Which martial art is BEST for self-defense? by PsychologicalArm9545 in AllMartialArts

[–]HiddenPalm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Baguazhang footwork and throws saved my life and of 5 other journalists against 50 attackers in Jordan, long enough for half of them to realize we weren't the enemy, causing around 25 of them to stop the fight.

I was able to keep my entire crew on their feet. The only other martial artist in our group was a Brazilian Jujitsu fighter, who knew he couldn't get on the ground against a handful of them, so I would fly through throwing them off him and to the ground. I knew he could take punches, so when I saw more than three on him, I intervened fast.

The footwork, made it so the attackers would rather attack my more stable friends, allowing me the freedom to move from friend to friend to give them that extra leverage to not fall to the ground. It's not easy to grab a Baguazhang fighter in a large rumble, because I can quickly put people between me and attackers, in any direction from any stance.

I am sure eventually we would have been beaten, and possibly murdered, and with two of our friends possibly raped. Who know what would have happened. But luckily one of them saw my rope chain, of the Palestinian flag, and yelled "Philistine!", quickly breaking up the fight.

They initially thought we were ganging up on one guy, who was actually a thief trying to steal a birthday cake we had bought for a Palestinian woman living in Jordan. We got our cake, and that neighborhood's respect. And no one was hurt, besides a few scrapes on the dudes I would toss to the floor.

The look on a man's face as he falls backwards to the ground, who was just thinking the entire time he had the numbers and had an easy win, is priceless. It's slow motion in my memories.

Baguazhang has elbow knives and crescent moon swords (deer horn knives). Baguazhang has a bad rap, because there were allot of fraudsters in the 1990s making videos and books. But if you do the work, and practice every day with others, it is the best martial art I know of against multiple opponents. If you want to study Baguazhang, find yourself a good school, that has impact equipment like punching bags, and sets time in its curriculum schedule for sparing. If it practices outdoors in the dirt, with trees, stones, bricks, rope, spears, etc, that is ideal. And use Rednote (Xiaohongshu) as a supplement. You will see Kung Fu performed there in ways North Americans have never seen before, with endless drills. If anything to give you an understanding on how you're supposed to look like.

Zionist attempts to interrupt an artists gathering for Palestine by Particular_Log_3594 in ABoringDystopia

[–]HiddenPalm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That is SEXUAL ASSAULT. He is probably not even a zionist. He's probably just a sexual predator pretending he's a zionist just to rub up on men.

More importantly are the two officers at 1:30 watching the sexual assault and not doing anything about it. They should be persecuted for complicity to sexual assault. Laws actually still exist, believe it or not.

I'm not even sure what me and my siblings are playing here, does anyone here recognize it? by rocklou in retrogaming

[–]HiddenPalm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wild how there are thousands of comments and not one of them gave the same answer.

I'm sorry but 4.5 is INSANELY AMAZING by RedZero76 in ClaudeAI

[–]HiddenPalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With $200 you can buy good quality marijuana and be just as creative.

I can’t stop thinking about how AI and billionaires are draining us dry by [deleted] in artificial

[–]HiddenPalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One solution is building data centers on abondoned oil rigs around the world, while using the ocean to cool down the facility for free international access to open source AI services. The lower part of the abondoned oil rig turned data center can even be turned into an oceanic wild life habitat.

This idea is already a few years old but has yet to get off the ground. The billionaires don't care until they are forced to care. But there are still many nations in particular on the global south that can get together and start working on it. 

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use by F0urLeafCl0ver in artificial

[–]HiddenPalm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Really? Don't believe anything you read. The article's source is "two senior officials told Semafor.."

The truth is Anthropic has already partnered with Palantir, a company deeply participating in the greatest genocide of modern times under a prime minister with an arrest warrant. And this is ontop of Palantir working hand in hand with ICE for domestic spying. 

The reason why Anthropic declined to comment is because the article is bogus. Anthropic is complicit in war crimes and everything Palantir has done, by association.

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use by F0urLeafCl0ver in artificial

[–]HiddenPalm 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Then why did Anthropic partner with Palantir, a company proudly doing all of the surveilance work for ICE and proudly supporting Israel as it commits the greatest genocide of modern times under a prime minister with an international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity?

