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The regulations and guidance are publicly available if you would like to educate yourself

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That is neither a regulation nor a guidance. It only summarizes entrance requirements for training specifically and mentions nothing of graduation.

Admission is highly competitive and includes academic performance, leadership potential, physical fitness and character evaluations.

Even here it mentions core requirements for the entirety of training. Training has its own hurdles. A lot of people wash out because they either can't maintain academics, fitness, or it's not a good match for them personally. Trainees can also be removed at any time. I've had to do it myself on numerous occasions. Not everyone is cut out for or willing to put in the effort for officership. Check out some DoD, TRADOC, and AFMAN documents for more detail.

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It's a really good book. If all you know is pop culture references you're honestly missing most of the story. Def worth a read

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I'd watch that sitcom. A force prodigy with chronic pain and a cocktail of opioids who's become completely untethered.

Laptops have soul

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tlirsgender on Tumblr: Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal. A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness. You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any.
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I just threw Ubuntu on mine and my god it's so much cleaner than Windows, but I have so much to learn.

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Right so I started using the GUI interface for all of ten minutes, then as soon as I started looking for "how to" anything it's all terminal commands. Especially since I switched specifically to make an environment to learn computer vision. So I spent an hour yesterday learning the difference between pip, pip3, and pipx then did something with snap. Tossed all that in the "figure it out later" bucket when I realized I needed to relearn how to modify my path and what that actually means.

It's so nice having everything accessible to me as the user instead of locked behind some windows registry I can't look at or some oversimplified settings panel. But I've also got 20 years of Windows conditioning to unlearn. It can be a lot to dive into at all once.

Having said all that, I'm excited and enjoying it

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Haha you're in danger

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It's all so exhausting. Like most of us, I left Reddit to get away from centralized control of communication on the Internet and the constant performative division, but it's almost impossible to avoid. Each platform seems to foster its own flavor of identity with no tolerance for nuance or common ground. I try not to block instances or communities so I can stay up to date on the current tides, but much of it is so reactionary and tolerates nothing less than complete loyalty. Then, every day a new line is drawn in the sand by some faceless account going one step further in one direction or the other and that becomes the new accepted and expected position.

I deeply enjoy the fediverse and especially how genuine most of the users here are, but the choice is still between an echo chamber I make for myself or the echo chamber constructed by the loudest voices.

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In the US it's illegal to grow poppy if you know what it is

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👏 SCIENCE 👏 FICTION👏 DOES👏 NOT👏 INCLUDE👏 FANTASY👏

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Concur and I have no issue with the crossover itself in stories. Fantasy is largely predicated on magic systems and creatures. Science fiction begins with known science. Maybe I should have been more specific and said "hard science fiction." Some of my favorite stories contain elements of both, but sometimes I want hard science like Rendezvous with Rama, Red Mars, or Tau Zero. It can be frustrating to look through aisles or catalogs for hard science fiction and find mostly stories of magic. It's a mood

But then again, as Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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Fair enough

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Agreed

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Genichiro

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Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims ( www.theguardian.com )

The makers of ChatGPT are changing the way it responds to users who show mental and emotional distress after legal action from the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who killed himself after months of conversations with the chatbot. ...

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Your Undivided Attention discussed an important point missing from the article, which is that ChatGPT advised him to hide his activities and concerns from his parents. This doesn't necessarily absolve the parents, but it does add a layer of nuance to the discussion

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Probably because English is the international standard and tourists speak it

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I don't see any artifacts but I can't find the image on their website. Excellent shit post material though

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So I'll be getting job interviews soon? Right?

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Are these the same tools that hallucinate diagnoses and medication prescriptions when used to transcribe notes?

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I would love to see a diagram of how its morphology changed through time and evolution, I bet it's wild

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Is that an AI or someone roleplaying as one? This is so alien and foreign and genuinely creepy I almost don't want to understand it.

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What's the harm in letting them bow and pray to this neon god they've made /s

The more things change, right?

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Sushi/nigiri.

I do not screw around with low quality or bad meats, especially fish meat. I had enough fresh fish when I lived in Japan to know what it's supposed to look and smell like, and if the nigiri I'm served smells any bit off I'm simply not eating it.

If your fish smells like fish, it's gone bad. Most types of fish if properly preserved should smell somewhat like clean seawater, with some variation by species

Edit: Also, if the rice looks dry or doesn't adhere properly, I assume the kitchen has no idea what they're doing and won't eat it

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This is the first time in like 20 years I've seen an article of clothing and actually wanted to buy it

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The one thing missing from my life is being able to scream like the monarch

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I would like to request a translation

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Can it work the other way too? Like an excessively high energy person makes a normal energy person seem less so?

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Thank you, I will now internalize this for future silly misuse

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OP is the kind of person who shits in the punch bowl for attention

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If you water a dying plant, it will drink. It's almost like people without enough money need it for something

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For a moment I felt young again

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It seems like they've got louder recently

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I also use URLCheck on my phone. Made it the default browser and it pops up with options to clean the link and choose which browser to open it with

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Hyperion is my standard for space operas. The following book is pretty good and answers some things, but the rest of the series lacks the same poetic grandeur

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It's not a business. It's a service.

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You're fixating on a symptom, not a cause. What you're really concerned about is the parasitic nature of predatory marketing. That's where all the garbage comes from. If you changed the USPS the way you say, all that trash would migrate to other delivery services. Attack the root cause: predatory marketing.

Edit: typos

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I see this is going nowhere. Good luck out there

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Extend Embrace Extinguish

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You're speaking as if the US started it. They did not. Russia literally invaded Ukraine in the false pretense that they are under the control of a Nazi regime. There is no Nazi regime, barely even a functioning contingent, and certainly nothing out of proportion with the rest of the world's far right representation. If anything, this "proxy war" serves two purposes: 1. To field test new technology and 2. To undercut Russian propaganda. It's apparent to anyone paying attention that Russia is the aggressor, they've vastly oversold their own capability, and their propaganda machine is flailing.

I'm not saying there are no issues within the US that urgently need resolved, but let's be honest with ourselves -- authoritarianism is authoritarianism no matter their lat/long or cultural/economic history, at home and abroad.

Edit: got caught up in my own argument and forgot to mention the obvious third reason: to help the sovereign nation of Ukraine defend itself from invasion.

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Right, because the US told Yanukovych to brutalize his people, and also told the people to revolt and the supreme court to remove him from office, so he could flee to Russia. Not saying the West didn't see this as an opportunity to strengthen economic ties, but it was not a bear and stick moment. Why do you insist that only the West is at fault? Culpability is shared

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I'm not going to get into a citation contest with you, that would be a train to nowhere. My final point still stands.

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I'm honestly surprised they're still up

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Touché

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You are portraying Russia, a global superpower, as the unilateral victim. I am saying there is more nuance, especially concerning superpowers. I don't support usurpation or invasion by anyone. You can't suppose that ideologically and economically opposed nations won't both editorialize (which seems here to be your concern, editorializing). Yet here we are.

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Just accepting you can't reason with ideologues 👍

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Nah man not sticking around to be abused like that, buhbye