completelyblack.bsky.social
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As an aside, this is kind of why Dr Google "works", and why Dr AI will be sufficient for denying medical claims, if nothing else.
They can do, or simulate, the lookup table, well enough.
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Engineers are often in teams, but the comment below applies to engineers too. A lot of it is relatively routine application of procedural knowledge. It is possible to go a long way without really thinking once.
D&D was actually onto something by separating INT and WIS.
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Most of my circle was the same.
Although, once "the west" decided to not pursue elimination, it was never really going to be possible for NZ to pursue elimination by itself, long term.
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Every trophy Labour had polished, NACTFirst came in and smashed over their own heads, then shoved it up their arses whilst chuckling "take that, Ardern" and congratulating themselves on smearing everything in faeces.
It's humiliating for them and us.
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Yes, I think Labour will repeal.
But I think that Seymour, thinks/hopes there is a reasonable chance they will wiffle on it.
And even if they do repeal, he thinks he will have a propaganda opportunity (with the ~8% of voters that he has salience with).
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I suppose that Seymour imagines, when a future government repeals this, the media/public will have forgotten its substance.
Leaving plenty of room to tell stories about how the commies & greenies are against responsible legislation.
Focus-grouped fear may even prevent Labour repealing it.
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I'm quite prepared to believe that tens of millions of people are lazy, deluded idiots.
Also, most of them are just using it to cheat at their university / school assignments and to create pictures of their waifu.
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I did a 100 level course in ancient religious many years ago. I remember one paper/resource had an annex table of religions in the ancient world with brief notes on where/when, etc.
My favourite row in that table was: "Christianity. Eastern-Roman desert cult."
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And on second thoughts, a big crater could just mean superficial damage, to the mountain, above the actual facility.
It would have to be a deep crater to be problematic.
And Iran is saying there was no / little nuclear material at the site anyway. Which could be lies, but also seems rational.
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And they were also all clearly risible nonsense *at the time*. There were huge protests worldwide.
I went to (a modest) one in Palmerston North (and remember walking past anti-war graffiti from the 1991 Iraq War).
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It's not even that he was really lying. That implies some kind of intent and strategy.
He's more like ChatGPT, just spewing nonsense that is meant to sound like policies to utter morons.
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Although, Iran might have plans for regime change in the US now.
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But, if we see satellite pictures, in the next few days/hours, of the site that look like a big crater ... then there could be a radiation cloud.
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Possibly, as they are deep underground any radiological fallout (if there is anything there) would be largely contained.
The bunker busters, assuming they work, are meant to penetrate deep underground and then detonate. So, it's not blowing the whole facility up into the air.
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I like that there is a quote at the end of the article from "Alex Himel, Meta’s head of wearables"
A head full of wearables is such an evocative description for this Zuck dork.
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The calculator app in Windows is better at doing math problems.
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He might *say* he'll make it happen.
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I believe that the means to deliver the bunker busters is exclusively the B2 bomber.
Even if Trump wanted to give Israel B2 bombers, I don't think it would be possible. Too strategic. There are not that many. Israel does not have the necessary support infrastructure.
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I'm pretty certain I have seen identical reposts, adjacent to each other, in my feed.
But I could be misremembering.
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China would have a good chance of detecting indirect/bureaucratic involvement too.
China will surely have at least some human agents in relevant Taiwanese ministries/agencies, etc. (not to mention in Korean and Japanese ones too).
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I think, China's espionage and surveillance institutions are good enough that Taiwan would not assume it could do anything 'secretly'.
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Japan and Korea may have too much history to cooperate like that. But possibly. They have conducted joint military exercises.
Would be very risky for Taiwan (might provoke a pre-emptive attack) ... but also risky to not have them.
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Yes, western allies (including eastern ones like Sth Korea and Japan) with civilian nuclear will be seriously considering independent deterrence.
Not trivial to leap from a civilian to a military programme. But they are not starting from nothing either.
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I specifically do not want these specific people deciding what counts as a good economic decision
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All of this is just an attempt to ensure that we won't remember the real lessons of the pandemic:
1. Human wellbeing is critical to a functioning economy; and
2. The economy runs from the ground up.
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You don't need to have a strong definition of lies.
You just need some public officials, mandated to exercise judgement, to identify / fine / shutdown media that lies.
Today's problematic "media" are not telling subtle lies that are hard to identify.
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Proposed changes (consultation just closed) that won't take effect until July 2026.
Easier to get / maintain a license, plus some harsher restrictions around demerits and drink driving.
Not sure if it's of much benefit whether or not a poorly skilled driver has a license when they crash.
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You also need to have a good idea what the answer is, to write a good prompt. And possibly it will take several iterations (especially if you actually read, check, and think about the output).
Which makes the whole thing doubly pointless and wasteful.