yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
1mo ago
That IRA court ruling is one of the most insane things I've ever seen. I'm not exactly an expert in The Troubles but... wow.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I have two friends who were actually present at the Munich Security Conference last week, and both of them said Vance's address was the most shocking speech they'd seen in their respective diplomatic careers
The problem here is that I listened to that speech. There was nothing angry or unpleasant about it. In fact, it was one of the most refreshing public addresses I've seen in my memory. Is English your friends' second language? Do they have any understanding of American culture at all? Debate club? It was lightyears away from that - simple, direct language, delivered clearly. A real message from a politician instead of the same endless fucking vapid platitudes about democracy while jailing people for "hate speech".
I think many Americans just don't realise how visceral and close and frightening the Ukraine war is for many people in Europe.
Ok. Fine. Yes, it's far away. Let's pretend I haven't seen the visceral footage of men disemboweled, flayed alive, and burning in the fields of Ukraine. If it's so real, why can virtually no countries in Europe maintain their commitments to NATO spending? Is it perhaps because they're busy gloating about how morally superior their welfare state is while it's endlessly subsidized by the US of A?
I actually don't think Zelensky meant for this to pop off the way it did. It was uncomfortable to watch aggression and dominance toward a man who (to me) seems to be trying to keep his country and people from annihilation.
But I don't see how the established rules of the Lilberal International Order benefit the American taxpayer. I'm tired of watching my children's future being sold while being sneered at. If it takes someone as uncouth as Trump to man the Bailey while Vance stays in the Motte, then it is what it is.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
More detailed terms pertaining to the Fund’s governance and operation will be set forth in a subsequent agreement
Yeah so it says nothing about what the fund will do. Also the Ukranian government, famously corrupt, is going to be pretty squishy about how revenues earned from monetization are going to be calculated and distributed.
To steelman: While there aren't security agreements here, the US won't get any of these resources if Russia conquers the entirety of the country or the land with the most valuable resources. There's still incentive to keep them in Ukraine's borders and under their control.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Ok while I have you here.
There is a major subset of American men who will never be able to love soccer the way they do Football, and it is because of flopping.
Basketball has the same problem in a more minor way.
It is excruciating to watch grown men fake injuries for the advantage of a foul. I played the sport for more than two decades. I could never stomach doing it and I can't watch pros do it.
The regional differences in how floppy teams are in the world cup is hilarious.
Do you agree that it is a problem? At all? Would you change it? Could you?
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
LLMs != AI. Critical here - the models for understanding physical feedback while cutting aren't going to be built from scraping Reddit.
One thing I will concede is that these hyper specialized machines are going to have other physical advantages. A humanoid robot will take up humanoid space. When you compare it to these automated cutting machines elsewhere in the thread, the latter has more throughput than a humanoid interface would at even superhuman speed.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
We're all speculating here. It's all going to depend on the timing and use cases. But imagine a factory that's sunk millions in capital for their human driven processing.
They can re-do all that with hyper-specialized machines, dozens of vendors, the nightmare of IT/OT interactions (doing a project on this right now in bottling actually). Which they probably do every couple of decades.
Or they can wait for a humanoid robot with these capabilities and drop them almost completely in-place.
Humanoid robots work with existing interfaces. With sufficient image recognition quality and human-like sensory capabilities, they're going to fit in way more jobs. Think of the difference in outlay between training a single humanoid robot to cut chicken legs (which is doable by illiterate illegal immigrants) compared to the expense of developing and deploying a hyper-specialized machine.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I can outperform the market, but only if I am paying close attention. My full-time gig requires sometimes 100% of mind for multiple days at a time, and if you're not doing your own research and able to execute on Bloomberg alerts, you'll miss out on big swings. I did not play as long or as successfully as WhiningCoil, but after 5 years of my $10k play fund performing identically to my bigger funds attached to indices, I decided to focus on my family and job.
My minimum investment into a stock is generally going to be that same $1,000 mark. You ultimately want enough position slots to keep you interested - I.E. 10 slots would be $10k. One problem I ran into is that instead of closing a successful position and moving it to something else that excited me, I would just invest more elsewhere and divide my attention, then miss the previous win turning into a loss.
All that said, it meant I could use that fun money as a way to avoid buying some physical crap. If I had extra money in checking I would buy stock instead of some frivolous bike part. Since this is already trust fund money you can't physically touch, that's of no use to you.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Couple things stick out:
- Are you sourcing these on your own or finding them in an adjacent forum? I look forward to these every week.
- This happened on an indian reservation - not sure how relevant that is.
- Amazing to have your best friend of 26 years and his daughter sell you down the river. Amazing to have your wife and child beg for a Jury not to convict you of a crime against one of them, and then they do it anyway. I wonder how often abused family members do this, my passive observations suggest it's uncommon but possible.
- One problem is that these niche cases don't provide any pictures. Frankly if I were a juror they would perhaps have moved me in one direction or the other, though the fact this literally only happened once is more evidence it was just some ridiculous mistake.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
It is, helped along by Microsoft's crappy junk mail filter
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
While the capabilities seem impressive, I can't help but notice the difference in quality between those two machines, and legitimacy of the demo video.
The second has simpler, non-moving parts that probably degrade the quality of the product, jump cuts, and is moving pretty slowly. Can't believe that selling an expensive machine like that isn't worth paying an American a couple of bucks to read a script instead of just some shitty TTS engine.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I've butchered meat before - nowhere near at the level of a professional processor for Tyson, but enough to have the basics down.
You've correctly itemized many of these challenges. Still, when I see the primitive human robots of today and apply our current rate of technological process, these all seem eminently solvable very soon.
