HK65
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- Comment on China's DeepSeek AI rattles Wall Street, but questions remain. 2 days ago:
To be honest, the things the article is saying we don’t know about DeepSeek, we don’t know about OpenAI either.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 3 days ago:
The issue with this is, they are people. Entering the country without proper documentations or overstaying a visa does not change that. The US can complain all it wants about the rest of the world wanting them to treat these people with basic dignity, it doesn’t change the fact they deserve their basic dignity.
- Comment on UnitedHealth updates data breach impact to 190 million people, nearly doubling previous estimate 3 days ago:
Or wanna bet it was some exec’s account who would have fired people for making his life inconvenient, but somehow now it’s going to be rogue engineers?
- Comment on War Thunder gets BattlEye anti-cheat enabled for Linux 5 days ago:
Battleye can’t do kernel-level stuff on Linux, can it?
- Comment on Europol chief says Big Tech has ‘responsibility’ to unlock encrypted messages 1 week ago:
Idiots failing upwards. A big problem with the current EU setup is that it’s basically all diplomats, and a lot of political administrations use diplomacy as a dumping ground for the people who they want to get rid of because they’re idiots, but can’t because they are too connected.
Also see the person responsible for the current state of the German army become Commission President.
But it’s not unique to the EU, Mark Rutte is NATO chief now.
- Comment on Mexican authorities to seal secret tunnel on US border 1 week ago:
equipped with lighting, ventilation and is reinforced to prevent collapses.
Lol, better infrastructure than some belt and road projects
- Comment on China’s population falls for a third straight year, Beijing has announced, posing challenges for government and economy 1 week ago:
All developed nations without significant immigration have falling populations. Why single out China?
- Comment on RedNote Influencers backtrack after pro-China campaign backfires: social media stars face digital dilemma over past Taiwan content 1 week ago:
Is this AI slop? Is this even English?
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 2 weeks ago:
This the same BrewDog that the term brewdogging was coined for, meaning getting interviewees to solve actual problems in the company, thereby stealing free work from people looking for jobs?
Yeah, fuckem
- Comment on Former Annapurna staff reportedly found new studio to rescue sold-off Private Division projects, including new Game Freak game 3 weeks ago:
This seems to be good news, right?
- Comment on I'm transferring to another ward within my hospital and the whole thing feels odd. How do I sort myself out? 3 weeks ago:
I’m an ex-tech worker and I went through this every odd year when I switched. Five times in seven years.
It’s always awkward since you are leaving for a reason, and shit always sucks. It’s not you, it’s the system. Focus on your new place. It never gets simpler.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Cooking and outdoor BBQ seems to be a match, but even so, even talking about hobbies can be nice. Just ask him about how it’s going what bands he likes, and see if you can take him to a concert or get him an album for example. He’ll enjoy the concert, you’ll be there for the time spent together. Or the painting-woodworking thing someone said.
I think the trick is to approach it from an angle of “I want to participate in your hobby with you”, and see what you can bring to it, and that might get him hooked on reciprocating. Trying to get him to go first with doing the same might more likely result in disinterest.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ask about their hobbies and let them talk about it, show interest.
You don’t have to be a pro Counterstrike player or a drummer in their band, but playing a match with them every month on a weekend or chatting them up about how the rehearsal went can’t hurt.
What hobbies does your son have?
- Comment on New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany 4 weeks ago:
You guys don’t even do the real dangerous homemade bullshit like milk powder bombs and klaphammers.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 4 weeks ago:
No, you don’t understand, people’s lives can only be thrown away in accordance with tradition. Men die in wars, women are exploited for children. You can’t cross the beams, frogs will turn gay!
You will get this passed as soon as we have a gender neutral draft and 50-50% wartime casualties between genders.
- Comment on Georgia’s pro-west president says she remains the ‘only legitimate president’ as new leader sworn in 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and fraud. Also, the new president ran on continuing EU accession talks and has turned about and suspended them before day one.
- Comment on He Thought He Wouldn’t Live to See Aleppo Again. This Week, He Returned Home. 1 month ago:
Good for these people.
Apparently the faction that took Aleppo is also an Islamist terrorist group - with the US, the EU and Russia all agreeing on that.
I don’t know if there are any better factions to take a win than them though, at least they don’t use chemical weapons on civilians or blow up things in other parts of the world, they just want a theocratic state which is just as bad as any other theocratic regime. Did I get that right?
And is peace closer now?
- Comment on Trump says Zelensky is ready for 'deal' with Russia 1 month ago:
Peace would be good.
The only question is what kind of peace. A peace where Russia saves face lets Russia recuperate and restart its imperialistic conquests in Moldova, Georgia, or Ukraine again. A peace where Russia compromises is a peace where Putin’s career ends.
I’m not even advocating for a peace like Versailles with restitutions and disarmament. Just don’t make it a peace like after the Nazis took Czechoslovakia, as we all know what that led to.
- Comment on Trump says Zelensky is ready for 'deal' with Russia 1 month ago:
Zelenskyy (sic)
For once, Trump’s spelling is not wrong, that’s a valid transliteration of Зеленський, it’s how Wikipedia is using it. The first y is pronounced like the i in “it”, the second as the y in “yet”.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 1 month ago:
People who can’t figure out things (and as you noticed it’s very hard), pay the most taxes of anyone in Europe, while people who earn enough can hire a specialist that tells them how to profit from deductibles, subsidies and fake self employment etc. The tax services routinely issue fines that were deemed illegal multiple times by judges in the past and it’s up to their victims to protest against this.
Are you sure you’re not Eastern European?
- Comment on Joe Biden issues 'full and unconditional' pardon for son 1 month ago:
The same place it will be for the next two months.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 1 month ago:
So the thing is that for a recent hire most companies, especially small ones, don’t know about the supplementary days. That makes for an awkward conversation immediately when you start.
The only real source is a government website with no good law citations that says ambiguous shit, and the actual law, available in Dutch or French, but the legal text is very hard since it’s a modification to an older royal decree, so you have to read the two together.
Ask me how I know. Capital of the EU my ass.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 1 month ago:
As someone who writes computer code for a living, I might match those up differently than you’d expect.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 1 month ago:
Your leave policies are a mess for people just moving here from other parts of the EU. You can end up with practically no leave for a year.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Or maybe, just maybe, fine companies that commit criminal acts.
There really is a fine line between turning into an authoritarian regime and doing basic police work, right?
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Twitter is not the sole, or even the biggest social media company in Europe. It’s not even in the top 3.
The advertisement sector will be fine.
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 2 months ago:
or, if I’m mistaken, replace NATO with any other military alliance Ukraine would want to join
This is essentially what the Ukraine EU accession talks are about. The EU is the military alliance they want to join, and it is actually even more protective than the NATO.
So the question isn’t stupid, Ukraine actually wants this, the EU is of two minds about it so far.
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 2 months ago:
even then calling it an organization is not really that accurate
It is an organization, you can go work for the NATO directly. They are headquartered in Brussels.
That said, military intervention on behalf of NATO works as you described, but there would be an obligation to help Canada in your example if the war would spread to its home soil. That said, the help obligation is literally worded “as they deem necessary”, so they could pretend that no large-scale intervention is necessary.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 months ago:
So that means that since bacteria and the like outnumber us by orders of magnitude, statistically speaking, multicellular life would be wiped out completely.
- Comment on Palworld dev details the patents Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are suing for 2 months ago:
So if Nintendo wins, could Google buy the PUBG IP and use it to sue for Fortnite and destroy Epic?
There can be only one game of every genre made! \s