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  2. What is it like compared to Elissa or Art Car?
  3. Ok with you posting libs of TikTok tweets? No. Find a more reputable source.
  4. There's been a couple threads about this topic. Here's one: https://surlyhorns.com/board/topic/44284-no-cuntry-for-young-men/ Listen, Galloway isn't alone. Jordan Peterson cares too..
  5. You said NS was going to fall off last year and they won state. You'll forgive me if I take your analysis with a hint of "you have no fucking clue what you're talking about". This current iteration of TWCP can go dude for dude with Atascocita. We were ranked top 10 by the end of the season by DCTF and 'Cita wasn't ranked at all.
  6. Yep https://247sports.com/player/jaistorm-knight-46150643/
  7. For a bright, shining moment in the early 2000s, Arby's had a line of four "Market-Fresh" sandwiches that were solid across the board. It was such a fleeting, historical moment in subpar, fast food, that I didn't even get to try all four.
  8. I remember watching women's hockey in the 2014 Olympics and thinking it was terrible. Today's game was one of the best sporting events you will ever see. It's crazy how much the sport has been elevated by the USA-Canada rivalry.
  9. i've been thinking about this on and off for what feels like forever, but the one thing i can't seem to get over is that ai isn't new. like, at all. LLMs are just a more robust fucking chat bot. for the past two decades, customers have faced ai chatbots in the corner of every goddamn website, and voice prompts for over-the-phone calls operated the same fucking way. putting them in a new wrapper and calling it "GENERATIVE AI" as though that's even a real thing. jesus christ, the industry was using the term "machine-to-machine learning" for a decade before they went full clearchannel to iheart into "generative ai." it's basically rebranding. it's all so fucking ridiculous, and it's being used to justify terrible, irresponsible, short-term decisions to enrich just a few over any sort of realized long-term practical benefit. look, back in the before internet times, i bought a revolutionary fucking soundblaster sound card (that's right, motherfuckers, i had fucking SPEAKERS now) that had this chatbot included named dr sbaitso. dr sbaitso was revolutionary for the time, because you could basically write anything and it could give you a response. now, often, that response may have been something like "i'm sorry, i don't understand what you mean," or something like that, but it was clever enough to more or less mimic a fake therapy sesssion. for a 14 year old boy, it was sometimes good enough to mimic a fake sex chat sess-ohshiti'vesaidtoomuch; but anyways, it was basically the first version of ai that i ever encountered in real life. prior to that, i guess the ideas in 2001 or war games had been presented to me, but real ai? well, here it fucking was for real! what a time to be alive. surely we were on the cusp of a brand new era of computing and human to machine interaction, right? right? no, fuck, it didn't happen. we had a huge upgradeability phase in terms of hardware in the years following, where we argued about pentium vs amd and motherboard specs, and check out what color neon tube i got in this here fresh ass comp-ohshiti'vesaidtoomuchagain; but most of the chatbots stayed more or less the same. but computer games became much more open world and open to interpretation. computing had fully evolved from a text interface to a graphic one, and now all the upgrade shit to spend money on were graphics cards and the like. of course, we were still upgrading our processors, RAM, and HDDs, but for the most part that upgradeability was on the downslope. graphics were improving though. until they weren't. i haven't been wowed by a games graphic engine innovation since, um...but anyways, everyone got rich! but anyways, for some reason, i always remember sbaitso, every time a chat window opens on myat&t or hulu.com or pornh-stopfuckingsayingtoomuch!; which i guess brings me to my next point of being wowed by ai: picture, early 2000s, an early 20s, newly minted into an increasingly online workforce me. well, don't imagine me, but someone good looking and clever. anyways, i got a job in educational publishing, just at an amazing time. i basically helped correlated lesson plans for teachers find their way onto CD-ROMs (an amazing new technology, where you could put a CD into your computer, and it would sometimes be able to read content from it if you hadn't scratched it or smudged it with cheeto fingers). anyways, as interesting and rewarding as this career was (spoiler, i left after a few years to go to japan with my wife to teach english), i needed some outside stimulus to make it work. music made the most sense, but my workplace didn't allow for ipods or other mp3 players for some reason (hint, it's always the old people), so i found a few options online. but the one that blew my mind was something called the yahoo launchcast player. launchcast was a revelation, because it advertized itself in the tagline you can see right up there, it was music that actually took your fucking input and used it to fashion a unique channel around things you liked and disliked. one not only liked and disliked a song, but you could rate the artist and album as well, if you wanted. and early iterations, you could choose to rate on a 0-10 scale or a 0-100 scale for all three of those. then it used this thing called an algorithm (maybe you've heard of this brand new technology?) and gave