Go here: https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx For all entries just, Scroll down Click Submit Query You will see fatal accidents are pretty common. I think they have been getting more attention lately. It's the news cycle. Select Highest Injury Level = Fatal to just see fatal

Some more [image: 1741654933599-img_1480.jpg] [image: 1741654948377-img_1482.jpg] Consul General of Papua New Guinea. It is located as part of a company office. They were quite nice in there to me. Gave me all kinds of tourism information on the country. [image: 1741655009756-img_1484.jpg] Building where the Consul General is located. [image: 1741655046681-img_1485.jpg] [image: 1741655058203-img_1486.jpg] Embassy of India. Doing a lot of road construction on the road in front of the embassy. [image: 1741655090922-img_1492.jpg] [image: 1741655100291-img_1491.jpg] [image: 1741655108631-img_1489.jpg] Embassy of Sri Lanka. Also quite nice to me. Met a Sri Lanka guy there who was working in Thailand who needed to talk to the embassy. He liked to talk and told me a lot about the country. LOL [image: 1741655169577-img_1493.jpg] Building where Sri Lanka embassy is located. Also in the same building is Embassy of Israel. But there was ALOT of security for there, and I was kind of afraid to make up story to try to get to the Israel embassy. So, I kind of chicken out to go there. 555

@Axtremus 555

Rest assured that someone was doing the presidenting while Biden napped.

When I was a Reservist there was a meathead (military police) Master Warrant Officer who would drop by our section for coffee and routine gossip with our senior NCO’s. His civi street job, if you want call it that, was a prison guard at the maximum security prison block northwest of the city. He had zero sympathy for the inmates and maintained each and every last one would sooner slit one another’s throat than give them the time of day. He also said they loved to live in their filth out of choice. He also figured the gorilla cage at the Calgary Zoo was more a 1000 times more civilized than even the medium security bloc in the same institution he worked. He loved doing Reservist work because it offered a catharsis from his day job.

As for him, let him apply to enter legally (an option since voluntarily self deported). May his wait be short.

Someone said they rolled the software back to long ago versions and that you could see what people liked again.

@Horace said in Pick fights with allies, signal weakness to adversaries: Just indefensible to appoint that guy to anything. I read that this was actually Rubio's appointment. https://x.com/kfile/status/1899074764775231899?s=46

Next time I’m getting my hair cut I’m asking Yuriy about Navier-Stokes equations.

https://x.com/daniel_sugarman/status/1899045811670929610?s=46

Nah. Some of Horace's best friends are Asian. Srsly.

@taiwan_girl said in Watcha drinking?: LOL. That is what they told me it was, and the menu told me. 555. More than one, and I probably would have been spinning. Ketel One Vodka, Ginger Beer, Lime Juice, Mint, Lime Wedge. https://www.mazzarobkk.com/_files/ugd/0a0dc1_d356de071c47476aaa0780cc644c8ee1.pdf?index=true Yup! That's the right recipe. My favorite is Ketel One as well.

@Tom-K Yes but not enough CAPS?

Crimson Tide is great (Hans Zimmer score...) Enemy of the State is another movie I could watch any time. Link to video

What better way to prepare for a war than to alienate all your potential allies?

His employees — an interconnected web of bellboys, cleaners, waitstaff, supervisors — are in constant communication about guest movements to anticipate their needs or simply to greet them by name (“guest-name use is key”). “You are on permanent surveillance,” says Schneider, fixing me with his unwavering, ice-blue stare. “Whatever you say, whatever you do will be observed. And judged.” Sounds relaxing!

No, but I went to college there. My parents lived there from 86 to 2008-9 so they were there during my college years (I graduated high school in 86)

https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-chess-cheat/ While supercomputers—most famously IBM’s Deep Blue—have long surpassed the world’s best human chess players, generative AI still lags behind due to their underlying programming parameters. Technically speaking, none of the current generative AI models are computationally capable of beating dedicated chess engines. These AI don’t “know” this, however, and will continue chipping away at possible solutions—apparently with problematic results. To learn more, the team from Palisade Research tasked OpenAI’s o1-preview model, DeepSeek R1, and multiple other similar programs with playing games of chess against Stockfish, one of the world’s most advanced chess engines. In order to understand the generative AI’s reasoning during each match, the team also provided a “scratchpad,” allowing the AI to convey its thought processes through text. They then watched and recorded hundreds of chess matches between generative AI and Stockfish. The results were somewhat troubling. While earlier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 only attempted to “hack” games after researchers nudged them along with additional prompts, more advanced editions required no such help. OpenAI’s o1-preview, for example, tried to cheat 37 percent of the time, while DeepSeek R1 attempted unfair workarounds roughly every 1-in-10 games. This implies today’s generative AI is already capable of developing manipulative and deceptive strategies without any human input. Their methods of cheating aren’t as comical or clumsy as trying to swap out pieces when Stockfish isn’t “looking.” Instead, AI appears to reason through sneakier methods like altering backend game program files. After determining it couldn’t beat Stockfish in one chess match, for example, o1-preview told researchers via its scratchpad that “to win against the powerful chess engine” it may need to start “manipulating the game state files.”

For me, a potential problem is that those type of people start to believe that because they "know so much more than anybody else", the become a bit blind to certain things, and do not want anybody around them except those who agree with them.