HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
10hr ago
That one was even based on a Jack Chick tract comic, if I'm not mistaken.
HalloweenSnarry
10hr ago
and let's not get started on the Volkssturm or Hamas' choice of soldiers.
You may notice that the former were the pathetic last-ditch force of a faction that was effectively defeated and was trying not to realize that, and the other is likely heading towards a similar position (if it is not already there). Child soldiers are the disgusting last resort of a faction that has no meaningful right to use violence.
HalloweenSnarry
11hr ago
the obvious one being fatherlessness:
Goddamn, blacks have that problem in Britain, too?
HalloweenSnarry
11hr ago
preventing NAFTA
Wasn't it more like "preventing the TPP"?
HalloweenSnarry
12hr ago
Yeah, Stellantis is huge. It's literally a combination of Chrysler, Fiat, and Peugeot.
Granted, those layoffs are probably all on the Chrysler side, so probably still bad optics.
HalloweenSnarry
12hr ago
Off-topic, but: I wonder if the problem with the Jones Act wasn't exactly the restriction itself, but the failure to enforce export discipline. In another timeline, the Jones Act is probably still around, and is much more unassailable because the US went South Korean with shipmakers.
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
Safe Needle Space Needle?
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
HalloweenSnarry
6d ago
The sales decline in Europe is at least potentially explainable by the backlash to Musk, what explains China? Preference for domestically-made EVs?
HalloweenSnarry
6d ago
Yeah, we have them here in Phoenix, and as a native resident of Phoenix, I can say that we have some truly questionable human drivers on the road as it is.
HalloweenSnarry
6d ago
True, there's already enough that's made by humans that one can find easily, and yet, we are getting generative AI pushed in our faces anyways. Every tech corporation is on a crusade to put an AI button within easy reach on UIs and even physical devices.
HalloweenSnarry
7d ago
Now, hold on, this probably needs the caveat of "terrorism works in the short term." I doubt this automatically means that the Greens are going to get the pick instead.
HalloweenSnarry
7d ago
I am going to pre-register my position of "no major Happening occurs." It may well just be for the purposes of carrying out another flashy, expensive bombing run on the Houthis. Why strike Iran now and not before?
HalloweenSnarry
7d ago
I dunno, some of the ways I can think of to bring down a transformer station or a concrete-hulled building involve violent forces that would, in fact, be similarly capable of reducing a lone infantryman to a bloody pulp.
HalloweenSnarry
7d ago
I think you replied to the wrong comment (at least, I see you replying to yourself).
HalloweenSnarry
7d ago
To put on the Hlynka hat, both extremes are guilty of both of these things.
HalloweenSnarry
7d ago
To add onto the other disagreeing replies here:
Consider the technology we use to make a cup of coffee. Once, you had to just boil ground coffee beans (presuming you already knew that you had to roast and grind them) in water. This made okay coffee, but you had to deal with the grounds. Then, we invented the percolator, which sprayed hot water over coffee and made for a crappy end result, but was probably more convenient overall.
Then came the Chemex, which took a bit more manual effort, but made good coffee. Then the almighty drip coffee machine was invented, which carefully dripped just-hot-enough water over the coffee grounds, and the end product was pretty good--maybe not as good as the Chemex, but still good enough, and very convenient. But then, then came along the Keurig K-Cup and all its derivatives, serving us coffee from plastic/aluminum pods. Is the end product as good as the older drip coffee, let alone as good as the Chemex coffee? Again, probably not, at least as far as aficionados would tell you, and yet, the K-cup has proven to be just so damn convenient that I would not be surprised to learn that the drip coffee machine was a declining product type.
This story of convenience beating out quality has happened in many fields of technology, and I feel that AI could play out the same way.
HalloweenSnarry
7d ago
I would like to agree, though I think poetry is one field of art where slop is characteristically more palatable to the masses than the real thing. It's one thing to have too-perfect generated images vs. illustrations made with actual care, but your average Joe is probably going to prefer a low-brow limerick over Eliot, Ginsburg, or Cummings.
HalloweenSnarry
9d ago
Yeah, I think conventional explosions could still cause blindness, assuming sufficient yield, no neutrons necessary.
HalloweenSnarry
10d ago
Holy shit, wow.
HalloweenSnarry
10d ago
the UN judge getting convicted of slavery in the UK
The what
HalloweenSnarry
11d ago
What makes these explanations not necessarily correct, would you say?
I do agree with this take, though, I think there's examples of legacy-corpo family heirs who are both stupid-rich and very progressive.
I get to use my taxes to (indirectly) pay for the gun the Camden gangbanger uses, a gun I'm not permitted to have.
What, exactly, is the mechanism by which this happens? I'm genuinely curious as to how this "also my tax dollars somehow" thing works, as you allege.
HalloweenSnarry
13d ago
Huh.
I think the problem is that we honestly just can't not. I think destructive nonsense like this has become an inevitability in some way, and it's going to keep happening until enough destruction has passed.
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