me: if I can freeze dry a strawberry and sell it to people who can’t afford a freeze dryer, i can run a military

me: :elmofire:

Age is a key concern — the average person in Ukraine’s military is 45. Of about 30 infantry troops in a unit, said the deputy commander of the 72nd brigade, on average half were in their mid-40s, only five were under 30 and the rest were 50 or older.

“Some of them don’t even know how to hold their rifles. They peel more potatoes than they shoot bullets,” he said, adding that he had bought paintball equipment to replace rifles and live rounds so that new recruits could get more practice without wasting precious ammunition.

Let’s throw them another billionty million dollars. Maybe their Operation Barbarossa veterans will be able to finish the job and be in Moscow by winter.

boomerang intensifies

I refuse to believe medieval people could build cathedrals. They lacked modern tools for such precise masonry and glasswork.

This wouldn’t be unusual — it’s what happened in the run-up to the post-9/11 Iraq war, when American and British media were arguably far too unquestioning of Western officials’ claims that Saddam Hussein was awfully close to having a nuclear bomb or had a huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

There was then British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “dodgy dossier” and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s defining speech at the U.N. Security Council, where the formerly staunch critic of intervention announced Washington had solid evidence of sophisticated and illicit Iraqi weapons programs. But there was insufficient media skepticism overall, and alternative voices and awkward questions were all too often crowded out.

Unfortunately, it seems we’re now in danger of repeating this very same mistake, as we all too quickly dub those who question current Western strategy as defeatists or accuse them of advancing Russian propaganda.

Next 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓌𝒶𝓇, every propagandist who writes in support of it is immediately sent to the frontline. If they survive, they’re shot.

Practice makes perfect

“say the line Sartre”

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

“The model is definitely better at solving the AP math test than I am, and I was a math minor in college,” OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, tells me. He says OpenAI also tested o1 against a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, and while GPT-4o only correctly solved only 13 percent of problems, o1 scored 83 percent.

That’s still unreliable enough that I wouldn’t trust it to actually do anything. If it scoured its database for a trigonometry textbook and cited a solution for a problem which was as correct as any web calculator, cool. That’d be as useful as google was in 2010. 83% is the kind of score I get on advanced mathematics tests when I have no idea what I’m doing but half-remember the basic steps to get an answer.

Now even “lefties” in the west don’t blink an eye at this type of extremist in Ukraine.

The left has been correctly assessing this war since Euromaidan. There’s a reason the only figure from the entire conflict unironically embraced by us is wishing Lenin would shoot everyone around him. We don’t blink an eye at this kind of extremist because it’s so incredibly mild compared to what we know from Ukrainian extremism and something we’ve been predicting since 2022. Fascism is capitalism in decay and this war is the result of capitalism in decay.

Liberals are the only ones who have been blind to any of it and it’s because the most progressive social democrat is the most moderate fascist. They want this as much as they do Gaza. They’ve invited this as they always do historically and are funding it for all the reasons the left has been calling out since the 1970s.

White trash never fails to disappoint.

I like the saying “Fahrenheit is what you feel, Celsius is what water feels, and Kelvin is what the universe feels”.

Peaches have a shitty pectin content so they don’t jellify on their own. Next time I’d add powdered pectin, lemon juice, or a second fruit with high levels like plums.

Watching Jojo Rabbit, feverishly taking notes, turning it off before the ending because reasons

genocide is brat

Whomst’ve amongst’ve’us could have predicted that rushing the training of a handful of fighter pilots wouldn’t make a wunderwaffe? This wasn’t even lost in combat.

Live Forever As You Are Now but shittier. Controlling a virtual car better mean that they have a proprietary play-to-earn crypto scam where you roleplay as an uber driver.

The point is to bait lawsuits from people righteously hitting them and the city removing them.

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In Marxism, the base (material/economic conditions) is what the superstructure (social/cultural/political conditions) is generated by. Societies organise themselves around the resources available and the division of labour required to utilise them. Marxism’s social observations are all rooted in that mediation of the material environment.