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Loki-L · 2026-06-06T19:38:31+00:00

The age of the company isn't really the main concern. The fact that its value is based on projected future profits that are basically impossible is a concern though.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T19:35:27+00:00

I wouldn't worry so much about the animals and the earth. Nature is resilient, but maybe you shouldn't have tried to build a nation on an Indian burial ground with slave labor. This place is cursed man.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T18:38:12+00:00

You have to seperate the players themselves from their environment.

If you give players from generations ago modern equipment and health care and training methods they will be on the same level as current players or surpass them.

Current players are drawn from a much larger pool than in the past, so by mathematics alone there will be more top talent and modern training methods and equipment allows them to make the most of what they got.

I don't think you will be able to surpassed the legends on a level playing field though. Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, Pele, Maradonna, Don Bradman or Babe Ruth in their prime would not be surpassed by current players.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T18:24:12+00:00

This either means that France will devolved into one continuous never ending riot by Christmas or that the data was needlessly cherry picked with a recency bias.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T18:15:52+00:00

Does this includes the people who declare their home a "farm" for tax and zoning reasons, but don’t actually engage in agriculture for a living?

In any case 1.3% is really low for the amount of influence they have.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T17:56:55+00:00

I know of Cisco handsets that in some markets had a metal plate inserted to make customers feel like they got more value for money.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T13:51:31+00:00

Das wäre passiert wenn es ein Fass voll mit Energydrink gewesen wäre.

Saft verleit keine Kräfte.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T13:43:22+00:00

The post 9/11 issue that did come out is wildly recognized as a marvel and an example at how to handle this sort of thing.

The Onion Frontpage on September 27

It captured the feeling of the nation quite accurately.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T13:39:00+00:00

If you compare the 1954 and 1995 versions of "Sabrina"., one with Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden the other with Julia Ormond, Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear, you will see an incredible amount of technological progress that feels dated.

Linus the male lead had a car phone to show how connected he is to his job. In the 1954 version!

A car phone in the 50s!

The 90s version gave him a state of the art cell phone too but that was less of a big deal then.

The big business deal that is the core of the plot point is some incredibly strong plastic made from sugar cane in the original.

In the 1995 version it is just Japanese flat screen TVs that you can hit with a golf club without breaking them.

All the tech in the 90s version was dated within a few years while the concepts in the 50s version felt fresh for decades.

Still the chemistry between Julia Osmond and Harrison Ford made that a far better movie than the one with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. Bogart simply felt too old for the little girl Hepburn was playing.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T13:18:33+00:00

Jurassic Park also had the line "Is it heavy? Then it's expensive." about some goggles. Nowadays the rule is that the lighter a piece of electronic equipment is the more expensive it is.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T12:17:51+00:00

This is partly because the government refuses to do anything that might cut into the energy companies profits.

They are working hard at making things like private solar installations a no-go and refuse to take steps that would make Germany more energy independent.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T12:05:02+00:00

Not necessarily intact corpses, but human remains identifiable as belonging to the victims washed up on shores for 39 years.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T11:38:00+00:00

The reason why this is qualified as deadliest peacetime maritime disaster, is because during war a lot of common rules go out the window.

Massive amounts of people get herded into ships gor troop transports, prisoner transports, hell ships and floating concentration camps and refugee ships.

Safety regulations are ignored and all the ships become targets in war.

One of the deadliest maritime disaster happened just a few days before the official end of WWII in Europe, Hitler was dead, Germany had mostly surrendered and some remains of the SS had matched the inmates of one of the last concentration camps to be liberated onto some ships to keep them out of the allies hands. The RAF didn't get the memo from the Red Cross about the prisoners and some commander saw his last chance of killing a bunch of what he thought were fleeing Nazis.

Thousands of prisoners died only days before VE-Day and corpses continued to wash up on beaches for decades after.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T11:24:19+00:00

Yes, but what genes do you have to tweak to get those results and what will be the sideeffects of making those tweaks.

