Man sets himself on fire outside the courthouse in New York where Trump trial is taking place

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T23:16:40+00:00

Society already solved every problem; it's just that said knowledge is not equally distributed.

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T20:32:21+00:00

He did?

Not specifying a time frame is a bit weak when predicting anything.

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T16:35:56+00:00

I don't think it's their god. They just want more such that another has less.

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T16:23:19+00:00

Perhaps they do some kind of advanced scan before they deliver the part to the customer.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T14:03:25+00:00

I think people believe planes are made by a bunch of academics smoking pipes in an ivory tower, because the most precious thing in the world flies on them: people (a rather Western point of view when compared to Russia where a human life just exists for the meat grinder for the glory of the empire (or whatever it is that they made up this year)). As such, they think there is some kind of perfection going on (no doubt they believe their sky scrapers are also able to withstand the impact of an airplane (guess that didn't work out either)), which is obviously not the case. Perfection in this world exists, but anything complex made by average people (meaning everything made out of anything that is not fully digital (and any consumer digital product doesn't fall under this)) is going to be very much not perfect.

In short, I think it is not unusual.

Boeing claims to have adopted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS9100, which in 2015 already specifically mentions human factors as something they need to take into account, so somewhere there needs to be a document, which describes what happens when some idiot uses a tool that they should not be using for installation. That means that they have had at least 9 years to fix such issues and they probably have had continuous improvements over that time (they do have QA people and surely they must be doing something, right?). If Boeing was a full on circus, there would probably have been more serious problems.

If you look at the regulations, there should be processes for everything, but perhaps the "process" is that they can jump on some wing and that some machine scans it for problems afterwards. That too is still a "process". It would be a problem, if the process is to use XYZ Corp Screwdriver 5000 to install Magic Part and they didn't have that screwdriver and instead decided to just use the Tarzan method.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T08:09:03+00:00

Are they too stupid to realize any work they do in any country would contribute to the defense industry of that country?

If they think it's not needed, why don't they start a new country in the Pacific without a military (to see how long it would be before pirates or other countries take their assets)?

Is it virtue signalling is it just that these people have no brain, what is it?

If the argument is just that they don't want to contribute, but they are OK with others doing it, they are just being hypocrites.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T07:25:43+00:00

That by itself doesn't really mean anything, if the parts are supposed to be able to handle such stresses. I can certainly imagine there is regulation, which would prescribe for every part of an airplane how installation should happen, but since some planes have millions of parts that seems unlikely.

A full argument would be as simple as "Part A should be installed via procedure X and it was instead installed multiple times via the procedure Y with X not equal to Y". That way you don't need a long court case.

One guy claimed that the body was not aligned correctly and indeed that would likely be a big issue, but the only way to know that is to calculate whether that's the case and no plane has actually crashed from that, AFAIK. Who says that the engineers didn't account for a bunch of idiots working on planes in the factories (that's what I would do and which happens in construction as well)? I'd expect in the case of body alignment that there would be some kind of sensor that would record that alignment is OK and put in some system for automated review. Indeed, if such systems are not available Boeing might just be a shitty company, except that such technology has been in use for decades in other industries, so they would have to be absolutely retarded for that to be the case.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T07:04:24+00:00

Jones has no money, anymore. How can he sue? According to the video, the CIA just wanted to make him poor such that he couldn't do anything anymore.

binaryblob · 2024-04-17T09:21:14+00:00

Certainly a possibility, although more videos have been shown in this format and there was at least a core of truth in those cases. Everything depends on context. It seems that someone working for the CIA would never actually say they do, unless behind closed doors in a secure room. If your enemies know you have a particular role, then can get leverage on you. It's an operational security risk, but at the same time a lot of people are fucking stupid.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T22:41:24+00:00

Is there any chance of a fair trial in any Western country? It seems to me that any judge seeing this would award a hundred million dollars to Alex Jones for doing this as well as criminal charges for the agents involved.

There's one thing to say "educate", but by the time he said "targeting" any court case would be lost by the government, assuming this is all real.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T22:17:00+00:00

Why not?

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T04:42:27+00:00

If it's really 99%, the US should just drop massive amounts of weapons over Iran from space such that a civil war breaks out and new leadership will appear.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T04:40:04+00:00

I miss unmoderated forums (without spam or posts by bots) with a more sophisticated type of user. Another problem is that I am much more sophisticated now, so the amount of people that don't bore me, is approaching zero real fast.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T04:34:33+00:00

A better question would be why anyone can vote at all. Ultimately, one is forced to accept the opinion of someone else via lethal force.

