NoSpotOfGround

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Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI

In trying to figure out how to warn our descendants about nuclear waste, even through a possible societal collapse, one of the more fun ideas is using cats that show a visible difference in the presence of nuclear radiation along with nursery rhymes/mythology that tell you to get the fuck out of dodge after your cat turns blue. ...

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I think the wariness regarding faes, dwarves, goblins, trolls was more about culling the genetical outliers and uncanny foreigners from around your village. It's just that AIs are now the uncanny foreigners surrounding our village...

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Can't say I agree with the lifestyle, but as long as they keep to themselves I'm willing to overlook it.

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why᛫ᛥop᛫wiþ᛫þorn?᛫when᛫we᛫can᛫go᛫þe᛫full᛫lengþ?

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Do you have to work hard to hide this side of your relationship from "normal" society? There's a lot of (completely unwarranted, imo) shame associated with this kind of thing.

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Wait, three?... Is this an "and the horse you rode in on" situation or am i missing a character in the picture?

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"Don't tell the elf..."

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Scale? We don't need no scale where we're going!

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I'm in awe how on point Ukraine's public messaging has been throughout this war. They've been perfectly measured and poignant about everything they've said.

Zelenskiy in particular has acted and spoken without a single misstep through all the challenges thrown his way. It's impressive...

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You also can't "squeeze into" a bus, ship or train, but you can into a car. It's a matter of scale.

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Fair point...

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That cat is Vietnam.

Surrounded by powers that could technically nuke it to oblivion but in practice stand no chance against it in a conventional war...

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They just let you do it.

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Translator's note: "plan" means keikaku.

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... from running for a third term.

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He probably had a crippling fear of heights that he managed by leaning on the fascination side a bit too much. And now he's vertigo-sexual.

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Well, it's not large rice, but we do have large Teosinte.

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You don't have to like them. You just need to believe that there is someone that believes there's someone that likes them. Simple.

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Doesn't look like anything to me.

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What would you even preach to a fish?

"And then Jesus walked on water."

"He did what?"

"...Erm, never mind. Did I tell you about how he once fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish?"

"He what?!"

Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day' ( apnews.com )

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued international aggression. ...

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Jeez, who pulled you out of /r/thedonald's casket? Are they reassigning people to haunt Lemmy now?

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I'm getting good at them. Got straight A+'s on the last few.

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So said/say/will say we all.

Chinese researchers are testing a 3MW helium-filled floating wind turbine that floats at a 2 kilometer altitude to reach stronger winds. ( www.globaltimes.cn )

"the S2000 can easily be transported and stored in shipping containers,.....................its airborne design allows flexible deployment and retrieval, making it especially suitable for sparsely populated areas where large-scale infrastructure is difficult to build………………..Wang noted that the key to SAWES' ...

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About 10x cheaper, if anyone is curious. Hydrogen has containment difficulties beyond its flammability though: it embrittles materials and leaks very easily.

Daily bunny no.3198 about to take a dive

A bunny in a tiny rowboat is spiraling around a whirlpool, about to be sucked into it. He is in the middle of the ocean, and teh whirlpool is illuminated with an eery light ...

A bunny in a tiny rowboat is spiraling around a whirlpool, about to be sucked into it. He is in the middle of the ocean, and teh whirlpool is illuminated with an eery light
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Me too, thanks.

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True, but for very small values of "kid". The guy/gal was seventeen...

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People don't think it be like that, but it do.

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Jeffrey Venezuela, haven't you heard?

Three Mystery Drones Flew Over Germany's $3.5B Arrow 3 System — Troops Couldn't Shoot Them Down | Defense Express ( en.defence-ua.com )

Germany back in 2023 signed a contract with Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for supplying Arrow 3 missile defense systems worth $3.5 billion. Already on December 1, 2026, at an airbase near Annaburg city in Saxony-Anhalt, the system was deployed and reached initial combat readiness. ...

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they flew at approximately 100 meters altitude directly over the radar station

Ehh, this is like saying "this million-dollar tank was unable to fire at a mosquito only one meter away from the driver". There's such a thing as a minimum engagement distance.

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The perspective is all wrong here.... The ceiling and floor lines converge somewhere under the horizon, as if the ship were pitching down on the waves. But the seas are glassy-calm. It pulls me out of the scene. Good colors though.

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Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.

At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like "death" and 9 sounds like "suffering".

The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off ( www.theguardian.com )

Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, has landed one of the most coveted jobs in global science. But it is hard not to wonder, when looked at from a certain angle, whether he has taken one for the team. ...

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Your

I hope this was intentional :)

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It sounds like you're internally associating Africa and the US with opposite "goodness" evaluations, but you never explain which way and I have no idea why you think your conclusion makes sense.

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So relatable, amiright fellow kids?

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So does this really work?

I'm afraid I can't tell you that, I signed an NDA.

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Bill Gates is like, one of the least harmful of the billionaire clique. At least that's the image I have of him... I'm a notoriously poor judge of character though, so what do I know.

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Ah, dammit. That's a pity.

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Doesn't the decrease signal an improvement for Russia? (unfortunately)

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The current generation of AMD processors and motherboards have this "feature" where the first time you boot up, nothing shows on screen for about a minute, sometimes two. Because it's calibrating the memory or something stupid like that. With nothing on the fucking screen.

It's obviously some hurried fix for a problem they encountered late in the development process of the AM5 generation, but Jesus Christ is it horribly implemented. The most tense moment when building a PC and they thought making it act as if it's broken for two minutes is good UX.

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The list of cons is pretty long. It's kinda expected for Thinkpads, but disappointing that things have not gotten better.

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TIL how to make explosives.

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From Google AI:

In 1990, the year the film was released, the
actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time.

To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.

The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.

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I did skim a bunch of articles first, all with the same info, but they were too long-winded or paywalled to link to. This summary seemed just right...

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That's interesting! I hadn't heard of Anoto paper before... It can't be that, but interesting tech nonetheless.