMs write slop by default bc the training data is weighed towards obnoxious California tier crap. If you take the barest amount of care they stop writing slop bc tasteful writing is in their weights. As I found out when I was enraged by slop while experimenting with roleplay. Most people don't have taste so don't care, don't even seem aware they're reading slop. In short, if your LLM powered RP or ERP has slop in it, it's a skill ( you were using dumb models or can't prompt a SOTA model properly) or taste issue. So, I have no problems saying someone used to LLM writing could use it to write a script that's better than okay and definitely well above typical Netflix tier shit.
Newer ones seem to almost avoid slop even without anti-slop prompts. E.g. consider this fake SlateStarCodex essay by Gemini. You can kinda tell it's not Scott A but it's not easy. It has almost zero of of the typical LLM tells.
'some proper SF'?
Something better than Baen-tier mil-sf slop or silly hippie crap from Le Guin getting filmed. Either a good film based on some golden age classics, or modern actual SF getting filmed.
No_one
3d ago
Never read anything in that vein. If that were true you'd expect a lot more female aces in Soviet Air force. There were only 2 female aces who shot down more than five planes each in WW2..
No_one
3d ago
and most soldiers don't die in a war.
There are no proper wars to speak atm of -it's all sedate counterinsurgencies or civil wars between people who, left to themselves would be living in mud huts and rustling cattle and struggle with zeroing rifles.
The Ukraine war is killing loads of people involved, and the casualties in a possible air/naval war with China are not worth thinking about as Chinese production of hard to intercept precision weapons is probably higher than that of all other countries combined.
No_one
3d ago
Star Wars died for me when TFA came out and I fell asleep watching it. The movie has only one redeeming feature and that is the infamous Hux speech.
It warms the heart of every 4x player who ever wiped a troublesome system but never got to see a proper cinematic for it.
Here's to hoping Henry Cavill manages to get Amazon to not fuck up the WH40k miniseries because, come on. Even though WH40k is sort of retarded at least they have created good excuses for why it's all somewhat retarded.
No_one
3d ago
There's just very little in Rogue One to like, I find?
Star Wars are irredeemably silly in so many ways.. and It could've been much better, yes, but I kind of enjoyed the silly action
I'm not sure why you're so pissed. AI can already write better dialogue than most scriptwriters. Certainly better than George Lucas ever did.
With generative AI, we'll finally get some proper SF on the screen. There's risk that good actual SF could end up produced as miniseries etc.
No_one
3d ago
I wouldn't call it 'legitimately great'. It's..okay. It's a whole quality grade below shows like True Detective or Fargo. Sure it's better than typical netflix slop but that's not much of a recommendation.
No_one
3d ago
Americans have better outcomes than their [Nationality] brethren back home for every given group, the American economy outperforms all other economies,
Once the dollar stops being a reserve currency, American standards of living and incomes are going to come tumbling down to a more reasonable level.
It's alleged purchasing power of the $ would decline by about 30% if that happens.
No_one
3d ago
Out of ~400k trained sharpshooters there were 2,500 female ones who mostly did quite well. 500 survived the war. I remember remarks how women are good at being sneaky and patient from period memoirs.
There were about 20-30 female armor crewmen, mostly achieved that through being insanely persistent. E.g. donates enough money for an entire tank, writes letter to Stalin to be allowed to fight. Or a tractor driver (tractors were often tracked then) whose husband was drafted and whose children died convinced an army doctor to pass her off as male in paperwork, then went on to have some success as a tank driver
About 400 women served as combat pilots.
About 40% of medics and radio operators were women, and later in the war (43 onwards) the % of women involved in frontline air defense was very high, often up to 50%.
No_one
3d ago
why confirmed lesbians and asexuals couldn't be allowed to serve.
Such women are exceptionally rare and not the best adjusted. It's really not worth the bother to make special accomodations for them, especially given that only something like 10% of young women can physically keep up with young men given enough additional training.
Multiply 0.02 by 0.1 and you get 0.002, 2 in a thousand. Is that worth the aggravation?
No_one
5d ago
In fact committed leftists are inordinately concerned with order, justice, fairness, morality, and so forth.
They think they are.
Anyone happily letting criminals go so they can prey on normal people is not actually concerned with order or justice.
No_one
12d ago
Russia is not fighting the EU, Russia is fighting Ukraine, a country with a tenth of its GDP and a third of its population pre war:
Without foreign supplies and finances, the war would have been over by fall of '22.
No_one
14d ago
Would you be willing to make a bet?
What part of
That's means something. Not at all clear what. Obsessive observers of the war believe Ukraine is likely to hold out until end of '26, early '27. However:
Is hard to understand?
By 1911, around age 36, after seven years of low wages as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs began to write fiction. By this time, Emma and he had two children, Joan (1908–1972), and Hulbert (1909–1991).[15] During this period, he had copious spare time and began reading pulp-fiction magazines. In 1929, he recalled thinking that:
"[...] if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."[16]
The mediocrity of the books makes sense in context, I think.^^
SM Stirling wrote a peculiar homage to that idea of Mars that's both cringe ('hero' getting saved by the princess yawn, strong womyn chars) and kinda awesome for the worldbuilding & and the unimaginable amounts of low-key heresy(explaining why the womyn is so strong) for which he wasn't cancelled. Spoilers on the link. A good read I think, Stirling can write adventure stories just fine.
Wanted to post this elsewhere but so far it's just in the 'fun' category, I think.
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