Kyrgizion @ Kyrgizion @lemmy.world

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Always did...

For real. I explicitly append "give me the actual objective truth, regardless of how you think it will make me feel" to my prompts and it still tries to somehow butter me up to be some kind of genius for asking those particular questions or whatnot. Luckily I've never suffered from good self esteem in my entire life, so those tricks don't work on me :p

Precisely. We like to think of ourselves as rational but we're the opposite. Then we rationalize things afterwards. Even being keenly aware of this doesn't stop it in the slightest.

They could also be better.

We've been up against the 5Ghz thermal wall for over a decade. We can keep adding cores but we need significantly improved design (less nanometers) for these gains - and these are now running up against another wall, namely quantum tunneling which begins being a problem at around the nanometer scale.

I assume only a radically different architecture (light instead of electricity?) will be able to smash these barriers.

Not to the Russian Su-30.

I keep hearing that for all new EVs you practically pay 20K for the batteries alone. No idea if that is actually cost or just extortion.

I love her gumption, but I really fear she's underestimating her opposition. They've already shown they care nothing about the rule of law, so counting on that to "protect" you is a losing bet in the long term.

Linking to Arch is debatably a greater troll than rickrolling.

NGL, I've been thinking about ways to scam magats on their own social media platforms. They're clearly the most gullible group of people in existence, so they've already self-selected for inability to think critically. Despite that I can't bring myself to actually do it. Scrupules they obviously wouldn't bother with if it was the other way around...

I'm 100% sure they already have the data, they're just now creating a "legal" framework in order to be able to use it, parallel-construction style.

My favorite fediposter is /u/pugjesus . Strong mix of memes and actual engaging content. Also, focused on modern politics plus history. The kind of people who would've created the Alaxamenos graffito two thousand years ago.

Same age, same disposition.

I try to take it optimistically though: there's no way this body lasts another 40 years, so realistically we won't have to suffer for that much longer.

Horrible creatures.

Jordan once tried but they're unlikely to make that mistake again. Look up Black September for more info.

Who needs they shrussy ate?

Satire is well and truly dead, isn't it?

Just ordered a new video card to replace my 6-year old one simply because I fear prices are going to go up with 20-35% across the board for all PC parts worldwide. Without this threat looming I would definitely have held off for another year or so.

Interesting point. In the past, "fair" ways to divide a heritage often led to split kingdoms and fast power loss. That is why societies with "unfair" division rules, like the Vikings where EVERYTHING went to the first-born son, so no divisions, absolutely rocked hard in their primes since they weren't prone to being weakened every time their ruler died.

Because it's primarily a way for (old) societies to foster a war-ready populace. If most women are taken by just a select few men who can afford to, that leaves tons of young males without a mate and prospect of a family.

Those are absolutely prime candidates for the military. So if you know your ideology has a stranglehold on the culture, this is how you generate "unlimited" soldiers for your cause.