TIRM
10d ago
even under bizarrely loose ideas of what counts as 'defamatory'
To be fair to Anthropic, some other countries have bizarrely loose ideas regarding defamation. England for one example. Japan for a far worse one. Truthful statements about a public figure can be defamation in Japan. Us Americans have it good in this regards.
I assume Anthropic doesn't want to be dragged into foreign defamation suits.
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11d ago
Billionaires and centimillionaires are devoured by helicopter crashes. It is their natural predator.
TIRM
11d ago
Was it previously possible to build a car that drives upside down
Yes. Upside down demos have been around for a while. Fans sucking the car down make it corner better. To show off the fans photo the car upside down. This is a continuation of that concept.
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11d ago
I never heard of this.
a French-language sung-through musical that premiered on September 16, 1998, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris
Yeah, that tracks. I take it this was popular in other anglophone countries or something?
TIRM
11d ago
And videos of white French youths engaging in firey, but mostly peaceful protests.
And as always: most "immigrant" youths are natural born citizens whose parents or grandparents immigrated.
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11d ago
Countless times I've seen Muslim men wearing typical modern fashion with their wives wearing a head wrap or more.
If these guys were white and by themselves no one would naively think they were Muslims.
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12d ago
instead of making a ton of money in tech or finance like every other smart guy
He dropped out of middle school. In some manner I don't understand given truancy laws.
The tech and finance jobs are gatekept behind official credentials. Not excessively, but having never attended high school is a problem.
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12d ago
You do deserve it though, you were ripping us off, coasting as we risked for your security." Indignation Europe is weak and so a failure as an "ally".
I endorse some version of this. We have a real free rider problem and even rhetorically going against it is denounced as throwing away our precious soft power.
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13d ago
This is now more interesting than the original discussion and I'm also curious. Where's the authors' names and institutions?
The sources are real rather than AI hallucinations.
Top of page six has to source where a source should be, but a human can make that mistake. Or this is an unfinished draft.
TIRM
13d ago
Be sure to include Stephen King since supposedly the original filmed version of IT devastated the American clown industry.
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14d ago
I saw a collage of medieval illustrations featuring human sized bipedal white rabbits with weapons attacking or enslaving humans. I don't get the larger point, but they liked drawing menacing rabbits.
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14d ago
Fuel prices make everything more expensive. You pay your share at the grocery store.
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16d ago
But it's really important to note here that among the influencer right truth does not matter. It simply does not. They do not give a rat's ass if the story is real
Agreed. They could hardly sink lower in this regard.
Only mainstream respected journalists from major media outlets are a more debased group with less respect for truth.
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16d ago
Both parties keep doing this. Running bizarre looney candidates in critical races. There's hundreds of millions of Americans and these are the ones all political focus is put on for key elections?
TIRM
16d ago
Irvine California? Asians don't count as diversity. The whole point of BIPOC is to exclude Asians and "white and Hispanic" people.
TIRM
16d ago
For one example, as of now in 2026 the climate alarmism was finally admitted to be made up or whatever.
Not everyone has heard this happy news and some are still panicked about climate change. Such as most young Americans according to some polling.
TIRM
16d ago
divide that actually matters is rich vs poor
Then call me the General Secretary because I've been on this since I was a teenager. That's not always completely true. But it is generally fairly true.
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17d ago
A practice run for the Chinese hackers who've already infiltrated much of American infrastructure.
I watched the Cyberpunk Netfix show and it had a bit about needing to pay a subscription to use your own washing machine. As shown by it locking up on a child when full of his wet school clothes. And the resulting cost of living ends up high enough that a regular non-corpo working mom can barely afford to live. They don't explicitly say the prices were algorithmially determined to be exactly what you can bear, but I'll assume something like that is happening in the setting. That's quite a cynical "late stage capitalism" take; as appropriate for cyberpunk.
But back in real life they are actually pushing to make something like that sci-fi dystopia real. We're just missing the cool cyber mods and true AI. We get to keep the appliances that lock up and the most banal forms of electronic surveillance.
I think the federal government does not want more Ruby Ridge and Waco style debacles. It's a PR disaster when they burn down the home of defiant people*. Some gun control advocates like to use feds death-squadding or bombing people who don't comply with gun laws as a trump card. Something about fighter jets being used to enforce compliance in a way an AR15 can't stop. They act like it is a mic drop debate ender to point out the feds have armored vehicles and fighter jets. But the fantasy of feds burning and bombing their political opponents is just not going to happen in the modern era. A century ago a little bit of that could happen but the feds are just softer now. Photos of federal agents standing over charred ruins mixed with dead children will prevent this†. Not that they have any moral issues with murdering their fellow Americans, but the terrible PR would harm their supporters in elections and they can't stand that.
*Branch Davidians actually burned down their own compound. But it looked like the feds did it and FBI agents perjured themselves denying that they used incendiary tear gas canisters.
† Like all those photos from Waco.
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20d ago
"Pokémon descriptions make no sense." -> "Yes, pokedex entries are made by a 10 or 11 year old child. This is how they perceive the world."
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20d ago
The Weasley family is pure-blood, but they are
... silly Irish stereotypes. "My father told me all the Weasleys Irish have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford."
1939 Europe obviously. Not even close. Assuming they were united. Somehow French and Germans are marching together.
That or a stalemate in which neither side can meaningfully invade the other. Europeans can't seize North Africa, Africans can't seize Spain.
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