The character writing is generally excellent imo. If you don't like big crunch, there are difficulty scales (although I do love big crunch. 5E leaves me cold.)

I thought it was going to end with 'so as to avoid any arguments over the appropriateness of medical intervention' but no, really took a hard swerve there

Terrified soldier in profuse cold sweats over Wu's derangement (Metal Slug concept art)

Hellllllllll yeah also what Beatrice said though. Good luck threading the needle!

As Obama's peace prize was for not being Bush, Stalin's heroism is in not being Hitler.

Well the best known one's a banger

Joyous

The idea of doubling down to defend a campaign that lost is unimaginable (I think we go too hard in the opposite direction tbh.)

Iirc, the last time we had someone lead their party to a federal election loss but retain leadership and contest a second election was 2001.

Do you think that deference to the unsuccessful candidate is a presidential system thing, or a US specific thing?

If a major party candidate loses in Aus, they're certain to lose party leadership, and their campaign platform will be regarded as an embarrassing but undeniable mistake.

Excerpt of the above excerpt: She couldn't imagine a group of men sitting around at the pub, saying things like "I'm really worried about what the DWP is doing to disabled people."

She can't imagine a group (4? 5? 6?) of men concerned about impact of policy on disabled people? That's genuinely nuts.

It doesn't survive contact with any poll or election data about her age group. It probably doesn't survive an earnest poll of the tables at her campus bar.

They're both pessimistic, learned-helplessness style beliefs that treat the opposite sex as a simple, derogatory monolith. They have lost sight of opposite sex people as (complex, fleshed-out) people.

You haven't distinguished those beliefs, merely claimed that they're taboo to compare.

Nvm is an abbreviation of 'never mind.'

oh for sure dude *ups thumb*

Unless you only started watching the news in ~2020, there's really no justifying this pretense.

That bare chin can really get away from you if you're not careful.

If OP says 'a blizzard is likely tomorrow' and what comes to your mind is 'blizzards are associated with poor road conditions, I better argue against OP's love of blizzards', that is truly not an OP problem.

It's hard to shake the impression that this open-minded 'What is intelligence _really_ man?' is less of a serious ontological question for many people, and more of a convenient cloak to pick up and cast off in defence of e.g. a market position in GOOG.

Be interesting to know how Andreesen's 'thinking is for cucks' shtick went down with the fake nerds.

Plus, CSAM and revenge porn by the truckload! Wow!

Musk going zero for n on his human children but uhhh, I'm sure he'd rear a synthetic nazi sycophant real well.

Are you a vegan?

Most of my conversations about LLMs end with me imploring the other party to read contemporaneous accounts of ELIZA.

Are you a vegan?

Are you a vegan?

Entertaining the marketing material's delusions of imminent AGI and infinite return on investment is making that threat worse, not better.

Dude you're stupid as fuck, holy hell

Nvm, read below and can see you don't actually realize that. Yikes!

What are describing here? It isn't LLMs.

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

Can't decide if this would have been good (would technically create more souvenirs for the other streamers there) or bad (most souvenirs damaged beyond recognition)