Blueberry
10d ago
There is (or was in the past) a BetterAI mod who made the AI a bit more capable. In CIV 5 and 6 war is a snorefest, as moving many units with the new one-unit-per-tile is cumbersome, and the AI doesn't understand tactics. Multiplayer is okayish in CIV 6 though.
Blueberry
14d ago
In fact, basically all drones are weak to shotgun, and mounting a radar on a rapid-fire spreader turret is pretty cheap by military standards.
I never saw an automatic or anti drone turret in combat footage, despite a very high incentive for Russia/Ukraineto to have that.
There is tons of footage of shotgun use and this Russian soldier is doing it very non-chalantly:
Fighting against a drone searching for you must be nerve wrecking, you hear the high pitched sound and play hide and seek against the drone operator:
Of course this is the lucky case where the human survived. There is tons of footage of drones hitting their target.
Blueberry
14d ago
Oh god! The comments!
With immense respect, Mr. governor, this is the constellation "Orion." It's made up of stars between 244 and 1,344 light years away. The stars will be in a similar place tomorrow.
So any opinions on the drone sightings in New Jersey? Is it just mass hysteria and people mistake airplanes for drones? Are they aliens? Supernatural phenomenon? Just a distributed prank by drone owners?
So far the confusion and appeal to the government is bipartisan:
Lawmakers from across the political spectrum on Sunday criticized the federal government’s response to mysterious drone sightings in the Northeast, as officials emphasize there is no evidence of a security threat.
Democratic Rep. Jim Himes, a ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, also expressed frustration with the administration’s response to the public. “The government has a real responsibility to put more information out there so people better understand what the real dangers are,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Trump said Friday that the government needs to convey more information and shoot down the drones.
Asked Sunday about the president-elect’s post calling on the government to shoot down the drones, Mayorkas said, “We are limited in our authorities.”
What drives me crazy is that only phone videos seem to exist and phone cameras suck for faraway objects in the night. Is there not one good camera with a zoom in New York/New Jersey?
Edit:
This orb ABC News was puzzled over is really an out of focus Venus:
https://x.com/MatthewCappucci/status/1868052013164134899
Blueberry
15d ago
Interesting that strong AI is now taken as consensus? I believe superintelligence is not possible. LLMs hitting a ceiling recently is one sign for that, but I don’t believe LLM can be intelligent anyway.
Blueberry
18d ago
To quote a cynic tweet comment:
I’m sleeping with 100 men. Pay attention to me!
Oh I slept with 100 men, pay more attention and feel bad for me
I’m sleeping with 1000 men! Pay all the attention to me!
It is all an act and performance to advertise her OF.
Blueberry
19d ago
Vance argues that there is no solution to hillbilly culture. The best we can do is try to tip the scales to push a few marginal cases in the right direction. … Mentorship is one option. Vance attributes much of his success to the positive influence of a handful of family members, and now he tries to do the same for a few teenagers in similar environments. It’s especially useful to give these kids a jump start on the civilizing process, with simple tips like “wear a suit to a job interview” or “don’t curse in front of your boss.”
You should also embed your gf in your family to unlearn toxic behavior, eg visit with her for Christmas your parents instead of the chaos of her family.
Blueberry
19d ago
This seems the real manifesto (Klippenstein is a former Intercept reporter, so not confirmed by a second source yet, but he is decently trustworthy). It is super short:
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
Wait, the X Account was reinstated? I guess Elon intervened? I just skimmed his tweets (always wild) and he shares Luigi memes (even wilder, I would have guessed he doesn’t like assassins!):
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1866389839362359790
Edit:
I know marijuana can cause for some paranoia, I never heard much about negative effects with psilocybin. I am sceptical about the drugs-fried-his-brain explanation. But I don’t have experience with drugs.
I am sceptic, but on the other hand what do we expect? A philosophical and poetic master piece, instead of quoting the movie Gladiator I?
This here I feel:
> The high copays made consistent treatment impossible. New treatments were denied as “not medically necessary.” Old treatments didn’t work, and still put us out for thousands of dollars.
