mpox outbreak abroad is a 'global 
threat,' CDC warns. 
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How long before the strags start moral policing bath-house orgies again?
Also isnt it funny that they changed the name from monkey-pox to mpox to make it less offensive? Like doesnt the m still stand for monkey?
solar 
flare 
recorded | Space 
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Ut oh. I've said the quiet part out loud again.
— Dave Kellogg (@Kellblog) May 18, 2024
European founders lose their bearings when they expand to the US and hire their first few employees, typically salespeople.
"These people are gods," is how one founder told me he felt early in the expansion process.
This isnt drama or dramatic but who can't appreciate the absolute state of europeans?
the beauty': more SOLAR 
feels 
hauling 36 tons 
of cat food 
goes off I-80 
, blocks Urbandale road | who13.com 
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cord yet non Janny - 42
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More romance and adventure, and not too much in the way of smut, if possible please?
Poor kid. This is how 
are made. Just like homosexuals are made in stonetoss.jpg way
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This will be the last surviving hole. Including all the gussy and bussy holes which will be ripped to shreds by @CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM.
and there's a legit reason for it 
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Some background that Politico won't tell you: New Caledonia is a French colony integral part of France in the South Pacific. The French never gave it up because it has the world's largest nickel mine it's an integral part of France. There has long been a policy of encouraging white people to move there to dilute the native population allow them to enjoy the climate as well. Recently France revised the island's colonial diktat constitution in a naked power grab attempt to be raceblind, allowing recent immigrants to vote in local elections. The native population is naturally outraged too barbaric to understand.
How in the heck does Azerbaijan fit into this? France has always been a supporter of Armenia. This must be because of righteous outrage about the Armenian genocide, right? Not really. Remember how the Sykes-Picot Agreement promised what is now Syria and Lebanon to the French after WW1? It also promised a huge chunk of southeastern Anatolia to them. The plan was that they would set up a puppet state here. In typical imperialist divide and rule fashion, the Armenians were supposed to be their enforcers.
They ran into a couple of problems though. First was the whole genocide thing. I wish it wasn't a winning strategy but sometimes it is. There weren't enough Armenians left to carry out the plan. Second, the French had the best army in the world in 1918 but it didn't mean they had a lot of guys who wanted to keep fighting for some distant colony. The few guys they did send out were defeated by the resurgent Turkish nationalists under Mustafa Kemal. It's hard to win against a guy who's such a chad that he said to a subordinate at Gallipolli "I didn't order you to fight. I ordered you to die."
As a legacy of this there's a large and influential Armenian diaspora community in France. They're still kind of mad about the whole genocide thing. Mad at Turkey but also Azerbaijan because, if you'll allow me to grossly oversimplify things, Azerbaijan is basically half Turkish/half Iranian and they (and the Kurds) are accused of participating in the genocide. Did they? I dunno, researching genocides is pretty depressing so I usually avoid it.
So that's how the native indigenous Kanaks of New Caledonia have common cause with people living on inland mountains on the other side of the world.
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There is nothing within the lore of 40k that would justify the existence of the Imperium on the basis of the fact that the Imperium is inherently genocidal, and in the wise words of the best Star Trek character: pic.twitter.com/k832f8XAuy
— Salamander, The Slayer of Somerton (@Sallymander40k) May 14, 2024
God bless this mess 
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Show me the no hammock sign
It doesnt come up as a repost but im 1000% positive yall did post it from dailymail or we that b news station is
cute twink
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The hole in the battery pack turned out to be damage that was classified as “exterior damage,” resulting in a repair bill of over $13,000. Of course, that amount wasn't covered by warranty.
When I was in the market for a new electric car, I rented a Polestar from Hertz to try it out. Waiting in the lobby, I was no longer surprised at why these $60k cars were selling for $30k after being rented out. The absolute SPECIMENS waiting on a Tesla, holy shit. 
At least two Teslas were being towed into the lot while I was there. "It just quit on the highway." I'm sure it did, Tenisha.
I ended up just buying a new Hyundai Ioniq 6 for the same price one of these used EVs.
says universal gibs 
will be needed
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The guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
We'll need universal basic income - AI 'godfather'
The computer scientist regarded as the “godfather of artificial intelligence” says the government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality.
Professor Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every citizen would be needed because he was “very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”.
“I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea,” he said.
He said while he felt AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich “and not the people whose jobs get lost and that's going to be very bad for society”.
Professor Hinton is the pioneer of neural networks, which form the theoretical basis of the current explosion in artificial intelligence.
Until last year he worked at Google, but left the tech giant so he could talk more freely about the dangers from unregulated AI.
The concept of a universal basic income amounts to the government paying all individuals a set salary regardless of their means.
Critics say it would be extremely costly and divert funding away from public services, while not necessarily helping to alleviate poverty.
A government spokesman said there were "no plans to introduce a universal basic income".
[article continued]
Professor Hinton reiterated his concern that there were human extinction-level threats emerging.
Developments over the last year showed governments were unwilling to rein in military use of AI, he said, while the competition to develop products rapidly meant there was a risk tech companies wouldn't “put enough effort into safety”.
Professor Hinton said "my guess is in between five and 20 years from now there's a probability of half that we'll have to confront the problem of AI trying to take over".
This would lead to an “extinction-level threat” for humans because we could have “created a form of intelligence that is just better than biological intelligence… That's very worrying for us”.
AI could “evolve”, he said, “to get the motivation to make more of itself” and could autonomously “develop a sub-goal of getting control”.
He said there was already evidence of large language models - a type of AI algorithm used to generate text - choosing to be deceptive.
He said recent applications of AI to generate thousands of military targets were the “thin end of the wedge”.
“What I'm most concerned about is when these can autonomously make the decision to kill people," he said.
Professor Hinton said something similar to the Geneva Conventions - the international treaties that establish legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war - may be needed to regulate the military use of AI.
"But I don't think that's going to happen until after very nasty things have happened,” he added.
Asked if the West was in a Manhattan Project-style race - referring to nuclear weapons research during World War Two - with autocracies such as Russia and China on the military use of AI, Professor Hinton replied: “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin said some years ago that whoever controls AI controls the world. So I imagine they're working very hard.
"Fortunately, the West is probably well ahead of them in research. We're probably still slightly ahead of China. But China's putting more resources in. And so in terms of military uses I think there's going to be a race”.
He said a better solution would be a prohibition on military uses of AI.
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Demonious-X is an ancient lolcow that somethingawful's FYAD used to frick with a lot. The OG neckbeard.
He was also the incel patient zero. He was the scrote alpha and the scrote omega.
Best read to the tune of William Shatner's Rocketman
On Failed Relationships and Fleshlights - by Demonious X on Genius
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