Indeed. If the IDF had really wanted to conduct a genocide, every Gazan would now be dead.
Lida
I’ll probably never live in Florida again, but I’ll always be a Floridian.
My natural habitat is “swamp.”
Medal Mettle
When you don’t know anything, you should refrain from writing.
The PoW did a pretty dangerous military job for quite a while and saved many people. Those medals were earned just like anyone in the armed forces earns theirs. Think what you want about the British royalty, but those medals anyone would be proud to wear.
underscores – Locals (Girls like us) [with gabby start]
Weirdo fun. Reminds me of where I grew up — same vibe in the video.
India and Pakistan’s Water Politics Is Starting to Boil.
One of the rarest animal sightings in the world: chirodectes maculatus, only seen once before.
X-rays reveal kingfisher feather structure in unprecedented detail.
FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine.
Russia's hybrid warfare rattles Poland and NATO. We are already at war with Russia.
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs.
Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass.
China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down.'
Unprecedented ‘Jobless Boom’ Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion.
Major Deployment Of Rickety E-3 Sentry Fleet For Iran Crisis Highlights Worrisome Gaps.
What It’d Take
I do expect some there to attempt to save their own civilizations. Chance of success is small, because rather than violence it’d take a mass societal movement to force remigration and deportation on a scale unseen in modern times.
I just don’t see that happening.
LD For
Here’s what ChatGPT created, inspired by my post below:
Pretty good summary! Not sure where that hand holding the “Covid Lockdowns Forever” sign is coming from, though.
Left Behind
The left is beyond fucking clownish here. As big a dipshits as you could possible imagine.
As a movement, it appears the left has not been willing to engage seriously with AI — despite its potential to affect the lives and livelihoods of billions of people in ways that would normally make it just the kind of threat, and opportunity, left politics would concern itself with
The left’s claims about AI1 are fucking ludicrous. They aver that it “doesn’t work” or that it’s a “plagiarism machine” and that there is nothing it can do better than any human and furthermore that it never will be able to do so. Meanwhile, my company has written an entire new product with 90% AI code in a short amount of time.
They’ve just ceded the real world and actual reality without even a fight for their fantasyland anchored in 2020 or so. In many ways, I think Covid broke the left. They saw it as their chance to completely transform society but other than minor changes, basically nothing happened. This destroyed them and drove the whole movement insane. This left them unable to deal with an actual huge societal rearrangement such as working AI.
The left should be pushing hard on making sure the productivity gains of AI are shared, that those put out of jobs (which is already happening) are taken care of, that there is a “public” non-corporate AI option, and many other things.
Instead, they are covering their ears, blindfolding their eyes and chanting, “LA LA LA LA” till they pass out. Absurd and ridiculous.
BSky Screech
Why is the left so anti-tech, anti-progress, anti-growth? And it’s so rabid with them.
Just disgusting people all ’round.
The Pipeline
Spoken like someone who has never worked on anything real-world-adjacent. This contention demonstrates fundamental misunderstandings of how corporations work, how the world works, how long things take, what it would mean to even see this in the world, and much, much else.
Models that can easily best a junior dev only came out about six months ago. Even in the most “move fast and break things” type companies, it still takes a few months to get everyone moving the same direction, the product side to create specs, those specs to be turned into designs and those design to be coded up (whether by human or AI), tested and refined. So we’re talking 3-5 months to even get anything out the door.
Remember what I said about the high-quality models only coming out about six months ago? Do the math. Therefore, I’d not expect to see any real apprecial results for 1-2 years given that most companies move even slower than that — yes, even with AI assistance.
This will never be a button-press. Faster, yes. But not what this doofy dismissal imagines.
Hush Rush
I lived in Charlotte, NC, for many years.
My daily commute ranged anywhere from 45 minutes to four hours, depending on traffic. Yes, each way. For those not in the know, Charlotte has some of the worst traffic in the country. Rush “hour” there often lasts 10-14 hours of the day.
It was a pretty frequent occurrence there that traffic was immobile enough that me and other people would get out of our vehicles and chat on the highway as pre-smartphone there was nothing else to do.
Despite
When I was in training in the Army there were two girls in there with me, both with the last name “Pool.” In the military, everyone calls one another by last name — at least before you have a nickname.
Well, the thing was, one of the Pools was very tall and one was very short. So I could distinguish them when referring to them, I started calling the short Pool “Wading Pool” and the other one “Swimming Pool.” Then everyone else did too.
Neither Pool liked this, but it stuck throughout training.
No, I was not a favorite of the Pools. I think Swimming Pool still liked me though, despite herself.
Flat Out No
I’m old enough to remember when we were told it was “impossible” the Patriot system would ever work, much less be able to intercept hypersonic missiles.
For many reasons, I trust other people’s (especially degrowth liberal types) assessment about what is “impossible” about as much as I trust a flatworm’s opinion on how to make a good burger.
Looting
Exactly. Opening “Quality Learing Centers” to steal money and send it back to some shithole country is not making this country or even the receiving country of that thieved loot any better long-term.
The Claim
Women often claim they get tattoos to repel men but go on to complain bitterly when the men they desire are no longer attracted to them because of those tattoos.
Other than that I have to look at them, were I in the dating market, I’d appreciate those disfiguring bits of personal defacement in the sense that they are accurate advertising that the woman in question is unsuitable for me. In that way, it’s a win. A fast, easy, reliable sorting mechanism. Those are rare.
Too bad tattoos are so ugly, though.