Yeah. Then you read a bit more and you realize you are increasingly on the side of the machines… and the covid.
But yeah. I’ve mostly been trying to focus on local news and then a few people I like on Bluesky. Aaron Rupar is usually a good barometer for whether it is just christofacism or if we are actually going to war with Greenland tomorrow.
The military is not Batman.
Yes, wargames are a regular exercise. Like… people sitting around a table moving tokens style wargames. People Make Games have done one or two videos where they actually got to play those government level wargames.
The reality is that those are not about building a plan in case king chuck suddenly wants a piece of Belgium. It is about practicing protocols/procedures and exercising minds. Especially because any plan made today is likely to be obsolete within a month or two anyway.
So there is a very big difference between “I dunno… let’s roleplay Japan attacking Korea. You be Korea!” and “Let’s sit down and draw up some plans for a military invasion of Greenland in the next N weeks”
The problem is what we have already seen.
They’ll say they disagree with trump… until trump actually does it. At which point they lock step and say that is what they always wanted. Because they still figure they are living a better life than those darn dirty n****rs and all that.
And yet they’ll do it without a moment’s hesitation. Well, at least until they see a bunch of Inuits and Danes with guns waiting for them. And the Finns might show up because they want some practice for when russia invades.
Fuck the troops. They have been goose stepping rapists and murderers for decades. They might as well all tattoo “I was just following orders” next to their “punisher skulls”.
And if anyone wants to at all fucking earn any of that “thank you for your service”: Fucking serve The People. Not the rapist and the officers trying to get promoted under him.
The issue is that if you accept it, there will be no better option. Once you get out of the evangelists (who rarely actually contribute much code…) you are looking at professionals who are choosing to spend their free time contributing to the community. And having a few users (or, in this case, ad watching customers in the android app…) goes a long way. You don’t get that if everyone has decided the vibe coded slop is “good enough”.
Is human written code necessarily better? No. But, at the very least, if someone cares enough to obfuscate their project so it is not obvious it was shat out by Cursor? Maybe they care enough to provide support.
NATO without the US is dependent on each (simplifying) EU nation’s military.
The EU, like sane people, focused on their own economies and people. The US focused on having one of (if not THE) largest standing militaries on the planet.
And with war increasngly on the horizon? Most NATO nations aren’t going to want to deploy their troops until THEY are “safe”.
We’ve already seen it with the hemming and hawing over what to actually send Ukraine in terms of weaponry
Eh. Some stuff does make sense to centralize.
Like, the concept of a thin client (what these basically are “close enough” to) is a really good one. They drastically simplify security and costs for corporate environments. And, even in the before times, it might genuinely make sense to just pay for a month/hundred hours of GFN if you wanted to play the latest AAA game rather than upgrading your five year old computer that handles everything else you play perfectly.
The bigger issue being that it now increasingly makes sense to pay for years/thousands of hours of GFN because of how broken the everything is. And the vultures (like Amazon and nVidia) smell the decay.
And… I didn’t want to crap on the other person too much but I do think p2p is why so many people think this can’t work. There is a big difference between streaming from your computer over starbucks wifi and connecting to a major data center. And there are also arguments for power and ecological impact but that becomes a MUCH bigger mess full of bad actors and incomplete comparisons.
I suspect you think tweets are too many words.
… That might be so despicably evil that I mostly just fixate on how many cops around the world must feel out gamed.
Anyone know if this is a legit source? Because Clarence isn’t particularly surprising but is big and new?
Again, plenty of folk, self included, have no issues with streaming from a datacenter and geforce now is quite successful.
Understand that the codecs make a huge difference. But the actual inputs are literally bytes per minute of data. MAYBE kilobytes if you are particularly good at Starcraft
I don’t know what to say. Plenty of folk, myself included, have had no issues with the majority or games. And stuff like geforce now is quite successful
Sort of.
Yes, the nobility and the royals basically had comparable lifespans to those today. Pretty much uniformly throughout human history.
The average peasant? Wikipedia so grain of salt, but it lines up with much of what I have seen over the years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy.
Life Expectancy at Birth (LEB) in the Bronze age is believed to be around 24. Now, this is going to be skewed because we are generally finding the sites of battles (easier to find 20 corpses than 1…). But, at the same time, LEB in the medieval period (30-33) is going to be skewed by most records caring a lot more about the nobility than some rando on a farm.
LEB has 100% gone up as wars become less common and medicine becomes much more effective and plentiful. And I’ll admit I was exaggerating for comedic effect here. But also… not that much.
Because maybe you DO have good odds of living to your late 50s if you make it to your early 40s… the average is low for a reason and it isn’t JUST infant death. It is working hard to survive day to day and being incredibly vulnerable to crop yields (whether starving or being sent to war because said nobility got hungry/bored). And when you are seeking knowledge from those more experienced around the village… they are gonna skew a lot younger than Lord Farquad’s uncle.
