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  1. Aldarion

    AI music

    I cant believe you're resorting to a dictionary to argue that Drake counts as music. We all get that one some kind of formal bullshit definition basis you can play debate club and argue that what Drake does technically count as music. That doesnt change the reality that every one of us...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Wait, you're saying frittata and quiche are the same thing? Or frittata and tortilla are the same thing? Come to think of it, you're wrong either way, but I need to know details to properly mock your wrongness I will just start by pointing out that they have different fucking names which is...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    This is such a hard one. You're so right about frittata - fuck frittata right in the burnt eggs - but quiche is just delicious; whats wrong with you? (That ridiculous Spanish abomination called the Tortilla is also in the Fuck Frittatas category)
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    The Little Mermaid (2023)

    As if it wasnt jarring enough having this alien looking ghetto chick cast in the place of a redhead mermaid That shot of her with her dad is lmao. Hey Hollywood? lets forget about mermaids and source material for a moment and take a step back. Children generally look like their parents. This...
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    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

    Saw this with the kids. Solid GOTG movie, probably the best MCU since endgame IMO. Not a fan of the change in music. Not because there was any inherent problem in adding post 80s music but because of their mostly shitty choices. As a more general note to movie music people: there has never...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm glad the market isnt open or SPY would have jumped 2% from your post
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    Investing General Discussion

    NVDA included I assume From where I'm sitting it sure looks like big tech is giant empty bubble and the entire market is resting on it.
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    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

    Thats backwards. He invented all his shit. The tech is his power, because he invented it. It really does seem like people are getting booster gold and kang confused. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Kang-The-Conqueror/Issue-1?id=187287#1
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    for my money the best eggs are still the classic Benedict but with actual American bacon instead of that fake Canadian bologna theyre usually served with.
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    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

    you owe it to yourself to read the kang story in the comics. aside from being from the future he really has nothing in common with booster gold. the comic book version is a decent story and could have made a good main villain. If they'd cast someone that looked like Kang instead of...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Actually I agree, as long as we're talking about something over medium or beyond. Over easy has no brown. I prefer my fried eggs like you said, a little crispy on the edge, the yolk still liquid.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I guess it goes without saying that in the cooking thread different people will have different tastes. I wont try to talk you into poached eggs. If youre cooking eggs and they turn brown, they go in the garbage. Its like if you made toast and it came out charcoal black. Thats called burnt and...
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    Time Travel: What would you do?

    When I watch time travel movies, which I do obsessively - even if I know going into its a bad movie, is it about time travel? fuck it I'm in. In any movie where the traveller doesnt immediately take actions directed at fixing their own timeline, and the movie doesnt clearly show that its...
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    Time Travel: What would you do?

    This is what I mean. Everyone in this thread is assuming its retarded copout Endgame time travel rules. If its Back to the Future rules, its a whole different game. Fuck Hitler and any other historical figures, enhancing your own personal timeline is where its at. I'm giving my younger self a...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    If there was ever a more direct example of giving control to the machines than self driving cars, I don't know what it is. Half of our society is already watching what the youtube machine tells you to watch and thinking what the machine tells you to think. When they start literally letting the...
  16. Aldarion

    FOH Shower Thoughts

    At the end of every US President's term, the national debt should be transferred to his account and become his personal debt. He may then choose to declare bankruptcy or pay it off. Either way, problem solved. You're welcome, America.
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Fortunately our leadership will be able to achieve this without any infringments on personal liberty at all!
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    Time Travel: What would you do?

    Completely depends on the time travel rules though. Cause by default, without any other information about the rules, I'm going back and giving myself information I shouldnt have and probably fucking up the space time continuum, but I'm still doing it if the rules allow it.
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2022)

    Yes. Mist is being retarded and pretending that only a subset of chaotic evil people, the ones who are so crazy they get caught, only they count as evil. You are exactly right: selfish = evil.
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2022)

    You're literally disagreeing with the D&D Players Manual about what the alignment "evil" means in a discussion about whether evil D&D races like Drow could actually have a functional society. And thinking your disagreement on the matter has any bearing on anything. Its the fucking manual...
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2022)

    This is what I mean. You're wrong about what evil is, and that leads to your inaccurate statement. I will quote here from the authority, You have a cartoonish view of evil. You pretend that only psychopaths -- who by definition are abberations -- are evil. Read the definition given above. I...
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2022)

    I knew you'd get predictably pissy about my comment. People who make statements like yours have a cartoon view of evil. Once you acknowledge what evil actually is, and look around, you realize my statement was correct. I dunno where you came up with 20% but we probably always have at least that...
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    Dungeons & Dragons (2022)

    Define "operate a society". I don't disagree with your overall premise but theres degrees of operation, and the decline of a society can take a long time. Modern American society is easily way over 20% explicitly evil people. It isnt even close.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Wait why would you choose to browse the internet on a 1440p display when you could browse it on a 4 inch screen with approximately 12 to 16 pixels? Silly boomers
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    eh, mid well to well done
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Ever since I became aware of this stuff, every now and then I'm troubled by the thought that maybe human consciousness operates exactly the same way, with just a few superficial layers on top of it. These things just work so well. And remind me so much of a human bullshitter. And a human...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    OK thats a fair point but all I'm seeing is mentions of chatGPT making math errors. Did the answers from the LLM produced teaching materials turn out to be wrong? Also, even if we rule this out for any math courses (and I think thats still debatable because its based on what a single LLM can...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    When I said "online content" I was not referring to "online content for hard sciences at undergraduate level", I was being much more general. Look, it all comes down to error rate. I'm just saying there were plenty of errors in existing teaching materials. The question should not be "how can...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Solutions in (pre-AI) teaching material are often incorrect. Like Qhue said, this stuff was the academic grunt labor. It wasnt farmed out to the best and brightest. Don't get me wrong, LLMs produce good looking bullshit a lot of the time. The thing is, that describes most of academia too. And...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    It has ruined the fucking internet. There was a time they made seperate mobile sites (m.sitename). Now they just skip the regular website, and design it for fucking idiots on their fucking smartphones. Once we had an internet. Now everything is tiktok instead. The internet is gone.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    what is it with asians and just burning the everliving shit out of eggs in every street food video. If your eggs are brown and crispy thats fucking burnt garbage. Somehow I can smell it through the monitor. That fucking sulfur burnt egg stench, fml
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    Justified: City Primeval

    I dunno, seems way too charming to me I still like this guy for the part, shame it'll never get made
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    if you're not putting salt on them they arent french fies. fight me.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Dunno what Christianity has to do with it. Women who don't want to show off their vulva to strangers, and invite strangers to check out their vaginal details, shouldnt wear them in public. Women who are into that sort of thing should feel free.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    wait you don't believe in domestication either? even when it doesnt change species? are poodles the result of breeding from some wolf-life ancestor or have they always existed in something like their present form?
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Dark was great but Dark fans give it way too much fucking leeway for that complete copout of an ending. Still best scifi I've seen on TV in maybe 10 years. But fuck that non ending.
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    But again, chatgpt is one of thousands, and even some of those being publicly tested do better at this task.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm not sure all those "dumb poor Americans" are specifically worried that FDIC won't insure their deposits. I suspect its more a general and poorly defined fear of a bank run scenario, fueled by the reality that banks don't actually hold your deposit in cash in the safe, and by all the general...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    This is coming for anyone whos job is to "produce content". And thats not a bad thing. Humans should be more than machines. If your job can be done by a machine, it should be, and there are no exceptions. Whats funny to me is watching the variety of red lines people have drawn. "Oh its ok if...