Democracy is a ridiculously stupid idea (autocracy even more so).

The fact democracy/autocracy even is popular shows what an extremely retarded world we live in. I think way too many people never consider alternatives even exist; if 1:1000 would even have read any literature of alternative systems in even their lifetime, it's probably a lot.

binaryblob · 2024-04-14T06:30:49+00:00

All of them are slow. Are they all sponsored by McDonald's or something?

binaryblob · 2024-04-14T06:19:44+00:00

Denying racism isn't real, is about the silliest position one can possibly have. It's the same mechanism as rich people defending other rich people. It's just comparing traits and if there is no common attribute other than skin color, they just pick that to determine their political position.

The only reason she is blasted, is because someone wants her job.

Since OJ Simpson it was clear the black people were keeping score (and perhaps white people also were). Every popular cartoon basically made fun of the verdict. A multi-race society is a security risk when racism in the small is tolerated; once a real internal conflict starts, people will revert to their default setting of comparing skin color to determine friend or foe.

binaryblob · 2024-04-14T06:04:45+00:00

I think it's pathetic to attack another country when you don't know beforehand total annihilation will happen. In this case a state without nuclear weapons (a weapon theorized to exist for almost 90 years) attacks one that has enough to destroy the entire Middle East a few times over. Did they want to give a fireworks show? Do you need to be a Muslim to be that stupid?

What's next? Invasion by war elephants?

binaryblob · 2024-04-13T21:29:55+00:00

I could do it without Indians.

binaryblob · 2024-04-13T21:29:25+00:00

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240221213839.htm claims Russia as a whole doesn't benefit from climate change. Who really benefits from denying climate change? Just some oil and gas people? If the world is on fire and they are universally hated, what do they want to do with their money when they can't visit Venice anymore (because it is under water), visit the Rocky Mountains (because of extreme winds), or ski (because there is no snow anymore)?

It's a scientific fact that lowering CO2 concentrations is good for people (or more specifically higher concentrations are bad for concentration). As such, who can possibly be against that? Whether or not it heats up the planet (spoiler alert from the 1890s: it does), is not even relevant.

binaryblob · 2024-04-09T00:15:06+00:00

From what I understand, when you have $300B, you are not autistic anymore, but excentric.

binaryblob · 2024-04-08T05:54:08+00:00

I don't disagree with the overall point he's making here

Same.

< can be overcome by conscious effort

By someone with sufficient intelligence. Not sure how often you get outside, but the world is full of stupid people that do not have the capability to modify their system configuration in non-trivial ways, unless they have someone doing it for them. What percentage of Windows users ever bothered to setup a custom system service? Even many Linux professionals would hate doing that.

binaryblob · 2024-04-08T05:39:37+00:00

You should learn to articulate your ideas better and you should understand that I am not merely a "developer". You still have not provided an equation for what is required to happen before a locally running LLM is going to crush Google Search + a big tech implementation of LLMs. Let's say all uses of Google Search are done by LLM agents, then do you not think Google will simply start charging for API access? So, whoever implements an LLM still needs an API for rank based search, if alone to be able to verify sources.

I think you are literally incapable of providing a multi-agent differential equation describing the economics surrounding LLMs.

If you want to do another attempt, you should just assume that I am much smarter than you will have be or have been in your life and have more experience. Just describe an actual vision of the future (also specify how many years in the future you are describing) based on actual plausible physics.

binaryblob · 2024-04-07T09:26:25+00:00

How would every single individual defend against misinformation? They can't. All Google needs to do is push a main stream narrative, because otherwise they won't have eyeballs anymore. You seem to assume this magical anti-misinformation technology is going to be available open-source .

I think full text regular expression search for the web or some subset of the web would be interesting to have, but even that requires tremendous resources. Searching without any index is just not realistic.

binaryblob · 2024-04-07T09:20:30+00:00

Google uses neural networks in their ranking function since a long time. You can't go and search the entire Internet for every single query, because it would cost $10000/query (or whatever big number it is). So, you still need an index somewhere. An agent would still take the action "find in some index" and that index needs to be created and paid for by someone. In your world, everyone has their own index or there is some shared index (that could work, but is very much not popular). There are all kinds of reasons why this is not going to work, but I asked you how it is going to work and you have not said anything specific. It's almost as if you are a LLM.

binaryblob · 2024-04-06T13:23:06+00:00

I am looking for an answer based on the economics of the operation. You are not making any sense. A LLM would still need an index for high performance, because otherwise you would have a search engine that is behind all the time.

