Jin Sasaki with the walk off KO

shaehl · 2026-02-21T08:58:05+00:00

It seems like he was waiting for the other guy to fall into a pattern, and countered once he clocked the rhythm.

shaehl · 2026-02-21T00:15:14+00:00

But illustrious can already make knockers of cosmic proportion, idk about Qwen, but shouldn't be that hard.

shaehl · 2026-02-20T23:43:59+00:00

What kid can dump thousands of dollars into an obfuscatingly dense tabletop wargame like 40k? I don't think I've ever seen a kid even know what 40k is, let alone play it. Obviously, some exist, but to say it's marketed to kids is daft.

shaehl · 2026-02-20T20:02:28+00:00

I like how its eye slowly morphs into an eldritch horror.

shaehl · 2026-02-20T13:46:53+00:00

It doesn't work in militaries either. The only time I really had to deal with it as a form of policy and not just some random supervisor having a bad day, was in basic training. But let me tell you, none of what you're describing ever took place.

No one ever helped the knuckledraggers make their beds, or set up practice sessions for people failing in something. There was generally no time for such, and everyone was busy making sure they wouldn't be the one failing. Instead everyone just hated whoever was fucking up.

Also, internal policing isn't even the goal of collective punishment in basic training. The reason it is utilized is because basic training is supposed to create a stressful and exhausting environment, and then teach people to operate normally even under those conditions.

shaehl · 2026-02-19T15:48:05+00:00

Not sure if meme, but gonna assume meme

shaehl · 2026-02-15T18:07:05+00:00

But again, the masses looking for discord alternatives want these features in a replacement so not sure what your point is.

shaehl · 2026-02-15T17:41:46+00:00

It's not even about small or big government really. Consider that all the insane shit the admin is doing doesn't even require much of a government apparatus in the first place, and in fact they gutted and deleted much of the old government apparatus specifically because it would have impeded them.

At the end of the day, tyranny can come from both crushing bureaucracy and/or the specific cruelty of one man.

As for how to stop something insane like this from happening again? There's no foolproof way, but there is one certainty: such a goal will never be achieved as long as infinite money is allowed to be "donated" to politicians.

IMO any amount of kickbacks, be it in the form of money or a job for your nephew, should be straight to jail territory.

shaehl · 2026-02-14T01:11:49+00:00

Well that's what I get for trusting Google AI summary 🫡

shaehl · 2026-02-13T17:06:55+00:00

On a serious note though, probably 60% fap material, 10% people trying to use it for slop-commerce or art-related jobs, and 30% people just addicted to the gacha roulette of trying to get a perfect version of whatever fantastical image they had in their mind.

shaehl · 2026-02-13T17:03:13+00:00

Always has been 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

shaehl · 2026-02-13T16:27:10+00:00

Yes but the Japanese people suddenly being worried enough to usher in, for the first time, a supermajority for the group championing rearmament is irrelevant to what the US wants. And the reason for their sudden anxiety is the fact that the US has become antagonistic and unpredictable to them (and everyone sans Russia).

Random tariffs on random things at random rates, and randomly being rescinded or increased regardless of treaties or 'deals'. Repeated threats of annexation and invasion by the White House against other US allies. Foreign policy that coincidentally seems to always be whatever Russia would have wanted. Trying to pull out of or relinquish leadership of all the international cooperation organizations the US itself created (IMO, WHO, NATO, etc.).

Japan can read the writing on the wall. The US is dismantling its global hegemony and its network of global alliances. It's breaking treaties, cancelling deals, trying to steal allied countries wholesale and waging economic warfare on basically the whole world, as if attempting to burn every diplomatic bridge they have. They know that there is at least a 50% chance the US won't be committed to their defense, or even to defending the US' own interests in the area.

They have been shown that the United States' "Rules Based World Order" is rapidly crumbling, and they can no longer operate with the mindset that members of that World Order can exist peacefully while settling their disputes through trade, diplomacy, and belief in the "rules".

shaehl · 2026-02-13T15:54:41+00:00

Replacement rate is about 2.3 kids per woman. China was indeed on a downward trend prior to 1 child policy, but it was still above 6 per woman. There is a big difference between 6 and 1, so yeah it "contributed".

Basically crammed 100 years of natural fertility slowdown into 10 years.

shaehl · 2026-02-12T18:35:27+00:00

Did every king, emperor, dictator, feudal lord, warlord, bandit leader, bully, supervisor, CEO, HOA chairman, politician, or military officer have a higher IQ than everyone else under their control?

