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AutistoMephisto

@ AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

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  • Pete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests

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  • they're utterly incapable of defining male as anything but a 20 year old getting drunk, playing sports, and breaking things.

    Don't forget ramming his cock into any woman he wants, regardless of whether they could give consent or not.

  • Pete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests

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  • You know, now that you say it, it makes sense. They're affirming their gender to deny their age. When they look back at their teenage years and/or their early 20's, that's when (they believe) they were at their "most maximal manliest manliness", or in biology terms, the point when their testosterone levels were at their highest. As soon as a man hits 30, it's all downhill from there. And I speak from experience as a 35-year-old white guy. Some of my shit doesn't work how it did in my 20's. Some parts of me now ache that previously did not. It's harder for me to get up from a sitting position than it used to be. But I don't think the answer for that is to amp up my testosterone levels to try and go through puberty again.

  • Pete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests

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  • Hmm. I didn't think of it like that, but I never considered that either gender has an "ideal state". It's also, I suppose that, for them, at least, that gender doesn't really factor into their desired state.

  • Pete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests

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  • UPDATE: After taking all the responses to this into consideration, I now understand testosterone therapy to indeed be gender affirming care but Hegseth and the "Manosphere" crowd he identifies with prefer to affirm their gender by denying their age. They still want to be the "studs" they (thought) they were in high school. They're the same guys who wax nostalgically about their "glory days" when they were on the football team and how they "led the team to win the regionals"(but not state) and they "coulda gone pro" but one of "those people(you know who they're referring to)", "stole" their scholarship.

  • 40 year old hero

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  • Exactly. Nothing wrong with a hero being at least middle-aged. Maybe they even have a spouse and kids they're leaving behind, or the kids are coming with them on the quest.

  • Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism

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  • Well, the plan then, if other countries start pulling away from US tech/hegemony as you suggest they will do, and are doing, is to use overwhelming military force with unending waves of AI-powered killer robots capable of combat in land, sea, and air. Use them everywhere, all at once, against everyone in a titanic billionaire temper tantrum the likes of which has never been seen on Earth. Because, if Karp and Thiel and Andreesen and all the other tech oligarchs don't get their wish, they will absolutely attempt to totally annihilate the planet in a massive temper tantrum.

  • Palantir inks $300 million deal with USDA to safeguard food supply

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  • And the cake will be "free", as in "each bite adds to your debt and you will serve in our army until it is paid off or you die in the line of duty. In the event you die in the line of duty, your debt will be passed down to your next of kin, who will be forced to pay it until their death."

  • At what point does a person become an "adult"?

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  • Well, in the legal sense, I suppose it has to do with contracts and contract law. Some time ago in the US, it was determined that 18 was the legal age for adulthood because by then a person would be old enough to understand the terms of a contract and hold to those terms. Marriage is a contract. Military service is a contract. Getting a loan/mortgage is a contract.

  • US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential elections

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  • States are permitted to enter into compacts with each other without Congressional approval. Democrats everywhere are rediscovering federalism and all its wonders. One thing I'd like my state to do is open a public bank, like North Dakota did. They opened it in 1919, and it was one of the few banks that weathered the Great Recession of 2008 without needing a bailout while Wall Street was on fire. A few years prior, North Dakota was facing a $48M budget crisis. The BND kicked in $25M, reducing the need for layoffs and spending cuts. It does everything a private bank does, but its profits go into North Dakota's general fund, instead of lining the pockets of investors.

    Want to know the real kicker? It's basically a socialist enterprise, in the reddest of red states. Republicans fucking hate the Bank of North Dakota, but it's proven too successful and too popular to kill. It would be political suicide for them to even try.

  • Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

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  • Privacy is one of those things I feel that if not everyone can have it, then nobody should. If the billionaires and the government want my secrets, then I want all of theirs.

  • Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

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  • Yeah, let's put everyone's dirty laundry out there for everyone else to see. A system where everyone has everyone else's leverage? Beautiful. Blackmail stops working because everyone already knows, but on the upside, I also know everyone else's dirty laundry and corpses are buried.

  • Speaker at CPAC calls to deport 100 million people, most of whom would be US citizens

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  • This, exactly. A nice tidy way of keeping their hands clean. Deport them to a country with prisons where detainee deaths are common, or their government can be subtly coerced into killing the people our government sends there. When people demand answers, our government can just throw up its hands and say, "Well, how were we supposed to know they were doing that?"

  • Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming

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  • Metaphysics notwithstanding, he's narcissistic to the point of believing that he's "one order of magnitude above human". The rest of us? We're the first stage on the rocket. He not only wants to live forever, he wants to live above we mere mortals, free of all our petty needs and desires. This world is his playground, his toy; created for him and other billionaires like him. And if he and they can't have it, then, they've ultimately decided nobody can.

  • Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming

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  • What's worse are the rich, out-of-touch fucks who should know better, are so narcissistic and so afraid of death. What they fear about it, is that the world will continue on without them. They'd rather the world end when they end. As far as they're concerned:

    • The world as we know it did not exist prior to their being born into it.
    • The world was made for them and their descendants to enjoy. All others are expendable tokens to spend as they please.
    • If they are mortal, then the world should not continue to exist after their deaths.

  • Murdoch Paper Warns Trump That Stephen Miller’s Plot Is Backfiring After Humiliating GOP Defeat

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  • I don't know if I fully agree. After 9/11, the conservative movement was attempting to change the consensus(Evil brown foreigners are coming to kill you and your family). The fact that a black man won the Presidency not once, but twice speaks to a failure to meaningfully change it.

  • The Algorithm Finally Works For You

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  • First, I want to ask about these price-tracking websites, do they update in real-time? Do they get their information from confidential data or public data? Do they alert to changes and, in the case of say, applying for an apartment, time the application submission at exactly the right time? Do they collaborate with each other? See, I just learned about algorithmic price fixing and how companies in nearly every industry, every facet of life, give their algorithms access to vast amounts of data, both public and private, and these algorithms share their data with each other, allowing companies to indirectly collude and fix prices without human intervention. What can we common folk do against that?

    I'm just saying, you're mentioning search engines, and the author says

    You had Google and a spreadsheet if you were organized.

    So, how can I, with my spreadsheets and my search engine, possibly stand up to Big AI? David and Goliath was a nice fable, but now Goliath is back, and has friends, and laws protecting them, and all David has, is a sling and a single rock.

  • The Algorithm Finally Works For You

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  • I'll say one thing for this post and the resulting discussion, it's caused me to fall down the rabbit hole that is AI price fixing. How else can it be that available residences increased but so did rent? And so did everything else?

  • The Algorithm Finally Works For You

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  • Also, so what if algorithms cost a lot of money? That's not really an argument for why LLMs level the playing field.

    It's not just the money. It's the knowledge and expertise needed to use the algorithms, at all. It's knowing how to ask the algorithm for the information you want in a way that it can understand, in knowing how to visualize the data points it gives. As you said, there's an entire field of mathematics dedicated to algorithm analysis and optimization. Not everyone has the time, energy, and attention to learn that stuff. I sure don't, but damn if I am tired of having to rely on "Zillow and a prayer" if I want to get a house or apartment.

  • The Algorithm Finally Works For You

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  • Yeah, idk, I'm pretty sure the author meant "SAP", but then why SQL?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

    The Algorithm Finally Works For You

    open.substack.com /pub/jacipriano/p/the-algorithm-finally-works-for-you
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

    I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

    open.substack.com /pub/leadershiplighthouse/p/i-went-all-in-on-ai-the-mit-study
  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
    AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

    Well damn, we got nomad clans. Is that cyberpunk enough?

    www.pressdemocrat.com /article/news/more-americans-turn-to-living-in-their-cars/