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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

took a little while to figure out that somewhere between four and ten appendages with a mouth on the front and a butthole on the back was the best layout.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Andy Jassy selling cloud services vs Jeff Bezos desperately trying to reopen the shipping lanes

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At first I thought he was a divorcee just trying to get his dog back but now that I know he's a divorcee spending time with his daughter I like the story even more.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Ryan Reynolds is the halfway point of a linear interpolation between Dane Cook and Ryan Gosling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

gucci gucci

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even worse is they reply to themselves figured it out and say nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“This is just bad, no matter how you spin it,” said a veteran Democratic operative. “But everyone knows it’s too late to switch. But the donors will make those decisions, as they always do. Hence why we got Biden” in 2020.

lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yea but on the other hand this is clearly from a comedy skit so not sure this is worth the exercise in pedantry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i dont think it really matters. this is going to be an all out war between media companies and big tech and big tech is much much bigger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this guy's sweater makes his arms look like they are an outgrowth of his hips

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

A lot of machine learning work is empirical so it was more a joke at the expense of oversimplifying the situation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Real science is trying random stuff until you get slightly better performance out of your model and then creating contrived explanations for why you think it worked

btw yann lecun is the head of meta ai so this is just a couple of rich dickheads having a slap fight

 

And I don't really understand the point..I guess? Like it's about a group of kids who are part of an oppressed caste of people forced to go to war and fight on behalf of the decadent republic that they are not citizens of. They have a "handler" who sympathizes with them but does nothing but cry. Ostensibly the show seems to be about finding happiness despite your lot in life but I find that really unsatisfactory for a few reasons.

First the world they've established is extreme. The child soldiers are slaves being sent to die as part of a genocide. Second the republic is pretty much demilitarized except for officers who are in charge of the "86ers" who do the fighting. Third the show is about an elite unit and their politically well connected handler. The republic is losing the war that they are sending the 86ers to die in.

To me this seems like a good setup for a show about a revolution, but instead it's a show about accepting that you can't change anything so just try to be happy despite it. I feel like you could get that message across more effectively without making the world so evil. And besides it's not really that interesting of a message. What is the point of making the viewer angry at the world if the characters do nothing? Why do we care about these characters?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Ive been skinny all my life but have been working out regulary for some time. Looking at more meaty self in the mirror is weird. That is all. I’ll see you in the swoletariat division in the climate wars comrades.

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