An important characteristic of a model is “stability.” Stability means that small changes in input produce small changes in output.

Stability is important for predictability. For instance, suppose you want to make a customer support portal. You add a bot hoping that it will guide the user to the desired workflow. You test the bot by asking it a bunch of variations of questions, probably with some RLHF. But then when it goes to production, people will start asking it variations of questions that you didn’t test (guaranteed). What you want ideally, is that it will map the variants to the best workflow that matches what the customer wants. Second best would be to say “I don’t know.” But what we have are bots who will just generate some crazy off-the-wall crap, and no way to prevent it.

core of US power projection and intelligence gathering

This is what Biden and probably other Washington ghouls think but if Israel is “projecting” American power then to what end? Meaning, what US interests are served? Cheaper oil? That’s our relationship with SA which is potentially hurt by Israel’s behavior (Israel, importantly, has no oil, we’d be better off normalizing with Iran). US bases? We don’t have any bases in Israel, that would be Turkey, Bahrain, etc. Do you think Israel ever considers US interests before acting? If they did historically they definitely do not under Netanyahu.

With regards to intelligence, I am sure that when intelligence is shared it’s done so to craft a narrative that Tel Aviv wants Washington to believe. Also mossad is the most pervasive, aggressive, and successful spy agency in Washington. The flow of information is heavily one-sided.

Several theories:

1. Epstein was mossad. There are a lot of tapes with a lot of people.

2. Lots of Zionist billionaires: America is a plutocracy that acts on their behalf

3. Some sort of “great game” calculus of keeping a client state for regional instability (Biden apparently believes this based on old speeches)

4. Biden in particular has a melted brain. Many people have pointed out that Reagan was tougher on Israel than Biden has been. Reagan would set red lines and then say “you will comply.”

History has misjudged Jeffery Sachs according to… Jeffery Sachs!

Let’s be real, he’s the main guy pushing the “NATO expansion” theory of Russian aggression everywhere, and it exists mainly to cover for his own crimes.

What’s more likely: that Russian revanchism came from anger over some arcane treaty negotiations, or that it came from the absolute collapse in material condition, civil society, population, daily lived experience and life expectancy that Russians experienced as Sachs and his evil clients dismantled the once-great civilization for their own enrichment? What do you think Marx’s assessment of those two theories would be?

Sachs is a bag man. He helped the oligarchs destroy Russia and then he made himself useful to the new ruler when they were gone. He also spends a lot of time in Beijing and has a lot of good things to say about Xi as well. The guy’s a serpent.

Jeffrey Sachs

Lol. Neoliberal wrecking crew turned autocrat’s errand boy.

Yeah the best way to discourage a revanchist is to give him what he wants. Succeeding in Ukraine will definitely convince Putin not to attack the baltics, poland, or finland.

The proposal was submitted by the Russian Federation shortly after they attacked Ukraine, back when Russia was still claiming that “de-nazifying” Ukraine was the purpose of the invasion.

https://press.un.org/en/2022/gashc4365.doc.htm

Several delegates took to the floor to express concerns over Moscow’s attempt to exploit the pretext of combating neo-Nazism to justify its brutal war against Ukraine, with Ukraine’s delegate asserting that the draft has nothing in common with the genuine fight against Nazism and neo-Nazism. Echoing his concerns, the United Kingdom’s delegate stressed that the resolution is part of Moscow’s attempt to justify its aggression against Ukraine by furthering lies and distorting history.

The United States’ delegate called the resolution “a cynical attempt” of Moscow to further its geopolitical aims by invoking the Holocaust and Second World War. In the same vein, Australia’s delegate called Moscow’s weaponization of the Holocaust and Nazism unacceptable.

NGL kinda shocked that the CIA wasn’t involved with the Argentine junta.

EDIT: It was! Your map needs more red on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Argentine_coup_d’%C3%A9tat

The Cuban refugees were mostly supporters of the Batista regime, owners of sugar plantations, etc.

I used to believe that the Cuba embargo is due to Cuban refugee vote in Florida.

But that doesn’t make sense anymore given that Florida is no longer a swing state. In fact it never really made sense since the demo that is very pro-embargo has always been solidly Republican and therefore unwinnable.

So what really explains the embargo? Quite frankly I think it’s banana republic foreign policy and wealthy people in the US not wanting there to be a successful socialist state. For instance, the recent energy crisis in Cuba is driven by the Biden administration sanctioning oil tankers who visit the island. Why on earth would the supposedly pro-Cuba democrats do that? Who asked them to do that? Who had the clout to make them do that? Some losers in Florida who were going to vote for Trump in a red state anyway?

Fun fact: Shifa hospital had tunnels under it because Israel built them when they occupied Gaza.

Japan got fed up with the US interfering with its trade

This is cracked. US embargoed exports of oil to Japan. Japan got most of its oil from the US. Japan decided to invade Indonesia (Dutch East Indies at the time) to get oil, but the US signaled that they’d be very cross if that happened so Japan decided to preemptively hit the US fleet and invade the then-US possession of the Philippines to open the way to DEI.

Neoliberals have discovered salami tactics to destroy social welfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang

Mozilla is going to kill it too. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsdmHepmqMNqWM0BmW2RHemnarYeQk0bk?feature=shared

You’re finally admitting that the Russian invasion is murder?

Unibodies do have a frame it’s just not a completely separate assembly like a ladder frame.

As others have said there are lots of places to jack a car. Nobody uses the flange on the rocker panels unless they’re trying to change a tire roadside with the emergency jack.

Yeah I refuse to pay a “convenience fee.” I’ll mail a f*ing check if they try to charge me.

Corporate gaslighting be like:

They would have had to build that infrastructure. I’m not saying fundraising is easy. But it’s possible as proven by wikipedia. They could have cut Google loose 10 years ago and said "we’re going to use our runway to try to put together a wikimedia foundation style fundraising operation. I don’t think they can do it now because the trust, goodwill and quite frankly, userbase is gone.