Trump: The US will take over the Gaza Strip… we’ll own it pic.twitter.com/W0mEQzIUut

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 5, 2025

“I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in my country.”

A perfect response. pic.twitter.com/K8HqNi1hEz

— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) January 26, 2025

!chuds

you needs less tricknology n increase dem p values n sheeeei-

dei hires OUT

m-my grant proposal

Five minutes later:

!chuds some of the overpaid gov't titsucker subreddits and hard rn:

/r/fednews /r/professors /r/1102 /r/foreignservice /r/daca /r/patentlaw /r/womenintech /r/usajobs /r/antiwork

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Bonus content

https://old.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInAmerica/comments/1i7ke6f/wife_just_lost_her_job_because_of_an_executive/

https://old.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/1i7j8r0/closed_my_first_100k_deal_and_then_i_didnt/

>$100k deal

>... revoking already approved funding for this refugee focused Non-Profit ... had to lay off 90% of their staff within 24 hours ... backed out of the deal

Lot of money for peaceful refugee activists !nooticers ...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1i7ench/fed_up_w_judgement_for_eating_outside/

>I work in a hospital

>workplace full of disease

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For anyone unfamiliar, the eponymous "crises" in the title are NOT about the evil orange man who is bad - Notes on the Crises is a political economy newsletter started a few years ago by Nathan Tankus to comment on the intersecting global economic disasters triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nathan is a @TracingWoodgrains style "truth neurodivergent" not a wingcucked political hack. He's just a big giant dork who does things like FOIA request the minutes from all US Federal Reserve Board meetings from 1967-1973

Nathan looks like this, and I would believe almost anything that he writes, because it is backed by powerful neurodivergent spirits.

When he writes about the COBOL code in the treasury department, I'm confident he's talking to beardy old men who write and maintain that code.

I would also like to clarify some confusion on social media. The issue with understanding and grasping a COBOL system is not knowing COBOL, as a programming language, in the abstract. Nor is it, god help me, something that AI can "do" because you fired one of these chatbots up and got some code that could compile when you asked "write me some COBOL code". The issue is understanding the specific physical limitations of the system, the way that it interacts with the "Business Logic" of the code and a million other contextual factors.

There is specific code which tells you where to direct specific payments in specific ways and the structures, and why they are structured the way they are, requires deep contextual knowledge. This is "business logic". The entire issue with COBOL and why it has been such a struggle to maintain it is that COBOL systems (both private and public) developed for decades with very little documentation, have a million different path dependent coding choices. Mar Hicks 2020 article in Logic Magazine "Built to Last" is worth a read on this topic.

This is what I meant yesterday when I referenced that 30 different COBOL systems at Treasury had developed their own "dialects" and they launched Payment Application Modernization (PAM), which among other things, unified them. What they unified was the business logic of those systems (as well as likely other factors, most notably the physical architecture of the systems they ran on). Part of me wishes they didn't modernize with PAM because those 30 different and distinct systems would have been more secure from their infiltration. PAM processed 4.7 trillion dollars of payments in 2024.

It's also true that some similar issues can emerge with other more recent programming languages and the way "business logic" emerges if a mission critical IT system developed using a more recent programming language. But COBOL is unique; after all it's literally "common business-oriented language". So while knowing the COBOL programming language is better than not knowing it, it does not make that much of a difference with these young Musk programmers mucking about.

Unrelated, here's the author:

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/0wkJA1TLt0

— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) February 4, 2025

Sheehy: How many genders are there?

Hegseth: Two

Sheehy: I know that well, I’m a Sheehy pic.twitter.com/cCqa155hjh

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 14, 2025

In the Senate hearing for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, freshman Senator Tim Sheehy decides to crack a little joke.

: How many genders are there? A tough one.

: Uh, Senator there are two genders.

