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Henry Kissinger Has Died

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Post by MichaelZuo »

whycome wrote: post #438
AYBABTME wrote: post #307

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Podcasts, like live news, radio talk shows, and other scheduled throughput based media, have to fill time with content. If there's nothing intelligent to say, they say stuff anyways.

Nah. Podcasts are one of the few mediums that don’t have set lengths. The one here goes to 6 parts because of the volume of material. And often I’ve heard podcasts do multiple episodes in one. There’s no time they’re trying to achieve as there’s no standard.

That's mostly true, except for the big ones that have signed deals, but even then a lot of filler sentences, filler talk, etc., happens regularly in the podcast episodes I've heard.

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Post by shadowgovt »

jackothy wrote: post #540
ithkuil wrote: post #529

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It's not human, why are you offended by how it talks to you? It's a tool. Many tools need some adjustment before they can be useful for what you do. You surely won't be viscerally upset if you pay $20 for a tool that occasionally spills oil on you if you hold it wrong. You'd still think the tool is crap because its designers made an UX decision you hate, but you surely would not throw away the tool out of principle,…

I absolutely would refuse to buy tools from a manufacturer that makes user hostile UX decisions on purpose.

It's not precisely user hostility. You're talking about the difference between a hole hog and a DeWalt. ChatGPT is trying to be a DeWalt: It works while also trying to backstop unexpected bad interaction so you don't unexpectedly torque your wrist past its breaking point because you jammed the bit into the wrong piece of wood (to pull the analogy back around: You don't inadvertently get porn or gore or defamatory copy because you asked the wrong query).

Flipping the question on its head, there's going to be a category of user who's asking "Why am I paying 20 bucks a month so this thing can give me answers I can't publish?"

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Post by mywacaday »

caskstrength wrote: post #501
mywacaday wrote: post #470

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Out of curiosity I asked ChatGpt 4 to write an obituary for him and it refused as it would insensitive or disrespectful. I told it he had passed away, it checked the internet and wrote the obituary. The power of ChatGPT continues to amaze me.

> Out of curiosity I asked ChatGpt 4 to write an obituary for him and it refused as it would insensitive or disrespectful. I'm continuously astonished how people pay 20$ per-month to be lectured like that. I guess I shouldn't be by now...

Not paying to be lectured, paying to speed up development times, proof read emails, provide documentation with working examples, write excel formulas, get lists of ideas, iterate ideas with evidence. I would wonder why you wouldn't pay the $20

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Post by sotix »

senectus1 wrote: post #137
xanderlewis wrote: post #17

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First thing that came to mind.

for me it was the great late Christopher Hitchens and his crusade against Kissinger https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christopher+hit...

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ant6tY-MOIk

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Post by Novosell »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #498
Novosell wrote: post #451

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How about this one then, my grandmother is named Lillemor which is Swedish for "little mother". It was a fairly common name even. People out there naming their kids "little mother".

Do people ever call her Lill or Lilly (phonetically)?

Nah, no nicknames that I'm aware of. Sweden isn't too big on nicknames in general I'd say.

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Post by unethical_ban »

slyall wrote: post #376
unethical_ban wrote: post #311

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Should a country overthrow the democratically elected government of another country because of non-life-threatening business losses? (Chile) Should a country delay a peace process with an enemy nation for several years for the sake of optics over peace? (Vietnam) Should a world leader meant to promote peace and de-escalation of armed conflict intentionally snub and antagonize their chief political rival with nukes, f…

Now judge every US president and Secretary of State by the same criteria. Kissinger might be worse than average but he certainly isn't exceptional.

LBJ may have had JFK assassinated, and he exaggerated the Gulf of Tonkin incident to kick off US forces in Vietnam.

Bush got us into Iraq, for what?

This doesn't mean Kissinger doesn't deserve criticism.

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Post by Pxtl »

fmajid wrote: post #377
yourapostasy wrote: post #366

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> ...was an almost superhuman ass-kisser. This piques my curiosity. Does anyone have the mechanical specifics of how this worked, as in actual conversations when Kissinger was in his element that demonstrated this quality in action? Teens today who have never experienced Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field normally don't believe my shorthand description of the RDF like the above encapsulated description of "superhum…

If you listen to Nixon’s tapes, there are many instances where Nixon makes outrageously antisemitic comments, and Kissinger (who was Jewish himself), ever the brown-noser, agrees and responds with an even more outlandish one.

The podcast also covers some more humoring of extreme antisemitism when he was negotiating in the middle east. It's not just that he tolerated it, he validated and played along with very clever quips about being a Jew.

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Post by igravious »

jmclnx wrote: post #16

>Born in Germany in 1973, Kissinger first came to the US in 1938 He had a time machine ? :) I think there was a typo in the article, they many 1923 I would say. Anyway, may he Rest in Peace. EDIT: the date is now fixed

> Anyway, may he Rest in Peace.

you must be joking. may he absolutely not

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Post by jules-jules »

boppo1 wrote: post #473
n9 wrote: post #314

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You might listen to the podcasts. They are good and they are well researched. Listen: I met Kissinger a few times and spent a few decades of my life working with foriegn policy wonks. He was a monster beyond compare. And I'll just add this in. When I was 24 I got a job at the New York Times working on the tech team that would launch nytimes.com. The "web editor" was one Bernard Gwertzman. Look him up. He was the fore…

Do you think the NYT's war coverage (Ukraine & Israel) is still so slanted, or have they improved?

Think how they reported Iraq and you have your answer.
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