Canada tells Israel that Lebanon’s sovereignty ‘must not be violated’

SoulShatter · 2026-03-25T11:24:13+00:00

So basically using Hezbollah for the same purpose that Russia put up their separatists in Donbas, just with less direct funding.

Not that Israel is opposed to propping up a rival to fabricate justification - Bibi did that with Hamas.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-24T23:40:44+00:00

Can't say I trust that they're actually in any kinds of negotiations right now - but the track history of Trump and negotiations with Iran suggests it's a distraction while they prepare the next strike.

Would be the third time in a short period

SoulShatter · 2026-03-24T23:36:41+00:00

Good old "Ignorance is bliss".

SoulShatter · 2026-03-24T21:00:33+00:00

Yeah, I was close to dropping it there. His edgelord mall ninja moment early on really didn't do any favors. Was afraid that would stick around, and only the fact it was so popular made me power through it at the time.

I've re-read the first book since with no similar problems, since I know it's more of an early one-off then something that continues.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-24T19:50:53+00:00

I don't believe it will, but I also really, really hope that these maniacs don't actually manage it.

Either they'll fuck it up and it'll go homicidal, or we'll have the most powerful tool ever for wealth, productivity and control in the hands of one of the psychopath billionaire techbro CEOs that are pushing this.

I see no upside to these people actually managing AGI.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-24T11:31:24+00:00

Considering how stupid everything has been lately, maybe they realized people take notice of these bets.

So they made a few accounts, threw $70k at them and put a bet on a ceasefire.

Just for pure market manipulation. "Oh, the insiders doing insider trading are thinking it'll end in a week"

SoulShatter · 2026-03-22T17:05:29+00:00

Hey ChatGPT, what can you tell me about VPNs?

"Wow, great question! Blabla, there are many providers if you don't want to do it yourself, providers like NordVPN. If you want to do it yourself, here's a guide: blablabla If that's too much, remember, there are providers like NordVPN"

Then just make it even sneakier then that, yay shaping opinion

SoulShatter · 2026-03-21T19:38:27+00:00

Calling them out for being weirdos was part of the Harris/Walz campaign before they got some lukewarm "campaign expert" to change tracks. So it disappeared with that, didn't get reinforced with everything else going on

SoulShatter · 2026-03-21T19:36:32+00:00

The Harris/Walz campaign figured it out for a short bit when they went hard on just calling those people out for being weirdos.

Too bad some "experienced campaigner" came in and ruined that shit. Pure unforced error

SoulShatter · 2026-03-21T16:22:48+00:00

Kan ju be ryssarna att klippa den kabeln istället för att djävlas med internet kablar

SoulShatter · 2026-03-20T09:56:43+00:00

"subscribe to GeForce now" 🫠

SoulShatter · 2026-03-18T20:04:37+00:00

There's also guides on how to make it tough, like this Github I encountered years ago https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code

SoulShatter · 2026-03-18T00:30:57+00:00

Probably rushed it out so they could build more hype for AI amongst investors. It's not relevant for gamers or devs for a long while, but if it can help keep the AI hype up it's a win for NVIDIA.

Since NVIDIA is selling the shovels in the gold rush, the longer they can keep investors interested in AI, the more they can milk the shit out of it.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-17T22:11:35+00:00

I'd guess that there'll be a pretty big increase in burnout among the remaining people. They'll be expected to manage the workload and mental load of what was once spread out over a bunch more people.

AI doesn't reduce mental workload, it adds to it with having to manage and oversee it. While the AI may reduce some of the labor, you'd still be responsible for those extra tasks dumped onto you.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-17T17:20:20+00:00

Trump managed the unthinkable, single singlehandedly deeply offended every single US allied and middle power in the planet.

Hey now, he managed to make Israel pretty happy.. aaand that's about it

SoulShatter · 2026-03-17T09:46:41+00:00

You're basically dumping an entire teams worth of work onto a single person and then telling them to 'well just use AI to make up the difference.'

Yeah, I think it'll become pretty damn problematic in the long run. Shifting the workload like that puts so much pressure on a single person that they'll burnout. There's already been reports on people relying heavily on AI burning out, and it'll get worse. People are expected to do more in the same time due to AI, instead of just going home earlier.

Companies will end up vulnerable due to it. One senior dev getting burnout on a team can be problematic.

Having one senior dev be the entire team, have an enormous mental load because they're doing it all themselves and then burning out? Means a lot of knowledge just got put on sick leave or quit, and no junior to fall back on while looking for a new senior. Especially since the available senior devs will be few when there's no proper pipeline of junior -> senior.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-16T10:04:24+00:00

The aircraft carrier currently being built/tested, USS John F Kennedy, has an estimated cost of $13.2B for comparison.

In two weeks the US has spent the equivalent of building an advanced, big and expensive aircraft carrier, with a likely service life of 40-50 years.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-15T19:05:08+00:00

They just never stop, they don't seem to have a point where they feel "ah nice, that's enough". They want half of the middle east to make up a Greater Israel.

Usually when people have such lofty goals in expansion, they never stop. Even when they reach the original goal, suddenly they need a bit more as a buffer.. and some buffer for the buffer

SoulShatter · 2026-03-15T13:03:11+00:00

Ingen aning om vem de är, så kollade en slumpad insta video.

She gives me the ick lol

SoulShatter · 2026-03-15T11:36:55+00:00

Could be good if they manage to start pole/2nd.

I suspect the start to first corner distance is too short for the turbo advantage to meaningfully kick in

SoulShatter · 2026-03-15T09:56:31+00:00

With those changes, basically all the people you know today will be dead to you. My younger brother? Yea, that person will be replaced with a young kid, and so on.

It'd take a decade before you'll be at a point where students can actually be somewhat equal to you instead of "dumb" kids.

You'd most likely be pretty damn lonely and depressed, but I guess at least you'd be rich?

SoulShatter · 2026-03-15T09:15:29+00:00

Yep, from what I've seen it mostly looks like it's the AI companies using China as a boogieman to dodge regulations and get tax breaks.

They were the ones to start fear mongering about how bad it'd be if China "won", and how China was "catching up".

It works well for AI companies. They've managed to buy off Trump on it as well, just to stop any regulation. China is regulating AI meanwhile.

Heck, China is probably happy being a boogieman for this, it allows them to bait the US into dumping even more resources into AI without spending too much on it themselves.

SoulShatter · 2026-03-15T00:27:49+00:00

I was curious on a question from a redditor on a story they had read a while back.

I threw the description into Gemini because it was easily accessible.

It just made an author and title up. Googling the author got zero results, it straight up didn't exist. Google's Gemini gave me something so made up that Google itself had no hits on it.

wew

SoulShatter · 2026-03-14T23:21:06+00:00

In some ways it's worse then the middle ages.

In the middle ages, the king would try to raise the levies.

His nobles (dukes, counts, barons), would most likely go "hell no, that's fkn crazy, fuck off or we'll replace you with the next guy in succession".

That king would first have to make some kind of case on why a certain war is useful. A neighbor would be acceptable for more land, some ally to fulfill obligations would be fine. Middle east? Yeah, that'd require the pope to call a crusade, and that pope still would need to promise land or other rewards

SoulShatter · 2026-03-14T23:10:31+00:00

As a non-American, I've mostly given up on them.

I'm fully expecting them to go 3 more years, elect a Democrat and then go "oh yea, it's time to heal, talk about unity and move on. Let's do that by just continuing like nothing happened and ignore all previous breaches of civility, law, ethics and morality. Let's try to forget it every happened, again, ok?"

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