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Captainant

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  1. Sorry, a little unfair towards you. Last page you're going on and on how a jury should decide on trump's specious complaint over quoting a judge in her courtroom. It drives me nuts how much leeway you give the fascists and their tactics in your headspace and in your commentary. It validates and furthers normalization of the thought that he's doing things that any normal person would be doing.
  2. You're gonna graduate from paragraphs to pages for bending over backwards to say why everything their doing is legally above reproach and they deserve their chance to fuck us all NowThis style
  3. If Taiwan were to be invaded by China, it would crash our economy. Effectively every cutting edge piece of production silicon comes out of there right now, and losing access to that globally unique manufacturing would gut Nvidia and every other entity that's been leaning hard into AI
  4. Hell of a return on musks $200,000,000 contribution to trump's campaign. Now musk can renegotiate his loans and re-up for more tax free money out of his stock holdings
  5. Best Indiana Jones game since The Fate of Atlantis
  6. They should all just jump through these arbitrary and hidden hoops set up by private for profit companies, and then they could get their medically critical drugs without paying a 15-20x markup! It's really those diabetes patients fault. ...say why are folks mad at for profit healthcare again?
  7. Lol you didn't offer any help whatsoever. You said you shared my frustration, but that was it. What fucking help? "Yeah the system sucks, here's a way to be even more reliant on it" in this thread, and in the past you didn't offer any help whatsoever. I just double checked my DMs to confirm and all you said is "yeah that sucks". I won't derail the thread any further, but don't be dishonest
  8. Zelensky to Orban and Trump: fuck off https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/12/18/7489634/ "I insist that no leader in the world has the right to negotiate with Putin on behalf of Ukraine. We have never delegated this mandate to anyone. We are the victims. It would be unfair if everyone started saying how the country should live. The French people in France, Italians in Italy or Americans in the United States know what they want for themselves. So do Ukrainians." - President Zelensky
  9. The fact that it takes a fucking paragraph and super secret coupon code from someone on the inside of the system, when it should just be that $35 cost, is just a perfect post for this thread. Please never stop missing the point, annie
  10. We kakistoctracy now, boyzzzzz
  11. More simply put: we live in an oligarchy. Once you are sufficiently wealthy, you are above reproach
  12. A fascist, using the levers of government as a cudgel? That just sounds completely preposterous!
  13. I think this is missing a big opportunity in linguistic data science. Parents are thick, complex documents that are hard to parse through. If the USPTO were to do a feature extraction (which uses genAI mechanisms and models) on its corpus of patents that would greatly simplify the process of checking for prior examples when processing new applications. Transformers are still being explored and learned about, but they already have great use as a tool for processing large and disparate sets of data - like patents. Retrieval augmented generation and feature searching through documents is going to be very transformative. A customer of mine is exploring a similar technique for getting their arms around their huge fleet of contracts where every region has their own way of doing things and nobody in their central governance wants to take the time to read hundreds of thousands of contracts. It's allowed them to get hard, verifiable data out of their paper and start using it at scale to inform future decisions making They're absolutely NOT using it to originate contracts though. That would be lunacy.
  14. I always thought it looked like a weird artifact from a busted scene render or videogame level
  15. If this weren't grift for privatization, this would honestly be a good thing. TSA is a boondoggle and security theatre. That said, I'm not sure how you'd non-invasively and safely change security procedures at every US airport
  16. I guess this is the Purdue Opiod thread now Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.
  17. No shit there's something they aren't telling the public lol. When the F117 was being designed and tested there was a huge slew of UFO reports, and the government response then was very similar to what it is now. Plus ya know, all the """UFO's""" have had FAA-compliant lighting so I'm gonna put my chips on the government testing new equipment and not aliens or adversaries. We shot down a fucking balloon with an F-22, I don't think we'd sit on our laurels for an aerial assault
  18. He's certainly a whiny little bitch that farms clips for maga He's been raging at """WOKE!!!""" for a fuckin while now
  19. Extremely notable: the same general is in charge of their nuclear defense forces https://apnews.com/article/russia-explosion-head-of-nuclear-defense-forces-killed-9656bce946a9f552454df9debe5fbd18
  20. There's been a decade plus long effort to make gaming discourse extremely hostile towards anyone that isn't an incel white dude. It was a whole thing called gamer gate, and I can't blame a publisher for just turning off the comments. And again, as far as "girl power fatigue" I would argue that that's largely a self-inflicted grievance. It's not like there's been zero games made for dudes and only games made for ladies lol. There's a big segment of people online that are just programmed to be BIGMAD every time there's something outside of the typified videogame sterotype
  21. some good secondary sourced stuff on that whole dust off. Crazy shit, 40 special forces members and US combined arms just completely smoked 500 professional mechanized troops
  22. @Incredulity in shambles
  23. Lol, reminds me of the switcharoo on "No taxes on overtime!!!" turning out to be just getting rid of overtime
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