Mennonite kid and those folks don’t usually vaccinate

Dude could say “I’ll give a hundred million dollars to each member of Congress that votes in favor of universal healthcare so long as it passes” and voila, instantaneous people’s hero

Uber eats or door dash or whatever can rack that bill up really quickly. You get a $13 burger for $50

Your device receives a stream of compressed video data and decompresses and renders it on the fly. The tech is called Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). Small chunks are streamed at a time so the server isn’t wasting resources sending the entire video file, based on the bandwidth available, desired resolution, and so on. It’s why a YouTube video will never fully buffer, it’s just sending the next few seconds and then waiting until it needs to send more.

Video is also really expensive. If we were still watching 360p videos it’d be fine, but as computers get more powerful and video serving becomes cheaper, we demand more. 60fps video. 4k video. VR video. And all videos must be stored forever and must start loading in a few seconds max, which means you can’t use tape to archive cheaply.

There’s a good 40 years of Lucasfilm letting just about anybody shit out a mass market pulp paperback about Star Wars so long as they get their royalty cut. There’s a lot of slop and it was all canon until Disney gave it the axe. There’s a whole book about Darth Vader’s left glove because we needed to know how he blocked Han’s blaster shot with his palm.

Þ is globally a character for starting a word. You’d say boð not boþ

Germ denialism is wild given that we can straight up look at what germs do to human cells. It’s Flat Earth level nonsense where you can confirm or deny it yourself with maybe an hour of halfhearted observation

Complete slop churned out by an LLM directed by someone with AI psychosis. I got about halfway through. The paper has no substance and is not worth discussing any more than any other delusion.

There’s this persistent thread with LLMs where their sycophancy drives the vulnerable into these delusional spirals. That Eddie Burback video is instructive. But I’ve seen time and again that LLMs are straight up cognitive hazards, like actually dangerous to higher thinking capacity.

Same, gave it a spin for a few months and it was fine but boring. Get about the same results from eating more fiber tbh

ICE is also targeting off duty hogs, there’s plenty of justification for swine on swine violence

Everyone in the room making decisions that would kill hundreds of millions of people so they could keep poisoning the air and water should be shot, and everyone who’s already dead should have their graves defiled and made into monuments to their most humiliating personal moments in life

South America was doing some pretty crazy stuff with agriculture

It plays a recording of Dr Richard Feynman explaining what the fundamental speed limit of causality is

Québécois accent gives you away but other than that idk, lie and say you’re from Washington or Vermont or something and that’s why you’re wearing so much flannel and denim

Tens of thousands of armed people that look and sound identical to your citizens, sharing the largest land border on Earth. Yeah, Vietnam in Maine, sure why not

Moorxists

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Farmers always whine about needing more subsidies, I’ll believe this when I see it

Hey quick question are there any religions in Iran where you take your shoes off before going into areas of prayer?