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almond_activator -7 points ago +4 / -11

There are some fictions too dangerous to be permitted.

Some ideas gain power when expressed, over the speaker and the listener both. To avoid giving power to the evil, some fantasies should not be entertained.

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almond_activator 30 points ago +30 / -0

...Why?

Because he is possessed by a mental illness so virulent, it demands to be spread.

And the response of society has been to sacrifice the vulnerable instead of protecting them.

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almond_activator 27 points ago +27 / -0

I'm much less afraid of a military that can't ruck, can't operate 18h a day for more than one day without emotional breakdowns, and doesn't have the discipline to follow orders.

The next best thing to a competent ally is an incompetent enemy.

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almond_activator 3 points ago +3 / -0

You probably shouldn't argue marriage against someone who believes it is a divine institution. You won't get far.

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almond_activator 18 points ago +18 / -0

Remember all those daycare Monkeypox outbreaks right before the media got the order to shut it down?

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almond_activator 4 points ago +4 / -0

Jimmy Kimmel was on The Man Show, not Jimmy Fallon.

The Christian right was objectively correct on enough things in the 80s they get a pass on the rest. You might be confusing them with the shrieking harpies in the secular Left, personified by Tipper Gore and Hillary Clinton, who used appeals to the Christian right as a political tactic.

I say it as often as I have to:

If you do not have the original idea to vote, you should neither register nor cast a ballot, because that ballot will not contain your own ideas or preferences. I don't want pre-programmed voters participating in a democracy, a republic, or a shadow oligarchy using some manner of public participation as a smokescreen.

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almond_activator 5 points ago +5 / -0

A separate thought after watching the first video, it looks like there may be a fifth network that largely overlaps with US (left-wing) Politics.

Troons. Quite a few pink flags in profiles of bot accounts.

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almond_activator 4 points ago +4 / -0

The IU social media analysis project is looking pretty important.

I'm guessing the Indian politics tie-in is likely downstream of H1Bs.

Porn bots with malware links are used to harvest new bot accounts.

US politics is how they're capitalizing on the stolen accounts, with crypto and Indian politics convenient secondary sources of revenue.

The first video referenced in this one is Unlimited Bots - The Engine Behind Twitter.

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almond_activator 1 point ago +1 / -0

All its training data included lens distortion, so of course the generated content follows suit.

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almond_activator 2 points ago +3 / -1

In late January, a Steam user posted a negative review for the game Warlander, warning potential buyers about the shady anti-cheat system the game was using, the apparent problems being intrusive data collection and difficult removal after the game itself had been uninstalled (the review text is no longer available). This review stayed on top as the most helpful review for nearly three months, which must have been a big thorn in the side for the developer and the publisher.

Apparently the Steam moderator categorized the negative review as "attempting to scam users or other violations of Steam's Rules & Guidelines", which meant that all those 2439 people (plus people who have it 437 awards) got their accounts restricted for 30 days, during this time none of them can up- or downvote any Steam reviews at all.

If any Valve employees actually look at this, it will get reversed, and the moderator is likely getting canned. Using the "scam" causus belli here doesn't hold water, and banning everyone who marked it useful was likely an unintended side effect.

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almond_activator 2 points ago +2 / -0

Kennedy was chosen by Iger specifically because she was going to do things like that.

It is a common tactic of leadership to pick suboordinates who will do what you want them to without explicit instructions; for leftists, this means hiring other leftists, while for someone not corrupt, it means picking someone who understands the role and has aligned goals.

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almond_activator 3 points ago +6 / -3

As you know, the winter solstice is a calculation, the one day per year, for each hemisphere, where the respective pole is furthest from the Sun. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but is acknowledging the shortest day of the year (in terms of sunlight) a pagan practice to you or others here? If so, it's not "pagan," it's practical. There are limitless tangible benefits to planning around such an event.

I'm not sure if I'd call it a "pagan ritual", but the fart-sniffing here needs some sort of name.

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almond_activator 2 points ago +3 / -1

If the kid was called up to work a mission or target tangential to or actually involved in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it's very believable he could have reached beyond his scope without immediate notice

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almond_activator 4 points ago +4 / -0

Eutopia is Greek for 'good place' and the use of Utopia (no place) as a fantastical, perfect place was a pun of sorts in the 1500s book by Sir Thomas More of the same name.

I reacted because I thought it was a clever reference to a 500-year-old book that's still worth reading.

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almond_activator 3 points ago +3 / -0

eutopia

Fitting that the enemy is mostly nihilistic and seeks to create a non-place with their nonsense words.

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almond_activator 1 point ago +1 / -0

Review: The Last Spell
Undoubtedly, The Last Spell is one of the most demanding, exhausting, stressful, and brilliantly designed games I've played in a long time.

I'm curious what can be done with the genre with random level/enemy generation. I've had this on my wishlist for a long time, but I've long since abandoned the idea of buying games in early access because I tend to get bored before they're finished.

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almond_activator 1 point ago +1 / -0

Arcadian Atlas Wears Its Final Fantasy Tactics Inspirations on Its Sleeve; An SRPG to Look Out for Later This Year

I think Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis was the best 2d grid tactics game I ever played, and this has a similar aesthetic. I'm getting a bit tired of Fire Emblem clones, but not the tactics genre.

So long as the game is less pozzed than this reviewer, I'm probably going to play it.

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almond_activator 2 points ago +2 / -0

Why Large Language Models Hallucinate When Machine Translating ‘in the Wild’

I'm more confused how a 60-page report could possibly be worth $585.

That said, AI "hallucinations" are an interesting topic. Ghosts in the code that no one wrote and no one understands, compressed into the model, that can lead the model to begin generating nonsensical or non-sequitur output.

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almond_activator 1 point ago +1 / -0

AI bot, ChaosGPT, tweets out plans to ‘destroy humanity’ after being tasked

AI bot also sounds like its pre-training was mostly done on a dozen midwit 20-somethings living in the same two-bedroom downtown Portland apartment.

Which is far less scary than sounding like coffee talk at a bris.

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almond_activator 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't think that's entirely true.

The Right and the Left seek material profit and psychic profit, as all humans do. The Right, however, seeks different kinds of psychic profit from different sources than the Left, and are significantly more averse to sustained deception as a means to derive psychic profit.

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almond_activator 2 points ago +2 / -0

Why is the Air Natural Guard of Massachusetts looking at Ukraine?

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almond_activator 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't need to get rid of all of them. You might want to, but I just want the dead weight cut. The trick is to fire the worst ones last, because the ones who might have won a lawsuit will have moved on by that point.

If they sue, show up to court with boxes of written warnings.

The real trick is to make the positions of the ones who are merely entitled and incompetent redundant, because they weren't getting any work done anyways. You don't have to justify downsizing the same way you do firings in a lawsuit.

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