[-] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago

I get the impression that most humans in 40k are fairly comfortable. It's no utopia like Star Trek, but on the Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid, they're looking for love and belonging. Their physiological and safety needs are met. Sure war exists in the 40k universe, but for most humans it's a very distant thing.

Maybe if you lived a full lifetime in a 40k universe there would be at least one disaster you had to deal with, that would be pretty awful. But, 5 minutes would be a piece of cake.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago

He might have read it, but did he understand it? He's a fan of the Torment Nexus.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

Americans have a weird idea of what a king is or does.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That seems like a great reason to not like the guy. He takes our money whenever he visits. If I visit another country they don't pay for anything.

The monarch visits about once a decade. The King came by for 2 days recently to open Parliament. The last visit by a monarch before that was a 1 week visit by the Queen in 2010. One estimate I've seen is that the entire funding of anything Royal in Canada, including every expense related to the Governor General amounts to about $50m/year. That's about 0.01% of the Federal Budget. If Canada had a president (even a ceremonial one) instead of a Governor General those costs would barely change. A ceremonial president would cost roughly the same. Germany has a largely ceremonial president and his office costs the country 30m euros per year.

Basically, the amount spent on the royals / the governor general is tiny compared to the entire federal budget. Is it worth it? Who knows. The GG basically acts as an ambassador for the country and I'd argue many of them have been useful, and that's where almost the entire royal-related budget goes.

If Canada decided to switch to a republic without even a ceremonial president, the cost of that change would be equivalent to decades worth of spending on the GG / royals.

"Soft power" is another term for influence, so the king still has power.

Yeah, but so do TikTok influencers.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Also, Air India goes by the unfortunate initialism "AI", which will really gum up the headlines here.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

What am I on about? Anarchism, which seems to be something people have a hard time grasping.

Because it's unworkable? Sure.

Ok, now that I see your mental illness, I can safely just ignore you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

On a video posted to Reddit you can hear the Ram Air Turbine running, suggesting there's a hydraulic / engine problem. You also don't hear the high pitched whine from the engines you'd expect if the plane were taking off normally.

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  • At least 200 people have died
  • The plane crashed into a doctor's hostel, injuring many people on the ground
  • One passenger survived, with injuries minor enough he was able to walk away
  • The plane was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

So, what matters to you is that theoretically a monarch in a constitutional monarchy still has some powers. And, somehow, that makes the system worse than the US, where theoretically a president doesn't have those powers. And yet, the actual president is actually doing things that a king would never be allowed to do?

Obviously "presidency" is not compatible with a free society, so what are you on about?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Can you explain the difference between understanding the question and generating the words that might logically follow?

I mean, it's pretty obvious. Take someone like Rowan Atkinson whose death has been misreported multiple times. If you ask a computer system "Is Rowan Atkinson Dead?" you want it to understand the question and give you a yes/no response based on actual facts in its database. A well designed program would know to prioritize recent reports as being more authoritative than older ones. It would know which sources to trust, and which not to trust.

An LLM will just generate text that is statistically likely to follow the question. Because there have been many hoaxes about his death, it might use that as a basis and generate a response indicating he's dead. But, because those hoaxes have also been debunked many times, it might use that as a basis instead and generate a response indicating that he's alive.

So, if he really did just die and it was reported in reliable fact-checked news sources, the LLM might say "No, Rowan Atkinson is alive, his death was reported via a viral video, but that video was a hoax."

but why should we assume that shows some lack of understanding

Because we know what "understanding" is, and that it isn't simply finding words that are likely to appear following the chain of words up to that point.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

then continue to shill it for use cases it wasn't made for either

The only thing it was made for is "spicy autocomplete".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

If you've ever heard Germans try to pronounce "squirrel", it's hilarious. I've known many extremely bilingual Germans who couldn't pronounce it at all. It came out sounding roughly like "squall", or they'd over-pronounce the "r" and it would be "squi-rall"

[-] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, the so-called "lawful access" parts of Bill C-2 are especially bad. Here's constitutional law professor Michael Geist's take on it:

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/privacy-at-risk-government-buries-lawful-access-provisions-in-new-border-bill/

"the bill creates a new “information demand” for law enforcement that does not require court oversight."

In other words, if Bill C-2 passes, the police are allowed to demand information from an ISP about someone without a warrant, and it's illegal for the ISP to refuse that demand. There's no oversight mechanism of any kind, and the only requirement is that the cop has a hunch that maybe a crime might be committed. What crime? Any crime.

