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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 26, 2025 at 7:30 am
(February 25, 2025 at 11:47 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: (February 25, 2025 at 9:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The politicization of our military is a terrible step. An apolitical military is a bulwark against autocracy.
An apolitical military can't survive the rise of an autocracy.
You're talking about the difference between the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS.
I'd keep an eye on whether they start passing kit to any of the 'militia groups'.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 26, 2025 at 7:52 am
AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
Quote:Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
Prof Bell said Apple's explanation of phonetic overlap did not make sense because the two words were not similar enough to confuse an artificial intelligence (AI) system.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 am
(February 26, 2025 at 7:52 am)Mr Greene Wrote: AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
Quote:Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
Prof Bell said Apple's explanation of phonetic overlap did not make sense because the two words were not similar enough to confuse an artificial intelligence (AI) system.
Guess my smart phone is smarter than I thought.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 26, 2025 at 8:56 am
Do you remember when they said how Democrats want to take away your guns?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 am
(February 26, 2025 at 7:52 am)Mr Greene Wrote: AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
Quote:Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
Prof Bell said Apple's explanation of phonetic overlap did not make sense because the two words were not similar enough to confuse an artificial intelligence (AI) system. At this point Skynet's looking so bad I mean at least America will fall to a cold calculating merciless engine of death rather then
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 27, 2025 at 4:57 pm
But he said he'd deport rapists and criminals, not import them.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 27, 2025 at 7:19 pm
This was absolute cringe to watch:
I mean the whole press conference was, but that in particular. First Trump's evasion, then Starmer's... I don't even know what to call it... overplaying his hand I guess, then Trump's comeback.
I mean I'm glad that they're at least superficially on the same side, but that seems about as far as it goes to me... there doesn't seem to be much in the way of real mutual respect there. I hope I'm wrong, but that's how it seemed. It did go better than I was expecting though, and I didn't envy Starmer's task in having to have that meeting, but he still really rubbed me up the wrong way in his approach to it.... just constantly bigging up the so-called special relationship between the US and UK, which I doubt very much exists any more despite what they superficially said here. I was really hoping this would be a turning point for me on Starmer, but sadly it wasn't.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 am
^^^ Sorry about that, I was just sounding off in frustration. I know there's much more important things at stake than just how they interacted together (social and power dynamics, flattery, body language etc... all of which Trump came out on top IMO)... like any actual concrete returns from that meeting. Not many it seems... a vague promise of having our backs and of a favourable trade deal... but all very vague and non-commital. Still, it feels at least a little bit promising.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 28, 2025 at 4:42 pm
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WTF Was that with the President of Ukraine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6_mZbrbm9g
^ "The United States is now an unfaithful and unreliable ally."
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 28, 2025 at 4:53 pm
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From what I saw Trump was saying how grateful Zelensky should be for 'murican help, he also said that Zelensky thinks that Putin is a bad man. Well seeing that Putin ordered the bombing of schools and hospitals I think that would be reasonable opinion to have! I turned into a rant about how wonderful America was and that Zelensky was being very rude to say otherwise, while all the time talking over Zelensky and not letting him finish a sentence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cdel2npwe50o
Update, Trump has now cancelled the talks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yngNLkx0H-I
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