DradisPing
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DradisPing
5d ago
It actually did change my opinion. Lesbians who come out later in life often get themselves into trouble when they start experimenting with aggression. They didn't learn appropriate boundaries when they were small and relatively harmless.
It looks to me like she wanted to do an intimidating bad ass peel out like you'd see in a movie. But she aimed poorly, terrified the officer, and got shot.
A twelve year old with a dirt bike can try that, a grown adult driving an SUV really can't.
DradisPing
6d ago
Many on the left have aggressively spread the idea the "ICE agents aren't cops". But they are cops, at least to the same degree that DEA agents or ATF agents are.
Suppose a group of marijuana activists were organizing convoys to disrupt DEA operations. No one would be surprised if someone ended up getting shot.
DradisPing
7d ago
If Maduro had had people watching the prediction markets closely he could have used the info to go hide in a bunker.
It would have been interesting if the insider trading had ended up self defeating.
DradisPing
7d ago
One strong argument against insider trading is that using the market you can profit off of any volatility. We want to stop insiders from having a motivation to create volatility.
DradisPing
11d ago
Venezuela has been holding elections since 1831. There have definitely been hiccups, but it has a long history of elections being the default. That's not the case for Libya, Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
I'm cautiously optimistic. The most likely outcome is an interim government followed by elections. Sure, it's possible that a Maduro successor might win. But I don't think that's likely given how aggressively Maduro was banning opposition politicians.
It's a little confusing. There are a bunch of plausible influencing motivations.
Trump is well known to have an ego problem. It seems like war hawks have been able to sucker him into various actions by promising him easy wins that will cement his legacy.
DC people operate on presidents with an isolate and control access strategy. The more anti-intervention elements in the administration don't have the pull or reputation to counter the hawks.
Rubio also wants a big win to base a 2028* run on.
More specifically, China has been aggressively building it's influence in Latin America for the past 20 years. They've been key figures in keeping Maduro's government running with loans.
Trump came in with the goal of rolling that back, with things like reasserting control over the Panama canal as key parts of it.
Ousting Maduro and having the new government renege on the China loans as illegitimate would be a big loss for China.
Closer to home, Maduro had a lot of help from NGOs when he was flooding the US with his undesirables. They presumably guaranteed that there would be no consequences for Maduro. Now they will be seen as radioactive by other Latin American governments.
Domestically it solves a bunch of the court cases about Venezuelan TPS and deportations.
DradisPing
12d ago
The remains of any costal civilization 10,000 years ago would have been wiped out by the sea level rise.
For a more specific theory I'm fond of the Azores as Atlantis.
DradisPing
12d ago
The price per pound of a broiler chicken compared to beef has been going down for the past 30 years. It's about 30% of the price now, but was 50% of the price back in 1990.
Chicken tenders are a relatively valuable part of the chicken, so I'm guessing that tenders would have been too expensive for fast food.
DradisPing
20d ago
There were some big changes to the H1B program announced this month, https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-changes-process-for-awarding-h-1b-work-visas-to-better-protect-american-workers
Applicants will have their applications weighted based on salary for the job occupation code and location. Devil is in the details, but they are trying to change things.
DradisPing
22d ago
It was settled under Biden.
DradisPing
23d ago
The other thing is that a teenage girl in casual clothing can enter or leave a hotel / condo building with attracting any attention. If she enters or exits in an evening dress then clearly there's some sort of event she's attending.
DradisPing
24d ago
I've only seen Glass Onion. It came off as shallow and hateful. Johnson seems like a theatre kid who smokes too much weed. The big twist was that the disruptors weren't smart and only got rich by stealing from a genius black woman.
DradisPing
24d ago
The USSR was funding a lot of left wing groups. They did this throughout the west. Irish groups got / took more money because Ireland was seen as opposing the UK and thus NATO.
When the USSR ended the money dried up, but wealthy Muslim governments & individuals took over funding anti-Israel activism. So many left wing groups pivoted to focussing on Israel.
DradisPing
25d ago
It's safe to assume that every two way communication method widely used has been used to ask a girl out.
DradisPing
29d ago
A recent photo of Steve Bannon mucking it up with Adam Schiff would be much more noteworthy.
Noam Chomsky has always been an armchair revolutionary. In terms of concrete political activity, Bannon doesn't take him seriously and Chomsky probably doesn't take himself seriously.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Look into Jonathan Haidt's "the elephant and the rider" model. Most people don't operate in a hyper-rational fashion, motivated reasoning is the norm.
DradisPing
1mo ago
I really think that all countries should just deny entry to any Kick streamer at the border. Sure you'll be getting false positives, but it does seem about as bad as having a criminal record.
DradisPing
1mo ago
I think it's pretty clear what happened...
Their normal production methods preserved the editing sheets, I can't remember the official term but they keep a map that codes frames in the final cut to individual film negatives.
So they farmed out rescanning the necessary film negatives and gave the sheets, new scans, and orginal hd versions to some shop who had software to automatically match the color timing and spit out a new final episode.
