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Captainant

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  1. 1) rage posting at 3AM is totally normal. 2) I've posted actual journalism and 3rd party investigative findings that support the 60K death toll number. I'm specifically not relying solely on hamas numbers. 3) your inability to talk about the IDF's genocide without foaming at the mouth and shouting HAMAS!!! is extremely aggy.
  2. It's mostly consumed via evaporative cooling, so there's unfortunately not much to recycle. It's actually much more energy efficient to remove energy by phase change, which is nice at least. It is pretty fucked that they're drawing down on aquifer-fed municipal sources to cool data centers though
  3. Some of their testimony runs counter to previously established facts. ABC also has reporting, no paywall: https://abcnews.go.com/US/kerr-county-texas-lead-emergency-management-official-asleep/story?id=124237644 "We received no alerts suggesting an extreme weather event was imminent [referring to July 3]. For context, we received hundreds of alerts during the summer. This past July, we had over 80. My first indication that this storm was different came when I woke up to texts and calls from Chief Kidd, Sheriff Leitha and Dalton Rice," Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly testified. "We now know that by that time, the flooding had already overtaken Camp Mystic, part of the hills in La Junta and several other upriver camps, something I could never have imagined. This extreme weather event was not forecast by the National Weather Service in a timely manner. Based on the volume and tone of the messages, I recognize that something more serious and potentially tragic was unfolding," Kelly continued. ... Alicia Baker, shaking with emotion and holding back tears, described the horrors of losing her daughter and parents. Baker told the committee she had spent her summers on the Guadalupe River since 1990, and her parents owned a cabin there for nearly 20 years. Baker described the harrowing hours of not knowing the fate of her daughter and parents. "I waited there for over 12 hours for news, and literally no one could tell you anything at all," Baker said. "Literally, no one was in charge." She added, "We need to do better for the people in this community, for the people that are suffering."
  4. Those LLMs ain't gonna train themselves, and crypto ain't gonna mine itself
  5. it is mind-bendingly insane to me that people are sharing such close intimate details with a chatbot application owned by google, or microsoft, or ANY company that harvests userdata like this. There is a shocking lack of digital literacy, not to mention plain-old literacy
  6. but at least he got to own the libz and fight WOKE
  7. The market can be irrational waaaaay longer than you or I can
  8. Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
  9. Well you see, Chief Justice Roberts in his infinite wisdom said that "racism is solved" and so we didn't need the Voting Rights Act anymore, which also happened to do away with pesky rules and checks like you're suggesting
  10. you're telling me hamas still has a leadership structure in place after the IDF has killed >60,000 """hamas members"""? I thought all of the deaths were justified killings of hamas members, so there could hardly be any left, right? You are again asserting that this group of beseiged and genocided palestinians has no ability but to put hamas in charge. Hamas has been in charge because once they gained the levers of power they made it so no more change could occur. That strangle hold has been broken, I would say. It's just that now instead of relenting, the IDF is using it as an excuse to murder people at breadlines.
  11. Painting every Palestinian as "hamas" is pretty fucked and going to keep getting in the way of ever actually talking about this. Acknowledgment of a Palestinian state doesn't mean putting hamas in charge. To the contrary, they haven't held an election in over 20 years! The Palestinian people have been protesting against hamas for ages, and have suffered brutal and oppressive crackdowns at the hands of hamas for their peaceful protests. Granting a people local governance and freeing them from hamas does not mean "rewarding hamas with state recognition". It's pretty fucking racist to say that any group of brown muslims in Palestine is "hamas". Is every white christian person from Alambama a klansman?
  12. Giuffre spent the rest of her life speaking against sexual abuse and human trafficking. 2 months after her suicide, the President of the United States of America is speaking about her as if he owned her, and was mad another pedophile stole her
  13. Wowee! It turns out DOGE didn't save any fucking money and destroyed a bunch of public services and ended the careers of tens of thousands of public servants
  14. It's almost like elmo grew up as an heir to apartheid or something
  15. this is the genAI platform that is getting fat government contracts to replace """swampy bureaucrats"
  16. Ike WAS the bureaucrat that trump hates. His mastery of logistics is what saved the world from fascism. So, through that lens it makes sense why trump hates those sorts of people
  17. The racism is saying that anything that comes out of there is OBVIOUSLY false. I even shared supporting evidence from a reputable academic journal that showed using data science they are almost certainly NOT inflating casualty numbers, and probably under reporting them. It's real fucked up to dismiss a genocide just because you're happy about Muslims getting murdered
  18. turns out, it works pretty easily! OpenwebUI + ollama runs like a champ on my m4 macbook it even cites the page and deeplinks you to the .pdf if you click on the citation link each time it comes up. Very interested to try tinkering with other sets of documents and information
  19. Acid rain for all, hooray! Let the coal roll! https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trumps-epa-repeal-core-greenhouse-gas-rules-major-deregulatory-move-2025-07-29/ WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations across industries, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Tuesday. Republican President Donald Trump's pick Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" at an event at a truck factory in Indiana, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.
  20. This is just plain racism. It's the Palastinian Ministry of Health - Gaza. Is anyone who lives there "Hamas" by default? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Health_Ministry There's even been academic journalism verifying that their casualty numbers haven't been inflated so far. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02713-7/fulltext
  21. Notably, Epstein was killed the day after the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered her civil suit unsealed. The facts in that civil case is what laid the groundwork for Maxwell's conviction in 2021. From Giuffre's wiki page: In mid-2000,[27][28] Giuffre met Ghislaine Maxwell when working as a spa attendant at Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club while reading a book about massage therapy.[21] Maxwell, a British socialite and daughter of the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, approached Giuffre, noted the book that she was reading, inquired about her interest in massage, and offered her a potential job working for Epstein as a traveling masseuse with the assurance that no experience was necessary.[21] When Giuffre arrived at Epstein's Palm Beach home, she says he was naked lying down and Maxwell told her how to massage him. "They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I'd had a really hard time in my life up until then—I'd been a runaway, I'd been sexually abused, physically abused. ... That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was", Giuffre stated.[22] Giuffre stated that after Maxwell introduced her to Jeffrey Epstein, the two quickly began grooming her to provide sexual services under the guise that she was to be trained as a professional massage therapist.[29]
  22. Holy shit
  23. Remove the pornographic context from it, it's still video shot with real humans moving in real human motions, shot in photorealistic lighting. It's still valuable data for what a "real" video should look like. And when your directive is simply to "get more data" it doesn't really matter where it comes from, just that you're meeting the objective. Generative AI (and literally all machine learning) is just reproducing or identifying patterns already seen in training data, or ID'ing abberations from the training data set it's already seen. But once it's produced, it's basically impossible to know what data was used in which model or to create which portion of an image or video or text. That virtually impossible unknowability is what Meta and OpenAI and Amazon are banking on to shield them from copyright claims or other allegations of horrible things like (inadvertantly) training on CSAM.
  24. Well fortunately, the 1930's are well-known for their economic equality and opportunity for all. And absolutely ZERO inflation or unemployment problems.
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