A shift to the right in Silicon Valley – Why the tech elite is aligning itself with Trump | 3Sat
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A shift to the right in Silicon Valley – Why the tech elite is aligning itself with Trump | 3Sat

This provides a striking illustration of the ideological foundations and the future of these elites’ power.

From literature to real-life dictatorship and the Gleichschaltung of government apparatus. Gleichschaltung, something our ancestors witnessed in Germany before.

Silicon Valley is not only controlling the USA but as we have been made aware in the past year and in media, Silicon Valley is controlling us and our elections. Palantir is coming closer and closer to our daily life and our police forces

In Germany we are not protected from social media from the USA. We have no european alternatives anymore. StudiVZ died ages ago. We are free hunting ground for US tech elites

YouTube link, for those who’d rather watch it on YouTube, it has generated English Subtitles

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u/Suibeam — 7 days ago

Warum sich die Tech-Elite mit Trump verbündet | 3sat Kulturzeit

Hier wird beeindruckend die Basis der Ideologie und die Zukunft der Macht dieser Eliten gezeigt.

Von Literatur zur realen Diktatur und Gleichschaltung der Regierungsapparate

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u/Suibeam — 7 days ago

TIL it has been confirmed that Huns elite nobility are Xiongnu descendents (2023). Making Han Dynasty Empire's devastating victory over Xiongnu Empire a root cause of the Western Roman Empire's largest threat and its eventual collapse (migration period).

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u/Suibeam — 18 days ago

[Spoiler] Syras Question

>!Does she survive when you don't do the quest with her? I saw a streamer who got the quest to get to Gomez and Syra did not die, she simply didnt talk and just did her usual routine and joined the guards beating you. Was that a bug or does she not die as long as she doesn't try to leave? !<

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u/Suibeam — 20 days ago

I haven't played Gothic in decades. I am a bit sad that after Act 1, the camps don't matter anymore. And we don't really interact and do quests for people anymore. The game shrinks into "do quests for 3 people" every chapter. World feels emptier than Act 1.

I feel like Act 1 is an entirely different game than the other Chapters.

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u/Suibeam — 23 days ago

Regarding the current Reports of Breaks between Seasons becoming increasingly longer and how China and Hong Kong handles the production of Shows and Dramas. I personally like how they do it as viewer

disclaimer: This wasn't telling you to watch chinese or Hong Kong shows. It is a different story culture you cannot relate to. The point was how they handle production and viewers benefits.

Chinese and Hong Kong (in the past) do it well. 40-80 Episodes. They film and produce shows, dramas and all in 8 months-2 years and release them daily / on weekends.

You get like 4-8 Seasons worth of content. The entire show. And the quality of current Chinese movie/series industry easily matches HBO and others production. They are even better when you need wide shots with hundreds or thousands of people.

The positive effects: No writer and director decline/swaps. No actors leaving the show. No children aging during the seasons issue. Fewer interventions from executives because what you see in the first season is more or less the direction of the rest of the show. No artificially extended seasons ruining storylines and character development. What you get in first 10 episodes is the same writing idea you get for the last 10 episodes.

Context side note: Hong Kong in the past were the Hollywood of East Asia and South East Asia, it was dubbed everywhere and everyone has the same childhood memories about Hong Kong shows series. China mainland has outdone the quality Hong Kong could never reached because of budget restraints while preserving the production style of one and done. Hong Kong movie industry is still strong but the series industry is dying because of failed projects and actors/actresses retiring with lack of new talents while competing with Korea and Mainland China. The Chinese movie and series industry is shining though.

edit: People kinda focus on the wrong point, the point was how shows are produced. People think the industry only produces costume drama or wuxia. Which is more a stereotype. While it is true that they produce them, they produce hundred shows per year by many studios. Just because you produce Game of Thrones and Witcher doesn't mean everything is medieval with dragons. Besides that isnt even the point, the point is how they produce shows.

In the comments I posted few series with high quality non-costume. Wasn't hard to find obviously.

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u/Suibeam — 29 days ago

The 60K USD will likely break but it will bounce of so many times because people have limit orders on 60k. Funnily, right after that is the 50K EUR, which will also have a limit orders stacked up. If both of those break, it will be gates wide open

Bitcoin just follows the cycle as many have thought. Unlike february, it didnt bounce off right back to 65k but is hovering over 60k now for quite some time.

I remember when people congratulated each others for buying at 60,500 USD when it hit that for like 10 minutes. They felt so lucky. Now we can all be that lucky for more than 10 minutes for under 60k

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u/Suibeam — 1 month ago

How many of your friends' marriages surprised you after they fell apart when you thought they were good working couples. And what kind of learnings do you have from this. Or even just rants you would like to share?

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u/Suibeam — 1 month ago

Does this item work with Dungeon Unit's alternative attacks? Technically, they should be abilities?

Btw I got the sigil for 3 of my skills. lucky me

u/Suibeam — 1 month ago

EU+UK and China have the history of devastating wars at home. USA has not have a devastating war at home since the civil war almost 2 centuries ago. How does this affect their thought process of starting new wars?

