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jalda,

You cannot blame countries for buying from Israel.

Of course I can

jalda,

Or are you gonna say that the us is also making this stuff up for Israel’s sake?

Didn’t Biden say that he had seen himself the supposed pictures of the beheaded babies, only to be corrected by the White House?

jalda,

spread of antisemitism that has “immigrated from abroad.”

So they’re saying that there is no German-born AfD politician or voter?

jalda,

Have they found the Incubators of Mass Destruction?

jalda,

We cannot trust any information and media reports coming from any source, doing so is a fools errend

That’s quite a stretch. There are neutral sources reporting the conflict, including UN.

jalda,

In that picture Ewan McGregor was 50 years old and Alec Guinness was 63 years old.

jalda,

Or the residents of Gaza strip

jalda,

can live on […] soil nutrients

Except they don’t. Carnivorous plants evolved in soils that are poor in nitrates and/or phosphates, so they get them from their preys.

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”...

jalda,

What is the ratio of Stanley Nickels to XBucks?

jalda,

The entire strip is Hamas according to the IDF

The IDF issued an order to evacuate the north part of Gaza. So anyone that didn’t evacuate? Hamas. And the people who evacuated? Hamas using human shields. Sadly this isn’t satire, it is the IDF’s actual justification.

jalda,

Israel has full control over the airspace, seaports, and TV transmissions, in addition to imposing a blockade. Doesn’t sound like “separated” to me.

jalda,

For a long time, it was believed that Hawking radiation is thermal and doesn’t carry information, except for the mass/radius/temperature of the black hole.

In 2004, Hawking conceded that, due to the holographic principle, information wasn’t lost. The basic idea is that the infalling matter can gravitationally deform the horizon and thus modify the distribution of Hawking radiation from the pure thermal emission. And the interesting point is that the entropy of the black hole is proportional to its area and not its volume (holography), so the deformation of the horizon is sufficient to recover all the “missing” information.

jalda,

I bet you make this exact comment in all the threads about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, right?

jalda,

Of course they shouldn’t. On an unrelated note, I’m so hyped for a season with only Alpine and Andretti cars on track.

jalda,

Unpopular opinion/rant: I don’t think this is good news for the sport.

Of course it is about the money. In a capitalist society, everything is about the money. And I do agree that in the case of Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari it is pure greed, but what about the rest of the grid. Haas and Williams are now viable without relying on paydrivers or shady sponsors. McLaren and Aston Martin have now the resources to compete for podiums. If teams receive less prize money, F1 would be undoing all the good progress of the last few years. Is it worth it for Andretti?

But wait, adding Andretti will for sure make the pie bigger! Of course, those people at FOM and the teams are dumb and haven’t accounted for the trillions of spectators than Andretti will bring. Let’s not forget that this year the viewership in the USA has decreased despite an American driver. And also that Nascar is way more popular than Indycar in the USA, so an Indy team like Andretti will attract less viewers than a Nascar team like Haas (and we already know that Haas didn’t attract that many).

And then there is the anti-dilution fee. Which is literally a patch, it only covers for the first year. Once the anti-dilution fee is spent, we go back to Haas and Williams (and probably Andretti themselves) fumbling for paydrivers and shady sponsors, and McLaren and Aston Martin languishing in the midfield.

But at least we would have one epic year of 11 competitive teams, right? Haas was competitive from the start, and Andretti will use the same model. In the first place, will they? It seems that Renault/Alpine are only interested in selling them PUs and gearboxes, and nothing else. Second, the (very limited) success of Haas depends on Ferrari always being a top team, despite the memes; Renault/Alpine have been an eternal midfield team for almost twenty years. And finally, Haas relies on Dallara building their chassis even more than in Ferrari’s parts. Andretti has zero experience in building a chassis, they only participate in spec or quasi-spec series, and the rules prevent Dallara from providing chassis to more than one team. Honestly, I see them struggling with the 107% rule.

So what is going to add Andretti to the grid, if not their experience in designing and building fast cars? Their experience in managing a racing team? Their Indycar team is in an absolute decline. An engine partnership? For the moment, all that Cadillac-GM promises is a rebadged PU, and the deadlines to enter as an engine manufacturer go by with no sign of their interest.

