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Messages - hector13

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I don’t understand that compulsion. What makes buying absolutely useless tat seem like a good idea?

Like for serious, my wife does this and I don’t know why. I’d really like to understand.

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General Discussion / Re: The Big Random Questions Thread
« on: October 15, 2022, 03:35:37 pm »
What do you mean, come on? You come on, guy.

Worrying about misanthropic AI is basically people being worried about the next step in human advancement, which has been the case since the dawn of history. Christ, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ug the Caveman was trying to stop his contemporaries from using fire or tools.

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General Discussion / Re: The Big Random Questions Thread
« on: October 15, 2022, 12:47:08 pm »
AI isn’t Skynet, and there’s no evidence it ever will be outside of Hollywood.

The worst thing AI is going to be is an ethics issue.

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General Discussion / Re: The Big Random Questions Thread
« on: October 15, 2022, 11:12:22 am »
Novel your vision of the future must be terrifying and I'd like to know what grounds you base this vision off of.

For a start, people didn't write Cyberpunk stories as a joke.

They did write it as fiction though.

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General Discussion / Re: Terrible Jokes
« on: October 14, 2022, 12:44:55 pm »
::) What's a dukdoo?

Dukdoo deez nuts.

Wait.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: October 14, 2022, 12:42:15 pm »
Robbie Coltrane died.

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MAD is the deterrence: if you shoot nukes at me, I still have time to shoot nukes back at you, nobody wins.

Putin isn’t any more likely to use nukes in Ukraine because of Macron’s announcement.

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Yeah, and the US and Russia have thousands of warheads each, pushing 6k if I recall correctly, with between 1/6 and 1/3 of them deployed. France is nothing in comparison.

MAD is just that. Wishing for it is the same.

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This reminds me of The Thick of It, when Malcolm Tucker is effectively trying to bully someone into resigning a ministerial position, when he says that if thr guy resigns after so short a time it looks like he fucked up, but if the PM sacks him after so short a time, it looks like the PM fucked up.

Also, I like the word omnishambles, which Truss is looking more and more to be.

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France doesn’t have that many nukes - a few hundred compared to the many thousand of Russia and the US - so it’s not that big a deal.

If Biden said something like that, it would be a problem, as they’re the only country on par with Russia with nuclear weapons in terms of numbers.

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She sacked Kwarteng and announced another u-turn on policy, this time saying she won’t cut the corporation tax rise.

She also took four questions at the press conference announcing all that.

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I think they’re just afraid that their own anti-air defenses will shoot them down again.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 14, 2022, 12:20:16 am »
I mean… Biden had the most votes received by any candidate in election history so… indeed, Trump, from the same election, has the second most votes ever for a candidate.

So yeah. I get what you’re saying, but Biden won. Trump probably encouraged a lot of people to vote, and sure, when more people vote Republicans tend to lose, but the implication is anybody standing against Trump would have won, which really, given they were literally running in the same campaign they ran on 4 years prior, would mean Clinton would’ve won then.

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General Discussion / Re: Terrible Jokes
« on: October 13, 2022, 06:48:17 pm »
As far as inventions go, whiteboards are truly remarkable.

It’s not as impressive as a dukdoo.

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Mafia / Re: Mafia Setup Discussion and Review
« on: October 13, 2022, 03:51:10 pm »
Pretty sure they were in college so had little time for it, and I was a proper cunt to them i every game I played with them.

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