Likewise, I will bemoan missing the occasionally overstuffed Taco Bell burrito the blazed-out-of-his-mind fast food worker occasionally serves me. But I'll appreciate that my order will be ready when I get there 100% of the time and the missing flavor of subtle racial animus.
To me the edge cases are going to be home services for a while longer yet, where tight spaces (the ability to suck in your gut) and ingenuity/hacking are going to require that human touch a little longer than food factories.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I think giving up that early would have emboldened Russia or required enough compromises to make it effectively a vassal state. Not a foreign policy expert, just my impression.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
You're correct that we don't know, and I suspect the value of the war to Ukraine reached its apex earlier than today. Unfortunately I also agree with the rest of your post as well.
I suppose as a baseline though I still believe the value of Ukraine standing up for itself made it a net positive at some point in the past few years.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
This was an extremely common argument on this board just before and during the early stages of the Ukraine war.
It would have resulted in fewer overall deaths but has plainly been disproven by what actually happened.
The longer the war drags on the worse it gets for Ukraine, but with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight they made the right call to fight.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I am furious that I have lost the source but there is ample evidence of concrete IQ-testing results dropping post-lobotomy. Like, ~15-20 points. So without regulation forcing culture-war transformation there's free performance for those who choose to buck the trend.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Did you read the Dark Tower series? I'm considering it
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I think everyone being confused in this thread is strange. I don't act on the urges that Musk and Cannon do but I have the same ones. I think my genes are awesome, and the world would end up better with more people having them in the world.
The rules of society are my primary reasons for not sowing my wild oats. After becoming a parent, there's some FOMO. But that's it.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I think the Novella. Books have an advantage by default for me though it should be said
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I'm finished up Different Seasons, four novellas by Stephen King. TL;DR: I very much enjoyed it.
King has a utilitarian style. So much of what I read is really not that. When you're so clear with your communication, there's less room for evoking emotion. He is still able to do that. Breaking the fourth wall a bit, the fact that he can when putting out so much content is undeniably impressive. This is the last time I'll connect the work with his politics, but it's just sad that he created art of this caliber just a handful of years ago, and now he's essentially an NPC.
The first Novella is essentially the Shawshank redemption. There's nothing crazy about the book, even "the twist", but it's a satisfying read that stays largely positive. I've heard critiques on this board that King focuses on the reality of prison with a bit of a sadists eye and would respectfully disagree. It's just well done.
The next is "Apt Pupil". Light psychological horror. One thing I really respected about this was that there was a focus on details and continuity.
Then there was "The Body" which turned into "Stand by Me". There are frankly dozens of important sections, but the one that stuck with me the most was when the boys were discussing precisely why they were taking the journey to see the body described in the title. It reminded me distinctly of how we would walk through the woods as kids, following the creek for hours with air rifles in hand and chips in backpack to make it to a spot minutes away by car. Some things deserve to be hard.
Last but certainly not least was "The Breathing Method" which was purposefully evocative of Lovecraft which I have always enjoyed.
All in all, a diverse set of stories with enough highs and lows to make it an even-keeled read. I very much enjoyed it.
Now starting in on "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Conversations with Friends", and "Incurable Graphomania"
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
While that moment is an incredible memory, it's long ago been dwarfed by the rest of our relationship. I've been a hopeless romantic since I was very young. 99/100 times, it was just a way to get my feelings hurt, but eventually, it stuck.
The third I had a conversation with, and discovered she was not the kind of person I wanted to have a discussion with, much less live with. It was lust only.
Many such cases.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Somewhat related: I loved the Redwall series as a kid. I remember my 1st grade teacher being skeptical and incredulous that my book report was on Mossflower given its length. This link is an image on purpose - I think that the cover art for that book is unbelievably good, and helped 6-year-old me power through it.
Contrast that with the new book cover. Holy fuck, is nothing sacred? It probably couldn't be any worse - it even spoils the end of the entire novel!
I suppose I have to drop $150 on an older print boxed set now even though I'm 2 years away from my kids being able to start it.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Great book, one of the most surprising and enjoyable reads of the last 5 years for me.
I still remember being struck with what felt like a thunderbolt the first time I saw my wife. I had even been prepared, slightly. I knew her roommate, and so had seen pictures on Facebook. The only excuse I can muster is that the average resolutions back then were so low they gave you what I think is more of an idea of a person.
I was able to stabilize myself for the rest of that night and act normal, even if every conversation with her started with me being a little short of breath, or having the same palpitations you describe. Over the next year or so, I was struck by how funny and kind a woman with this much beauty could be. It didn't hurt that she was dating someone else, so the stakes were low.
When we both had to stay in our small college town over the summer, I brought her tea and aspirin when she was sick. She helped scrub the old green truck I drove that didn't match my personality at all, and we made trashy cheddar bacon fries with meat from the ag department she was part of. When they broke up, I swooped in.
More than a decade later, I still actively give my male friends opportunities to talk to her 1 on 1 in social situations. It's such a great experience that I think it would be selfish not to share it, even if I know firsthand it hurts a little when it's over.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
That's the gist. There's a whole website about it..
The tax is high, and there are prebates for the poor.
It appeals to me for many reasons, including that it incentivizes the creation of durable goods and consumer thrift.
While I always appreciate being corrected, you're arguing about a detail in my language about the countries themselves instead of NATO in aggregate. From your link:
So, put another way: Trump demanded they start pulling their weight 8 years ago, but they're still not hitting the 2% / GDP target, despite an active, major war in their neighborhood they supposedly care deeply about (?!?).
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