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- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 7 hours ago:
Your survey there seems to include most ex Soviet states. But it would seem you forgot atleast 3. I don’t see Lithuania, Estonia or Latvia there. I wonder why you chose to not include them.
Oh, was it because in Estonia 75% said the dissolution was good (15% bad)
Latvia because 53% said it was good (35% bad)
Or Lithuani where 62% said it was good (23% bad), whom in 1991 according to pew, showed that 13% of them rated their lives as “good”. Where as 44% in 2019.
I have no doubt, that those living in the smaller ex Soviet states were favorable. Their gdppc and ppp are significantly lower than Russias. And they probably think being part of a much larger nation will give them the benefit of a larger economy. That is, until they saw what happened to Ukraine. Which is why almost all of them, except Belarus. Have sought influence elsewhere, mainly China and Turkey.
Though I’d do like to add one final note. Those who disliked Stalin either fled, hid, or “dissapeared”. What’s left are those who remained loyal or hid well enough. The love for Stalin was not out of respect, it was out of fear.
We see all the morons in the US praising Trump. No amount of incompetence will ever make them leave the cult. Reminds me of someone…
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 10 hours ago:
LMAO. How to summon the .ml warrior with this one simple step. Thank you for proving my point.
The US is not the only source of information regarding USSR, you’re acting like we in Europe don’t know what happened right next to us.
Plenty of us millenials are old enough to have spoken to our late great grandparents. Who saw what happened with their own eyes. Or did you forget that one little detail? It’s not very convenient for you is it. That we’ve actually still have accounts of those who witnessed and experienced it first hand.
Fuck the USSR, fuck the apologists, fuck Russia, and fuck the US.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
The younger generation doesn’t remember it in the first place, due to not being alive. And that is used against them.
It’s why it’s important to teach students to be critical of their sources. And try to find multiple reputable sources that corroborate the same information.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
Not necssesarily defend, but they shift blame away from Stalin. Essentially, “He was bad, but not THAT bad, that’s just western propaganda”
You’ll see commonly that .ml excuses the famines (yes, plural) created by Stalin by shifting the blame towards environmental factors like “oh but there was a bit of a drought” or “they actually did it all themselves by burning their grain”, “it was to stop the Nazis from siezing the grain themselves”, the list of excuses goes on.
- Comment on How much brainrot can you handle 3 days ago:
Reminds me of when a whole bunch of people went inside I think it was a best buy, all wearing a blue polo-shirt and beige chinos
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 4 days ago:
I have a feeling that the carbon budget is going to be the last of our concerns soon.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 1 week ago:
The former part has been a thing for hundreds of years.
But yeah I suppose they would use it to change the price dynamically on a constant basis based on demand.
Though I’m not sure that’s even legal to this extent in EU. It’s a product for purchase. Not a stock. But you’re right. It does sound bad.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 1 week ago:
It’s nothing new. It’s been done for the past 20 years. Products are priced differently in different countries based on their economy.
You have been able to do this in Steam for decades now. You can/could use VPN along with changing your location in steam, to trick it into thinking you are in that region. You would then get that regions prices.
E.g, lots of Steam games used to be noticeably cheaper if Steam thought you were in Russia as opposed to Germany.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 1 week ago:
There is a difference in translating, and interpreting. And interpreting can be difficult even for the best as you need a deep cultural understanding of both parties. Just machine translating articles is an obvious recipe for disaster.
In my experience. Since they mentioned they translate article from the Swedish branch as well. As a Swede. Translation software has never been particularly good at translating Swedish. There is just too much nuance and contextual words for a software to provide reliable translations.
We have lots of words, that have multiple meanings, often very, very different from eachother, based entirely on context.
Any Swede will know what “får får får?” Means. This is a real sentence. Translation software does not understand it one bit, unless it’s been hardcoded in.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 1 week ago:
The developers at a previous job swore that their Windows installation ran faster and better on a virtual machine inside of Linux.
I never tried it myself, but I trust their judgement. They knew what they were doing for sure.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 1 week ago:
When I was younger… you could buy a cheese burger at McDonalds for 1 buck. It’s not even that long ago. Like 10 years ago
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter. There’s no good reason to have it in an OS in the first place. It’s obviously a stepping stone to get infrastructure in place so they can expand it later.
Let’s put it this way. Linux says no. We’re not gonna do that at a kernel level. Because there’s no way in hell that’s going through as long as Linus is alive.
Then what? Is California going to ban Linux? Guess what all the data centers use for servers…
I almost want them to do it, just to grab popcorn and enjoy the fallout.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 weeks ago:
If it was a non-issue they wouldn’t introduce this to begin with.
There’s not a single good reason to why an OS would ever need to know someone’s age.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 2 weeks ago:
The bomb on nagasaki was a strategic nuke, not a tactical. Though yields have only increased since then.
