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    Fake, but on-point. This one's REAL (click image for link to article):
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    The saga continues...
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    03-26-2024, 10:32 PM
    BINGO. This is why I push so hard against the black-pilling along the lines "it's all going according to THEIR plan". Really? Either way you go with this, it doesn't work. Either everything is going to plan, and COVID is the most retarded "plan" ever, in which case, they are retards and should not be feared. Or, everything is not going according to plan, and they should not be feared, because they are not omnipotent, even though they pretend to be. Reject the propaganda. We The People have the power, we have always had the power, and we will always have the power if we can muster enough moral courage to stop coddling our own favorite sins which the demonic "elites" use like cords to knit shackles around our wrists. We are being sealed into a prison built from bricks made of our own self-betrayal. The solution cannot be simpler: we must stop betraying ourselves. But putting coins into old-fashioned parking meters costs workers over a thousand hours a year in wasted time, and the upgraded electro-whiz-bang meters which accept plastic and cost 10 times as much are faster, when they work! That's a critical eco-green-agenda issue (also, a central-banking CBDC issue!) and far more important than basic maintenance of roads, bridges, waterways, and other essential infrastructure!
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    03-26-2024, 11:32 AM
    A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything -- Suno wants everyone to be able to produce their own pro-level songs — but what does that mean for artists? Afghanistan is sometimes called the graveyard of empires, and for good reason. My prediction: Music will turn out to be the Afghanistan of AI. When it comes to music, the tastes of the public are outrageously arbitrary and bespoke. If you've skimmed through the sheer number of genres in modern music, it's truly staggering. That's not to say that an AI song-generator couldn't imitate all of those genres. Of course it can if it is given enough training data, that has been thoroughly proved by current-generation AI. But music, even more than images and video, is a medium that is truly intangible. You can't see music. You can't even really visualize it, not in its essence. You can't touch it. You can't weigh it. You can't really apply mathematical reasoning to it, except in some theoretical sense that is not directly connected to the essence of what people care about in music (the aforementioned intangibles). My challenge to anyone who thinks that "AI will solve music" -- that is, that AI is going to write music that people generally prefer to human-created music -- is this: explain to me the mathematical theory of melody. Not harmony. Not chord progressions. Melody. Explain to me why and when a melody should move up or down, or even stay the same. Explain to me why it should go fast or slow, why it should be in 2-time, 3-time, 4-time, 6-time, and so on. You don't have to even spell out the details, just point me to the body of theory that explains this. There is nothing in the body of music theory itself that explains why a melody is the way it is. There are principles, no doubt. There are known reasons for why certain things work especially well. But there is no general theory, not even a framework of a theory. And that has important implications to AI. In the case of text, images and video, there are very general mathematical theories that explain them, that is, explain their encoded structure. Text might seem random at first, until you realize that words occur in patterns, and those patterns have structures. And while music also has patterns, and those patterns also have structure, we go back to the intangibility of these structures. Part of what makes a melody have a certain "feel", is how common or widespread the elements from which it is constructed are. If you use very simple intervals like fourths, fifths and steps, your melody can have a simplistic or youthful vibe, like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Or, a melody may make heavy use of chromatic and chaotic elements or have almost no discernible structure at all, yet still seem compelling. Music is not objective in the way that images and video are, nor communicating definite ideas, as language does, so there is no definite "target" to shoot at for training AI neural nets, and any choice that is made by the training data-set is really just an arbitrary stricture that will dye or fingerprint the resulting neural net in a way that listeners are going to notice. Trying to "please everybody" won't work, either, because music is inherently biased. That is, part of what makes any particular genre/style so compelling is what it doesn't do. The pentatonic scale is a great example of this. Pentatonic scales do not use two of the notes in the diatonic scale. The characteristic "sound" of the pentatonic scale comes from not using those two notes. As soon as you add those "missing" notes back into the scale, the sound goes flat. "Music is sound painted on a canvas of silence" -- in music, what you don't do is just as important as what you do, sometimes even more important.
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    03-26-2024, 09:00 AM
    +rep... Thomas Sowell is a quote-machine...
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    03-26-2024, 08:57 AM
    Well, that's not good.
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    03-25-2024, 08:34 PM
    From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: --- Me: Politics is just cold civil war.
