trompete

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Yeah they are trying to become indistinguishable from the AfD, and they're also increasing surveillance, repression, censorship and propaganda, which to some degree target the AfD (among others), because what's important isn't what someone is doing, but what's in their heart of hearts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The signal/disturbance caused by you arriving travels at light speed, and so will theoretically affect anything within a distance of c times time since arrival. While I wouldn't expect this to affect macroscopic things too much immediately, those lottery machines are literally designed to be chaotic and affected by the slightest changes. But who knows how chaotic it actually is. Like, could you hook up whole bunch of cameras and lasers and gear like that, measure the balls and their tractories and all that and predict the outcome? Or would you need like microscopic level detail to predict it? Because then I guess even just some molecules being a bit out of place could change the outcome, and that could maybe happen within moments of you arriving.

Also, I think (and this is a bit unclear to me because the quantum physics nerds seem either confused, not in agreement, or incapable of explaining this clearly), the usual believe is that actual randomness happens. So I guess just a do-over, without even changing the initial condition (i.e. you arriving), might change the outcome of the lottery. I will say this seems stupid and wrong to me, but what do I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is AI slop. The script is the sort of incoherent rambling an LLM would produce; the topic is like some amalgamation of popular youtube clickbait topics; the video clips, at least in part, are obviously AI generated; and the dude probably hides his mouth because otherwise, it would be super obvious that it's actually an AI voice talking.

I watched this originally a bit groggy and it almost felt like I was having a psychotic break. This should have a CW for possibly inducing existential angst about being the only conscious human being in existence, and the comments here aren't helping. I'm starting to think that hexbear is an elaborate AI-fueled prank at my expense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Found this, don't know where it should go I guess it's news

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1jnjov7/ru_pov_athlete_from_russia_at_the_olympic_games/

Can't upload the picture for some reason. No content warning, except it's still sad in a way.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

German Greens want to force people of all ages to serve the state in a new Freedom Service™. Either military or some community service.

"It is time to ask the question: What can you do for you country?", Schulze said to Deutsche Presse-Agentur. The threats are growing.

"In order make our society more robust, to defend our freedom, and to strengthen cooperation, we need everybody. The Freedom Service is a collective project for Germany, by all and for all. Through the Freedom Service, we will to bring together generations and milieus, strengthen our society, and defend what is important to us."

I'm not making this up btw.

They're no longer in government of course, that's just their contribution to the debate about re-introducing conscription.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They're having fun over there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Germany, (including "Die Linke" in Bremen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) voted "yes" to war loans for more arms.

https://xcancel.com/jungewelt/status/1903029173729263732

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He also gave an interview to Süddeutsche Zeitung, published yesterday (in German). Shitty hot takes include:

But we must not forget that the origin of the Enlightenment is humility. Humility in the sense that Europe is the only great civilization to expose itself to permanent self-criticism.

So humble.

The worst thing in Trump's eyes is for Europe to say: yes, we should significantly increase our military spending. That would be an example of principled pragmatism. Of course I am in favor of peace. But there are situations in which the only way to make peace a little more likely is to arm ourselves and prepare for a possible war.

So doing want Trump says he wants (increase the military budget) is actually the best way to own him, because he doesn't actually want that. Also why? Then something something "principled pragmatism", probably just trying to confuse people with that. I hope he chokes on this sophistry.

At the end of the interview he starts blaming migrants for not wanting to be integrated.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does UNRWA still do anything in Gaza?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The video of Musk speaking (via video call) at the AfD rally is straight Nazi shit. It's worse than I though it would be, I imagined he would try to be a lot more crypto-fascisct, but I guess we're past that now.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

They probably were asking about the first name, which is Hebrew. But with the answer "from Israel" she emphasized her Israeli identity I think. I might react with laugh/snort if someone professed their Zionist political ideology when that wasn't the question.

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