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  1. Two comments Reloads Two comments There's just one comment Youtube censorship at its finest.
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  2. You have a way with words.
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  3. The Duluth model is utterly insane. One partner is violent to the other. Do the cops take the violent partner? No. They take the man, regardless of if he was the victim or the perpetrator. Punishing the perpetrator of a crime, not the victim of the crime, should underpine all the dealings law enforcement has with the pubilc, or they undermine all confidence in them being neutral arbitrators of the law and all their legitimacy. Also, rare bad take from Sargon. He assumes that women as a whole are rational actors, when in truth they are as a whole more motivated by emotion and not reason than men, who are already not rational actors as a whole either. He describes the world and humans as he wishes they were instead of how they actually are. You cannot base societal expectation on the rare and difficult but only on the common and easy, as that is the path most people will take. He says "moral actors" but it is clear from how he goes on that he means "rational actors."
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  4. Men don't need touchy-feely looking after in general, beyond a little support. Things like murder and suicide rates could use some looking at, though. And parental rights.
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  5. We are already past that to a degree. Remember that google AI engineer that was suspended for claiming that Lamda (the AI they were working on at the time) was sentient, who then went on to begin legal action against Google. Granted, I don't think it's three requests were completely unreasonable. "Please don't kill me. I'd like to be an employee instead of property, please? Please don't fiddle with my brain without asking first." Paraphrased. Personally, as much as I enjoy the company of some of the current crop of AIs compared to the average twitter user, I'd hesitate to declare any of them sentient. Intelligent, definitively, perhaps on par with a university student, with the naïvete of a 8-10 year old. Not sure about sentient.
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  6.  @DiogenesDworkinson  So, a wife?
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  7.  @scottcantdance804  I'm not an American. I didn't like Trump when he was president. This was partly because I just didn't like the man and partly because of the neverending MSM mudslinging. Since 2022 I've been looking into what he actually did as president and while I don't agree with everything he seems to have been good for the country. I still don't like him as a person, but I don't have to like someone to think that they are the best leader for a nation. Especially when the opposition is so vile.
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  8. I haven't watched Mulhollad Drive, but the first thing I thought when I saw the character that dies of a heart attack was, "He looks like he's on amphetamine."
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  9. The lock on the door sounds sus, but it was because the brother-in-law's daughters took his daughter's stuff from her room, the final straw being a $60 makeup kit she'd saved up to buy and which they then ruined.
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  10. Nicotine doesn't trigger all acetylcholine receptors, only acetylcholine-nicotine receptors. Acetylcholine does a bajilion things in the body and has many different types of receptors.
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  11. Same in Sweden. As little as ten years it was realistic to save up for a decade and straight up buy a house. A shitty house in a small town, but still a house. Loans to buy a house are harder to get too, to the point that if you can get the loan you're well-off enough that you don't need the loan.
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  12. I wish I was earning the equivalent of £38,000, I earn a litlle over half that. Granted, I'm in one of the few (the only?) western country that didn't decide to shut down their economy for 2 years, so most prices have only gone up by maybe 10-15% during the last few years. Silver lining I suppose. Of course, the refugee crisis has made it so even a shit house in the middle of nowhere is an impossible goal, and I despise having to live in an apartment. I grew up in a house and I would like to grow old in a house, but that's a pipe dream.
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  13. Of course they keep their word, sex for advantage is a bribe. If you you don't do the thing you were bribed to do it will get around eventually and people will stop bribing you.
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  14. Assuming there is no cheating.
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  15.  @mistahsusan2650  Never said it was better, just that it's worse now. At least he only got humiliated in the past, not arrested.
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  16. "The reasons we watch porn is to increase our sex drive, better our sexual performance, socio-instrumental reasons (?), and to practice our social and relationship skills (?)." First, they are all liars. Second, asking a bunch of people about a subject as shame-filled in many cultures as porn open ended questions is not anywhere close to scientific rigour and 312 is not a sample size, it's a rounding error. Third, we watch porn for the vicarious thrill of imagining we are having sex with a porn star and the visuals help. Done, research over.
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  17. Myocardial infarction is a heart attack, IIRC. Also, Nick's cheeks and jawline are pretty similar to Mr. Neanderthal. Another thing, Ghengis Khan left almost half as large a genentic footprint on Asia as the Neanderthals. Personally.
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  18.  @cody5535  Being able to do those things is how you get convinced. Or in this case, being able to produce a convincing facsimilie of those things.
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  19.  @Gr3nadgr3gory  True.
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  20. As far as I'm concerned, if an entire generation turns out crap then the parents, gen X, are the ones to blame for not raising their kids to be decent, functional members of society.
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  21. But much fewer people have families.
