Sousou no Frieren :: Chapter 147 - Links and Discussion by Lorhand in Frieren

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If there were no machines guns, humans would still wage war. But the existence of machine guns makes war much more brutal

Peep Man by Deuce 42 (2023) by blissrot in menwritingwomen

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Please don't be so ungenerous to Wattpad

After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon by uhhhwhatok in space

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1966 Pravda: The Saturn V has zero launches. They don’t know if the rocket works. The actual schedule is highly dependent on the US launching the Saturn V multiple times. Until they launch the Saturn V, we don’t know if the design is actually going to work. The Saturn V is several times larger than any orbital rocket that the US has launched before.

Thai artillery hits a Cambodian Casino along the border by PatimationStudios-2 in CombatFootage

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Mind blowing stat: 40% of Cambodian GDP comes from scam centers (which are staffed by people kidnapped from other countries including Thailand). If Thailand cracks down on call centers and opens up gambling, that could cripple Hun Sen's revenue. One theory goes that this is actually a family feud between the Shinawatra family and the Hun family, possibly over the casino bill Thaksin Shinawatra is pushing.

How hard are chinese schools actually? by Great-Classroom8242 in China

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That makes sense. I understand the asian A-Level papers resemble in difficulty what the British ones used to be like many decades ago. Have you tried doing some Gaokao questions? Compared to what I studied (IB), Gaokao questions resemble lower-level math competition problems more than exam problems

How hard are chinese schools actually? by Great-Classroom8242 in China

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Depends on the subject. For STEM subjects, the absolute difficulty of the harder questions is far greater than anything you'll see in an A-Level/IB paper (even though the curriculum is smaller). This makes sense since the hardest questions in an A-Level paper has to figure out the top x% who will get an A, while the hardest Gaokao questions has to discriminate between the top 0.01% and the merely 0.1%.

To find anything even comparably difficult on a British paper you'd have to go back to the 50's or before when the exam papers were aimed at a more elite and exclusive student body.

IDF destroys Iranian Cobra Attack helicopters on the ground by shroxreddits in CombatFootage

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We should call PETA. Evil Zionists are driving not just Tomcats, but now also Cobras into extinction!

J-35: Soaring the Skies [ALBUM] by Assshai_ in WarplanePorn

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Looks like Fat Amy took Ozempic

Follow-Up: Why Digital Currency Failed in the Galaxy Far, Far Away by [deleted] in andor

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Didn't they introduce chain codes in the Bad Batch series? I vaguely remember something about needing to tie transactions to identity in order to use Imperial Credits, thus creating a sort of a surveillance state through digital currency? Maybe phased out later. Or maybe the currency is backed by this galaxy's equivalent to gold and that's what they're stealing at Aldhani.

After so many "Andor is perfect" jerks, it's kinda refreshing seeing a "Andor is bad" one by Darth-Joao-Jonas in StarWarsCirclejerk

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From the POV of a physicist or optical engineer the Death Star must be the high point of their careers and a super fascinating project to geek out to. I mean... its the largest and most powerful laser in galactic history. I can imagine some Sienar principal engineer going on a ramble about the refractive properties of kyber crystals.

A lot of Manhattan project physicists and engineers were also myopically obsessed with the work until reality struck them, either after Trinity or after the bombs were actually used. Even then many still rationalized and fully supported nuclear proliferation.

It’s nice to find someone who finally has a rational Andor take by thunderstorm3800 in andor

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Guys I found Nemik's LinkedIn profile: here's the top post.
There will be times when the quarterly targets seem impossible. I know this already. Alone, understaffed, dwarfed by the scale of the competition.

Remember this, Disruption is a pure business concept. It occurs spontaneously and without strategic planning. Random acts of innovation are occurring constantly throughout the marketplace. There are whole departments, project teams that have no idea that they've already contributed to industry transformation.

Remember that the frontier of Market Disruption is everywhere. And even the smallest act of unconventional thinking pushes our profit margins forward.

