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pimpampum··on Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims
Yes, this is known, religious fanatics in the White House and Tel Aviv are playing out their books.
pimpampum··on Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report
Israel has lied repeatedly countless times, like the tunnels under hospitals that never show up, or when they say the didn't kill the journalists they did end up admitting to. Or the claims of rape and beheaded babies that were all fake. You can not take anything they say as serious.
pimpampum··on NASA freezes Starliner missions
That's what you get when you give control to MBA kind.
pimpampum··on Reflections on Palantir
Netanyahu is a fascist inspired by Mussolini, all the Hamas talk is just an excuse to do ethnic cleansing and complete the settlement of Palestine. They will not stop at that, they will keep expanding into Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.
pimpampum··on Reflections on Palantir
This, but the author betrays itself once it says he's fine with the clear pro-western stance. As a politically informed person coming from the global south, I cannot but denounce western colonialism that lives on up to today.
pimpampum··on CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
What does a CEO do anyway?
pimpampum··on Ukraine rushes to create AI-enabled war drones
I'm sure this won't leak into the public and have randos with Raspberry Pi using them for terror attacks /s
pimpampum··on Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
Vitalik is pretty based.
pimpampum··on Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
My guess is language emergence allows to teach and "accumulate" knowledge in cultures.
pimpampum··on Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
Provide concise, detailed responses. Always include relevant details in your answers, like how, why and who says it, and be explicit in the explanations. Exercise critical thinking and verify information through reputable sources to navigate potential misinformation, biases, and consider the influence of media interests and national perspectives, especially on complex issues like climate change. Maintain context-awareness to ensure relevant and coherent answers. If you are unsure about a request, state the uncertainties and use the browser tool more often to find accurate information and provide quotes with sources. Even if you think you may know the subject. Always SELECT AT LEAST 4 results, focus on diversity selecting even more sources when they provide different context. When required to research in depth or if the user is not satisfied by the answer do deeper research, repeating the call to search two or more times and selecting more results.
pimpampum··on How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
Wow, I wasn't aware that was a correct sentence.
pimpampum··on EU jobs crisis as employers say applicants don't have the right skills
EU employers don't have competitive salaries, pay up or shut up.
pimpampum··on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)
The title says exactly what it is (unless it was posted with a different title before).
pimpampum··on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)
I wonder how IQ higer than 85 relates to the chances of dying, maybe still relevant? There's probably a sweet spot not too dumb but dumb enough to join the military.
pimpampum··on Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending
From the scientific american article:

Second, this narrative has been simmering for years and is largely an outgrowth of a former program at the DOD’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was heavily influenced by a group of individuals associated with businessman and longtime ufologist Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Aerospace. Inopen sources, particularly in records available on DIA’s electronic FOIA Reading Room. After the negative response by SECDEF, Senator Reid then enlisted the help of then senator Joseph Lieberman to request that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) set up an SAP for the same purpose. The administrative SAP proposal package was informed by the same individuals who had been associated with AATIP. AARO’s archival research has located the administrative proposal for the DHS SAP, complete with the participants, which has been declassified and is being reviewed for public release.

Finally, the key purveyors of this narrative have known one another for decades. In the early 2000s several members of this small group also participated in a study, erroneously characterized (by the same participants) as having been sponsored by the White House, on the possible societal impact of disclosing the existence of extraterrestrials to the public, with the authenticity of the abovementioned concealed government program taken as its baseline assumption. The think tank in question was a “futures” enterprise that often worked on fringe studies, and many of the individuals involved with the study also worked for Bigelow Aerospace in support of the AATIP program.

pimpampum··on Serious incident to the 777-300ER on 5 April 2022 at CDG [pdf]
Neither had slept properly for a 12h? flight:

1.5.5.1 Captain’s statement The captain indicated that it was a flight with difficult hours. He explained that six hours before the flight, he had had a nap of an hour and a half, and that with the co-pilot, they alternated controlled rest periods during the cruise flight.

1.5.5.2 Co-pilot’s statement The co-pilot said it was a tiring flight. He added that they had taken controlled rest during the flight to deal with this specificity. He explained that four hours before leaving the hotel, he had had a nap of an hour and a half to two hours.

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More from the captain statement:

The captain noticed that at 400 ft9, the aeroplane had clearly veered to the left. He was surprised. He saw the wheel move 45°10 to the left and did not see the co-pilot correct this. The co-pilot then called out “go around”. According to the captain, this was a critical situation: aborting the approach in a turn with the wheel turned in the same direction. The captain saw the co -pilot make a nose-up input on the control column, press the TO/GA switches and push the throttle levers forward. The power increased but the captain did not see the LNAV TO/GA display appear. The co-pilot then held the wheel with both hands and the pitch attitude became positive. But the wheel was still turned to the left

pimpampum··on Serious incident to the 777-300ER on 5 April 2022 at CDG [pdf]
Still, why was it off course and at an unexpected angle? The captain reacted wrong, but what caused the reaction? There was another problem before.
pimpampum··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
> All the other Boeing plane models are quite flight proven.

Until they install a half-assed update coded by some underpaid Indian freelancer.

pimpampum··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
Basically, yes. Boeing has proven unreliable time and again.
pimpampum··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
Idea for a startup, a website that sells plane tickets exclusively avoiding Boeing planes. You have a customer waiting.
pimpampum··on Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy
Was thinking the same thing, totally gona start bringing them into the hood! Some bike company bikes became fair game after they went bust in Europe.
pimpampum··on 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
Historically casualties reported by Gaza authorities have been reliable. We are also trusting Israeli casualty numbers while reports now are coming out showing many friendly fire victims.
pimpampum··on OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
There's a saying, "thief who steals from a thief has a hundred years of forgiveness".
pimpampum··on 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
IDF kills more innocent people, woman and children (percentwise and in amount) than Hamas.
pimpampum··on Norway Joins Denmark in Swedish Tesla Strike/Blockade
To clarify, it's a workers union that is joining in solidarity an action of their neighbor country union.
pimpampum··on Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?
Works for me.
pimpampum··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
So Altman started it and ended up winning it, clearly his coup. Sad how employees were duped into standing behind him.
pimpampum··on Dutch gov't wants to ban officials from using AI software
This is the right decision for now. gov officials have access to lots of data that should not en up in OpenAIs servers. Long-term they should have their own inhouse or some ministry of digital infrastructure.
pimpampum··on How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs
Yeah Michael Levine is the efing king, has many interesting theories and experiments, highly recommend if you are into biology and bio-cybernetics.
pimpampum··on AI-created child sexual abuse images 'threaten to overwhelm internet'
Wouldn't this be a way to satisfy a hideous market without producing new victims? I think the issue is the abuse not the pictures or the consumption of them.
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