No banking apps or NFC payments.

Japan had an aircraft carrier fleet rivaling the US, better carrier fighter planes than the US, and were occupying a lot of China, who was a peer opponent. It also took a US-USSR alliance to take them down.

Russia on the other hand is able to wreak a lot of havoc, and is also good on some technological fronts, like drone warfare, espionage and ballistic missiles, but it has recently lost a lot of its fleet against an opponent with no navy, and is stuck in trench warfare with equipment that in WWII would be the equivalent of muskets.

This whole posturing is because Russia ran out of easily recruitable people, and needs internal justification to start throwing in conscripts as well.

Oh, BTW it’s “Wunderwaffe”, if you want a “Wunderwaffle”, go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won’t fit in your mouth.

I get you. I feel that way about most news I consume these days.

The revenue is still less than that of Clash of Clans or Candy Crush. And it is mostly coming from the companies involved in the shell game as well.

Companies, totally.

The only country it might take down is actually the US, as it might be the spark to start some shit in the current tense environment. I mean that I could see the bubble pop be Franz Ferdinand to a 2 Civil 2 War.

I agree, and the actual real implication in the article sounds just as bad as the headline, so I feel it’s a clickbait machine editor who did this.

The claim BTW is that OpenAI is alleging that random people criticising them are actually in a conspiracy with Elon Musk (the actual person involved in a lawsuit with OpenAI) to discredit them, and the court is humouring this nonsense by subpoenaing random people’s private messages.

Oh yeah, the “peacekeepers” led by Trump and Tony Blair. Almost forgot about it.

Well really it’s “his” Gaza “peace” “accord” since Hamas hasn’t even signed yet IIRC? And Israel will break it either way, even if Trump did in fact win the PP, they can’t take it back, so let’s get back to the genocide.

Give it to Greta Thunberg

And the reason they were actually cut is because monopolists raised prices so that inflation would drive up interest rates, killing competition and labour power, leading to consolidation of the monopolies and fewer jobs and less competition overall.

Truly a great indicator of the US economy’s health.

Tesla is 47.91% owned by institutions, not retail. Add Musk’s 12%, and that leaves retail at most 40%.

Tesla goes where institutions want it to go, since they are the only organised force on the market anyway.

If you look at what AI does, however, it’s mostly classification.

Not necessarily, a huge use case is regulation and control in the engineering, not the political sense. Like driverless cars, independently flying drones and such. And yeah, they need classification subsystems under the hood to work, but their ultimate outputs are complex control signals, not simple classes.

And don’t get me wrong, I also like ML and AI as a field, I just don’t like how OpenAI fucked the field with text generators that they got Silicon Valley to worship like gods. I even like LLMs, just not the grotesquely outsized cult around them.

Not really nowadays, from 13 years old they go back to school.

One of the recent ones is an MBA now.

AI is an adequate solution to a problem that has no other similarly adequate solutions (classification of complex information).

Sentiment analysis machines and such have been around before LLMs and eat much less electricity.

LLMs taken over the “AI” label so much that any success from a machine learning context is attributed to it, while it actually defunds and kills research out of ML all into LLMs.

Excel used to have, and I think it still has, localised function names.

Makes it a nightmare to look up stuff on the Internet.

Active actions are being done. If they weren’t, Orbán would be nice and cozy. He already had to go home from stirring shit in the EU by the way, and go campaigning, trying to salvage his rule.

People are involved by the way. The representatives of the new government will have primaries, which is a new for Hungary. And again, almost half a million people were out on the streets of Budapest on Pride, but tens of thousands of people protest on a normal week now, with actual events turning out hundreds of thousands.

And peaceful protests do work if they show that the admin is powerless to stop them and so many people are on board. Wait for the 23rd of October, that’ll be a big one.

There are thousands of self-organised groups all across the country, working the streets against Orbán as well.

It’s how democracies work.

April is the next election. Orbán is down in the polls, the big question now is whether the new government will get supermajority or just simply win.

And it’s not like the people of Hungary are waiting either. Orbán banned Pride. The result is the single biggest public event since 1956, four hundred thousand people turned out in a country of 8.5 million. He tried to fine people, but he was as powerless to do it as he was to stop Pride.

His events are drawing hundreds while the opposition’s are drawing hundreds of thousands.

At this point, Orbán is pathetic and not even able to appear in a public event, he either visits towns in secret, without telling the public in advance, or he outright closes out the public to speak only to his own press and people. And even there, he is slurring words, stuttering and sweating.

He fired his campaign staff who have been doing his campaigns for 20 years, and will likely fire the next guys as well.

And the EU fixing their bullshit regarding Hungary will not “take a while”. It happened 3 years ago. They sanctioned him, sanctions work, this is the result. People have started to look up and see the problem. It’s done and nothing can undo it.

Hungary may still have a very long way to go, but at least it will be free again.

Is this man the “master of Europe”, or a spent, used up tool of Putin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ufkKMPOKs

That was the case under Merkel. Today’s standing is that Orbán is going to be deposed, and either flee the country or be jailed come April.

The EU is growing some balls at least, and turned off the money taps a few years ago.

What