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it's like you'd have a bomb in case a bomb goes off.
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3 hours ago, beerwolf said:
I was gonna post yesterday that seeing trench warfare in 2023 seems utterly bizarre to me.
it is bizarre, but it also shows some similarities with ww1. the technological advances of military at the time reached a certain culmination point, where doctrines and firepower dictated a fixed-front stalemates to be a 'natural' course of events. things started moving again with the introduction of combined arms (tanks + aviation + infantry + artillery) -- ww2. Ukraine in 2023 is a sign of a similar culmination point in terms of technology and doctrines.
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7 minutes ago, Silent Member said:
I think it's mostly Nice and a little bit of Cannes/french Riviera. Unless cannes cloned parts of nice, which wouldn't be nice at all. It would be cannes. Yes, there's no punchline and it barely resembles a joke anymore, but I'm still posting these words. Sorry, dear reader.
i think it's nice you cannes notice that
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tried and finished spy/master because it promised a lot, and i kind of feel down about it, because i so wanted to enjoy this (i want cold war spy stuff!)
the screenplay tried to do something, i can see it, but it feels amateurish/naive idk it's a weird pace, and the actors are not really invested in the characters that well it seems, rather shallow. but the story / timeline setup (idea) is very good, native romanian language, the scenes with nicolae and elena caucescu are great, and they are the best part of the series. unfortunately all this is spoiled by everything else; cliche (of course the young daughter will drink cocacola at the end!), predictable, unconvincing. the 'spies' show ZERO tradecraft, and that's just does it.
it's like you'd want to film a tractor plowing a field, but you focus on the surrounding bushes instead, waving in the wind and all, with the tractor sound rattling in the background / 10.
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On 6/19/2023 at 2:42 PM, Rubin Farr said:
The world needs to end this.
you could make a war out of this!
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if you live in a city, get out, for a while. change the landscape. use your feet.
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On 6/5/2023 at 8:18 PM, Rubin Farr said:
when you cross hanks and walken you get young buscemi
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*discusses*
Spoileralso a synonym for more frequent morning back pains as you get older
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interesting explanation of the hyperbolic universe theory
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godspeed, MIXL2!
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listening to z*f mixed with muffled sounds of an open air schlager music concert is a great experience! distant echoing shouts and instruments really fits well with these two:
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3 hours ago, aderei said:
How can the richest country on earth suck so bad.
because it's the richest.
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Three episodes into Spy/Master ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22325698/ ), a story set in cold war where the main intelligence officer of the Causescu's regime defects to the west. They really nailed the looks and characters of Elena and Nicolae Causescu which is enjoyable. The main antagonist is the Romanian counter-intelligence operative who can be a bit cartoonish at times, the dialogues could be better, and of course the americans are the best and most ethical as always (rolls eyes), the main actor does a great job, and the stasi agent is hot (actually they are both hot) but all in all quite good series I think..... so far....
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This is so fascinating; a family living deep in Siberian taiga, far away from any nearest settlement, completely isolated.
QuoteBut if the family’s isolation was hard to grasp, the unmitigated harshness of their lives was not. Traveling to the Lykov homestead on foot was astonishingly arduous, even with the help of a boat along the Abakan. On his first visit to the Lykovs, Peskov—who would appoint himself the family’s chief chronicler—noted that “we traversed 250 kilometres without seeing a single human dwelling!”
Isolation made survival in the wilderness close to impossible. Dependent solely on their own resources, the Lykovs struggled to replace the few things they had brought into the taiga with them. They fashioned birch-bark galoshes in place of shoes. Clothes were patched and repatched until they fell apart, then replaced with hemp cloth grown from seed.
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where is schlitze when you need him
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100 ethels equals 100000000 bitcoin
no one has that kind of money
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What's wrong with Ethel?
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1 hour ago, TubularCorporation said:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woods porn
It's a real thing, at least in the USA. I've found woods porn, I know a few other people who has found woods porn, hell even my dad once told me about finding an abandoned cabin FULL of nudie magazines as a teenager back in the early 60s (they had me in their mid 30s, I'm not that old yet), when he was snooping aroun in the woods on property that had belonged to a nudist colony that got chased out of town a few years earlier.
So if he's looking for porno magazines and he lives in the USA or Canada, he needs to go out in the woods to find some before even that option is gone.
