

Sometimes having a plausibly-looking mistake (“hallucination”) in notes is worse than not having notes.
Rephrasing a common quote - talk is cheap, that’s why I talk a lot.
Sometimes having a plausibly-looking mistake (“hallucination”) in notes is worse than not having notes.
“But they promise they don’t”
You told off the leader of your country, to his daughter, in person, while apparently trying to fuck/date her, intentionally using some kind of insulting language variant I don’t think I fully understand…
Thought she’s a daughter of some intelligence worker. I started accepting the thought like 10 years after the events, still not sure, a half-niece thrice removed perhaps.
Nah, I was talking more generally, not even sure if that was the reason.
Just that such an encounter is already enough visibility to get on many lists.
… and your dad is in or connected to some kind of intelligence service.
Kept some acquaintances, not the kind of connection.
I would be fucking disappearing myself, and telling your dad to get the fuck out as well, if I was in that uh, situation.
I said\did things she deemed loyalty\idiocy later. Also in “that, uh, situation” you wouldn’t have the opportunity to disappear.
Assuming you aren’t bullshitting and I am not misunderstanding what you said…
It appears she was less offended at me than those she pranked. Meaning that it may be the opposite.
darker times then the Empire certainly.
Not really.
Wealth inequality is returning to pre-WW1 levels
You only have one pair of torn boots, patched shirt and patched trousers, you probably have no underwear too (let alone a few changes of it), have scars all around, only a handful of teeth, much of your hair white, dry skin.
You sleep in some boarding house, or more likely in a hammock at the factory.
You are hungry first half of the day and a bit less hungry and a bit drunk the second half. Oh, I forgot - you likely already have a few such injuries.
You generally don’t keep money, it all goes to keep you alive for one more day. Sometimes you don’t have work and sleep under some bridge. The border between a worker and a homeless person is fuzzy.
A-and you are not very literate. You get a look of a newspaper or two from time to time.
Most of what you get to read is socialist political agitation, which is kinda fine. But - all that activity doesn’t happen at work. You’ll lose your bread, that little you get, if you do that. Political assemblies happen at night with torches (hence the traditions of some old parties, not limited to fascist ones).
I’d say exterminating natives was good enough as a warning sign and some more.
You don’t realize how hard it is to do physically the work of water pumps in the grid, which allow you to have running water. Or to collect firewood (or some other burnable fuel) to use much of it every damn day for cooking, heating water, heating your habitat.
And the water will have unbalanced composition, so things you are getting from almost any findable water you’ll have to get specifically. Imagine a water supply short on lithium, but with horrible concentrations of iron, or something like that.
I never ask these bots because they are all the time wrong enough to not be useful for me.
I don’t need construction advice which gets one of the mentioned materials completely wrong. I don’t need technical advice that invents syntax and libraries. I don’t need mathematical advice that produces formulae with errors. It’s even worse that you have to look very attentively before you’ll notice that error.
It doesn’t feel like something new, though, more like return to badly machine-translated texts or those with breaking typos found in search engines in year 2003. And even generated, by Markov chains or by mentally ill humans or whatever. Remember when “googling” meant checking 20+ pages of results and that was normal.
I don’t know why a tool for quick wrong answers is so popular. I can make up quick wrong answers too. I use the Internet for trying to find correct answers.
So good I need not fear about all this, because I said a very rare bunch of people to kick rocks (not directly, not knowing who they are, just in response to their words relayed anonymously by another person, and technically more rude, but I was told it was translated this way), and expressed my opinion about the current regime in my country with its leader’s biological daughter (by no measure the only one) in the room (also I was trying to fsck her), using prison castes’ names, and also my dad probably had ties to security services, making it almost certain I’m already as tagged as tagging goes personally and not by some combination of coefficients. There’s even a little probability that this has already saved my life once or twice.
Can’t recommend it.
Yes, and it’s about stereotypes and perception more than reality, haven’t been to any.
Well, I’ve said A so I should say B. Here it is: the UK feels, from Russian perspective, a more “normal” country than USA or Commonwealth nations.
It’s simply a robbery of those companies and the investment. More subtle than vouchers during 90s Russia privatization, but similar.
In the Russian 90s there were those vouchers, but people who received them, 1) didn’t know what they cost, 2) had too small a value on their hands to do anything with those, 3) were in hard enough conditions to be compelled to sell them to buyers. And here’s the thing, the buyers to start were those most known and profiting. It’s the network effect we know and love, right here.
Here 1) people hold those companies various actions\stocks\whatnot, I’m not financially literate enough, 2) do not possess any voice in corporate decisions really, these are too big, 3) the companies themselves are investing in a huge-huge bubble. Those inflating the bubble, that is, the C-suites and such, don’t know when it’ll burst naturally, but they can know when it’ll burst if they create a bubble burst situation deliberately. In case of a natural bubble burst people knowing it’s a bubble will win as much as the perpetrators, defeating the purpose. In case of an intentional bubble burst they won’t.
