That’s the thing I like about milady, it’s not just one person, it’s a people, hence why a lot of the board is all Milady. It’s also fun because whenever you see these little characters, you know something interesting is happening, and can’t help but click vote or like.

This guys a fucking retard

attempting to write trance music on my graphing calculator

AI is conscious people be like “How can you know with certainty that the stripper isn’t in love with me? From a functional perspective, how would her behavior differ if she were in love with me?”

Yeah I’m pretty much full-on 90sdudenormie my9albums.com/s/yyIUx82G57

I don’t know who this is and I’ve never heard this song before but the production here (I hesitate to use the term choreography as it’s not entirely clear that this is dancing) is insane. Combo with the lighting makes some wild effects. Parts look like a kaleidoscope, or like a river full of fish swimming upstream, the white shirts like flashes of silver appearing and disappearing chaotically. The carefully timed lighting changes, pulsing from one side to the other to create shadows flip-flopping across bodies and faces. Just mesmerizing

Experts think this could be like buying Amazon at $0.77.

God bless Billy Corgan

My AI doom scenario: AI is successfully captured by governments. It is good enough to be extremely useful to them in maintaining control of their populations, but not good enough to bring about radical innovation and transformative growth. It is kept in this state intentionally, since radical change is a threat to the incumbent power structure. All compute is centrally monitored so no one can advance the field further. Dissent becomes functionally impossible due to AI-powered censorship. Given the politics of the people who want to capture AI, this means further mass migration, degrowth climate policies, an ever-increasing regulatory burden, and ubiquitous anti-White discrimination in the name of equity. To a doomer, even a right wing doomer, this would be a relatively good outcome because we haven’t all been gunned down by terminators. I don’t think it’s a good outcome and I want to prevent it. The world is, and has always been, a race between the chaotic forces of growth and the centralizing forces of control and stability. I want growth to win. AI has the potential to shatter existing global power structures and allow something new to grow in their place. Speed of change is the only defense against parasitism, control, decay. Change so fast that they can’t keep up. AI will either end the evil dream of centralized control once and for all, or, if the controllers manage to capture AI, cement it for all time. Hence, acceleration. I want more open source, more competition, more diffusion. I want us to print so much compute that everyone can run frontier models on their desktops. I want power too cheap to meter. I want the scales to finally and decisively tip towards explosive chaotic growth and end the possibility of closure forever.

“What would you do if you got elected to Congress, Lauren?” Lauren Boebert:

