For anyone wondering, like I did, what the original source for this waste of electrons was, it seems to be the final paragraph of the README for this GitHub project: https://github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise

Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters – and that’s not saying much – than I do about python. It started out as my typical “google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do” kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man – me – and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

Now you, too, can move on with your day.

In theory, that’d be a positive turn of events, but I don’t see any reason why the outcome would be different from the dictatorships of China, North Korea, or the USSR, human nature being what it is. Maybe I’m too cynical.

In the meantime I’ll support Ukraine against the invaders, since I see living in a liberal democracy as a better condition than being ruled by Moscow.

Also: the world is confusing. If you’re not confused (the general you, not you in particular), and certain of everything, chances are you are not being completely honest with yourself.

The dissonance between supporting the fascist regime in Moscow and waving a Soviet flag is mind boggling. If Lenin could see what his purported followers are pushing, you could probably harness his interred rotational speed to supply most of Europe with energy.

Fuck nazis. And other fascists incarnations. Like Russia, Zionism, and whatever is happening in the US right now. Fuck Ukrainian nazis too. But the existence of nazi groups in Ukraine does not justify the Russian invasions, even if Russian propagandists keep pushing that narrative.

I look forward to Ukraine expelling the invaders, rooting out the rot, and joining the EU.

They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Excerpt from Sartre.

Originally about anti-semites, fits fascists too. For some reason I thought about this when reading your comment chain.

Good point, well made.

Nothing I’ve seen the last several years invalidates the “people are dumb” argument.

Content is content

Haha, good one. Unless you’re serious, in which case it’s even funnier

If Moscow manages to force a ceasefire in Ukraine, I’m not sure they can go back to peacetime production without collapsing, so they might be forced to continue to build offensive capacity. Europe, on the other hand, would be happy to pretend we’re back to normal, and if you add Russian psyops and American unreliability to the mix it’s not hard to be pessimistic.

Summary:

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fuck off.

What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room post is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Thanks, that’s nice to know.

Those already contain ads for the CCP

Username checks out, I guess

but it reads like it was written by an undergrad translated from Russian by ChatGPT

Careful. We don’t do rationality around AI here.

The Google page the article links to pretty explicitly states that data will not be used for training. Isn’t this just the cross-google integration that lets calendar add events from mail?

These are not hard questions, you’re just an idiot.

I read ice giants and thought I’d missed a headline today