AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org
Toughbook fan, Mathematician and Locksmith with limited success in other areas.
Political stance is far right and far left. Proponent of First Aid Kits and PPE. Easily disheartened by big tech. Partially hinged personality and stubborn enough to not write this in the First Person.
Distrust of Psychology and a fan of satire. I love a good joke and contradict myself. Somewhat serious but easily distracted.
Joined Jan 2020
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It's a little weird to run into Norwegian-Americans. Yeah, there is something Norwegian there, but it's decades or centuries out of date. Perhaps most jarring is when they talk about their Norwegian ancestors and then their political opinions, which would receive a strong disagree from most contemporary Norwegians. It's often conservatives who focus on their ancestry, and well, the Nordic countries are not very conservative these days. A conservative Norwegian-American would hate it here.
@thor I met a Norwegian Engineer and his family in the US. He worked for an oil company and got sent to the deep south in the US. We were introduced and we had a conversation. We met numerous times and worked together for a few months.
From what I've seen and experienced in interactions with Norwegians, I have noticed a few things.
Norwegians are generally friendly but reserved even if they are reformed criminals.
Norwegians are observant because they don't have to think about what they will say. No filters on their statements.
Norwegians are cautious but not cowards.
Norwegians can adapt to our weather but it's difficult at first. 32C and up with relative humidity around 80%.
I think Norwegians are attracted to heavy equipment or it could have just been the Engineer who watched me work through a hurricane to clean up storm debris.
Norwegians in the US will usually adopt part of the culture. Chivalry isn't dead down here. The English we speak is very close to English from Shakespeare's time. They seem to admire the patriotic nature of Americans.
In nearly every situation that isn't a party or social, I'd rather have Norwegians. At a social event I would have Norwegians and a Swede.
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@freemo @lupyuen I don't see the problem except that it didn't specify if it was fission, fission-fusion or pure fusion.
Conventional energetic devices are just containers that fail to hold a chemical reaction.
There's even an argument that not knowing how to make a bomb is worse. For example a young agent finding a rental van with a lot of fertilizer and saying that it's fine exactly a year after setting a residence on fire and massacring a religious community.
Or making a funny tiktok where a glitter prank goes in an unexpected direction because they used aluminum powder.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." Alexander Pope
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@lupyuen I actually have no issue with AI or anything else instructing people on how to make bombs. Knowledge should never be illegal.
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BTW this is why I made that comment Scots need to toss their colonizers earlier today. The leadership wants to ban white people and take away freedom, and that’s 96% of the population. What else would you call that?
@thendrix Ireland's new friend?
@lupyuen It sounds like interrogation. Many of similar methods could possibly work too.
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"a Large Language Model (#LLM) can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen less-harmful questions first"
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/02/anthropic-researchers-wear-down-ai-ethics-with-repeated-questions/
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#AWS Deadline Cloud: "lets customers set up, deploy and scale up graphics and visual effects Rendering Pipelines on AWS Cloud" (OpenJD)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/02/aws-unveils-new-service-for-cloud-based-rendering-projects/
@thendrix It was for the railroads especially in the south. There was a time when we tried to keep trains from coming off the rails.
Kudzu League is also a thing.
@thendrix That's likely due to the area. The rest of the state has a different pride flag. It's not necessarily a symbol for domestic abuse and DUIs but some stereotypes exist for a reason.
It is however a flag that people died for after the Federalists betrayed their own country.
The old pride flag at least meant something. While being more inclusive might have been a good choice, it seems to have become a problem. Good people died for that rainbow flag and I don't see the inclusiveness doing anything but degrading the image.
Two very unpopular views. Honest opinions though.
@thendrix Yes the jealousy is real. Asian women just seem to be better in every way. Having a white woman say some feminist nonsense for holding the door, like a cultured gentleman in the south should, left me very confused. I did notice that the pasty white thing didn't have a problem walking through the open door.
Some are okay I suppose.
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They always hated Asians even more than white women as white women tend to join the cult and enjoy the abuse.
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Already getting pollen all over the place. Yellow tree sperm all over the place. I just pulled up a ton of tiny saplings this weekend. Pine trees can’t be stopped.
@thendrix Time to replace the air filters in the vehicles or wash the K&N along with getting the oil off all the sensors after it. I don't regret getting a K&N because I have to deal with a lot of dust. There is just the issue of washing it, letting it air dry, oiling it and letting it soak up the oil. That's like 4 hours.
The drop in replacements make the engine sound better. I can't say that it makes more power but it seems to. The Interior air filter is always a good one to replace as some of the sensors are susceptible to getting coated and failing. Those might require pulling the entire front interior of a vehicle to replace. The First Gen Fusions, Mercury something and Lincoln MKZ are bad about it. I've had to replace that 30 buck sensor on two occasions. There's no air filter on those and the AC refuses to work if it fails.
30 dollar part with around 500 in labor. Yep tree cum time means time to replace all the air filters. Pine pollen is too large to cause allergies but the perfect size to clog an air filter. The South without AC isn't fun unless it's an old pickup or car with the air vents near the window.
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All this green stuff is coming out the trees!
Maple trees finally getting green leaves while the red tips and seeds are out. Got some black cherries or something with long white flowers too. However I noticed some purple kudzu flowers from neighbor’s… do they not own a flamethrower?
Toughbook fan, Mathematician and Locksmith with limited success in other areas.
Political stance is far right and far left. Proponent of First Aid Kits and PPE. Easily disheartened by big tech. Partially hinged personality and stubborn enough to not write this in the First Person.
Distrust of Psychology and a fan of satire. I love a good joke and contradict myself. Somewhat serious but easily distracted.
Joined Jan 2020
