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You can say that was mostly the Romans. If you needed a calendar fucked up, they were the ones to do it.

I'd say the Arctic might be more fitting than the Pacific for separating the US from Russia... But then I know the names of the oceans.

My personal theory is that AGI is not possible with Binary architecture. I believe that it will take some form of analog computing, the simplest level of which is trinary. -1, 0, and 1.

What is intelligence without the ability to be uncertain?

Then there's full analog computing. It's not a robust field, but is deceptively powerful.

There are these little solar powered robots that automatically move towards light, and it's done with a handful of transistors.

To do the whole thing in binary would take a full processor and a few lines of code.

Except for a select few movies, there's no continuity in the James Bond franchise.

Marvel wanted a sandbox to play in with established and maintained continuity, that's what a cinematic universe is. The main problem is that they're not following up on the continuity, or rather not letting the world actually change.

I live dangerously with my fully up to date Arch box.

But I also have an LTS Ubuntu box that's been humming away in the background for about the last five-ish years? Just a quiet little file server, doing its job and being ignored.

I always love to be reminded about that. It probably should have happened years earlier, but you take what you can get.

It was a wonderful experiment. And it showed what you can do with tight continuity control... But it was a bit too grimdark. Heroes need to be allowed to act like heroes, even when it's hard.

The Ultimates universe felt like all the big names were slowly drifting towards evil.

You're right, but I can still fight you if you want, say we meet at the park near sundown?

I'll even let you get the first hit in, I'll be walking around, and you can just run up and punch me.

They're doing a Battleworld, the comic event where Doom kidnaps Franklin Richards, and the molecule man, in order to temporarily erase the multiverse.

The end of that particular comic storyline justified the end of the Ultimates universe, while allowing Miles Morales to join the main marvel universe.

Nothing else changed. Because the first law of comics is that nothing ever changes. Not really.

Movies on the other hand, have a problem. Actors age out of roles, so you should be changing the world with each movie... Marvel isn't doing that.

While that works on a per clove basis, sometimes you need an entire head of garlic, and the shake method is the best and fastest.

It wasn't even about coconspirators, he loved to muddy the waters by hanging out with famous people.

He was also obsessed with science and technology, and gave a lot of money to legitimate physics projects.

Which is how he met Stephen Hawkings, who this article claims died under "mysterious circumstances".

Which tells you the journalistic rigor used.

I seem to have recreated the interaction here.

I used the drug cartels as a contrasting example to the Sahel dictatorships. You're the one who then went completely off-topic because you seem to want to stan for dictators.

And now you want to run away because your fee fees hurt?

Also, there are no western mouthpieces talking about the Sahel dictators, because the west really doesn't care. In some ways that's actually worse.

Jumping straight to 9/11 conspiracy? Is that because you can't back up any other argument?

No one is saying the western powers are good, but that doesn't matter. We were talking about three African military dictatorships, and how that too is not good.

Specifically, in the not a good thing category, when a dictator seizes a wealth generating natural resource. Dictators tend to use slave labor in such cases, and then hoard the wealth for themselves and their key supporters.

In the two years since General Tiani seized power, we've seen the economy crash, journalists disappeared, and half a dozen other types of human rights abuses.

Mali has been worse since their military coup, with protesters gunned down in the street.

And yet, people still stan for these dictators.

It would be wrong if the US had installed these dictators, but it's also wrong that they seized power.

Why do people Stan this hard for obvious dictators? They're home-grown dictators, but they're still fucking dictators.

Do you cheer for the drug cartels who are also fighting against western imperialism? No, because they're not in it for that, they're in it for themselves and don't care about the damage they do along the way. The exact same is true of the Sahel dictators.

Fuck, Niger's dictator just made blatant theft of the treasury legal for the military back in February. The military appointed "civilian" government has no say over military budgets, and the treasury must fulfil any and all budget request with no questions allowed.

Niger's wealth is not going to the people. That's the whole point here. The wealth is going straight to the dictator.

As to the people supporting their dictators... You do realize they're killing the people who don't, right?

The three dictators of the Sahel states are all murdering their own citizens, if those citizens speak up against the dictator.

When General Tiani seized power there were months of protests and the harsh suppression of protests. And that's just the capital. Tiani has basically abandoned the rest of the country to Jihadists, and mercenaries who have been given carte blanche to do whatever they want so long as they kill Jihadists.

But that's just what the people want, right? Instead of an elected government. Right?

I caught my first ban from a .ml community just the other day.

They were cheering because Niger's military dictatorship seized control of a gold mine that had been operated by an Australian mining firm.

They framed it as "noble natives throwing off a foreign oppressor" when the reality is a local oppressor is just moving in for a larger cut of the money.

They were stanning so hard for the dictatorship, to the point of outright lying and claiming that the dictator was a "duly elected representative democracy".

Fuck no, it isn't. Niger, and the Sahel states, are full-on military dictatorships. They're making a big show out of kicking out foreign businesses (which are already withdrawing due to the sanctions), and mostly kicking out or just killing foreign journalists.

Niger is actually hiring foreign mercenary groups, including the remnants of the Wagner Group. The Neo-Nazis who were mad that Russia was sending them into a meat grinder in Ukraine, so they tried a coup, that failed miserably.

Anyway, my account was banned, and my comments erased, Well, some of them. mostly the ones where I pointed out that the people will never see a dime of the gold mine's output, because dictators tend to spend on themselves first and foremost.

If he was a coward he would never have hired Joel Kaplan.

Joel Kaplan was a Bush toady who participated in the Brooks Brothers riot.

Martin has already stated the he is not a fan of Sanderson's style, specifically in regards to being a potential contingency author.

In the initial release of episode 2, they just cut it during the Peanuts style song, and don't show the pet shop.

The pet shop is the part that really book ends the episode.