UnitedHealthcare limited specialist consultations to twice a year.Then they refused to cover advanced imaging, which the specialists required for an appointment.Prior authorizations took weeks, then months.UnitedHealthcare constantly changed their claim filing procedure. They said my mother’s doctor needed to fax his notes. Then UnitedHealthcare said they did not save faxed patient correspondence, and required a hardcopy of the doctor’s typed notes to be mailed. Then they said they never received the notes. They were unable to approve the claim until they had received and filed the notes.They promised coverage, and broke their word to my mother.With every delay, my anger surged. With every denial, I wanted to throw the doctor through the glass wall of their hospital waiting room.But it wasn’t them. It wasn’t the doctors, the receptionists, administrators, pharmacists, imaging technicians, or anyone we ever met. It was UnitedHealthcare.
People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.
We entered into an agreement for healthcare with a legally binding contract that promised care commensurate with our insurance payments and medical needs. Then UnitedHealthcare changes the rules to suit their own profits. They think they make the rules, and think that because it’s legal that no one can punish them.
They think there’s no one out there who will stop them.
It may not have enough punch for you, but living this must be hell: Constant delays and stupid bureaucratic busywork, it makes one feel helpless.
Edit:
This is probably fake. Mainstream news coverage (e.g. NYT) included a few quotes of the manifesto, which is in the hands of law enforcement:
"To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,”
"These parasites had it coming"
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/09/nyregion/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-news
These quotes do not appear anywhere in this posted manifesto that has been circulating around.
I read a view diverse mainstream articles to see what is reported about UH-shooter suspect Mangionis, and it seems he is not connect (yet) to any right/left identity, instead vague statements that he was interested in video games and interned/worked as a software-engineer.
The BBC mentions his review of the unabomber manifesto, but selects two balanced quotes which are pro and anti Kaczynski.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9nxee2r0do
I had to laugh about this:
When he was told he would be arrested if he had lied about his name, he admitted he was Luigi Mangione. Asked why he lied, he told officers "I clearly shouldn't have", according to court papers. […] Police said although his arrest was "peaceful", he has since stopped being cooperative.
Technically the police did not promise to not arrest him if he said his real name, but what does one expect?
The slatestarcodex sub has good discussions about his online presence:
Feels like he could be reading and commenting on the same articles that we all do, tbh.
He lived in Japan for a short time (I think?) and this could have written by a grumpy Motizzen:
https://x.com/PepMangione/status/1780863519677940189
Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.
The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural.
Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:
- ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole” custom pornstar pocket pussies being sold in Don Quixote grocery stores
- replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering, with actual human interaction with a waiter
- replace 24/7 eSports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting and Overwatch shooting games, with athletics in school
- heavily stigmatize maid cafes where lonely salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters and perform anime dances for them
- revitalize traditional Japanese culture (Shintoism, Okinawan karate, onsen, etc)
Blueberry
21d ago
The pro-russian military OSINT bloggers/shills complain about this retreat that every Arab army sucks. This is probably not wrong though.
Blueberry
22d ago
Same here! And then the sibling comment is „oh I talk with Visser regularly“ and I guess this board is for some people the local (Bay Area?) friend group?
Blueberry
26d ago
Explain like I am a 55 year old non-American non-4Chan non-always-online person?
I think I know who Southern Lauren is back from Gamergate (but searching her I find a video that she fled a tradwife life because of her horrible husband?), and I sometimes hear about this Destiny guy (why is it noteworthy that he is gay?), but I have no idea what he is or for what politics he has (was he some StarCraft streamer?) and Nick Fuentes seems to be some rightwingnut troll? What does it mean “to be a fed”? Is this just a diss or a really serious allegation?
I think there should be a more extensive KnowYourMeme or outOfTheLoop explanation?
Blueberry
26d ago
Nope, looks as if it is already over. That was really weird. I think the society in South Korea needs to seriously re-think those emergency laws.
Blueberry
26d ago
or he is very incompetent and desperate
It seems the latter. The Korean sub was for an hour panicking “the sky is falling!” and now they are making fun of him. A dictator not feared is finished:
https://old.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/1h5r8h2/%E3%85%88%E3%85%88_%EC%9E%85%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4/
Blueberry
27d ago
"A presidential pardon by proclamation is a way for a president to grant clemency to a defined group of people. The pardon is effective as of the date of the proclamation for individuals who fall within the defined group. "
I think it is effective immediately. The above quote is from the DOD about a past pardon.
