Yea, probably… That, or they’ll blockade the St Lawrence and starve them out.

Wow, and I thought the nobel one was worthless.

Perhaps the island of Montreal could hold out as a revolutionary enclave against the facist theocracy.

Have they even presented any evidence whatsoever that there were drugs on these boats?

The media keeps saying “suspected drug boats”, which makes it sound like they actually kind of care who they’re murdering, but I’m not convinced that’s the case. Maybe “imagined drug boats” would be more apt.

The attack began with an airburst munition exploding above the vessel and killing nine crew members. The two men who survived were then visible floating in the water.

So, there were eleven people on this small boat. Why the fuck would you have 11 people on a smuggling boat? No, this is just a random terrorist attack, perpetrated by the notorious terrorist organization know as “the US military”.

I did! There is an incredible amount of stuff going on. I love the dramatic lighting shots too, they really bring out the “nightmare” feeling.

This is completely insane, I love it.

I’ve just convinced my mum to give Linux a go too 😊

She’s getting an SSD out of the deal too, so it’ll be a sweet upgrade.

…or just liquidate the company’s assets outright.

Dooooo it

Most effective marketing ever, got me running Linux Mint already.

I wouldn’t even recommend using LLMs in place of search engines, since they make stuff up. If it’s providing sources, you can check those, but you have to be rigorous enough to check every detail, which just isn’t realistic. People are lazy.

The best way I’ve heard them described is “bullshit machines”, and I don’t say that because I think they’re stupid, but because they “bullshit” as opposed to lying or telling the truth. When you’re bullshitting, the truth is irrelevant, as long as it sounds good. That’s exactly how LLMs work.

So if there’s a problem that can be solved by bullshitting, that’s where an LLM might be the right tool for the job.

Last time I tried to use AI at work, it decided lobster was vegan.

More like a nice square number 😏

🤣

I like to show them this:

I kinda see liberals as generally fitting into two categories.

One is straight up horrible people who just want to maintain a decent image. (This includes like 99% of the politicians)

Two is generally well meaning people who just aren’t that politically savvy, and they hear scary stories about the “far right” and “radical left” so they figure “somewhere in the middle” must be the sweet spot.

I’ve wondered if this would be feasible… it’s very cool to see someone actually doing it. Hopefully in time the kinks will get worked out and it can actually become competitive.

Of course “immigrant” is mostly a code word for “brown person” these days, but yes, this is an excellent illustration of the hipocrisy of being a settler and raging about immigrants.

That’s cool, but it sounds more like a useful tool for your work. If we’re talking about artistic merit, upscaling and noise reduction isn’t getting you there.

Clients expect a clean, high-res image because they’re paying for it, but no one has ever been a great photographer just because they had a lot of megapixels.

Getting to the level of a top-tier pro is hard, sure, but getting decent enough to derive satisfaction from the activity and make images people can enjoy isn’t really all that hard if it’s something you’re actually interested in.

Nvidia always wins?

Cuba’s system of governance does not conform to western liberal norms, but that doesn’t make it bad, it’s just different. The Cuban people have a remarkable amount of input into their own governance.

I know tankiejerk is the wrong place to be saying this, and if all you want to do is jerk, have fun. But if you’re legitimately curious, “We Are Cuba” by Helen Yaffe is a cool dive into kind of how Cuba works in general.