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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoSubtext of Trump, the GOP, and their ilk: any govt hires should first meet two basic requirements:
white
male
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoReg he also concluded by indicating that US is safest nation to fly. I doubt it ever occurred to him that is so (if it is) in spite of the DEI wave he impugns.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoPresident Trump blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and his two Democratic predecessors for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, saying that standards for air traffic controllers had been too lax.
Mr. Trump cited no evidence, and even admitted when pressed that the investigation had only…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoThe plane crash between the civil and military aircraft was only a few miles south of the White House and just after Sean Duffy and Pete Hegseth took control. Will MAGA and their conspiracy driven hive mind see it as a sign from their god?
The Republicans did a lot of praying after the hurricanes and many are calling for more prayer today. At…[Read more]
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agojakelafort wrote:
That is funny you mention thots and prayers. I just heard that and snapped at the tv. That F’g bottomless pit of stupidity mantra. How are those prayers working out? I’d like to hear Joe and Jane average American critique thots and prayers. Or better yet do the socratic Reg play when Joe and Jane ask for thots and pra… -
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoThat is funny you mention thots and prayers. I just heard that and snapped at the tv. That F’g bottomless pit of stupidity mantra. How are those prayers working out?
I’d like to hear Joe and Jane average American critique thots and prayers. Or better yet do the socratic Reg play when Joe and Jane ask for thots and prayers.
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoLots of thoughts and prayers to the Canaanite storm god for the victims of the midair collision. Not much talk of updating ancient airport infrastructure or hiring enough controllers. No sir, we can’t have that. Thots and prayers, thots and prayers, children.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoSimilarities in terms of the cult members being mindless and led as easily as a fly to sugar. But that is same as every other hardcore ideology.
The flagellants blamed themselves and the Jews for the plague in particular and sins in general. The Trumpists blame the lefties for well…a lot of shit and all of the progressive BS. I don’t think…[Read more]
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoWith a cult of personality such as this, it reminds me of Middle Age Christians who walked around, flogging themselves. Sure, go ahead and punch me as long as you punch a Mexican immigrant harder.
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RichRaelian posted an update 1 year, 9 months ago
“Happy Atheist new year!”
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 9 months agoWe have heard a great deal of the sword and the purse. Let us see what is the true meaning of this maxim, which has been so much used, and so little understood. It is, that you shall not place these powers either in the legislative or executive, singly; neither one nor the other shall have both, because this would destroy that division of powers…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 9 months ago
As for one AI stealing from another one… Hey, business is war. As long as they aren’t illegally hacking and are using data the other AI gives out freely, it would be difficult to mount a legal counter attack, it seems to me.
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Unseen replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 9 months ago
AI’s can give bad answers. For example, I asked ChatGPT for a baguette recipe to use up 4 cups of flour and it did give me a recipe which lacked any salt. I pointed out that bread without salt would be unappetizing and the AI admitted the error and modified the recipe to include salt.
So, placing too much trust in an answer that you can’t verify…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 9 months ago
This is a good time to mention a kind of “pollution of AI” that’s been said to be possible. That is, when one AI gets all its data from other AI, errors and hallucinations can compound.
I wish I had the time to get into these stories (and add to the AI group), but I’m in the middle of big life change.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 9 months ago
Here’s a new, potential twist.
Thanks to Reg for telling me about this website. I signed up for their newsletter.
Please let me know if the link doesn’t work for you.From article:
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data
OpenAI Stole From UsThe narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sac…
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Did the movie Annihilation get it right? in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 9 months ago
That theme is the reality of the natural world. It is not just simple lifeforms such as the fungus among us. The untold suffering of animals being consumed alive by others just for the purpose of nutrition and without malice is a standard feature. On our property we have a private pond. I witnessed a blue heron being drowned by a snapping turtle…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 9 months ago
I’m not so sure the “AI war” is over so soon. DeepSeek being open source, i.e. not proprietary code, competitors can learn from its design. The story, other than about stock market realignment is about a realignment of how LLMs can be developed and marketed because of the sudden drop in development prices. So in my opinion, the lower costs of…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Did the movie Annihilation get it right? in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 9 months ago
What characterizes mature cosmic horror from its predecessors/progenitors is the impersonal and amorphous nature of the threat. Rather than being a monster, as in the movie Alien (yes, a cosmic horror) or invaders, as in The War of the Worlds, in mature cosmic horror the threat simply is there as a fact, not because it wants to be there or has…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 9 months ago
Nvidia should go up again. I am getting some monopoly money out.
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_Robert_ replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 9 months ago
_Robert_ wrote:
Let’s say I picked up $100K ea. worth of these stocks today at these prices. We can check back tomorrow and in a month. Buy the dip.NVDA 117 -> 119.60 at 10 am AVGO 199 -> 203.41 AMD 114-> 113.68 POWL 235 -> 242.64 So I would have been up $7408.6647 buying this dip for a few hours, AMD was the only loser, n…
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