Take heart; you are slightly less fucked than Hezbollah

The brothers went to Syria to train and attempt to fight in Iraq against the Americans. They stated their motivation was the abuse carried out at Abu Ghraib by the Americans.

Then they trained in Yemen

They were eventually assoiated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula

They expressed a desire to kill Jews, Chérif Kouachi specifically stating that he wanted to firebomb Jews

Targetting Jews is what their accomplice, Amedy Coulibaly, actually did attacking a Jewish supermarket

Kouachi stated his motivation was “avenging the prophet Muhammad” and retaliating against the “killing women and children in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan”

Jews, America, a media company. Not the French state. They have never cited Algeria as their motivation. You really shouldn’t be erasing their identity and narrative and substituting your own. That’s quite colonial of you…

sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercacher_kosher_supermarket_siege

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/13/world/kouachi-brothers-radicalization/index.html

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/from-orphans-to-terrorists-journey-of-the-kouachi-brothers-1.114610

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/former-teacher-of-kouachi-brothers-says-they-were-not-intelligent-enough-to-resist-extremism-9973318.html

Have you ever been stuck orbiting the earth with a ground crew watching your vitals?

Just a small thing… I must have played Civ II for hundreds and hundreds of hours as a kid. Then one day a large civilization in civil disorder had its capital taken and one half of the empire seceded as a brand new civilization. I yelped… one of those joyful wtaf moments…

Age of Aquarius - two birds with one stone?

The Kouachi brothers were Algerian

They were both French, born in Paris. Their parents were Algerian.

You’re not saying “but where are they really from” are you?..

:)

It’s been found. Adrian Thompson’s research from almost 30 years ago…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware

Yes! Exactly this thank you

For example, one group of gates has no logical connection to the rest of the circuit, yet is crucial to its function

(I should have gone with my gut, I knew it was ages ago. 30ish years by the sound of it!)

Maybe, but remember generative AI isn’t any kind of deductive or methodical reasoning. It’s literally “mash up the publicly available info and give a crowd sourced version of what to add next”. This works for art because this kind of random harmony appeals to us asthetically and art is an area where people seek fewer constraints. But when you’re engineering it’s the opposite. Maybe it’s useful to get engineers out of a rut and imagine new possibilities. But that’s it. Generative AI has no idea if what’s it’s smushed together is garbage or randomly insightful.

It makes a break from the AI slop usually dished up but yes I agree with you

I remember this too, it was years and years ago (I almost want to say 2010-2015). Can’t find anything searching for it

Read the article, it’s still ‘dreaming’ and spewing garbage, it’s just that in some iterations it’s gotten lucky. “Human oversight needed” they say. The AI has no idea what it’s doing.

Not money, power. There’ll always be affordable consumables: clothes, food etc. It’s just the quality will go down to accommodate how squeezed the consumer is. But the limited resources: a stay at that resort, a home with space and good schools, the seats at the sports game etc those the prices will continue to race away. Which is just a different view of power (choice/control) shifting into the hands of an increasingly small proportion of people. Those places will still be full - but the chance of getting to them for the average person will grow dimmer with every passing year.

bruh…

How can someone not value the ingenuity and creativity behind a work of art?

Their point of view is that if people do actually value this then there will always be a market for it.

If they don’t, there won’t.

I suppose a long time ago the radio and gramophone looked like they’d been the end of live performing musicians but they still exist, everything’s just continually changing…

I’m going to need class 101 on 411 as I’ve no idea what it is

For your info, this is known as ‘hand waving’

It’s not a very useful currency if deflation is making people hoard it…

I tend to enjoy being devil’s advocate on controversial subjects so I’d score a 9/10 fucked through sheer misinterpretation

♬ One of these things is not like the others… ♬