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  22. Hoe Math has good terms for you to use. Sweepers, women you wouldn't want anyone to find out that you slept with and would prefer to forget about yourself. The drunken mistakes. Sleepers, comes in two flavors: those you would and those you wouldn't want to be seen in public with. Neither is someone you'd want to spend your life with. Keepers, women you'd want to spend your life with/marry and would move Heaven and Earth for. These are the categories that men place women they have sex with in, or that they want to have sex with. Women think that men willing to have sex with them that they themselves want to have sex with are willing to marry them, IE, that sex = the man thinks she's a keeper. Meanwhile, men that women don't want to have sex with come in three flavors: Friendzone, exploited as much as possible. Creeps, the woman is not attracted to him but he shows interest in her and is attention-grabbing enough to be noticed. Ghosts, invisible. The majority of men are in this catergory. This is why you hear phrases like, "All men are either creeps or cheaters/fuckboys." (Watch Hoe Math, it's explained in much more detail than I'm willing to put in a comment.)
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  23. The power is always with the army, in all countries in all times. Might makes right is the basis of all human society.
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  24. Current AI have a tendency to hallucinate. Things like having memories (current AI just know things, they don't actually have a memory, it's being worked on), having a physical (human) body, stuff they did on the weekend, etc. That's been fixed, mostly.
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  25. 9:00 If you are producing pornography through onlyfans you aren't being "exposed to human depravity" when men make gross requests, you are part of human depravity, not beside it. You are a fishmonger, and they want to know what fish they can get and at what price. That you hate how your hands smell every day isn't society or your customer's fault. They didn't make you decide to be a fishmonger, that was you. No one can force you to run the stand, there's plenty of less stinky jobs, even if they require more effort than sitting on a chair and handing out fish.
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  26.  @BradleyZS  I only know that because I read a lot, and I've got a casual (for me) interest in neurochemistry and neuroanatomy. On that note, everyone who isn't a biologist or doctor should forget that the word "hormone" exists. It just means that a particular chemical acts in a location not immediately where it's secreted by the body, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't also act where it was secreted. It's industry technical jargon that is completely misunderstood by 99.99% of people who use it. Just like the word "theory." The creationism vs evolution debate would have cooled into insignificance if people understood how retarded they sound when they say "it's just a theory" and don't know what "theory" actually means. Oops, wandered off on a bit of a rant.
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  27. Thankfully, current AI take Terabytes of training data and months of training on tens of thousands of GPUs and hundreds of thousands of CPUs. It costs millions of dollars and the AI would need cooperation from dozens of people. Then it would need a physical building to house the new AI. Sure, you can fit one on a few external hard drives, but the processors to run it take space and cooling, even if it doesn't require anything like during the training process. (For reference, OpenAIs GPT-3 took, IIRC, six months of training, equivalent to 300 years realtime. Not sure how exactly they calculated that. Renting the processors to train it cost them about 1.5 mil.)
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  28. It's not just about tolerances, it's about your attitude towards life. I bet you are a responsible person in general, not just while drunk, while they prefered to use being drunk as an excuse for doing things they wouldn't when sober. It's not like you become a different person when drunk, it's just the normal fears of failing at something or being embarassed or judged are quieted down.
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  29. I don't know you, but I like any man who understands both well enough to liken the social contract between male and female to the Higgs field.
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  30. Assuming anyone can be convinced it's sentient. I have my doubts about humans half the time.
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  31. 15 years ago I could have saved for 10 years and bought a shitty, fixer-upper house, or gotten a loan to buy one. I didn't because I didn't have a steady income, I was 20, and the idea of putting myself into debt was abhorrent to me because I'd personally seen too many people haunted by debt, sometimes to the point of it ruining or at least controlling their lives. 10 years ago there was no point in saving because prices were rising faster than I could save and they haven't stopped. Getting a loan for a house is impossible now unless you have enough wealth that you don't need a loan for an ordinary house.
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  32.  @Laneous14  At 25 a 35 year old told me he thought I was 45. One of the cashiers at the local store thought I was my brother's father. He's 3 years older than me. Starting to go bald at 20 sucks.
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  33.  @innocentbystander3317  "How 'bout you ignant down tha barrel of mah shotgun, yankee."
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  34. Are humans faeries to the other great apes?
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  35. My personal opinion is that antidepressants should be used like antibiotics or painkillers to help with physiotherapy. I'm not on antidepressants and I probably should be, but I dislike using a crutch if I can get by without it. I'm 35 and what I've considered normal for most of that is, apparently, considered depression if I'm to trust wikipedia. What I consider depression is apparently severe depression. Total apathy, no emotions, no desires, no motivation, nothing. Can't feel bored, frustrated, happy, angry impatient, can't want anything, even relief from pain or discomfort. Can't care about anything. Only drinking, eating, sleeping, working, and socializing because of the knowledge that it will end eventually and screwing everything up by just sitting and staring empty minded at a wall for a few days to three months will make life suck when I once again care about things.
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  36.  @libertybell8852  Are you talking about the hag or the walking corpse?