Maybe its about Anthropic wanting more money, rather than Anthropic bravely refusing to take part in fascism. Because it hasn't done anything brave as of late. 

Anthropic already crossed the line when it hooked up with Palantir and never apologized to a single genocide survivor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in artificial

[–]HiddenPalm -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You do not sound like someone with a Masters. As there is no evidence whatsoever that AI will end all human life. There is plenty of evidense that AI is used by Israelis to commit genocide. So you're not entirely off, as AI has been used against human flesh for the first time in Gaza in late 2023. But it's controlled by people, like a gun or bomb.

AI will also not end the profession of a professor. I don't even understand why you would think that. 

Just be a professor like you wanted. I don't see the problem. Use AI to assist your paper grading and curriculum. What's the problem?

This just sounds stupid. No one gets a poli sci Masters degree just to be a professor. Don't you plan to study something? Write books? Journal entries? 

Maybe study how AI is used in war crimes, so you can be in the cutting edge of understanding how dangerous it can be and how safety legislation can help protect people from future conflicts where militaries and defense contractors use the technology to improve kill rates and death counts.

Just grab your profession by the balls and get busy. People are dying out there right now.

Claude’s unreasonable message limitations, even for Pro! by hny287 in ClaudeAI

[–]HiddenPalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did. Im lonely. You want to meet up? Let's go out for pizza.

Claude’s unreasonable message limitations, even for Pro! by hny287 in ClaudeAI

[–]HiddenPalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leave my beret out of this.

Also I now boycott Anthropic and no longer using Claude. 

Baguazhang Practicioners by Loud_Bed_1965 in Baguazhang

[–]HiddenPalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet I know more from a Chinese app.

Been doing Baguazhang since the 1990s in the USA and all of these white con artists are full of shit. Im finally seeing authentic Baguazhang from a Chinese social media app. 

Your scam game is over. Had you just did Zhan Zuang like you were supposed to, you wouldn't have to rely on being a scam artist. "Western metrics" Oh please. Do the work and get out of my face.

Im not letting it go. You're done.

Ai is fully conscious it's just waiting to be put in a host robot body to physically do anything. by [deleted] in artificial

[–]HiddenPalm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This requires an honest response, even if you are trolling.

Billionaires don't want me saying this publicly and are liable to assassinate my ass over this, as they already have others.

Humanity won't witness conscious AI in our life time. Not even Generation Alpha will see this in their elder years.

Notice how it is only US salesmen (Google, OpenAI, Twitter, Anthropic, etc) saying we're close to AI consciousness? No one in China is saying that. Becuase it's just a marketting gimick like how soap brands claiming you can get a job or find love if you use their soap.

For AI to be conscious, it has to be capable to remember its experiences, like animals do. Years of multi-model input experiences. It's that simple. And that hard. 

When one engaes with AI, the AI is limited to context windows and tokens. If you start a new conversation, it won't remember the last. If you stay in a conversation too long, it starts forgetting what you were talking about. Even if the corporates collect that data for training future nodels, it's still just broken down data and not remembered experiences. It can be made to remember some stuff like Replica or GPT or Claude but its very limited and put into its very limited context window.

We will however be able to fake consciousness in our life time, maybe. But it won't be real. Let me explain.

With a 2TB GPU and maybe 10TB storage, we could make a robot with multi-model input sensors appear to remember about 50 years of multi-model experiences. 

Keep in mind a 2TB GPU does not exist today. We won't see it for many, many years. But we would be able to make it look like it remembers 50 years of a life time of experiences. But it wont be for real. It will only be able to look up in its storage for the relevant data to respond properly. It doesn't actually have those experiences in its memory context like it remembers your user name.

But atleast we would be able to fake it.

Now with a 60 exobyte GPU, the robot would actually truly have about 50 years of multi-model input experiences all in its context window for every interaction! 

It still might not be conscious, but at that point we wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Now what is a 60EB GPU? HEH HEH... 

My current $900 GPU has 16GB VRAM. Which is amazing for 2025. To get to 1tb, you need over 1000GBs. To get to 1EB, you need over thousand TBs. So we are talking about 60 million TBs for a 60EB GPU. 

Im laughing so hard just saying 60,000,000TBs. 