And a big factor in trying to combat/delay that is to not frame it as “This doesn’t even work”. Because then it is literally one free trial away from being normalized for like 95% of the audience.
Can we not pretend the problem is solely performance based? People keep doing this with generative AI and it keeps resulting in “oh shit, ghibli AI is so awesome”.
Especially since… can you watch a twitch stream? Congrats, you can stream a desktop. Even back with Stadia it was very much viable to play games like AssCreed over streaming and have a very comparable experience to it being local. And stuff like Geforce Now actually work REALLY well.
The issue shouldn’t be “can you make this perform well enough I want to use it”. It should be about ownership and the implication for… everything if all “personal computers” exist solely in a data center and all documents exist solely in The Cloud and so forth. Preservation of anything becomes nigh impossible and you suddenly have to pay a monthly fee to ever see your kid’s pictures again.
No. It really hasn’t.
Much of the historic (so not recent) idolation of the elderly (even when “the elderly” meant folk in their 30s and 40s…) was specifically about the pursuit of knowledge and self betterment. It was knowing how to make your spears fly farther or how to properly rotate the crops in the field and so forth.
Fast forward and The Rich would outright buy philosophers for the prestige of being the patron of someone so intelligent and influential. Which continued on to the arts and so forth.
Hell, not too long ago it was “work hard so you can get into a good school and make something of yourself”.
Now? it is outright vilification of “intellectuals” and people who think “Too long, didn’t read” is an insult rather than a condemnation of their own attention spans.
Or, to roll way back: it is people saying “Fuck you old man. I don’t need your sharp pointy sticks. I am gonna go punch that tiger until it turns into chicken”.
Which is another aspect of the stupidification of humanity by conservatives the world 'round. MANY people have this idea that “Medieval Times” were some no woman’s land where women existed to be housewives and to be raped and sometimes not even in that order. And historians constantly face palm as they have to explain that the george r r martins of the world are just racist old white guys and that women were generally just… people. Yes, they tended to gravitate more towards some occupations than others but there are plenty of historic records of female mercenaries and even Ladies having to lead their feudal troops into battle for one reason or another.
But people have this mindset that “the world has always been shit”.
Its the same as how so much white supremacist bullshit is built around the idea that “We are just being historically accurate. There was no melanin in Bohemia in the 1400s so really, you are the racist. Deus Vult!”. When all signs are that, while not insanely common to see a black dude, it was also not so uncommon that it would be written about in every single business transaction done for months on end.
And that most of the Othering was almost entirely about war. One week you might have no problem with the people across the river and the next week you might have been taught that those red headed bastards have no souls and it is your godly duty to go murder them and enslave their children.
Honestly? Yeah.
Like, we consider red flags for something being “ai” to be… punctuation? As an old who actually learned how to fucking write a sentence, I’ve actually taken to just leaving in a lot of the typos from typing too fast as a result. Which sucks because I am actively writing worse to still look “human”.
Although the good news is that we are only a few cycles away from AI slop being the kind of shit that makes you wonder if anyone else smell’s toast. At which point I can go back to writing “normally”.
Still fucking hate that every few weeks there is a new word-a-day calendar word that means “you are AI”. But that at least is no different than “ha ha, you type too much” or “you try too hard” as being just the normal strive for mediocrity that has plagued the world for decades.
Trying to get into the mind of a deranged fascist is a futile effort at the best of times.
But my speculation? He understands that trump is a real shit asset. Way too impulsive and he is rapidly reaching the point where even video of him sucking off bill clinton won’t make a difference (and, thus, won’t be a threat). And putin is competing with all the other people pulling trump’s strings who don’t need to get on a plane to intimidate him.
So either way works. The point is to negate the US as a threat (either by turning us into an ally or letting us murder each other) and, as a result, negate NATO as a threat. Because most of NATO aren’t fucking lunatics who put a massive percentage of one of the largest GPDs in the world into a standing military. WE were the army of NATO. And… yeah.
The US attacking allied territory of the EU is basically the death of NATO, one way or another. WW3 is a hop and a skip from that.
I’ve not been following super closely for mental health reasons, but if it is just Denmark? We are looking at another Ukraine. Everyone is going to hem and haw and say “just give it to the pricks” to “avoid World War 3”. Whereas, if we start seeing other EU/NATO nations deploying troops to protect Greenland… there is a chance that SOMETHING remains and we don’t just have russia running over everyone else one by one.
Never trust a rapist.
And if he (so his oligarch handlers) want those trade agreements and treasuries back, hold the US accountable. Get concessions with very documented repercussions for when he inevitably tries to stop once he gets what he wants.