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But IWI privatized like 20 years ago, and that was just the small arms manufacturing, as far as I know they kept making everything else too.
They “relied” on other countries because the grift was countries give Israel money, and Israel turns around and spends it at the corps who lobbied for Israel to get donations in the first place.
It’s like 1 of 2 days where the whole country shuts down. Even if a person doesn’t celebrate, they shouldn’t have to work
Man, I really didn’t think I had to explicitly point out lots of people have to take Christmas off, but have to burn personal days for their own holidays…
But here we are, me overestimating people again.
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You realize a shit ton of Americans don’t care about Christmas…
Right?
And for the ones that do care about other religious holidays, the whole country doesn’t shut down to accommodate them.
It’s not innate…
Innately humans are just animals. It takes effort to get people on the same page that cooperating is usually best
But we stopped teaching kids that in school 20 years ago.
That’s the sad truth about it. It’s not that the right corrupted a generation, just that between them an the neoliberals, no one wanted to help them. They both wanted brain dead tribalism because that’s what their mutual donors want
It honestly shouldn’t be that hard for everyone to follow the string back to "no child left behind’ but I remember pointing out this would happen 30 years ago, and I thought it was obvious back then too.
Racing games too, especially single player races.
If conditions are the same every run, it will eventually find the mathematically fastest way. I saw a video about a guy doing it, and after thousands of runs the bot noticed a glitch if the car wasn’t on four wheels allowing it to move insanely fast. Like grinding a rail in Tony Hawk, the bot would immediately do it, and run the entire course on the glitch.
That’s not human intelligence tho, that’s the same as when a slime mold can design a transportation network as effectively as we can.
I can’t believe I’m not really not really flying a spaceship!
Leonard > Amy
Yeah, I was confusing the long-term problem of re-entry with the long term problem of staying up there…
Even with heat shields they warm up the atmosphere and release particulates and gases
But you’re right.
new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel
That’s what Starlink satellites will become on their own.
The trash cloud won’t go away, it’ll stay up there destroying future satellites as well.
We could very well permanently fuck ourselves over with this, and arguably already have. Because the people putting satellites up are just worried about short term profits and nothing more than a decade from now.
Something people would actually use is a message board.
One of the simple cut and paste forums and pay the $10/month to get it hosted.
Just have people text you to approve registration, something you can verify people are really in the neighborhood
People aren’t going to want to download a bunch of stuff they don’t know about to hang out with the HOA for game nights…
The main problem with HOAs is lonely bored people who want something to do.
Most people would rather pretend the HOA doesn’t exist until it’s needed for an actual issue.
“We are a brave country. Ahmed al-Ahmed represents the best of our country. We will not allow this country to be divided. That is what the terrorists seek. We will unite. We will embrace each other, and we’ll get through this,” Albanese added.
Besides telecoms not following their own generational requirements that they made up for themselves…
A big issue is that each new one always seem so much better, because no one else is on it.
Once adaption happens and people move to it, it free up the prior one and cuts down on the advantage.
It’s because it’s centralized with an absolute authority.
They might not control the pope now, but if they do they control all Catholic priests.
It’s full circle back to “a centralized system is the most easily corrupted”. Just like this “new EU”. Even if the far right doesn’t control it from day 1, they want it centralized because that makes it easier to take over eventually.
At a joint news conference on Sunday, Col Perez said investigators did not think the person detained was the same person identified in CCTV footage of the suspect that was released on the day of the attack. The BBC has chosen to stop naming the person who has now been released.
In the footage, the suspect can be seen walking away from the scene wearing all black clothing.
Following the release of the footage, FBI director Kash Patel had said that a person of interest was detained at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island in the early hours of Sunday morning based on a lead from Providence Police.
Col Perez had then confirmed that officers were not looking for anyone else and were working with prosecutors to collect evidence.
Sooooo…
They don’t have any evidence, but they’ve already made up their minds this person is guilty and they aren’t looking for any other suspects?!
Yep, centralization isn’t a good thing.
If you read the article long enough, they go mask off and eventually admit the movement has two major factions: “centrists” and outright racists who want a white Christian empire.
Seems everyone supporting this wants it as a vehicle to move the EU to the right, which is why they want it centralized. It’s easier to buy off one leader than 27 different ones at the same time.
Don’t have to get very far to get to the part where it’s far right douches trying to slow walk people to racism…
Indeed, federalists are far from being a politically homogenous group. Several meme warriors told me that there is an ideological battle ongoing in the dank recesses of federalist Reddit subgroups and chatrooms between broadly centrist people who believe in boosting the power of existing Brussels institutions, and far-right people who hate Brussels but nonetheless want Europe to assert itself on the world stage. The big divider is identity politics and migration policy: far-right groups tend to envision Europe as a culturally and ethnically homogenous “empire” — read, white and Christian, preferably Catholic — that keeps foreigners out.
Saying “only white Christians are European, and everyone else shouldn’t be here” is not, and has never been, just “identity politics”.
It sounds like neoliberals and racists are both fighting over who gets to be called “center right”…
Seems like a good time for some Bob Vylan honestly…
Fuck that, let’s go dig up Maggie
Let’s go dig up Maggie’s grave and ask her where that milk went
Down to storm those Downing doors, run inside and **** them
Eat the rich, eat the rich before they turn and eat your children
England’s ending, death’s still pending, burn those fucking buildings
Yeah…
But you know how people are already comparing vibe coding to 40k where “priests” pray to computers and hope if they do the exact same thing they’ll get the same result they want?
If we start walking down this road of even the chat or not understanding why what it did was better…
Serious unintended consequences are going to be inevitable.
Like, I swear nobody knows the paperclip story anymore.
Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
I mean, we can make a very very solid argument that much of our current problems are caused by high level stock trading being done by algorithms who’s only instruction is “make numbers go up”.
This shit aint even hypothetical anymore, it’s just instead of “make as many paperclips” we told it “make more money than you did yesterday”.
Which is why we’re burning down the planet to make billionaires even more money
The important part, is Britian bitched out on their threat…
The wealthy and powerful make empty threats constantly, because if/when it works, it’s a free victory.
We can’t negotiate with the wealthy, which should be obvious by 2025 to anyone that can remember the past twenty years.
Sure about what?
https://archive.ph/zC3nL
66 articles “cited” for a five point AI summary? Either your pawayll remover fucked up the website, or I have no idea why you posted this slop.
But I am understanding why this is going to be a confusing and frustrating conversation if you’re posting this slop like it’s an actual article.