https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Presidential-Pardon-Resources/
And Bidens pardon of Hunter (up to and including 1.Dec) was signed and released on 1.Dec:
Blueberry
28d ago
Silvers main point is if voters punish “their” party (by not voting, or voting third party), even if it means the enemy gets into power. He thinks yes, because that is how he felt:
Turning back to national politics, there are two times when I’ve felt betrayed by the Indigo Blob, my term for the unofficial alliance between the Democratic Party and the progressive expert class. If you’ve been reading me for a while, you can probably identify them because they’re the two huge fights I’ve had with the left in the past several years. One was with COVID stuff. When the pandemic began, I was one of those people who was like “Welp, we ought to just trust the experts here!”. Many of those experts did a great job under impossible circumstances. But I felt betrayed by a minority who were clearly using the pandemic to advance their political agendas: their utter hypocrisy in endorsing the George Floyd protests after having spent weeks telling everyone to stay home, for instance.4 And then they did profound harm with prolonged school closures.
Then there was Biden’s decision to run again. I thought this actually did present an existential risk because of an 86-year-old president’s questionable decision-making abilities in a crisis. At some point, it even became farcical, with Biden referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin” in a press conference meant to reassure the nation about his cognitive fitness. You’d get yelled at by a certain type of Democrat if you didn’t play along and pretend that this was normal.
After the June debate, I was willing to put my foot down; I would have voted third-party5 if Biden had remained on the ballot. Maybe this was intended to “teach the Democratic Party a lesson.” Or maybe it was an emotional reaction more analogous to revenge. But either way, being coerced into voting for a man who clearly wasn’t fit for another four years: sorry, that’s where I was going to tap out.
Other voters may feel betrayed by the Democratic Party for other reasons, particularly too much wokeness, too much immigration, and too much spending. In 2019, Harris ran far to her left. Although many pundits claim that Harris pivoted to the center this year, she was making mostly empty gestures. She backed down from many of her 2019 positions without providing any rationale or proposing much in the way of substantive policies to replace them, or doing anything to offend the various “groups” and nonprofits that dominate the Democratic Party’s policy-making infrastructure. And faced with a decision that did have real consequences — her choice of a running mate — Harris went with what the progressive wing wanted instead of the moderates.
Isn’t Trump also hypocritical and prone toward promising lots of things he can’t deliver? Sure, but his promises are also more tangible: less immigration, less crime, less inflation and most importantly, owning the libs and thumbing his finger in the nose of the establishment through the mere fact of his election.
Blueberry
28d ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-66945566
Quite a story! Convicted murderer Gallant was out of prison on license for the first time, when the attack occurred and he battled down the terrorist. Talk about having a really unlucky and lucky day!
Blueberry
28d ago
Charles Kushner, the father of Jared, wanted revenge on his brother in law, so he paid a prostitute to have sex and record the encounter, and then he sent the video to his sister:
He was pardoned by Trump four years ago and was now nominated as ambassador.
Blueberry
1mo ago
You need a drivers test as proof that you know how to drive a car. The test for understanding medications is being a physician.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Here is a compilation video of them:
An article from 2020 about that:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/
I mean, Artemis is after all a female goddess: (2nd century statue copied from a Greek original dating to 330 BCE). And as Thomas Carlyle meant to say, the real use of bow & arrow is to make all humans tall.
https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/10157.jpg
Plus the easiest way of hunting animals is trapping. You don't need to be strong or athletic endurance to catch squirrels and rabbits with snares. Look at this boy trapping birds, which is so stupidly easy probably even a girl could do it as long as she isn't vegan and doesn't mind being cruel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapping#/media/File:34-caccia_tortore,Taccuino_Sanitatis,_Casanatense_4182..jpg
I don't know how to interpret the statement "Grandmas were the best hunters in the village", but I imagine their hunting looks less like battling a grizzly and more like these Aborigines finding a lizard (from 2:50), Also an example for opportunistically killing animals:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iP7Nn3whUTo&t=160
That said:
I wonder about the math here. If in 46% of foraging societies women hunt small game and in 48% larger game and then 4% all sizes how does that result in 79% of societies with women hunting? And I wonder what the total calories provided are. Was it more a novelty thing women did when they were bored or out of necessity or was hunting their sole profession? I read the book about the Pirahã in the Amazon (who have this strange language without recursion which refutes Noam Chomskys central thesis) and the role of the man was to fish on canoes in the river (every day meal) or go into the jungle to hunt (more special to eat meat) and the women digged for vegetables/tubers (carbohydrates, also every day meal).
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