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I don’t know if I’ve got a big enough sample size, but the only guys I know who wear black nail polish are creepy Marilyn Manson types who mainly get laid with girls they met in their therapist’s waiting room

Hypothetically if you wanted your country to become impoverished within the next five decades, what sort of things would you do that are different to what the current administration is doing?

I googled this guy to see if this story was in any way significant, and his other posts are so Poe’s Law batshit that I have no idea which of them are serious and which aren’t.

I haven’t seen inside their system but the chances of it being an LLM are close to zero, least of all because LLMs are notoriously unreliable at calculating numbers. It’s far more likely that they’re saying “AI” because shareholders, and it’s actually something closer to traditional ML.

Yeah when I started travelling on a generous business expense account I found that it was increasingly the case that I didn’t even need to charge things to it. Things just start becoming fucking free when you’ve got money.

I’ve recently been looking at how Facebook’s advertising algorithm works, and it is a piece of pure fucking “the AI did it not us” evil. It can seek out all types of vulnerable people and target them on stuff that if a human salesperson did it you’d call them a sociopath.

Anorexic? Body confidence issues? Financial problems? Signs of susceptibility to fascist messaging? Here’s some paid messages from people who want your dollar. Seriously that whole place needs shutting down, it’s the worst thing to happen to humanity in recent history.

I think if your whole brand is being a creepy weirdo, that sort of makes you immune to the consequences of being identified as one.

Spacey would still be making movies now if he’d just preyed on vulnerable women instead.

Dustin Hoffman, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ryan Seacrest all have multiple SA allegations that they were able to play down and keep working, but those were all from women.

Most homophobia stems from the fear of male rape, so the usual meninist/MRA crowd who scrambled to defend “innocent until proven guilty” for Russell Brand (3 upcoming producer credits) are nowhere to be seen when it’s Spacey.

(for clarity, this is not a defense of Spacey, it’s an attack on hypocrisy)

umm that's actually a railway

I hope you'll forgive me being sceptical that "used these systems" is enough authority to be able to speak for every make and model on the market... I've also used a few CCTV systems over the years and they've all been absolute lowest-bidder no-name dogshit that were packed full of weird idiosyncrasies.

Again it comes back to the "how many people would you need to cover this up" thing - if the security systems in this prison genuinely did not cut their files at midnight, the number of people that would have to keep quiet about it is staggering; you'd need to not only swear all the guards to secrecy but also the people who made and sold them the system (whose reputation is being impugned, to boot) and anyone else familiar with that system, any one of whom could show up any time with the same model and say look, here's hard physical evidence that what they said about the midnight rollover isn't true.

That said, they really need to release the Epstein Files.

(edit: yeah yeah I knew this would get downvoted for not joining the bandwagon even as I was writing it... go whistle)

Yeah. In order for the whole thing to work you're putting a lot of faith in your ability to get out of there before the DVR files roll over at midnight. It's not just that you'd have to do it in a minute, you'd have to be confident ahead of time of being able to do it and leaving no signs of struggle and also avoid any other cameras placing you unaccountably at that location at that time... all in all if you want the guy dead it's much easier to manipulate another inmate into doing it for you, than to do all this Mission: Impossible shit and still need to hope that the next two governments help you cover it up.

You could be right. Corbyn in the UK had a HUGE swell of support with record numbers of people joining the Labour Party just before its leadership election just to vote for him. Didn't translate to votes when the general election came around.