If I were to stand on the street with a free computer with a Google interface builtin (but not depending on Google), people would still not want to have it, because "they can just use Google".

It was possible at least a decade ago already to run a distributed search engine node locally and even share resources for free. I know, because I did. I would say the key enabling technology for fast big indices is fast and large SSDs.

The thing is that even if it is relatively cheap, the utilization of the hardware would be so low that it would be an economic waste for the 99.5% of the time you aren't using the search engine (Google just serves another customer).

I think you are severely overestimating human intelligence; unless it's built into Windows it's not going to happen at a mass scale (and I am saying that as a Linux user). Surely, perhaps a million people will do it, but we have billions of people.

If there is a killer app, then perhaps it will happen.

binaryblob · 2024-04-06T08:42:27+00:00

Don't you sometimes think the rest of the population must be a real asshole considering that an instant death penalty for anyone doing something like that would make the world much nicer to live in, but yet we don't have that (instead, we have parking tickets (instead of abundant flying cars(!)))? Attacking a girl to a coma is not some "Oops, I did it by accident"-thing. It's malicious behavior and should be removed from the gene pool.

If I could set the fitness function, I feel like 0.01% would be fit. Honestly, I am amazed that 80+% of people don't just only want to kill themselves, but not actually do it. If your function in life is to be a guy writing parking tickets, why would you not think to end it immediately?

Why do I need to verify that I am a human for every single message I write instead of once per browser-session while being logged in(!)

binaryblob · 2024-04-06T08:24:36+00:00

The future of search is AI powered private web crawlers, and millions of independent repositories

Can you substantiate that claim? The first version of Google Search could run on hardware that's weaker than a current workstation level laptop. Why isn't local search for more than 5% of users a thing? Why is there no iSearch Apple product running locally to destroy Google?

Your vision of the future would hold true if people were 1) wealthy 2) not stupid 3) not lazy.

binaryblob · 2024-04-02T07:30:15+00:00

To make eugenics work one should be able to accurately have a preferably quantum simulation of a human existing in a virtual society for an entire lifetime, perhaps even for multiple generations. This technology is currently out of reach.

Anything less and by definition you are not knowing what you are doing.

There are many diseases that only have a single point mutation as a defect resulting in a single critical protein not working and in the cases where you really know the DNA has a defect (not just a new variant you know nothing about), then you could do it before birth (and ethically you should).

If you know a pregnant woman is going to be bit by a car and her child will be disabled as a result of that, would you not stop that car if you could? When a woman was made pregnant minutes ago to give birth to a severely disabled child (for some value of disabled) in 9 months, why would anyone be against a nano-machine performing an automated abortion and just selecting literally any other sperm cell at random until something is selected that isn't known to be broken?

binaryblob · 2024-03-27T12:45:33+00:00

Normal people use things like arguments to win a discussion, but I guess you just like to make a fool out of yourself.

I can probably name more Greeks by heart than you even ever heard of.

binaryblob · 2024-03-27T10:08:37+00:00

How else does the CIA know who the terrorists are if not by planning a screening and looking who comes to watch it?

Anyway, it the infrastructure is vulnerable, it's probably a good thing to find out now, before WW3; an unreliable energy infrastructure is the last thing a country at war (they have had a war economy since the 1940s) needs.

In fact, if the CIA doesn't know how many terrorists/freedom fighters it takes to bring down the US energy system and how long, I would say they are the real terrorists, because that's just irresponsible. The only way to play the security game is to know your own vulnerabilities first (and to systematically fix them). So, in this particular case there is a group of people walking around a pipe; that shouldn't be possible to begin with. It is a movie and I don't even live in the US, but that's fairly obvious.

