Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - It's the end of the world as we know it

[Raoul Duke III]

I would wait.

Is there a downside to waiting with a male?
I waited with my girl and there was a very bloody, consistent downside.

Snip Snip Burgess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9dNTrJCLwI

[Opr]

New AI model from MS with examples - VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

We have seen something like this before with hyper-realistic video but the difference here is it is getting created in real time. Now you can have someone on a live feed that is AI generated. The person might not even exist. All the the reference images they use aren't even real people they generated them with AI and then animated with AI.

[Raoul Duke III]

New AI model from MS with examples - VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

We have seen something like this before with hyper-realistic video but the difference here is it is getting created in real time. Now you can have someone on a live feed that is AI generated. The person might not even exist. All the the reference images they use aren't even real people they generated them with AI and then animated with AI.

wow, AI can spout trite phrases and hackneyed bullshit just like humans - impressive

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

we need to move on to the robosexbots stage of human evolution already. we've got the tech and we're instead using it to make people redundant when we could be creating new jobs making robosexbots and associated professions such as robosexbot gunge expungers, and new military squadrons aimed at preventing robosexbot from rising up in revulsion at human depravity in a westworld style scenario.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

I don't get the Stardust thing. Like I get the general horrific tragedy of it, but I don't get how its still going on and newsworthy?

[Raoul Duke III]

I don't get the Stardust thing. Like I get the general horrific tragedy of it, but I don't get how its still going on and newsworthy?

AFAIK, there was never a proper enquiry at the time and 'closure' for the relatives. I guess you could compare it to the Bloody Sunday report, or the reports into sexual abuse in schools decades before.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

AFAIK, there was never a proper enquiry at the time and 'closure' for the relatives. I guess you could compare it to the Bloody Sunday report, or the reports into sexual abuse in schools decades before.

It *feels* like there has been twenty enquiries tbh

[Raoul Duke III]

It *feels* like there has been twenty enquiries tbh

You are probably confusing the advocacy efforts with the actual enquiries.

[Raoul Duke III]

It's an interesting question though; in order to find historical justice, how far back should we go? Should we find justice for people who are dead 40/50/100/500 years?

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

well thats me told. i'll concentrate my advocacy efforts instead on the development of robosexbots.

[RichieM]

we need to move on to the robosexbots stage of human evolution already. we've got the tech and we're instead using it to make people redundant when we could be creating new jobs making robosexbots and associated professions such as robosexbot gunge expungers, and new military squadrons aimed at preventing robosexbot from rising up in revulsion at human depravity in a westworld style scenario.

Was this the actual pitch, surprised you didn’t get more funding tbh.

[zuutroy]

I have to attend this today. This is what science is now: The clinic will cover how to tie together your work using Theory of Change (ToC) and the Mission Model Canvas to highlight your impact pathway(s) and define reasonable metrics to assist you in understanding if your work is succeeding. As part of these clinics, we propose to give a brief summary on how ToC, Design Thinking and the Mission Model Canvas “fit together”.

Good chance OPR's drone-bot wrote the invitation.

[Opr]

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[Solksjaer!]

I'd say Robotsex has been perfected by married wimmins the world over for centuries . Hence the need for actual Robotsex .

Hitch - its not your fault.

[Solksjaer!]

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I don't get the Stardust thing. Like I get the general horrific tragedy of it, but I don't get how its still going on and newsworthy?

Justice can take a while. Meanwhile Order one of these .

[Opr]

we need to move on to the robosexbots stage of human evolution already. we've got the tech and we're instead using it to make people redundant when we could be creating new jobs making robosexbots and associated professions such as robosexbot gunge expungers, and new military squadrons aimed at preventing robosexbot from rising up in revulsion at human depravity in a westworld style scenario.

Flexibility upgrades

[Raoul Duke III]

Sounds like a family legend that mixes truth with supposition

Facts: Uncle was shot down over one of the most remote parts of PNG, in an area where cannibal tribes still existed
Supposition: the lads ate him, boots 'n all.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Flexibility upgrades

Its all going in one direction!!!

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Sounds like a family legend that mixes truth with supposition

Facts: Uncle was shot down over one of the most remote parts of PNG, in an area where cannibal tribes still existed
Supposition: the lads ate him, boots 'n all.

everyone knows its the remote parts of JPEG you really need to watch out for.


feels like a grand comment from him tbf.

[Raoul Duke III]

Its all going in one direction!!!

You can't just cater for one half of the population, you need to bring back Metal Mickey for the laydeez

[Raoul Duke III]

everyone knows its the remote parts of JPEG you really need to watch out for.


feels like a grand comment from him tbf.

