Bleys

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[–] Bleys@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)

Republicans: categorically awful on every single issue

Democrats: Not that

Babies: waaaah I want a competitive party that matches my opinions on every single issue

Find me one major party in the entire world that matches your personal ideals 100%. Spoiler: it doesn’t exist, unless you happen to be a king or dictator of an authoritarian state.

Two party systems means you have two parties with distinct ethics, and one party winning consistently means the country’s ethics will shift over time in the favor of that winning party. So keep spite voting against Democrats and see where that gets you.

Edit: you know why the Democrats are similar to Republicans on so many issues? Because Republicans keep winning elections.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Define win because I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean what you think it means.

The only tactic with “almost instant” results would be the US just nuking everything, which A. is definitely not a “win” by any definition, and B. is an insanely irresponsible assumption that there wouldn’t be substantial collateral damage and that’s if you were inhumane enough to ignore the lives of everyone living in the targeted countries to begin with.

Or somehow do you think the US could win a conventional war against three separate countries “almost instantly”, after it took 2 decades to make absolutely no lasting changes in Afghanistan? In which case just lol.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bring on the snacks

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Head end

And

Leg end

For those who are slow like me

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

DXY measures the US dollar against every other currency. So if the US dollar in isolation had a bunch of inflation (e.g. because the US government printed a ton of money), then that would be reflected in DXY.

But if every major currency printed a ton of money at the same time, then DXY would not change because it’s only relative to other currencies.

So it doesn’t calculate inflation directly, but it’s generally correlated with it.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

SPY is up 3% YTD while DXY (which measures the value of a dollar) is down 9% YTD. If you own shares of SPY, then you hold them in dollars, so the real change in value of your stock is [share price] x 1.03 x 0.91, which translates to being down over 6%.

BUT not only is your investment value down, if you live in the US you presumably get paid in dollars as well. Which means you’ve gotten a 9% pay cut since the start of the year.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are a lot of Walmart heirs, and even collectively I doubt they own enough shares to control the company at this point.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The underlying neural network tech is the same as what the best chess AIs (AlphaZero, Leela) use. The problem is, as you said, that ChatGPT is designed specifically as an LLM so it’s been optimized strictly to write semi-coherent text first, and then any problem solving beyond that is ancillary. Which should say a lot about how inconsistent ChatGPT is at solving problems, given that it’s not actually optimized for any specific use cases.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

And the other guy is way too thin to be Trump

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Canada sends its regards

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Hey bro I already know you aren’t succeeding in life, being this terminally mad online is definitely not the hallmark of someone whose got it figured out.

I was just trying to help you out. Looks like you’ll just have to keep suffering tho.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Bro every one of your recent comments is you being mad af. Maybe reflect on that.

Also the fact that your instinctive response to someone disagreeing with you is to immediately lob insults calling everyone else dumb makes you look insecure about your intelligence.

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