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Wow. Hard enough to find common ground in a conflict this complex, but congrats.

I think you’ve managed to unite every decent person in the sentiment that you are straight concentrated shite and the less people hear from you, the better off they are.

Go die.

Not that I am one, but I believe true libertarians should be rabidly pro anti-trust legislation, letting corporations fail, and a 100% inheritance tax above a threshold.

This is a huge fucking problem, one that’s about 100x as severe if you’re hearing this happen the first time.

While fighting forces normally have their advantages/disadvantages compared to their opponents, food abundance or scarcity can make a strategic difference. See the psychological effect of the USN ice cream ship in WW2, listen to Ryan McBeth comparing his rations to what his Egyptian comrades called “army meat”…

Hell, in my own personal experience in Basic Training (had an award-winning kitchen) vs NCO school (food supply didn’t work out, had to bring your own breakfast before the march), basic supply can be the difference between enthusiastic service and a refusal to train. And this was the same unit.

The magnitude of the US’ fuckup in this war (the whole war tbh) has still not become fully perceivable. History books will be talking about this in the tone of “as devastating Vietnam was for US foreign policy, the coffin nails hammered in in 2026 became the harbingers of the US empire’s accellerated fall”… or sth like that.

On your tangent: it’s easy. All the “true” opposition were united against Fidesz, and only vote-sucking Fidesz-collaborationists were running additionally.

The FPTP system put in place 16 years ago demanded this. Hungary will do better after a long overdue electoral reform.

Exactly. If Orbáns past failures had been as over-reported as his posturing, people would be way less surprised about his current democratic loss.

I concur with most answers here, describing LLMs as useful in specific situations (e.g. video editing), but straight-up unreliable whenever critical thinking and correctness are required (e.g. software development).

What I’d add to this, is that whatever the benefits of the technology might be, the current monetary cost is orders of magnitude above profitability. The billions invested into hardware for data centres… that’s just gone. Nvidia might sell off the unused hardware at a loss, unprofitable LLM data centres might still get repurposed into something useful, but the bets made on replacing human professionals with eternally stupid chatbots will never pay out. The money’s already gone and we still haven’t begun to experience the full extent of this economic disaster.

It’s the 1-person LAN party!

Maybe it’s wearing them, at all, when going out.

I like to joke that Equilibrium had more member changes than the contestant field of a casting show.

Ok to points 1. and 2.

But where is this Shangri La you speak of?

According to an eyewitness, someone held a champagne bottle with a burning Roman candle in it too close to the ceiling (iirc she was already high up on someone’s shoulders), causing a quick deflagration through the wooden structure.

Here’s an article with a picture showing the sparks igniting what seems to be very shoddily installed, uncovered isolation foam.

ITT: people judging the vote and the voters by the magnanimous title alone.

The initiatives were worded and implemented so poorly, that it wouldn’t surprise me if the initiants wanted to lose both these votes.

1. The inheritance tax would have caused mass nationalisations and it had pegged the tax proceeds to go towards climate goals instead of let’s say the federal pension fund deficit (AHV-Loch). It would be incorrect to state that the voters don’t support an inheritance tax or climate goals based on this vote.
2. The “service citoyen” proposal would have made some kind of civil or military service mandatory for all, but would have essentially reduced the military to a volunteer force, which would be socially unacceptable. The Swiss have a historically repeatedly confirmed will to keep a citizen’s militia as the country’s only security force.