WayeeCool

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[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you know how all the princes have military uniforms and "distinguished military records"

was gonna say. in the US this has also always applied to upper crest old money families. if a country doesn't have a monarchy and nobility then it's the old money families who do this shit. military service as a type of finishing school for male nobility. female nobility just get sent to actual finishing school and don't have to go through the pretend soldiering... although a few decades ago some European countries started sending their princesses and other female nobility through the military service route.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The big US oil companies are going to be happy about this. The main reason the US is constantly bombing or overthrowing oil rich nations is to drive up the price of oil. Everyone always assumes it's about the US taking oil or getting cheap oil when the truth is the US is a major oil producer (a net exporter) who cares more about keeping prices high. The US produces at least twice as many barrels of oil as Saudi Arabia, the next highest producer. High oil prices instead hurt US economic rivals (Germany, France, Japan, Korea, India, and China) that have to import oil to meet their domestic needs.

Ofc politicians bitch and moan, pandering to the US public who unlike the big oil companies are hurt by high oil prices.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

took a screenshot back when it was first posted

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

For civilian government and regular military:

“I swear by God this holy oath, that I will render to Donald Trump, President of the United States and American People, Commander In Chief, unconditional obedience, and that I am ready to risk my life at any time for this oath.”

For JSOC special forces:

"I vow to you, Donald Trump, as President and Commander In Chief of the United States, loyalty and bravery. I vow to you and to the leaders that you set for me, absolute allegiance until death. So help me God.”

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

gonna laugh my ass off when in a decade the USS William J Clinton has issues with wide spread sexual assault while the USS George W Bush crew gets busted for cocaine trafficking

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago
[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've seen this guy performing at a few events I've attended.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago (9 children)

It's funny that none of the AI firms in the limelight are making any attempt to actually copy the architecture of biological neutral networks. Analog and neuromophic neural network hardware acceleration chips, ie hardware that mimics how biological brains compute, have both crazy energy efficiency and high performance. The only two firms that have actually been making a serious effort at developing such hardware are Intel and IBM. For both companies neuromophic chips have been r&d projects that have already had over a decade of resources poured into and will probably require at least another decade before producing something commercially viable.

It's also evidence that firms like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and all the AI startups that are spouting off about working on creating actual AI are full of shit. None of them are working on developing hardware to run real neural networks able to emulate the type of intelligence human brains are capable of, ie dynamic, general, and realtime learning.

 
[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Honestly it's just a modern take on the "bread & circus" concept that goes back to city-states of the ancient world. It's not unique to the US and is even something socialist governments must account for, but with the US it sure seems like an entire cultural identity has been built around consumption of treats. Just look at what happened in the US when COVID caused mass media entertainment (television, movies, novels) to be delayed indefinitely along with restaurants, bars, and themeparks closing down.

Other than treats citizens of the US often have nothing, living lives that can be quite hollow. Atomization. Freedom where to others they owe nothing and are owed nothing. No community, protestant religion centered around the individual, family is extremely shallow due to being limited to the so-called nuclear family that often abandons relationships when children turn 18, and suburban living where people often don't even know their immediate neighbors.

 
 

Indistinguishable from regular clothing, all of the necessary components (microphone, lithium battery, etc) are woven into the fabric itself.

Under a contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), an expert team led by SRI research engineers Marcus Bagnell and Nicole Heidel, specialists in fiber technologies and collaborators at North Carolina State University and International Fabric Machines (IFM), a textile maker, will seek to incorporate a piezoelectric material into a fabric that acts like a microphone — a textile that can record audio. The key component will be piezoelectric threads woven into the fabric, which were demonstrated in Nature last year. The team will work to seamlessly integrate the sensor, along with its support electronics into a textile that closely resembles the ones used in off the shelf clothing. 

“When sound waves strike the fabric, it stretches the piezoelectric threads, producing an electric signal like the diaphragm of a microphone,” says Bagnell, who is principal investigator. “The fabric is essentially a drum. The sound waves bend the piezoelectric threads, creating an electronic waveform that can be recorded and played back.”

Pulling on the thread 

The project is known as “Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems” — SMART ePANTS, for short. Eventually, the team hopes to fashion a whole garment — a shirt, pair of pants, socks, underwear even — that records sound. IARPA refers to these garments as primary clothing.

 

April 13 (Reuters) - Iran's state news agency IRNA said on Saturday that its Revolutionary Guards had seized the MSC Aries vessel it said was "linked to Israel" and it was being transferred to Iran's territorial waters.

A Guards navy special forces helicopter boarded the Portuguese flagged vessel and seized it, IRNA added.

 

Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

 

apparently I'm in the top 75,000 users and potential dumb money

 

Reddit plans to place a big chunk of its IPO shares in the hands of its users, an unusual move that could build loyalty but also comes with risk.

The company plans to reserve an as-yet-undetermined number of shares for 75,000 of its most prolific so-called redditors when it goes public next month, according to people familiar with the matter. The users will have the opportunity to buy Reddit shares at its initial public offering price before the stock starts trading, a privilege normally reserved only for big investors.

Ideally for the company and its underwriters, Reddit shares will rise in their stock-market debut, bestowing big gains on those who buy in at the IPO price. If the stock falls, however, it could anger those members of Reddit’s community—a group that, broadly speaking, hasn’t shied away from boycotts in the past.

Banks generally favor selling the bulk of an IPO to big money managers that tend to hold stocks for a relatively long time. Individual investors are viewed as more fickle and prone to selling at the first sign of weakness.

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