Resource drain of LLMs inescapably makes them tools availiable only to big players. They are ideal in the way they are naturally gated. Making them mandatory == giving these select companies and people power over everything. And not only oligarchs’ promotion, but the whole situation of them being given for free or cheap at a huge loss gives one an idea that there’s a lot to milk from it’s growing adoption.

There are a lot of things in play. Another optional goal is to tighten up the local russian backgarden. Just like it was before Crimea snatching, population was rather frustrated with the powerholders, some bigger protests brewed in capital cities, and although they were even smaller than back then pre-Crimea, I see it as a sub-motivation, and them freely killing Navalny just after that, rolling out laws groving in their restrictiveness - I think these were their goals all along.

I want to live long enough to see a well-sourced documentary about reasons behind such decision. We know what it ended up being, and that by now it flowered with reasoning models from profit, to counter-defence against the united west, to a revenge narrative of ‘we are already balls deep, can’t stop now’. But I feel that there’s a good place for a movie, that ends just there, on cold 24 Feb night, when the hell gates opened. And the centerpiece are the decision-making, the preparation and media campaigns to muddy the water, the arguments, the denial it’s gonna happen, the corruption and a race to cover it’s traces by the time every system gets to the test, the misinformation that led to guys smelling their own farts. Let it be the Ocean Eleven heist prep part, let it show just how it’s not evil-first - although it’s useful for a counter-narrative - but how cynical, mismanaged, inheretly degraded, plain disfunctional this machine was. To see not a brutal dictatorship, but a gang of protection-racket thugs who thought they could, like Igor of Kiyv (supposedly) to collect twice on same folks, that they thought it should’ve been easy and were fixated on local politics, international standing than on themselves and their own ridiculousness, like Nicolas the 2nd starting the infamous ‘Little victorious war’ with Japan. Not to seed empathy, or wonder what it would be if this campaign wasn’t met with a worthy resistance, but to show the endgame of fascism. That it is the russian world that is to be exported elsewhere. That it is the object of pride to western contrarians, and to the US admin that is running fast to achieve the same. That speech, when the SMO was declared, and everyone nodded, could’ve been a fine ending that leaves the audience speechless and the whole theater unnervingly quiet.

I know my fellow countrymen are nearly unpenetrateable, but I feel like a bootleg of such a movie could’ve made a lot of crimethoughts.

It feels basic but it gets the work done. As long as you don’t need a complex array of effects and graphics, it fits. Most of simple amateur video needs are easily covered.

You and you being so nice made me switch to ad hominem faster than usual! How the person like you can be so terribly pleasant? Treat yourself, you fellow lemming.

This debate is so, sooo old, but after all these times I’ve wroten arguments for having a dedicated player, I feel I singled out the most important ones to me.

It is not my phone. I enter a different headspace when I use an e-book or a mp3 player, I mentally dedicate myself to use it and enjoy it. I don’t switch between apps, see notifications popping up, for if I’m using it, I can turn the beeping fucker off and just have a good time with my tired old Walkman and Sleep’s Holy Mountain album undistracted. And I know I can put on the plane mode on, but it feels like an important switch to my brains when I leave my phone for a dumb player. My intent to use it, leaving everything else behind, somehow makes me enjoy my time with music more. We’re all wired differently, but maybe you can feel it too.

And I’m left amused by the impressions of W. Gibson, the cyberpunk daddy, when he had his first Walkman and took a walk. Him, having a personal music headspace for the first time, seeing all these huge banner adds for early tech wonders on the streets, gave him a lot of inspiration, made him feel like he is detached from this era and brought into some distant future. For some time, he felt like a character of his novels. In some sense, it was like carving your own room from out of nowhere with a click of a button while leaving in human hives of metropolitan areas. And the romantic vibes of it make me take it as another reason pro dumb players.

It’s irrational, but I choose to like it.

Valve made it super convinient for their customers and they also took steps to encourage content creation with SFM, Source Engine, sharing their own assets. They created working cloud saving and mod sharing solutions, greenlighting a bunch of indies based on votes and being on the side of the customer in disputes over refunds with 2hr rule becomingthe new norm. For years, they provided and improved their service, so it’s rare to see anyone complaining about that.

Ah, and Epic killed UT4 in beta when they found their initial zombie game mode that became Fortnite gave them that much cash they could start their own marketplace with regular giveaways and exclusives going on for years. I’m fucking pissed at them for that even now. It is irrational and personal, but Valve didn’t kill my favorite game series, it’s the opposite, since they kept slowly releasing and constantly updating Dota, CS, create Alyx, keep TF2 alive, and I’m only sad Alien Swarm would never see new content. In game studios and game marketplaces, Valve are golden.

But coming back to your initial displeasment with them, the funny thing is a lot of Steam games don’t need Steam to launch. Unless devs implement some hooks and DRMs themselves, you can just launch their EXE file. Nobody really checks that, but that’s the truth, and I’ve seen some lists of games that don’t do that. On top of that, 99% offline games can be launched without internet with Steam only, you can even backup and then install some game on your PC offline if your client knows you own it. And don’t forget family sharing - although they promised to rework it, I, my partner and our friends used it a lot, and although you can’t use a game from a shared library when you are offline, if the owner plays it offline you can play it too at the same time without messing with each others’ gameplay. This lazy implementation of DRM with many workarounds and general respect to even the sleakiest, cheating customer is why I still buy games there.

Fishing?

Normal people are very adaptive to the boring routine, may it be counting inventory or counting skulls. I’m pretty much afraid not of psycos who do evil things intentionally, but of normal people who do them 9to5 without a thought, and then go back to shopping, care for their children and elderly, and resting like that.

With how different bodies allow different speeds of change, you are definetely in the speedrunners league there. The latter one reminds of my one good collegue who was born like that, and you are already there. Get used to be an inspiration for other aspiring women and a source of tips (:

Insurance is not unlike gambling, but gambling seems comparatively more fair and less insidious.

We’d bawl together at home, my child.

It’s probably to nullify the incentive to use external LLMs, thus marking everything generated on the platform by the platform as such and also meaning Zuck can regulate what can actually be generated controlling the flow of LLM-gen content. If you put it that way, it doesn’t sound that senseless.

Trying to fly is somehow not a blaphemy but pictures of people are.

Where? Why not in Belarus? Why are they shoveled up at the border and made to stay there instead of being housed in Bela?

Belarus doesn’t take them and forces them further that is said to be a part of a hybrid warfare blind to these people’s woes.

Gonial angle is this:

Canthal tilt is that:

As I was googling I’ve seen articles mentioning some angles statistically more attractive than others, that’s predictable, but then incels take it as another reason why they are genetically predisposed to stay virgins and have no power to change that.

I think the whole greentext is written to edge on incest but never providing on purpose. Too many nods at that scenario.

Idk about chicken, but pancakes on the shovel, mmm.

Now, now you get your People pass cancelled.