CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
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27d ago
Your anecdote reminds me of how much H.P. Lovecraft was a xenophobic misanthrope.
But his stories wouldn't have been the same if he didn't have that deep fear and hatred.
Not justifying it. Just saying that its sometimes better to separate the art from the artist.
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29d ago
But just as people who want to "end masculinity" and "end the gender binary" are not talking about literally exterminating males, you know perfectly well what Ignatiev actually meant.
This argument would never hold against any other group; women, blacks, jews themselves. We can't accept and normalise this sort of rhetoric. Its indefensible.
I feel your pain and while I work in a different (private) industry I have had to deal with all of these issues. Many professional fields have to deal with this.
Maybe I have a bad attitude, but I've long stopped caring about how accurate anything on my timesheet is.
This is basically where you end up. Even to the point of billing other jobs if necessary to cover the time. You get what you incentivise.
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1mo ago
You're in for a treat.
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1mo ago
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to Mediterranean for the first time in something like 6 books in a Temu Ship of the Line.
Will Stephen finally get ganked by French Intelligence? Will Aubrey get any on the side? Will they run out of Plum Duff? Let's find out!
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1mo ago
I'll give it a go, thankyou.
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1mo ago
Me too, I haven't really played around with AI for some weird anxiety about not being able to apply it effectively. I'm kind of sticking my head in the sand on AI to avoid thinking about my FOMO.
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1mo ago
I think the main reason they are not as disruptive is because they aren't done cooking.
This is my take. Its still a nascent technology.
For some reason this popped into my head. and I compared it to this or even this.
I don't think AI is going to be a VR style hype train to nowhere.
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1mo ago
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1mo ago
"If your project has any industrial application of interest to the CCP, assume that any Chinese national is legally obliged to share any information they have access to or can easily obtain with the CCP"
Western govts have the capacity to create a basic screen like this, but for some reason they don't. I wish they did and had even a clown HR'ish rep to run research students through a basic process screen like this and send it up the chain for further analysis if it gets complicated.
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1mo ago
Mainland Chinese students (and some ethnic Chinese 2nd+ generation residents/citizens) have been doing Industrial Espionage for the CCP for ages. This could be justified on that alone if they don't have the state capacity to vet them for access to certain research projects.
I can't see how Chinese students in particular are involved in the latest Israel/Gaza 'terrorist support' fiasco. They usually keep a low profile regarding politics. Ethnic chinese students are often monitored by the CCP in foreign countries for support of Chinese related stuff (Taiwan, Falun Gong, Tibet, Uyghurs, Hong Kong etc). Haven't seen any of that flare up recently.
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1mo ago
Usually there's more social cohesion in rural areas. Your anecdotes aren't a good sign.
This is great. If they can provide the receipts that this has led to economic growth, other countries MUST follow. The naysayers will face incredibly strong pressure against a (relatively) cheap increase in nationwide QOL.
Edit: Aww Man!
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1mo ago
Still on The Fortune of War. The American upstarts are fighting His Majesty's Navy. How dare they?
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1mo ago
You're allowed to be upset. I would as would most of us.
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1mo ago
All good points. Why not give it a go then? If its low risk (you've done a credential check) and affordable you can give it a trial and see if you like the results.
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1mo ago
I'm not particularly keen on semi-annual injections into my face, but I think it's worth a shot.
I'd consider getting a second opinion to make sure there isn't some 'one and done' permanent surgery available rather than this SaaS (Surgery as a Service) ongoing maintenance payment.
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1mo ago
You could use a site or script to edit all your comments with nonsense and then delete everything (I've done this). You'd keep the karma.
The only issue is entering your password into a third party free site. A script with open code would be better.
Last issue is that many subreddits will ban you for mass editing and deleting your comments. They have bots watching out for this.
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1mo ago
I'd actually consider cutting down on coffee and seeing if that helps. Could be a caffeine crash.
Yes. There's a whole sub branch of my fantasy that involves me getting chased down as a warlock (male witch) representative of Satan because of failed Galileo things.
Edit: there's no weird arse fetish about this. I just expect that this is how this sort of thing would go down.
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2mo ago
Axis of Time which is WW2 focused.
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2mo ago
I've had this fantasy of traveling a thousand years into the past and trying to teach monks and engigneors modern technology with just my layman's understanding. I was pretty much going to try experimenting with feeding moldy bread to dudes with the bubonic plague.
Welp... if I ever get a time machine I guess I won't be doing that.
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2mo ago
I'd like to do some of the small ones to cut down on the mental overhead of remembering my To Do list.
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2mo ago
I have a friend that volunteers as a firefighter. One of the disappointing stories he told me was that they were recently told they needed to comply with newly invented needless bureaucratic safetyist paperwork that the regular firefighters have to deal with. Except those guys are paid for it. He said it was really taking the shine off their volunteer work.
I don't blame him for reconsidering. People volunteer because they enjoy what they are doing. Knowing bureaucrats in the public service that have mandated this extra paperwork, they would not know or care about the downstream impacts on manpower that their decision will make.
At least until there's a volunteer manpower shortage and they either pay someone to comply with the onerous amount of boring administration or they wind the requirements back.
So frustrating. High trust, community focused volunteering that contributes to social cohesion and the govt is taking it for granted. Mindless.
TIL, thanks.
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