flatlinecon
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@its_hipolita The movies do a horrible job of describinh this. Theres also the causal chain which leads to sword fightinh which has been more or less entirely ignored. Villeneuve = hack
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Dune shows the weakness of modern reddit-tier "worldbuilding" which is just a list of disparate facts, and not an interconnected, living system. [cont.]
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@SicilianExile @its_hipolita They also ruined the third movie in advance by misunderstanding Paul’s (flawed) omniscience and turning it into just a power grab. In the bold he’s trapped because he feels like he has no choice but to do horrible things because he thinks it’s the only way to save humanity
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@dokrauss @AustinWyckes Using a lot of parenthetical tools like that typically just means you’re lazy about structuring sentences–an em dash is just a way to avoid writing sentences that flow well
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@AustinWyckes I use em and en and colon semi to full and ellipses and parentheses and asterisks and asides and notes and run-ons and paragraph-long sentences because I can write at a higher level than "Run Spot run," which is apparently the test for AI.
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@flconstruct @kocalars they're actually committing fraud
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One interesting observation I’ve noticed is a lot of top founders did oddly strong at math from a young age.
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@birdsofdeath_ I thought she was cancelled for paying off her husbands accusers not for being a Zionist
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we used to talk a lot about her until she came out as a zionist lol
Davi@Ddaavvii_21
#musictwt needs to talk more about Regina Spektor
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@VonScheer @Dons_Lawn_Salon I blame Redditors trying to be epic being half their text corpus
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@Dons_Lawn_Salon The thing is X. We thought it was Y.
A pitch to grab your attention. Another one, building unnecessary tension. Short sentence. Another short sentence.
The X is not just X. It’s some unrelated thing. Not because Y, but because Z are doing stuff.
Dramatic sentence in the end
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it low key sucks how every post on any topic from science to art to culture to war is basically written like this now
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@RealSeabiscuit1 @realKalos He’s likely alive but in hiding being moved around. They’re faking videos of him so they don’t have to look too cowardly
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@realKalos What’s the time stamp of this?
All these videos do seem fishy but I just can’t understand what the point of pretending like he was still alive would be.
If he’s actually dead we are gonna find out sooner rather than later so why not just come out and say it?
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aw hell nah bruh why dis nigga sleeve do that 💀💀💀
Prime Minister of Israel@IsraeliPM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening, to the Foreign Press: “First of all, I just want to say I'm alive, and you're all witnesses. Now that I dispatched this piece of fake news, I want to give you an update on Operation Roaring Lion.
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@zando75545384 @girldrawsghosts Lots of employees being paid $300k+ a year to do nothing
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@girldrawsghosts How the hell do you even spend 80 billion on a digital thing
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It’s so funny that i have literally never seen another image of the metaverse. Like it came out, right? Did metaverse even happen? I have not seen a single person ever tweet about it
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
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@WeirdMedieval @MaxPi314 @HiddenYorkshire >i lived in a trailer in the parking lot of a rest stop and ate spaghettios from my moms mouth like a little bird and the food got tremendously better when i moved to one of the worst countries in the world for food
Not really an indictment of the US’s food scene
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@MaxPi314 @HiddenYorkshire no shade on america’s cities and cultural cuisines but as someone who moved from middle america to germany as a kid the difference in what the average person (me) ate was quite large
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The American obsession with how other countries do Mexican food is fascinating, because not once on my holiday have I thought "I'm going to order a Full English from a foreign country and then laugh at it"
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@flconstruct @TheWapplehouse That doesn't mean it isn't a weird time sig.
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Here’s the original video posted by the band Brekky Boy
Kristi Yamaguccimane@TheWapplehouse
Listen to his words. It’s fine when a genre of music is not to your specific liking. Totally fine. But thinking someone playing like this is bad? Like he got the gig to perform at wherever he’s performing by being bad? You are stupid. You are an idiot. You are an imbecile.
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@flconstruct @SilentlySirs But it does.
You can see the girl, you can see the guy behind the girl, and you can see the cupboard behind him.
What doesn't match?
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@LevEyal111 @SilentlySirs What's on the phone doesn't match what's in the background
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@flconstruct @SilentlySirs So share with us what you think the issue is
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@gerken333 @EddCoates Dawg the pedestrians in the background are melting into one another in the tech demo that's almost certainly already filtered to only show the "best" shots of this feature
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Weirdly, today I feel like I can actually breathe?
This is one of the most disgusting things I've seen, but look at the response! Slaughtered in the comments, stock prices plummeting... I always suspected it would swing back this way, I'm just so relieved. Burn it to the ground!
NVIDIA GeForce@NVIDIAGeForce
Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…
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@imrobertmine @EddCoates >need to reevaluate your heuristics
Is there a word for these pointless spergy attempts to add weight to a simple statement with tortured metaphors around math and tech concepts? "Check your priors", etc.
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@EddCoates Stock prices are up today. If you’re mistaking negative sentiment on social media as how normie gamers will respond, you might need to reevaluate your heuristics.
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@TheWapplehouse @VibeoGaemPapa He's metric modulating a lot on top of it and turning it into basically just a duple meter feel with an occasional pause before a backbeat. The only one who needs to actually care that it's 17/8 here are the piano and bass vamping the groove.
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@flconstruct @VibeoGaemPapa I mean, it’s 17/8. It’s pretty weird.
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@staysaasy Me whenever I hate some messy system someone else built at work and I arrogantly declare that I can just build a new one
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@TheWapplehouse This kind of weird time sig shit is boring and overly self indulgent for my tastes, but he is undeniably good.
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@JoeMcswag7283 @TheWapplehouse For styles like this the bass is usually the beat. Drummer provides the feel.
Either way neither is off beat here. He’s just metric modulating a lot
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@TheWapplehouse The drummer is off beat?
The DRUMMER is off beat?
My brother in christ.
He IS the beat
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@LevEyal111 @SilentlySirs Having to think for yourself is khamas I guess little Zionist
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@SilentlySirs "lol"
How every articulate of you.
Try using words to explain your views
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@maerdtoof Yeah. It’s because a bunch of them convinced themselves that a degree is just a piece of paper and a barrier to a cushy job. You’ll see that attitude all over this site. Well… turns out that you can take that attitude way way too far
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Contrary to popular belief, the high unemployment rate for CS grads is less due to AI replacing jobs and more due to the massive volume of incompetent new grads who just cheated their way to their degree using Chegg and AI and probably can’t even solve FizzBuzz without ChatGPT
aria 🪸@ariadotwav
I cannot stress enough how absolutely cooked CS, Soft Eng, Comp Eng and basically any tech/IT major is. Literally no one in my cohort bothers to write their own code anymore. People just hand in labs that are fully vibecoded and pass with grades above 90% and the profs do NOTHING
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