CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

To clarify, I meant SE Asia as the region, and I was mentally comparing against Africa or the rest of Asia. It's not the West, but Thailand and Singapore have legal gay marriage now.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes, it's possible he was even more trash than usual.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

By the standards of whatever Siberian village, the compensation and various bonuses (including after they die) these guys pull is insane. That how they're convincing people to sign up for a war that's both unpopular and nearly guaranteed to kill you. They could try massive conscription, but they'd need loyal people to enforce it or a guarantee it wouldn't lead to regime change, and they have neither.

The Russian government is basically drawing down all the funds and infrastructure in the country to sponsor this war, and at some point here they'll run out. I think I have 11 months left on my prediction of by when.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Do I dare ask about which part?

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

There's pretty clearly 2 pyrotechnic events here. if you're viewing it on a good enough screen.

Given camera movement, I suppose the "plane" could just be a cloud of smoke as well, that's true. Like, maybe it started a rocket stage? Aren't Shaheds slow and dumb, though? I don't know why it'd need that.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

~~Add sodium lauryl sulphate.~~

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Ah neat! So it's a drone firing a drone to intercept a drone.

Edit: No, that's a Russian craft.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Neat explanation. I'm going to add "energy is conserved" to this; we expect people to know that and make the connection to calories, but better safe than sorry.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Good for you! How long ago was that, and did you gain it back? That's usually the really hard part.

[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 10 hours ago

Just allowing it. Previously, Ukraine was one of the countries that required citizens to surrender all other citizenships, or at least didn't recognise them.

Kind of annoying they don't say in the article.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

So is that a plane at the beginning?

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Has any place in the world ever been actively “flooded” with migrants of a vastly different culture in recent history?

Any place that borders a very culturally different country that has a massive crisis. They usually get banned from working and shoved in refugee camps, though.

But anyway,

Why are humans like this?

Probably stuff that happened in prehistory, some quirk of evolution. It's definitely not rational.

 

Since it's been a controversy on here a couple times, here's a great example of how you can demonstrate an LLM can produce something it can't have seen before.

It doesn't prove anything beyond doubt, but I think these kinds of experiments show to something like a civil law standard that they're not merely parrots.

 

This was an eye-opener for me. Less temporary foreign workers do construction than the general population? Seriously?

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