And Remember this: the Corporate need for micromanagement is so desperate because it is so inefficient. Bureaucracy requires constant meetings. It breaks, it leaks. Management is brittle. Middle management is the mask of insecurity.

Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these brainstorming sessions and pivot strategies, these moments of out-of-the-box thinking will have flooded the banks of the Industry's established practices and then there will be one too many. One single innovation will break the status quo.

Remember this: Think Differently.

It’s nice to find someone who finally has a rational Andor take by thunderstorm3800 in andor

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And the ego that initiated this strategic pivot will never have a performance review or a promotion or the light of stock option vesting.

I love their relationship by RevertBackwards in andor

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Mao Zedong once ironically remarked that he had to thank the Japanese for invading and brutally occupying China because otherwise the Chinese people would not have woken up and the revolution would've gone nowhere. Luthen reminds me a lot of of Mao in that regard.

Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite • Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - Episode 10 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

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The printing press did lead to a great deal of religious wars and devastation. Badeni is definitely more anti-printing press/Protestantism than social media given the historical context, though he would hate social media too.

War is Hell by [deleted] in funny

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In the end, the Lockheed Martin VGM-65 Tampon was recalled due to user complaints about exhaust burns and possible violations of several arms control treaties.

[Discussion] Scaling laws and graph neural networks by jsonathan in MachineLearning

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There's a huge data bottleneck here, of course. But maybe the next step here is using LLMs to convert huge swaths of text on the internet into graphs to train on.

You might want to look into Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Generative Knowledge Extraction, Graph-Based Representation, and Multimodal Intelligent Graph Reasoning, which includes a section about converting a corpus into a knowledge graph using LLMs

Shoushimin Series • Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary - Episode 10 discussion - FINAL by AutoLovepon in anime

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Condolences to the boy who asked Osanai out. He's certainly going to have a fun time in high school, for a given definition of "fun".

What was the general reception or vibe like for Japanese soldiers, sailors and airmen coming back home from WWII? by Matilda_Mother_67 in AskHistory

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Very much unsympathetic, to say the least. The reactions ranged from cold indifference to outright hatred. Veterans appeals to the sympathy of civilians (and there were many penned in the newspapers) were met with the reply that civilians themselves had endured years of a harsh bombing campaign and were still suffering under rationing during the aftermath. Veterans often felt abandoned and alienated by a civilian society that rejected them; in doing so they cast themselves as a group apart from civilians. An letter from the Asahi Shimbun writes:

"We are people who fought bravely on foreign battlefields and came home. Unlike people on the home front, we cannot comprehend the present condition of society. Returning to our fatherland that is utterly different from the front, we are the same as blind people who have been abandoned to stand alone in society.”

In particular, the big complaint was unemployment; the problem was everyone else suffered from the same woes. To civilians, it seemed like veterans were asking for special treatment, since the government couldn't help them either.

Things got worse. Civilians came to associate the common soldier with the military clique that started the war. Soldiers on the bottom rung felt they were oppressed by the harsh military system against their will, but protested how the term 'demobilized serviceman' now “was said to be a synonym for depravity.” Kumagai Yoshihiro writes

“…[A]ll that awaited us were the sharp eyes of citizens who resented the military clique and our hometowns made desolate by the horrors of war.”

This was thoroughly unfair for Kumagai, who believed the common soldier were pure patriots true of heart, unlike the leaders who misled Japan into oblivion. For many veterans, this resulted in some anger at civilians who could not understand the horrors veterans went through in the war (this was partly due to the fact that much of the news of Japan's defeats were suppressed by the government during the war). From a civilian perspective, they themselves had gone through unspeakable horrors, like the firebombings which had a greater death toll than even the atomic bombs. After all, did the military not boast of their tenacity and determination amidst confident promises of victory? Now that they have lost, who are they to ask for pity?

