The problem is not inherit inherent to AI.

And yet… you still… never mind. Not worth it.

“¡Come mierda, pinche guero cagaleche!”

An invertebrate only implies that there are no vertebrae, or “spine bones”, in the organism, not that the organism’s “bones are on the outside”.

S-Tier ELID (“explain like I’m dumb”); thank you for your service.

Tree-fiddy.

Every country on Earth has a version of “immigration police”. The catch is that some governments aren’t quite as malicious the current US administration. Some are even more than the US.

I did. I was born in Chicago. I fucked off to Europe a couple years ago, to the Netherlands.

In many ways superior to the US, no doubt.

But if I’m being honest? Same-ish problems. Perhaps, a smaller scale. I’ve been fortunate to see much of the world, at least far more than the average natural-born US citizen. I speak 4 languages. 2 of them fluently. The same societal sicknesses in America pervade the globe.

Certainly, the US is a dumpster-fire, but it’s not the only trash receptacle that’s ablaze at the moment, and it definitely didn’t start there, historically.

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I am an American “person of color” (gods, what stupid phrase… fuck this newspeak) who owns firearms (at home; I live abroad currently).

Here’s the exact verbiage of the 2nd Amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Interpret that as thou wilt; we’ve been arguing about it since about 1791.

For what it’s worth, I’d amend the amendment to include this snippet from Marx, just to confuse us all even more:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

Daimler-Benz AG (which included the Mercedes-Benz brand) merged with the Chrysler Corporation in 1998 to form DaimlerChrysler.

I remember it vividly as a teenager. It’s been in an utter shit show since then, in my opinion.

The caveat is that I’m highly biased towards Japanese manufacturers. My family owned two Chryslers. After they both had tremendous drive train issues, my father said never again and bought Japanese from then on, aside from a 2004 Volvo S40. The Toyotas and Hondas were extremely reliable, fuel efficient, and very easy to perform maintenance on comparatively.

If I were to buy German in this era, my two preferences would be Porsche and Audi.

However, your individual experience is valid as cars’ reliability is largely individualistic to the specific vehicle and its owner.

Classic well-kept Mercedes-Benz are a joy to behold and I suspect to drive as well.

If I had the knowledge, I would love to start an ETF to short publicly traded companies run by assholes and douchebags. Similar to inverse REITs for real estate. It would probably lose money spectacularly, I admit, but I would still run it out of pure spite.

Mercedes-Benz has been trash for many years now, so this tracks.

I don’t know if it’s the root reason, but one gets scoffed at harshly by the average Tom, Dick, and Harry when suggesting that a Monarchy is an archaic and, frankly, insulting form of governance in spite of protestations that the role of the sovereign is purely ceremonial.

Simply put, they (mostly) seem to prefer political masochism, and are ruled by sadists. Sadly, in 2025, aren’t we all?

The Simulacrum

Computer vision models can read/parse pixel geometry.

Hey dipshits:

The number of mouth-breathers who think every fucking “AI” is a fucking LLM is too damn high.

AlphaFold is not a language model. It is specifically designed to predict the 3D structure of proteins, using a neural network architecture that reasons over a spatial graph of the protein’s amino acids.

• Every artificial intelligence is not a deep neural network algorithm.
• Every deep neural network algorithm is not a generative adversarial network.
• Every generative adversarial network is not a language model.
• Every language model is not a large language model.

Fucking fart-sniffing twats.

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Knowing the necessity for the defeat of the Imperial Japanese government, the burgeoning country-wide famine, combined with the inevitable bloodbath of a mainland invasion, the Allies justified the use of nuclear weapons, the details of which you can read about in the articles I posted above. Nazi Germany and the USSR were also developing their own nuclear weapon systems. A demonstration was deemed necessary.

I personally would not have authorized dropping the bombs on cities. Easy for me to say. But I certainly would have been living the rest of my days in despair at the mindless slaughter and ritual mass-suicide that would’ve ensued during the invasion of mainland Japan.

I don’t envy the choices the Allies had to make while combatting Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan.

In the context of WW2, the United States was morally justified to oppose the Imperial Japanese Government.

In context, against the Imperial Japanese Government, unfortunately, yes.