The most "remorse" I remember him feeling was for killing Cassius' brother (whatever his name is), but then it felt more like he was just afraid of Cassius than feeling sorry. I wouldn't really have an issue with him murdering people left and right if it was played as the "you become the monsters you battle" trope, I don't know, it may be just that in the other books, I haven't read them. But I doubt it since

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler the author wasted it on the other "red" guy. ::: In the first book to me it came across as a simple power fantasy.

It left the same impression on me. A friend recommended it to me and he was insisting that I'd love this trilogy. Maybe it was this that set up a high expectation, but I didn't enjoy it very much. Actually I forced myself to finish the first book, I don't know if I will finish the trilogy. I felt like the main character was driven by the plot instead of driving the plot forward plus an occasional power fantasy moment. And most of his character development was hidden behind the book equivalent of the "training monrage". I saw a little change from the beginning of the game/competition (or whatever they called it in the book) forward.

I'm happy to say I have nothing in common with him

This thread went into eugenics stuff waaay too fast

"How to build a difference engine at home (2026 edition) "

When I was in high school we got to write an essay (or something like that, I don't remember anymore) on some topic I didn't have any opinions about, so I gave an empty sheet of paper with only my name on it. The teacher was really puzzled, an brought up this to me and my mom. She wondered why I didn't cheat and copy something from the internet like a lot of my classmates did actually. We already had smartphones, it was around 2012-2013. I didn't cheat because my parents taught me honesty, that was my answer to my teacher.

Guess what? I got the lowest possible grade (essentially I failed this exam). People who cheated, and she knew they cheated got higher grades. Not that I'm complaining, I got the grade I deserved in my opinion. I would like to note that I wasn't a lazy student or anything, it was this one time that I slipped up, and preferred to be honest about it.

What school taught me is that cheating will get you further than honesty. If you can't make it, fake it. This translated very well when I started working in a corporate environment.

Well, LLM spells awfully similar to MLM

As EU citizen is there any way I can fight this? I doubt contacting my country's representatives in the EU will help, considering the current political situation they can benefit more from this happening. Law enforcement is already known for abusing surveillance against political opponents, they are going to enjoy this.

Some day someone with a high military rank, in one of the nuclear armed countries (probably the US), will ask an AI play a song from youtube. Then an hour later the world will be in ashes. That's how the "Judgement day" is going to happen imo. Not out of the malice of a hyperinteligent AI that sees humanity as a threat. Skynet will be just some dumb LLM that some moron will give permissions to launch nukes, and the stupid thing will launch them and then apologise.

Using usage data to improve user experience and similarly worded sentences are in pretty much every apps "Terms of Service". They record what music I have listened to and compile playlist for me, so what? In similar manner navigation apps like Waze collect data about your driving habits to offer better routes.

It becomes an issue when:

1. They collect data irrelevant to the user experience or not connected in any way to the services the company provides.
2. They record activity for people who don't even have an account through third parties (looking at you Meta)
3. They scan every local network I connect to and collect detailed information (again... Meta)
4. They sell the data about what I listened and/or any other collected data to third parties
5. They use the data to train LLMs without my knowledge and approval, or opt me in by default and bury the option to opt out of this deep in the settings.

I haven't used Spotify for a long time, but I use YouTube. YouTube ticks most boxes of that list. I bet Waze do too, and Spotify maybe. That are for me the problematic areas we need to be discussing. Collecting data is not entirely bad. It is a good thing when that data is handled only in the user's interest, it's bad when it's being abused, which unfortunately is the norm rather than exception nowadays.

1. Good manners.
2. Staff here is not entitled to tips, they have to earn it, and in most cases just being polite to the clients is more than enough

Under high voltage the current still follows the path of least resistance even when it looks like it does not. What people don't think about is that resistance is not a constant and under strong enough electric field dielectric materials (isolators if you will) can loose their propeties. Strong enough field can rip electrons from elements causing ionisation. Other things such as temperature, mechanical stress, radiation also affect different materials.

So what high voltage changes is making it harder to resist, but charge will still follow least resistance and aim to go for the nearest lest resistance material if such is available.

PS: I have studied all of this in a different language so I may have mixed up some of the terminology in English

And for me right now that show is Farscape. I don't know if you can call it niche, but it certainly is not very well known where I live. And this show is frelling good. I love it! I love the story, I love the actors, I love all the costumes and puppets, the sets, the effects. It is better than most of the dren studios nowadays produce

They will just change it to something better, I think "Work makes you free" sounds good. /s

Joke aside, the US is leaning more and more into that Nazi shit and that's scary

Sure, but then how would I get my "personalised experience" while dicing onions? What about the assistant using cutting edge AI technology to tell me how to chop the carrots?

Knowing my YouTube feed it's most probable that I end up in one of those DIY videos where they tell me how everyone can make thing easily at home and then proceed to use their thousands of dollars worth of professional workshop machinery to show me how to make thing.

I wish I could do that and save so many electrical engineering student the confusion

As someone who used to work for an ISP I always used to hate it when people acted like it's the end of the world when there was an outage. I'm not saying this is you, but some people I guess imagine that things happen with a waving of a magic wand. Things brake, things need time to be fixed.

I don't know how your ISPs work, but in my experience the estimated time is usually way more than what they really need to fix it. They just do it in case things don't work out as expected. You will be way happier it they tell you they will fix it in 5 hours and actually manage to resolve it in 1 hour. Instead if they say its going to be an hour and then spend 5 hours fixing it you wouldn't like it as much.

Many people here say that people don't want to be targeted by cops but I don't feel like cops target colored cars specifically. At least where I live I feel like they target stereotypical vehicles, which would mean a combination of brand and model, color, tinted windows, any visible modding etc., and also the body style of the car. For example a gray roadster will have a higher chance to be targeted by the police than a yellow minivan. A modded car will always be stopped more than average.

So the way to not get targeted is to get a car that screams "mother/father of two in an unhappy marriage". Or go to the other extream and get whatever the mafia drives if you have the money. I have never seen a G-class Mercedes stopped by the police.