No one putting this process together remembered that Mad Men had occasional digital post processing to remove things like crew members at the edge of some shots.
So it wasn't in the budget and it was no one's responsibility.
The companies they hired underbid and had tight deadlines, so they just figured it wasn't their problem.
There have been worse screw ups than this before. There was a release of the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in widescreen where they not only didn't remove crew at the edge of shots, they also forgot to darken the night scenes and tint them blue.
Things like this always happen when upper management tries to split up projects and keep costs down without anyone clearly in control of he final product.
DradisPing
1mo ago
The idea with rough CGI or a puppet is to give precise character direction and control over timing of the dialogue. The puppet also gives actors something to act against.
I want to keep actors and make production very smooth. Let everyone in the production have a decent idea how a scene will look on air by looking at the dailies.
DradisPing
1mo ago
So I was looking at some demographic data for China, and it's funny how big the error bars are with a population that large.
You can fit the entire population of Mexico in them. The entire population of a fairly large country may or may not exist.
DradisPing
1mo ago
I am a fan of multiple book series featuring talking cats, eg Dungeon Crawler Carl, Craig Alanson's Convergence. However current CGI techniques are expensive and the thespian skills of cats are famously limited.
So I am very excited about the possibilities that AI is creating for feline main characters.
It should be possible to do a scene with a puppet or very rough cgi and just have AI replace it with a realistic cat.
DradisPing
1mo ago
On one hand, Hegseth was picked because he looks like a made for TV movie secdef, not for competence.
You're misreading the situation on that one. Hegseth is still too young and pretty to have the look Trump would prefer for SecDef.
Hegseth was picked because he had publicly beefed with the Generals about how the military should be run. Some of their behaviour in Trump's first term was frankly illegal, eg lying to Trump about troop counts in Syria. Trump needed someone who knew enough about the military and was willing to be adversarial.
DradisPing
1mo ago
So this is the rough sequence of events for the first Iraq war...
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Iraq had an oil reservoir that was almost all in Iraq, but extended like a mile into Kuwait. Fact check the exact distance before quoting, but it wasn't far.
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Kuwait was doing slant drilling operations along the border.
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Iraq was upset and started massing troops.
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The US assumed that Iraq was just planning to take the small strip along the border and didn't think it was worth getting involved. They sent a State Department official to deliver the message "The USA takes no position on inter-Arab border disputes"
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Saddam hears this and launches a full invasion of all of Kuwait.
So the first Iraq war was essentially about trying to fix a State Department screw up. They tried to give an inch and Saddam tried to take a mile.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Girls are far more into the Wizard of Oz than boys are.
I think it captures the idea of "little girl goes on an adventure" much better than most stories.
For boys it's just a fairly forgettable movie they saw in their childhood and it's crowded out of their thoughts by films they see when they are just a little bit older and have guns / swords / battles / etc.
Stories aimed at girls introduce romantic plots well before the audience is old enough to have any interest in boys. It's probably a cultural hint to try to get them to choose their future partners wisely. I think Oz sticks with them as a fun adventure fantasy with no boys allowed.
Additionally there's a strong cultural current of "witches are awesome and evil witch stories are just the patriarchy pushing misogyny".
So a story that goes back and reinterprets the Wicked Witch as misunderstood and kind of bad ass is fun.
So I started back on my project to allow building in minecraft with llms. I was working on it over the summer but my idea of reusable components that the ai could assemble got a little too complex for me.
I've been backed away on that and been focussed on giving it a specific functions to build common things that need blockStates set. I've got everything dockerized and have a live server for testing with players online.
The MCP (Model Context Protocol, used to provide functions that large language models can interact with) client landscape is a bit rougher than I expected. Claude Desktop works well, but only works with Claude. A lot of the programs that claim MCP support are focussed on MCP marketplaces.
Sure, MCP marketplaces are probably better for the average user. But few make life easy for a crazy developer working on a silly project on his own.
I got Cherry Studio working with my MCP server and it supports multiple LLMs. The downside is that it's MCP support isn't great. I noticed that it's not passing tool parameter descriptions to the LLM, which makes them struggle a bit more when working with something unusual.
Visual Studio Code does work as a client, but you need to put it in agent mode. Then whenever it gets an error it starts trying to rewrite your code to fix it instead of just running the minecraft functions.
What I found interesting is that each of the LLMs I've tried have a distinct character.
If you tell Claude to build something cool, it will start building something neat. But it is basically absent minded and forgets a lot of steps. So your throne room will not have any walls. Torches will just float in the air.
Gemini builds things fairly competently but kind of meets your minimum requirements. The results are a bit bland. eg your castle won't have an interior.
OpenAI / ChatGPT just goes hog wild building giant structures. They aren't well thought out and look strange. But you have to admire its ambition.
I've added in build task queues in the hopes that it will be possible for llms to review executed queues later and add to existing builds. I'd like to test having multiple llms modify a build queue and see what I get.
There's not a huge amount of interest in this project outside of myself, but I'm having a lot of fun with it.
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