No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
1mo ago
Echopraxia has a better quote about the posthuman/machine vs human relationship:
“I’ll fight you,” Brüks said aloud. Of course you will. That’s what you’re for, that’s all you’re for. You gibber on about blind watchmakers and the wonder of evolution but you’re too damn stupid to see how much faster it would all happen if you just went away. You’re a Darwinian fossil in a Lamarckian age. Do you see how sick to death we are of dragging you behind us, kicking and screaming because you’re too stupid to tell the difference between success and suicide?
No_one
1mo ago
Most likely scenario is AI being used to keep and hold power forever because it's going to allow you to spy on everyone, to play psychological games against everyone to get rid of opposition and know most everything. AI regulation will play beautifully into this because it means no one's going to be able to have their own AIs keep them safe.
SaaS. Stasi-as-a-Service.
No_one
1mo ago
It's deeply perverse to invest immense care and thought into making something ugly.
No_one
1mo ago
Why should architects care what you think if you don't care what they think?
Because almost invariably the nonsense people object to is funded by the taxpayer. No one gives a shit some rich guy builds himself a shoe-box villa that has a garden that looks like a carton box.
People object to ugly public buildings, same reason as they object to shit on the street or buildings acting as mirrors and melting down the pavement. Yes, architects at times will build a concave sun-reflective glass facade that melts things.
No_one
1mo ago
I'd not be willing to listen to more than 10 minutes of that without a substantial cash payment.
The gymnasium is made with immense care and thought
It's an ugly concrete box. Worse, it's probably not even cost-efficient
No_one
2mo ago
Pretty cool. They're really getting everything out of the engine.
Oh yeah, looks like you'll have to wait for nukes to start just not caring about pollution anymore with that thing around.
No_one
2mo ago
Nah. I read it somewhere, the technique basically just improves efficiency for farmers because it can test every tree seedling for the presence of the symbiotic mushroom that produces truffles.
Cultivation can be done in apparently as simple way as taking acorns from truffle-producing trees and planting them in an area with the right soil and climate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle#Cultivation
But in the modern day farmers buy seedlings inoculated with the mushroom spores, plant that and that almost guarantees each tree is going to produce truffles when it's grown sufficiently. The decline in truffles is apparently due to re-forestation and.
No_one
2mo ago
Lol no. That'd mean inventing a whole new type of explosive that can be inside an working battery ?
Why - more likely these are custom made batteries no one thought to x-ray which were modified to have lower capacity and the empty space was taken up by a detonator and explosive. Much simpler.
No_one
2mo ago
100% this was explosive charges in batteries. Funny they didn't notice the batteries had a low capacity somehow.
No_one
2mo ago
You could probably find the explosives by x-raying a Hizballah battery a some random guy's battery of the same type.
Explosives have a specific density, I've heard they show up on x-ray the same way cheese does. If you want to give someone a fun time, gift them some oval shaped hard cheese, pack it next to electronics..
What if the Gros Michel banana specifically contained some protein that could have been turned into a low-carbon-emission fuel source using 2025 technology
Don't worry about anything like that. How much energy you can get out of crops is capped by photosynthesis. It's not that much because photosynthesis is extremely inefficient. If there was a plant that had a higher photosynthesis efficiency, we'd know.
they had the technology to farm truffles, and the decimation of France in the war resulted in them somehow losing that capability.
You heard wrong. Truffles are still farmed, and apparently there's been a recent breakthrough. Some micro-testing which lets people buying tree seedlings are successfully inoculated with the symbiotic fungi that grows truffles.
humans have been responsible for the extinction of tens of thousands of species, mostly bugs I think I recall,
There are many, many species of bugs. Notoriously many. Apart from pollinators I've not read anyone related to farming worrying about anything going extinct, as a niche wouldn't stay unfilled for long.
No_one
2mo ago
- the spread of inflammatory rhetoric and disinformation propagate by big tech.
Just..big tech?
Are you really saying it's big tech's fault blacks and many liberals whites believe what's basically blood libel - that is, that police kills thousands of unarmed blacks every year ?
No_one
2mo ago
Possible, the guy was near psychotic. You might be right, or it was the gun he could get. He was a felon, so probably couldn't get much of a choice.
Or maybe shooting a Russian asset with a Russian made gun seemed like the thing to do.
