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Folamh3
2hr ago
Just hire Mr. Beast
A man who became famous primarily by creating content appealing to a demographic who are too young to vote?
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I pick a side and agree with their claims.
Historians have flowerier justifications.
felis-parenthesis
2hr ago
You are right to press me on whether my corruption scenario has ever actually happened. My gut feeling is no, never. But the past few years have wrecked my world view, and I fear that I am old and have been left behind while the world changes.
Back in March 2021 I had the Astra-Zenaca mRNA vaccine for COVID. How dangerous could it be? I knew that the messenger RNA would cause my cells to produce the protein that the snippet coded for. Scary! But I knew that that is what happens in a viral infection, and what happens when you take a "weakened" vaccine. Indeed Edward Jenner's original cowpox vaccination for smallpox is doing the same thing; spoiling the host for the smallpox virus by getting host cells to produce a shared protein and getting the host to produce anti-bodies to it. I was a science enthusiast and marveled at the invention of mRNA vaccines.
I saw public health as a nerdy area, and took it for granted that traditional standards of safety and efficacy would be upheld. I was disappointed. The https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths dynamic had played out while I wasn't paying attention. The blot clots and myocarditis problems would have lead to the swift withdrawal of the vaccines when I was young; but the world had moved on.
My current understanding of how the world works goes something like this:
It is year N and Mr Blackpill has noticed that the incentives tend towards corruption. He claims that year N is already corrupt. It isn't. Mr Blackpill is undaunted; he claims that dynamics created by the incentives are fast acting and predicts that year N+10 will be corrupt. Nope. Mr Blackpill has complete faith in his reasoning and in human avarice. Year N+20 will definitely see a corruption scandal. Mr Blackpill is wrong again.
Eventually year N+30 arrives and with it a big corruption scandal. Mr Blackpill was right in the end. Worse, it turns out that the corruption is entrenched and hard to root out. It has been going on for fifteen years. Mr Blackpill was right about N+20. There are a variety of forces that tend to hide scandals and when they break out into the mainstream it turns out those in the know had been complaining, correctly, for many years.
Returning to adding versus topping up. I see the language here as one of those forces that tend to hide scandals. Ecbatic not telic. I don't know whether we are in year N, year N+10, or year N+20. Mostly I don't know because I'm not in the business. But I cannot know by reading the newspapers. People complain about fluoride being added to the water supply and I'm left to guess that they mean topping up. If there was a scandal of the kind that I speculate about, adding, not topping up the news reports would say much the same and the I wouldn't be any the wiser. It would be the year N+20 situation, where there is corruption but still ten years to go before the facts break into mainstream news.
At the end of the day, my guess is that there just isn't enough money in water treatment to attract the avaracious, and the potential for corruption goes unrealized. But the clumsy language, that stands ready to hide it if it ever happens, still give me the ick.
the claim that we "add" fluoride to the water supply is a lie.
And this is an extraordinarily bad idea.
I'm aware that I completely lack the common touch, so it is best that I defer to your expertise here. I would be interested if you had any ideas on how to push back against the confusion of adding and topping up.
Sloot
2hr ago
The thought that, in ${CurrentYear}, there is likely a non-zero number of grade school kids who taunt each other not by saying “my dad would beat up your dad,” but rather “my dad would TOP your dad,” warms my icy heart.
Lazuli
2hr ago
I'm powering through an enjoyable book recommendation from friend
Which book?
Lazuli
2hr ago
Paul vs. Tyson is nothing more than a money grab. Two things will happen: Paul will lose to keep up Tyson's reputation (and inflate his own just to say he fought one of the most famous boxers ever) or the fight will end in a stalemate. Regardless, both will walk away with a massive payday, which is all what boxing has become nowadays.
NunoSempere
2hr ago
Makes much more sense, still kinda blows my mind.
No_one
2hr ago
(scratches nose absent-mindedly) So what kind of SF reader are you?
I've read cca 400+ books on last count, most of them SF. Surely I could come up with a few recs.
corman
2hr ago
The latter is a good problem to have, even if you're chasing after increasingly marginal edges with each additional dollar.
Only if it's not also in direct conflict with your "get billionaire funding out of politics!" messaging.
faceh
3hr ago
LLMs aren't going to replace humans because the set of all data is miniscule to the set of all potential patterns in the world.
I mean, you can say LLMS aren't going to replace humans...but the 'potential patterns in the world' are all reducible to data in one way or another.
So some Machine trained on language AND physics data AND biology AND etc. etc. is still a potential contender, no?
ThenElection
3hr ago
That indicates that Democrats are weak when it comes to earned media. That's a massive issue, but it's a separate one from "I have a giant bag of money and need to spend it." The latter is a good problem to have, even if you're chasing after increasingly marginal edges with each additional dollar.