Know what's a crime? Lying to a cop. So, if a cop has a reasonable suspicion that you lied to them, or will lie to them in the future, that's legal grounds for them to get access to this data from a service provider. You know that every cop going through a divorce will be using this to get info on their spouses. Why not? It's perfectly legal.

Why are these so-called "lawful access" provisions being considered? It's a sore spot with the US that Canadians have a bit more privacy than Americans. And, for some reason, despite the US being incredibly hostile, the government still wants to work on that relationship by giving away Canadians' rights.

So-called "lawful access" is a terrible idea. The supreme court already decided that Canadians have a right to privacy and that giving away this data violates that privacy. These rights shouldn't be given away for any reason, but especially not to curry favour with the US, given that the US is already violating their treaties with Canada. But, even if someone might disagree and think "lawful access" is necessary, give it its own bill. Don't tack it onto a bill about the border. This has nothing to do with the border, and it's an important enough discussion that it shouldn't be hidden in a border bill.

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| | Bruce Fanjoy | Liberal | 27,220 | 50.4 | | Pierre Poilievre | Conservative | 24,927 | 46.1|

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Stocks have almost returned to where they were 5 days ago after his latest change to the tariffs.

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I need some new earbuds, and live in a place with severe winters. I want to be able to access the controls using gloves or mittens if possible.

The online reviews I've seen all assume that you can just touch the earbuds with bare hands, but when it's well below freezing, that sometimes isn't possible. If I have to take off a mitt to use my earbuds my hand might not warm up until I can get back indoors again. Earbuds that work with touchscreen-capable gloves aren't good enough either. I've never seen touchscreen-capable gloves that keep your hands warm at -40C.

Any suggestions?

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First time home buyers will not be charged GST (5%) when buying a home, as long as the place they're buying costs less than $1M. This means that people buying a home for the first time will save up to $50k on their purchase.

Edit: Note, GST is mostly only charged when buying newly built homes, so this won't have any effect for people buying used homes.

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Currently the PM doesn't have a seat in the house. If he visited the house, he'd have to go to the visitor's gallery.

It's an interesting situation. The PM is the leader of the federal liberal party, but he's not a member of parliament. But, does he need to be? Is the PM sitting in the house of commons just a tradition that nobody has challenged yet? Could the PM delegate things inside the house of commons to their deputy-PM and then do things like give speeches, attend diplomatic functions, etc.?

The US has a very different system where the president isn't part of the legislative branch at all. But, typically presidents don't twiddle their thumbs waiting for something to do. Being the head of state keeps most presidents busy. It makes me wonder if technically Carney could choose not to run for office, and just spend his time doing head-of-state things rather than legislative things.

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"Sports Interactive regret to inform that, following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25 and shift our focus to the next release."

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This sounds like a disaster.

For those who don't know, Football Manager has a yearly release schedule, and the highlight of the release is that it has a database of nearly every professional player in the world, the club they play for, and an attempt to "scout" them, giving all their various attributes from passing ability, to height and weight, to their determination.

By releasing in March 2025, they're going to release the game essentially at the end of the 2024/2025 season right before players start moving to new clubs and the database becomes obsolete. Typically, around March is when they're giving deep discounts on the yearly release because they know there won't be much remaining interest in playing a game that's almost out of date.

They really shot themselves in the foot. They could have released a Football Manager 25 that was 100% FM 24 but with an updated database, they've done it before. They could have called "Football Manager 25" something like "Football Manager Next Gen" and not tied themselves to a certain season. And, if they do manage to get Football Manager 25 out in March, are they really going to be able to do FM 26 half a year later? Will anybody buy FM 25 if they know there's a FM 26 coming out so soon?

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It's amazing to me that they can even measure a 0.01 XG shot. This comes from James Benge's twitter account.

The XG graph is also interesting. Tottenham has a continuous stream of very low quality shots, resulting in the graph going up in tiny increments. Arsenal has a series of decent chances near minute 17, and then the one high-quality shot resulting in Gabriel's goal.

Arsenal vs. Tottenham XG graph

https://understat.com/match/26640

I'm sure part of it is Arsenal defending in a low block after scoring. But, it also smacks of desperation on Tottenham's part. If you're taking a shot that has a 1% chance of going in, rather than passing and waiting for a better opportunity, you don't believe that you're going to get a better opportunity.

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Maybe the "great" America that Donald wants to take us back to is the 1860s?

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