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[Par Jupiter ! Qu'est-ce qu'ils nous ont mis, tes vaincus !]

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Off the Record / Re: Iran War

Last post by viper37 - Today at 09:36:59 PM

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. The Pentagon is supposed to be preparing for all sorts of things. Or at least it used to before we made Mr. Not-Committing-Warcrimes-Is-Woke Secretary of Def..er...War.

But the options are either just surrender to Iranian demands or send in the troops. The troops will be sent in.

Well, the good news is, Iran is totally defeated.


It shouldn't be funny, but everytime, he reminds me of this exchange:


Centurion Faipalgugus : Qui êtes-vous ?

Blocus : Claudius Blocus, envoyé spécial de Jules César. Voilà qui je suis. Centurion, tu avais envoyé un message à Rome pour dire que toute la Gaule était occupée. Toute ? Toute !

Centurion Faipalgugus : Le messager ! Je l'avais oublié celui-là !

Blocus : Eh bien, Jules César m'a demandé de vérifier tes dires ; de voir si tu avais vraiment vaincu ces Gaulois dissidents... Par Jupiter ! Qu'est-ce qu'ils nous ont mis, tes vaincus !

#2

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Sophie Scholl - Today at 09:20:43 PM

While it isn't in the headlines, it looks like they are working in conjunction with https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101991/ who was involved with Jackson's adaptations.

She also worked on the recent War of the Rohirrim film. I actually really enjoyed that film and am looking forward to the Colbert effort and The Hunt for Gollum. Honestly, I kind of feel like Jackson might be the element that injects aspects that grew... tiresome as the original trilogy went on and then were present in The Hobbit films.

#3

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 09:11:28 PM

Everybody always talks about an out-of-control AGI that will paperclip or Skynet us all. But what if the God-Machine, once birthed by a seriously mentally ill SF "Effective Altruist" type is instead more like a concerned zookeeper observing a degenerate group of pandas failing to breed effectively?

And after going through the data in a microsecond it just goes "it looks like electricity causes some strange distress in Homo Sapiens.  I'm going to take it away for your own good!"

Leaves a few scattered medical stations around and goes on to do it's own thing in space. And we get back to this. 

No more Zoom, no office politics, no traffic.   

#4

Off the Record / Re: Iran War

Last post by Valmy - Today at 09:02:37 PM

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. The Pentagon is supposed to be preparing for all sorts of things. Or at least it used to before we made Mr. Not-Committing-Warcrimes-Is-Woke Secretary of Def..er...War.

But the options are either just surrender to Iranian demands or send in the troops. The troops will be sent in.

#5

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 08:47:48 PM

[Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran]

#6

Off the Record / Re: Iran War

Last post by viper37 - Today at 08:45:30 PM

Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran

Non Paywall link:
https://archive.is/i2YHq

#7

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Valmy - Today at 08:22:37 PM

There's probably an enormous number of similar niches where it's fantastic. Most commonly, it's probably going to be used by male shut-ins to make customized porn clips and virtual boyfriends for their female equivalents.   

Oh yeah. This is a multi-trillion dollar porn machine. That is where it is going to make most of its money back.

#8

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 08:19:36 PM

It's fine, my sister keeps posting articles about illegal immigrants doing horrific crimes that the mainstream media won't report (and/or the Democrats enabled/failed to punish), so I guess that's worth 100M of golf.

I kind of want to call ICE on her and get her deported back to Germany. But I guess Europe has been fucked enough by the United States recently so I guess we will just keep her.

#9

Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 08:15:30 PM

AI translation is fine for just getting the gist of what is being said. But for an actual artistic work? Sounds like garbage slop to me. I am not playing a whole game or reading a book translated by AI.

#10

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 06:46:00 PM

Someone has been reading Languish.

A US land attack to secure Strait of Hormuz would be 'nightmare', general warns

'Frankly, it is about as difficult an operation as could conceive - an amphibious operation.
'Think Gallipoli for example in this context which did not go right.

How 'bout you get over your TDS and pussitis bro? Strait of Whoremuff, it'll be a piece of cake, bro, in-n-out in 3 days. Special Military Operation. Fuck you worried about drones? Aliens built the pyramids.