EU+UK, China, USA and Russia's war trauma

This came up when watching Talkshows about EU+UK, China, USA and Russia. EU+UK is still horrified by the 2nd world war and want to avoid another war on the continent so much that they hoped and deluded themselves. But they are hesitant in general. Similar things happened after the Great War WW1, when France and British Empire wanted to avoid war as they were still horrified. Russia took a different path and doesn't really fit the bill as they glorified the war and the sacrifices/victims.

China similarly to EU+UK is traumatized by instability, civil wars and Japanese/European invasions. You all likely know the meme "China is whole, then breaks again" "Whenever China has a civil war or famine, 20 Million people die". Chinese have internalized the massive risks of instability and civil wars, and war against strong opponents. It devastates a country that otherwise had 25-36% of the world economy for most of their several millenia of existence, a wealthy country that stops being able to feed their people.

USA had something similar too. After the Civil War, USA was devastated. People really didn't want to have another civil war and in the Great War the population hesitated to support an intervention for Europe. In WW2 it was even more so as US population and many politicians did not want to be dragged into another World War. They isolated themselves until the US administration and Japan triggered the entrance of the US into ww2.

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USA's war trauma in homeland is distant. Imperial Chinese confucian scholars and ministers constantly reminding the Emperors that war and conquests are paid for by the common folk

But in late 20th century after the collapse of USSR, USA is overwhelmingly stronger than other nations military capabilities (even when USSR still existed). In previous wars though USA oftentimes lost the war, they had rather low casualties for losing and those losses were always on the other side of the world, never devastating their homeland. USA also won the cold war against the USSR. And on the first weeks of wars, USA usually get away with almost no casualties until later. All this leads to US politicans and parts of the US population not feeling too strongly about going to war, it is more a monetary or moral question than the fear of total devastation of their homeland.

I dont know much about population sentiments of distant history besides Imperial China. For example in europe, oftentimes the nobility were deciding to start wars, so no clue if the population even had any say on that. In Imperial China the was a saying "heart of the people" which is similar to sentiment of the people, if the people hated the administration and emperor too much, a civil war was about to happen. So Chinese empires couldn't constantly go to war. In Addition confucian scholars and ministers throughout millenia weigh up between funding wars and letting population rest to work on field and grow families. Chinese history in general did not have the idea of "war and conquests will fuel itself" but instead "war and conquests are costs the population has to pay for". The glory of an Emperor or a General is paid for by the sweats and bloods of the common folk on the fields and on the battlefields, was a common trope in literature and poems, and often reminded by ministers and scholars.

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Historical supporting examples for relation between war trauma at home and hesitation to start new wars.

So the question would be if the hesitation to start new wars is present enough in the USA compared to EU+UK and China. The risk difference for the USA as they might feel invulnerable in the late 20th century? Are other historical situation in nobilities and population supporting the idea that recent trauma makes a huge difference for willingness to start wars easily?

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago

I think text encoder loads into VRAM on Wan2.2 but doesn't need to in LTX2.3 which can be used from RAM, causing significant time increase whenever i slightly change Prompt in Wan but not LTX. Is this correct and is there a solution for Wan?

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago

in pvp i sometimes see people able to do stuff while their turn has ended, waiting for opponent. and sometimes you cant. why is that?

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago

I notice with Flux Klein that using some Lora basically turns it into Wan2.2 in face consistency (Scene cuts) for I2I. I haven't used LTX2.3 in awhile. I think LTX2.3 struggles a lot with face consistency? Have you found some tricks?

I used high resolution lora for Flux Klein which is really good at keeping face consistency compared to base Flex Klein.

I bet on LTX2.3 there are also tricks to force it to keep Face consistency as max priority.

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago

Might have to perma ban Tempel on that map if it is a common bug.

- The suspicion is that once you conquered a town on a biome, it counts as Native wherever you are on such biome. The fight happened far away from any of his towns and post game you could check that when exploring map on his side, that he had no town there either.

Either way even when controlled, it is not native. In Olden Era usually those effects are called controlled zone, not Native Terrain. And it wasn't even controlled zone. -

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago

This game is amazing and so well developed and designed.

Typical Jumpscare though. The volume is like double of everything else. How do you disable or remove it?

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/HoMM

It is what the name suggests. An arena. You choose hero, skills, spells, units, items and jump into a battle against real players or AI.

You can try many units and spells. Try finding synergies. Or just having a quick match when waiting for something.

In classic games it takes long time before you can fight your opponent. And usually the fight itself is very one sided by whoever prepared better.

Here you have a more balanced battle.

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago

Though things need time to be balaned.

The World Watcher is fucking OP. It has a lot of HP, spawns in high numbers, has high damage, has sharpshooter, has duelist, is 90% immune against magic. If you happen to be a magic hero you are fucked. You are put on a timer because that thing kills everyone really quickly.

Enemy like to clump up at times which is a huge mistake but not when you have World Watcher. You cannot get to it at all because it has 6 bodyguards. Your magic doesnt do enough damage to clear the bodyguards with magic alone. Worse if you as magic hero have bad stats to clear the front. And if you are might hero and rush it, you still have to fight a World Watcher with high HP, defense and duelist.

So you better have 2-3 good range units to counter the World Watcher. Because neither Magic nor melee works.

It won't win all games but it is a high odds win. I bet it wins 2/3 of all matches if you understood why it is broken.

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u/Suibeam — 2 months ago