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    03-25-2024, 08:10 PM
    That's bizarre, I went to the second page of Google and that link wasn't there. Google mainly just serves me SEO garbage nowadays, maybe I'm seeing a different set of results than other people? (I wouldn't put it past them.) The memory-holing is one of the surest signs of what is really going on right now. I screenshot/download pretty much anything that is even slightly outside the bounds of PC, otherwise it is sure to disappear by the time I return to search for it. Even archive.org is starting to get hit with the memory-hole -- more and more stuff is not available even there. Look, I'm not going to go back and forth endlessly on this issue. Something in reality "broke" prior to Trump running for President. I can't describe it in words more precisely than that... but something broke. Clown World isn't just a term for deriding the political antics of the Ds... we really are in a darkly absurd timeline, and I have no idea how we got here. Causality, especially social-causality, is broken. Impossible things happen all the time, and things that were once commonplace have disappeared. Overnight. For that and many other reasons, I don't read the political scene in the way that was common prior to Clown World, because that calculus is broken. What Trump said or didn't say is uninteresting to me. What is interesting to me is the outcome. The outcome is that bump stocks were banned. Bump stocks are worthless, unsafe piece-of-garbage accessories whose reason-for-existing is inherently absurd. They exist to go around NFA (which itself is unconstitutional) and to make "firearm go BRRRR". If you kept one in your closet for self-defense, you're potentially putting innocents at risk because you cannot properly control the weapon while using one or, even if it can be done, that's a feat in its own right. I agree that we don't need any more bans on stuff, but I'm guessing that Trump got something in exchange for that concession (behind-closed-doors bargaining). What matters more to me than what Trump says to his political opponents in a political negotiation session, is what he says to his constituency, and how he lives up to that (or not). I share all the criticisms that anybody on this forum has for the 2-party system but, for now, Trump seems to be the closest thing to addressing the actual issues in the Swamp and all the neoCONs have boundless hatred for him, which is an enormous green check-mark in his column. I'm not a Trumper and, as I've said many times before, if you can find someone with the principles of Ron Paul, and the rockstar power of Trump, point me to that man and I will write him in for POTUS.
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    03-25-2024, 07:18 PM
    The Austrian economists frequently use the analogy of a drug addiction, and it's somewhat more than an analogy. Quitting is going to bring withdrawals, and the withdrawals are, of course, terrible. But this is the thing: the withdrawals are inevitable, the only question is how terrible they will be. The longer they are deferred, the longer the drug is taken, the worse the withdrawals are. You can blame the rehab caretaker for your suffering, or you can acknowledge that you created your own predicament and, for the duration of the withdrawals, all you can do is suffer through them. There is charity, there is sound advice, and many other remedies that can help people get through this hard time with the least amount of suffering possible. We all want people not to be suffering. However, living in denial of the inevitable accounting is just delusional. Nothing can stop judgment day. It is the only truly inevitable thing, even more inevitable than death.
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    03-25-2024, 12:45 PM
    There is something unusual about Milei, I can't put my finger on it. So I also sense what you sense, although in different words. But I hope that he lives up to his promises of eliminating the Argentine central bank and giving common Argentines a chance to rebuild their economy as it was before it was destroyed by socialism, and beyond. I know they can do it, they have a history of economic flourishing, and other South American countries that have told the globalists to take a hike (e.g. Chile) have gone on to flourish economically.
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    03-25-2024, 12:39 PM
    I had to dig hard to find any information about this. All I can find is rumor/hearsay that Trump supposedly said this in a private conversation with unspecified congressional people. Even if true, it proves literally nothing because part of politics is paying back your opponents in kind: when they lie to you, obviously, you lie back. A military doesn't paint its vehicles safety-orange while the enemy is concealed with camouflage. Screw that, if you use camouflage, so will I. Trump spoke to the NRA national convention in Houston days after the Uvalde shooting. He delivered scalding criticism of the gun-grabbing agenda, publicly, on-camera, on-record. (Not in some secret conversation with political opponents, reported third-hand by the DC rumor-mill.) That took some major swinging brass balls, because the Left was beside themselves with the usual gun-seizure frenzy they whip up in the wake of each mass shooting, especially school shootings. Unfortunately, the perp was not white, so they could only turn the frenzy-dial up to 8 or 9. They pitched a fit that Trump spoke at the NRA anyway, and then went silent about the whole thing shortly after. It's probably footnoted in their Playbook for later on during the campaign or, in the apocalyptic event that he re-takes POTUS, after he gets back into office.
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    03-25-2024, 09:36 AM
    I have no idea how any of this stuff is going to play out, but what I do know is:
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    03-25-2024, 09:27 AM
    Sure, but Milei is also a very skilled orator and knows how to work crowds and chooses his policy positions, in part, to help build solidarity with Argentines towards his primary goal, which is the destruction of the Argentine Central Bank. Kissing babies is just part of the job, and what that looks like from one part of the world, to another, varies. Exactly. Hence, tempest in a teapot. :shrugging:
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    03-25-2024, 12:40 AM
    We are long past the point of anger. We are long past the point of politics. And every indication is that we are even past the point of war, which leaves only one remaining possibility: apocalypse. Anger is too mild a word for the wrath that burns in my chest. If all the Sun's fury could be forged into a spike and that spike driven through the eyes of these wicked traitors; and if they were given all the eyes that have ever been in order to be blinded over and over through countless lifetimes, scraping their way through the dirt from birth to ignoble and agonizing death under the hateful, indifferent skies; such retribution would not even amount to a shadow cast by the burning fury within my chest, nor a drop in the ocean of God's divine wrath. Hell, truly, is forever and ever. And these wicked tyrants have been given more than fair notice.
