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New comment by bluealienpie in "Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership"

bluealienpie — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:38:44 +0000

Agree on tabloids in general but this is widely reported https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/19/luca-guadagnino...

New comment by bluealienpie in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

bluealienpie — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:16:12 +0000

Google summaries from websites mainly did this before “AI” came around. Now I just don’t know the source unless I dig myself. Would rather it went back to before, or at least they implemented the veracity checks better.

I thought it was interested that the movie looper had argidrones, but what inspired that wasn’t part of the training set or discussion online. I get remarkably bad answers and search results which seem misleading at best.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

bluealienpie — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:23:04 +0000

Fundamentally the issue is that visa requirements are restrictive creating concentrated demand for labor. There are countries with higher paying jobs that can done online, but every position doesn't just shift overseas. We put the onus on the individual to stop illegal activity, but it’s the business owners that hire and sustain this kind of employment. A high minimum wage would negate the need and desire for irregular migration. It would also provide good paying jobs for migrants who could afford to live in the country.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

bluealienpie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:28:19 +0000

The purpose is support enterprises which have investment in genocide, the free speech nature of this website was always questionable at best.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

bluealienpie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:26:23 +0000

They also committed genocide as well. Surprising that even after Israeli human rights organizations acknowledge it, it still remains stuck in the mind of capitalists to support profit at any cost.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

bluealienpie — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:57:44 +0000

And if you pay taxes and social security for 20+ years why wouldn’t you be entitled to it? Especially considering you wouldn’t be using expensive programs like Medicare.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

bluealienpie — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:53:34 +0000

I think the difference between a targeting a specific piece of military hardware compared to training an AI model to target humans and infrastructure is quite different. This explains why drones that get misdirected will target oil infrastructure in friendly countries.

New comment by bluealienpie in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

bluealienpie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:09:01 +0000

Universities administrators, yes. Funding for basic research, no.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

bluealienpie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:27:54 +0000

To Kill A Mockingbird may have a slight disagreement with your analysis.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

bluealienpie — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:50:53 +0000

We argued that AI would free us to explore the arts. Instead it first came for written language and images. So what's left when it can write all the programs, drive all the cars, and AI sensors on farms can monitor and distribute nutrients. I remember watching TED Talks about how AI weapons need to be carefully studied, and instead we see them autonomously picking targets. I'm not seeing any higher values, instead I'm seeing how we're on a path to assured destruction.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

bluealienpie — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:07:21 +0000

Sadly, I think you need to look at opinions outside where you live. I thought that a 6 foot 2 man smacking his child to ground so hard she couldn't hear would be a crime. Only to be told that it was only a crime if he closed his fist in Florida.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

bluealienpie — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:19:48 +0000

There is a concrete numbers of dollars needed to functionally demine Cambodia, and it's in the low billions of dollars. They have highly effective teams, and you can directly contribute by visiting museum. https://www.cambodialandminemuseum.org/

New comment by bluealienpie in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

bluealienpie — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:48:46 +0000

Nor the hundreds of thousands murder by Israel in a genocide, which is why his strategic analysis doesn't see the gulf states are at risk of collapse if they engage Iran on what is perceived to be on Israel's behalf.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

bluealienpie — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:47:00 +0000

It was never about nuclear weapons, Netanyahu has been saying Iran was one week away for over 30 years. Europe goes along as an excuse to support politically unpopular war to maintain US support for Ukraine.

New comment by bluealienpie in "'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon"

bluealienpie — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:00:54 +0000

America has never been concerned about anything other than America. They literally couldn't care less that they have threaten to take over Canada... Potentially Greenland and Panama militarily.

New comment by bluealienpie in "How the US got left behind in the electric car race"

bluealienpie — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:11:04 +0000

Too much of the debate is taken up by regulations are good vs bad. The focus should be on drafting regulations that make sense. The US doesn't allow small trucks due to EPA classification so didn't make any until this recent crop of EVs started popping up.

RE China: They also make the cheapest and best qualities Telsa which are shipped around the world. They can make the best and worst quality depending on your price point.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Engineer restores pay phones for free public use"

bluealienpie — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:15:35 +0000

You could get a tourist SIM and do the same? Cellphones don't have some perfect identification system.

New comment by bluealienpie in "4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program"

bluealienpie — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:45:57 +0000

Probably the creation of techno-fascist state, or at least the desire to have one as outlined by Thiel and co. The excessive deference that all tech companies have had towards elected leaders instead of striving for independence under the law, and now they strive to co-opt government to achieve their goals.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

bluealienpie — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:32:01 +0000

I'd prefer having consent of when and where my data is used.

New comment by bluealienpie in "OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract"

bluealienpie — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:56:27 +0000

That's the rational response.