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VerminOctopus1··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
I think any Canadian that identifies as “far left” would find your post hysterical. They don’t even have a party to vote for anymore - best they can do is a begrudging vote for the NDP. This country has been on a rightward shift for decades. e.g. look at the hard push towards privatization of government services in Ontario.
VerminOctopus1··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
What province to what province? This is an incredibly shallow observation without more information.
VerminOctopus1··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
I’ve noticed a ton of non-Canadians like to reference this event as if it’s some incredible example of government tyranny gone too far. Nearly anyone who lived in Ottawa during this time (like me) would say the police completely failed the city, and the “protests” went on for literal weeks too long due to inaction and incompetence by all levels of government.
VerminOctopus1··on China is the manufacturing superpower
The hardware is extremely important…
VerminOctopus1··on Why Canada Should Join the EU
…Have you ever even been to Quebec? If you go anywhere outside of Montreal, you’re lucky if anyone even speaks english. It’s all heavily French.
VerminOctopus1··on A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
Ah yes, I wonder why the chefs haven’t thought of this.
VerminOctopus1··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
I don’t understand how this is a constitutional violation like you claim. Let’s pretend he posted something absurd on Twitter for arguments sake, like “I’m going to use my rockets to kill every endangered bird on every California beach”, do you think that should not be considered when evaluating the request for more launches?
VerminOctopus1··on The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
What an utterly bizarre thing to post on a thread about the Nobel prize for physiology/medicine.
VerminOctopus1··on American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway
In the case described above, it was used illegally under international law.
VerminOctopus1··on Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike
Is this accurate? I thought wages were between 20 and 40 hourly.
VerminOctopus1··on Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike
If your job was being directly and imminently threatened by automation, and you were queued up to be replaced by a machine, would you not fight back?
VerminOctopus1··on The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]
This guy is literally advocating for Nazi eugenics. Is this the kind of content that’s OK on this website now?

Given the downvotes, guess there are plenty of people here that are pro-eugenics and support thinning the herd of “low IQ individuals” lest they reproduce.

VerminOctopus1··on Boeing workers vote to strike
And why would they demand that? That’s management’s responsibility. The workers want fair compensation for their labor.
VerminOctopus1··on NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion
This is quite obviously not a “real” syndrome caused by foreign adversaries. The physics, scale of “attack”, timeline, vagueness of symptoms, etc, all do not add up to a coherent phenomenon. Please put your skeptic hats on regarding this subject.
VerminOctopus1··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
I’m neither religious nor against sex or whatever nonsense you’re talking about. I’m for law and order, and for suppressing bad actors in society.
VerminOctopus1··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
Quite the claim and hyperbole. I’m fairly certain the exact opposite will happen because most people are not tech savvy and will not bother to circumvent the blocks in place. Some local alternatives will pop up and they’ll use that instead. Twitter is also no longer the town hall of the internet, or whatever people were calling it.
VerminOctopus1··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
I find the conflation of democracy and freedom of speech strange. They are entirely different things.
VerminOctopus1··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
In this case was X not explicitly asked to remove the illegal content? They could have simply complied with the local law and avoided this outcome. With their hardcore engineers I’m sure they could have come up with a region-locked solution.
VerminOctopus1··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
Well this is fun. Nice to see a government with some teeth for once instead of bowing to the whims of every multibillion mega corporation or agitated billionaire.
VerminOctopus1··on We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
Sounds like the founder worked for the CIA for several years. Color me a little suspicious of anything that comes from this company.
VerminOctopus1··on Artificial intelligence is losing hype
That’s very literally “productive “.
VerminOctopus1··on BYD Launches Hybrids with 1,300-Mile Driving Range
The US does this as well. They’ve dumped billions into Tesla alone.
VerminOctopus1··on Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25,000 EV
The man has lied and mislead numerous times, kind of hard to take his word on anything
VerminOctopus1··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
I’ve thought about it systematically and it appears to be genocide
VerminOctopus1··on Timeline of the xz open source attack
Chronic mental health issues are extremely common.
VerminOctopus1··on There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
I’m watching the excellent Ken Burns documentary “The Vietnam War” right now, and this is a subject that is briefly touched on. The US was collecting such a vast amount of data and metrics during their war, quantifying everything, that they simply could not process it all. They didn’t have the minds or the manpower to make sense of it all.
VerminOctopus1··on Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
Some fungi can survive the conditions of space, which is pretty incredible. I think that’s basically it.
VerminOctopus1··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
We are already in the midst of a massive extinction event. It’s called the holocene extinction, you can research it. There is an ongoing collapse of biodiversity at a rapid rate.
VerminOctopus1··on Got fed up with 36 hours of weekly meetings. Built something to fix it
Our company recently mandated everyone nuke their calendars of all recurring internal meetings to kick off 2024. Then, only add back the ones that provide value. It was a good exercise that definitely helped clear up my calendar.
VerminOctopus1··on Polars
It’s not written for you and that’s fine. This is a library targeted at a very specific subset of people and you’re not in it.
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