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Captainant

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  1. Go thread shit somewhere else soccer spray https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-death-toll-israeli-military-offensive-gaza-surpasses-60000-2025-07-29/
  2. Practiced self-victimhood is a hard thing to beat. Just look at imma for a less horrible example, but he LOOOOOOVES to play "woe is me, my users are calling me a fascist!?" in the thread he created and named calling himself a fascist lol. Now it's that dynamic, but spread across literally any subject you can imagine. Everything is a grievance to be nursed and gotten even over. That pure invective id is the appeal and green-light to the cruelty and bully behavior that republicans have been preaching for my whole life
  3. Bruh. It's Reuters reporting what the US State Department said in a release. If that makes you ragey, that's on you
  4. He's a contrarian troll. He fuels the rhetoric about how sick and twisted the CR is, and is one of the worst instigators of the bunch. The only reason that you're trying to have a discussion with him, is that you haven't tried to already. Go ahead and touch the stove though
  5. The president is all up in the epstein list
  6. Constantine 2 is looking very different
  7. You DO realize the Southern Strategy was an explicit effort to conflate economic and social issues, so that they could attack social issues like integration using economic terms? That muddying of the waters is a very successful republican strategy
  8. None of the cases are about actual justice or following the law. This is yet another instance of turning shields into swords.
  9. The trade agreement is a reciprocal 15% tariff, which is considerably higher than what was in place prior to the current tariff regime. Not sure why a significantly and artificially higher COGS is going to trigger a rise, aside from LGU economics
  10. The subplot there is the tech bro oligarch hitching their wagon to crypto without realizing they're aligning their economic incentives with putin
  11. it still cracks me up that imma made the thread titled "Immamac is a fascist" - nobody had called him that, but he made that the discussion with his moderation decision
  12. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/venezuelan-makeup-artist-returns-home-describes-torture-during-el-salvador-2025-07-23/ CAPACHO, Venezuela, July 23 (Reuters) - A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death." Andry Hernandez, 32, and the other detainees returned to Venezuela on Friday as part of a prisoner exchange, after spending four months in El Salvador's CECOT prison, where they and the Venezuelan government allege they were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food. "Many of our fellows have wounds from the nightsticks; they have fractured ribs, fractured fingers and toes, marks from the handcuffs, others have marks on their chests, on their face ... from the projectiles," Hernandez told journalists at his home in Capacho, near the Colombian border. U.S. President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport the men, who his government accuses of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang, without normal immigration procedures. The deportations sparked a legal battle led by civil rights groups. Families and lawyers of many of the men have denied they have gang ties. Hernandez, detained at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration, had an active asylum case when he was deported to CECOT. His case was widely covered in the media. Advocates in the U.S. have voiced concerns that Hernandez, who is gay, faces risks in Venezuela due to LGBTQ persecution. The U.S. alleged Tren de Aragua membership based on his tattoos: crowns on his wrists that read "mom" and "dad."
  13. maybe deciding to allow giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit was a bad call
  14. Geeee WHERE OH WHERE have I seen attempts to paint Zelensky as corrupt?
  15. Doesn't south that different from Vidor, TX tbh. Arkansas at least has the decency to be honest about their hate
  16. "homes priced $100-250k" is describing basically the entire US residential housing market for the not "high end of the market". Those still rose 5%. And I'd bet the houses in the tranche above that rose in price too, since I just sold a house in that range for almost 15% more than I bought it 5 years ago The foreign and domestic buyers buying purely as an investment vehicle are the far greater issue driving home price inflation. They bought an asset and goddamn it they're entitled to a fucking profit so home prices MUST go up
  17. The episode that would follow that boondoggle would be an all-timer lololol
  18. TBH you seem to be the only person actively cheering on people getting arrested/deported specifically at a school. ICE has come for minors at little league practice, and deported minors and separated them from their parents in the process. That's just as bad, IMO. Your posts seem to think its not a big deal because it doesn't meet your arbitrary criteria. You are again reverting back to ignoring the facts of reality in favor of beating a point that nobody but you is emphasizing.
  19. You're latching onto this like a dog with a bone and refusing to address what's happening. Seemingly in bad faith. A father had his window smashed out and dragged out of his car while driving his daughter to school - I guess that doesn't count either then? Is your problem that rhetoric is too aggressive or something? Because if THAT is your problem, then boy howdy, wow.
  20. BattleTech! My new LGS has a good group running the Battle of Tukayyid as part of a big ass Clan Invasion campaign. I'm pretty familiar with the breadth of the rules from playing for decades with my dad and buddies, so I think it'll be a good acid test for something that's actually useful. My M4 MBP should have enough juice to run it all locally - at least that's the theory I'm testing You can spend a BUNCH of time trying to find the right rule for this specific instance, and it would be nice to have a citation machine that can point out the specific rules that tell me what modifiers I get, or if there REALLY is a rule for ripping your opponents mech arm off and beating them with it
  21. If you can lingustically frame it such that you have it acting as a "GM" for a tabletop game, or frame it as a fantasy setting that removes the real world context, the models guardrails get fuzzy extremely fast. If you're asking those questions only to the hosted chat application, you're going to have a different experience from directly querying the LLM that underlies the chat apps of OpenAI, DeepSeek, Ollama, et al. The hosted chat applications basically all have a postprocessing layer to check for the case you're describing, but the models that large enterprises host don't. That lack of built-in guardrails for the technology is a big part of why businesses that are chasing """AI""" workloads are deferring to foundational model providers rather than assume that liability themselves. Granted, the infamous $1 car sale happend on openAI's chatGPT application, but that was prior to many of the guardrails that now exist as standard
  22. when you start to use a metric as a goal or target, it ceases to be a useful metric precisely because it starts to be manipulated Again - chatGPT is NOT a large langue model. It's an application build on top of an LLM. If you are running an LLM yourself, you can give it whatever direction you want and override any sort of moral framework that the authors tried to instill into it. In this case, chatGPT has those guardrails hardcoded into its prompts and also sitting between the LLM response and the user, in case someone "jailbreaks" the model.
  23. This is a garbage in::garbage out problem. The LLM's have that tendency because it existed in the training data used to build its probabilistic model of natural language interactions. It feels like it's just scaling up the existing problem with outsourced technical solutions. Yeah, you might get something that works, but it's extremely narrow to just that context. If you try to get it to build something general for multiple problems, you find yourself spending as much time as just developing it yourself. Except you're spending a shitton more in resources to get the same result
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