“fine…whatever.”

I won’t be fooled

Into doing your homework

For you.

The irony of the meme is that Portman is an Israeli actress…

Most Kings ruled tenuously at the whim of their most powerful barons, who…yes…would “bend the knee”, but only so long as the King kept up his part of the bargain. They were not averse to letting the king know that his power was illusory.

This is probably most famous in King John and Magna Carta, and later his son Henry the III and his fights with Simon de Montort in two baron’s wars. But also, most publically, the disasterous rule of Henry VI which set off the wars of the roses.

The “Divine right of kings” existed. But only as long as the Baron’s said so.

Free market, bitch.

GOP: “Now where did I put those maps. I know they’re around here somewhere. You can never find them when you need them, am I right?”

Before he dies, I want just one single reporter during a Q&A session to stand up and ask “Yes, Mr. President. What the FUCK are you talking about?”

Even his most brain-dead sycophant supporters have to be aware by now that when he uses the phrase “a lot of people”, he means “no body”

Yes. It’s natural that in a vacuum, raiders would eventually move in. But not the same raiders. And not every time you boot up the game.

It would be akin to in Fallout 4 clearing out the wreck of the USS Riptide so that you can secure your path across the bridge (I think there’s something like 6 or seven raiders including one in power armour). And then having to clear it all again, including the guy in power armour, every time you boot up the game and want to cross the bridge.

I would expect eventually, a new raider or two might try to make the Riptide their home, but not immediately, and not the same exact spawn.

I call dibs on shouting “WEESA FREE!!!” in a Jar Jar voice.

I don’t think you’re wrong at all.

But there’s an element of “Cult of Personality” with Trump. I don’t think anyone else can turn all of that hatred to a common cause the way that he has. And I think a lot of that has to do with being the poor man’s idea of what a rich man is. Even back in the 80s/90s. You didn’t see other billionaires cameo’ing in Home Alone 2. Or creating the Apprentice.

He cultivated an image of what “rich” looked like to gullible americans, then sic’d them on his enemies once he had the power to do so. Yes these people are racist. Yes these people are stupid. Yes these people are hate-filled assholes. But up until Trump, they were also largely being assholes in their own homes, making their families miserable instead of the rest of us.

It took Trump to give them permission to bring their shit out in public. And once he dies, I don’t think anyone else in the GOP has the same cult of personality to carry it on. I think a number of people will try, and the GOP will devolve into internecine chaos.

My issue with 76 is that due to the nature of it having to be on a multiplayer server at all times, there was no permancence to anything.

For example, when I would base build in FO4, I could spend some time clearing out the surrounding area of hostiles and be confident that it would stay clear for a least a good while. It’s how you survive. If I complete a quest, I get the reward and move forward in my plotline.

The first time I tried 76, I popped my base down without realizing I was accidentally within trigger range of one of the random quests that exist (Robots taking over a greenhouse or some shit), and literally every time I loaded up into the game, the exact same quest would trigger, because it has to. That’s how 76 works.

So I moved my base, except this time I cleared out a small group or raiders that had set up camp just a little ways down the road, and wouldn’t you know it…they respawn every…single…time I load the game.

That’s just how 76 is designed to work. Other than the main plot quests that are “instanced”, meaning that you complete them and it goes away, literally everything else, from fetch quests, to raider camps, to robots and monsters, to clearing out buildings all respawn and there’s nothing you can do to have some sense of permanence in your little settlement.

That’s not Fallout, that’s just a shooter.

When this fucker finally kicks it, I feel like it’s literally going to be the special edition ending of Return of the Jedi in America.

“There’s a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”

Commander William Adama

AI should never be used to create anything in Wikipedia. But theoretically, an open source LLM trained solely on wikipedia would actually be kind useful to ask quick questions to.

The reason AI is wrong so often is because it’s not programmed to give you the right answer. It’s programmed to give you the most pervasive one.

LLMs are being fed by Reddit and other forums that are ostensibly about humans giving other humans answers to questions.

But have you been on those forums? It’s a dozen different answers for every question. The reality is that we average humans don’t know shit and we’re just basing our answers on our own experiences. We aren’t experts. We’re not necessarily dumb, but unless we’ve studied, our knowledge is entirely anecdotal, and we all go into forums to help others with a similar problem by sharing our answer to it.

So the LLM takes all of that data and in essence thinks that the most popular, most mentioned, most upvoted answer to any given question must be the de facto correct one. It literally has no other way to judge; it’s not smart enough to cross reference itself or look up sources.

Sometimes I honestly wish heaven and hell actually existed and that I could see the look on the faces of people like this when they find out they aren’t in the one that they expected.

Not the point of the meme, but where does one go about getting fresh supplies (ribbons, replacement keys, etc…) for old typewriters like this to keep them in top condition?

I’ve had this discussion with friends because I’m the crazy “privacy” person in my peer group. I always have trouble putting it into words, so this might not make the most sense, but I’ll try.

The most fundamental right that we have as humans is the right to present to the world the person that we want to present to the world.

Everybody has something about themselves that, if it were known, would change the way other people look at them. Maybe it’s something silly and stupid like you’re afraid of spiders. Maybe you’re into some really freaky porn. But whatever it is, if you don’t want people to know about it, that’s your right and it’s sacrosanct.

People will say, “who cares if people know that you’re afraid of spiders, it’s a small price to pay if it means that we also catch the people with something illegal to hide, like CSAM or other stuff.”

But what about the battered wife who has been secretly searching for support and planning her escape from the situation on the internet. But she shares a computer with her abusive husband and google, knowing her search history, starts showing him ads about furniture and moving companies?

What about the scared teenager who has realized that he is gay and have parents who would disown him if they found out. When he’s searching for support and fellowship online, the only place where he can feel like he belongs, he can be as careful as he wants, but his search history will eventually betray him before he’s ready to come out himself.

Maybe what you don’t want people to know about is just that you’re afraid of spiders, sure. But what if it’s something far more important.

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