Lately? It is hard to believe invincibility points and the hamster video were three years ago. Have you been asleep all this time or did you now just start paying attention?

Tankies have been continuously spouting these same imminent collapse predictions for years. You never know... at some point in the future there may well be a nutcase wielding an end is near sign that "eventually" turns out to be right.

WTF does Pyrrhic victory even mean when the purpose of living is to die in service of the czar?

Everyone assumed Ukraine would lose in a few days including Russian military planners.

Regardless of merit and circumstance propagandists always do the military industrial complex and proxy war thing.

You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Russians are not conscripting men to fight in Ukraine. That only happens after you've made an affirmative decision to sign a contract. While there have undoubtedly been cases where conscripts have been sent to Ukraine these were relatively isolated incidents in contravention of Russian law (for whatever that's worth).

Did I miss the part where you provided an objective basis for your predictions and proclamations or did you not even bother?

At this point any currency is better than the Iranian rial.

Yearly cash back from having a Costco card more than pays the membership fee. It hurts to grocery shop elsewhere due to insane shrinkage normalized over the years. Prices elsewhere are insane when compared by weight.

I just don't understand how anyone can come to this kind of conclusion.

Israel is no more a Jewish state than DPRK is a democratic state. They are a democracy with a secular legal system. A quarter of their citizens are not even Jewish yet have all the same rights. They do have some weird ethnic shit on the edges with regards to military service and right of return.

Well this is certainly an interesting framing. Others might think of the concept as more of a "safe space" for Jews following certain....events.

Bibi is a corrupt leader with high levels of disregard for human life, loves subjugating Gaza and probably never in his life wanted peace. For its part Gaza is governed by a fundamentalist death cult. I personally find it extremely challenging to give two shits about either party.

I disagree with the assertion this characterization was unfair or otherwise made in bad faith. MTG did indeed speak of Rothschild satellites causing forest fires in California.

"oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires"

"If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, Iâ(TM)m sure they wouldnâ(TM)t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I donâ(TM)t know. I hope not! That wouldnâ(TM)t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E."

People read her remarks and condensed it into Jewish space lasers... I don't see a problem with that. The overall context was not altered in doing so. She literally invoked Rothschild satellites shooting laser beams as the cause of California forest fires.

Competition is NOT the purpose of the H1B system. This mechanism is intended only to fill specialized gaps in the countries labor pool.

This is a semantic word game akin to arguing nobody steals music they illegally copy it. Language belongs to everyone, definition of words are very much dependent upon the context they are used. It is unlikely people don't understand the underlying conceptual differences between things like actual theft, stolen music and stolen jobs even if the same word is used to describe all of them.

H1B visas are a privilege not a right. Every government in the world has every right to selfishly manage inflows of foreigners subject to the sensibilities and whims of the government and its people.

The systematic abuse of H1B system is well established. The goal of the system is to attract foreign labor to fill specialized shortages in the countries reserve labor pool. It was never intended as a vehicle for enabling global competition for jobs. I don't support this and I don't think most of the country does either. Nobody wants to compete globally for local positions and they have every right in the world to petition their government to keep it from happening.

I agree, this is really a rules rather than players issue. The other side of the coin is those participating in informal labor and H1Bs tend to be subject to abuse and exploitation by employers.

What is there to know? It's an IRBM without a nuclear payload... rather ancient technology.

IRBMs are not the "fastest hypersonic missile". ICBMs are way faster.

It does not have "destructive power equivalent to nukes".

For anyone interested here are the before and after satellite photos of the "devastating" Oreshnik attack on Dnipro after the Oreshnik doomsday weapon delivered its devastating payload "equivalent to nukes".

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/...

It's one thing to simp for Putler or bless us with your fucked up ideology. When you start arguing against reality itself and making assertions that are not just incorrect but absurd on their face it just makes you look like a nutcase.