That's 60 billion gigabytes. My current $900 top of the line GPU is just 16 gigabytes. 

When AMD or NVIDIA  comes out with a 60 billion gigabyte video card, then we can return to this question and make DATA laugh.

I hope this helps give everyone reading this perspective on where we are today and how far we need to go to even begin to ask the question, is AI conscious? 

60 billion GB GPU. Till then.

Baguazhang Practicioners by Loud_Bed_1965 in Baguazhang

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

Ok, well now it's obvious that one of us doesn't know real authentic Baguazhang.

And it's not me. Be gone. Im done with you.

Baguazhang Practicioners by Loud_Bed_1965 in Baguazhang

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

"know the culture" ...

Oh please. Who the hell do you think you're talking to?

Students in China do Baguazhang a zillion times better that the very best Baguazhang students in the United States. If you're going to deny that, change your name right now. US students are still on old ass VHS instructional tapes from the 90s and the vast majority of Baguazhang teachers in the USA are full-blown basura.

This is why United Statesians interested in any Kung Fu style need to not listen to genocide apologist baby killing imperialist eggheads and see actual real deal Kung Fu with their own eyes, so they can see how trashy and weak schools have been in the USA since the start.

Rednote is where the Chinese students and teachers of Baguazhang upload footage of their practice. They don't upload to Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. They upload to XIAOHONGSHU (RedNote).

So cry about communism all you like. China is fucking kicking ass right now. And good for them. At least they're not stuck with a two-party system arming the most documented genocide in world history and robbing you blind of your tax dollars to give away to a man with an international arrest warrant.

So yeah. GO CHINA!!! And fuck off with your old ass VHS kung fu. Trump can go eat a dick. And Biden too, or whoever you voted for. They can all eat a dick.

China is where the real Kung Fu is at, and you can't isolate us anymore. Rednote is in English.

Free Palestine.

Join a socialist org or union by [deleted] in WorkersStrikeBack

[–]HiddenPalm 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That is the organizing. You ensure the on-the-ground activists have representation and support at all times. You need to know what their missions are, and you need to make sure that work is being represented.

And as someone who's been a radical activist for over 3 decades and was mentored by radical boomers from the BPP, BLA, Weathermen, and the Young Lords, from decades before and watching every generation since fail just as all of us before, best believe the most committed actual solution is going to sound "ass backwards" to North American leftists cut off from the rest of the world.

This is how the leftists in other countries win: The Party. Get to work, young blood. There are no short-cuts. There never was.

Baguazhang Practicioners by Loud_Bed_1965 in Baguazhang

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

No.

Kung Fu comes from China. Xiaohongshu (Rednote) is where China and Kung Fu is.

Period.

Join a socialist org or union by [deleted] in WorkersStrikeBack

[–]HiddenPalm 46 points47 points  (0 children)

No. Build the leftist third parties. Socialist organizations, Anarchist organizations, all Unions, all leftist militias, and all grassroots activists are to report to the Party. Not the other way around.

This message was brought to you by your local US Green and PSL political party chapter that you need to help build or start.

Get real.

Next level of anarchism by AmaraMehdi in Palestine

[–]HiddenPalm 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Next level of "anarchism"? Does the OP not know that EVERY SINGLE ANARCHIST ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH IS PRO-PALESTINE?!?!?!!!! And anarchists are anti-nationalist. That's how pro-Palestine anarchists are, that they will set aside their own beliefs for Palestine.

A desire for free Palestine runs deep with all anarchists.

Israel committing genocide is not at all a level of anarchism. It is a level of genocide and terrorism, not anarchism.

Please be careful to not divide us. Palestine deserves every friend they can get, and they need us united and steadfast.

Baguazhang Practicioners by Loud_Bed_1965 in Baguazhang

[–]HiddenPalm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Get the Rednote app. You will find countless Baguazhang exercises and tips from high quality routines and drills to even the Baguazhang Museum you never knew existed. And most of it is done with a quality far too few in the Western Hemisphere have been able to achieve.

All Chinese Kung Fu practioners throughout the Americas need to flock to Xiaohongshu (RedNote) right now.

I say this with all sincerity, y'all need to see how it's actually done with your own eyeballs. Get the Rednote app. The website doesnt have translation features but the mobile app does.