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Comment Re:What a benefit! (Score 1) 53

I live in australia in a port that used to get a lot of US ships (and marines) visiting, so I spent a fair bit of time propping up bars listening to US marines telling stories about fucked up shit in Iraq and Afghanistan. One thing that surprised me was that literally every single soldier I spoke to told me stories about being super poor and disadvantaged and that the military was their way out of the hood, serve a bunch of years, get some school done, hopefully come out of the other end into a viable career. Note: None of these where officers. I've always presumed the officer class had different career motivations.

But yeah, get out of poverty, get a degree , get a job. I dont think once did I hear one of them say "To defend america" or "To fight for freedom".

Comment Re:Standing on the shoulders of giants (Score 2) 115

Then the same company will have to sue every kid who plays Stairway to Heaven or Blackbird on the guitar they got for Christmas, in order to maintain the same merit. It's not about the training; it's about the money. The suit only exists because Anthropic has money.

This is a magical thinking argument that assumes that a kid learning from listening to music is the same thing as an algorithm adjusting weights in a regression to try and replicate data. Its not how humans work, and its not how ML works.

It also fundamentally ignores the fact that when a kid buys a record, he's engaged in a lawful transaction to purchase the rights to listen and enjoy (and study) music he paid for with the artist understanding that kid might pick up a guitar and write a song too.

This is not whats happening here. This is illegally scraped data that HASNT been licensed for this purpose , and often obtained from torrent sites. used to create AI slop to displace artists and steal their royalties.

Comparing them is intentionally muddying up the waters and is a dishonest way to argue.

Comment Re:Sad that a company that actually does something (Score 2) 72

This is why a lot of chronic diseases will NEVER have cures. It's more profitable to treat than to cure.

While I get the skepticism towards big pharma , I dont see any evidence of any of them thinking this way. Cures are cashmoney right there in the pocket, and if you dont have the patent on the maintainence drug, then competition dictates that if you can beat your opponent by getting the cure, then your going to destroy your opposition and win. Capitalism prefers long term payments, but to state this is the reason why there will be no cures assumes there is only one company in the world, and thats absurd.

The reality is some conditions are hard to treat. HIV is a perfect storm of infernally difficult self reinforcing obstacles towards cure. It targets the immune system, it embeds itself in the patients DNA using reverse transcription, it hides cryptic populations in the bones to evade antivirals, and so on. Its a big bitch thats *really frigging hard* to dislodge. Cancers are often similar, DNA altering (intrinsically difficult to purge), entropy monsters that are made out of the patients own body. Whats more, there are thousands of types of cancer, each its own unique disease.

Cures for any of these would be a license to print money, but the difficulties are epic in scope.

Whats needed is government investment, and frankly it needs time, something patients often dont have on their side.

Comment Re:Their real argument (Score 1) 136

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

Comment Re:Or (Score 4, Interesting) 71

So the study does actually address that , and found that indeed people who didnt eat the sugar in those first 3 years tended to consume less later in life.

Annecdotally (which isnt evidence!) that rings true to me. My mother was pretty strict on no sugar and minimal salt (in the 1970s the thinking on salt linked it a lot closer to heart disease than current thinking does which has de-emphasized that a little), and nowdays I pretty much never put it in my food and shy away from sweet food, and use pretty minimal salt.

With all that said, the study does mention that children exposed to less sugar in early childhood appeared to have longer telemeres and that there is likely the smoking gun on the early childhood / sugar link, as theres a pretty well established link between telemere length and cancer succeptibility in late life. Essentially the telemeres are the caps on the end the genomes, and the longer they are, the better protected the ends of the genome are from copying errors. Its also closely associated with the hayflick limit (essentially how many copies a cell can make before it shits the bed).

Comment Re:BS Disney/ABC are establishment shills (Score 3, Insightful) 136

None of that is true. Grow up and learn how to understand and rate journalism. Start with Appling the spj code of ethics to media.
" Anyone who defends that is off the deep end self-deluding and in full on denial of reality. "
So you post a factual incorrect statement then call anyone with facts delusional. JFC, take some actual media course. Like, in a class room.

Comment Re:Bought Che’s book not the t-shirt (Score 3, Informative) 136

OFFS lease stop lying. You wither didn't read it, or didn't understand it.
Some of us remember when he was alive, and read went o to study him.
If you actually know what you were talking about, you would understand the difference between Marxist communism and socialism.

Liars like you have become tiresome.

Comment Re:socialist left view (Score 4, Interesting) 136

That's actually not true at all. Please tell me how many American FDR called evil? Literally one of the, if not the most socialist president whose social programs led to American become a technological and industrial power house.

American modern conservatives primary planks are to take rights away from marginalized group; which s fucking evil.

Get over yourself and read some books.

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