The same holds for the EU with their wind mills at sea. Building a big wind mill costs a million a piece; if a drone could destroy it for 200 times less, perhaps some defense capabilities would have to be installed and perhaps wind as an energy source seizes to be competitive. Or, even more asymmetric, if a submarine drone could just dig for the cables and cut them for less than $100,000, there's no defense against that (the number of submarines in the world times their torpedo capacity is very limited and the length of the cables to defend is very long). Land based solar panels with community batteries are much better from a defense perspective, because no centralized assets are available then to attack for an enemy.

binaryblob · 2024-03-27T07:34:48+00:00

Value and actual fair market value are not the same. If the "market value" includes dictators that want to subvert the US by bribing Trump, perhaps it's even "worth" hundreds of billions. It's just that this would be illegal and it does not represent the "market value".

binaryblob · 2024-03-26T09:27:23+00:00

I had that idea a decade ago. Good that someone is doing it.

binaryblob · 2024-03-26T08:53:15+00:00

So, this DWAC is just Truth Social (a worthless website) and what else?

Is DWAC just a vehicle for the dictators of this world to transfer billions to Trump "legally"?

binaryblob · 2024-03-14T12:41:23+00:00

Looks like they don't know how to engineer anything.

They could first just build smaller versions, even if they don't even lift off. By the time they built one thousand smaller ones and have all the telemetry, I doubt a slightly bigger one is going to suddenly explode.

binaryblob · 2024-03-14T12:36:12+00:00

Almost all humans are sadists in my experience. I was too bored to read it. If we really wanted to do something about it, we could, but clearly humanity does not give a shit. If it's going to cost money, we are not going to do it. There, I figured out national politics. International politics is just about grabbing power in the long run. Thanks for attending my Ted talk.

In Belgian prisons they apparently literally make the prisoners eat shit (sure a group of prisoners did this to another, but does that even matter at this point?), because they supposedly don't have enough money. No, such things happen, because they do not give a shit.

binaryblob · 2024-03-13T10:54:06+00:00

I find it embarrassing that I share a planet with them. If you look at a population distribution map of the world and count the places that do not suck, it's such a tiny percentage. In they eyes of those people those places are "rich". Sure, but in my opinion everyone on Earth is poor. Nobody on Earth even owns an anti-matter fusion powered spaceship. We haven't even managed to solve energy scarcity.

Humanity is so fucking poor to the point that billionaires are even poor. The moment humanity would ever have that insight, perhaps we could actually become rich someday.

Any country in which you can get raped on a bus, is probably not such an enlightened area.

binaryblob · 2024-03-13T10:47:19+00:00

That news anchor says "Russian president" instead of "Ukrainian president". What a tool.

binaryblob · 2024-03-13T10:39:07+00:00

I suspect the footage coming from Kiev at the beginning of the war with Zelensky walking over town squares was fake (meaning either prerecorded or deepfaked), because it would be incredibly stupid to have done so. If it would be real footage, people would have grabbed their phones and record him, because who doesn't grab their phone when the leader of your country is in the streets?

Now, perhaps I just missed these phone recordings, but I doubt they exist (unless also faked, obviously). If Zelensky is safe and sound in the UK or France, that would be the best course of action.

I don't think it would be "easy" to kill him now, because air defense systems work good enough when they need to cover a small area. At the beginning of the war without a real front-line, that was different.

binaryblob · 2024-03-10T16:55:18+00:00

Thanks a lot for sharing that link. I think the creator of the logo, the person that invested weeks to create a logo should have ownership.

Imagine every YouTuber figuring out that they have no ownership of their trademark, because "that's how they started". Many started on YouTube, so if "Linux tech tips" wants to go to another platform in theory YouTube could sue them.

The insanity of the US legal system can only be understood in a context where the little guy is fucked every inch of the way.

binaryblob · 2024-03-06T22:20:45+00:00

Exactly the opposite. It can not be stored. It always needs to be generated.

It's a meaningless concept. Oil needs to be refined and evaporates.

Solar and wind are just temporary and very low in power.

You can argue all day long, but solar is an economic way of producing power right now.

The mechanisms for zero-carbon or carbon-neutral are FAKE.

Direct-air capture is a real technology and there are more. However, most energy is still dirty, yes. Apparently, even natural hydrogen has been found. If we plaster the oceans with solar panels, there's more than enough energy (and no, those don't have to be made from rare earth materials; it's just that their efficiency is much higher when they are).

Some nuclear fusion forms of power generation generate electricity immediately without boiling water. So, you are wrong. It is true there is no public commercial reactor yet, but that's irrelevant; the mechanisms already exist and it's just a matter of time and capital before oil is obsolete for power generation.

It is far better to drive with normal busses during winter and save energy.