I haven't cared much about guns since about the cheap russian import era, when that was the case both here and in the US.
No_one
2mo ago
Because US thought they had no competition. If you proposed lowering defense budgets now you'd be called a traitor selling out global freedom to the Chinese.
No_one
2mo ago
I'm sure there are Czech hipsters and I do know craft beers exist and are drunk (as the chart shows), but it's not really my thing. I've been offered some craft beer and such, wasn't generally bad.
Wasn't generally better than what you can buy in store, just different. I'm not going to 4x my beer costs to get something 'different' now am I?
Due to parentage and upbringing (public school) I'm inacapable of understanding what 'cool' means. Or at least what normies mean by that.
E.g. very early on when at 15 I was out drinking with my high school class (more like a state run & funded prep) and the girls were smoking unfiltered cigarettes & instead of being normal and thinking "they're being so cool" I thought "they think this makes them adults" and having a bit of a laugh internally.
They didn't say they were going to send troops. They said they're going to give Ukraine everything it needs to win though, and press 'the case against Russia' and so on. Politico article on the visit. Video of the speech
I believe the plan was something like a fork in chess - give aid and support to Ukraine so it crushes the rebels and thus also wrecks Putin's domestic support and international prestige, or force Russians to intervene in which case you can paint them as a horrible danger to Europe and impose more sanctions and wreck European trade with Russia, which directly benefits you as they're forced to buy more from Canada and the US. Whatever reaction Russia does, it loses. Pretty basic plan but it can't help but work.
When it comes to other aid, US and West have offered Ukraine more of it and taken bigger risks than just about anyone would have predicted before Feb 2022.
You are right. Almost no one did, but people in Ukrainian politics thought US would take even bigger risks. Check the image. And perhaps also the video of Arestovych talking about the situation.
[Here's a video from 2019 of then presidential advisor Arestovich] explaining the situation as he sees it, and casually stunning the interviewer with frankly speaking about a large-scale war with Russia. I don't really fault much of the analysis, except for the bit saying that a "major war" is a price worth paying for not being in a Russian led union. The fate of Bulgaria isn't one to envy, and that's what'd have awaited Ukraine, at best.. Fodder to keep the population shredder of the EU going for a bit longer. Why would anyone stay in a corrupt & poor state riddled with political strife when they can move abroad easily ?
It's funny how it neatly ties all it together. He says that NATO members weren't certain about taking in Ukraine - but Skripal affair, the airliner shootdown, coup in Montenegro and Syria made it clear they have to oppose Russia by accepting Ukraine.
Skripal affair was, to a 99.99% probability, a psyop done by someone in the British state. There's no other explanation for the utterly unlikely presence of one Britain's highest ranking military medical officers on the scene. It was really weird and poisoning a guy you exchanged who wasn't even very nasty doesn't make sense.
The airliner shootdown might have been malicious, in the sense that Ukrainians did not close their airspace over the area after losing a big jet to a SAM missile. Whether that was deliberate or incompetence is unclear. And as to Syria and the refugee wave caused by the war Americans supported and possibly caused, and in which they supported Al-Qaeda and allegedly also ISIS.
Grand strategy is a pretty nasty affair, the stakes are basically infinite so it's of course going to be absurd.
No_one
2mo ago
Did they integrate better AI into it ? Rampant seems pretty computationally simple but it works very nicely and depending on the setting and your bad habits can eat all the resources.
Never cared about pollution in normal Factorio, why would you? In Rampant I'm greener than the Germans.
No_one
2mo ago
Does anyone know where the beer trends are going? What's cool now?
As a resident of Czech Republic, the idea of 'trends in beer' seems bizarre. Beer is a daily drink. Asking for a 'trend' in beer is like asking for trends with Coca-Cola. Sure people do try but generally the big established brands produce pretty good lager which is what almost everyone drinks.
It seems in America it's something else, not a basic commodity.
No_one
2mo ago
There's no realistic scenario for that. Americans would have to give up attempts at world hegemony and lower welfare while increasing taxation.
Either is politically impossible.
No_one
2mo ago
...uhh..what?
You know where your drone is. Today you could even have its position updated live on their tracking devices.
Civilization came into existence because it enhanced group survival.
It's pretty ironic that it's probably also going to end it. Once the deep state is efficient machines and not inefficient apparatchiks, things might get pretty funny.
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