Your comment, and the one above you, has led me to a new phase;

“That’s a greed thing to do”.

It’s not quite grammaticality correct, but it is the correct answer to the question of “why did that corporation do that?”.

I was always told that greed was bad, a deadly sin even. And yet, there are laws that require corporations to pursue greed as a policy. Not that those laws are needed , but they are used as cover for evil behavior.

Can I have some of whatever you’re smoking?

Two party systems are a consequence of something called Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, specifically as applied to First Past the Post voting. Which is technically Duverger’s Law

If you want a video instead, this one is a classic.

The names of things rarely have any actual meaning behind them, especially not political names, which were originally chosen to make people think they were patriotic for supporting said party. Or are chosen by the opposition.

But yes, the tensions that caused the war did exist before the shots were fired, that’s how civil wars work. And yes, reconstruction was halted and reversed by Johnson.

But the TLDR, being a defeatist is worse than useless, work towards a better tomorrow today. Also, civil wars, the kind with neighbors shooting neighbors and all, are fucking nightmares. Don’t try to start it all early, it will come all too soon on its own, the fascists will make sure of it.

A data center without power or AC is not a functional data center, and damage to such systems could cause massive damage inside, all without risk of premature detonation, theoretically speaking.

Explosives are a bit too dangerous for the average person to play with.

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else remember those assholes from a few years back that were taking pot shots at power substations?

I’d argue the exact opposite.

The civil war kicked off after the second longest pause to constitutional amendments in history, only topped by the current one.

Just like any other system, you need to keep security patches coming or else malicious actors will step in an wreck everything.

Corpo housing isn’t mcmansions. They’re factory built homes shipped to site and dropped on locally poured foundations, sometimes with basements.

Sure, they can be decent sized, but the mcmansion is overly large and aimed at a different crowd, a crowd that’s increasingly unable to afford them.

Source; I grew up in a corpo housing development from the 60s or 70s. The houses all looked identical from the outside, but had a few different floor plans, one down the street was actually two of the wrong halves put together, which meant that one of the closets didn’t have a door and could only be accessed by someone crawling in through a gap near the ceiling.

Thankfully there was no HOA, so the houses quickly picked up some individuality.

My thoughts were similar, but more along the lines of it being considered crass to kill them in the tavern. Once they leave, well, then the game is on.

I’d imagine that one is because of medical more than anything else. There are all sorts of regulations around medical devices. That slows shit down.

Better? I’m not sure you’d qualify that, but local, that I’m sure of.

If not the state itself then the state owned companies that they controlled, or one of Putin’s allies.

But yeah, the podcast is worth a listen.

There’s a podcast called Sad Oligarch. It talks about just how many rich Russians have died under mysterious circumstances since Putin started his war.

Personal Jesus you say?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI

It can, or it can feed the ecosystem and cause a boom in fish populations. It really depends on where the bloom is and how big.

There’s also the, cause massive algae blooms in-between shipping lanes to try to soak up lots of carbon.

The method is by dumping millions of tons of iron ore dust into the open ocean.

One guy tested it, and it did cause an algae bloom. He didn’t do smaller scale tests, just dumped a ton or so of iron ore dust into the ocean.

Yup, it’s actually an interesting demonstration of the power of training data on a chatbot, after all, they’re just feeding it back to you.

I’ll have to find the post, but you did it in two steps, changed the units of mass, and object.

The post, which is extremely hard to find with the latest slop release from Nvidia, asked the chatbot to consider the exact wording, without babying it into the correct answer. All because the close variations of the phase “X pounds of bricks and X pounds of feathers weigh the exact same” have been used in various textbooks and such for at least the last hundred years or so.

That means that the chatbot has seen that exact combo of words, in roughly that order, quite a bit more than your use of “100 kilograms of rice”. At least in English.

You can baby it through when the training data is sparse, but not when there are hundreds of uses of the same phrase over and over again in the training.

They did ask it to consider and repeat the exact wording of the question, yes.

Someone posted yesterday with a question asked to AI.

What weighs more, 20 pounds of bricks or 20 feathers?

The useless chat bot will always answer with “they both weigh 20 pounds” because that’s what the training data always says when asked about bricks and feathers.

Also, twenty feathers and twenty pounds of bricks both weigh twenty pounds.

I recommend reading some actual history.

Mostly because your entire premise is, just be cruel in the execution and somehow that fixes things.

Excessive cruelty fixes nothing, especially cruelty of the past.

That and the French cut off a fuckload of rich asshole heads, it was called the Reign of Terror for a reason.

But back to the main point. Cruelty that someone else experienced several hundred years ago, does not motivate someone who doesn’t care about others.

What does scare the fuck out of rich assholes is the idea that the mob could come and take their shit. Taxes and seizures. And maybe a little guillotining on the side, but they won’t actually fear that until it starts happening.