Atomic

@Atomic@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a problem of me not knowing how to read. It’s a problem of you writing bullshit that’s just not true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They achieved a smile from me.

  They’re not preaching anything. More of a comment that a lot of posts seem to be about Trump and his administration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, good job! Proud of you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  US soldiers in Vietnam raping and mutilating civilians is a textbook case of evolution? What textbooks are you reading?

  You are so confidently wrong it’s astonishing. You must know you have no idea what you’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution. You keep using that word. But I don’t think it means what you think it means. Because this has nothing to do with evolution. Why are you trying to make this into some kind of evolutionary instinct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What Japan did to China was worse? Ok. So what? What relevance does that have?

  Is that how your approach everything in life? Your mother is raped and mutilated, that’s bad, but what Japan did to China was worse. So… stop complaining I guess? (Obvious sarcasm but I genuinely fear you won’t catch that)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me you’re not trying to excuse the rape of civilians as “it’s just what humans do”.

  It has nothing to do with evolution. These were angry men, taking out their frustration and anger of being drafted, watching their friends die for nothing in a jungle, on the local population. Rather than the government that sent them there in the first place.

  The source of their anger fueling their ruthlessness is not evolutionary. It’s manufactured by the ones that sent them there in the first place.

  Neither of which justifies rape or mutilation in any way. But it’s why they were capable of doing what they did. Anger and hate.

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of asking questions if you’re gonna block?

  What CIA says or doesn’t say is literally, irrelevant. We have plenty of accounts from within Europe.

  That other user very conveniently left out the 3 baltic countries where the vast majority doesn’t want to rejoin. And those 3 countries just so happen to also have much higher gdppc and ppp than the rest.

  You’re not fighting misinformation by being a Stalin apologist. And certainly not with your whataboutism. This isn’t about Cuba… or the US.

  No idea where this 100m+ is from or that communist countries doeant have food. Literally never heard that. Are you just making up myths so you can “debunk” them?

  The famines were created by Stalins collectivisation. His policy dealt the final blow that doomed millions to starvation. They had food. They just didn’t let certain people keep it…

  You’re not fooling anyone. We know things were not great under Stalin. From the famines to the arbitrary dissapearnces and arrests. But keep excusing it.

  It’s so hilarious that you say you fight against ICE, while defending the Soviet’s far worse version of “ICE”. You know how ICE drags people off the street in broad daylight. That’s what happened back then too.

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, all I have is not anecdotes. But the anecdotes confirm everything else.

  People fled and smuggled themselves out for a reason. You either fall in line and praise the rulers, or you might trip and fall out of a window.

  Millions upon millions died under Stalin. And when he was on deaths door, there were hardly any doctors to treat him due to him having them killed, tortured, and/or arrested. Now that is poetic justice. Though it’s hardly any consolation for his victims.

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was France

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be silly, no one drives in manhattan, there’s too much traffic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.