Miles O'Brien

They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.

Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”

A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.

So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”

But that isn’t the criteria they’re working with in any news report or court case, is it?

If I draw up some plans on a napkin with crayon, make my thing based on that, and “QC” says all the parts are to spec, and it fails and looks like shit in the process… I would say that is FAR more improvised than the guy making a pipe bomb out of hardware store supplies that’s set off by a complex electronic custom timer/signal receiver.

I do get your point, I’m just being slightly ridiculous for humor’s sake.

It’s all entirely “did someone make this in a factory with government approval or not”

Y’know… In this hypothetical news story/court case…

I remember seeing so many comments awhile back about how there wasn’t a chance in hell that EON would ever allow someone else to have creative control.

I want to know how much they’re being paid for it, and how much the next highest offer has been, because it has to be a shitload of money.

Yeah, but to be fair, those were smallish nukes, and we only saw those go up against large bugs.

Not a net or trident in sight.

Not a fair comparison.

Every extreme sport is insane if you dissect it with rational thought about human frailty.

It’s great!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go strip to thin breathable cloth so I can tear along the countryside at speeds humans weren’t designed to travel at, while dodging trees, bushes, occasional wildlife, roots and rocks, hoping my air filled donut bladders don’t rupture and none of the welds on my metal stick give out. Once I’m done I’ll cool off with a nice downhill roll, rivaling the cheetah on speed.

That said… Caves are one of those places I’d love to go to one someday but it won’t be relaxing for me. They can be scary as FUCK. Don’t even get me started on cave diving. Those people are insane and in need of therapy.

My first though in reading the title was “well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media.”

There’s about the same amount of integrity from it, and it’s way easier to think “man, this one guy I’m watching might not know what he’s talking about” than it is to think “this whole team of people are wrong” but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It’s easier to trust “Paul” because he’s wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.

Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them ‘influencers’) will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.

Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I’m only partially joking, I think.

Man, imagine if your neighbor was getting shot at by his neighbor on the other side, and while you’re telling your neighbor “you got this Bro, I believe in you and here are some bullets” you go ahead to the other side and continue buying things from the shitbox taking potshots.

Buying stuff from Russia makes you a piece of shit. Pure and simple. You’re funding genocide.

And please do bring up the US and Israel, as if I won’t agree the US is a piece of shit for funding Israel’s genocide of Palestine and you’re engaging in whataboutisms I see people harping on every time China gets brought up.

And for the same production value and some brightly colored spandex, so can you!

Never underestimate how many ways you can dress up a rock quarry. Just ask the members of SG-1

The problem is not the price.

The problem is Ai “art” is inherently stealing the work of other people, and not in a way that a painter can say they were influenced by some other painter.

“Is there AIR? YOU DON’T KNOW!”

Old people and overreacting to normal things because new ideas are scary and confusing

Name a more iconic duo

There’s plenty in improvised weaponry that can maim or kill you if not done properly,

the only way to find out is from people beforehand passing on knowledge, firsthand experience, or being really good at brainstorming.

You’d probably figure it out before you went to throw, unfortunately if you’re rushed (like in active combat areas) you don’t always have the luxury of time to figure things out.

Mine can, a little bit.

The trickier question is “can blacksmith forges coopt disaster for massive government overreach and restricting of privacy” but that’s way less catchy for the conspiracy theorists.

My forge can melt steel, but I don’t like it to. So I don’t crank it to full unless I’m using my burners for metal casting.

You want to get steel hot enough to glow, then it’s easier to smash into shape with a hammer and anvil. If it melts on you, well the piece is now fucked, especially if you wanted to make something hardenable like a knife.

There’s entire sections of metallurgy dedicated to this kind of thing. It’s pretty neat.

Throw to the side, sometimes called “sidearm” throw.

A properly prepared in advance molotov isn’t going to break or open while you throw, but improvised ones are often unsealed and can spill mid-throw.

If you go up and over your back, like a baseball or snowball throw, you risk burning liquids falling onto your back and head.

By swinging over to the side, left or right depending on which hand you throw with, any risk is sent to the side of you. So be careful your don’t burn your buddies legs, too.

I’ve got matches, about 40 lighters, 3 propane torches, and two burners used in a blacksmith forge that can make quite impressive flames reaching 2,000 degrees.

And I also know how to make and (properly) throw molotovs, so that’s always fun to show off at parties.

Yeah, my dogs will be gone by then so I would absolutely set up a tent close enough to catch it. I’d even bring a baseball glove for shits and giggles.

Project Sundial can still make a comeback.

“When you are of working age and you have no more days off this week”

FTFY

No need for pointless generational divides, we’re all exhausted from this hell life.

I would like that, the structure would not.

For now all I have is a dragon tree that needs extra attention I need advice on, and an aloe plant.