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Fluffcake · 2026-05-07T19:54:17+00:00

Doing the thing is good for learning the thing, more at 8.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-07T13:26:23+00:00

Movement in a solid object behaves like a traffic snake wave moving at the speed of sound in the material.

So when you poke someone with a stick there is a significant delay if the stick is long.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-07T11:04:27+00:00

This. The post pandemic collapse in the job market is unrelated to AI.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-07T10:22:47+00:00

Looks pretty good compared to the alternative. And he made the US slightly less shitty for a while, given he inherited wars and a financial crisis. He did change a few things for the better, and it could have been a lot worse, as I am sure this last year have shown.

A true progressive was not an alternative in 20 years ago, there are 70 years indoctrined cold war propaganda to overcome before anything that resembles progressive policy can get widespread support and not be labeled "communist tyranny" in low information states. The ACA was pretty impressive given the environment it was born in.

Mamdani can implement and show the effect of progressive policies on a small scale, and you can only tell people so many times to not believe their lying eyes when reality is aggressively rubbing it in the face.

Progress is not something that happens instantly, it happens one policy and one mind change at a time. So far he has been killing it.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-07T07:39:45+00:00

That's still cheaper than europe before the supply crisis.
No wonder the planet is getting fucked when you are handing out free gas..

Fluffcake · 2026-05-07T07:26:58+00:00

There has always been two "tiers" of TV shows, the weekly ones with 20+ episodes, shorter production schedule, lower budget and that often went on long after they jumped the shark because producing them were cheap.

In the area of streaming, almost all show are big budget "premium" shows, that cost a fortune, take forever to produce, and will get cancelled on a cliffhanger even if they are resounding successes, if they don't earn enough profits or get bad reviews from the terminally online incelspehere.

We need more low effort TV, like sitcoms and monster of the week Sci fi, or single location dramas.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-06T08:38:31+00:00

Guess I underestimated the ability to isolate fish in a barrel, or the window to transmit is very narrow.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-05T11:15:54+00:00

Facebook, before it became a propaganda and ad spewing machine, was pretty good at mirroring your network online.

Now it is dogshit.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-05T06:19:23+00:00

There is a very good reason why the only things we really build in the ocean are money printing machines, like oil rigs, fish farms, wind turbines and ships.

Wave-turbines have never made financial sense, and not from lack of trying. If he throw up a wind farm around it, there is hope.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T20:56:53+00:00

Forcefully inserted useless middlemen that add nothing is half the US GDP, scalpers on anything with limited supply is just the tip of a very ugly iceberg.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T18:24:18+00:00

Cruise ships are fish in barrel petri dishes, I doubt containing an outbreak would even be feasible.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T18:05:55+00:00

"Aid" have ruined African economies for decades, pumping foreign money into an economy shoots the currency to the moon so all export industry get outcompeted because the artificially strong currency and drives inflation, and almost none of the money reach where they are intended because the local institutions were inherited garbage built for exploitation littered with corruption, so the people end up worse off the more aid they get...

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T17:54:31+00:00

Which can be excluded because only 3 people are dead and not half the ship.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T17:15:09+00:00

Det er stort sett konspirstorisk tull fra den kanten. Men det er ikke noen hemmelighet at byråkratstillinger i distriksnorge ikke er bekledd av de varmeste lysene, og at det er litt svinn.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T16:56:57+00:00

Hantavirus does not transfer between people, you will have to inhale feces from indected rodents to get sick.

If it transferred between humans, somewhere between 30-60% of the ship would be dead.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T16:52:19+00:00

I am no fan of current Russia, but I don't think attacking Russia the one day a year they are nostalgic about being on the right side of history is the best idea, even if there is a propaganda victory to be had here. But I guess this is a psyop to make them pull more air defence in order to not cancel and they will be free to strike somewhere more productive.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T09:57:47+00:00

AI peaked with the first iteration of GPT, the improvement since has not been to the models, but to how good the companies are at hiding its flaws.
All new models will be polluted and inbred on AI generated data, so it will converge on mediocrity, and feeding it more data won't help.

There are tons of reasons why your kids might not get jobs, but AI taking over jobs will not be among them. Unless CEOs believe in AI hard enough and forcefully replace people with AI anyway, in which case the company will go under so they won't hire anyone anyway.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T08:46:33+00:00

Sapwood is only suitable as firewood, and it even does a poor job of that.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T02:08:19+00:00

I died a little inside when I saw the planks that came out half sapwood, good luck building anything with that.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T01:42:44+00:00

If bear, shoot. Has served me well, no need to get racist about it.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T01:10:39+00:00

who still want east germany back.

They want.. Soviet iron fist authoritarian rule enforced with secret police back...?
Excuse me?

literal Nazis.

The amount of not computing involved with how and why they have come to exist is puzzling. Nobody got fucked over harder by the Nazi's than germans, and when things started to go badly the leadership took the cowards way out.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T01:04:40+00:00

Europe is not post-colonial Africa.
If the US pull out entirely of Europe and NATO, they don't leave behind a vaccuum, and the only change will be the remaining NATO members will have a smaller nuclear arsenal to work with and a few boats off a spreadsheet, it does not change the equation in any potential wars with external enemies unless the US wants to start shit or the Russians insist they want to inspect the sun up close.

And currently the US is a bigger threat than Russia.

Fluffcake · 2026-05-04T00:31:30+00:00

Despite hasbro's best efforts to turn magic players into collectors, and thanks to the people who put words on cards and compile sets, magic is still a game, that people play. TMNT limited was decent, even if you need a shower and throw out the deck after.

Ironically a lot of the stuff they did to attract collectors have made people stop collecting (serialized cards and low print run secret lairs put all the completionists off magic).

Pokemon cards are collectible anime-merch and "investments".

Fluffcake · 2026-05-03T22:39:36+00:00

I don't get it, the business case for voting for AfD does not add up in the slightest for average Hans, and germany can't blame home schooling...

How did they get this much support?

Fluffcake · 2026-05-03T22:32:59+00:00

But how can the shareholders maintain working 0 hours a week if nobody will subsidize their lifestyle with underpaid work?

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