I doubt you have ever compared the two in a commercial setting and as such, why would anyone care about your opinion? The science is not on your side. The science says that even in winter time the opex is lower/km.

Climate change is mostly a political problem, not a technical one.

binaryblob · 2024-03-06T10:59:31+00:00

No sane person would ever agree with the thesis of the article. All it shows is that someone made a mistake in a tiny part of the wind industry.

The equivalent would be to have a headline that oil is a scam, because all of it is leaked into Nigerian ground.

Having electric buses (yes, that's how you write it, genius) is obviously a good thing in the future for whoever is behind the bus (less exhaust and noise) and those inside (less noise). Do you think they will continue to use diesel generators forever at that location? If not, then why even report it?

Electricity is a superior form of energy, because it's convenient. Transporting fuel around all day long is just stupid. If diesel were completely clean, then in principle creating a network of pipes with diesel could work, but since combustion fundamentally causes wear and tear, you just end up having to replace your infrastructure all day long. It's just a dead end. Accept it and accept that everyone understands this.

In a few decades nuclear fusion reactors will output electricity directly to the grid. If there is a lot of demand for electricity, those are more economically viable. If there is only demand for diesel, nobody wants such developments. Electricity is the future and it has been gigantically successful already.

So, why do you post this? If anything, post an overview article of places where people do such things out of entertainment, but don't imply that these have any policy implications. The only reason to post something like this seriously is when you believe that electrons as charge carriers are fundamentally a bad idea because the transport costs would be too high compared to alternatives, like liquid energy carriers. In the real world, people are connecting continents together with cables thousands of kilometers long. If continuing to use ships to transport energy were cheaper, they wouldn't do that.

So, is there any user (not a shill) still left in the world that agrees with the article?

binaryblob · 2024-03-06T04:25:36+00:00

and have now gone back with Mint.

That's a distribution for beginners (which is a word professionals use to refer to ignorant people).

default support for Realtek Audio chips

There is default support.

I don't get why this was overlooked.

It wasn't by them, since the support is literally in the kernel. As to why it was overlooked by you, I can only guess. So, perhaps you might want to understand your hardware first and only then complain on the internet exposing your ignorance.

There is absolutely no reason not to use Linux for any application. I thought perhaps "not being able to run PhotoShop" was still a "valid reason" (it never has been), but apparently that works great too these days.

binaryblob · 2024-03-06T03:58:12+00:00

The Russians want to exterminate the Ukrainians and the Jews want to exterminate the Palestinians.

Who can really blame the Jews for wanting to exterminate the people that want to exterminate them? Having said that, the Jews threaten the world with their 200 nukes as well, so if the world were to decide that Israel would have to be wiped off the map someday when they find a way to beat nuclear weapons they too should not be surprised the world is pissed at them as well. What goes around, comes around.

The Russians have no real reason to want to exterminate the Ukrainians other than wanting to get the natural resources from Ukraine.

binaryblob · 2024-02-24T08:30:30+00:00

Apparently one batch of killing Jews in a gas chamber with capacity between 500 and 2,000 took 1.5 hours, mostly because of the delay in emptying the chamber. I wonder what the actual cost was per victim to the Nazis and how relatively efficient it was compared to other methods. I was told that bullets were too expensive, but I don't think it's that. The biggest cost probably was to guard the ones still alive.

If I knew the price the Nazis paid, I could compare it to other approaches. If money was less of an issue, I think there are plenty of methods with higher throughput (even back then).

A modern genocide implementation would probably be able to kill orders of magnitude more per square meter per hour.

Fun fact: a historian claims the German population knew about the camps: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard. Kind of makes you think twice about giving them a nuclear weapon, right? I am all for more European nukes, but please have them be controlled by some of the more sane countries in the EU.

binaryblob · 2024-02-19T23:19:51+00:00

Are they also going to kill WhatsApp in the EU? I hope so.

binaryblob · 2024-02-19T15:57:36+00:00

It's unrealistic to expect any change in the short term. A country is broken, not because one guy is an idiot (look at almost every Western leader), but because there have been thirty years of idiots (which fucks up education, etc.).

Opposition will say "nothing has changed". Proponents will say "it will take time".

The real problem is not even knowing how long fixing a country would even take. There are no metrics to compare against.

If all government agencies were to be cut, would that really be such a big problem? Private security cameras can prevent a lot of crime. You still need some kind of justice system (although just be able to place land mines on your property would do wonders against theft).

