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Cold fucking War

Czar of Russia

The Czar wasn't around during the Cold War for ... reasons.

Any work made to convey a concept and/or emotion can be art. I'd throw in "intent", having "deeper meaning", and the context of its creation to distinguish between an accounting spreadsheet and art.

The problem with AI "art" is it's produced by something that isn't sentient and is incapable of original thought. AI doesn't understand intent, context, emotion, or even the most basic concepts behind the prompt or the end result. Its "art" is merely a mashup of ideas stolen from countless works of actual, original art run through an esoteric logic network.

AI can serve as a tool to create art of course, but the further removed from the process a human is the less the end result can truly be considered "art".

Late teens, maybe early 20s.

How close am I?

Various other things like leaves, rags, sponges, or leftover paper. Failing that a bare hand works: manners dictating you wash it after.

Some cultural hangups on the left hand being "unclean" stem from those cultures using that hand for hygienic reasons.

"I don't have anything to hide because I think I've done something wrong: I have something to hide because I question your judgement and motives."

They're fine giving you their info because they trust you. The problem is when the person seeking that information is untrustworthy -- and some shithead(s) making their way into a company or government isn't just possible, it's likely.

Tell them to give all their sensitive personal information to someone that hates them. Credit card numbers, political beliefs, nudes, sexual preferences/fetishes, etc.

Bigots aside, I'm convinced most people are 100% fine with queer and gender non-conforming characters so long as they're well written.

People like characters that act like actual people -- not pandering, one dimensional, rainbow capitalistic tokens.

I prefer "living a dream".

Am I living someone else's dream? Is it a nightmare? Am I disassociating? -- the answer is "yes".

I'm a 7 minute drive from downtown and my options are satellite, cellular, or fixed wireless. Everyone around me has gigabit ethernet, but due to costs involved in running fiber and the fact my little community is mostly old folks (and thus likely not going to buy in) ISPs don't want to "invest" in us.

Before any tankies claim the word is a blanket slur against communists: "tankie" was coined by British communists that were disgusted by the attitudes of some of their so-called "fellows".

"My pronouns might be they/them, but yours are about to be were/was."

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Because they're arguing in bad faith.

Oh, is it because decades of incompetence and corruption weakened their already crumbling military? Their lack of a strong economy to support the war effort? Is it because they're relying on Soviet leftovers instead of modern equipment? The fact their enemy is a motivated, supplied with actually decent munitions by modern/rich countries, and has a competent chain of command?

What do I win?

They're not insane: everything they've done are things they sincerely thought they could get away with, and up until Ukraine Putin has been correct in that regard.

Pretending to be crazy is an effective strategy: ironically Nixon popularized it during the cold war.

Attacking targets in NATO countries (even if "justified") is going to drastically increase the odds NATO gets directly involved in Ukraine -- something Putin absolutely doesn't want.

It's a great question that reinforces critical thinking.

Having the tools is one thing, learning to apply them correctly to a problem is another.

Huh, they actually do:

And Matt Monson — who moved from the Dragon project to SpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink — posted that Starlink uses a lot of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and that they too have a lot of experience with Linux. “For some level of scope on Starlink, each launch of 60 satellites contains more than 4,000 Linux computers. The constellation has more than 30,000 Linux nodes (and more than 6,000 microcontrollers) in space right now.

https://thenewstack.io/the-hardware-and-software-used-in-space/

Communism: an economic theory where the stated goal is achieving socio-economic equality.

Social conservationism: a social theory based on returning to regressive "traditional values" and oppression of "deviants".

Totally the same thing.

I don't allow lunix in my house because it's an illegal hacker operation system. I can't believe an American hero like Elon would endorse something invented by the notorious Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.

One: you can be sued for anything regardless of if it's true or not. Someone could find some sleazebag lawyer and sue you for drowning hundreds of puppies while laughing about it -- does that make you a puppy killer?

Two: We have presidents that we know directly ordered genocides of native people ... yet weren't sued for it.