: I know that well, I'm a Sheehy (pronounced She/He)

There's some polite laughs, because it's a silly little pun, and Hegseth laughs too hard like a cute twink. People are MAD

I've been messing around trying to figure out LoRA training recently and decided to train a style LoRA on the original Marsey Telegram stickers.

Should more flexible than MarseyGen since this is trained on a newer uncensored model, but it's booru tag-based so it's not as easy to prompt.

Civitai Download Page

Recommended Settings:

• Requires a UI that supports SDXL V-Pred models such as reForge/Comfy UI

• Model: NoobAI-XL V-Pred-1.0 (may work ok with other NoobAI based models)

• LoRA strength: 1.0

• Sampler: Euler A

• Scheduler: Beta

• Steps: 30

• CFG Scale: 5

• CFG Rescale: 0.5-0.7

• Zero SNR: On

Use the following tags to generate images of Marsey:

domestic cat, white fur, orange fur, black eyes, striped tail

Full example prompt:

masterpiece, best quality, marseystyle,

solo, domestic cat, white fur, orange fur, black eyes, striped tail, sitting, :D, blush, black background

<lora:marseystyle:1>

Negative prompt: worst quality, low quality

Some example images (with metadata from reForge UI):

!saiyans what's yours?

But probably not cause the cute twink had the NERVE to correct Ye on the spelling of his name. Adin is a broke butt neighbor.

!chuds !r-slurs

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These type of men need to d!e https://t.co/iWybhi0vw8

— chelsea (@chelcatastr0phe) February 9, 2025

And yet, despite all of this, the Academy is showering the film with nominations. It's disheartening to see how -actual- Mexican films, with authenticity and cultural accuracy, don't receive this level of recognition. Instead, we get a film that diminishes the importance of language and cultural representation, all for the sake of style over substance. Imaging making an Italian language movie where Brad Pitt keeps his Italian in "Inglorious Basterds" not as a comedy but as a serious drama, that was this movie. A joke.

OP

Canadian here. Not sure if this is PreperIntel worthy but just reporting something I've honestly never seen in my life. Canadians woke up today feeling super patriotic. And super pissed. Not that we aren't usually patriotic but we aren't a bunch of flag wavers. It's more a quiet patriotism we keep to ourselves. And we are generally a polite and reserved bunch in general.

Not today. Holy... the mood in Canada is ... PISSED.

Most of the anger is aimed at your current head of state but also at your country as a whole. Not so much individual Americans. You will be perfectly safe traveling through Canada or visiting. But there is outright anger directed at any product with a "Made in the USA" flag. Every store in Canada is going around with maple leaf stickers marking the "Made in Canada" products. Consumer boycotts are springing up organically across the country. The talk is really sort of ... ugly.

I get the sense there has been significant damage done to the US Brand in Canada. And I don't think it's confined to Canada. I have friends in the UK who say the same. They are also just frankly pissed beyond all reason. I expect it's the same across Europe.

Hopefully it dies down. It's absolutely non-productive and unCanadian. America and Canada have been ride or die BFF's for a century or more. I live in Arizona 1/2 time and I love LOVE it here. I have yet to personally meet an American I didn't genuinely like. You are good people. You do not deserve any of this.

Unless of course you voted for this. In which case... hope you get everything you voted for and then some.

also RIP to /r/prepperintel, it has turned into just another 'Drumf le bad' subreddit

!meowr

this is her btw

If you didn't think being bullied off tiktok was bad enough

https://rdrama.net/post/340975/we-are-anonmyouse-consequences-will-never

They are now wholesome and on bluesky

These are the people who are genuinely afraid to go on 4chan now wearing the corpse of a 20 year old meme

pic.twitter.com/irYGaVAiqm

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025

BREAKING: LOS ANGELES POLICE HAVE LOST CONTROL OF LARGE PARTS OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES pic.twitter.com/zFcSGDnk7j

— News Rated (@NewsRated) February 3, 2025

/r/The_Donald discusses sending in Marines to declare martial law