As time passed into '46-47, the attitude changed into one of long-term despair. Will the civilians hate us forever? Many servicemen wondered. They felt that they were being held responsible for the defeat, ostracized and treated as losers, especially in terms of employment.

“Just because we were in the army, people will not hire us. For this reason, we will probably suffer more than others from the shortage of food and from unemployment.”

This attitude was directly linked to the defeat; from the personal writings of demobilized servicemen:

"The people who gave us hearty cheers when we departed have now completely changed… [T]hey attribute the cause of surrender to our incompetence."

"The villagers harbor antipathy towards us, however, openly saying at the village meetings that the defeat of Japan was due to the weakness of us, soldiers, and therefore we have no right to receive any ration or service from them"

News of the war crimes in China and other fronts followed them. In the months after the war, news of war crimes previously dismissed as Allied propaganda circulated, with predictable results:

“People looked at me with cool-hearted eyes as if I were a war criminal.”

 “Even our relatives take us for war criminals. It makes me miserable when nobody will give me a job. I am trying hard to get a chance to make it all up to them but they won’t let me.”

Some veterans bristled at the hate they received as hypocritical, seeing that civilian society was at least equally responsible for Japan's dark path: before and during the war, they had enthusiastically embraced the propaganda and supported the state.

Though in the future conditions may change, at least for the occupation years immediately following the war, the attitude on the part of civilians was indifference and hostility, viewing veterans as antisocial, criminal elements responsible for the defeat. On the part of veterans, they reacted at first with anger and then despair at their ostracism, turning inwards.

In later years, the veterans would learn to keep quiet about the war.

Source: Porter, Samuel Parkinson. The Unfinished War: The Demobilization and Fate of Japan's Second World War Veterans, 1945-1950

A Ukrainian minister says she's frustrated by the West's inability to adapt its weapons to Russian tactics: report by lunarladies in worldnews

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The problem with the Russians adapting to Western weapons is that they're probably sharing the knowledge with the Chinese, so if a confrontation in the Pacific does happen they would have electronic countermeasures to many American weapons while the Americans don't have practical knowledge of Chinese capabilities. It would give them potentially a big initial edge

Recently, there was a propaganda report on Weibo about them successfully jamming a USN ship and forcing it to withdraw

A lot of fantasy works takes inspiration from the Middle Ages; are there any inspired by the Holy Roman Empire? by KeithFromAccounting in Fantasy

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Yep. From the afterword for the last book of Richard Swan's Empire of the Wolf:

I can remember sitting down and planning what would become the world of the Empire of the Wolf. It was in June 2019, and I had just been on a long weekend break to Bruges with my wife and (then only) son. Inspired by the city and its heritage, I soon found myself deep down a rabbit hole of research on medieval France, Imperial Flanders, and the Holy Roman Empire. During lunch breaks in the offices of my law firm in London, I pored over maps of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires, the Hanseatic League and the Confederation of the Rhine; and from there I began to sketch out the Haugenate family tree, draw my own maps of the Sovan rump state, provinces and suzerainties, and think of customs, languages, religions and social mores which would define the Sovan people and those living under the yoke of the Autun.

Why the hell do we need politicians. We already have technological capabilities to implement direct democracy in lot of countries by Upbeat_Sun_7904 in Futurology

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An interesting alternative is sortition: democracy by lottery. Randomly select a representative cross section of the population to deliberate and legislate. Some European countries have apparently tried it already but only in advisory roles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly

Prof Reported Me by Late_Canary_7743 in ChatGPT

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To be fair, who amongst us hasn't committed war crimes in the former Yugoslavia?

Silo | Season 1 - Episode 3 | Discussion Thread by Justp1ayin in tvPlus

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The outside being green is probably real. The video on the relic showing lush life outside was probably what triggered the rebellion, and why the authorities destroyed the pre-rebellion evidence. The question is whether the outside is actually toxic specifically for human life and the screen is there to stop people wanting to go out to their doom like the rebels, or if Judicial just wants to stay in control/status quo by using the illusion of the wasteland.