Chainweasel

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[–] Chainweasel 37 points 6 days ago

We've had several mass movements about it over the past 15~20 years, the only thing that has worked so far is lead poisoning.

[–] Chainweasel 2 points 6 days ago

It just depends on how you say it out loud.
Here in the us, we would say today is December 11th, so we write it the same way, 12/11.
Other parts of the world would say today is the 11th of December, so they write it that way, 11/12.

[–] Chainweasel 11 points 1 week ago

It's been Trump 24/7 for going on 9 years now... I'm so fucking sick of it.
When that orange shit stain finally kicks the bucket I'm throwing a party.

[–] Chainweasel 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want to preface this by saying I am absolutely not a fan of Donald Trump, but he is about to be sworn in as president again in about a month and he genuinely doesn't give a shit about America or American influence in the Middle East.
If Saudi Arabia wants to dismantle Israel, all they'll have to do is let him slap his name on a few luxury hotels there and he'll look the other way.

[–] Chainweasel 24 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I'm pretty sure Egypt is the last of Israel's neighbors it hasn't attacked in some way over the past year.
It's only a matter of time until they cross a line and start a conflict they can't bullshit their way out of.

[–] Chainweasel 8 points 1 week ago

The Turtle moves

[–] Chainweasel 4 points 1 week ago

Assad is a Russian puppet, if they're saying he's there I tend to believe them only because from a propaganda standpoint it would make more sense to claim he was still in charge in Syria.
Falsely claiming he was in Russia would only serve to undermine their own interests in the region.

[–] Chainweasel 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A little fucking late don't you think?

[–] Chainweasel 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Gandalf woke the Balrog.

It's an abandoned mine, things are going to fall and make noise from time to time and they're probably used to it.
You know what doesn't happen all the time in a mine?
People don't yell "Fool of a Took!" In the language of your sworn enemy at the top of their lungs.

[–] Chainweasel 1 points 1 week ago

Now? No.
If I had the choice I'd wait a century or two

[–] Chainweasel 3 points 1 week ago

apology for poor english

when were you when Reddit dies?

i was sat at home eating smegma butter when pjotr ring

"Reddit is kill"

"no"

[–] Chainweasel 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How safe from hacking would these robotic body guards be?
Assuming they'll be connected to the internet at least sometimes, there would always be software vulnerabilities that could be exploited to change the programming and turn them into robot assassins instead.

 

Sorry for the disappointing news everyone. Looks like audible wants to hold it back until Q4 for some reason despite it being complete.

 

Edit: I mean to say just a significant amount, not a majority. That's obviously porn.

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Book 5 and Spoilers (self.bobiverse)
submitted 1 year ago by Chainweasel to c/bobiverse
 

With "Not Till We Are Lost" likely to release sometime in the next ~60 days or so It's probably time to discuss spoilers leading up to and following release.
So for one, There will be a discussion mega-thread, but there won't be any rules discouraging posts for anyone who wants to discuss anything specific, which brings us to rules for posts.
I'm going to keep it relatively short and simple here as it's mostly common sense.
No Spoilers in post titles
This should be a given but I'm sure someone still needs to hear it.
Use spoiler tags in post body
Yes, you have to click on the post to see the post body in most cases, But some apps and instances show a preview of the post body text and it can be visible to people who didn't intend to view the post.

These rules will remain in effect leading up to release (samples that may be released before the book count as spoilers) and for 14 days after the release.

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mod tools? (self.lemmyconnect)
 

I moderate a very small community but I'd like to be able to pin posts and have access to other general moderator tools like removing posts/comments and locking threads.
It doesn't seem that I can do any of that with Connect and it's cumbersome at best to try to do it on a mobile browser.
Are there any plans to implement mod tools? Or is there a setting I missed somewhere that enabls them?

 

So, I'm new to the whole moderating thing and I'm looking for feedback from the community. What can we do to increase community engagement?
Would you guys like to see weekly discussion threads?
Book 5 speculation?
Writing prompts based in universe?
As the mod, what can I do for you to make this community better?

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They really are (lemmy.world)
 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Chainweasel to c/bobiverse
 

spoilerAcross all the books something that becomes obvious if you pay attention, but is never touched on directly, Is that there is replicant drift between the GUPPI units as well as the Bobs. There's different attitudes, some are flippant, some cooperative, and some downright disrespectful.
Now lets take a look at something ANEC mentioned in heavens river:

"AI is not achievable through algorithmic refinement. It requires a process of simulated annealing to achieve."
to which Bill replied:
"So they're elvoving the AI?"

If you think about it the Bobs have been slowly annealing GUPPI with every generation and even leaving him some room to grow, slowly evolving him. My theory is that GUPPI will unintentionally become the first AI the bobs create. This would work well with the parallels the Bobiverse has with ExForce. Even borrowing the term "Skippies" from Skippy, the insolent AI that shares a lot of characteristics with several of the GUPPI's that don't yet have the ability to be outright transgressive and borderline maliciously compliant.

That's all I have for now, only Dennis and the editors know exactly what will happen but I'm curious to hear any other theories anyone else has.

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submitted 2 years ago by Chainweasel to c/bobiverse
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