No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
11mo ago
Not a botched case.
Cover up of a homicide. Homicide likely involving a guy from a very rich family his family are friends with.
Far more serious than mere botching.
No_one
6mo ago
The likeliest scenario imo seems to be a psychotic episode.
He got reported to the police for making the same threat last year. He was convicted for threats in '13..
No_one
7mo ago
Mace has a woman's skeleton, McBride doesn't. Nance would be unlikely to get clocked as trans because of her gracile skeleton and small size. Meanwhile, McBride is one of the reasons being a big boned woman today makes you liable to be clocked as trans and insulted as such in a dispute.
In any case, people like McBride exist to pass strong antidiscrimination laws protecting men who want to pretend to be women.
Making them feel very unwelcome, is it mere grandstanding?
Amazingly I found some actually quality TV. And from my native land! I thought this would never happen. In 2019, HBO produced a Czech TV series. Labelled as fiction, but ..more thoughtful Czechoslovaks would have many a word to say there.
It's called 'The Sleepers' (2019).
Sort of a spy drama, though spies (or sleeper agents) are not the main characters. Almost no James Bond nonsense(implausible feats) except a very little in the middle. You do get to see state-security plainclothes agents casually bullying a lot of people while investigating, British diplomats being unhelpful and so on. A bit like 'True Detective' but about 1980s Czechoslovak dissidents, state security and politics. You have to pay attention because details matter-you'll be bewildered if you're treating it as background. The Czech title 'Unconsciously' is more fitting.
Acting is great - they got 75% of good local actors, the sets are almost perfect - if you want to show some US planned economy enjoyers how eastern bloc looked in 1980s, this is perfect. The screenplay is pretty good. There are a few hiccups, one implausible coincidence and one piece of laughable nonsense, but for TV or cinema it's really, really good. There's even a personal connection: one of the major characters is played by a grand-daughter of 1968-69 minister of planning.
It was produced by HBO but is no longer in their catalogue even in former Czechoslovakia, due to either some merger and sell-off of rights or because it's a 'conspiracy*'.. ThePirateBay has a copy which we watched. There are subtitles to be had here.. Unless you are fluent in Czech, English and Russian you'll need them.
EDIT: fixed some typoes.
No_one
8mo ago
This nation is doomed, you cannot even vote such problems out since upper castes are a minority
Even smarter and more homogeneous nations struggle a lot.
It took 40 years, untold billions of $ and much woe for Swedish nation to start thinking, collectively, maybe we shouldn't be importing refugees on a massive scale.
if I ever tell people that I am Indian and the stuff wrong with my nation, they would probably think that
You could just refuse to identify as Indian and use caste & state or point out that India has the cultural and generic diversity of a continent, which it has. Even a normie should understand that. Ask him if he thinks Finns are the same as Italians perhaps . .
No_one
11mo ago
You don't know whether he went for a headshot.
It's a common joke really. "1: nice shot, you got him right in the head." "2: I wasn't aiming for the head"
No_one
17d ago
Good, interesting write up.
However:
It was an explicit break from the premise of the DNC as a neutral leadership institution for democrats anywhere.
Were the claims by Sanders supporters that DNC essentially sabotaged his chances to win primaries in '16 plain lies?
I have a hard time believing in 'neutral' institutions in the first place.
No_one
2mo ago
Sci-Fi a weird genre to have effectively adopted neo-Luddite tendencies.
Not all of sci-fi, just the part taken over by white leftist yanks and their copycats in other parts of the world. The anti-AI rhetoric is due to the ideology of the people involved, not the nature of the genre of which they are a small part, at best a plurality.
The entire mil-SF genre is I believe completely unaffected by it and so are most people publishing outside of the well-defended legacy ghetto.
Absolutely not. At least in EU, state capacity is the lowest it's been since 1800.
Everything is wrapped in red tape. Nothing can be done fast. British were recently found to have wasted 500k pages on a planning application. Oh - that was debunked, it was only 63000 pages.. Been 9 years and 260 million pounds though. On a planning application.