I might be wrong with this doom talk.
If I’m wrong and it’s caused by normal market expectations, then they are likely preparing for a lot of totalitarianism and genocide in the coming years, and I mean a lot, that’s the only kind of global development to be expected to warrant such investment.
And, of course, the latter is not ruled out if it’s an intentional bubble anyway.
It’s not just the British, it’s all “core western” nations honestly. USA most of all, it is of course funny that a British regulator tries to do that with an American company, that doesn’t happen often.
They demand fulfillment of their laws regardless of jurisdiction when the other side is weaker, and ignore laws of others even if firmly inside those others’ jurisdiction. And that’s so normalized that nobody even thinks about it except for such funny moments.
There are honestly worse things.
All of Mediterranean border and migration matters are resolved in this way, there are “coast guard” military organizations on the African shores with their own small concentration camps for those attempting to illegally migrate to Europe (not nice, of course, but doesn’t warrant such conditions) which in reality are funded by Italian and French governments and really report to them and act in their interest. I think I’ve read a few articles describing those.
It’s not been so long since France enforced its laws on much of the African continent. Due to malicious and incompetent jerks in its top, it has lost much of that. And I hope it’ll lose everything colonial, French Guyana included.
I’ve read just yesterday about British troops and Kenya in the context of a murder, which was pretty known in that regiment, with all the circumstance, and the perpetrator is a vet living in UK just fine with family and all, and more than 10 years after the British have formally started some kind of investigation, and it will apparently go on for a couple more decades. It’s literal mockery of the victim’s family, and it’s normal for Europeans in such cases.
Hell, even western policy on Armenia is not a result of some rules, it’s a result of one European politician with connections having their ass torn by bandits in Armenia in 2012. They are taking revenge for that. They think thousands of honorable decent men dead are worth less than one criminal’s torn ass. That a whole nation with its history is worth less than that. That they have right to think and act like that.
If you want Europeans (and Americans, and Australians, and Canadians, and so on) to learn honor, you need to have that whole imperial bunch thoroughly defeated by Chinese, or by India, or by them all together, or whatever.
Otherwise it’s simply unnatural for humans to know their borders. While the empire (in the British and French, not in the Roman, nor in Chinese, nor in Japanese, nor in Russian, nor even in Spanish meaning) is still alive, it will morally decay further and further.
And you know what’s the funniest? Growing up in Russia I thought I’m smarter than people around me for thinking that the general sense of what I just wrote is all propaganda. LOL. Soviet and Russian propaganda softened that reality, if anything, they had and have to somehow justify dealing with those nations. Modern Russian propaganda didn’t stop that too, they are just adding some delusions on the side.
One can have segregation and cheap colored abused labor without slavery, like most of the British empire after it went out of fashion. And one can rob, abuse and genocide natives with a formal truce in place.
Those pesky colonials just didn’t understand nuance.
So, while I don’t know anything real about the UK, having been there once, it surely felt and feels from their people in the interwebs that you are right.
No, I mean US military too, if you also look at budget to personnel ratio and the tasks it’s supposed to cover.
But yes, US military is much less like the western movies PR and more like a normal military, compared to European ones (even France), just with such funding that one can be certain that most of that is going to perpetually feed various mafia-oligarch-deepstate freeloaders.
I mean, “the west” includes Turkey, South Korea, and even Israel, so of course.
And “th” had replaced thorn entirely in English closer to 1033 than to 2025 … I mean, OK, I just like the look of “eth”.
Its customers want their sheeple base to only use computers via full MITM of a networked (or at least with undecipherable functionality, like a local LLM) agent, that predicts what you want from what you say, so that god forbid you’d never do direct computation.
I mean, an LLM model is literally a program whose logic is hidden in weights. A way to thoroughly obfuscate functionality.
And those customers you might consider smart, with such power, but in fact just like with everything else they are not, just in the right place in the structures of power to have their wishes tried first.
I’ll repeat, they are not as smart as one would expect. But if your asshole gets torn while playing superhero, it’s your problem and of those who did it. If their asshole gets torn while playing superhero, it’s a problem of everyone in the street, town, district, country, continent, ethnicity, maybe even statistical bucket of those who did it.
And they do think they are some sort of superheroes.
Though when the AI bubble bursts, and we’ll have plenty of cheap hardware suited for this technology, who says there won’t be plenty of more specific applications and even toolkits based on LLMs? And then they’ll get their wish, not in the sense of agents, but in the sense of programs far more resistant to reverse-engineering than normal binaries being popularized.
Not even talking about the scenario where all that cheap hardware is bought by parties which can use it to their normal goals, unlike most real commercial activity. That is, by nation states with their surveillance needs.
So perhaps those people are smart enough.
OK, maybe it’s just another BAD psychosis.
I’ve only seen it in vendor integration manuals, do you over the pond really use that?
Not formally monarchical, but yes.
She’s death itself in the form of a young woman with big blue sad eyes. I don’t know what she thought. The story is also darker.