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I appreciate this one
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Lmao yeah. All I did was grab the image from Wookieepedia. It already had a transparent background. Then I turned the saturation all the way down to get black and white, and pasted the image on top of Yezhov. Took only about a minute.
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Lmao
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Or did he?
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Ooo...that's spicy. I like it.
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The US withdrew it's signature from the Rome Statute so we are no longer a State Party to the ICC.
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Yours looks much neater than mine did lmao.
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It depends. Musk now not-so-subtlely called for Trump's impeachment. If that gains steam on Twitter, maybe some ambitious Republican picks that up and runs with it? The Epstein thing *is* a Conservative pet-issue. *And* they get the prospect of Musk funding their reelection.
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What I mean is that Threads has far more active users.
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There are so many implications to that knowledge coming from DJT.
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So basically he wants to remake Republicans and all he'll get are the tech bros. But that would be enough to split the vote and ensure Democrat wins for as long as both right-wing parties exist.
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It's more active than this place lol.
Which is unfortunate because I thought more people would leave when Zuck said "yeah, bullying trans people is ok here".
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So it sounds like they didn't rule that she was discriminated against, but rather that her case can't be thrown out due to not providing extra evidence that her employer usually discriminates against a majority group. If I read that right.
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you could have a typically weak, niche Pokemon shore up a defensive or offensive weakness. However I'd argue the unpredictability this introduces is ultimately bad for the game. When any Pokemon could be any type and change at any time, games can be flipped on their heads just through sheer bad luck
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Megas did have a slight issue in that you could only Mega Evolve one Pokemon per match, and it required an item, so you effectively only picked one Mega Evolution for your whole team, so as not to limit the rest to be itemless. Both Dynamax and Terrastallization opened up team building a lot, since
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We just had a similar situation, but it was Republicans mishandling of a pandemic that crashed the economy. Turns out people didn't like limping to recovery and missed having a crashed economy.
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But it must be true! It's why we historically see mass immigration from capitalist countries to communist ones!
...wait
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Just read some zines.
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But basically they are Briahna Joy Gray-type Bernie fans. The ones who projected onto him an image that never existed and then went off the deep end into reposting Michael Tracy takes.
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If you ever want to bang your head against a wall, you should check out the subreddit "WayOfTheBern". It *was* a Bernie subreddit that went full conspiracy theorist about everything and then turned on him. I can't remember if it was when he endorsed Clinton or when he endorsed Biden.
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I'm not sure how we got to a point where a lot of people are falling for obvious scams again. But it's giving real boomer energy.
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The second one is also the perfect retort to anyone of the idiots who say Russia isn't doing colonialism because the ad itself features two Russian soldiers discussing which Ukrainian cities they'd prefer to buy flats in while they storm a trench
www.newsweek.com/russia-recru...
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I could be a popular underwear model or I could get droned in a field.
...decisions...
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The Rule of Two is the dumbest thing they ever did.
"Oh but you see, we needed to do that because we were constantly fighting each other and we might go extinct!"
"Oh yeah, it would really suck if you basically died off except for maybe one or two practitioners for a thousand years..."
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They blocked. Were they rewriting history again by claiming Bernie was leading the polls in 2016?
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It's also odd because it wasn't really other Dems that sank Biden, it was donors and the media if anyone.
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Or separately: "You're interested in Star Wars? You must actually hate Star Wars."
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My point is that I think it's very easy to downplay the environmental concerns. At least when it comes to water. Especially because even "consumed" water stays in the water cycle. I'd be much more interested in the CO2 output. And even that would more be an argument for a greener power grid.
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There's barely any right wing people here at all.
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The point is more that people talk as if this is going to cause droughts across the US, and it's not. It's a drop in the bucket (heh) in regards to water consumption.
I think it's a bad argument to harp on when there are still major problems with AI from an ethics standpoint.
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That's like for fabricating chips and running power plants. So we jump up to...still less than 2 cows of beef?
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I will note that the requests take more energy than I thought they did. But it's still only on the order of about 10-15 Google searches, and nowhere close to being the main issue with AI. Sustainability is always important, and hence the research, but the perspective is important for the big picture
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Here's the research paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271
It claims 700,000 liters of water was used to train GPT3. It takes ~6800 liters to produce a pound of beef. So you're looking at around ~100lbs of beef. You get about 400-500 lbs of usable meat from one cow.
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Which is why I think the strategy is to run on the popular non-specific messaging, and work to get as much done as you can. Like we don't do the MattY thing where we just go which way the wind is blowing, but also be realistic about what can pass the Senate, and make that clear it's the hurdle.
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The water thing isn't the fight to have over AI. It's dangerous in so many other ways and we've picked the dumbest line to latch onto because someone said a scary number. We have people effectively using it as a "truth machine" and not understanding that it can lie and manipulate.
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This video mistakenly doesn't put it into perspective. ChatGPT *requests* take up almost nothing. It's training the models that takes up the most.
...and it takes up the same amount of water as producing 1/4 of one cow's worth of beef. To train the entire model.
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Always "Mom and Dad" instead of "Dad and Mom".
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"regional" here meaning "at every McDonald's in the entire country"