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Comment · 1 day ago
How were the Nazis technocrats? The core of the Nazi party were weirdo political extremists and violently nationalistic army veterans. The only example I can think of which matches your idea of an 'extraordinarily capable technocratic leader' is Speer, and like his military counterpart Rommel, his reputation has been somewhat laundered and propagandised both during and after the war.
Comment · 2 days ago
Just FYI: You sang his praises. If you "sang my praises", that means you celebrated yourself.
Comment · 19 days ago
That's not the consensus and even if it were it's largely a pointless semantic argument.
Comment · 25 days ago
If you want things to work every single time on a billion different devices this is how you do it.
Comment · 1 month ago
The article literally says what's in the museum. What more do you want to know lol.
Comment · 1 month ago
For every shop that exists in the real world to sell shit to women you have to remember there's an offshore sports betting portal on the world wide web to relieve men of their disposable income.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's just porn I downloaded from Reddit. I don't know if you're aware but there's lots of it and it's free.
Comment · 1 month ago
Can you suggest a good one?
Comment · 1 month ago
Coincidentally I was trying this out yesterday as a potential option for automated porn filtering for the imageboard that I administrate. It is very lightweight which is good but the performance is not great. Some weird false positives and it does a bad job with flat chested women which is very concerning to me because it leads me to think it won’t be effective against CSAM.
Comment · 2 months ago
You can mitigate this with decent bindings, but I agree it's not ideal.
Comment · 2 months ago
that's the joke, isn't it?
Comment · 2 months ago
I had the same impression, and Occam's Razor suggests that the reason is because the author wrote it with the heavy assistance of a language model. But I do wonder if might also be a certain proportion of the tech industry that has started internalising LLM speak and uses it even in writing that is authentically their own.
Comment · 2 months ago
> They are just utter garbage

As someone once said, "Fail again. Fail better."

And, anyway, so what if they are bad? They are authentically the product of a single human soul rather than some grey-gruel average of millions. There is an awful lot of value in that.

Comment · 2 months ago
I suppose I am sympathetic to the feeling of having weird tastes uncatered to by the market. But in that instance, why not actually try and write such stories yourself? And as a reader, what is the appeal of reading stories regurgitated by a stochastic algorithm when the possibility is there instead of connecting to another human soul?
Comment · 2 months ago

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