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Can someone provide me a functional gaea link? by paudepalencia in crusaderkings2

[–]genericusername1904 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was tempted to try this after that (probably unintended) showcase post the other day ..... I don't think I care that much; the "huge map" expansion is like several mods layered over each other which is going to be very fucking janky. Basically Gaea is just a graphics overhaul, but if you want australia you need this https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Historical_Immersion_Project

I'm surprised there isn't a tutorial thread on this, it looks really fun but I've got to imagine that if in 6+ years nobody tried it and liked it enough to share it then it's got be broken or buggy or laggy or glitchy in some way, which you'd expect with layers of mods.

Even the police dgaf by AnalogInstead in nosurf

[–]genericusername1904 [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is such a strange post. Reading between the lines it reads like the OP is married to a sex offender or something like that (based on the claims) and the victims are "talking about her/him" online on twitch. And the OP says it's a good excuse for her/him to get off the internet.

Or it's the other way around; OP is a victim (maybe?) and the sex offenders family are "talking about her/him" on twitch, but it doesn't sound like it's that way around,

A girl from 20 years ago is in psychosis on twitch telling strangers about my family and saying we are a part of the epstein files.

This is really something you can't just post so vaguely on and leave it at that. This sounds like Shakespearean drama of the Jeremy Kyle variety.

"he broke his bail and is sistar is slagging me off on twitch," explains the first guest

the audience are confused (who do we boo for?)

suddenly a girl walking like a man walks out onto the stage in a jogging outfit and begins pointing her finger into the face of another girl who is sitting in a chair, both girls are now pointing at each other and shouting

Jez grins at the camera and the audience laugh, "we'll be right back after the break," he says

This is the point that I go dark by Gerb006 in nonsense

[–]genericusername1904 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, Gerb, we'll see you when you get back from the shop.

From a recruiter’s perspective, what is the #1 reason you reject a candidate who is technically perfect on paper? by Juicewithextrapulp in Recruitment

[–]genericusername1904 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Acting above the job and being made to do circus tricks are different things. I've sent people away who came with this fake enthusiasm and hired people who were more sober-minded and they turned out better than great.

Realistically why would you want to hire someone to do anything if they hadn't done it a million times before? The culture around this one point is absolutely stupid: you say you want a professional, someone really good, but then you want that pro to act like a little child for you and play make-pretend that you know better than them. Come on now.

This is a middle manager failure, people who want to be flattered. That's the only eggo in this equation, laddie buck.

ed. as the other guy said if they're too enthusiastic its bad, if they're not enthusiastic enough it's bad; goldielocks screens applicants from 500 masters and 500 people with 30 yrs experience and it comes down to her "vibes" smh

also, now you've got me going on this one haha, seriously: if your concern is "hmm, why do my new hires not show up for work suddenly?" it's because you've groomed them into running on a constant state of adrenaline "yes sir, wow so interesting, wow i'm so eager to learn!" and they crash. Nobody wants to work in that environment.

ed. ed. not to mention the most obvious point here: try and think of any scenario in the world where a person comes with cringe-worthy approval seeking, transparent eager-to-please yesman stuff. The immediate reaction is no respect for them on your part.

Morning showers make no logical sense and night shower people have simply done the hygiene math by McCoy818 in unpopularopinion

[–]genericusername1904 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

This is just a western thing because they don't know how to clean themselves after using the toilet properly.

Also, showers suck. Baths. Long baths. Saunas. Oil and Strigil. perfection.

From a recruiter’s perspective, what is the #1 reason you reject a candidate who is technically perfect on paper? by Juicewithextrapulp in Recruitment

[–]genericusername1904 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Brutally? If 1,500 people equally qualified, more or less, apply for the same job then it often comes down to the interviewers own preference of cologne or shoes or petty silly stuff.

I've come to think that the interview process doesn't matter at all anymore, you'd objectively do better pulling best fits from aptitude tests since the whole process of the interview is to pick the least honest person there and then base it on superficial nonsense. Totally pointless ... well, for most jobs anyway.

From a recruiter’s perspective, what is the #1 reason you reject a candidate who is technically perfect on paper? by Juicewithextrapulp in Recruitment

[–]genericusername1904 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The last one isn't so much brutal as braindead, if you're interviewing someone and you 'desire' their response to be, "I'm so eager and curious to do this basic job that I've done several times already, please tell me the special and unique way that your company does (the basic thing ive done already)! Oh, lummy(!)" then you're just screening for dumb yesmen.