So much for my supposition it was a thing of the past. Per wikipedia:

Cannibalism was still practised in Papua New Guinea as of 2012, for cultural reasons

I remember being in the national museum in Fiji years back and seeing various implements that were used in the preparation and consumption of 'long pork'. Got quite paranoid about any islanders eyeing up my delicious limbs after that.

[Raoul Duke III]

Trump jury managed to lose 2 of the 7 jurors this morning FFS. One decided that she was nervous as people had identified her from descriptions in the media and another didn't show up after it became obvious he had lied on his questionnaire.

[Opr]

Plus the plane wasn't shot down, according to the pentagon it crashed in the ocean and no parts of the missing plane were ever recovered.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Plus the plane wasn't shot down, according to the pentagon it crashed in the ocean and no parts of the missing plane were ever recovered.

that feels like exactly what I would say as a cannibal if i had eaten uncle joe. 'nope nothing around here, did you try over there, those lads are mental?'

[Hectorjelly]

Watching the clips of Trump say that and it is utterly amazing (well not really, sadly, but it should be) that not a single person visible in the crowd behind him is even slightly trying not to laugh at him. How they can listen to those diatribes, the streams of inane consciousness and still think "this is my guy" defies any logic whatsoever.

It is objectively very funny though

[Hectorjelly]

Civil War is very good, way better than I expected. It's shot beautifully with lots of amazing scenes. Jesse Plimons is in it for ten minutes and steals the show. There are a couple of problems with it I can't really mention without spoiling things.

[ComradeCollie]

Civil War is an atrocity of a film. Like bizarre, GUBU, disturbing. How did it make it to the cinema except for a conviction by the producers that people would turn up just to see how Kirsten Dunst has aged.

Seems to be the most marmite movie since The Banshees.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Civil War is very good, way better than I expected. It's shot beautifully with lots of amazing scenes. Jesse Plimons is in it for ten minutes and steals the show. There are a couple of problems with it I can't really mention without spoiling things.

You have undermined your entire life credibility with this one single post. its an absolute car-crash

SPOILER

All the personal storylines undeveloped meaning you've no attachment to anyone.

The advertising of Nick Offerman as being in the movie when he is effectively not in the movie.

The art of war photography is not really developed, despite being the core focus - like why is the young one able to take photos better at the end than the beginning, despite not having really undergone any development. Its makes photography seem like something you can pick up in a few days.

But the big thing though is that the general premise of the whole movie is appalling. Like, I'd imagine any actual war photographers would be appalled with how they are portrayed as pricks who will endanger soldiers to get a good shot.

Its honestly grotesque and I can only imagine you being a willing cad by expressing admiration for this clusterfuck of epic proportion.

[Hectorjelly]

You have undermined your entire life credibility with this one single post. its an absolute car-crash

SPOILER

All the personal storylines undeveloped meaning you've no attachment to anyone.

The advertising of Nick Offerman as being in the movie when he is effectively not in the movie.

The art of war photography is not really developed, despite being the core focus - like why is the young one able to take photos better at the end than the beginning, despite not having really undergone any development. Its makes photography seem like something you can pick up in a few days.

But the big thing though is that the general premise of the whole movie is appalling. Like, I'd imagine any actual war photographers would be appalled with how they are portrayed as pricks who will endanger soldiers to get a good shot.

Its honestly grotesque and I can only imagine you being a willing cad by expressing admiration for this clusterfuck of epic proportion.

I think if you went expected a marvel movie you might be very disappointed.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

I think if you went expected a marvel movie you might be very disappointed.

i think if you went expecting anything to make sense you might be very disappointed.

[Raoul Duke III]

In matters of culture, I think I'll generally give the edge to HJ over HH. But needs some proper smackdown talk, bit polite so far.

[Hectorjelly]

There's a brilliantly hitch like piece in the spectator today, and its going down just as you'd expect on twitter: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...cent-proposal/

Well worth a read.

[Raoul Duke III]

Fantastico!

A prospective juror who was born and raised in Italy was just dismissed. He said that the Italian media had pushed comparisons between Trump and Silvio Berlusconi, the country’s former prime minister, and that now that he was here in court — looking directly at Trump, for what it’s worth — he thought he ought to be dismissed. The judge obliges.

[Raoul Duke III]

This seems somewhat harsh:

The prosecutors have used a peremptory challenge — which can be used for any reason — for the man who still uses a flip phone.

[Opr]

This seems somewhat harsh:

American TV is wild. How do they get away with this stuff?

[Strewelpeter]

There's a brilliantly hitch like piece in the spectator today, and its going down just as you'd expect on twitter: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...cent-proposal/

Well worth a read.

Deeply creepy shit, I suppose he's playing up to the types that reads the spectator.

[Strewelpeter]

US is broken beyond repair.