EDIT: it's not jsut a rural phenomenon, in the city he might be able to find some alley porn. Back in the 2000s, my girlfriend and I were walking someplace or other in Boston and a big gust of wind blew an entire magazine worth of gay porn - loose pages - down the street past us like leaves. That's the only pornSTORM I've ever heard of.
i have definitely found nudie magazines in abandoned shacks and even in hunters' lookouts (where you can also found a full beer or even a sixpack, especially in summer).
i can also confirm that woods and meadows in full spring blossoms, with that cricket ambience really gets my blood flowing if you know what i mean, so sexy times in tall grass under the warm sun is def the most idm thing ever. might be related to woodsporn, idk, there might be some correlation, i will investigate
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1 hour ago, ignatius said:
many americans, in corporate/creative/tech jobs, are very focused on image especially when they perceive that someone is better than them at something. also, many americans really want the pat on the back for doing the thing they were supposed to do anyways. but i think this problem is not uniquely american but often corporate culture as a whole.. but americans are really good at embedding themselves into that system and want some kind of praise for that as if they have come so far in their career and have a mountain of accomplishments to stand on. it's also a thing people do where they justify their persona to themselves. they need to say things out loud otherwise they might realize that it's all bullshit and they're just as useless as any other cog in the machine. "i'm special".
but i'm generalizing and i know many wonderful people who don't have these problems with image and ego and also work in the same kind of jobs/environments.
i'm finding out about this these days. so excuse me while i rant this out: our company was bought by american investors, and the ceo immediately started putting fellow americans in key executive positions (some positions were opened just for the sake of it). all dandy and whatever, but the problem arises with the recent reorganization that consolidated branches which have nothing to do with the professional profile of that certain executive. so now we have to explain to him why certain things are what they are, and it's silly. it become downright bizarre when he makes uninformed sweeping decisions that turn everything upside down. but we are unable to explain his wrongdoing because he refuses to listen for more than 15 seconds, because apparently they've all developed attention deficit disorder from the "sell me this pen in 15 seconds" shtick they think makes the world turn. to top that off, he immediately fired two of our competent operations managers, because they voiced their disagreements loudly. the latter bothers me, because it appears to be a symptom of some superiority complex, with an explicit desire to 'teach us' or make thins go their way. it reminds me too much of that movie trope, where the american protagonist in an international assembly of characters is always the one with the most knowledge and guts and is a de-facto leader. only in the case of movies (because they are movies) they tend to be right, but in this case (because it's real life) they aren't.
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never worked with americans before. we touch base a lot, we do everything "moving forward". they complain we only work 8hrs a day, fake positivity, very friendly when they need help, half-assing shit when you ask them to help, lot's of bravado, but little to show for it.
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2 hours ago, hello spiral said:
God Eno sucks so bad
edgy
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33 minutes ago, zero said:
no, we won't. the humans at the top of the chain running the planet don't like to hear the truth, because it doesn't fit in with their delusional view of reality. I agree the author of that article really nailed it on just about all points. this one especially so -
imo you always have to look at the psychology of any situation involving the human decision making process, take into account individual's personal motivations when they are faced with important choices to make. this slow AI roll out is no different. it is being pushed out in an entirely capitalistically way, to a global society already totally addicted to the latest and greatest technology, by profit motivated mega rich humans. and there is no end game planning here. just keep building it, keep competing with other companies, and see what eventually happens.
and kinda ironic that on an IDM forum, there are a lot of folks that seem to recognize this barrel of a loaded gun the collective us are starring down. 20 or so years ago when AI was still very far fetched, a lifetimes away sorta thing, I was all about the idea that AI should replace humans. now I dream of a society where computers were never invented. where there are no screens, no phones to stare at, telling us what to do.
agreed. one tries to be positive, and hope for the best, but the reality is that we are helpless until the concentrated power of super rich entities is equaled by a power of coherent mass initiative that will have to act as a counterweight, continually sustained in order to maintain the balance of powers (not just campaign-like, single purpose mass initiative, but a continuous one). not just for ai, but for many other pressing things.
the next best option (and that's saying something), and far more probable (unfortunately), is to continue to be a reactionary force, always lagging behind with legislature initiatives, far later when the damage is long done, and our ways of life accepted it and adopted it with another source of anxiety, while the legislature only barely contains the fringes of capital rampage.
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'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'
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i try to understand, why all the individuals and organisations that are communicating these warnings, are not at the same time proposing actual measures. like how is there not an organisation connecting scientists from different fields across the world already (they had 6 years from the Paris Agreement at least), or even one university of world-status, sticking their heads together, do a mammoth-study, connect the dots, etc... and come up with a list: here, folks, this is what you can do, as a citizen, an individual, blabla, to start with, and be the example... and like why aren't there state universities and at least NGOs, offering (non-)formal education in matters of: climate basics, water cycles, soil, ecosystem, gardening, biology, fixing shit yourself, selling/buying used shit, conservation of basic everyday resources, etc etc... feature and push forward content creators that have this knowledge,... while they go lobby and campaign the shit out of politics, and use their knowledge and prestige to push the change.
so, all they do is repeat the same shit and keep telling how bad it is and how much worse will it get.
the only people i know, who had long before set on a path to be the least-consumers, are ordinary people who want to grow their own food, who have to work around all the bureaucracy and system-wide hurdles that always favor the plans of the corporations, and leave the work-willing, single citizen ignored and even prosecuted for exercising their own rights.
so why don't they play the ticking watch sound and thrill the decision-making suits in private and public sectors? because everybody gets paid, and wont move a finger until gets paid, and it's all fucking business