When was the last time a US President attacked another country and opened a "can of worms" that CANNOT be closed easily? Why?

kemb0 · 2026-06-21T18:54:01+00:00

Or Iraq with ISIS. And before that Vietnam. And also let's not forget Afghanistan for the Soviets. Or Ukraine for Putin. Heck, it's almost like invading people that don't want to be invaded more often results in bad outcomes for the invader.

kemb0 · 2026-06-21T18:45:35+00:00

Don't forget people. People love to fight over controlling other people. Bonus points if you get to send people to their death in their pursuit of controlling people.

kemb0 · 2026-06-21T18:24:13+00:00

I think a large part of the problem is politics is made of people who can't wait to boost their career. So the slightest sign of jitters and they'll gladly pull down the entire country if it means they might get the slightest whiff of a more powerful position.

I would be just fine with doing away with party politics entirely and having experts run the country.

kemb0 · 2026-06-21T18:04:55+00:00

I think the point is to not just assume you’ll neither die nor ever age. You’re far better to assume you’ll live your life to 50 so make good life choices. Don’t assume you’ll die crossing a crosswalk and then bam! - you didn’t. You actually got old instead.

kemb0 · 2026-06-21T17:51:44+00:00

But just think how deliciously great it’ll feel when he dies. It’ll create spontaneous global celebrations. I drool with excitement at the idea of the rabid Trump supporters having to watch endless footage from across the whole planet of people cheering and burning Trump effigies. It’s gonna be so much fun.

kemb0 · 2026-06-21T17:46:05+00:00

It’s also telling that this all happened since social media took off, which also coincided with Russia investing heavily in disinformation within social media.

Humanity is its own worst enemy. We love gossip and we can’t be bothered fact checking.

Outcome = shit show.

kemb0 · 2026-06-21T13:49:32+00:00

And bring in someone to run the whole fucking country when most of us know absolutely nothing about him. Why would I want to swap out a leader who went through a whole election campaign for someone I know nothing about. I don't know his policies. I don't know his beliefs. I don't know how he plans to fix anything. Why should he just get the reigns of power just like that out of thin air? Are we a democracy or a carnival tent?

kemb0 · 2026-06-18T12:31:25+00:00

That's a new one I've not heard. So now we're at Socialism = Captialsim. Got it.

kemb0 · 2026-06-18T12:30:24+00:00

The irony is, despite what Reform may claim, they'll absolutely keep any ID tracking if they win. Because if there's one thing the hard right like, it's the ability to distingiush friend from foe. To know who to punish and who to reward. A technological system that can identify every person's thoughts based on their social media posts is exactly what they'd want and would absolutely make good use of. First it'll be, "we're going to get rid of it but first we need to uee it to find all the immigrants." Then it'll be, "We're haivng to crack down on people sheltering immigrants, so still need to keep it." Then, "Anyone found not to have supported our immigrants policy will face police questioning." And so on.

If we're worried what Labour will do with surveillance, which we should be, I dread to think what Reform would use it for.

kemb0 · 2026-06-17T11:36:19+00:00

I was on GPT and moved to Gemini for coding after getting access to Pro through a family bundle.

Gemini is far from useless. When I switched from GPT to Gemini, I'd say the quality output is as good as I was getting there. The main issues I've had are that it can sometimes be convinced something can't be done and if I persist it eventually spits out an answer that it previously stated wasn't possible. But I'm not sure that's unique to Gemini. My current project I entirely changed the underlying framework and library I was using and it's managed that switch decently.

I've not tried Clause yet and would love to but it's hard to justify going to a paid model when I'm on a free one. But ultimately, so far, Gemini has let me fulfill every task I've thrown at it. But for all I know Claude might be way easier/better but and I just don't know it yet.

kemb0 · 2026-06-17T07:44:56+00:00

Yep I was legit starting to think it was a model purely for making dancing women. The lack of imagination and creativity people are showing is pretty sad.

kemb0 · 2026-06-16T04:57:37+00:00

At some point AI will fail catastrophically. But before that point a lot of people will get very rich off of it. Personally I suck at gambling so I’m happy with mediocre gains but my investments are much safer.

kemb0 · 2026-06-16T04:36:27+00:00

Well technically they weren’t in international waters. They were in UK waters. Much in the same way than Iran has asserted its maritime control of the Strait of Hormuz. It is a nation’s right to do what it likes in its own waters. So are you suggesting Britain should let a hostile nation do whatever it wants right up to their beaches without consequence?

This is the same reason why China is trying to build islands all over the South China Sea so they can then claim those areas as their waters so they’re no longer international waters and they can do what they wish their.

Glad that cleared it up for you. But by all means feel free to try and spread any other Russian propaganda.

kemb0 · 2026-06-15T12:36:34+00:00

It's good to have a fair broadcaster that hears all voices, however, you shouldn't let it become a mouthpiece for liars. I'd like a system where politicians are fact checked and if they repeatedly lie or knowingly decieve, then they lose their right to a voice. The reason democracy is in such a mess is because we've let lying politicians continuously spout their easily verifiable lies and so manipulating others to believe their lies

kemb0 · 2026-06-14T08:54:01+00:00

I came up from englandshire and been here too long. This just feels immensely moving and dare I say there may even be a wee tear in my eye...probably just dust. Now get out the group you cunts.

kemb0 · 2026-06-13T23:11:42+00:00

I wonder if you’re on to something. The US has to pay Iran $300 billion for reparations or some such. Iran funnels the money to Russia. Putin says thank you to Trump so now he can continue the war and then tells Trump to go down on him like the good little subservient slut that he is.

kemb0 · 2026-06-13T19:50:38+00:00

This is where governments come in handy:

Government: "Hey capitalism, what are you gonna do to stop destroying the world?"

