Sulphur on 19/2/2023 at 14:37
Quote Posted by PigLick
Out on the road today I saw a deadhead sticker on a cadillac.
Don't look back. You can never look back.
Tocky on 21/2/2023 at 19:57
Quote Posted by Draxil
Oh, fuck off. If your intent is to kill, you're going to kill. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHG-ibZaKM) Jerry Miculeck can shoot 6 rounds, reload, and put 6 more rounds in a target in under 3 seconds. You can ban high capacity magazines till you're blue in the face--3D printing and the sheer number of high-cap mags in existence have rendered it pointless, as has been covered in past threads. Biden has called for the ban of 9mm's, which "blow the lungs out of the body", semiautomatic firearms (hint: that's practically all guns), and.. god knows. He's a fucking dumbass. You know it. I know it. His recommendation of
is actually felonious and patently-fucking-stupid. I mean, grade-A fucking stupid. Recap: firearm=lethal force. That means: no warning shots, not wounding shots, no "fire it off the balcony" shots, no "fire it through a door that you don't know whose behind" shots. The man is a grade-A fucking moron.
There is always some reason we can save doves but not children isn't there? Oh look a trick shot artist can do a backflip and reload enough to kill a busload of kids in three seconds so obviously nothing can be done. Bullshit. You forget you are talking to a hunter and a marksman. When someone disobeyed the rules their gun was confiscated and if it was in their truck their truck was confiscated. Make the penalty harsh enough and folks will comply. They do it for hunting already. I still have a plug in my shotgun.
But sure, make it so they have no chance whatsoever between reloads. 30 rounds, a hundred, make it so they have no chance at all. It could be kept to five like the old carbines but that would impinge on my ability to play Rambo and we can't have that. Why, they can just make a plastic one with 3-D printing that will jam on the second bullet so we can't ban any size. If we ban large magazines then only criminals will have them. Yeah. And if we ban robbing banks only criminals will rob them.
So much for the precious lives banning abortion saves huh? If we can't play pow pow to feel like a man then it's a no go kid. Biden said something which wasn't accurate because he does not worship guns and so we can't do anything. Now go and die like a good little tyke.
But all this is just going over the same old ground. Have we found the same old fears? Wish you would hear.
Anarchic Fox on 22/2/2023 at 03:10
Quote Posted by Tocky
But all this is just going over the same old ground. Have we found the same old fears? Wish you would hear.
:D :laff: :thumb:
Starker on 4/3/2023 at 07:49
Lobbying: an American horror story:
[video=youtube;pX_t7W_aRIA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_t7W_aRIA[/video]
Cipheron on 7/3/2023 at 01:33
Some interesting episodes on the QAnonAnonymous podcast recently.
Super villain origin story for Tulsi Gabbard. Turns out her family are part of a cult, and high up in the cult, and tasked with pushing the cult narrative in politics. The whole family is in this pseudo-Hindu scientology level cult, and Tulsi just happens to be the member who had the best luck with their attempts to infiltrate politics.
It's a two-parter. First episode is the history of the cult, it's pretty messed up shit, the leader likes fucking with people's minds, big time. Second episode gets into the Tulsi stuff more:
Ep 211 (
https://podbay.fm/p/qanon-anonymous/e/1670796896)
Ep 212 (
https://podbay.fm/p/qanon-anonymous/e/1671332935)
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Turns out the magical data analytics of Cambridge Analytica merely *never existed*. It was a scam / vaporware basically, and the media bought into the hype by the hype master:
Ep 213 (
https://podbay.fm/p/qanon-anonymous/e/1671825993)
Ep 214 (
https://podbay.fm/p/qanon-anonymous/e/1672863843)
You'll get a good laugh at how the algorithms were supposedly supposed to work, if you know even the smallest amount about machine learning.
They were taking "Facebook likes" and then trying to shoehorn users into the "five factor" personality model, then from that, they were trying to make some sort of meaningful predictions about people.
None of that worked. The "five factors" is junk science for a start, and how would you even know if you correctly grouped the people? So there's no feedback loop to correct the algorithm. Then, how do you even know that anything useful can be predicted, assuming you even got the people correctly assigned to groups?
The big problem is that they didn't HAVE the data for the stuff they were trying to predict, so there's no way to create a machine learning algorithm for that. For example, you can't just take facebook likes, shoehorn people into some made-up "model" then predict from that how likely they are to vote for Trump. But what you could conceivably do is survey those same people, ask them about how likely they are to vote for Trump, THEN train a model based on that data that tries to predict how likely people you didn't survey yet are to vote for Trump. But the point is that if you have to phone survey a lot of people to get the data to train a model, you're not actually saving any money and might as well just spam ads at everyone.
So basically it was nonsense the whole time, didn't work, couldn't conceivably work, but was being hyped to sell services (which ended up being regular micro-targeting ads that any agency can do for you).
Starker on 9/3/2023 at 12:35
Some more Hollywood news, courtesy of Betteridge's law of headlines
[video=youtube;pMu6KKotJnI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMu6KKotJnI[/video]
Starker on 11/3/2023 at 04:24
Elon Musk has been at it again, this time going off on a Twitter employee who publicly inquired about his work status in an attempt to figure out whether he had been fired or not after not being able to get access from his work computer and not receiving any replies from HR or private e-mails. Musk then proceeded to ask him to explain what he had been doing at Twitter and proceeded to mock his answers, posting Office Space memes etc, said the guy was claiming to be disabled as an excuse to not do work, that he couldn't be fired because he wasn't doing any real work anyway, that guys like him were the worst, etc, clearly having a grand old time as his loyal followers piled on the guy. After a while, the guy said he had been sent a confirmation from Twitter HR that he had indeed been fired and inquired whether Musk would be honoring his contract and paying him what he was owed.
Well, it turned out the guy is an Icelandic entrepreneur and designer whose company was acquired by Twitter and who had been elected person of the year in his country last year for his numerous philanthropic pursuits. As for his "excuse", he has muscular dystrophy that has been getting progressively worse, forcing him to stay in a wheelchair and making it hard for him to type for extended periods of time. He had chosen to take his payout not as stocks, but as wages over an extended period of time, even though it would cost him more in taxes, saying that he would be happy to do so, as he himself had benefited from Iceland's social systems.
Musk probably started to gather something was wrong when several powerful and influential people started to chime in, praising the guy's talent and work ethic and being appalled by Musks treatment of him, so he deleted some of his worst tweets, publicly apologised for "misunderstanding the situation", said he hopes the guy will consider staying on in the company and that Twitter was one of the worst means of communication.
On one hand, it must be said that the sudden turnabout is probably more due to the fact that the guy had apparently been on an internal "do not fire" list, because doing so would be prohibitively costly, with some people speculating it could be something in the ballpark of 100 million dollars based on the size of his company that Twitter had acquired. On the other hand, you have to give it to mr Musk for his dedication and work ethic, because how many billionaires would bother to spare any of their time to personally go and mock their disabled employees? It really is that personalised approach that sets him apart from others.
A couple of the relevant Twitter threads:
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https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481)
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https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705)
Anarchic Fox on 12/3/2023 at 03:15
Twitter's immolation by Musk is going even better than I hoped. :ebil:
heywood on 16/3/2023 at 23:16
A part of me is sad to see Musk go down this way because he's clearly suffering from a mental illness that he is less and less able to control over time.
On the other hand, he's the one who isn't getting help to manage it.
