Estonians found a way to communicate without sex, future, articles or prepositions. Oh, sounds like a super easy language to learn with fewer things in it, right? Fuck you, we have 14 cases so we could tell foreigners from native speakers by how they confuse genitive and partitive, two of the most basic cases. And then most cities, towns, villages you’d go to use illative (“into”) to say “I’m going to X”, but some will be allative (“onto”) and there’s no rule for it, so people from other parts of the country might not know it and it’ll sound super weird.

And I still find English to be the weird language. Just look at the different words written as “lead”. Why are they pronounced so differently?! Nothing is pronounced as written.

I suspect the Spetznaz have either been found not as capable as once thought, or largely used up as a resource already

Well the part of the article that quotes the actual job listing:

Part of that role, compensated at between $180,000 and $230,000, will be to “identify, assess, track, and investigate global threats including geopolitical instability, terrorism, crime, activism, nation-state targeting of the AI sector, and emerging security trends, including deep-dive research and OSINT collection on specific threats, actors, and events” (emphasis added).

But yeah, not a good look especially if you consider who decides what “terrorism” and “crime” mean in the US right now.

And now for a tangent I wrote that you can just skip if you’re not interested:

The part about specifically tracking AI activists was that they watch for anti-AI protests anywhere where their executives go so they know to stay out of the way, but… How do they not realize that they’ve brought this upon themselves? Market AI as “doing everyone’s job” and “super dangerous” and of course people will be pissed at you. Dario himself is the one constantly parroting how the next Claude model is so dangerous it needs to be kept in adamantium chains and whatnot. Like your industry is already pissing people off with the data centers and the cost of computer parts, why you gotta tell everyone you’re working to put us all out of jobs?

Jfc I’m a software engineer with no marketing or PR experience and I think even I could do better PR than all these companies supposedly worth billions. If OpenAI is already farming outrage, just position yourself as the more responsible alternative and you’ll still get sales without your execs needing to fear for your lives… Occasionally release a smaller, less capable version of Claude as open weight to win mindshare among developers, the people actually burning tons of tokens right now. Like Alibaba does with Qwen, just don’t release the full size model like Alibaba does if you’re afraid people are going to run it in competition with you.

The local ‘OF stardom’ is currently technically breaking the law. This would legalize what they’re doing and tax it as legal income. Worst case scenario, nobody registers their income, nothing happens. Best case scenario, a bunch of them will register their income because that means they can do their business 100% legally whereas before it was illegal anyway so why bother reporting it for taxes.

There’s very little, if any, potential downside for making porn legal if it’s already being produced and already available… like it is in most other countries. There’s some potential upside, even though it remains to be seen how much will actually be realized. It’s a nobrainer to do this IMO.

Most countries tax income regardless of source so moving abroad won’t make your OF account untaxed magically. And hiding your income is always a risk in most countries, unless you have a day job or something to explain your ability to pay for your expenses.

I have no idea how it is these days, but in the 90s there was a lot of trafficking going on in eastern Europe. Curtailing sex work in general might’ve been seen as a necessary evil to reduce that. Make your country as boring as possible to predators.

But yes, true on the conservative Orthodox folks too.

Top left is the perpertrator of (trigger warning, 3 kids killed, I’m leaving the link as it is instead of adding text to it so you know what it is without having to click on it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children

Bottom right is P Diddy aka Puff Daddy aka Sean Combs. Known for, among other things: helping more talented musicians than himself make good music, dating J-Lo, playing in a Muppets movie, rape parties, domestic violence, guest appearance on Notorious B.I.G’s track Mo Money Mo Problems, potentially ordering the hit on 2pac’s life, being a general piece of shit with tons of connections and money. He was like the Hip-Hop world’s Epstein, though I don’t remember if the “performers” at the Diddy Parties were children or adult women, they were definitely getting raped though.

Like those two Americans are so bad that between these 4 people… I’d be most likely to trust bin Laden. In this very hypothetical scenario, because this is a shitpost and in reality if I can’t find a sitter and I get to choose between these 4, well guess what, I’m just cancelling my plans and staying home. Might be a tie between bin Laden and Hitler actually, we’re not Jewish, Roma or any other minority he tried exterminating.

This, btw, from a man who according to this very same article

In 2011, he told an interviewer he was not a “political person”, lacked “an ideology”, and hadn’t voted since 1972.

Which IMO illustrates just how pissed he had to be at Israel.

Even Microsoft knows Windows is dead. That’s part of the reason for the push for office365 over locally installed applications. It’s not dead as in everyone will stop using it next year, but it’s dead as in it might only have 10 years left as THE dominant desktop OS, maybe more, maybe less.

What they’re really ingrained in business with is their ERP bullshit. Migrating a bunch of users from Windows to Linux is cheap and easy compared to migrating all your data AND users from Dynamics to SAP or Odoo or something. It’s such a headache, you basically never do it in-house, you contract that out to a company that specializes in the ERP you’re moving to. Because it’s not just data you’re migrating, it’s business processes too. Bunch of custom modules usually need to be created, yay!

I mean, depending on the location it would still work and the bag drop and run prank was making fun of islamophobes more than it was making fun of muslims.

No idea about iPhones though.

Glass is harder than ever, but the body on Pros went from glass to anodized aluminium so it’ll scratch around the edges, but won’t crack

I’ve never bragged that I managed to install Arch (Or Gentoo for that matter), buuut let’s be honest, most people aren’t literate enough to follow directions. Complex words outside of their domain of expertise frighten and confuse most people.

But then the people who understand the complexity involved to understand the brag are precisely the people who themselves could easily install follow said instructions so it becomes kinda moot anyway.

The angry user case is gated by the human emotion capability so it never ran for omarchy users.

Well if you’re moving from Windows, you can just nuke the entire thing with automatic partitioning and it feels so damn good

But since that was a long time ago, these days I keep my / and /home on not just separate partitions but separate drives since all my SSDs are only 1 TB. The installer can do whatever the hell it wants to / but /home has to stay untouched.

The fuck kinda dirt you got on your desks? Most modern high-end smartphones have really hard glass. If anything, the screen protectors people put on are much softer and get scratched easier (but are easily replaceable)

I’m also not sure where you’re getting 20-40€ modern iPhones for, but I’m quite jealous

I should rewatch it tbh. Been a long time, I’d forgotten that line.

Ha, didn’t know that. Interesting then that it shows me neither Lake America, nor any of the Estonian localized names anywhere. Perhaps it’s an opt-in somewhere on the OSM website.

There’s really not. The human ecological footprint changes enormously by region. Relatively small populations in countries like Qatar and Brunei punch well outside their weight class in terms of ecological devestation.

Yeah, uh, the oil produced by those small populations is used in places like China, Europe and Australia too. In fact they export most of their oil, so we all share that blame.

providing advice

They do, it’s called the republican party and conservative think tanks.

supporting children and parents

I mean other than your own family, why would you do that? Sounds like extra work when you want to be retired.

spreading their community’s history

That’s called Facebook, it exists. That’s where they spread their conservative politics.

You seem to think that old people would be interested in any of this. Most wouldn’t. They’re loaded, they can live like kings without being bothered by a bunch of young people. Why would anyone want to put in extra work when they don’t have to?

As long as it comes with a high healthspan AND people working longer, it shouldn’t be a problem.

If people have an extra few decades to live off young people’s productivity, that kinda screws the young people whose numbers are dwindling.

Well for one, I hope you don’t plan to take out any form of retirement or invest in the stock market, including via index funds, because that’s leeching off the productivity of young people in the future.