I’d help you except for my back

If your ideas of provocation are the same as the article you provided, you’re going to have to do better.

There were in fact two main U.S. provocations. The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order).

• Surely even Russia understands why people would want to expand and join NATO when they’re attacking people who are not members

The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014.

• Surely even Russia understands why people would want to have and be a Russophobic regime when they’re attacking people who are not violent. The protests against Yanukovych were peaceful until his regime turned on the protesters.

But why am I wasting my time arguing with you when you’re obviously here for some reason to carry water for Russia?

Just because you can cherry pick a dozen articles from the last TEN YEARS about NATO and Ukraine doesn’t make you right.

I don’t even need an article to refute all of that - Russia attacked a neighbor unprovoked, NATO has attacked NOBODY ever.

That is a crazy take. Europe could spend some money and help Ukraine win this without losing any of their own soldiers’ lives.

He’s wrong of course, Europe’s economy is many times stronger than Russia’s. The real question is if they can find the collective will to defend themselves.

Trump’s policy was just juicing the system for short term gain which can go on for quite a while in good times but when you’re at 0% interest already at the START of a pandemic and economic crisis it’s obvious you’ve been much too irresponsible with the economy.

Playing off hate as a joke, this is why it’s okay to punch nazis

I always wonder now how his wife feels when they’re ready to relax for the night on the couch

He already says the most heinous ridiculous shit and his supporters don’t care

Amen to that. Not to mention the disproportionate amount of time and money spent on swing states. The US system is in dire need of reform and it might be too late. If Trump wins, that’s yet another nail in the coffin.

If he doesn’t, we need to band anyone and everyone who cares about democracy to insist on:

1. Money out of politics, as you argue
2. Ranked choice voting
3. Electoral college and voting rights reform (like a voting national holiday)

I though Trump would be in this punchline somehow

80s Celica/Supras are still my favorite

Finally a feel-good story makes the news

My wife said it’s fine

Oh yeah my favorite is a plain cheeseburger with fresh sliced jalapenos. So yummy.

In my experience the spicier jalapenos are also the tastier ones so I have a hard time imagining how this works.

I mean, I also probably wouldn’t eat the spicy stuff if I didn’t love the flavor - I’m not suffering just for bragging rights! So I’d definitely be down for trying something like the coolapenos here, just would be going into it with some skepticism that it’s anything more than a mild pepper with the mild flavor they produce.

Wish I could disagree with this

Agreed, somehow they don’t realize what a self-own this is no matter how you look at it

IMO it’s even worse than that. At least from what I gather from the AI/Singularity communities I follow. For them, AGI is the end goal - a creative thinking AI capable of deduction far greater than humanity. The company that owns that suddenly has the capability to solve all manner of problems that are slowing down technological advancement. Obviously owning that would be worth trillions.

However it’s really hard to see through the smoke that the Altmans etc. are putting up - how much of it is actual genuine prediction and how much is fairy tales they’re telling to get more investment?

And I’d have a hard time believing it isn’t mostly the latter because while LLMs have made some pretty impressive advancements, they still can’t have specialized discussions about pretty much anything without hallucinating answers. I have a test I use for each new generation of LLMs where I interview them about a book I’m relatively familiar with and even with the newest ChatGPT model, it still makes up a ton of shit, even often contradicting its own answers in that thread, all the while absolutely confident that it’s familiar with the source material.

Honestly, I’ll believe they’re capable of advancing AI when we get an AI that can say ‘I actually am not sure about that, let me do a search…’ or something like that.

This guy capitalisms ^

For those who haven’t had their coffee yet this morning - ‘middle class’ is yet another term they use to divide us and make us fight with each other instead of the real enemy