feralrobots.bsky.social
Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
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So your boosterish, irrelevant claim is based on a heavily qualified example that you can't say for sure you remember correctly. Got it.
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This is what we get for moving away from professional soldiering and into the stupid Spartan warrior bullshit.
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""What I think is so remarkable about Bragg is that it's really a breakdown on the military side," Risa Brooks, an expert of civil-military relations at Marquette University, told Military.com.
"It shows it's possible -- that the military's professional ethics could fail," she said."
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Just like their daddy done.
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Also Paddy MacAloon is a wanker who just happens to have semi*-accidently written one of the most beautiful pop songs ever by completely misunderstanding a (different) Springsteen song.
youtu.be/jEJdfDD4dVg
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*only semi 'cuz Paddy honestly was a brilliant songwriter.
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I always heard it as being worse than a lie - that the dream is (or should be) true, & their lives have become lies.
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I would argue that it was the most brutal song he'd done up to that point. & it still might be - there's some dark stuff on Nebraska but it's all somehow stylized; "The River" just lays it bare.
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I get this is a rhetorical proposition, but there are very real practical reasons they'd want to keep local law enforcement - most of them go back to local LE being a cutout, that can do horrible things not traced back to the regime. (I'm assuming they'd co-opt it, as fascist regimes so often do.)
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Bingo: Trump Fort Bragg speech was just a political rally in front of a Potempkin crowd of filtered white mail pro-Trump soldiers. The point was to scare us into thinking the regular military was all-in for Trump. (It could still work.)
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at this point you haven't done much to build credibility so you'll forgive me if I don't give much weight to your unsupported denial of a vague referent.
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...nevermind, I see you're going there.
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Serious question: Do they literally lack capability to get trajectories outside of earth orbit? (& if so, what's the barrier?)
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I see this word "lie" being used a lot in situations (like this one) where what the person using it really means is 'things I don't want to hear.'
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Dude, anything that can get out of LEO can 'send cargo everywhere in the solar system' if you're willing to wait long enough for it to get there. So that one is meaningless.
As for how far Dragon's gone, let us know when they take it to the moon.
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Which is fascinating to me because there are scripting tools that would let someone wire up LLMs to do things like autonomously run phishing campaigns. I'd bet money phishers have tried it! But I haven't heard a single story about that & I suspect the reason is obvious: they failed miserably.
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It's all magical spells. There's never an actual connection to anything real. Never anyone explaining how, instrumentally, the LLM would take control over its backup generators or supply chains or procurement processes or [etc ad nauseum].
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You have the choice to stop digging whenever you like.
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Bro, you waited less than 10 minutes to call 'crickets.' That feels kinda desperat, y'know?
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"Can send cargo to Pluto." You say that like it's meaningful.
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I can see why you'd like that arrangement!
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One of my favorite versions of my favorite Brian Wilson song, arranged and sung by Petra Haden:
youtu.be/UuOv-tXygBw
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People suing because the staff lunch was held at a Mexican restaurant instead of Cracker Barrel will be quite en vogue.
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Did 2 Title 2-related #a11y presentations last week. No one mentioned elephant in the room that DOJ is almost certainly gonna ignore Title 2.
Title 2 is different though in that it establishes LEGAL basis for a wider range of CIVIL actions versus public institutions.
Which is good! Gives us a wedge.
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(The specific ways: right eye has significant retinal damage due to detachment & repair; left eye has some WMD, but bigger problem is I didn't use it much for 20ish yrs due to a misguided choice not to correct it, hoping my brain would learn to ignore it. Which it did, to maybe too great an extent.)
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😬
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...that, combined with the fact that the NYS Dem Party eats its young with such relish, would have condemned the party to eternal failure if they NYS GOP weren't even more fucked up in their own special ways.
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NYS Dem party had decades of experience with Andrew & in all that time no one had the guts to cut him out, despite what an asshole he is. That oughta tell us something.
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Solidarity in a cause can truly be a route to friendship! I wish them well on their path!
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But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
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wait were folks accusing faine of "doomposting" over that?! that's so f*ing weird.
(also, yes.)
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She literally LEAD WITH '"woke" mania' in paragraph 1! She told us her deal & then wasted thousands of words of our time!