totaly agree with your firs two points…

re: training and operators - my take on it is this has all the hallmarks of a swarm setup constantly recharging a portion of it’s numbers… Ukraine has illustrated that AI shit’s coming quickly, even if llm’s and jensen huang are wildly out of touch.

and it promotes harmony between different cultures in a way I’ve never seen - you can’t talk shit about anyone based on religion, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Singapore

“The Sedition Act also prohibits seditious acts and speech which “promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore,” and the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act (MRHA) empowers the Minister for Home Affairs to take a pre-emptive approach by issuing restraining orders against a religious leader that has committed or is attempting to commit certain acts threatening religious harmony.”

it’s a microcosm of different cultures crushed together with little room for debate, should things go partisan conflict tragedies would rapidly ensue; but the restrictions on freedom of speech seem fraught with potential pitfalls…

I look at Singapore like Taiwan - they seem to genuinely try to do the best for a broader range than most, and each face unique ethnic and geographic complexities that they’ve overcome through enginuity and clever, hard working populaces.

But yeah, murdering people for pot… fuck man…

it would take a lot of books to bribe me into marriage…

but I’m willing to see where it goes.

this is how you do it people. cut them out of our society.

YUUP.

this interview is hilarious. the aura is starting to wane and it appears Jensen thinks he can simply ramble his way through explaining why we should all still just be incredibly grateful for the state of the shitshow they’ve architected…

nope.

dress it up however you like, it’s simply texas ‘exceptionalism’ and a load of horse shit.

all hat, no cattle, all slavery, no liberty. you guys wanted and fought, TWICE, for a slavery republic.

look at the fucking constitutions bud. what kind of shithole mandates the bondage of people to the point where EVEN THE FUCKIN SLAVE OWNERS COULDN’T EMANCIPATE THEIR ‘PROPERTY’?

think about that racist bullshit and stop trying to make it all about the big bad santa ana, there was plenty of evil in texas to go around

yep

I must be a weirdo because I ripped through all of Frank Herbert’s dune books then went on to read his other stuff like The Whipping Star, Dosadi Experiment, and White Plague.

that guy writes shit that excites my neurons.

The Machine Stops

dude this is a banger, thanks!

The lady literally told them “Fuck the whole lot of you!” She put the house up for sale at bargain-basement price in order to sell it and move out as quickly as possible, so none of her kids would get anything at all after she’s dead.

legend. I’d have her over on christmas every year.

shockwave damage

well, that’s the thing… these kind of pressure waves do tremendous damage IN tissue. outside of tissue, small arms caliber? ehhh… I don’t think there’s enough transfer from one medium to another - from the air to flesh. It’s def something I’d love to see tested.

And he’d be deaf, right?

you can sustain a tremendous amount of mangling on the exterior of the ear and still hear. I don’t disagree it’d be mangled tho, not this slight nick. I think he grabbed glass and cut his own ear.

none of those actions was to further slavery. still better than slavers.

most def, but it wasn’t and they didn’t. hence the shitty comparison.

he’s also Pvt. Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D’Onofrio

no, because that was shitty resolution from an absolutely tiny camera. it should have set a standard but was so distinctly obvious externally and useless for the task that it didn’t trigger the response I guess.

this shit absolutely can ‘pass’ and should be banned posthaste.

perhaps, but he wasn’t a slaver. so compared to the slave owners resisting mexican rule for the explicit purpose of keeping humans in bondage, I dunno man, I think the assholes at the Alamo were total dicks.

Yup, well put and nicely detailed.

Texas was so into slavery that both of their constitutions mandated it, and even went so far as to specify that slaveowners could NOT emancipate their own slaves.

Texas NEVER teaches this history in schools, I took two semesters of Texas history in high school and one semester of Texas history in college, not once did they even mention slavery outside the context of the US civil war, and even then it was mostly about juneteenth and not their own miserable slaver loving history.

And the Alamo? Haha, they’ll never admit that was caused directly by their refusal to give up their slaves. It’s hilariously ignorant.

the smells, the sloshing, what could possibly go wrong?