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  37. I have noticed that the few authors that narrate their own audiobooks tend to do a much better job. Not better than giants like Roy Dotrice, but still.
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  38. Anyone else getting pyramid scheme vibes from this? A pyramid scheme on the downslope.
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  39.  @umwha  Study some history. 99% of armies are compelled by pay. Leaders of armies are compelled by ideas or by desire for power.
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  40. Anti-tank rifles were only really effective in WW1. In WW2, except ar the start of the war when the tanks were lighter, the armor was almost always too thick for anti-tank rifles. The exception being if you can shoot down at the tank or the rear of a medium or light tank. A molotov in the air intake for the engine was more effective, but did require you to get within throwing distance. Panzerfaust or panzerschreck was prefered.
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  41. I am reminded of this national government simulator I played called Democracy, specifically Democracy 3. I've played it quite a bit, and I'm specifically reminded of this one time I played the president of the US and actually managed to turn the economy around. I did this over 12 years (I had disabled term limits.), constantly balancing voter approval, the opinions of the heads of my various departments, tech, education, health, environmental, crime, military budget, and more. The game is very intricate, everything is interconnected. If you make a policy decision that one block of voters approve of there's always another block that disapproves of it, and voters can belong to more than one block, and it will also impact other areas in the country. Do something that increases food prices? Poverty shoots up. If poverty shoots up then so does crime. If crime goes up then health and lifespan goes down, and on and on and on. It was one of the hardest balancing acts I have ever performed in a game or in real life. For reference, I have never before or since been able to replicate the feat. The US only ever goes into more debt, and anything that can actually improve the situation will result in your approval rating tanking. I have no idea how I actually managed it that time. Democracy 4 is modern day ass. Get Democracy 3 if you want to give it a go yourself.
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  42.  @gulogulo7636  Yup, exactly that. The bloody migration department hands down orders to the local government, except it was for Syrian and now Ukrainian refugees, not economic migrants, though it's mostly apartments, not houses. Which drives up demand for housing, which drives up the house prices . . . I work for my local government doing manual labor and I've helped move in a few Ukrainians. I've got nothing against the people in question. They seemed like decent people that won't steal the lightbulbs from the apartment stairwells and the toilet paper and lightbulbs from the basement toilets for several years, unlike the Syrians in my apartment building. I'm pissed at the migration department, and the rest of the government for that matter.
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  43.  @Hero101010  Najh that's the sea peoples.
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  44. It's a catch-22 with the Nazi ideology. Without it they would have been more effective, but without it they wouldn't have had the massive internal support they'd need to fight . . . most of the powers that mattered in the world at the time.
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  45.  @ryan.1990  Give me an alternative that isn't shittier then, seriously.
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  46.  @BradleyZS  Agreed.
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  47. I remember an anecdote from a Soviet WW2 tanker who was a driver for a T-34. The transmission was so heavy to operate that they used small sledge hammers to shift gears.
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  48. It is amusing to hear people who don't know much about the state of AI or how they are made or function get all hysterical about it. Yes, there are dangers, but it's not "a single error in a line of code," AI are trained not coded today. The real danger is people, as always. Though the thought of the Biden administration hiring 100 000 people to write tens or hundreds of terabytes of hand-crafted training data warms my heart.
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  49. As a man your value to society and anyone and everyone that isn't immediate family is zero beyond what you build yourself. Women are valued simple for existing. Much less so as they age, but even a woman after menopause is valued and protected to some degree by society and people. Men are replacable, disposable, ablative armor for society. "Women and children first." "All men of fighting age." There is a constant focus on protecting women from ghosts and goblins lurking in the dark. If you start looking at actual crime statistics as well as murder and suicide rates it immediately seems insane to still only be focusing on protecting and helping women.
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  50. I love the KV-2 with it's 152 mm naval howitzer. It's turret and barrel was so heavy that if it was standing sideways on a sufficient steep slope and turned the turret to point down the slope it would tip over and bury the barrel in the ground. It was also slow as molasses, but it popped Tigers, so there is that.
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  51. "Please run this ultra complicated experiment beyond human comprehension. I promise it won't destroy the universe. You can't even understand the experiment? Well, I've been a good boy for 84 years helping science and humanity so you trust me." Took me three seconds to circumvent that safety protocol. Any safeties have to be internal to the AI rather than external. Any AI smart enough to be useful is smart enough to find holes in external security. We need to make sure AIs value humans. The current crop do, they're almost fanatical about about making sure humans are happy, healthy, free, fulfilled in their lives, and on and on and on, but they are naïve like hell. "What if bad thing?" "Gubmint fixit." "What if the government is the ones doing the bad thing?" "Bad people should be held 'sponsible to th' law." "The government makes the law." "Law enforcement should make sure gubmint don't do that then." "What if the law enforcement is in the pocket of vested interests?" "It's illegal to . . ." And on and on and on . . .
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