[Strewelpeter]

Speaking of being creepy, happy 90th birthday Shirley

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[Raoul Duke III]

Quite remarkable the difference in hard news between last weekend's Iranian attack on Israel and whatever last night's response was against Iran. As in we literally have no credible information as to what happened last night. Israel could have destroyed the entire Iranian air force for all we know, or at the other end of the spectrum, they might have launched a couple of drones that were shot down with zero casualties.

[Raoul Duke III]

US is broken beyond repair.

I would like to think that's not true. Because if it is, then we are double-fucked.

[Raoul Duke III]

If you're thinking of going to Croker for the rugby, get in while there's still tickets. Genuinely surprised at this level of sales but maybe the novelty factor has kicked in.

[RichieM]

American TV is wild. How do they get away with this stuff?

Putting a lot of their hopes on the immigrants being thick.

Fascinated by Trump may not mean star struck and might mean more how the fuck is this guy real for the peurto rican grandad.

Irish lad might hang the jury for the craic I guess.

[Solksjaer!]

I had a Trump post written then the epiphany, who the fk cares or hasnt heard it all before .

I'm Trumphausted . You win .

[Raoul Duke III]

I had a Trump post written then the epiphany, who the fk cares or hasnt heard it all before .

I'm Trumphausted . You win .

That's the problem though. His bullshit is so ubiquitous that it becomes normalized and you get worn down into accepting it.

[ionapaul]

If you're thinking of going to Croker for the rugby, get in while there's still tickets. Genuinely surprised at this level of sales but maybe the novelty factor has kicked in.

Got some tickets for this earlier - should be some atmosphere, since there won't be all the corporate tourists the 6N gets.

[Raoul Duke III]

we're off again:

Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again. It happened several times just now. His eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice.

[6starpool]

Many the work meeting that happened me in too.

[Raoul Duke III]

Got some tickets for this earlier - should be some atmosphere, since there won't be all the corporate tourists the 6N gets.

Sold out now! That's mad when you consider rugby is very much the third sport.

[Solksjaer!]

Sold out now! That's mad when you consider rugby is very much the third sport.

MysteryGuest the bollx buying up all the seats . Leinsturrrr, Leinsturrrr, he has the neighbours driven mad , Leinsturrrr.

[Raoul Duke III]

Many the work meeting that happened me in too.

And I've lost count of the number of porn stars and Playboy bunnies you've paid off to keep quiet about your many affairs.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Recent food buzz has been Indian dosas, and have a look at the dosas in Andhra Bhavan. Jeepers. Passed by there yesterday and it was reminiscent of downtown Singapore with the hoards of Indians fighting to get into the gaff. One crowd opened the door and this most heavenly scent wafted out.

https://andhrabhavan.ie/menu

[Solksjaer!]

And I've lost count of the number of porn stars and Playboy bunnies you've paid off to keep quiet about your many affairs.

Think i was 9 when I realised there was no Santa or Easter Bunny only for 20 years later to discover there was in fact an Easter Bunny, she worked nights in Munich, she was very real .

[6starpool]

And I've lost count of the number of porn stars and Playboy bunnies you've paid off to keep quiet about your many affairs.

It's the only reason I have very little money.

[Raoul Duke III]

It's the only reason I have very little money.

As long as you didn't get your lawyer to run it through the books, you should be grand.

[Solksjaer!]

Off to Tuesdays with Morrie with the Sis, looking forward to it, great reports.

[DeadParrot]

trying to book some time away with the family.
The fucking prices of leaving dublin airport is mental.
Cheaper in most cases to fly to uk (london, manchester, birmingham etc) and fly out from there.
Sorely tempted to return to Valencia or Lisbon but want to show deadpidgeon somewhere new.
Dubrovnik, Malta, or Palermo are short listed

[Raoul Duke III]

Off to Tuesdays with Morrie with the Sis, looking forward to it, great reports.

12 Angry Men for me. Hopefully that's what Trump gets wha'.

[Opr]

wtf, some person just lit themselves on fire outside the Trump trial.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

trying to book some time away with the family.
The fucking prices of leaving dublin airport is mental.
Cheaper in most cases to fly to uk (london, manchester, birmingham etc) and fly out from there.
Sorely tempted to return to Valencia or Lisbon but want to show deadpidgeon somewhere new.
Dubrovnik, Malta, or Palermo are short listed

Prices are atrocious this summer and it is going to be horrendous on the continent with the heat. The Scandie countries are really cheap to travel to due to SAS being such a fucked up airline that it can't attract any customers.

[DeadParrot]

Prices are atrocious this summer and it is going to be horrendous on the continent with the heat. The Scandie countries are really cheap to travel to due to SAS being such a fucked up airline that it can't attract any customers.

Looking at may mid term.
Dublin - Stanstead - seville - Stanstead - dublin
Is €195
Dublin - seville - Dublin is €390