Contra still holds up very well, really fun to play with a friend.

That’s on him. He wouldn’t have been the first person to walk or bicycle across West Asia, Iran included.

It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.

Why didn’t I think of that?

Not sure if this is real, but just to be clear, it is totally stripping your body of all ions, including the electrolytes that your nerves need to keep your lungs and heart functioning.

Small amounts will be fine, especially if you don’t hold your pee, but it can absolutely kill you. Read up on water intoxication if you want to know more.

Quit reddit 5 years ago. Had a 12 year old account then.

Thread asked for early examples of racism against a certain group, by my country. I dug up such examples and translated them into English. The examples included slurs. Got permabanned for using slurs, no appeal.

Apparently I should have included a racism trigger warning in a thread asking for examples of racism, although the mod admitted that that wouldn’t have saved me either.

This is a site which was notorious for indulging in gore with videos of people being killed by the way. Bunch of weirdos.

That’s not why I deleted my account though. The last straw was when CIA thinktanks made a hostile takeover of all Middle East and geopolitics subs, forcing a Washington agenda to manufactor consent for war. The Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq subs were riddled with ex-military Americans and the mods were literally paid thinktank gooners. They were quite open about it too.

That’s one of the most infuriating things. Like, you get tons of posts on your frontpage that you did not choose. At some point you engage with some unhinged statement, trying to reason with the lonely wayward person that said something horrible or sad. You are now shadowbanned from multiple large communities, so no normal users will see your posts and you won’t even get notified that this action has been taken against you.

If you need to wash something with hot water but don’t like the steam, mix it with cold water before applying.

No it doesn’t. She’s blaming social media for actually getting the truth out there. She’s been at the center of US politics for decades, in the White House for a lot of the time. She’s just panicking because the narrative that she’s been part of pushing is crashing down.

Misinformation is a problem, yes. And traditional media also reports misinformation. Here is how responsible actors react to misinformation.

to engage in some kind of reasonable discussion, it was very difficult because they did not know history, they had very little context

I don’t need context to know that it’s wrong to rape an autistic prisoner to death. I don’t need context to know that it’s wrong to bomb cattle and fields in order to starve a population. And why should I listen to Hillary fucking Clinton, the single cause for why open-air slave markets could open in Libya. Fuck her and fuck Bubba too.

I can see the ridges that cut across each segment in the rings of a fingerprint. And the fibers that make up the threads in a piece of cloth.

I’m very near-sighted. Also means I have a built-in microscope.

I’m not very sensitive to bright lights. But I can also see better in low-light conditions than anyone I know. Not sure how that works.

I’m new here but this reminds me a lot of what reddit was like around 2008. I and lots of people came from slashdot, to be able to talk about things other than computers. So everyone is a nerd that cares about data and wants to have a genuine conversation, and I think that makes my experience more intelligent because it becomes less about winning by drowning interesting topics with the same rehashed jokes or tropes, and more about formulating your own thoughts as best you can.

What if someone doubles down on being an absolute tool, can I be rude about dismantling their personality then?

Are we positive this isn’t satire? Like this dude might just be a real life Borat and we’re to dumb to stop giving him attention so he just keeps raising the bar?

This really is a problem with expectations and hype though. And it will probably be a problem with cost as well.

I think that LLMs are really cool. It’s way faster and more concise than traditional search engines at answering most questions nowadays. This is partly because search engines have degraded in the last 10 years, but LLMs blow them out of the water in my opinion.

And beyond that, I think you can generate some pretty cool things with it to use as a template. I’m not a programmer but I’m making a quite massive and relatively complicated application. That wouldn’t be possible without an LLM. Sure I still have to check every line and clean up a ton of code, and of course I realize that this is all going to have to go to a substantial code review and cleanup by real programmers if I’m ever going to ship it, but the thing I’m making is genuinely already better (in terms of performance and functionality) than a lot of what’s on the market. That has to count for something.

Despite all that, I think we’re in the same kind of bubble now as we were in the early 2000s, except bigger. The oversell of AI comes from CEOs claiming (and to the best of my judgement they appear to be actually believing) that LLMs somehow magically will transcend into AGI if they’re given enough compute. I think part of that stems from the massive (and unexpected) improvements that happened from GPT-2 to GPT-3.

And lots of smart people (like Linus Tordvals for example) point out that really, when you think about it, what is intelligence other than a glorified auto-correct? Our brains essentially function as lossy compression. So I think for some people it is incredibly alluring to believe that if we just throw more chips on the fire a true consciousness will arise. And so, we’re investing all of our extra money and our pension funds into this thing.

And the irony is that I and millions of others can therefore use LLMs at a steep discount. So lots of people are quickly getting accustomed to LLMs thinking that they’re always going to be free or cheap, whereas it’s paid for by the bubble money and it’s not super likely that it will get much more efficient in the near future.

This can be fixed by the drivers paying extra attention in front of them when entering a roundabout.

When you enter a roundabout you need to be clear from the left, that’s normally all you need to worry about. In this case because the buses are so long, the bus that locks them is in front of them when they enter, and there’s another bus to the right. This should be clearly visible.

Honestly I’ve never heard about a roundabout traffic jam before seeing the picture of the Norwegian four-way bus lock a couple of days ago, followed by this example right here.

I think Cities Skylines is either badly programmed or propaganda for Big Intersection.

I think lots of people would care if it had a fair algorithm. Tinder is hated for several reasons, but that’s probably the main one.