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Before he dies, I want just one single reporter during a Q&A session to stand up and ask “Yes, Mr. President. What the FUCK are you talking about?”

Even his most brain-dead sycophant supporters have to be aware by now that when he uses the phrase “a lot of people”, he means “no body”

I call dibs on shouting “WEESA FREE!!!” in a Jar Jar voice.

I don’t think you’re wrong at all.

But there’s an element of “Cult of Personality” with Trump. I don’t think anyone else can turn all of that hatred to a common cause the way that he has. And I think a lot of that has to do with being the poor man’s idea of what a rich man is. Even back in the 80s/90s. You didn’t see other billionaires cameo’ing in Home Alone 2. Or creating the Apprentice.

He cultivated an image of what “rich” looked like to gullible americans, then sic’d them on his enemies once he had the power to do so. Yes these people are racist. Yes these people are stupid. Yes these people are hate-filled assholes. But up until Trump, they were also largely being assholes in their own homes, making their families miserable instead of the rest of us.

It took Trump to give them permission to bring their shit out in public. And once he dies, I don’t think anyone else in the GOP has the same cult of personality to carry it on. I think a number of people will try, and the GOP will devolve into internecine chaos.

When this fucker finally kicks it, I feel like it’s literally going to be the special edition ending of Return of the Jedi in America.

“There’s a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”

Commander William Adama

AI should never be used to create anything in Wikipedia. But theoretically, an open source LLM trained solely on wikipedia would actually be kind useful to ask quick questions to.

The reason AI is wrong so often is because it’s not programmed to give you the right answer. It’s programmed to give you the most pervasive one.

LLMs are being fed by Reddit and other forums that are ostensibly about humans giving other humans answers to questions.

But have you been on those forums? It’s a dozen different answers for every question. The reality is that we average humans don’t know shit and we’re just basing our answers on our own experiences. We aren’t experts. We’re not necessarily dumb, but unless we’ve studied, our knowledge is entirely anecdotal, and we all go into forums to help others with a similar problem by sharing our answer to it.

So the LLM takes all of that data and in essence thinks that the most popular, most mentioned, most upvoted answer to any given question must be the de facto correct one. It literally has no other way to judge; it’s not smart enough to cross reference itself or look up sources.

Not the point of the meme, but where does one go about getting fresh supplies (ribbons, replacement keys, etc…) for old typewriters like this to keep them in top condition?

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Simply put, if the invader is immobilized and no longer a threat, but you continue to beat them, it’s not self-defence anymore, it’s vengeance. That’s the law in Canada and I’m okay with that.

I’ve been a pretty big fan of both Elex games from Piranha Bites.

In terms of world design, scale, etc… It’s rare that I come across a game that actually sucks me into exploring every part of the open world map like Elex and Elex 2 did.

They’re also games that don’t hold your hand. Enemies don’t level with you. Meaning that if you wander into an area with strong enemies, that’s on you. A lot of people complained about that aspect of it, saying that it leads to having to spend a lot of early game running and dodging fights. But to me, that’s the entire point, finding creative ways to deal with the enemies that you’re too weak to deal with.

• I’ve lured stronger enemies into towns for the NPCs to deal with; adding just enough hits of my own to get the experience points. (added bonus of looting the corposes of the townsfolk that were killed dealing with it)

• I’ve skipped entire minor fetch quests (like paying off a gate guard to get access to a town) by again luring an enemy to him and having it kill him because the games have very few non-killable characters.

• I’ve spent an hour skirting along the edge of a crater riding the line between freezing by going any higher and getting one hit killed by enemies if I go any lower just to get to a hut that I spotted in the distance.

Honestly, for AA games that certainly have their flaws, there are parts of both that blow the modern Bethesda games out of the water.

Not good enough. I’m afraid this requires a decimation. Choose ten of your co-workers.

That’s not even arguably true.

You could debate whether or not the Roman Empire fell in 1453, if we’re pretending that the Byzantine’s represented a cohesive enough continuation to the traditional empire as we understand it. For the record, I don’t subscribe to that idea. But it’s a debatable topic.

But Rome, the City, had nothing to do with the empire after 476, and arguably even earlier since the capital of the west had moved on to Mediolanum a long time before that.

Any person who punches a clock for a living that doesn’t support unions is a class traitor, plain and simple.

I haven’t once in fifteen years needed to do any coding whatsoever to use my Linux computers day-to-day.

Ahh, why are you so negative

The curse of studying history in university…

People think America is in the grips of the “fall of the Roman Empire”.

But sad reality is that it’s more likely that America is in the grips of the “Fall of the Roman Republic”, where the reins of power were coopted away from the senate by emperors and plutocrats.

Yes, but how does Huey Lewis sound on it?

Not as much as I would have liked them with someone else in the lead role. Especially Shutter Island. It’s one of my favourite books and Dicaprio ruined it with his usual overly affected New York accent straight out of SNL.