it’s clearly the future

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and need to deal with targeting ads to chuds to drive them to your merch

seems risky. how much would you need to sell to make it worthwhile? how much of that will you need to front for printing and traveling around following trump? how well can you afford to lose all of that money and time if they don’t bite?

a classic, and it’s certainly in the training data

the day is approaching when we can ask an ai model to solve all of physics and it can actually create raving nonsensical rants claiming to be a grand unified theory of everything while denouncing the academic establishment for ignoring its genius, thereby automating the thankless task of giving physics grad students someone to punch down on

diacritical support to the dèmo̊crâtïc pe̥o̐plẻ’s rȩpǔbli̊c ôf kŏrȇa̧ and its struggle against the genocidal american empire

“The question in this case is whether [the federal law] also makes it a crime for state and local officials to accept gratuities — for example, gift cards, lunches, plaques, books, framed photos or the like — that may be given as a token of appreciation after the official act. The answer is no,” said Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, writing for the majority.

Despite his reference to token gifts such as lunches and framed photos, the federal law was triggered only by payments of more than $5,000.

yeah, or the like here means a 1.2% finder’s fee on a million dollar contract explicitly solicited by a city mayor, but it happened after the contract was already awarded, so that’s just the cost of doing business, i guess

without transubstantiation is just

they’ll probably smugly point out that it’s tongue-in-cheek and both island are on the canadian side of the imaginary line that runs through the st. lawrence river but it’d be kinda funny if some border patrol agents decided to wait on the “american” island to tackle and arrest the homeowner for illegal entry or something

chapo.chat since it was created before the site changed names

it’s for mod and admin chat, mainly, but there is a public chat room that’s almost never used

the speculative ai bubble is going to make these next few years be deeply unserious

humans starting keeping books full of numbers and invented rules to move the numbers around long before we had computability theory, and invented laws to enshrine the sanctity of those numbers and punish anyone who manipulates the numbers against the rules, and constructed sociolegal algorithms to drive up the numbers, and in our slavish devotion to this machine we’ve built around ourselves, our final desperate pleading hope is that it will create an “artificial intelligence” for us that will somehow in its statistical hallucinations provide answers that help us escape before the machine bleeds to death

“we’re bombing the allies of god in yemen” also doesn’t play very well to a saudi audience

a sufficiently advanced bougie liberal group is indistinguishable from a psyop, yeah

(or even choose crops other than “crops”)

it’s pretty convenient having a monoculture that’s fungible for all your basic needs

food

livestock

alcohol

fabric

that’s the best reason yet yo do it!

iran should designate the rcmp a terrorist organization

opposable thumbs and their consequences have been a disaster for humanity