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damnitbuildson Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx

Fact: I have never dated a single one of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover models.

Not one.

Gives me goosebumps just to think about it.

damnitbuildson Modeling the US-Europe Paradox

"In 2024 alone, roughly 4.2 million people immigrated to the EU from non-EU countries"

Are those immigrants a net cost to the European economy ?

Would the cumulative effect of paying for those immigrants account for lower European productivity ?

Genuine questions. Happy for "no" to be proved to be the answer.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

damnitbuildson How the Blitz enhanced London's economy

So the blitz "enhanced" London's economy by destroying beautiful old buildings so they could be replaced with modern office blocks ?

And to think people call Economics the dismal science.

damnitbuildson Google settles racial discrimination lawsuit for $50M

We need to know the details.

Was this one racist HR person, or racist management who made racist rules, or what ?

damnitbuildson Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone

So, will you bow to your elder (me) or leave the chat ?

damnitbuildson Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone

All this makes for an interesting read and viewing but I fear an awful lot of it is anthropomorphism and pseudo (social) science.

damnitbuildson Iran's two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime

No, the US was bombing the Islamic bastards who are murderously oppressing those people, and those people are calling for those attacks to restart so they can be freed from inhuman Islamic laws.

damnitbuildson Iran's two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime

Be angry - incompetent journalism is a danger to us all.

damnitbuildson Iran's two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime

An Iranian citizen probably ran out of toothpaste this morning and was angry about that.

So now, in your view, that mean "three things are true here" ?

NO.

Because some things, like state murder, so much more important than other things, like internet access and toothpaste, that it is sheer incompetence to put one in a headline and ignore the other.

damnitbuildson Iran's two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime

Really, CNN ?

The regime is murdering people in the streets, executing women for showing hair and executing doctors for treating their victims, but CNN thinks the people are angry because of two-tier internet ?

Who writes this rubbish ?

damnitbuildson Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare – Benn Jordan [video]

Do we know if any human has ever been deliberately attacked and killed by an autonomous AI, such as an armed drone or security robot ?

I believe none of the drones and robot vehicles used to kill people in Ukraine, for example, are actually autonomous ?

damnitbuildson Organized Dogmatism Controls the Message about Gender Bias in the Academy

Yep, the bias is not the way they want you to think it is:

"National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4418903/

damnitbuildson Lython: Experimental Python compiler toolchain based on LLVM

I would love this and will play with it, but I fear lack of compatibility with the many, many Python libraries I need will make it effectively unusable for a long time.

damnitbuildson How long do we wait for new inventions?

"For each invention, I asked Claude Opus 4.7 how much earlier it could have been invented."

Oh dear.

damnitbuildson The locals don't know

Title: "The Locals Don't Know"

First line: "My best piece of travel advice is to avoid doing what the locals do."

The writer seems incapable of distinguishing between the special, cool local things the locals KNOW about, and which a tourist might well benefit from trying, and the things locals DO because they don't do those special, cool things every day. Instead locals are usually doing similar things to what we normally do.

Which renders this article rather pointless.

damnitbuildson Internet Archive Switzerland

"Its efforts will initially focus on [...] and collecting the generative AI wave that is currently upon us all."

Why would they want to collect the AI wave ?!

But about time the Internet Archive had a US-independent backup.

damnitbuildson Linux 7.1: Kicinski Called It 'LLM-Pocalypse.' Then Deleted 138,000 Lines

Non-paywalled link ?

damnitbuildson German tourist wins payout after losing sun lounger race

Ob.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIJqF8av6I

damnitbuildson ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce

I think gadget manufacturers forcing their users to use overpriced cloud storage (for stuff people can easily store locally) is like printer manufacturers forcing overpriced ink on us.

The manufacturers initially make so much from this enshittification of their product that they become dependent on the income from it, and their products are doomed to be shit forever.

damnitbuildson ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce

Too expensive, and that money not spent on its software.

damnitbuildson ReMarkable Paper Pure

damnitbuildson Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

Is that better or worse than invading Venezuela to rig a Polymarket bet ?

damnitbuildson Google founder Sergey Brin confronted Gavin Newsom then launched a political war

"So, Gerelyn, what first attracted you to the billionaire Sergey Brin ?"

damnitbuildson A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at 7x the speed of sound

"Speed of sound"

Come on Berger, you're better than that.

damnitbuildson How an oil refinery works

Very good.