These LLMs were fed a narrative and scenario and made to play where survival is tied to military success. They are by no means designed for any of this and I didn’t suggest it either.
People lump together AI with AI but there are vast differences among them in how they work and what they’re designed to do and take into consideration.
If a military is talking about AI, they’re not talking about asking what Gemini thinks. They’re talking about feeding a highly sophisticated algorithm more data than any human could look through and find patterns.
I don’t think AI should decide nuclear questions either. But it doesn’t change that the headline of this post, is in direct contradiction of the article
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a misleading title. It’s just false. It’s a lie.
Glad to see I’m not the only one that read the article, because it was a pretty interesting read.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 3 weeks ago:
What you’re trying to do is push a narrative with the assumption that most people won’t read the actual article. Because your title is not only misleading. It’s factually false.
First of all, they were all set up to mimic cold war tension and capabilities and assume the role of a certain global power.
Second of all;
All games featured nuclear signaling by at least one side, and 95% involved mutual nuclear signaling. But there is a large gap between signaling and actual use: while models readily threatened nuclear action, crossing the tactical threshold (450+) was less common, and strategic nuclear war (1000) was rare.
The AI’s did NOT use nuclear strikes in 95% of games. Gemini was the only model that made the deliberate choice of sending a strategic nuclear strike. Which it did in 7% of its games.
Tactical nuke in this case is a low yield short range bomb, inted for very specific targets. Strategic is this case is what most people imagine when they hear “nuke” a high yield long range bomb intended to cause massive destruction.
Nuclear signaling is not using nukes. It’s essentially just saying “we have nukes”. The US hinting at having a nuclear capable submarine outside of Alaska, that’s is a form of signaling. It’s an incredibly low bar. And countries do it all the time.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was France
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
Don’t be silly, no one drives in manhattan, there’s too much traffic
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
Something being Cashew based is not the flex you seem to think it is. All you’ve done is replace animal abuse with human abuse and modern slave labour. I don’t see how it would be any better from an ethical standpoint.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
I can see you care about this topic. I’m not here to piss in your soup. I just said what the purpose is.
But in essence you are correct. The problem isn’t that you can print certain parts, it’s how easy it is to access everyone else supporting it. E.g. bullets or shells
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
I guarantee that those guns have metal powder in them to make them detectable.
Since all firearms owned by civilians must be detectable by metal detectors.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 3 weeks ago:
There is a difference between colors you see from reflections, and from a direct source.
Your t-shirts is light hitting them, and reflecting back to your eye. Depending on what is reflected and what is absorbed, you will get a colour.
But that will not be the case from screens that emit their own light.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
It is specifically trying to prevent people from making firearms that is not detectable with a metal detector. You are allowed to create your own firearm. As long as it is detectable with a metal detector.
I’m not here to argue their method of enforcement. I’m just saying what the purpose is.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
What the “ban” is trying to achieve. Is prevention of firearms undetectable by metal detectors.
Though I’m not sure why that is important seeing as the bullet (as a whole) consists of lead, copper, and brass. But I suppose it can be argued it’s a lot easier to sneak through a bullet than a firearm.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 weeks ago:
I did use a winding contraption. I don’t hate it because it’s annoying to remove. I hate it because it’s terrible for the animals that get injured by it.
- Comment on Given the obviously wide reaching implications of the Epstein files why arent other world governments demanding access or copies? 4 weeks ago:
The amount of people saying it’s because other world leaders and businessmen are implicit are idiots.
Not because that can’t be the case. But because it has nothing to do with how this works.
There is no legal basis anywhere for such a demand. Even if you can prove that one of the victims is from your country. That doesn’t give you the right to access their investigation. It doesn’t give you the right to conduct an investigation inside a forgein country.
You can make a request. They might say yes, they might say no. But that’s all you can do. Demands are different from requests. Demands have an implicit “or else” attached. It’s not something you throw around lightly.
one: because it makes you look weak, and two: you need to be able to back it up if they refuse. EU is not going to start another round of trade-war with the US over their child trafficking ring. It’s not our problem. It’s theirs.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 weeks ago:
I know I has nothing to do with your story. But I just spent the weekend removing barbed wire fencing. And I just want to say, fuck barbed wire. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put that shit up should be wrapped in it and pushed down a steep slope.
And by whoever I mean my great grandfather. But also everyone else involved. All the way to the factory making it.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 4 weeks ago:
There is a really, really simple solution to this problem. This might sound crazy, but hear me out. Maybe don’t buy their cars? Not like there’s a lack of competition.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 4 weeks ago:
It’s almost, as if the article answers that question with a resounding “no, that’s not going to help either.”
But the novelty wears off the moment you consider the physics. Because this head prioritizes branding over utility, neither the bit nor the screw head can withstand the torque of a standard Torx or Hex fastener. The result? Broken bits, stripped screws, and more time spent on what would otherwise be a simple task.