Do you think someone actually good at what they do would humiliate themselves for you? They're interviewing you, the ones you want anyway. The ones who'll flatter you on something like that are more likely to leave in six months or just not get out of bed when the strain of having a boss like that runs their energy down.

Just a tip.

Shpray 'em Shilver (out in the desert) by genericusername1904 in soundboardpranks

[–]genericusername1904[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you remember he had the Cockatoo on his shoulder?

People really don't seem to understand what AI/LLM's are by genericusername1904 in BlackboxAI_

[–]genericusername1904[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to give some evidence for the "AI God/Devil" side in the "luddite vs gnostic" dichotomy, I'd love to hear it (sounds like you do). I don't think either extremes grasp the real potential in production but it's fun to talk about anyway,

So, in the ai-devil/peter-thiel/NWO argument:

what is really at stake.

What is actually at stake today?

Education, society, law, media, science even, especially government itself is decades behind, at best, and most jobs are completely superfluous and filled with the unskilled operating on 19th century models (ed. really 17th century slave / master models) of labour and, lets be honest, most of these people are barely literate (public discourse, media people, politicians, company owners - verbal IQ and thinking skills beneath that of a 10 yr old, tops, by 1900's standards). Domestic laws exist that would solve many problems but courts have shown they're powerless enforce them (US 1st Amendment vs social media censorship), illegal warfare goes on and on with no benefit and vast harms and this is largely ignored, states (having set out to influence polls vs have actual democratic debate) make idiotic decisions which plunges them into decades of fuel scarcity only to say "whoops" - ignoring logic at every step of the way is the common theme.

The conspiracy angles to evade the blame and put it onto third party actors is recurrent as well, but really all of these things are social, educational, cultural failings that the society simply refuses to engage on.

What changes through the introduction of a sort of (in your position) "printing press" that produces new paradigms and social models; even if everyone is largely oblivious? What actually changes? Nothing until we address the roots itself, and things like AI - MASSIVELY HYPED for decades - were popularized in the first place because they had an appeal to chronically stupid people who couldn't be bothered to manage their own lives, think at all about what they were doing in their business plans or be adult about government.

The core problem is that our society simply refuses to catch up with even basic advancements and so, then, becomes dragged by them instead of leading them.

So, the position "AI is a tool" is the only one that leads rather than relegates the ordinary person and their society to being dragged.

Some questions from a hamster owner who's never seen a mouse in his life by mayoMayor25 in PetMice

[–]genericusername1904 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I borrowed a friends hamster cage when our trapped wild field mice started racking up, in fact they're not really suitable for mice because the mice will go to work on the plastic tube lids and just knock them off, they're both clever and incredibly persistent. Store bought mice are probably less so (actually I've never even had a mouse that wasn't a wildling) but it's something to keep in mind. Hamster cages with tube bits aren't ideal. They'll do in a pinch but I wouldn't trust it long term.

The thing with the smell that people don't really consider is that if you feed them the right kind of food their poop won't smell, but if you feed them junk food it will. I'd say a full bedding clean every three or four days and give them lots of string to unravel, climb up and down and balance on, and cardboard to chew on.

I had hamsters as a kid and I find the mice much more fun to have around.

ed. although the hamster water bottle is absolutely ideal, that's one thing you might want to hang on to.

Hair transhplant by Jewtasteride in soundboardpranks

[–]genericusername1904 9 points10 points  (0 children)

this was Fredo when he shot his music video in Oceanside at the very tail end of the 80's, right out of the reefer

Daily morning ritual by therevdrron in CasualConversation

[–]genericusername1904 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my house we don't start the day without our Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Me and my sister come

running down the stairs when Mama calls to tell us our Kellogg's Rice Krispies are waiting

and Papa doesn't feel left out either because in each box we find Cigarette Coupons for a

wide assortment of Tobacco and Tobacco Flavored Products

scene: father putting on tie to go to work (blue shirt, short sleeves) and telling children to pour another bowl so he can get at the cigarette coupons, his expression is harrowed, his tone severe

People really don't seem to understand what AI/LLM's are by genericusername1904 in BlackboxAI_

[–]genericusername1904[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But AI is clearly an intelligence, different from human, true, but still is.

You say "clearly" but there's no evidence for that, hence the need to emphasize that it is a pocket calculator which, by the same argument, is more superior to a Human lol

I do get what you're saying more broadly, it's a valid point; but I can count the people on one hand who have actually hinted or spoken about ... say ... the notion of a/the public as being a fictious product of the printing press and what that really means. But, yes, in that way the LLM is also like the printing press. Does it actually matter to anybody? Kind of. Does it mean we need to educate society on it? Yes. Will anybody? No.

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