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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 4, 2024 16:09:36 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 5, 2024 1:13:00 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 5, 2024 8:10:25 GMT -5
Near 1:17 where his arms kinda illogically flail a bit, that is how Lossless Scaling can look at very low frame rate if you spin really fast and then the footage is slowed way down |
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Post by sj on Nov 5, 2024 10:26:13 GMT -5
At least she was a UK politician, somewhat limiting her global influence. We have enough bad ones over here in the US. One of the most widely hated in the US (even by many Republicans) was Kissinger. Although he was a victim of Nazi persecution in his youth (being from Germany and having Jewish heritage it appears), as an adult (in US politics) he was more than knee-deep in the Watergate scandel as well as helping Nixon open the diplomacy doors to China so that they could eventually (today) become the biggest rival and most powerful enemy of the US. He died only just last year and was deep into politics (with his analysis and commentary) up until his death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger |
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 5, 2024 14:02:32 GMT -5
AI movie. It's bad. But the rapid improvement over just a few years is kind of scary, especially considering that they're teaching it about war, covert tactics and battle strategy. It's able to construct story & dialogue that more or less makes sense, even if it's somehow "faking" its understanding of language. Today I had a recommend about Silent Hill 2 Remake popup in my YouTube recommends. I am a bit burned out on YouTube videos about the remake honestly but I had never heard of the channel so I decided to click on it.........it was a montage of AI generated and random clips found online plus an AI voice basically reading a PCGamer style review of Silent Hill 2. I was shocked how many views it had because the quality was so bad. Tellingly the comments were disabled. If that keeps up and AI gets good enough at fooling he algorithm YouTube is going to devolve to the point the recommended videos feature is worthless. |
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Post by sj on Nov 5, 2024 16:20:26 GMT -5
AI movie. It's bad. But the rapid improvement over just a few years is kind of scary, especially considering that they're teaching it about war, covert tactics and battle strategy. It's able to construct story & dialogue that more or less makes sense, even if it's somehow "faking" its understanding of language. Today I had a recommend about Silent Hill 2 Remake popup in my YouTube recommends. I am a bit burned out on YouTube videos about the remake honestly but I had never heard of the channel so I decided to click on it.........it was a montage of AI generated and random clips found online plus an AI voice basically reading a PCGamer style review of Silent Hill 2. I was shocked how many views it had because the quality was so bad. Tellingly the comments were disabled. If that keeps up and AI gets good enough at fooling he algorithm YouTube is going to devolve to the point the recommended videos feature is worthless. They say AI scales with compute power, so i would think so. On the other hand, Google (a major AI player) pretty much owns Youtube. right? Theoretically, they could utilize their own AI tech (integrate it with the Youtube platform) to outsmart competitor AI's. Moore's law for semiconductors already ended, however, they've been advancing photonic chip technology in the east. interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-silicon-photonics-chip-breakthroughBiden's CHIPS Act was a nice idea, but we're so far behind on existing chip tech and playing catchup. By the time we do, the Asia markets will have replaced it with photonic chips. Probably should've just dumped all the CHIPS Act money into AI instead, because that appears to be the area the US already leads in. Whichever nation creates AGI or ASI (human or superhuman level AI) first is probably going to end up dominating in most other areas anyway. |
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 6, 2024 12:26:28 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 6, 2024 21:03:15 GMT -5
Mogwai has a song called "George Square Thatcher Death Party" that I'm pretty sure is about Margaret Thatcher. The lyrics are hard to understand but it sounds pretty political. Also they're Scottish, which I know there's been beef between them and the British. |
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 8, 2024 10:44:57 GMT -5
This was a lot more fascinating than I thought it would be:
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 8, 2024 11:39:30 GMT -5
This was a lot more fascinating than I thought it would be: Aerogel is cool stuff. Keep waiting for revolutionary materials to become more common. |
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 8, 2024 11:41:43 GMT -5
Knew about it having incredible insulating properties, but had no idea that the powder of it is also completely hydrophobic. edit - also was reminded of Starlite, another type of insulating material invented by a British hairdresser who died under mysterious circumstances. Whatever the formula was, it went to the grave with him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarliteAs far as anyone knows, no one has been able to replicate it. edit - wow apparently that changed, says a company called Thermashield did replicate it in 2013. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 9, 2024 16:21:19 GMT -5
I haven't played New Vegas in 10 years, this looks really cool for when I get around to playing it again
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 10, 2024 9:10:40 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 10, 2024 15:13:50 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 11, 2024 9:11:57 GMT -5
Imagine being so weirdly obsessed with a girl who works at the gas station you file a fake police report about her
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 11, 2024 13:03:04 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on Nov 12, 2024 12:58:50 GMT -5
Dude probably inadvertendly just messed up a lot of people's favorite dogging spot, lol.
