also, their parliament building is on fire rn

yer mum

https://web.archive.org/web/20240608155758/https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1908768/ukraine-terrorist-activity-russia-vladimir-putin

I’ve started to enjoy people saying “Israel is doing its best to protect civilians” because I have the perfect way to deal with it…

“Yes, that might be true that they’re making attempts to protect civilians and are just really incompetent at it like they claim. It raises the question, should the international community gives them ‘points for trying’ – what do you think?”

B.I.T.

Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” would get one answer, and “Is Lima the capital of Peru?” would get another. You’d probably be a little worried about your friend’s mental faculties

Answer to the first question is “Lima”, answer to the 2nd question is “Yes”. Those are different answers.

Dogs too.

rubbed a clear gel on his shoulders, waited for it to dry, then went about his day as usual

Blimey that’s a surprise innit. His shoulders??

I have only ever played animal badly.

This is beneath Yann LeCun

It wasn’t consumed by algorithms at that point, so in that way, probably healthier.

The algorithms are always trying to stir up shit. What’s shoved in your face is people bickering. Bickerbait.

One of the first forums I ever hung out on was very small and niche compared to what a lot of forum stuff is now, so it was much more of a “everybody knows each other” feel than I experience with most of the internet now.

I use several of these forums. Just look up ‘crocheting forum’ and you’ll find them.

Culture wars nonsense has spread its tentacles everywhere.

I have no interest at all in culture war issues, but people keep bring them up. Even on forums about completely unrelated things. Don’t these people bore themselves?

80 papers in like 120 weeks is incredible

woah

Do Europeans really give their height in cm?

Yes.

How did the first guy manage to measure his height to within 100 microns?

Free software is defined as software that allows the end-user to use, distribute, and edit it in any way they choose.

Can you give an example of a scenario when police would enforce a violation of that?

You would need a powerful state to enforce free software licenses.

How? Why?

He has one core message. He’s right about that. He has no other redeeming features.