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

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 08:26:09 AM

Close call for Belgium, they almost got into the Graft Gaza Board of Peace, instead of Belarus. Identical first three letters I guess. 

https://www.lalibre.be/international/2026/01/22/gaffe-diplomatique-la-maison-blanche-confond-la-belgique-et-le-belarus-dans-sa-liste-pour-son-conseil-de-la-paix-KW3KOZFSKVHQHO7D7AZS6KUYCU/

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/trump-board-of-peace-european-members-not-needed-d6sxgpbpx

Times link is paywalled.

#2

Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by mongers - Today at 08:17:22 AM

Been play some 'LOTR Online' in recent days, I still like it, but never got further than the start of Moria, given just how bit it is, I think I'll have a go at going all the way to Mordor and the post wars end content.

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

Last post by Tamas - Today at 08:11:39 AM

I saw a good comparison: this whole thing feels like being tied to a chair while watching a toddler play with a loaded gun.

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Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by mongers - Today at 08:10:19 AM

So trump want German, French and Spanish troops to 'occupy' parts of America?

#5

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 08:04:19 AM

Same with Canada, although our invitation may now be revoked. 

Ha!

#6

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:56:07 AM

Peer-review doesn't involve checking if an experiment was actually performed or what the results actually were. The basic quality assurance method of the scientific system is replication.

That is accurate. One of the important functions of peer review of a scientific paper to both ensure that the procedures used by the scientists are adequately, explained so that the experiment can be replicated by somebody reading the paper and also considering the data that was derived from the experiments to ensure that the conclusion drawn from the experiments and reported in the manuscript are valid.

Indeed.

But replicating every relevant incremental experiment since 2025 in your field is going to become an overwhelming burden on individual researchers very quickly.

Replicating every relevant incremental experiment since the dawn of time up to 2025 would have been an overwhelming burden as well.

There was little need to replicate an experiment previously. That's the whole point of scientific journal publishing.

I guess you haven't heard of replication crisis, which was a big thing years before AI.  Good thing there was little need to replicate experiments, because it turned out most of the time you couldn't.  Humans were very much capable of bullshitting and willful lack of skepticism on their own, especially when academic career was on the line.

Yi and DG have missed the point. 

AI exacerbates the problem. Nobody is claiming that a problem didn't exist prior to AI.

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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:50:06 AM

I'm actually kinda surprised that old battle is sticking point still.  Why even bother bringing it up. 

A real unforced error. Imagine Biden giving a speech at Wounded Knee or Starmer at Waterloo.

Yeah us anglos don't know Quebec very well, but I do think there is French influence baked into the Canadian identity ever so subtlety nonetheless.

I'm sure you mean well, but even this comment is grating. Oh that sprinkle of frogness. It's not supposed to be subtle, it's supposed to be equal. 50-50. And if the PM of Canada doesn't "know Quebec very well", what kind of example is that?

Our public schools could really use more focus on increasing academics at young ages in my opinion.  I know so many people shocked at how kids don't get homework here.  Better / earlier French is one way of doing that.

Sure, why not. I'm kinda shocked how unilingual white anglos are. I play D&D in BC, 8 ppl total. 30-45. Men and women. I'm the only one who speaks more than just english. They all took French in school. They all go to Mexico and stuff. Zero effort. Broaden your horizons, folks.

And your view of unilingual French speakers?  Zero effort people who should learn English or some other language?

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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:42:47 AM

Actually, the location of the beach was perfect. Given the content of the speech was about resisting the Americans. GF has cherry picked one paragraph of a lengthy speech to give the impression that the speech was about something else.

The speech was held at a citadel built to resist the Americans.

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

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:40:06 AM

Something that struck me as odd was him mentioning improving relations with Russia in his rally speeches when he was running for the nomination the first time round.

It was so far off the prevailing view of the GOP at the time that it seemed just another example of Trump having no idea what he was doing. It was also not reported much.  These were the same speeches where he talked about building the wall and make Mexico pay for it.

#10

Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 06:31:55 AM

Yeah, but think of all the oppression of US citizens those agents could get up to if only they didn't have to patrol the southern border.