And what about the future? They have great ambitions about running the team completely from the USA. Which are no different than Haas’ ambitions when they entered the sport. The fact is that the people with the relevant experience in designing and building an open-wheeler car (and that includes also Indycar’s Dallara) are located in two very concrete areas of Europe: England and Northern Italy. So they only have two options: either recruit existing engineers or teach new ones. If they are going to recruit people, making them to move to another continent, they would need economic incentives, so an increased cost. And if they are going to teach them, it costs both time and money. Either way, an increased cost in engineering, with the cost-cap regulations, means a competitive disadvantage.

It is always good to remember that FIA’s revenue depends solely on the entry fees that teams and drivers have to pay each season, so their interest is to have as many teams as possible, with the only requisite that they are solvent enough to actually show up to the races. On the other hand, FOM and the teams depend on F1 being a enjoyable sport so viewers want to watch and/or go to the races. I think that our interest as fans are naturally aligned with those of FOM and the teams.

jalda,

First, the cost cap is great to avoid big teams outspending everyone else. But it doesn’t put more money in the teams’ account. If Williams or Haas or McLaren get less prize money, they will have to reduce their budget below the cost cap.

Second, I don’t see how the new car rules or engine rules (which GM has failed all the deadlines) have anything to do with my rant. The existing teams will not forget how to build a chassis only because the wheelbase is a bit shorter, so it isn’t an opportunity for Andretti to catch up. And in fact you are wrong, Andretti will enter in 2025, and the new car and engine rules start in 2026. So they will have to design to completely different cars in two seasons while the rest of teams will just evolve their 2023-2024 cars for 2025. Another issue for them.

With respect to the third point, I guess you’re right. They don’t dilute the prize pot in their first season, and the anti-dilution fee covers for the second. But it is just another temporary patch that doesn’t solve the long-term problem though.

jalda,

El Manoloriano in Spanish

Star Wars’ reluctance to recast Luke and Leia is holding the franchise back (www.gamesradar.com)

It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly...

jalda,

The father is a failed Palpatine clone that escaped. The mother is a nobody. There is nothing more to their stories.

jalda,

Star Wars is no fairytale! (well, actually it is)

jalda,

The thing is that the game was broadcast live. One-way communication was enough

jalda,

and be honest about how serious those rumors are

The serious rumors were never about the anal beads thing, only about cheating.

jalda,

They are the same rumor.

No they aren’t. The cheating rumor started with a cryptic tweet of the World Champion at the moment, Magnus Carlsen, just right after losing against Niemann and withdrawing from the tournament. The tweet didn’t say or insinuate anything about anal devices. The rumors increased when they played together a few days later and Carlsen resigned in move one, again without mentioning or insinuating anything about anal devices. And finally a couple of weeks later Carlsen explained why he thinks Niemann is cheating. You can count how many times he mentions buttplugs, anal beads or whatever. Yes, zero times.

These are the serious rumors. Serious as in if it were proven true, his career would end forever. Serious as, a large part of the chess community believe that they are true or at least contain some truth in them. Serious as in tournament organizers don’t send him invitations and affect his chess career in a negative way. Serious as in that still today, some players (for example Vladimir Kramnik) refuse to play against him.

The buttplug rumor started in a twitch chat as a joke, and was popularized in the satirical subreddit Anarchy Chess as a joke (believe me, I was part of the subreddit and created a couple of memes myself). It was just making an absurd situation even more absurd, nobody actually believed that he cheated via anal stimulation.

People making memes on the internet isn’t a serious rumor. Real life consequences is.

I don’t think there is a single person that has heard he cheated but doesn’t know about the butt plugg.

That doesn’t mean that the buttplug thing was a serious rumor.

jalda,

Can I interest you in some heated seats monthly subscription?

Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal) (wabetainfo.com)

The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users the ability to communicate with each other using different apps. WhatsApp is one of the companies that will be...

jalda,

Wow, Facebook is lobbying for a law that eliminates their position of monopoly and makes it easier for its users to migrate to other apps. Zuck must be playing some 4D chess.

That, or maybe Facebook has been lobbying AGAINST this law, and your comments in this thread are just fearmongering and conspiracy theories.