Granted, EU is not this bad, that's Britain, but Europe is still pretty screwed and there's no indication the worst offenders - judges, courts and activists that basically decide what the law is are going to be removed. Most salient example is that removing undesirables is impossible in Germany and France, both countries have hundreds of thousands of people ordered to leave who are still there, committing crime and iirc also collecting welfare.
The power structure is currently occupied by declaring its few citizens willing to speak up for their own interests are dangerous far-right radicals. Yes, and as always trying to pass chat-control. New round of that idiocy in december.
No_one
10mo ago
UK has duty to retreat, carrying any weapon is illegal, pepper spray and stunners are illegal and famously the pensioner who shot someone in his own home was jailed.
What right to self defense?
No_one
11mo ago
They planned for Trump to be dead, and their cover stories reflect that.
If Trump were dead, the issue of how the fuck the kid was allowed to be on that roof would be absolutely, red-hot critical and way more than it is now. That there isn't a good cover story indicates that they're either incredibly, unbelievably stupid or that this was really unplanned.
No_one
11mo ago
is probably just really tough for the Secret Service.
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That still doesn't explain why the prime spot for taking a shot at Trump was left entirely, completely open.
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why cops spotted a person of interest almost an hour before, spotted him with a rangefinder 30 mins before, photographed him, let him use a ladder to climb a building and take off shots. He wasn't questioned or tossed out or watched closely, they just let him proceed to the best and about only place from which a not-great shot could kill Trump.
No_one
11mo ago
The people who have repeatedly described Trump as a "threat to democracy" aren't responsible for this and I don't hold them responsible for this.
The same people talk very loudly about 'stochastic terrorism' .. .
No_one
11d ago
Christ, women must hate her with a burning passion. @Sloot is hitting the nail on the head there. They envy her because she, despite her manifest flaws, age, and rough looks, she locked down the second richest guy in the world. Who is, by most accounts of people who reported to him, one of the most terrifying, ruthless and capable nerds out there. No doubt he smells fakers and gold-diggers before they round the corner. Yet this plastic bimbo somehow got him.
least comfortable in his marriage
Going by the charities his ex-wife keeps donating to, she must be either trying to get back at Bezos or is a liberal NPC. I'm not sure how happy one might be with
No_one
1mo ago
Elon Musk is too guileless. He says exactly what he thinks is true with little regard for how others will react.
This is wrong. Musk has been consistently serving slop to the masses on twitter. Things he could not possibly believe but that were yet flattering the average 110 IQ twitter user.
I propose that Musk is not guileless, he has guile but is also erratic.
No_one
2mo ago
This generalized antipathy has basically been extended to any use of AI at all, so even though the WorldCon committee is insisting there has been no use of generative AI, no final decisions made by AI, and that AI has nothing to do with any Hugo nominations or decisions, people are still Very Very Angry that it was used at all.
I predict the fallout ensuing from eventually discovering their new POC/female high performers are deftly using LLMs to write their works is going to destroy the woke captured legacy publishing industry and the associated awards.
Lots of people are using LLMs to write not just code but also stories. It's inevitable.
e.g. recently this was a pretty big chunk of free Deepseek usage. https://www.novelcrafter.com/
No_one
2mo ago
How sustainable is American power projection in Hawaii?
Very. US is inevitably going to decline in importance, you can't keep fucking up that long and that badly while barely doing anything about an ascending rival, but it's keeping Hawaii. It's simply too important from a strategic point of view as it allows controlling the seas in a huge distance around it.
It does seem possible that it could end up being the most westerly outpost of US if it loses a Pacific War against China.
But South Korea feels like the only country that is truly living in the 21st century. The food is plentiful and nutritious. Young people are healthy and attractive
They're not attracted to each other. It's a dead country. In my opinion all countries are mostly dead but Korea would be dead even if we had 'business as usual' conditions of AI not ever being a thing.
No_one
11mo ago
Yeah, being sly about it pays off.
