And yet…

Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?

Imagine being the most boring guy in the Republic and still being remembered for this kind of sentences.

You’re making us root for a bloody Islamic dictature killing and torturing its own citizens, you absolute moron.

While Nim was in New York, Terrace believed he was learning sign language. But in reviewing the data, Terrace came to a conclusion that surprised almost everyone involved: Nim, he said, was not using language at all. Terrace said that he changed his mind when watching videotapes of Nim (in his classroom). Language requires the use of sentences, and Nim didn’t use sentences. Though Nim recognized and used signs, Terrace said he did not initiate conversation. When Nim combined signs, they tended to be highly repetitive and filled with “wild cards”—words like ME, HUG, NIM, and MORE. For example, Nim’s longest utterance, 16 signs, was: “Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.” The videotapes, Terrace argued, proved that Nim mimicked his teachers and used signs strictly to get a reward, not unlike a dog or horse.

And he’s not just a talker! Remember when he ripped his opponents’ dicks off during the TV debate? Finally someone with some guts

Top translation and you’re super nice to have taken the time to write the original text.

However I don’t think the translation was necessary: everybody on lemmy obviously speaks flüssig German.

That world, that wonderful utopic world… we could weaponize it!

We also have state-funded, community-led, proximity kneecapping services.

Claude Lévi-Strauss theorised that human progress actually happens without a clear goal and doesn’t follow a straight line, but rather goes in leaps, changing direction…

See Race and History chap. 5

Surely these alpha brains were discussing this!

If you, an obviously barbaric and backwards race, don’t want to be hated by us elves (models of perfection), why are you so comically inferior? That doesn’t make sense.

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I don’t agree, they’re all different and deserve to be treated according to their specificities:

• couch fucking wannabe soldier, but scared of gunshots
• top-secret fumbler and self-pissing alcoholic
• Papa Nurgle but a version you don’t want to hug

Okay I was thinking about describing some of them with the war profiteering or corruption angle, but that applies to too many of them so maybe I’m wrong after all

Even by the diplomatic standards of Lavrov, who is usually absolutely unhinged when it comes to logic and morals, this is completely bonkers. Well done, I can’t wrap my brain around this fuckery!

• Ethical issue: products of the mind are what makes us humans. If we delegate art, intellectual works, creative labour, what’s left of us?
• Socio-economic issue: if we lose labour to AI, surely the value produced automatically will be redistributed to the ones who need it most? (Yeah we know the answer to this one)
• Cultural issue: AIs are appropriating intellectual works and virtually transferring their usufruct to bloody billionaires

If yer bullit 'av a 1% chanz to hit da targit, den 100 bullitz 'av a 100% chanz to hit da targit

- Pythagork