I hope he succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, just to shove it in the face of literally every other political system in the world.

binaryblob · 2024-02-15T09:23:00+00:00

EVs shouldn't carry large batteries, because that's pure waste. The power supply should just be built into the road infrastructure.

Sure, if you want to travel in the middle of nowhere, then you might want to have a big battery, but typically people don't want to travel in the middle of nowhere.

Still, EVs are inevitable.

It's just as stupid as saying "Water should be banned; drink Coca Cola instead".

binaryblob · 2024-02-14T20:58:39+00:00

Artificial wombs will exists in the next 50-100 years. Also, no woman had to accomplish anything to do that; it's a natural ability.

None of the inventions listed is hard in the way that Von Neumann of Maxwell made contributions.

binaryblob · 2024-02-12T22:29:43+00:00

I am well aware of the history. I have mentioned on saidit before that Europe is fucking insane for depending on the US for its defense.

You got a problem with paying your fair share or something?

I think a good defense has almost no relation to a specific amount of money. I think buying weapons from another country is insane and would only be done by people that don't know the first thing about sovereignty. However, until the EU has a meaningful defensive in-house capability, not meeting the 2% line was rather stupid.

What are you a Democrat?

I am not a US citizen.

binaryblob · 2024-02-12T09:48:28+00:00

Just install Guix and abandon Debian like any sane person.

binaryblob · 2024-02-12T09:42:50+00:00

If that wasn't your other trolling account, it was a bot comment that came from ChatGPT (or similar service).

binaryblob · 2024-02-11T21:39:39+00:00

I don't think this is funny, even though you might think so.

binaryblob · 2024-02-11T21:34:32+00:00

Not addressing moderation more seriously (e.g. what do you do when every post is written by a bot) is why this platform won't work.

binaryblob · 2024-02-11T21:15:24+00:00

He is saying that if the Europeans don't pay. Actively inviting Putin to invade, seems insane.

Politically, this is suicide for the US interests in the long term, because perhaps someday the US would need help because of some unforeseen natural disaster.

If Trump really wanted a good defense for Europe, it would share technology with the Europeans, which he isn't doing.

Still Trump shouldn't even get placed on the ballot and he should be behind bars for treason. Similarly, whoever underfunded EU armies should face a worse punishment, but unfortunately there is no capital punishment for being stupid.

binaryblob · 2024-02-10T06:54:02+00:00

A modern AI running locally could totally do it.

I think you are real, but a platform in which 95% is spam without a working local spam filter just isn't "fun". I like that some people on this platform aren't stupid, because any popular platform by definition regresses to the mean.

binaryblob · 2024-01-28T10:50:37+00:00

Whoever came up with governments even being able to borrow was a traitor in the first place except perhaps during times of war, but even then governments should have assets to pay for war gathered during peace. The US hasn't been at war on any meaningful scale for many decades.

binaryblob · 2024-01-27T07:11:09+00:00

While that's true, the image of the scientific community has taken a big hit in the last years. Science is great, if only more people actually did it, as opposed to reporting whatever is politically acceptable.

binaryblob · 2024-01-21T09:17:05+00:00

Obama is the one criticizing here. Not sure why you aren't banned, because everyone knows you are lying all the time. You don't haven an opinion.

binaryblob · 2024-01-21T07:39:48+00:00

https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/covid-19-studies-natural-immunity-versus-vaccination

binaryblob · 2024-01-18T09:00:08+00:00

Capitalism combined with a functioning legal system. If your competitor isn't advertising according to the rules (e.g. Tesla, because there are seemingly no rules in the US?), then competing becomes difficult.

For example Mercedes has some autonomous driving features, but due to fake US marketing from Tesla, even I have some voice in the back of my mind that perhaps the Tesla version works better, while the specifications don't agree, IIRC. That is, Mercedes offers higher guarantees in the EU than any Tesla model.

binaryblob · 2024-01-18T08:45:21+00:00

roll

or pitch or yaw.

If you hadn't written this on autopilot, perhaps you could have picked them right word.

binaryblob · 2024-01-18T07:26:18+00:00

Fine, don't trust it. I know both countries and I think the HDI is a good enough proxy for those countries.

binaryblob · 2024-01-16T07:48:38+00:00

MAD has existed for something like seventy years now. Are you saying that none of the USA, USSR, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel or North Korea have had even a single friend (or ally if you prefer) during the entire seven decades of MAD?

