No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
14hr ago
Yes, it would. It takes a gigantic amount of shells and a lot of time to level a city.
Several H bomb blasts would accomplish the same at a fraction of a cost.
No_one
14hr ago
IAEA said they're days away from having 300 kg of weapons grade material, enough for a dozen nukes.(How they found out? Spooks? Or is it a lie)
Technologically not that stupid Iran stan was saying they already have a compact implosion design, and that the clandestine nature of their program and constraints(bunkers)have made Iran some of the develop world's best centrifuges.
If you're making plutonium byproducts leak and are detected, but you can do isotopic separation on uranium all you want and it's going to be hard to tell.
No_one
14hr ago
It's quite possible clear the sites are deeper.
Back in the GWB II era neocons American like Cheney were obsessed with hydrogen bomb bunker busters and talking loudly how such strikes are clean bc the radiation is mostly contained. Which is kind of true.
No_one
1d ago
The only way Israel could really hurt Iran is hitting the oil industry. All the HEU (60% HEU enough for 18 warheads, half a ton IAEA said) and much of the centrifugal capacity is under 200m of a mountain, only possible to attack it with thermonuclear bunker busters.
No_one
1d ago
I'm sure most people here would be able to pick out the human from the ai 10 times out of 10.
No, they wouldn't. It's easy to make an AI stop using the annoying chatGPT style. I'm not the sharpest tool, don't work with AI in my job aand it took me 1.5 hours to make a text I had a hard time telling apart. And I have plenty of experience looking at AI outputs and being annoyed with its stylistic quirks.
No_one
1d ago
Can you elaborate? Who's "you," how was the goodwill of the working classes burned out, and who's being asked to accept a 1950s standard of living?
Americans. Without Chinese imports, American standard of living would go down in a big way until a supply chain of substitutes could be created. A decade of suck, at the very least. Millions of people who depend on reselling cheap Chinese imports them would lose their livelihoods.
No_one
2d ago
Bought a 4x indie game that looked kind of fine but now discovered much of the writing clearly used AI and I hate that cadence. It's not always obvious but if you've played around with LLMs and especially used barely prompted LLMs for RP you just pick up on the stylistic quirks.
After I do a playthrough perhaps I should play around with Gemini, a bunch of SF books from dead guys, derive a workable prompt for voice from them and then have AI rewrite the damned localization to be more tasteful.
No_one
2d ago
I have almost never heard locals complain about this nuisance and even though I cycle twice a month in busy places I have never in practice observed e-bikes going fast, so I assume it's an enforcement matter.
I have heard of someone buying an e-bike without the speed limiter and using it for commuting outside a city. .
No_one
2d ago
In practice, at least in Slovakia it's not common at all(I haven't even seen such a person iirc, though I have heard of them) and if you do so, it's classed as an electric motorbike and you need a driving permit etc.
No_one
3d ago
We're All Sitcom Characters Now
Lot of small/middle accounts on twitter are perfectly normal and don't try to engagement bait or make a brand. And something like 80% of twitter eyeballs are allegedly people who barely if ever post.
No_one
3d ago
The reasons I'm interested in humans talking is either to find out what people think or to learn actual information/insight about the rest of the world.
LLMs are a great way of researching things because they have a surface level understanding on par with a median professional of some field. You'll be taken for a ride in some way if you don't know the topic yourself, but you can get a lot out of them that way.
No_one
3d ago
How are you going to be even able to tell whether something is AI or isn't?
Enough people around here are functionally indistinguishable from LLMs from my point of view. They produce huge reams of mostly waffling text circling at respectable distance off the problem without ever addressing it and it's a chore to read.
Any LLM can do so too, in fact they readily behave exactly like that. With the barest minimum prompting skill all the usuall tells of LLM output disappear.
No_one
3d ago
If you're a cyclist and have some sense, you just stick to side roads or streets where there's few moving cars, the speeds and risks are low.
It's very unpleasant to be on the same road as a lot of cars and I always avoid it unless it's impossible. But 90% the time there's a side street, cycling path or an empty sidewalk to use..
No_one
3d ago
Nevertheless, cycling shouldn't be needed in a rich country.
It's a fairly good way to get enough exercise. I vastly prefer cycling outside than being in a gym.
exercise, walk
Walking is incredibly weak exercise. Going full tilt on a bicycle at maybe 20 mph is incredibly taxing, you'll be spent after 1h, 1.5 hours. It's similar to running, but much lower risk of injury.