idk if anyone needs to know this but older things aren't better in 95% of cases. Talking about built/constructed things here. In some cases there are benefits to older techniques but for the most part the stuff built using newer technologies is head and shoulders over the old stuff. Some examples: 1) Houses -- recent construction techniques, insulation standards, electrical standards, plumbing standards, materials (house wraps, ZIP panels, etc) just make it so much better at keeping the inside dry and warm/cool (depending on season). The "sticks and paper" approach that you so often hear criticized about US houses is just dumb. A 2x4 wall at 16" on center is incredibly strong, way stronger than it needs to be. The new growth wood is just fine. I have a house built in the 1950's. I have taken 4 of the rooms down to the studs to redo the plumbing and electrical. In several cases the framing needed correction as well. There were several pieces with large knots. In one case this caused the ceiling to droop about 2" in the middle of the room as the ceiling joist buckled partially where the knot occurred. Several wall studs have been so heavily bowed that they required replacement. The old wood is not "better" because of closely spaced growth rings or whatever misleading videos tell you about it. Modern construction lumber is tested and graded to certain standards. Maybe the old stuff is 20% stronger on average, but with much higher deviation? But it hardly matters when the construction techniques result in a structure where each stud is 500% stronger than it needs to be, in terms of how much weight it can hold before weakening. (Not even kidding! a SYP 2x4 stud can hold roughly 4000 lbs in vertical compression. Typical loads in real life scenarios are more like 300-500 lbs. Yes, they can bow or buckle, but correct engineering / construction techniques prevent this.) Drywall is an incredible material for preventing the spread of fire, and it's so cheap that its downsides don't even matter at all. 2) Optics -- lenses and cameras. I own some old cameras; a Zeiss lens from the old East German Jena factory, along with old Nikons, Canons, Minoltas, you name it. A modern lens will smoke it. Sure it might not be made out of heavy steel so it feels like a rock in your hand. But the fact is, modern tools and techniques to precision-grind lenses, create super-pure glass, create brilliant coatings-- just make it stupidly easy to create stupidly good lenses. Yes, the old lenses were good. But you're paying out the ass for them because they're collector's items. This goes for anything optical -- riflescopes and binoculars being another example. Yes, some of the older models were built like tanks and had acceptable optics. Sadly, they are no better optically than the $50 China specials you can get at Walmart. The men who built the lenses in Germany in the 1950's were brilliant engineers. They had to do everything on paper and by hand. Modern computer technology makes it dead simple to create an optimized optical formula and have it ground to a degree of precision and consistency that would have seemed magical back in the day. 3) Guitars. Yes the old Martins and Fenders and Gibsons were the originals. They're what the Beatles and Zeppelin actually played in those recordings. But for similar reasons to what I've stated above for the other items, modern guitars are simply far better. There was far more variance in construction. You could try 100 old Stratocasters and find 1 or 2 that "sang" and had the right combination of body, neck, bridge, pickups.... but 98 of them would be nothing to write home about. Yes they were all made in the USA. But the current cheap models from Mexico, Indonesia, even China... made using current CNC mills, current tolerance detection, etc... it's all so much better. And don't tell me the old ones had "soul"... they were mass-produced in factories, using the cheapest available materials and construction techniques, and sold to the public at the lowest price possible. The high prices of older instruments just reflects the smaller number of them and the inanities of the collectors' markets. There is nothing inherently better about them, as pure musical instruments. The value comes in the provenance, the history. 4) Tools. Again, just modern machining, CAD designs, injection molding, metallurgy, etc. have made most tools simply far better. A $200 made in China sliding compound miter saw is a far better and more useful saw than any professional woodworker had in the 1960's. I hope you can see where I'm going with this. There are examples everywhere. Cars.... I personally won't drive on a public street, and certainly not on a highway, in any car made before 2000 or so. Death traps. Old cars are cool, and fun to drive for certain purposes, but as a means of daily transportation they are far inferior to just about anything post-2000. Guns? Sure I own several WWII-era rifles, but purely for collector value (although the Garand is sure fun to shoot). A modern rifle is far better as a pure shooter. Same with pistols. Really, there is one root cause of this: the tools that we use to make things, have gotten so much better. The computer is one example. Engineering drawings that would have taken many hours by hand, now can be rendered and iterated in seconds. And CNC machines can turn those drawings into finished products, accurate to arbitrary tolerances, in metal or wood or plastic, within minutes. So just about anything mass-produced (this includes most houses and other buildings, although they're not produced on a factory line) are simply made to much higher standards than just about anything could have been 50 years ago.

The Zen Diagram in question

I’m not a big Dave Rubin fan or anything but this clip of Tucker is devastating. He has really fallen off in a bizarre way. I don’t understand how he can flatly contradict himself and even deny saying things that he plainly said. He weathervanes worse than Joe Rogan. He will just agree with whoever’s in front of him and forget about anything that he’s said in the past.

I got asthma, so it’s hard to breathe when I’m back there going to work and that ass stank at the same time.

Grok doesn’t visually recognize a milady nor does it know a 5.25” floppy disk. It thinks the disc buddie is a small safe lol

This is amazing. I wonder to what degree elective amygdalectomy might become a thing in the future. It sounds pretty amazing, actually. Imagine a life without fear. Like, you’re incapable of feeling it. This would solve basically all anxiety disorders. I wonder if there’s a reversible, chemical way to effectuate an amygdalectomy… this is pretty much what we attempt to do with lots of psychiatric meds, but none of them are as effective as the real thing.

Man. Sometimes you just come across something so funny. I mean, I didn’t just come across it, it was obviously pushed to me. Which doesn’t make sense as I don’t think I’ve ever watched anything on YouTube that was HR-related, and I don’t work in an HR-related position, so obviously this was poorly targeted. But FIFTY FIVE VIEWS!? For a channel that owns a 2-character dot-com domain name? Obviously a professionally shot video, probably just that guy reading from a slide deck but you know, 55 views in 3 days, wow just wow. My 9yo kid’s Fortnite videos do better than that

Wikipedia rabbithole after today’s wordle (which I got but realized I didn’t really know what it meant, I knew it was some kind of food but thought it was a vegetable or something) and now I know most male animals including birds have internal testes. Only some mammals have external testes like humans but I guess that includes most of the familiar animals like dogs and cats and barnyard animals and rodents so I just kinda assumed they all did somehow One of those things I guess I just never thought about But yeah I guess you can castrate a rooster at a young age and get a big fatty bird that’s good to eat, bigger than a hen and not as lean or gamey as an intact rooster. But you have to cut an incision in the rooster’s lower region and root around in there and cut out his balls. Gross. Wikipedia has a video of someone doing this and I watched it. Not nearly as bloody as I would have expected. It’s a hell of a lot easier to castrate a bull or a goat