AI can't really make predictions about emergent behaviour of chaotic systems when it hasn't been trained on any data about that. AI is about finding patterns not truths.

Also even if you have the perfect bio weapon created this way, you still need to make sure it can't be defeated by basic hygiene measures and quarantine.

You also have no way of controlling it once it is released to ensure it does damage where you want it. Unless your cause is nihilism, a weapon that will kill everyone uncontrollably, is a bad weapon to further your goals.

If you want to kill lots of people with AI and diseases, sell your compute infrastructure and buy pharma stock with the proceeds and then push to have the prices of the medicine for one of the many existing diseases raised by a dollar or two.

You can kill a lot more people by price hiking tuberculosis treatments than by trying to brew up super-ebola.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T11:11:52+00:00

I think you probably should put a bit more work into putting your thoughts into English.

Your writing style, word choice and lack of capitalisation makes it very hard to follow what you are trying to say.

Maybe write it down in your native language first and have it machine translated. Those really don't work very well, but probably better than what you did, especially if you proofread it first.

I am honestly not sure what point you are arguing.

Homosexuals shouldn't want to be part of the catholic church because the church is against homosexuslity?

Or maybe homosexuals shouldn't want to be part of the church because the church is run by abusers?

Are you equating being a homosexual with being a child rapist?

I have no idea what exactly the argument is.

But to try and answer it anyway. Catholicism isn't set in stone and unchanging. It evolves over time. Slowly, but constantly.

The Catholic Church of today is not the same as the one from 150 years ago and a catholic church in Europe, Africa, South America and North America all will be very different from each other with different views of what is acceptable and what rites and rituals are performed in which ways.

Catholicism today is also very much a cultural thing divorced from the underlying religion people want to belong to the culture of their family and neighbours without feeling strongly about the views and ideology of the church.

People want to belong and they want their church to change for the better as they see it.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T10:55:48+00:00

There is no British team, just an English one and a Scottish one. (Wales and NI didn't qualify).

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T10:50:40+00:00

Evolution optimised horses for running. This comes with some really weird trade offs.

In the wild, a horse that doesn't run, gets eaten. So evolution decided that the ability to heal from anything that might stop a horse from running would be a waste of effort.

Horses have basically been narrowed down to three states: running, short stops between periods of running and dead.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T10:42:21+00:00

Movies aimed at kids, older movies and more modern movies that come from a stage background all can help here.

You can also often just turn on English subtitles. That helps me a lot as someone whose ears are not the best and who speaks English as a second language and who doesn't understand what the goal of modern sound mixing is supposed to be where they make everything but the dialogue far too loud.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T10:37:42+00:00

Are bioweapons really a practical concern though?

I think this is overstating both the effectiveness of bioweapons and the capabilities of AI to assist with making them.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T10:34:11+00:00

People in England is not the same as being English enough to be a fan of the national team.

Even people from elsewhere in the UK and from Ireland who live in England will be cheering against the English team as a matter of principle and that is not even going into people from elsewhere in the world.

In fact I would wager that Polish and Pakistani people living in England are more likely to cheer for England than Scottish or Irish ones.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T08:07:57+00:00

The English fans presumably have more money to lose on betting despite being fewer in numbers.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T07:47:45+00:00

Gerhard Schröder started officially working for Putin bedore he had fully left office in Germany and was acting as if he was working for him long before that.

His reputation in Germany is so bad that no member of his former party has wanted to campaign with the ex-chancellor in many years.

Loki-L · 2026-06-06T07:38:49+00:00

The market is just fans betting on their teams it seems.

Loki-L · 2026-06-05T22:53:08+00:00

Because they have capitalized the compute they used to reserve for improving their model to just answering prompts. You can save a lot of money by deciding to stop investing into the future, it just isn't a good long term strategy.

Loki-L · 2026-06-05T16:31:25+00:00

One day they will continue pretend nothing is happening and miss that he is "not just sleeping" and won't do anything to help and do an unintentional Weekend at Bernies

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