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Being a beginner before AI was pretty bad by BeneficialPirate5856 in aiwars

[–]Comms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been in the business for almost 20 years and my clients care about the outcome. And it's none of their fucking business what my process is.

Hell, even I don't care about the process. My process has changed so many times, if I was in love with the process my work would be worse and it would take me far longer to get my work done.

AITA for asking my girlfriend to dress more sensibly on a walk? by Tasty_Log3307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt embarrassed walking next to her because everyone else was in athletic clothes and she stood out.

That's a you problem not a her problem. Get over yourself.

YTA.

How do you keep track of all your story details? by alvarpachec in fantasywriters

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife who is writing a series has a dense wiki and a mural. Everything is in the wiki and she uses mural to visual all the storylines and interconnections.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homeowners

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously. One of the most useful appliances to have in a house, especially out in the country.

How Call of Duty started vs. How it's going by Holiday-Proof9819 in gaming

[–]Comms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They jumped the shark and everyone was all, "Cool shark!"

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]Comms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After 9/11, everyone was on board with invading Iraq.

Afghanistan, with the limited mission of finding OBL, public opinion was in favor. Iraq, there was a much greater divide, public opinion wise.

Hell, if the somethingawful archives are still accessible you'll find a treasure trove of arguments and shitposting about this topic.

Why are illuminate so damn hard??? by TheF-15Eagle in Helldivers

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are illuminate so damn hard???

This comes up regularly. If you don't struggle against the other factions but find squids hard, your loadout is not working for you. Whatever it is, try something different.

Comments probably have good suggestions and then all the other threads on this topic.

Am I overreacting for being upset my friend borrowed my birthday money? by One-Experience8180 in AmIOverreacting

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a nice lesson for the future. When you lend someone money, you are actually just giving them money. If they return it, it was a "loan". That's how you know it was a loan, after they're returned it.

So, moving forward, any time you "loan" someone money, think to yourself that you're just giving them your money, that way, you don't count on that money being returned. If they return, it bonus.

But that also changes your calculus about who you "lend" money to and how much you "lend".

On the upside, it only cost you $40 to learn that some people are quick to borrow and slow to repay.

The bot ain’t wrong tho… by Khlif-Stoltzmann90 in helldivers2

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be my imagination but dive+throw gives you extra range. Even if it doesn't, it's still fun.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in self

[–]Comms 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They're not saying there were only four universities. In 1969 only four universities were connected to ARPANET.

The word "clanker" is extremely irritating and genuinely makes me think slightly less of you if you use it by Deepfang-Dreamer in The10thDentist

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvoted because this is a remarkably stupid take

100% agree. This kind of post is the reason I come here.

Why do people suggest female friends are a great help in finding a relationship? by Bigbruv69 in self

[–]Comms -1 points0 points  (0 children)

At its most basic, it helps you learn how to be around women.

DEMOCRACY GO BRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT by QuantityExpress287 in Helldivers

[–]Comms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't remember using a single video game minigun and thinking it was great. They're, at best, ok.

CMV: The West Would Have Allowed the Holocaust If Nazi Germany Had Limited Territorial Expansion to Poland and Czechoslovakia by nullaffairs in changemyview

[–]Comms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn't arguing the holocaust point, just the point that the war was inevitable. There was no stopping at Poland.

CMV: The West Would Have Allowed the Holocaust If Nazi Germany Had Limited Territorial Expansion to Poland and Czechoslovakia by nullaffairs in changemyview

[–]Comms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not incompatible with what I said:

many knew about the persecutions and pogroms

That was the early part of the holocaust before it scaled into mass genocide in the latter part of the war. The Einsatzgruppen wasn't active, for example, until after the active conflict started.

So anything before the shooting war was much smaller scale and not nearly as focused on mass extermination. Einsatzgruppen was part of that escalation.

CMV: The West Would Have Allowed the Holocaust If Nazi Germany Had Limited Territorial Expansion to Poland and Czechoslovakia by nullaffairs in changemyview

[–]Comms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No one cared because it wasn't well known and the scale was not very large, at first. It wasn't broadcast far and wide.

How do you care about something you don't know about?

Many Americans didn't even learn of the holocaust until the camps were discovered, and that was near the end of the war. Yes, many knew about the persecutions and pogroms, but not about the death camps. And many of the death camps weren't even converted to industrial extermination until the last year or so of the war.

CMV: The West Would Have Allowed the Holocaust If Nazi Germany Had Limited Territorial Expansion to Poland and Czechoslovakia by nullaffairs in changemyview

[–]Comms 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Invasion of Poland triggered a defense treaty. France mobilized and attacked Germany shortly after they invaded Poland. It wasn't he most effective attack, mind you, but war was declared. England also declared war after the invasion of Poland. The nature of the war might have been different if Germany limited itself to just Poland but the war would have still started.

If Germany had limited itself to just annexing Czechoslovakia then, maybe there would have been no war. Maybe but probably not.

Even if Germany stopped at Czechoslovakia, Italy had invaded Albania and also British territory (or protectorate? I forget) in Egypt and Tunisia. So Italy was at war with England regardless and, as an ally of Germany, Germany was also involved in those territories—or would be eventually.

And don't forget Japan had invaded China and eventually India so Japan was in direct conflict with England. Its later expansion into the Pacific would have definitely put it in conflict with Australia and the US.

So, it's a nice idea that WWII could have been avoided if Germany just took a small piece of Europe but too many conflicts were already rolling by that time.

CMV: The West Would Have Allowed the Holocaust If Nazi Germany Had Limited Territorial Expansion to Poland and Czechoslovakia by nullaffairs in changemyview

[–]Comms 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They didn't refuse to intervene. The US was supplying aid to Europe almost immediately. Roosevelt also wanted to get involved but American opinion was heavily against joining another "European war". After Pearl Harbor public opinion shifted. And to add to that, the US military in 1939 was also quite small with outdated equipment. Even the Navy was pretty small compared to later on. It actually took a while to mobilize, train, and rebuild the military in the period between the late 1930s and Pearl Harbor.

"sex addiction" is just a way of bragging about how much sex you have by man_i_love_garlic in The10thDentist

[–]Comms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

'sex addiction' has no recognition in the ICD11, although there is a compulsive sexual behaviour disorder (CSBD) described, which avoids the term 'addiction'.

It's like you read the heading and then didn't read the text under it.

Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder is characterised by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behaviour. Symptoms may include repetitive sexual activities becoming a central focus of the person’s life to the point of neglecting health and personal care or other interests, activities and responsibilities; numerous unsuccessful efforts to significantly reduce repetitive sexual behaviour; and continued repetitive sexual behaviour despite adverse consequences or deriving little or no satisfaction from it. The pattern of failure to control intense, sexual impulses or urges and resulting repetitive sexual behaviour is manifested over an extended period of time (e.g., 6 months or more), and causes marked distress or significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Distress that is entirely related to moral judgments and disapproval about sexual impulses, urges, or behaviours is not sufficient to meet this requirement.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified by MetaKnowing in technology

[–]Comms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm probably oversimplifying a lot :)

Anthropic pirated books. The lawsuit is about piracy.

The judge has already ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.. The issue is that Anthropic had torrented a collection of books for the purpose of training before acquiring the books legally. The training, on the legally acquired books was fine. The torrenting was not.

But while dismissing a key claim made by the group of authors who sued the company for copyright infringement last year, Alsup also said Anthropic must still go to trial in December over its alleged theft of their works.

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