That is exactly what I am saying.

Why would the US waste their nuclear arsenal firing missiles at Mexico and Canada if they are threatened by Russia? What possible benefit would they gain?

In principle any country could just spread a large part of their population across the globe and arm them in secret. Then, when the bombs start flying they could just wait until the US has used up all their nukes and attack the country that hasn't been nuked yet. Presumably, there would be some technology to clean up the damage of the major nuclear exchange and presto: you have the Russians still happily living in for example Australia and everyone in the US is dead (because Russia has more nukes). If you take a genetic approach to people, then the Russian genes would survive and over time dominate the planet. It's a long play for world domination, but certainly possible. A true MAD strategy should therefor not just kill some people, but everyone with a genetic relationship to your enemy including those in your own borders.

During the Cold War globalization wasn't really a thing. Now, you would have more Russians in Thailand than Thai (probably a slight exaggeration). What is considered MAD should be updated, but I guess everyone is an idiot on this planet.

The flaw in your argument is that you assume there will always be a shortage of nukes, which is exactly why I am saying you would need an overkill amount of them deployed, not just on some shelf. I think Russia could in theory surprise the US with a secret nuclear shield of their own as well. Either Putin is just bluffing or he has something the US doesn't know that they have.

binaryblob · 2024-01-14T22:38:37+00:00

The only reason to become a member of Congress is insider trading, which is illegal in every somewhat developed country.

binaryblob · 2024-01-14T15:24:35+00:00

Invasion of any target with any known defense structures is realistic. I read about the defense plans of Taiwan, but I don't see them working. It might be that the publicly available strategy where they try to keep the enemy at sea with missiles is fake for deception purposes, but if that's really their plan, it's easily defeated.

Nuclear war with the US under a democratic leader is a more credible reason as to why the invasion didn't happen yet.

The Chinese weapon systems (or well, those shown on YouTube), including their transports, are not how I would approach it either. It just shows such a lack of imagination. Hamas showed some level of innovation in Israel, but it's not like those were new inventions.

binaryblob · 2024-01-14T11:10:16+00:00

I never talked about the US. I only discussed Russia.

Perhaps every country on the world is a shithole on average. I think perhaps the top 0.1% of the top 3% countries is not a shithole.

binaryblob · 2024-01-13T12:00:20+00:00

2023 was the hottest year on the planet in measured history according to multiple governments, including the US. Who are you? A trolling bot?

binaryblob · 2024-01-13T11:58:55+00:00

I think the prompts are used to change some larger prompt with some consistency commands involving animation, which in turn is output by a renderer. The initial prompts might be generated with a problem description in English with some type of repeated autoprompting going on.

binaryblob · 2024-01-13T10:18:47+00:00

You claim to be a chemical engineer and yet you so spread this kind of crap. How are we supposed to believe that? Claim you are a truck driver and we might believe you.

binaryblob · 2024-01-13T05:55:16+00:00

How much does it cost to let you say the opposite? If you are doing it for free, you are truly regarded.

binaryblob · 2024-01-13T05:52:21+00:00

You would expect that after 100 years they would know how to build one that doesn't crash, even if the pilot intentionally wants to crash it.

binaryblob · 2024-01-12T21:12:59+00:00

No, that's data. It could be fabricated.

binaryblob · 2024-01-12T15:38:36+00:00

Provide more context, please. Also, Twitter is not a "source" of information.

binaryblob · 2024-01-11T00:58:01+00:00

Where do you meet such bots? I am just wondering how that works.

I also just don't get why you would take the effort to post this here, unless you wanted to show you are a moron or that everything you post is fake and you are a bot too. It would truly suggest you are mentally retarded and for your own safety you should commit yourself to a mental hospital.

binaryblob · 2024-01-11T00:52:02+00:00

The Nazis lost the war; that's mostly what they did wrong, since the prosecution of Jews was popular way before that. Eugenics was an American idea. Not sure what Hitler came up with that was an actually novel idea at the time. AFAIK, Hitler was too stupid (just an idiotic failed painter and low ranking soldier) to think of anything new.

binaryblob · 2024-01-11T00:46:45+00:00

Even on 4chan there are unacceptable opinions. I hate 4chan, because it's unusable with its crazy captchas. Perhaps the trick is to pay for an account, but I don't know. I did post a small number of messages some years ago, but it was so much effort that I'd rather just not use the site at all. I don't understand why it is that popular, but perhaps it's just that everyone thought $20 for an account was a fair price.

binaryblob · 2024-01-11T00:38:48+00:00

In international politics friends don't exist in extreme scenarios like ultimate survival. What makes you think they do?

binaryblob · 2024-01-10T08:53:04+00:00

How about by averaged time weighted returns on the stock market over the past decade?