Spookykou
3hr ago
If I came up to you and said 'your money, mine now' you would not assume that I meant if you broke a particular clause in a contract that you would be subject to financial penalties. I think the overwhelming interpretation would be 'i control your money in every way'.
If a libertarian, taxation is theft, guy just lost the presidential race after running on the slogan 'Your money, is yours' and then somebody tweeted 'your money, mine now', I think the overwhelming interpretation of the tweet would be that it is a joke about taxation being theft.
hanikrummihundursvin
3hr ago
I think the implication of the phrase is: Abortionists made a big deal about this election being about abortion. Their slogan has long been "my body, my choice". They lost. Fuentes makes fun of them by saying "your body, my choice".
Assuming there's more to it, be that a conspiracy by the federal government to make more women vote democrat, or that Fuentes is actually trying to express his belief that he can rape all women, seems rather far fetched and silly compared to the alternative I just gave.
Let me ask you this: do you think Fuentes is saying the phrase as a neutral statement of fact, or is he saying it intentionally to rile people up? Maybe that answer goes toward explaining my point.
He is obviously saying it to mock and rile people up. Why would that go towards explaining your point?
ThenElection
3hr ago
The debt won't exist 6 months from now. The campaign will continue collecting contributions, pay off the debts, and Kamala will walk away with none, rested and ready for her sinecure.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
3hr ago
Looking at internet memes going around in response to the election, I've been surprised by a lack — so far — of ones referencing the movies Valkyrie (2008) or Inglourious Basterds (2009). Is anyone else surprised by this? Or are they out there, and I've just missed them? Am I not looking in the right forums?
VinoVeritas
3hr ago
"The debt isn't a bad thing." Okay, what would you call being personally 20 million dollars in debt if not a bad thing? Because apparently you're unaware they changed the rules so that candidate personally assumes the debt of the campaign
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
3hr ago
How do people determine which past accounts are to be counted as valid historical records, and which are to be dismissed as past propaganda? For example, there's the whole Carthaginian infant sacrifice issue — real history, or anti-Carthaginian libel? Or Aztec skull towers — actually existed, or just lying conquistadors demonizing their Indigenous victims? In those cases, we at least have recent archeological finds giving solid support to one side (but even then, some still dispute them). But when such physical evidence isn't obtainable, what then?
hanikrummihundursvin
3hr ago
No more than any government policy controls anyone's body
That's what I've already said.
In fact, the slogan is an extreme red herring on the abortion issue, as it's designed to obscure that another body is involved (the child being murdered).
If that's what you thought was nasty about it that's fine. I don't think that's what other people found nasty about it though. I mean, do you?
Lewis2
3hr ago
The pro-life right is also split on the question of a federal ban. Some want to push for one, some would push for one if they thought it were politically feasible (but they recognize it’s not), and some think the issue should belong to the states, period. When even the pro-lifers are split like this, the odds that a federal ban even makes it through one house of Congress is basically nil.
corman
3hr ago
And, although she lost, I'm not sure you can say it was badly spent. As stupid as it is that paying Beyonce to fart in your direction can make voters want to vote for you, if you're flush with cash and you think it'll help, why not? What else would the campaign spend it on? Yet more clueless college grads to run social media accounts and spam Reddit with Kamala memes?
This is glossing over the miserable optics of paying (out of touch) celebrities to be your friends. Of course this wasn't known prior to the election results but it's another count amongst many in which the democratic are currently a laughingstock.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
3hr ago
Prior to the trip, download the audio with yt-dlp and copy the files to your phone.
yt-dlp --format "bestaudio" --no-mtime --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata --output "%(playlist_title)s (%(playlist_uploader)s)/%(playlist_index)s %(title)s.%(ext)s" --windows-filenames --prefer-free-formats [playlist URL]
In effect LLMS aren't smart, they are just great at recognizing patterns they are trained on. Google is great at recognizing text strings that it remembers, LLMS don't need matching strings they match on patterns and are able to combine patterns from multiple sources. LLMs aren't truly intelligent because they are dumbfounded if there isn't a good matching pattern in the training set. They are stumped in a way a human isn't if they encounter something new.
LLMs aren't going to replace humans because the set of all data is miniscule to the set of all potential patterns in the world.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
4hr ago
Muslims have their own edgy streamers, like someone named “Sneako”. Fuentes say “Christ is King” way too much for a devout Muslim audience
The only real difference is, instead of conveyor belts that end, you need loops.
Everything on Gleba except ore decays into spoilage, which can be processed, rapidly & inefficiently into nutrients, which all the bio-reactors need to work, or turned into carbon & explosives.
All you need to do. And ofc, all the bioreactors require removing spoilage and putting in nutrients. And since sometimes a lot of stuff can spoil, long-handed inserters aren't the best. Actually, why didn't I just interleave the shit out of it.
...play play play, write down something and figure out what's probably a way better solution.
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