Remember that the Salvation Army behaves differently depending on the nation they’re in. The US Salvation Army has different policies to the British one, which has different policies to the Australian one.

I mean it’s basically just declaring war. It’s the US acting unilaterally to attack a foreign nation for no reason at all. Granted that’s nothing new, but at least with Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush got permission from Congress through the Iraq Resolution (and the AUMF Against Terrorists Act in Afghanistan’s case) before he actually invaded. I get the feeling Trump isn’t even going to ask, he’s just going to attack Venezuela, get dragged into a war, and die.

Then again, Obama attacked Libya without congressional approval, and while Congress could have done something about it, they didn’t.

Me too, I tried using Firefox on Mac but for some reason its power consumption is insanely high.

Venture capitalist Bradley Tusk told LBC: “If Elon Musk says he needs a trillion dollars because he’s going to solve global hunger or something like that, great, have at it. But I don’t know what you could possibly buy with a trillion dollars that you couldn’t buy with a hundred billion, or probably even $10 billion.”

Well at least he’s aware of how much money a trillion dollars is and how easy it would be to solve world hunger.

If the cartels wanted her dead, no amount of security would save her. She’s only in that position because the cartels allow her to be in that position.

To be fair, the internet was fucking everywhere once the dotcom bubble kicked off. Everyone had a website, and even my mum was like “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this massive thing.

Anything would be better than an LLM by virtue of the fact that a human wrote it.

Absolutely not, there’d be some TikTok influencer that would be like “Broooo you can get land so cheap!” and buy it all and sell it for massive profit.

I was under the impression that Slytherin was about ambition, not just cunning. You have to not only be cunning, but also be ambitious enough to want to use that cunning to get one over on everyone else. Even Horace Slughorn used his cunning to further his own position, and he was considered the ‘best’ Slytherin in the book, so that’s their best foot forward!

Oh well, could be worse, you could be in Hufflepuff, which consists almost entirely of the ‘boring’ students. The rejects, the terminally useless, the basic bitches.

I’m interested to see what an open source cloud standard would look like. There’s a lot of elements that share functionality between Azure and AWS, but they’re just different enough that it’s a massive pain in the arse to move from one to the other and you basically have to re-write your Terraform from scratch.

If there was something that was standard so I could write Terraform that goes “I want thirteen microservices all running in docker containers and a message bus with these types of message that lets them communicate” without specifying the exact implementation, I would be a happy camper.

Feels like this is going to devolve into a bit of an Old Boys Club. As in, only ‘recognised’ artists get the basic income, and who decides who gets recognised? Art organisations, and those will very quickly restrict their membership or else be flooded by anyone who claims to be an artist and can get an AI to spit out some slop and get some moron to buy it.

Then, the government can go to those art organisations and go “Right, no more art critical of the government or we won’t be recognising your organisation for the Basic Income scheme”, thus cutting off the funding for the membership and, driven by the need to eat and survive, said membership will alter their art to be more comfortable to whoever happens to be in charge at the time.

No doubt they’ll do what they did last time and just force her to watch Oct 7th footage and go “…Are you… Are you convinced yet? Please be convinced… Please”

They still have to make that money back somehow though. They can’t just put a load of investment down on AI, make zero money off it (or worse, less than zero) and then expect everything to be fine with the existing profits. They need to raise revenue from existing streams to cover for the loss they just incurred by doing AI. That, or cut costs, which means layoffs, which means people have less money, meaning they spend less money, which means businesses make less money, so they do layoffs, and so on and so on leading to a recession.

According to the Prose Edda, Odin decides exactly which people are going to die in battle that day, and then brings them all to Valhalla… Which contradicts other accounts somewhat. Then again a lot of old Norse mythology has been so polluted by Christianity that who knows what was originally Norse and what was changed later?

In some accounts, you don’t even need to die in battle. Odin just thinks “I need that guy on my team” and takes you.

Valhalla isn’t a reward though, it’s a hell for those that don’t enjoy battle. Here’s what happens in Valhalla:

• You equip your armor and weapons
• You walk out into the courtyard
• You kill eachother
• You are resurrected
• You go to dinner
• You equip your armor and weapons
• You walk out into the courtyard
• You kill eachother

etc. etc.

It is NOT a reward. Valhalla is not heaven, it is a place that Odin puts his very specific chosen warriors that died a violent death in battle. Whether you go to Valhalla doesn’t depend on you being either a good or bad person, only how you died. Odin himself will even actively intervene and make sure you lose your fight and die in battle, just because he wants you as one of his Einherjar.

Valhalla being portrayed as this big reward for good people is a bastardised version brought in by Christians.

If there’s one thing the UK is good at, it’s making rich people feel important. It’s how all those Russian oligarchs feel so comfortable in London, comfortable enough to spill their secrets. Nobody suspects the butler, nobody suspects that behind the pomp and ceremony there’s a knife waiting for you.

Trump likes to be flattered, so flatter him, and then get as much cash out of the US as possible! $150bn investment so far as a result of this little bit of pageantry, since all those tech companies are now dancing to Trump’s tune.

If you use Vim you’ll never use any other software

The absolute minimum that should be done should be to split ICE up into the original agencies that were merged into it in 2002. Originally, the border policing and customs, and the immigration enforcement were two separate agencies. Customs was controlled by the Treasury, immigration was controlled by the Justice Department.

Basically, undo everything that was done in response to 9/11 and dissolve the Department of Homeland Security.

That’s funny though because I know Copilot can google things and talk about them.

Like, a news story can appear that day, and you go “Did you hear about the guy that did X and Y?” and Copilot will google it and be like “Oh yeah you’re referring to the news story that came out today about the guy that did X and Y. It was reported in Newspaper that Z was also involved” and then send you a link to the article.

So like… GPT5 should be able to supplement its knowledge with basic searching, it just doesn’t.

If you’re the British Government you do your best to get onto the tram and hit the accelerator as hard as you can.