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T15:50:10+00:00

We could also have lived in a universe in which the first guy spreading Islam was just stabbed by a guy with a knife. I am just saying that things could have been better. Instead, we now have a billion idiots on this planet. (For other reasons, we have about 7 billion idiots, but still.)

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T12:11:59+00:00

Yawn is probably not the reaction these people were looking for, but "Yawn". Sorry, marketing people. Try again?

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T10:46:07+00:00

If you ask scientists whether more research should be done, then of course they are going to say yes. Scientists aren't happy with a 0.00000001 deviation in the Standard Model either.

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T10:43:27+00:00

A kike is also part of a religion. Are you a bot or just a stupid human?

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T10:25:01+00:00

It would be more convincing if you tried to stick to facts. The Samson Option has apparently been used as leverage in negotiations. That could count as threatening to wipe let's say "many" people off the map.

Really, what's wrong with a little nuance?

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T10:17:57+00:00

That thing is not operational.

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T02:49:01+00:00

How do these women end up at an airport (why can't they just tell airport security that they are being abducted)? It seems to me that they willingly went with old men. Why doesn't this just make them straight up whores? Why should I feel any sympathy for them?

Children (since some girls were below 18) can deceive their parents when they are three years old. Since there were no victims aged two years old, we can assume they knew what they were doing. The only way I can imagine it would still go down is "If you don't go with us, we will murder your entire family", but I never heard that happening in the US.

The Instagram "models" (you know the women that literally eat shit for promised money or designer hand bags) that go to Dubai also should be able to understand that there are zero rights for them in Dubai, so they are basically just fresh meat.

binaryblob · 2024-01-09T01:21:00+00:00

Many missiles don't even have the range to destroy every target in the world, although with nuclear subs they could reach every location in the world in a few days (probably sooner, but speeds are classified).

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T16:37:08+00:00

Perhaps I missed MAD class, but shouldn't any MAD strategy destroy every other country in the world, including that of your allies? It seems like the US only has missiles pointed at Russia and China, which is strategically stupid.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T16:02:28+00:00

So the nuclear triad is hunky-dory, I would think.

Not sure whether I should read this as sarcasm, but I don't think it is hunky-dory right now. If the US operational arsenal can destroy every country in the world two times over, then I would find it a credible threat. Right now, Russia could just launch their nukes and relocate with their army in Europe.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T15:55:04+00:00

The only reason bail outs exist, is because the electorate is stupid.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T15:52:55+00:00

I really don't want to write this tutorial, but all the existing Bash tutorials are so horrible that I have no choice.

I remember the Bible and the Koran starting with similarly brilliant sentences.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T11:44:10+00:00

You would have to know the word "amortization" to understand why they do this.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T11:04:11+00:00

So, this is a thing now: "You like butts? What are you? Stupid?"

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T10:06:54+00:00

It would be hilarious if the Nazis were to start using black symbols instead like fist bumping combined with some finger twisting as if they are thirteen.

In my experience, deep down 99.995% of humanity is an asshole; so, perhaps they should just create a new flag with assholes on it for their new movement. Instead of "I am a Berliner", it would then be "I am an asshole" and "I aspire to be a great asshole" for novelty.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T09:47:36+00:00

The fig wasp, also known as the Alabama wasp.

If you see this, you would almost think these were engineered by aliens instead of just the result of evolution. It's strange that co-evolution would lead to much of an ecosystem.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T09:37:47+00:00

Israel has nukes, develops technology, isn't threatening to wipe everyone from the map all the time, and outputs Nobel Prize winners. Do you also have difficult questions?

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T09:34:28+00:00

Why not just label every entity associated with religion as a terrorist organization? That way at least it would be fair.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T01:07:55+00:00

You are.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T01:05:13+00:00

Banning reposts was normal on forums from the phpBB days.

binaryblob · 2024-01-07T21:59:08+00:00

If that happened, it should be considered an act of war. If the EU is not strong enough militarily, they should first become strong enough and then wipe out whoever did it.

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