I once stopped on a freeway parking because I needed to piss real bad. When I was standing there in the bushes, an older guy approached me. It was never dangerous or even uncomfortable, he also didn't come too close and kept his clothes on, but eventually I understood what was going on. Guys just use that spot to jerk/suck eachother off, no harm no foul. I just wasn't aware and that guy was just checking to see if I was up for it. I certainly wouldn't claim I was sexually assaulted...
*edit* Now that I've watched the video a little further and actually saw the guy, lol, that young dude is such a pussy. Dude is old and frail as shit, he's no threat to him at all. Should've just walked away and not get law inforcement involved. Guy just wanted to nut, preferably with the help of someone else, but let's be serious he wasn't going to rape anyone. Just an old gay guy trying to score, in a place where he's probably done so without any problems for years...
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 13, 2024 0:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Nov 13, 2024 12:42:06 GMT -5
It's easy for a group of nerds who've readily adapted to the digital world to criticize men in the lower 1/2 IQ. Remember, it was barely a half century ago that the low IQ, decent pay jobs started to vanish. The idea that everybody was born equal (same strengths and/or intelligence) is a lie. Probably >50% of men out there could never be engineers or computer geeks because they're simply not smart enough. These men are struggling financially. Therefore, women don't want them (because most women don't date men of lower socioeconomic status than themselves. Therefore, there's this huge population of directionless men who've given up hope. That's actually a problem, because if/when the social safety nets collapse (and they probably will, given the govt's debt/overspending trajectory), we could see a situation where millions of men can't afford basic necessities like food. Then an era of roaming gangs and warlords begins, like something out of a Mad Max movie. |
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 14, 2024 7:43:58 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 14, 2024 19:58:10 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 15, 2024 11:16:41 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on Nov 15, 2024 11:45:36 GMT -5
I've been searching for the angle of why this was posted here... ...I'm not getting it, except for some of the lyrics that may sound like 'had very big dick'... |
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 15, 2024 11:55:49 GMT -5
I've been searching for the angle of why this was posted here... ...I'm not getting it, except for some of the lyrics that may sound like 'had very big dick'... The original meme: |
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Post by Cop on Nov 16, 2024 11:25:47 GMT -5
Jeez, I vaguely remember that now, from waaaay back...
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 17, 2024 4:19:50 GMT -5
I've been searching for the angle of why this was posted here... ...I'm not getting it, except for some of the lyrics that may sound like 'had very big dick'... The original meme: Wow, forgotten memory unlocked. Think I might've actually first seen that on the original SCMB. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 19, 2024 14:37:05 GMT -5
Crazy I never even heard of this case
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 20, 2024 6:40:47 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 20, 2024 21:11:57 GMT -5
This movie was very mediocre overall, but this is one of the best end of the world scenes ever. Was worth sitting through the whole thing to see this part.
Only thing is, I am pretty sure the family hugging before the solar flare hit would've already been dead from the heat and radiation before the blast. Especially evidenced by how the pond in central park evaporates rapidly ahead of the fire, same with the snow melting from the mountains.
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 20, 2024 21:46:06 GMT -5
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