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  1. Aldarion

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    You guys realize chatGPT is one of the toy LLMs they released to the public, not the only LLM and certainly not the most advanced. Right? There are many (hundreds? Thousands?) of these things in training and development right now. Some of them quite specialized for script writing specifically...
  2. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I've probably posted this before but will probably continue reposting it occasionally until it fucking stops. When you write someone an email, and instead of writing back with an answer, they fucking call you. This always means one thing: they're a dishonest fuck who's gonna say something...
  3. Aldarion

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    In fairness, I would have laughed at moon landing deniers my whole life too. After the last couple of years, I'm sorry, but that shit is back on the list of "they might have lied about that too". Now that we know they would and we know they can get away with it, the only question is whether...
  4. Aldarion

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Theres a reason TV writers are the ones worried about this. AI can absolutley write scripts as good as network TV, right now. Over at dataannotation they're paying $20+ an hour to evaluate them, and I'd say about 1/10 of them are already pretty much TV quality. I suspect the process spronk...
  5. Aldarion

    England

    lol color blind confirmed, those are not the same thing at all. Unless you're just calling all baked goods the same thing (hey its all just flour baked in the oven man!) No, biscuits don't have sugar in them. Scones do. They're a sweet baked good. They're different things.
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    England

    This is a biscuit. Gravy not included. This is a scone. Biscuits arent inherently savory, they're just plain. Like bread. You could go savory or sweet. FWIW I don't see anything especially odd about making savory pies with meat. (Unless its fucking kidneys or some shit thats supposed to be...
  7. Aldarion

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    It seems like this may be your first Lumi encounter. I'm not sure whether to offer condolences or just say, strap in and enjoy the ride. Cause it is one *hell* of a ride. Lumi, are viruses real? How about DNA?
  8. Aldarion

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    This, all day. I lived part of my childhood on a goat farm. There is a reason goats are associated with Satan. Get anything but goats. Literally anything.
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    England

    Its weird to me. Neither the UK nor Australia appear to have biscuits, as a concept. I mean putting aside the silly language issues (i.e. that they call cookies biscuits, pronounce scones as "skahns", etc.) They don't seem to have the concept at all. Whereas other foods they still have, but...
  10. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    The standard republican playbook is: complain, fundraise, capitulate. Pretty sure that'll be the play this time too but who knows. Maybe they'll just go straight to capitulate this time.
  11. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    This. #1 tip for not cutting your hands to shit on a mandolin
  12. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I'm just unclear why you went with Asian. Kangs a white dude. Looks a lot like Howard Stark. If the goal was making fun of woke casting bullshit I believe the correct choice is a deaf lesbian. If we're going for accurate casting plus funny multiverse shenanigans lets just get RDJ in the role.
  13. Aldarion

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

    Sexual selection and mate choice. Animals generally choose a mate that has similar characteristics as the mate chosen by their parents, since mate choice has a large genetic component. Take a look at that claw. Deep in the past, a female crab chose to get it on with the crab with the larger...
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    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

    I sometimes comfort myself that the absurd "lets pretend black chicks can be pretty" campaign Hollywood has going will lose, that it can't beat basic biology. Then I read shit like that. 'She's the ""attractive"" diversity casting choice!" It is fucking crazy how powerful propaganda is. It can...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Its more direct and open than I've heard in his usual public statements. The American public has not digested this yet. That his vision - the only vision for how we could possible bring down inflation - is that everyone's wages stop growing or even fall. Then slowly inflation rates go down. Of...
  16. Aldarion

    AI music

    Thats my issue with it. In the "music" in question, the "artist" is neither playing an instrument nor singing. Its literally not music, by any reasonably definition, any more than Dylan Mulvaney is a woman. But we're asked to be impressed that AI has matched this "music". I'll be legitimately...
  17. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    I lived in TX for 7 years and my wife is from OK. I havent seen all of OK, but I've seen enough to know there is no motherfucking way I'd ever live there. Fuck heat. If its over 100F ever, I'm fucking moving. There are plenty of places with climates that don't make me want to burn the universe...
  18. Aldarion

