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If by "advancing against Russia" you mean that a bunch of countries were extremely eager to sign up when given the chance, then arguably its Russia's own fault that they felt the need to join a defense alliance so that their sovereignty would not be threatened in the future. And given that Ukraine has been invaded multiple times by Russia exactly because it does not have a NATO mutual defense guarantee, it sure looks like they had the right idea.

It might surprise you, but I do not actually get paid to post comments on Lemmy for living, so I am allowed to focus on the part of the argument that I think is strangest.

The author of that comment was free to reply in turn by something along the lines of, "Fine, then drop Ukraine from the list, because I don't need it to make my point." Instead, they doubled down that it belongs there.

Agreed. However, in fairness, if a person goes to the bathroom to poop then one probably will have forgotten by the time they left the room, but if instead a couple looks at each other meaningfully, excuses themselves for a bit, and then returns slightly flustered, then one will have a harder time forgetting.

As another example, if one sees a member of the attractive sex naked, then the first visceral emotional response will be to their sexiness and not to how efficiently their butt could be used for pooping.

So the analogy doesn't quite fit, and that explains why sex-adjacent things can trigger sex parts of the brain, even when this reaction is undesired, which I think was the point of the comic--not to make some kind of grand statement about the propriety of telling people that you are trying for a baby. (And really, in the end, it is just a dumb joke, and in my opinion the slobbering detracted from the humor value so it was not executed as well as it could have been.)

Or maybe... it is just a dumb joke?

I've seen this exact comic circulate on Lemmy before. I think it is mildly amusing because it has the dumb kind of humor that I like, but the slobbering kind of made it weird which detracted from the humor value.

Could you explain exactly how NATO and US imperialism led to Russia invading Ukraine?

Yeah, at that point they gave up on getting the emu to have the correct number of toes and decided to go ahead and ship it.

Look, all I am saying is that if you go out of your way to talk about how you are trying to have a baby and you are fairly attractive then my brain might file that information away for... later purposes.

There are a couple of approaches you can take, depending on your learning style.

The first is that you could start really easy by creating a 1d engine, and then once you've gotten that mastered keep adding more dimensions until you get to 3d.

The second is that you could skip all the way to creating a 4d engine, and once you've gotten that mastered just chip off one dimension and bam you now have a 3d engine.

Hey now, I will have you know that I am also addicted to video games!

That makes two personality traits.

Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.

I even have the perfect movie title: Out of Time

My favorite part is how this meme itself consists entirely of plain text plus a little styling.

If this is in response to the capture of Maduro specifically, then yes, you are overreacting. Trump seems to only be interested in being a bully picking on those weaker than him, which excludes nuclear powers.

You have got it backwards. The correct analogy would be if the Confederacy won the Civil War by conquering all of the states in the Union except for Rhode Island, but then later claimed that it was actually Rhode Island that was the separatist group and demanded that everyone in the world agree with this.

I wonder what the fine folk of the Phoronix comment section have to say about this!

Let's check out comment #2:

Does anyone still care, besides maybe Putin? [emphasis mine]

anarki2

I see...

The researchers in the academic field of machine learning who came up with LLMs are certainly aware of their limitations and are exploring other possibilities, but unfortunately what happened in industry is that people noticed that one particular approach was good enough to look impressive and then everyone jumped on that bandwagon.

By handwriting raw lambda calculus.

The impression that I got from this article is that even the author of imake feels the same way, and is only maintaining it out of consideration for legacy software still using it.

Who would have thought that there would be a context in which GNU Autoconf and Automake were considered the modern way to build software?

The word "mutiny" just means that an insurrection took place; it does not imply success or failure. A 1-person mutiny is still a mutiny, even if the odds of success are minimal.

Sure, but the point is that not all of the officers are necessarily mutineers themselves.