Captainant
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1 hour ago, 52-80 said: Finally, the oil of venezuela is liberated from its few government elites for redistribution to the much larger population of america. 🙏🙏🙏
Lol sounding a little Hugo Chavez there yourself, redistributing wealth from the elites to the poor and downtrodden*. Thanks for the laugh
*downtrodden major US oil producers
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16 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said: I got into a fairly heated discussion last night with two friends in California (yes, Silicon Valley) over whether or not we should be treating AI in conversation as humans. For example, saying please and thank you. I argued we should not because of the extra energy expenditure and because I don’t see the benefit of interacting with AI in a way that makes it more human-like in its interactions. They vehemently disagreed and basically told me I have to embrace it because it’s the future and it will benefit us to make AI communicate in a more human manner. Surly thoughts?
Linguistically, it does make a difference to be polite. I know it sounds silly, but the way that tokenization and feature extraction work with a natural language sentence, it can shift the direction and magnitude of the vector that makes up the query. Insofar as the language and information it will access to reply to you will lie closely to that query vector.
So if you ask like a jerk it's likely to respond a little defensively because that tends to be the pattern in the natural language that it was trained on.
At least, that's the abstracted idea of what's happening inside an LLM.
I think the weird televangelism level of faith in genAI is awful and embarrassing, but your buddies aren't totally wrong in terms of how to more effectively use an LLM.
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The first trial is set to begin for child abandonment and endangerment
AP News
Trial to begin for police officer charged in delayed resp...
One of the first officers on the scene at the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is about to stand trial.Now one of the first officers on the scene is about to stand trial on multiple charges of child abandonment and endangerment. Former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales is accused of ignoring his training in a crisis with deadly consequences. His attorney insists he was focused on helping children escape from the building.
The trial that starts Monday offers potentially one of the last chances to see police answer for the long delay. The families have pinned their hopes on the jury after their gun-control efforts were rejected by lawmakers, and their lawsuits remain unresolved. A few parents ran for political office to seek change, with mixed results.
Only two of the 376 officers from local, state and federal agencies on the scene have been charged — a fact that haunts Velma Lisa Duran, whose sister, Irma Garcia, was one of the teachers gunned down.
“What about the other 374?” Duran asked through tears. “They all waited and allowed children and teachers to die.”
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47 minutes ago, KYHorn said: Interesting insight into the process and thinking of the admin here
Delcy Rodríguez and the core of the regime’s leadership are negotiating with the United States as we speak. This is not a sudden pivot. It is the result of a conclusion reached in Washington over months: the U.S. does not believe that María Corina Machado and the opposition have the operational capacity to seize power in Venezuela because they do not control, or meaningfully fracture, the military. If they did, power would have shifted immediately after the 2024 presidential election. It did not.
For a long period, U.S. officials, including Marco Rubio, were in constant communication with Machado and her team. They were asked repeatedly for proof of a concrete plan, not just to win power symbolically, but to retain it in practice: chain of command, military alignment, institutional control, day-after governance. The answers were consistently evasive, justified by security concerns, but never substantiated. At that point, from the U.S. government’s perspective, the opposition ceased to look like a viable transition mechanism and began to look like a political wager with no enforcement arm.
The plan now on the table is for Delcy Rodríguez to stabilize the country with U.S. backing and then call for general elections. This is not framed as an endorsement of the regime, but as a containment and transition strategy. Washington is explicit about one thing: this is not a partnership of equals. The United States is running the process, the lines are being managed through Rubio, and the leverage is entirely asymmetric. Delcy is the instrument, not the center of gravity.
U.S. officials also assess that Delcy’s harsh public rhetoric today was aimed inward, at the chavista base, not outward. That messaging is understood as domestic signaling. Nevertheless, as of now, negotiations with the United States are ongoing as we speak.
That's fucking wild that Whiskey Pete had ANOTHER fuckup and there was ANOTHER leak of an active attack plan.
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16 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said: I'm more worried about what happens to cuba. that island has much less infrastructure and is about to collapse. we need to be ready for a massive humanitarian mission.
I'm pretty sure that's a feature, and not a bug for this administration. I don't think the president plans to go lob any paper towels into Cuba
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9 minutes ago, Laxtonto said: That is an interesting argument, but given that all of those happened in international waters, probably not. That is the problem with this legal/illegal argument here, is that this is happening in international waters, with unflagged vessels that are technically not tied to Venezuela and therefore would not be an ongoing military action with a sovereign country. It would take Venezuela to admit that those vessels, and what they are carrying, are theirs under their jurisdiction, which opens a whole other can of worms.
You're so focused on the trees you're missing the forest. Nevermind that blowing up vesseled CLAIMED to be carrying drugs, and then killing the survivors of the strike, is a fucking warcrime carried out in this campaign.
This isn't "just" a strike. Trump has plainly said that the US will be running the country. This is a new round of imperialism and subjugation of those that our imperial president sees as less than and weak.
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Translation: According to FIFA's own regulations, due to the unilateral bombing and kidnapping of a president, the US could not host the World Cup and its national team should be banned from all international competitions.
Huh. If FIFA follows their own rules, the US is not eligible to host the World Cup since we're bombing a participant country
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Just now, Sawbonz said: You morons are going to lose what little is left of your minds when Trump pardons Maduro
No they won't, they'll say they always thought he should go free and claim """TDS""" with anyone who says different. Haven't you been paying attention to how these fuckers think? They don't. They just okeydoke whatever their orange emperor says and act like it's always been that way.
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Just now, MagicSoccerSpray said: Sorry about your populist/leftist heroes taking the L. They'll survive... maybe.
What the fuck are you talking about? Are you just blindly repeating the rittenhouse fanclub? I do not have any love in my heart for Maduro, or any other dictator or despot.
It's fucking ridiculous that you think that anyone wanted Maduro to stay in power. It's just that when you start breaking the law and international laws and norms, you're opening a Pandora's box. That's BAD.
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7 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said: What logically follows if we don't? What happens if we don't advance our interests, in the name of optics and legalities, while the Chinese and Russians do? We weaken ourselves just so we feel better about it?
"Everyone else is doing a lebensraum, WHY DONT WE GET ONE???"
Jfc it's a race to the bottom with y'all. You're so eager to jingoistically cheer on ANY American action taken that you're ignoring that we are acting as Russia does. You generally don't want to act like Russia. It's a shit hole ran by assholes.
It's just hilarious that people who are so (apparently) anti-china and anti-russia are so SO eager to emulate them. It was never about right and wrong to yall, just that WE didn't get in on the fun
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49 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said: Clear enough?
Also very telling that so much of the hysterical reaction to all this devolved to “white males” rather than “millennial males” ans also “white millennial males” which is what it was about .
Honestly, no. You're leaving a second half to that statement up for implication. WHY are progressives driving them away? Per the author you started this thread with, it's because they're helping minorities over whites so down with both of them.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
in Daily Texan
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pope-leo-calls-venezuela-remain-an-independent-country-2026-01-04/