mozz

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Putin DID make him a colonel tho

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 11 months ago

What have you done?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. I'm taking the high side of the widely varying estimates of the Gulag population, which in the period of the 1940s range from 3.5 million to 17.6 million depending on who's doing the estimating.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

The Gulag at the peak housed about ~~7,500~~ (edit: 1,340) per 100k of the Soviet population.

(And yes, the US's 531 is still also an atrocity.)

Where did you get 329? I actually couldn't find any post-Kruschev numbers, but I know after privatization, Russia was pretty competitive with the US's dystopian nightmare.

Edit: I was way wrong about the size of the Gulag

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ha, that is fair. I was just poking fun at dessalines's habit of giving a free pass to any country that is openly mauling and torturing its citizens as long as they wear the right color hat. But yes, it is fully accurate that the US's prison system is an authoritarian nightmare that preys on its minority population without rest or mercy. And, comparing the US against countries which don't even make the claim of being "democratic" and finding it competitive with the worst of the open tyrannies is maybe fair.

Also, I just looked, and I don't think these numbers are accurate. I think they're straight-up ignoring some countries with millions of people, and I think the numbers are about 8 years out of date. The US incarceration rate has been falling back down to merely horrifying levels after the Stalinist peak it rose to after Reagan+Clinton teamed up to ruin the world.

US Incarceration Rate

List of Countries by Incarceration Rate

The majority of states in our land of wonderful freedoms are newly competitive with such beacons of hope as El Salvador, Rwanda, and Turkmenistan. The march of progress!

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

We could organize to get Trump some consequences for any number of the explicitly treasonous things he has done, without involving some third party in the potentially deadly consequences if they don’t want to become further involved than they are. Nothing was ever preventing that.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Spoken with the easy courage of someone whose family isn’t in the crosshairs

I agree with you that this should be a HUGE deal, but if the institutions who are the ones actually responsible for going after Trump are not going to act, why should this one guy be responsible to take a purely futile stand about it that might get him killed? I agree that he is not safe whatever he does, but amping up the conflict will make him less safe.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

100%

It’s often difficult to proceed with prosecution if the victim doesn’t want to move forward, but there’s no hard and fast rule. And, it is clearly above this guy’s pay grade to be single handedly tangling with a movement that might well kill him for the effort with no repercussions.

It is the army’s place to say “clearly this is a violation and we DGAF what the staffer in the ground thinks about it” in order to try to shield him from responsibility, and then do their 1,000% best to rake Trump and the people responsible over the fucking coals regardless. This is like institutionalism responsibility mechanics 101.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So then I said, Herr Thälmann, how important is nuance, in analyzing a political situation? How important is compromise with people even who don’t see eye to eye with you perfectly, politically?

And he said, ZERO. Just push for what you want. If it’s not perfect, it’s garbage; try to oppose it. Compromise is the obstacle to progress.

And I said wait. How can I hear you? I thought you died. In Buchenwald.

And from that point on, I heard nothing. Only silence.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 11 months ago

What an accidental unintentional result

 

Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing? This is new for me:

            povies.append({
                'tile': litte,
                're': ore,
                't_summary': put_summary,
                'urll': til_url
            })

"povies" is an attempt at "movies", and "tile" and "litte" are both attempts at "title". And so on. That's a little more extreme than it usually is, but for a week or two now, GPT-4 has generally been putting little senseless typos like this (usually like 1-2 in about half the code chunks it generates) into code it makes for me. Has anyone else seen this? Any explanation / way to make it stop doing this?

 

What I have learned:

  • Russia has already won the Ukraine war
  • Which NATO started
  • A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender
  • Also Ukraine was the world's main provider of CSAM
  • Also Ukraine is exploited by the West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else will finally be alright

It's literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over there agreeing with it. I'm genuinely confused by, who even are these people (what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people / confused Westerners / some other explanation.)

 
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/movies@lemmy.world
 

Okay so the explanation for "Under the Silver Lake" was so obvious (I thought) that I was waiting for the reveal, and then it never came, and then I looked up explanations online, and they also didn't arrive at the same explanation. So with significant spoilers in mind, here is my theory:

::: Spoilers

Sam is clearly the killer and an unreliable (insane) narrator. Everything in the movie is actually coherent and sensible (well... maybe except for the hobo king), except for scenes that are connected with some severe violence happening to someone who he's alone with, or scenes where he's by himself (figuring out some "hidden code" and deciding that it's leading him to some kind of breakthrough, or wandering around town aimlessly with weird shit happening to him). In no particular order:

  • He breaks into the rich guy's house, and it just happens that the guy fits perfectly in with Sam's conspiracy nonsense and also Sam has to kill him
  • Right after he gets the gun, when he goes skinny-dipping in the reservoir, the girl he's with mysteriously gets shot
  • He hangs out with Sarah, and then she disappears and her roommates all move out immediately and one of them attacks him and runs away when she sees him
  • He learns where the conspiracy guy lives, and then right after, the guy gets murdered and when he watches the video, what we're shown happening on the video is weird and semi-supernatural i.e. clearly not what happened in reality
  • He beats the shit out of those kids because they keyed his car, but later on, his car is clearly fine, i.e. not keyed after all
  • He walks up on the cult people and they talk conspiracy nonsense that fits perfectly with his delusions, and anyway long story short when he walks out they're all dead

Then on top of that, he's carrying dog treats around and in the middle of messing with Sarah's dog when he first meets her. The way the conspiracy reveals itself clearly isn't how it actually happened (it just so happens that the answer is in a Nintendo Power issue he just happens to have with him), this mind-blowingly secret bomb shelter clearly doesn't actually connect to a publicly accessible trapdoor in the back room in the grocery store or whatever, people don't actually start barking at him when they get mad at him. And so on. The guy is just out of his mind and we're seeing a mixture of what really happened and his delusions.

Oh and also he clearly gets excited from thinking about the death of the billionaire; the news story about the billionaire dying is one of the things he lays out for himself to whack off to.

The guy is a serial killer and about half the movie is just wacko stuff that's going on in his mind, and half is real. No? Am I the weird one here?

:::

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GUILTY ON 34 COUNTS (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/politics@beehaw.org
 

You crooked motherfucker

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