I don't even think this is true. In Japan alone robotic caregiving is a multi-billion dollar industry, AI in hospitality globally is a 20+ billion dollar industry both with steeply increasing trendlines. From what I've seen parents don't seem to have much of a problem letting technology raise their kids.

I agree presently the presumption is unwarranted. I disagree with sentiment LLM is not even AI. Such statements are clearly absurd.

Using the MIT definition "Artificial Intelligence refers to the development of systems that can perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, and problem-solving."

LLMs can do these things especially 0-shot ICL which out of everything is the capability that impresses me the most. You can quibble over the reliability, definitions and capabilities yet the blanket not even AI sentiment is patently absurd at this point.

Yea it is.

I like Windows 10. It was a huge pain in the ass and time investment especially disabling malware and medic watchdog to make usable but at least it could be made to work with assistance of numerous external programs, hacks and tweaks.

My biggest issue is the half assed "modern" settings and intentional sabotage of old ones. I'm using rasphone to manage VPN connections now because the native interface is completely unusable. There have been BSODs from their borked UASP driver. NVIDIA driver bugs occasionally cause system lockups when using VLC but only in direct3d mode. Easy fixes otherwise no OS issues.

I still use Windows 7 daily and still regularly use Windows 2000 in a VM for compatibility testing. I personally would go back to win7 it if that was an option despite occasional zombie process issues and lack of nifty features like memory compression. This however isn't possible due to software and hardware compatibility limitations.

Windows 10 is the end of the line for me. I'm never switching to Windows 11 and MS culture is such that I don't think they will ever be capable of creating a usable operating system in the future. Too many bean counters and sociopaths running the show and it is ONLY getting worse.

Windows itself 8 wasn't terrible even if the default UX was. There were numerous tweaks to render UX basically indistinguishable from Windows 7.

The reasons behind this age old inductive argument breaks down with sufficiently advanced AI. When you presume an AI can do everything a human can you've effectively closed the loop enabling "dead labor" to live forever directly competing with living persons in all endeavours in perpetuity. Even getting close is sufficient for massive disruption.

In the past value of human labor that went into the production of a hammer or a factory that makes hammers was fixed in some way. While the value of the hammer or hammer factory lives on and could be leveraged to produce factories that churn out even more valuable widgets hammers have a fixed function and value.

When you reach a point where any and all additional opportunities enabled by technology can themselves be performed by technology you've fundamentally changed the equation. Human evolution even when augmented with tooling is a fixed quantity. Machine intelligence if you assume it will be able to reach human intelligence would surely exceed it in short order. This results in a situation in which any and all labor is performed better and cheaper by machine than any living human.

I believe currently the transformer craze has created interesting and useful technology however that advancement is nowhere near closing the loop. AI is currently being wildly overvalued by loud marketing from AI firms and C suites who don't know any better. It is going to take some time for the noise and nonsense to subside.

"Our review indicates that generative AI chatbots particularly GPT-4 are often perceived as more empathic than human practitioners in text-based interactions, a finding consistent across various clinical contexts though with notable exceptions in dermatology."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

Those desperately pushing AI on everyone everywhere to delay inevitable bursting of the AI bubble should at least coordinate their stories. Apparently there is no lapse in human judgement in decisions to deploy LLMs to "empathetically" communicate with hospital patients. Yet somehow we are supposed to believe warm bodies are necessary to calm all these being trapped inside of robotaxis?

When one finds themselves promoting the benefits of employment in order to mitigate blatantly illegal and unacceptable failure modes best resolved by lawsuits it is probably best you stop talking and think about what you are saying.

No credible evidence provided, no fucks given about your nonsense.

I have no idea what internal damage the facility took nor do I know the current status of the facility and neither do you. The only thing I know after Russia began waging war against Ukraine business dried up and they are flirting with bankruptcy.

If you have credible objective evidence to support any particular disposition or conclusions then by all means produce it otherwise stop wasting everyone's time with nonsensical Russian propaganda.