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> Baffling how voters fail to recognize

Bread and circuses, mate


"Bread and circuses" refers to a public free grain dole and free entertainment events in Ancient Rome. Precious little of that in the US right now, except for food benefits whose recipients probably on balance do not support the current guy.

I’d say they turned the whole administration into the circus as they’re running it like a reality tv show

..or a crappy casino. (further precedents)

But they’re also less likely to vote for a third party or otherwise upend things,

because they’re not hungry.

Bread and circuses -> Hot Pockets and Netflix


not just cost-per-hour of the crew, but also rest schedules. A more economical flight-path is all well and good, but it's useless if it means that the crew will breach their permitted duty hours.

It's carmine all the way down.

nothing rouge either, I suspect.


if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

I feel like potential suffocation is not what I'd be most concerned about if I were in an atmosphere with high concentrations of gaseous ammonia.

> But also humans can not provide that. Every bard, every writer, every poet, every band rises every morning to compete against the beatles. Most of them loose and thus abandon the craft to win bread elsewhere.

Most, but not all. For every 99 who give up and go and do something else, one transcends.

AI cannot create. Humans can. Most do not, but the possibility is always there that they could.



Not something novel, usually - but i can reproduce recombination results with intuition, which is kind of close enough. Still it lacks the striking direction of an artist/great mind and averages out.

Intuition is just detecting and following patterns, which AI is already very good at.

but most of what humans create isn’t novel, esp in saturated areas like art. so even LLMs can “just do that” they’re very capable at outputting worthwhile materisl

"most of" being the key words.

Now show me an AI coming up with General Relativity, or Integral Calculus, or Chopin's wrong note Etude.

AI builds on what comes before. Humans have an uncanny trait for creating things that are truly new.


Can't exactly show since those things have already been discovered of course. But there is already a good list of AI discoveries out there in various fields, and it's still early days.

Humans also build on what comes before. Many of the "truly new" things that humans have created happened by accident, was discovered by brute force/experimentation, or are remixes of things observed in nature and/or already done by others. There is literally nothing a human can invent that a sufficiently capable AI can't also invent as the techniques are the same.


Actually, the third possible state is Bloody Furious.

Not just Greenland. I imagine a lot of people here in Blighty will not take well to the US meddling in the sovereignty of the Falklands.

I do wonder if the sudden noise is due in part due to to Peter Thiel's move to Buenos Aries.


As someone in Blighty just add it to the pile of existing issues with the US and its current government.

Unless the US gives significant military aid (or outright joins them) the Argentinians can't take the Falklands, They are much more heavily defended than they were in the 80's (in fairness it would be hard for them to be less defended than that).

This is just the usual "Things are fucked at home, Distract them with the Malvinas Again" they pull periodically, it's to appeal to his domestic base - about all we (the UK) should do is state it's not a matter for debate and dust off the "If they do the stupid thing again" plans we already have and then carry on.

Bigger problems in the world for us than the Malvinas.


Milei is flailing.

Typical criminal politician move when they’re about to lose power.


> Genuinely, what is the legal framework here

He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe.


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