No_one
3d ago
There's no limit on e-bikes speed in the US? EU bikes stop assisting at 25 kph, about 18 mph or so.
No_one
3d ago
Sometimes, people want to pay that price. There was a funny joke I saw on twitter about how a someone's girl wanted some piece of jewelery. Guy said no, found it on aliexpress for 15% of the price, sent her the link and said he'd buy it and then wondered why she was upset.
No_one
3d ago
Jerry-rigged
It's said to be older than Germany.
It’s sometimes thought that the jerry in jerry-built or jerry-rigged comes from Jerry as used as British slur against Germans during Word War I and II. This disparaging term is real, a pun on the name Jerry and the pronunciation of the first part of German. This insult, however, is found by 1915, which is sometime after we first find evidence for jerry-built and jerry-rigged in the 19th century.
So, who (or what) is jerry? We’re just not sure. But, we hope these don’t remember some poor, shoddy craftsman named Jerry (a nickname for such names as Jeremy, Jerome, or Jeremiah) for all time.
No_one
3d ago
People can talk about undervalued currency but that doesn’t explain the nearly 10x price difference.
Middlemen making money. The cost you pay in a shop at home is almost exactly determined by the seller's idea of how much the market would bear.
No_one
4d ago
As someone who's pro-industrial policy and also anti-CCP, I think think the supply chain problem is one of those issues with a lot of misplaced attention, wherein globalization gets projected onto various political narratives, to the detriment of analyzing capability.
CPC wants to rule, or at least have veto power in the world by providing quality stuff in quantity at an unmatched price.
Quoting JZ281C from twitter
I used to think that CN will appreciate its currency to help rebalance trade. This makes sense for an economic perspective, but from a geopolitical perspective it would make sense to keep CNY undervalued for now.
My main mental-model recalibration is recognizing that geopolitical considerations increasingly dominate economic calculations.
The big unknown is whether China's end game is co-existence with the US, or destruction of the current US political-economy. If it is the latter, then it will continue to be extremely aggressive with its strategic offensive in the global trade/tech domain.
CNY undervaluation is increasingly concentrating global industry in CN. This is a geopolitical move. You cannot understand this with economic logic.
CNY undervaluation sacrifices present Chinese living standards/consumption in exchange for future geopolitical dominance.
CN is essentially engaged in a war of attrition of national will power against all the other great powers including India. Countries that cannot suppress popular demand for higher present standard of living will lose geopolitical power to CN over time via de-industrialization.
There is no free lunch. Any attempt to compete in industry with China will involve major sacrifices in present standard of living. Any country that cannot out-save China will lose. Competing with China is not about policies. It fundamentally requires national mobilization similar to a total war. Simply printing money to subsidize industry without suppressing consumption will lead to inflation and eventually debt/currency crisis. US didn't have a market economy during WWII, it had wage/price controls and War Production Board to coordinate industrial production at the national level. People planted victory gardens and accepted rationing.
All in all, if you want to fight China geopolitically, maybe you should not have utterly burned out the goodwill of the working classes. Maybe they'd be willing to make big sacrifices then. Asking people you have been trying to replace to accept a 1950s standard of living will be a hard sell.
No_one
6d ago
Today he tweeted this at Gavin Newsom.
We are all waiting anxiously to watch the 4K footage of marines doing deranged things to you
They should send a strike team directly to your house
1.4K likes.
No_one
6d ago
The amount of research done beforehand by the actors in this case seems remarkably low.
It is worryingly low.
No_one
6d ago
Said organised crime is getting away with it because it is 'patriotic' and not cooperating with foreign agents. The minute Russia would find some gangsters working for the CIA, that's the minute they'd get arrested in an excessively violent manner by the ministry of interior troops. (who, in Russia, operate attack helicopters, tanks and artillery)
No_one
6d ago
I’m being a bit blithe or cynical here, but am I going to have to join a dating app just to find someone to hang out with?
Hanging out was a 20th century activity. Since 1/2025 it's finally the 21st century now. You're supposed to be doomscrolling or compulsively watching short AI generated videos on tiktok, utterly hypnotized.
Enforcing borders is not at all arbitrary as that famous wolfpack range map shows. It's as arbitrary as childbirth.
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