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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Heard it has a horrible injury rate, too

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

Many such cases

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I feel like "we'll just build a world model" is on the same level as saying " we'll just solve the P vs NP problem."

img textHow to draw an owl:

  1. draw some circles. (drawing of circles)
  2. draw the rest of the fucking owl. (very skillful and detailed drawing of an owl)

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

Free speech can he expensive for dipshits.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Hell yeah.

Nuclear energy isnt a technical problem, it's a human problem. Specifically, the real expense in US nuclear construction is that there are only a handful of contractors who have the tribal knowledge to actually do nuclear construction e.g. pour concrete, install old-fashioned non-networked electrcal control systems, big switchgear, pipefitting, startup V&V, an so on.

They'll all gladly monkeywrench, slow walk, and re-work every step because they know there's no real competition for fleet-wide contracts, and no one from the CEOs to the craft on the ground want the job to end, so you get it decades late or not at all.

One more piece of evidence that prompt fondlers are not serious people.

Source: am person of nuclear

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

Tired: alien horrors with tentacle beards

Inspired: alien horrors with tentacle muttonchops

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

That hegemonizing swarm outbreak would do nicely imho

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Of all the things that will never happen, this will never happen the most.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

Small forum tyrants

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Off topic: if the Culture novels are ever adapted for television, all of the Culture people/ships/etc should have Scottish accents.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Glomarizing is the new squanch

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

The bride at every wedding and the body at every funeral

 

This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

 

By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

 

From the Uplifting News Department, an event that was brought to our attention by Wandering.shop member David Croyle. Specifically, that time that the administrators of rpg.net bluntly declared that their website is officially a No Nazis Bar.

There were no follow-up questions: https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526

 

Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems
 

Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. The idea of a system that can be an autonomous administration in some areas while operating--possibly legally--in parallel with a nation-state government in others is something I find very appealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works in detail. I think this is largely due to a language barrier.

Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading for beginners? I've procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it's always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven't had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.

 

John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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