you recommendations based on the ratings you were giving. this is basically ai, right? this blew my fucking mind. of course, this was a crazy time for indie music, so i discovered a shit ton of music thanks to this thing than i ever could have otherwise. i theorize that this is exactly the point where the algorithm peaked. this was a singularity, like, say, ride-share later to come, that would change an entire industry. and so it did, it disrupted the fuck out of everything. of course, around the same time, steve jobs realized that mp3s were the future, because they had been for the previous decade, and launched itunes and shortly thereafter, a brand new technology! it was an apple device called the ipod, and this magical device could play mp3s! of course it could only play mp3s generated inside the apple walled gard-shutupnobodycares; the point is, music had finally been democratized! no longer would we be reliant on terrestrial radio stations and record labels force feeding us bullshit music. the indie revolution was fucking here, and i was here for it. and the algorithm was there for it too, doing what an search and rec algorithm should do, which is spiral you from a center of your solar system outwards into a universe of content to discover. and discover i did, music recommendation engines were everywhere, and they did their jobs, and only later started incorporating ads, and then subscription ad skips, but still, it worked, and everyone got rich! for awhile at least. now we have spotifty, where you can like or dislike something and that might change your algorithm depending on which single they can now use the data in your algorithm to push on you and bam, we are back at terrestrial radio level marketing strategy, and nothing has been improved. now it sucks again. now, ive gone on long enough to stretch more line between 91-01-now, and i think my point is clear. things have changed. it's noticable, and it's an uncanny valley problem, imo. rec engines only spiral inwards because the product focus has shifted from the content. we are now the product, and we need a definition. it's our data that needs value, and therefore, if we can define this 25-29 year old female as a kardashian consuming sabrina fan who loves puppy tik-toks, then bam - you have some kind of data profile you can sell off to whoever will buy it. some asshole executive at petco might love a profile like that so they can begin to formulate their marketing strategy for the next 5 years. but now business school mbas have been drilled that the only way to make things better is to maximize value and then you need an innovative revolution, and if one isn't happening organically that you can identify and mazimize, then goddamn it you better invent one! see, also, tv manufacturers, 3DTV and content. that was what i call invented innovation, sold with a bit of snake oil and hope, that a demand that was never really there might somehow coelesce for some reason and we can all get rich again! remember when we all sold hdtvs and the world changed, we can do it again! they just dressed up old innovation and sold it as new. remind you of anything? anyways, tl;dr; WAY tl;dr, ai is another one of these invented innovations. they've dressed up old technology in new led lighting and they are telling you something that's been around forever is suddenly new. nevermind it's forever derivative, and once it gets into a derivative loop, well, then you have the modern day algorithm and modern day economy and i guess it's doing what it's supposed to do: make some people rich?
  10. It really is surreal that “the President literally cannot stay awake during meetings” is not a bigger story, especially given how the previous presidency was covered.
  11. This season will have to be better than last season, just based on the battles alone that got pushed to Season 3. I still expect the terrible writing though.
  12. The way you keep referring to mediocrity led me to suspect as much. We have a real problem with young men in this society and it has little to do with ability and aptitude. It probably merits its own thread, but I really don’t have the energy to delve into it. I will say Galloway is an arrogant prick, but he is one of the few who is making an honest attempt at addressing it.
  13. But it assuages parental guilt. They gave their kid the best...
  14. 👆 how it started 👇 how it’s going His droop stroke face showing as well
  15. Also, aliens are real according to Obama and Trump https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15575569/Trump-blasts-Obama-alien-secrets-classified.html
  16. Do we have pics of Tony Clark's sister in law? Seems relevant.
  17. haven't been since they used to have it in the summer when it was hot as balls. if they had a shuttle from austin i would be far more likely to go...hour and a half drive after a few beers is not appealing.
  18. Apparently the new SMD GE-7s are pretty quiet to start with. Tbh, this one wasn't all that noisy, but hey why not. Also as y'all can tell, the CE-2 and CS-2 have seen some things.
  19. Yeah multiple news outlets saying hes gonna be putting up massive banners with his face on it on every govt building in DC
  20. When will he announce his candidacy for a Texas GOP congressional seat? He has all of the qualifications.
  21. Everything but the noise floor.
  22. Will hit up Dodger Stadium if we end up doing a California trip this summer, may finally make it down to Citi this season.
  23. MASA? Can’t make this shit up.
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