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This is also the way of the UN in general oftentimes. Trump's PPP plan came right from the UN playbook with a few tweaks so that even more of his pals could get money.

I'm pretty sure the first AI that passed the turing test was made in the 60s. The turing test is an absolutely garbage metric for identifying if a computer iteration qualifies as human and is entirely dependent on the whims of the individuals that make up the test group.

I mean, in some ways, yeah. In other ways, CS2 is entirely free to play, and the microtransactions fund that, like LoL.

I mean their unwillingness to do anything about the market abuse and rampant child-gambling aside, the lootboxes for purely cosmetic items are one of the least predatory ways to do microtransactions. It's not like EA where the only way to unlock entire characters in some games is to grind for hundreds of hours or pay, or like COD where they took the lootbox idea and made it actually affect (multiplayer) gameplay

I think the big breakthrough was in cryptography, and yeah, most people don't care. All of your passwords will be useless against brute force attacks in 10-15 years from it tho!

Public wifi + deluge + 1337

Use at own risk

TrollTrace irl

Twitter now is what 4chan was then in many ways. This should be disconcerting in the least.

Probably the ones that made the meme pointing out the hypocrisy of US empire and its support of Israel...

Are you just looking for something to get angry at or did you momentarily turn your brain off? This meme is clearly not in support of the bombing of Palestinians.

A good start. That's all we need. The guy that invented critical race theory argued against Brown v Board of Education bc he believed that radical change would cause more harm to the black community than actually making sure that separate but equal was upheld and enforced. And seeing as JFK had to send the national guard in to enforce Brown v BOE almost 10 years later, in many respects that was correct. Slow, steady change can accomplish a great deal given time.

Argentina had a real democracy for a while. The economic problems of Latin American countries like Brazil and Argentina have largely been because of foreign power involvement in both industry and politics. Both of those countries were controlled by the US during Operation Condor iirc, but that doesn't even begin to take into account the way that these countries were kept from industrialization by the high demand for ore, rubber, and food created by US and European industrialization. Brazil was considered an integral ally during WW2 by both Germany and later the US. It's not quite so simple as: democracy good... The US overthrew several democratically elected leaders including one in Argentina who was actually trying to reform workers rights and industrialize the country. Actually, that's what most of the coups America started in Latin America were started over.

Argentina itself is in a uniquely bad position. They have almost all of the population and wealth focused in Buenos Aires, but even then, the wealth disparity is massive between classes. What Argentina could really use is a leveling of the play field and ways to support the education and upbringing of its poorest citizens especially. Besides that, it's main exports are agricultural and mining products, but many resources go unexploited. It has failed to industrialize not because people can't invest in themselves but because the government has failed to invest in the people.

What did the US government do that spurred huge amounts of growth? The New Deal and the GI bill, along with the expansion of the interstate system. Investing in the people, many of them poor, just back from the war, and with little to no skill. By uplifting its worse off citizens, the country was able to secure massive economic growth.

Anyway sorry for the rant. I hope it isn't too jumbled. I just care about this.

Yes. Insofar as our brains are made up of physical matter and interpret electrical signals from our body. Emotions are our meat computers' interpretations of some of those inputs. If you could know the exact location and velocity of every physical particle, you could know/predict the future based on that information and physics. It's impossible to get that knowledge currently, but that doesn't make the underlying principle any less true.

But I do agree that this is a dumb thing to argue abt and to let people enjoy their little thingies.

Yeah! It's a fun experiment to ask why a certain molecule dancing on a serotonin receptor makes such a crazy experience occur, but by no means does it indicate magic to exist or anything like that.

Yeah I should have been clearer. I meant regardless of where you reside as a US citizen

Well yeah, if you don't you still have to pay income tax, regardless of your nation of residence.

"Do more damage to life on earth than actual nuclear war would"

That's a quote from your comment that I replied to. I think both would be equally disastrous for the life that currently lives here as true MAD would wipe out humanity and most animals and greatly alter living conditions, similar to how climate change will.

Right now we have music festivals and large ren faires where people go for a week to enjoy something together. Imagine if some time in the future we could slow our brains perception and achieve am SAO-like experience for people in a week at a festival-like environment!!! What an interesting experience that would be

Some does. A lot does even, but not the best country music, not by a long shot.

"Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore"

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Figured I should share some tunes:

Cruel world - Willie Nelson for rdr2

Angel from Montgomery - John Prine, cover by Daniel Donato is also excellent

Boombox, hogkill blues, 1922 blues - all by Charlie Parr, all excellent. Hogkill blues is abt a strike in which union workers were killed by counter-strikers.

Prison Trilogy - Joan Baez - makes reference to the term wetback to refer to an immigrant ("his back was wet, but he thought he could get, some things to start a life") but is otherwise an excellent song abt the fucked up American prison system

Lots of love, hope you enjoy at least one of these!!

Do you have a potbelly? What's the ownership experience like? I always wanted one as a kid but hadn't thought about them for years until just now!!

Nothing will make a difference unless it reaches Moscow or st Petersburg. Most of the population is too poor/oppressed to make a big difference at this point. The people Putin needs to avoid upsetting are all living in the cities, at least according to an ex-pat friend of mine