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When you think the USA election campaign can't go worse, Steve Bannon gets out of jail... Who's writing the script ?
ElPoco
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Some mobile games with in-app purchases target "whales": players who'll spend fortunes in the game (hundred to thousands of dollars aren't uncommon).
Mobile games are also big in some countries (especially asian countries) where a lot of people won't have a computer/console but will have a smartphone, making the phone their only gaming device.
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While true, personally I think the whales are just being abused. But they're the main source of income, so they'll continue doing it.
True, mobile phone enable many people to game. But the platform itself enables many people, including casual gamers, to game.
A PC is also generic like that, unlike consoles like the Playstation, but many people purchase them only for a specific purpose which can be gaming.
You can play (stream) Xbox games on your phone to, if you have a controller available. The limited amount of controls limits somewhat the gaming experience, enabling 'simpler' games.
They game, but probably they play casually.
We'll there is certainly bias in who ends up in jail.
But if you would have made a movie 10 years ago of everything happening now, you would get comments like: "This is too unrealistic, no one will believe this stuff would happen. Tone it down". It's crazy.
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Djoga'Ro
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I've just had ChatGTP tell me about the latest advances in micro-LED production techniques - wanna have a better idea, though very rough, how long the wait's still gonna be. After the news, I prompted
and Ol' Chatty responded
I wonder, how my collegues will like the effects of my customization instruction
And no, that ", Dude, Sir" thingy is not an effect of that. That was instructed by my boss.
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It doesn't try that. It just guesses the next word, word for word, based on probabilities, which themselves are based on the training data. And after that baseline instruction, overall, the probability for phrasings like that is hightened. Though it still vanishes most of the times, when it's about technical stuff and/or what you wanted in the current prompt is more complicated. I guess in technical context it is just very unlikely to find such speech patterns and thus ... .
And I love, when it talks like that. Makes me lol. Especially, when I looked at a chat that an unassuming collegue had, which was technical but simple enough so my instruction came through in full. I laughed so hard.
And I love, when it talks like that. Makes me lol. Especially, when I looked at a chat that an unassuming collegue had, which was technical but simple enough so my instruction came through in full. I laughed so hard.
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Trying to predict the future news headlines:
- "Chaos in cities after US presidential results" (doesn't really matter who wins the election, anyway the results will be disputed and dragged out for a while I guess).
- "Iran attacks Israel, again"
- "Russia strikes Ukraine, again"
- "Chaos in cities after US presidential results" (doesn't really matter who wins the election, anyway the results will be disputed and dragged out for a while I guess).
- "Iran attacks Israel, again"
- "Russia strikes Ukraine, again"
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Seems like the USA is now again on the Controll of this Old Orange Men ..
And this Country got an Weapon Law where everyone is allowed to own a Gun ..
And this Country got an Weapon Law where everyone is allowed to own a Gun ..
Yes, everybody says so, so it seems true, apparently both by popular votes and binding electoral votes.Seems like the USA is now again on the Controll of this Old Orange Men ..
I don't fully understand how it works (but I don't deny the result, just feeling like showing my ignorance, some years I've read up on it, but then I forget again...):
- it's weird to me that the results are given by the press, no official agency (I guess official results come from official sources, but much later, like 1 or 2 months later)
- I don't understand why some media tells the winner before others (I mean, there's no longer any point in surveys, is there?)
- I don't know why news sources agree to give some states to Harris or some to Trump when there's still quite a lot of uncounted vote and the difference between candidates is smaller than the uncounted vote. I'm not sure if it's some kind of forecast or the result of where the votes come from and the rules for districts within the state and so on.
- Not sure why they use that "winner takes it all" in most states.
- Not sure why people with more sexual partners should be given more rights to vote than others (It's like some dozen millions people vote, but then citizens of the so called swing states decide who's president - btw why do they have states specific for swingers? -)
- Not sure how it all goes with all the disputed votes that judges say should or should not be counted, in different decisions and appeals, before and after the election day....
- Not sure why all the analysts go crazy counting how many black men of Polish origin or descent with higher education between 40 and 65 years, wearing some color in their neck attire, living in prime numbered houses on the sunny slope of some downtown neighborhood and who are Methodists but some Sundays skip church to go fishing, who should obviously (?!) be voting Harris ended up (all?) voting Trump. I mean, who cares ? They picked up an absurd group of people, deduced nonsense and pointed out how interesting a different (just as nonsensical) outcome appears after the fact. Like "look ma, I do weird things with my spreadsheets, I must be smart!".
- Wondering why they put so much money in the campaigns if then sometimes the one with more money wins and some times the other does. Or why there are only two candidates (there're more, I guess nobody cares because of the winner takes it all thing there)
- Most of all, wondering why I should care and be so informed about it all, while not having a clue about Maltese or Costa Rican politics .
- And funny how most everyone in Europe is kind of pissed up, when it's nothing they can change, and then they make up excuses to look at the bright side, like this will be an incentive to unite Europe or some such.
Ils sont foux, ces romains !
I believe it's in their constitution, so like a law but still harder to change... But at least they don't like it when you bring your gun to the building where the laws and constitutions are made... So they're crazy but up to a point...
Wait! Most of them just voted someone who calls that a lovefest, didn't they ?
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Well, I take it as a barometer. The US may be and stay ahead in citizen stupidity, but aside from in education institutions the opinion forming mechanics and media are the same here and our (Germany) schools ain't that much better, today. So yeah, I would've looked more optimistic onto our next federal elections, had Trump been sent into the desert.
I thank you for your implied compliment, but I think we Europeans are stupid enough to vote fascists even if Harris had won. In fact it's already a trend and there was Biden in the USA.
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Call me a die-hard optimist, but I was hoping for a sign, that in the western world a significant part of the dumbasses might have woken up to reality by now - obviously not the original dumbasses, but maybe the more occassional ones. But no, it seems it's only gotten worse.
I don't know exactly, what to hope for now. That Trump goes full-on dictator tramples over the lower classes, who call him their Saviour and voted him in, for them then to understand and take up arms and throw him out the window and the rest of the world/Europe to think "Oh shit! We're not armed! We should think things through beforehand!"?
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