“Call it indoctrination. We want to carry out transmaribollo indoctrination, and we are ready to do it. It wasn’t a joke; the echoes were right — we do want to ‘make your children queer’ (we usually don’t have children ourselves), so that you won’t heterosexualize them as you did to us. You didn’t completely succeed. And we, too, have teaching degrees,” Peritz concluded.
There’s really no sensible response to this except the death penalty for everyone involved.
Provided they know the layout, the security posture, and the locations of any weapons and mobiles who know how to use them.
Sure, but realistically, how much of a “security posture” do you think this home has? It’s probably about 50/50 on if they have guns at all, and then even if they do the question becomes whether the guns are accessible in an emergency, or if they’re in a gun safe in the basement. And even then, if we say “they have guns, and the guns are reasonably accessible,” we have to ask how fast they’ll go for them. When they see an angry looking black man approaching holding a gun, sure, but what if he keeps his gun hidden and rings the doorbell like a normal visitor?
You’re talking like this is a tactically hardened target, when it’s much more likely a normal family home inhabited by people that shouldn’t—do, apparently, but really shouldn’t and almost certainly don’t think otherwise—have any reason to expect to be uniquely targeted for a home invasion by some whackjob they don’t even know.
The Imperium of Man is honestly a fantastic test for hypothetical thinking. They do a bunch of things that are monstrous by the standards of our world, but pragmatic in their own. If one declares the Imperium evil, one outs themselves as unable to consider contexts outside of a certain, narrow view, even in an explicitly fictional system.
Union busting? Sounds based, honestly.
Personally, I’m stunned to learn Disney has any ability to see when a property is being run into the ground, considering their own track record.
I didn’t know that. Is it a situation like the remnants of the various Native American tribes in the US? It sounds more serious, since I don’t think the Cree or Iroquois or whoever are speaking their dialects more than English.
Although I will say that “about a million” probably doesn’t bear out covok’s assertion that “the modern Mexican” (population ~130 million) is effectively an Aztec.
Only sort of. There’s some Aztec in there, but I believe there’s also significant admixture from the Spaniards, and from the other tribes in the region, many of whom sided with the Spanish against the Aztecs.
It’s always worth noting how little the left cares about results, and how much they care about labels. Bondi is kind of a funny choice for a bounty, because most of the right feels like she isn’t doing enough. If she were to be killed—which would unambiguously be bad, just to be clear—there’s a chance Trump’s next AG pick would be a lot more aggressive. If one really wanted to damage the long-term momentum of the right, better choices would be Vance, Miller, maybe Rubio or Bessent… but Bondi is in one of the headliner roles and is on TV a lot, so Bondi is the target.
I think the gendered nature pf entertainment awards is a good thing. Men and women are different, and thus typically display different characteristics in acting, music, etc. Having awards systems that recognize this is much better in that it codifies, even if subtly, sexual dimorphism.
It’s almost every other part of modern entertainment awards that’s absolute nonsense.
At least she did get fired.
There’s nothing sadder than a schizo who’s behind the times.
They might be, if we count self-inflicted ones. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to learn that some morbidly obese “BIPOC” got bumped up above a white person with cancer.
I know that the art making me uncomfortable is part of the intention with this guy's work, but man, does he consistently make some grotesque looking stuff.
Jungle Asians is like Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, right? To be honest, I thought those guys used chopsticks for rice as well. Am I thinking of the wrong group?
Are there any parts of the White House that are not in some way fortified beyond the normal scope of construction? I had assumed bulletproofing was standard.
Can't we build it somewhere nearby?
There might be room elsewhere on the grounds, but it probably becomes a question of how far you want your distinguished state guests to have to walk across the grounds, in their formal wear, at various times of the year. You certainly don't want it outside the grounds entirely; I'm sure that would create security headaches and would also diminish the connection to the presidency.
Also, a ballroom as I understand it is not typically a detached structure—hence "room."
I would assume it's out of style.
I’ll start by saying that I think some of it is hype. When I see “50% of people will be unemployed due to AI within three years” or “you have two years to escape the permanent underclass” or “10% chance Grok 5 achieves AGI,” I have my doubts. However, I do think that AI is around to stay, and will be revolutionary in the longer term. The reason I think that is because every argument about how it “isn’t profitable (yet)” applies to social media in the early stages. Every argument about it being too resource intensive would be equally applicable to computers in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, were one trying to imagine the state of computers today.
Is there a bubble? Almost certainly. But it’s the kind of bubble that comes with speculation in a new field not quite knowing what will pan out, not with the field actually being useless. One might recall the early 2000s “dotcom bubble,” and notice that despite the crash of many sites, the internet as a whole has proved to be more enduring and transformative than that early speculation imagined, not less.
Minor nitpick: can you even call that “jingoistic”? He’s talking about a literal hostile alien race that launched a major attack on Earth. Humans don’t even know if it’s possible to communicate with them at that point in the story. “Kill ‘em all” is a pragmatic policy choice that would be on the table for almost any non-suicidal society. You can imagine the delivery being more staid, more somber, whatever you want, but it’s hard to imagine that only a particularly warlike, patriotic , militaristic society would consider the option.
Good point. I understand your objection now. Thank you.
Imp or that crazy Michalus woman who shows up sometimes, although she'd be attributing it to patriarchal brainwashing of women.
Do you disagree with all use of violence in defense of personal property, or just this case of it?
“Negative outcomes” is very broad, so that terminology makes me suspicious. What if the LLM gives you accurate information, but you’re a retard and use that accurate information poorly? I do think that it’s obviously bad if the LLM is giving outright lies out, although given the way they hallucinate sometimes on basically any topic, I’m not convinced that that’s something the company can be blamed for so much as a ubiquitous, unavoidable flaw in the early versions of an emerging technology.
One of the scariest things about LLMs is how many people treat an obviously fallible, obviously open to bias algorithm as an arbiter of truth. I’ve seen people do things like respond to twitter posts about bias in a Wikipedia article with “@grok, is there bias in this article?” of course, Grok ingests loads of training data from Wikipedia itself and the various MSM sources they cite. There’s no guarantee Grok wouldn’t just have that same bias, and yet people assume it is an authoritative source. That’s an obvious issue that is worrying at a societal level, but how do you legislate for “there’s a really amazing technology with a lot of potential, but many people are dumb?”
It’s unlikely you’re Will Stancil, so you probably don’t have to worry about that, specifically. But you never know!
The statement is correct, but that’s actually a good thing.