Nah, we spend as much time on the American revolution as on our own civil war. Which is basically nothing.
I think I heard about cavilers and Roundheads in primary school, and that’s it. No reason for the civil war, no discussion about what Cromwell did in Ireland.
You absolutely can’t use LLMs for anything big unless you learn to code.
Think of an LLM as a particularly shit builder. You give them a small job and maybe 70% of the time they’ll give you something that works. But it’s often not up to spec, so even if it kinda works you’ll have to tell them to correct it or fix it yourself.
The bigger the job is and the more complex the more ways they have to fuck it up. This means in order to use them, you have to break the problem down into small sub tasks, and check that the code is good enough for each one.
Can they be useful? Sometimes yes, it’s quicker to have an AI write code than for you to do it yourself, and if you want something very standard it will probably get it right or almost right.
But you can’t just say ‘write me an app’ and expect it to be useable.
Follow the money.
In Elon’s case, it’s all about losing money that was going directly to him. Particularly, the loss of ev subsidies.
Musk will not rest until there is a free Tesla for everyone, paid for by the American government.
Privatize profits and socialize losses. It’s the American way.
Wow, I wonder if that’s the same billionaire Bill Ackerman who’s hedge fund owns forty percent of the New York property firm Seaport Entertainment Group?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-ackmans-strategic-acquisition-seaport-230404410.html
How many millions do you think a rent freeze would cost him personally?
I mean think about how many thousands of middle managers you would have to kill to disrupt a large bureaucracy.
For a fraction of the same amount of deaths you could kill existing leaders, anyone that tries to replace them, and their rivals.
Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london
The Gdpr makes these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.
Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.
Yeah, and some of it is even true.
The British imperial system invades other countries, makes them use pounds and feet, and then leaves.
So a random person on Reddit claimed there’s about 800 million possible uk mobile numbers, some people have multiple numbers so ballpark 80 million active phone numbers. This gives around a 1:10 chance of picking an active number at random. If there’s actual patterns in the numbers this could be even more likely.
What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.
Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.
So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.
Across Europe there’s different recommendations in every country, and no evidence of different illness/mortality rates related to the recommendation.
France says tap water is safe for all ages.
If you’re in the US, I totally get why you might want to keep boiling your water, but remember that boiling doesn’t remove lead.
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Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.
This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.
America doesn’t have a mainstream left party.
It has a status quo party (Democrats) and a fascist party (Republicans).
Clearly the status quo sucks for most Americans, so they’re more tempted by fascist alternatives.
It being undemocratic is actually pretty important for the system to work.
Because only the house of commons is elected they have legitimacy and the house of lords knows that while they can resist some dumb crap, they do ultimately have to accept the decisions made there.
If you have two elected houses you end up like the US with the senate blocking everything the house of representative does.
A more representative second house with less rich people and politicial cronies would be nice though.
Also, I want it to go to people outside my org that I email back, not random spammers and salespeople.
For some reason, the only option is to use people in my addressbook which doesn’t auto populate and I never use.
You know open-source doesn’t mean publicly available. It means the person, or in this case the US government, that brought the software should have free access to the source code to edit and distribute it as they like.
So yes, the military should use something functional equivalent to open source to prevent vender lock in and to allow for external audits. They probably shouldn’t give it to Russia or make it freely available online though.
It’s actually worse than you’re making it sound.
Supplements are not just less regulated than drugs, they’re less regulated than food.
Several of his stories are outright racist though.
How do you go about loving that without acknowledging there are issues?
Lovecraft is problematic for other reasons.
The problem is that what makes his work good is this pathological fear of the other, that he interlinks with xenophobia and notions of racial purity in his fiction.
You can’t love the art and hate the author with Lovecraft, you have to accept they’re both pretty fucked up.
BMI works quite well for typical people.
Either you do so much more exercise than everyone around you that it’s not a good fit for you, or you should take it as a warning sign.
If you think it’s muscle and not fat, there’s another test that you might like to try instead which is the waist to hip ratio. https://www.healthline.com/health/waist-to-hip-ratio
But if you want an honest appraisal of your fitness, just do a fun run. The shortish runs round a park with a bunch of normal people. Either you can keep up without killing yourself and everything is fine, or you’re not as fit as you think.
It’s a pyramid scheme, and your place in the pyramid/heaven is defined by how many souls you save.
People that convert the most people, or who’s converts go on to convert the most people go to heaven.