Going bowling doesn’t take any level of commitment from the participant though - it’s just a nice thing to do - they’d do that anyway. The bonding part comes from doing something unpleasant to show commitment to the group. I’m not saying the weird shit that it has developed into on campuses is a good thing, that’s way too far. But I was a member of a running club and to be a full member you had to run on a summer Saturday across a set route up and down hills repeatedly just the hardship and over difficult terrain in the heat of the day - it was a long and deeply unpleasant run. But then all the new runners and all the existing members have a big bbq and eat food and drink cold beers together. The old timers congratulate you on your performance and reminisce about when they did it - perhaps it was a heatwave back in ‘92 or there was flooding or whatever. Everyone winces together when they see the size of that guys blisters etc. and just like that you’re bonded. You’ve all had a shared experience of a trial you completed to be part of the group. Hazing like that is a really good experience.

I think it probably also depends on what the hazing entails - making the newbys complete some miserable gruelling physical activity followed by everyone getting drunk together - probably pretty damn good bonding. The new people have done something unpleasant and demonstrated a level of commitment to the cause, and then everyone has cut loose together showing some vulnerability (from intoxication) within each others company - that really will bond people.

If your hazing is forcing new people to get really drunk and then sexual abusing them (which is what a lot of American college hazings seem to be)- I don’t think that’s good (on any level). It may have some bonding affect for the perpetrators but for the victims? I’m not sure. Maybe when they turn perpetrators the following year they would get a delayed bonding affect? Either way that’s not good.

New copypasta?

The uk has air defences?

lol

This is absolutely fantastic, an excellent idea and absolutely true that the uk uses Hamas’ status as a terrorist org to suppress dissent against genocide. Regardless it’s going to get laughed out of court. But still. Nice idea I guess.

AI ass sign off

Abusive husband talk

You can’t reason with the Chinese economy when it’s in this state, it’s over tired and doesn’t know what it wants.

Dunno but I fail to see how it can be more fractious than an economy based on a stockmarket that is in free fall because of the tweets out of a mad ~80yr old king.

Cowards

Yeah horses for courses right?

I don’t mind numpads per say - on a desktop keyboard it’s fine, I guess. Even I personally won’t be using them, at least they don’t get too much in the way. I can touch type numbers just fine on the top row. I don’t like to move my hands from the home row if I can help it, least of all for numeric input. And I also hate offset typing, feels like driving a car with the pedals off to one side of your seat, bad ergo.

But I guess if numpads on laptops are your thing, it’s great for you.

Why do so many of their laptops have numpads? I don’t want to type with my hands offset to the left I want to type straight on, no numpad, centralised letters.

I think this was always the game plan, the Tory government had run out of popular support that Labour was picking up, but if there was a real left wing opposition they may actually make people’s lives better which might make left wing policy popular - can’t be having that now, can we?

So Starmer is paradropped in with Wes Streeting and Rachel Reaves in tow to continue the glorious work of Osborne in transfering wealth from poor to rich using austerity, reduced workers rights and protections, slashing the safety net for people and beating down dissent with culture war cudgels. And in so doing they essentially provide no functional change from the Tories before them.

This is perfect for capital, they can continue their project uninterrupted, and it has the masterstroke of meaning when it comes round to election time again Labour will be miserably unpopular for continuing Tory politics, the Tory’s will still be the Tories. The people will want change - and so they should, it’s quite clear life isn’t getting better here, quite the opposite - and the only party (with any real support) seriously offering actual genuine change is Reform, which is serving serious hard right accelerated change.

This reactionary shift isn’t going to make anyone’s life better (if you aren’t a CEO or merchant banker at least), in fact far worse, but it is at least marketable as a change from the interchangeable Tory/Labour identical duopoly. So I should imagine with this message and the backing of the media machine they will sweep into power.

Then as the contradictions of capitalism on a dying planet become more unbearable, we can hurry along with our right wing facist government towards the eventual death cult ending as greater and greater populations of scapegoats need to be sacrificed on the alter of capitalism to fend off the inevitable collapse.

Sure for just making and returning queries, but what about the model training in the first place, what about dust to dust on the data centre and the water usage etc.

Hypothetically; If London’s Quaker community gets on The Mayflower 2 in 2025 where do they go to start anew? Mars? The moon? Antarctica? America, again, but this time it’s personal? I think something like them trying to colonise Taiwan would be a good watch. Seeing world leaders adopt a 3 Chinas policy recognising the governments sitting in Beijing, Taipei and New Jamestown.

A self driving stainless steel battletank with just a single touchscreen to control it.

“Why do all these DoD nerds keep telling me stainless steel isn’t a good armour material and what are they on about physical controls are good for Electronic warfare. Shut up losers I’m disrupting the industry.” Elon Musk, probably.

Really reads like a The Onion bit.

Given the egg price, do we know there wasn’t some gang doing a ‘fast and furious’ style heist causing the crash?