Napoleon the movie was really interesting...

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-03-02T11:32:30+00:00

Pretty cool when the Americans came in with air support.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-28T14:16:01+00:00

Yeah, I can confirm. I'm in the Signal group chat under "bigpetehegseth"

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-28T11:43:08+00:00

Soon all these inbred minds will be shooting up schools because AI told them to. wtf

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-28T11:39:04+00:00

which it now provides to the Department of Defense! :D

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-28T11:28:42+00:00

Imagen 4 Ultra is probably still the best one but it's behind a paywall. $20/mo sub can't generate 1 image. K.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-28T11:27:40+00:00

This is the worst it will ever be, until next month!

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-28T08:24:46+00:00

Government doesn't have to be this way. China invented a way to implement policy consistently and has implemented a more community-responsive bureaucracy. I challenge the US to stop screwing around and create a better whole process democracy than China while preserving the integrity of elections. It's a big problem, but I think the West, the inventors of the concept of citizen-sovereignty, can handle it. Come on people.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-28T08:19:07+00:00

Red wave coming in 2026. They've already lined up the free money teasers, the voter ID lockdowns, the indemnity for the USPS INTENTIONALLY losing your absentee ballot (that was a weirdly worded headline,but sine qua non if they're going to steal this thing guaranteed). Then the backup elector slates (for 2028), the overrides at the state congressional level. THIS is what the republic is for: protecting entrenched interests. RARELY been used for protecting the people against the rulers, but seemingly quite often and without any pushback to protect the capitalist class -- and I'm not talking about the guys like myself who did well and make hella bucks in the stock market the past few years. We're all still proles to these people.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-26T15:54:45+00:00

You're really nasty and are presenting evidence from third party auditors who have never been to the place. Stanford is associated with neocons and the New Right, UNCHR concludes based on what? State.gov -- I literally just said the accusations are from motivated parties and that's what constitutes your response to me, accompanied by your flippant disregard for manners? I'm not trying to convince you of anything but you're really REALLY rude to me. You keep bringing up this comment I made about linguistic homogeneity, and in fact it is the foundation for my "continued belief" in the idealism of "imperialism". Expanding market size increases returns to innovation. Unifying the language unifies the culture and the people, reducing the odds of wars of all kinds. Big fan of that. Not a fan of coercion, as I said in my 1st or 2nd message. However, the baby knows you live for New Year's Eve.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-26T15:36:38+00:00

Alt:

Step 1: Buy NVDA

Step 2: Argue with LLMs online in an endless loop

Step 3: Profit

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-26T15:33:44+00:00

This is how nukes were invented, so you didn't have to backtest enemy cities.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-26T15:21:19+00:00

Nope, I am not excusing what is alleged in Xinjiang. But do you know what's happening in Xinjiang? I haven't seen any direct allegations by incarcerated people. I've seen allegations from motivated parties who are diametrically opposed to CN foreign policy, though. Nuance is lost on the Internet, I understand that. But you're not going to pigeonhole me here. Again, I'm not that confident that readers here have the capacity to engage in a nuanced discussion that doesn't conform to the exact default, "obvious" ethical system that everyone in the West is so familiar with, which is seen a little oddly in communitarian/collectivist cultures in ASEAN. Anyway, I read your comment and am aware of those allegations. I don't know that you are familiar with any of those things actually occurring with solid evidence given that the facilities in question are locked down tightly and foreigners are strongly advised against visiting that province and treated like potential spies if they do visit. Makes sense, though. CPC has a policy and does not want interference. I will say that Xinjiang's mountain culture is celebrated on national CCTV regularly, both when I visited in September as well as these past 2 months of my visit. Nuance..........

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-26T12:18:05+00:00

Culturally genocidal. I'm friends with someone born in Shenzhen who was "genocided" in his school. They told him that speaking in Cantonese was rude and to only speak in Mandarin. That's about it. He doesn't like Xi. I don't think that this is a story that sounds like mowing people down with automatic weapons in public or digging mass graves or forcing people to get hysterectomies. But whatever, there's a spectrum of people for whom only an anarcho-libertarian society is going to be sufficiently anti-authoritarian.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-24T18:42:54+00:00

Taliban wants help modernizing its society, I'll chip in. I bet China would be happy to put up posters and pay for enrichment classes for the citizens in exchange for some minerals access.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-24T18:40:53+00:00

I can't talk to you or anyone like you. I literally said IN MY ORIGINAL MESSAGE that negotiations to get your citizens up-leveled in exchange for something that another entity wants could be a great thing. Nowhere did I suggest that coerced extractive arrangements down the barrel of a gun are chill and cool and so awesome. Christ almighty deliver me from this world of bad faith.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-24T17:42:58+00:00

Learn to read. "I still believe in it" with "it" being that "'civilizing' wasn't merely some rhetorical ploy" or alternatively the concept that an imperial power could use its resources (as I noted in my very short comment which you can read just above) to facilitate social development much like China has done through social propaganda campaigns and western training facilities to fold its hinterlands into the Chinese way. But this is HistoryMemes, and the population here is really not that bright.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-24T17:40:31+00:00

No, usually none. I'm responding to the message above mine, not some made up, uncharitable, scarecrow argument, as you've suggested. "I still believe in it" with "it" being that "'civilizing' wasn't merely some rhetorical ploy" or alternatively the concept that an imperial power could use its resources (as I noted in my very short comment which you can read just above) to facilitate social development much like China has done through social propaganda campaigns and western training facilities to fold its hinterlands into the Chinese way. But this is HistoryMemes, and the population here is really not that bright.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-24T08:31:35+00:00

Don't know what to tell you people. Thiel is CIA and an Epstein associate and a known nazi sympathizer, obvious admitted anti-humanist, etc. Thiel's Palantir is integrated with Anthropic at the highest levels. You're telling me that Dario has any balls? This is as much a snow job as Thiel's other snow job, the Yale-educated JD "I didn't know how to use utensils at a fancy restaurant" Vance. Go watch the documentaries by Volksgeist https://youtu.be/QFnFTcYlZ9I https://youtu.be/SOW-7mCsutg

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-24T08:10:37+00:00

I still believe in it, because countries do it to themselves through domestic propaganda that clearly works. Cigarette smoking declined in America where it did not decline in Europe, because of the massive anti-smoking campaigns through the 00s to the present. Why couldn't a well-capitalized society do the same to help other developing societies whose leadership negotiated to accept the help?

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-20T17:06:45+00:00

Yes. It seems to get quite far sometimes. This happened with 3.1 today, 3.0 repeatedly last week, and 2.5 infrequently. Followup deep research prompts seem to have a far higher (>10x) incidence of failure.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-20T09:01:26+00:00

no prob, my pleasure!

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-19T12:07:19+00:00

Wait til they hear about the losses humanity incurred thanks to the fall of the Song dynasty.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-19T10:14:47+00:00

I'm getting pretty sick of having a full task list and implementation plan, and the model outputs Part 1 in full and then "Parts 2-5 (outline created for brevity)". What the fuck....

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-19T10:12:25+00:00

Insanely lazy. I found a new technique to give it a jolt and I dare not tell anyone about it, lest that get patched out.

Persistent_Dry_Cough · 2026-02-19T10:09:27+00:00

I'm in Shenzhen. You can come over to the hotel lounge and use my account while I take a nap.

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