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    03-25-2024, 12:27 AM
    This is classic deflection propaganda and one-issuing. Milei is obviously pandering to his own political base in Argentina which are generally pro-Israel, and I believe there is a lot of popular sympathy there for Ukraine, although I don't know the cultural reasons for that particular sympathy. There's nothing wrong with a politician showing that he cares about what his people care about. Argentina is broke, this is how Milei got elected in the first place. How in the world is Argentina going to make any material difference in the Ukraine/Russia conflict? It's not. That's why Milei knows he's safe to campaign on this issue and travel to Israel/etc. to show his solidarity. I realize that such gestures are not meaningless but the real test is what he actually does. And the fact is that he literally can't do anything, anyway, because his country is broke! And he has stated a trillion times that his #1 priority is getting Argentina back on its feet, economically, and he has instituted a flurry of policies to that end. Let me know when Milei cuts a $1billion+ USD check to Ukraine or starts deploying their own soldiers there. Then I'll consider what you're worrying might happen in these comments. Until then, it's a tempest in a teapot being whipped up by Milei's detractors, just like the "Paris accord" scare, which came to nothing.
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    03-25-2024, 12:17 AM
    I mean -- YES. What's the FPC slogan? Oh yeah: FUCK YOU. To the whiny pigs at the FBI/etc. who will complain about the impoliteness of being sworn at, how about this, instead: You can choose between us saying FUCK YOU to your face, or having your wife shot and murdered by a sniper rifle while she's holding your sleeping child. Your choice! How's that for keeping things polite? We promise we won't use any obscene language while we murder your wife in broad daylight, we wouldn't want to scorch your virgin ears. We realize that you are so morally upright that even hearing, let alone using, a dirty word is unthinkable to you rotting, piece-of-shit Pharisees. We'll be happy to accommodate that along with a very polite and curse-word-free bullet to your wife's brain. But we all know that coward pigs gonna coward. So, FUCK YOU.
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    03-25-2024, 12:08 AM
    Pfft, what an exaggeration from FPC. What do they think this is, a country where the government will shoot your dog, kill your son, shoot you and your friend, and kill your wife with a sniper rifle while she's holding your sleeping child? Oh wait, that is this country. No more Mr. Nice Guy. The gloves are coming off this time. These fucking pigs are going to eat granite.
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    03-24-2024, 09:40 AM
    I mean, suiciding someone is still assassination, just using slightly different means.
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    03-24-2024, 07:49 AM
    That's their usual strategy to evade any discussion and debate on the controversial items in a bill. It's sinister, and it's pathetic.
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    03-23-2024, 11:08 PM
    We are watching a global criminal syndicate crucify an innocent man on patently false charges, meanwhile, we all go on paying our speeding tickets and taxes like good little citizens dealing with a legitimate (or at least, non-criminal) government. Who can we blame but ourselves? Real civil disobedience has nothing to do with "burn it all down, man". One does not even need to stick his neck out so far as to break any law requiring payment of taxes, and so on. Merely working less hours and working for less pay, and using the time freed up to engage with political resistance like RPF, LPMC, etc. is a path of civil disobedience. Most people can afford to work less, or take a lower paying (and lower requirements) job, thus loosening the omnipotent State's manacles on their wrists somewhat. When we do this en masse, it is the equivalent of a worker's strike, or a slave revolt. The individual cost is high, since we have to accept a lower standard-of-living, and we are increasing our financial risks in retirement saving. Nevertheless, when we are faced with a government that has resurrected the old redcoat tyranny, and has become an existential hazard to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then the time has come to stop playing word-games, and start punching the tyrants in the bread-basket. Rest assured, they've gamed out every scenario except you and I voluntarily taking a pay-cut and intentionally reducing our standard-of-living in order to face the tyrants. This need not be a permanent measure, either. Most of us are in a situation where we can afford to start pushing back against the State and hitting them where it hurts the most: in the pocketbook. Growing your own vegetables is not an abstract threat to the Establishment... they fear it because they know it's a real threat. Which is precisely why we should be doing it. And doing more business with those who are doing it. And doing less business with the big box (government-friendly) establishments. None of this is easy. None of this can be done in a "no-sacrifices" way. And none of it will happen automatically. But it can happen. As Malice says, that victory is not impossible is the white-pill. We can win. Assange is a living demonstration of the level of resolve that is required in order to resist them. We must be prepared to stand and die, for reals. And the fact that these are the stakes underscores the centrality of the Gospel in the fight against tyranny. As William Wallace says in Braveheart: "Fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!" And you won't be able to face down the redcoats and stand for freedom even at the cost of death, if you do not know that you have eternal life through the Gospel. Everyone has something to lose except the believer, who has nothing to gain except heaven. This world has nothing left to offer us, enthralled as it is in the clutches of the devil. And that is precisely why we are able to fight for freedom, because we are able to fight to the death, truly. Better to die and return to God than to live a slave to the devil in this filthy pit of darkness. Nor is this a call to suicidal recklessness, far from it. The point of war is not to die for your country, as Patton famously said, it is to make the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country. And even if all you can manage in the war against tyranny is to encourage one another in resistance, to shake each other out of doomerism and black-pilling, every act of encouragement is a bullet fired directly at the enemy's position. The war against Assange is a dramatic demonstration of this - they have been waging a war of attrition against him, etching away at his morale and his resolve, day upon day, week upon week,...
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