Take Japan. They are believed to be able to make nukes at will, launch their satellites using solid fuelled rockets, typically not a first choice, and even had a comet sample-retrieval mission that demonstrated the ability to accurately return spacecraft through the atmosphere.
So demonstrated competence in all three major components of a nuclear ICBM program.
https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/the-legacy-of-shinzo-abe-a-japan-divided-about-nuclear-weapons/
I wonder if Chinese are ever angry about it.
No_one
2mo ago
In general, I abhor rudeness.
I doubt this was just unprompted rudeness, unless it's some 5000 IQ daring scam she lost it after the twentieth repetition of something incredibly tiresome. Somalis are not the world's most charismatic and easy to get along with people.
e.g. this thread from reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1e5last/a_somaliamerican_former_investigator_why_youre/
Somalis are not liked much in Minnesota. If, on a non-niche reddit someone saying "They won't behave better" gets +15 upvotes that's quite strange.
According to the affidavit FBI submitted to get a warrant for searching the devices of the satanist O9A* affiliated matricide accelerationist Kasap, who was caught less than two weeks after he murdered his mother in early February, was in contact with a number of people and was, among other things
- attempting to purchase a drone to drop some IED to kill or attack Trump
- talking to someone apparently from Ukraine and asking about relocation and exfiltration from the US
- getting advice on how to use repeaters to extend drone range
This is being spun two ways:
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Russians are saying approximately: This is typical SBU work, they find some expendable extremists and give them advice to kill and cause chaos, this is just like the Crocus attack
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media is quiet about the foreign angle now, and probably indefinitely but I imagine later it could be spun as Muscovite trolls seeking out vulnerable teenagers and egging them on to kill to frame the glorious SBU
The real story is probably the budding teenage satanist was
- getting scammed out of crypto by one troll
- getting lies about exfiltration to make him kill by another sadistic troll
Guy may have swapped his plates but was still using the same cell phones so absolutely NGMI tradecraft.
*Order of Nine Angles. Some sort of satanist cult, or more likely by now very loose online group.
No_one
5mo ago
Not sure if this makes me feel better or worst about my odds of ever writing a novel.
I read a fair amount of erotica in my free time. Noticed a few authors being unusually productive last year. Ever since I started paying attention to AI again due to deepseek and hearing that Opus?, Claude and Sonnet iirc were also pretty good at writiing.. I've put 2+2 together.
Seeing this website made it all click! If you're not an idiot you can use LLMs to massively increase your own outputs or even write stuff vastly better than you could ever hope to write (if you're not ~130 IQ etc who can spend decades practicing).
There was a huge outcry about AI image gen due to the furry porn commission types seeing stable diffusion collapse it. I haven't seen almost anyone talking about how bad LLM writing is yet.. even though clearly a lot of people are now using it and they're all shamefully silent about it, the dirty scoundrels!
Going to be some nice drama about it eventually I think once it gets clear someone who wrote a prize used AI to write most of it.
No_one
6mo ago
I wonder: was his plan to essentially make this look like an Islamist attack, to stir up hostility toward Muslim immigration?
He hated Germans and threatened them repeatedly. If it's an act it was a years long performance.
No_one
9mo ago
Total bullshit.
Europe started from the same base and doesn't have that problem. Never has prohibition.
Alcoholism also declined in Russia by quite a lot since the 90s.
No_one
10mo ago
IMO, you can make any normiecon suffer a brain lock by starting to wax poetic about how much more excellence would America have had the dastardly democrats not allowed the blacks to abort that much.
IIRC the number works out to having double the present population. Also IIRC half the abortions in America are done on black women.
He didn't really need to. Everyone bar maybe certain sleeper agents* knows what Baltimore is like.
Everyone knows there are no solutions to the crime and disorder issue that don't involve totalitarian levels of paternalism /social control over blacks, outright genocide whether fast or slow or eugenics, none of which are likely to occur.
*the Soviet sleeper agent who went by 'Jack Barsky' almost failed his mission in late 1970s right at the start because the first address he went to was a hotel in the blackest part of Chicago. He was taught perfect English and spycraft but not this particular aspect of reality.
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