    The Witcher

    I'd say we should save that title for series that bothered to tell the main story instead of dickteasing for 3 seasons then just flat out refusing to tell it and declaring "its over, thats the story"
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    AI music

    what a clickbait letdown. AI ""music"". it'd be wild if AI really could write music someday though
  20. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    I mean that would obviously be preferable except for the tradeoff that was the whole point of my post. I've moved around a shitload, lived in most regions of this country. I don't know of a red state with a decent climate. (also, fuck states without an ocean, not living there)
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    Home buying thread

    you're correct, the weather really is that bad this is the tradeoff in the US, there is no getting around it. leftists gravitate toward places with constantly pleasant weather because they can't handle adversity. anywhere the culture is OK, the weather will suck for at least part of the year...
  22. Aldarion

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

    Its worth watching as one chapter in the Kang story they're trying to tell, but not worth rewatching. If this story has any payoff, it wouldnt be bad to have seen this chapter. Not critical but worth seeing for completeness.
  23. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    museums in the future will have a whole exhibit dedicated to humanity's short-lived obsession with the single worst user interface device ever invented in all of human history, the fucking touch screen. I'm gonna be pissed in 20 years when cars with this shit age into my price range
  24. Aldarion

    Star Trek: Picard

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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Yeah. ChatGPT writes way better, its not even a competition. It just doesnt know anything, so it writes fluff. Still, correctly written fluff is not a bad starting point. Its arguably a better starting point than badly written poorly formulated thoughts with a couple accurate references...
  26. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    Sanrith with all due respect has there ever been a week you didnt expect us to move up?
  27. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Are they really any worse than having your paralegal write up a first draft? In science writing, its useless as a final draft, but its a better first draft than most grad students produce. In some ways. Worse in others. My point is just that using it as one part of the process is less...
  28. Aldarion

    Super Mario Bros. (2022)

    Imagine making that post in the same year that Tranny Dylan was sponsored by Bud Light and a Tranny shot a bunch of church kids and the fucking president went on national TV to announce his sympathy for the trannies in response. And thats the year you pick to act all indignant that people...
  29. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    You make a fair point, but I didnt say "if we adopt the 3 laws it will fix everything". I said at least lets get those as a starting point. To continue your analogy, it would be like saying "you've built an island full of dinosaurs but didnt even bother to put the Jurassic Park safety protocols...
  30. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I mean, USDA guidelines warn about eating fried eggs too. Pork loin isnt to be cooked well done. When we cooked pork loin in the restaurant it was a heavy sear then a fairly short roasting time, served at medium unless ordered otherwise. To be honest its something I've almost never cooked at...
  31. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    lmao they cant help themselves
  32. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I havent noticed this stated yet in this discussion of pork loin, but almost all pork loin I've ever been served that was cooked by someone else shared the same flaw: it was cooked well done. Pork loin is a cut you don't cook well done, its gonna be dry as shit if you do.
  33. Aldarion

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

    They've got red hair, is that part even a question? Of course they're gonna be black The ONLY problem is that of course they have to black Hermione too, which would mean a non-interracial hetero couple and that kind of racist backwards shit is obviously not permitted. So most like Ron Weasley...
  34. Aldarion

    Star Trek: Picard

    theyre gonna reverse the polarity of something, you can be sure of that much
  35. Aldarion

    The Netflix Thread

    Eh, thats fair. I agree with all three points. I'm just saying, I think its success depended on the novely of its gimmick.
  36. Aldarion

    The Netflix Thread

    squid game was neat, and I might watcha second season if they made one, but it is a gimmick show that relied 100% on its gimmick for its success. I doubt lightening can strike twice with that one. Calling it one of the greatest shows is ridiculous. Neat gimmick based show is the best I can do.
  37. Aldarion

    The Netflix Thread

    Havent seen Chupa linked here yet. Netflix kids movie. Set in Mexico. Kids find a baby chupacabra, have adventures. Features a mexican kid raised in the US who reconnects with his Mexican heritage while visiting his family. Nothing groundbreaking about the story. But holy shit if this isnt...
  38. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Well, if they were gonna fire anybody, the whole multiverse thing in principle would give them a good out. Shame they already showed that all versions of Kang look like Majors, or they could just handwave away his replacement in universe as some multiverse thing.
  39. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    used cars listed on craigslist for like 20k-80k seriously who the fuck out there is going "well, I need a new car, my budget is 80k. guess I'll check craigslist!"
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    Yellowjackets

    Youve got to hand it to them. Even though the viewer knew all along that was gonna be part of the story, they somehow manage to make it even more disturbing the way they handle it.