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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Come on, it's not like she murdered someone rich.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28943365

Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head and torso faced opposite directions.

This violent death upset Mangi, who had already unearthed children’s bodies. The number of bodies kept rising in this community off Kenya’s coastline where extremist evangelical leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of instructing his followers to starve to death for the opportunity to meet Jesus.

In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, at least 436 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest some 70 kilometers (40 miles) inland from the coastal town of Malindi. Seventeen months later, many in the area are still shaken by what happened despite repeated warnings about the church’s leader.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

In the short term. In the long term they'll be better off. But apparently the long term doesn't matter to them when there are short-term gains to be had.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sabine Hossenfelder just released a video confirming that the paper is total nonsense:

https://youtu.be/Yk_NjIPaZk4?si=dasxM2Py-s654djW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It has been pretty unproblematic on two of my devices (a mini PC with integrated AMD graphics and a laptop with integrated Intel graphics). On the third (a desktop with NVIDIA graphics), I had an issue with Firefox's window flashing while I typed, so I had to switch that one back to X11.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

But it’s glitchy, the numbers don’t work, and you’ll notice the player never looks behind them. 

I watched the video and there are two scenes where the player turns to look directly back where they just came from.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Entirely coincidentally, this was also the view of the Nazis. And also entirely coincidentally, Trump used to keep a book of Hitler's speeches by his bedside.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I looked a little more closely at the paper and I'm no theoretical physicist but some of this looks pretty dubious on the surface. I don't know but it might just be nonsense.

For example:

The masses of electrons, muons, and tau can be explained by the different curvatures of universe, galaxy, and solar system, respectively.

Also, a search for some of the authors reveals that they publish on what seems like an odd range of topics, from materials science, through medicine and machine learning, to theoretical physics:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Pobporn-Danvirutai/5893053

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Chavis-Srichan/48952334

 

Edit: The paper is total nonsense. Sorry for wasting people's time.

https://youtu.be/Yk_NjIPaZk4?si=dasxM2Py-s654djW

 

Edit: The paper is total nonsense. Sorry for wasting people's time.

https://youtu.be/Yk_NjIPaZk4?si=dasxM2Py-s654djW

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it works like most AI ad engines, it will keep advertising more of the same Ford car you just bought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

As I understand it, that project spanned several planned generations of chips and this was to be the first of them. So yes, this is part of the cancellation of his whole project.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

overnight there's now hundreds to thousands of people who want to drag you out of your home and lynch you in the street, all because you "committed" the "crime" of being born.

I didn't follow this bit. Who are the hundreds of thousands of people calling for the great grandchildren of Nazi war criminals to be dragged out of their homes and lynched?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not so much that they voted him in, as that they didn't bother to vote him out. Turnout was 43.53% in the last election.

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