Star Wars: Ahsoka Doubles Down On Force User Controversy From Sequels (www.msn.com)

However, the most recent Ahsoka episode has tread on some new territory as it doubles down on a bit of lore that originates from director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a film from the sequel trilogy that has been a subject of contention within the fanbase and one that Johnson has had to defend the more goofy aspects...

jalda,

“your jedi mind tricks don’t work on me”

Why would people ever choose to use chess.c*m over Lichess

Imagine for a moment that you could access any book in the world and read it on your device, and this was a service offered by the public library. The why would you give your time and money to Jeffrey Bezos and use audible for the exact same service? Is this even a choice? Can someone explain to me why anyone would use chess.c*m...

jalda,

thatsthejoke.jpg

jalda,

Fire the guy, ban him from football for life, but does he need to be arrested?

It is not up to you to decide. The Spanish law is pretty clear in this respect, and a non-consensual kiss is explicitly defined as sexual assault, period. And this is a very recent law that has been widely discussed and reported in media, so there is no chance that he didn’t know the legal consequences of his acts. He simply believed that his position of power would be enough to evade the legal consequences.

jalda,

For what jurisdiction?

For one, the Spanish jurisdiction, that is the one that applies to this case. Arguing that other countries have backwards laws is irrelevant to the matter at hand.

jalda, (edited )

Go ask that question to the prosecutors

elpais.com/…/la-fiscalia-abre-diligencias-contra-…

jalda,

It seems that there is an alternative proposal that is more active, this one. It uses “tags” instead of “flairs”, but the idea is essentially the same.

jalda,

Relevant username?

jalda,

You shouldn’t believe everything that is on the Internet

jalda,

Or, maybe, the 99% is a lie

jalda,

Aside from needing a phone

That is a huge one for me. Yes, I have a phone. But I spend most of my waking time in front of a desktop or laptop. With Whatsapp, Telegram or Signal I can read and write messages from the computer, copy/paste text to the documents I am writing, and send and download files. SMS are more limited.

jalda,

Holy latency!

jalda,

Brad Pitt appears and asks “What’s in the box?”

jalda,

The second best result ever in terms of popular vote was Trump 2020, only behind Biden 2020. So it is close enough to half of America.

jalda,

Ozymandias, is it you?

jalda,

JU from r/AnarchyChess,I understand the en passant jokes that recycled here because at least it is chess relate But this is just shitpost now, not even remotely chess relate except you stretch “What do i do in this position” joke to other thing that is not chess related which is low quality even by r/AnarchyChess standard Go on make copypasta out of this so people know my grievances.

jalda,

Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist: not a blunder
Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist: blunder

jalda,

“some dude” is the CEO. Has the CEO of Mozilla donated money against same-sex marriage? If not, you are the one who is engaging in “poo-flinging”.

jalda,

Exactly. The ex-CEO. Emphasis on ex. Mozilla took the right decision, Brave didn’t. That is literally why the “both-sides” argument is ridiculous.

Another proposal for the Jamaican flag, submitted by the public in 1962. Alternatively, a flag for the drug desomorphine (a.k.a. krokodil)? (upload.wikimedia.org)

It was probably for the better that they did not go for this flag. It is hard to think anything else than “Russia with a crocodile”. And at least I relate that to the dangerous semi-synthetic opioid desomorphine, common in Russia, and referred to as “krokodil”....

jalda,

Russian Lacoste

jalda,

It also matters because that would be a truly amazing, world-changing thing if we could create intelligence out of thin air, some statistics, and a lot of data.

We do it routinely. It is called Education System.

jalda,

That relies on human brains that are trained. LLMs are not human brains. “Training” them is not the same thing as teaching humans about something.

Circular reasoning. “LLMs are different from human brains because they are different”.

Also, why did you felt compelled to add the adjective “human”? Don’t you consider that gorillas, dolphins, octopuses or dogs are intelligent, capable of learn new things?

Human brains are way more complicated than just a bunch of weighed correlations.

And that is the problem of your argument. You seem to believe that intelligence is all-or-nothing, that anything that hasn’t a human-level intelligence is not intelligent at all. Of course human brains are more complicated that current LLMs, nobody has ever disputed that. But concluding that they aren’t and will never be intelligent because they aren’t as complicated is a huge non-sequitur.

jalda,

New Figaro just dropped

jalda,

Asking for a friend, or asking for a good friend?

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