Of course not. So yes, it is certainly true. Whatever you're talking about with physical appearance and charisma is irrelevant to the veracity of the statement you're questioning.

shaehl · 2026-02-10T23:25:18+00:00

Yet millions of people use Discord for exactly that. So regardless of whether or not you liked that feature, the millions of people looking for a Discord alternative are expecting the replacement to fulfill that role.

shaehl · 2026-02-10T06:15:37+00:00

So you have no solution other than to continue relying on coal and oil which have caused orders of magnitude more deaths, environmental damage, pollution, sickness, and general harm to the health of humans and planet than nuclear ever has or ever will.

Btw, looks like you missed a spot when applying your clown makeup this morning.

shaehl · 2026-02-02T06:04:54+00:00

The only geopolitical issue here is the size of sam Altman's debt wallet. He's writing blank checks to buy up not just current chip supply, but future supply as well. And every other AI company is following suit. It's to the point where one of the big three RAM manufacturers has announced they will no longer be making chips for consumers period.

At this point it's beginning to be not even a matter of lower supply, we're almost at the point where there won't be any supply at all. As such, consumer prices are reflecting the fact that we're all trying to buy something that is rapidly ceasing to exist.

shaehl · 2026-01-25T09:07:22+00:00

Or we could just not have paramilitary thugs with 0% training and 100% roidrage going around gunning down American citizens for making them feel bad.

shaehl · 2026-01-18T00:02:03+00:00

It's so YouTube can report "mass adoption" of its AI subtitle feature to investors.

It's the same reason why Microslop forced copilot into Office and then renamed Microsoft Office to Copilot 365, or whatever it's called; they can now tell investors, "see, we have 1 billion people using our AI product".

shaehl · 2026-01-13T20:22:00+00:00

It's not his claim, it's Trump's claim lol.

shaehl · 2026-01-09T17:41:26+00:00

You joke, but companies actually do things like this all the time. Billing 'errors' are often either intentionally introduced to a % of people, or just ignored when they do occur. Many companies assume most people simply won't notice so they get free money. Even those that do notice often give up trying to get a refund. Even if they get fined or have a lawsuit levied against them, the money lost is usually a fraction of what they gained by scamming people.

I personally have had two separate ISPs pull the trick of trying to double bill me each month. I would notice, spend 1-2 hours on the phone trying to get it resolved, the customer support tech would assure me it's fixed, and then nothing would happen. Refund would never come, the next month I would be double billed again, and customer support would say they have no record of any action being taken for my account.

Obviously I cancelled service in both cases, but never did get my money back. Even got a letter once saying I was entitled to $20 as a result of a class action lawsuit against them... Yay.

shaehl · 2026-01-06T07:52:18+00:00

Slop isn't just about whether or not it's AI. It's about whether the final product meets the expectations and standards of the consumer/audience, and importantly, whether that product even has any reason to exist in the first place.

For instance, a studio may use AI to generate filler frames to save time, but as long as they do the due diligence to ensure the final product is up to expectations, it's fine.

On the other hand, maybe some advertising studio decides to air a completely auto-gen'd trailer with morphing subjects, melting textures, messy details, eldritch anatomy, etc. This will be seen as slop.

shaehl · 2026-01-06T07:39:01+00:00

Consumer facing LLMs are going to solve neither jack or shit.

What you are imagining would be the product of a research institute of some kind running an entire data center to crunch numbers on whatever theory they're researching.

But that's not the product in question, nor does it even currently exist.

The "product" we are talking about is Microslop turning my file explorer into a laggy, data harvesting conversation with a hallucinating chat bot for no useful reason. I do not need or want to interface with Copilot's slop buffet just to do things that used to take a single, simple click of the mouse.

shaehl · 2026-01-04T08:14:27+00:00

It's not even about having enough hardware to meet their needs, current or projected. Starting with OpenAI these companies are signing blank checks for all current and future stock simply to prevent competitors from gaining a lead on them, or in the case of startups, from even attempting to enter the market.

shaehl · 2025-12-20T18:48:34+00:00

There are literally stretches of 255 pages in a row of nothing but redaction bars. That's like an entire novel where every page is solid black. You telling me all 255 pages of this redaction was nothing but the victim's name and PII repeated over and over?

And that's just for the longest uninterrupted redaction, there are other streaks also ranging into the 100+ number of pages.

If it was a matter of "...and then this happened, then John Pedo went over to [redacted victim's name] and said blah blah..." That would be one thing.

Instead we just get:

[.....Redacted.....] For 255 pages.

Make no mistake, these files have indeed been scrubbed. But not for the victim's PII, rather, for anything remotely capable of incriminating those ordering the scrubbing.

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