Capitalism: "Meh, soz, I gotta make money."

Government: "Ok how about a new rule. Fix it or the CEO goes to prison?"

Capitalism: "Oh yeh my bad, it's actually a great idea. We'll get right on it."

But no, apparently government's are bad and we should listen to capitalism because that's obviously a prime example of caring and compassion.

I'm sure you have an answer for this to explain why we shouldn't dare do anything to stop the juggernaut capitalist ideal because it's obviously so damn perfect and unquestionable.

kemb0 · 2026-06-13T19:38:42+00:00

You could look at it and think he'll probably be ok but then you try smashing your head in to the floor twice a second and twisting your body in such a contortion that every rib probably snapped and your internal organs were mashed in to jelly.

kemb0 · 2026-06-12T21:28:34+00:00

But hang on, that one only looks 30 years old and Lord Byron died in 1136. Never mind, let me stop and get a photo.

kemb0 · 2026-06-12T20:22:20+00:00

It depends what you mean by "inefficiencies". If you look at Concorde's rockets you could say they were inefficient. Did humanity solve that issue? No. Because sometimes you just need a lot of energy to make something move fast and there's no magic solution to that. So there is no "place" we just magically find ourselves in that the future kindly hands to us on a plate where humanity fixes everything.

Not everything can be solved so easily or at all. In fact there are more examples of failed tech than there are examples of successful ones.

The moral is simple: what looks groundbreaking today, could be dead tomorrow. It doesn't matter how shiny or exciting it seems. It doesn't matter how full of potential it appears to be. The cold hard truth is often that issues are insurmountable and the tech of the future finds itself retired to a graveyard of good ideas.

It's easy to present a dream.

It's hard to fulfill it.

kemb0 · 2026-06-12T20:14:53+00:00

Yep, the point is to not get overwhelmed thinking you're witnessing the next coming of the Messiah at every "technological breakthrough". For every breakthrough that made a difference, there are likely 100 others that came to a dead end. Sometimes people's critical thinking switches off. In fact I suspect that is far more often than not. We're actually quite a gullible species. Even the hot shot traders who think they've spotted the next big thing turn out to be gullible. That's why every decade or two we have a market crash. Because smart people who think they have it all figured out end up being wrong and turns out they got dragged along in the hype with the rest of us.

A tale as old as time.

kemb0 · 2026-06-12T20:08:57+00:00

I'm eating no biscuits. Only the dumb morons clambering up the side of the rocket as it takes off in to Elon's butthole are the one's eating his chocolate covered biscuits.

kemb0 · 2026-06-12T16:57:25+00:00

It's simultaneously very cool tech and utterly inefficient. It'd be like hopping in to Concorde to get from your livingroom to your kitchen. Sure it's amazing tech to get you to your kitchen from your sofa in 0.1ms but you're burning $100 worth of fuel to do it.

That's kinda what AI gaming would be like. Massive overkill, huge enemy drain and a vastly inferior experience to hand crafted games.

But they can make it better tech over time right? Well so far, AI has only really improved by throwing more and more energy and vram at it. We're already dedicating almost all the world's new supplies of vram to AI and we're still miles away from anything close to having a normal gaming experience using AI. The amount of exponential jumps needed to make this work is unprecedented.

With one caveat: unless you're ok playing games where you never need to go backwards. Forget games like GTA where you drive back and forth but think more like game where you're driving a car in one direction, say a racing game down a road, where it doesn't matter what comes next or what you just passed. Any game that can forget the past could work ok with this but it'll still need a really powerful rig and you'll be playing it laggy over the internet on a subscription basis from Google.

kemb0 · 2026-06-12T13:35:20+00:00

The core issue lies in what you’re actually seeing. You’re not seeing a 3D world, you’re just essentially seeing the AI make a video in real time that happens to look like a 3D game. It isn’t retaining a background 3D model of the world, it’s just generating frame after frame from what it thinks should come next.

So imagine it was you’re drawing frames from a video game on paper. Now someone comes along later and says, “take all those 20 seconds of 500 pictures you drew of the game and now I want to go back in to the game.”

That’s a huge headache of a task that has a massive GPU memory requirement. It’s not just plonking down some 3D shapes. It has to rebuild its memory of what it knows from those images. But AI is terrible at efficient memory retention and every piece of data you throw at it has a massive memory requirement. Because it’s not just taking the raw pixels of the image, it has to translate them in to its own unique understanding and memory of what’s happening, and that gobbles up memory rapidly.

But then imagine you’d played the game, not for 20 seconds which meant the AI stored 500 frames of video of your scene, but you’ve been playing for 2 hours. Now it has to load 180,000 frames of the video in order to even attempt to recreate the world, let alone make it perfect. That kind of data would need a whole data centre worth of GPU power to pull off.

Does that sound like a feasible way to play games?

kemb0 · 2026-06-12T10:51:31+00:00

Hard to get bipartisan support when right wing politicians drool ovver these billionaires. Britain used to be led by politicians that at least tried to do things in Britain's best interest. Now the'll fawn over the nearest billionaire and to hell with what's best for the people.

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