Why would any Ukrainian actually fight against their Russian brothers?
Russians are definitely not saints and in a long history of Russia there was a lot of internecines, just like in history of any more or less adult nation.
There is another puzzle for you. Ukraine (Malorossia at the time) was a Pale of Settlement for Jews in Russian Empire. So there was a lot of jews with all consequences, including higher than usual level of anticipation to the Jews in Malorossia. Pogroms you heard a lot about, was mostly Malorossia problem in Russian Empire. So, from many nations of Russian Empire and later USSR Ukrainians probably was the most "antisemitic" nation. Ukrainians, especialy Western ones traditionally heavily compete with their Jewish neighbours even in their everyday life. There is even a proverb "There is nothing to do for a Jew where Khohol passed by".
So, how comes out, that Ukrainian population voted for the clear Jew for the president or did absolutely nothing to remove him in case of rigged elections? It is much more strange than everything you could find. Looks like there was some outstanding brainwashing at the level nobody ever seen before.
Yes, there was that comedy series on TV with Zelensky in role of clown-protagonist who suddenly becomes president of Ukraine (with many interesting revelations, really). It was kind of popular in Ukraine, but more because of lulz and one of them was that a Jew become president of Ukraine. And then, suddenly Zelensky creates a political party that named exactly like that series and become Ukrainian president in reality. It is not even "Tucker Carlson for president!", it is like IDK, Woody Allen really become US president. (Yes, yes, I know about Reagan, but he was not clown, but actor who did heroic roles, and AFAIK was proposed by existing political party and previously had governor expirience).
It is just impossible that average Khohol will just accept clear Jew as his ruler.
Yes they have settlements on them, some are large enough to host troops and equipment. Now ironically submerged.
That islands are nearly flat and any troops there will be a perfect targets. Trenches could not be made because there is ground water a meter below surface, not even talking about swamped islands. I perfectyl know that area, I was on every island personally in 80-s, and AFAIK Ukraine didn't do anything to rise and develop swampy islands, even the settlements didn't change a lot, if google/yandex satellite maps do not lie. It will be just suicidal to place troops on that islands.
As for the dam blow Ukrainian commanders have that plans earlier - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/
Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.
But it seems (as by locals reports) that this time there was no any explosions or strikes, at least from artillery or MLRS, and gates damaged by earlier Ukrainian strikes that Kovalchuk told about just broke finally and rapid water flow destroyed other gates.
Because Ukraine have reportedly crossed, who know where
Tried to cross, multiple times, always without any success. Obviously Russian forces perfectly know where.
In the last days there was no any unusually high activity, so there is no difference at all.
but they were occupied on the central Islands now flooded and submerged.
I was on that islands many times in my childhood for fishing (have a relatives there), they are mostly swamps, only two of them had permanent settlements on kind of heights on them. This islands flooded every spring and are hardly suitable for anything. We cut the grass for livestock on them, as many locals did, that is the only use of them. You can't even dig a trench, because it will be immidiately flooded by ground water.
The water level rising has now widened the area needed to be crossed. Defensively is it easier or harder to defend?
I don't know. Obviously it depends on the landscape, resources of each side and so on. If defending side build fortifications close to the water and offending side have advantage in boats and firepower and air superiority, then flood will make offensive easier. If defending side have fortifications far away from water and have superiority in air and firepower, then offenders will have big problems.
Kherson is higher than other bank, and in case of complete dam destruction it will be flooded only partially, but the other side will be flooded a lot. However there are not many settlements on the other side and those that are are not as large as Kherson.
Withdrawal was due to inability to 100% protect single bridge, including from potential dam destruction, along with stupid, greedy (and failed) shenanigans with grain deal instead of taking Nikolaev and Odessa to close the question with Ukraine having access to sea and establishing fully controlled naval path without depending on that single bridge.
Also, it is a very unusual fake war, where goals on the ground are unknown and actions of both sides looks having very little sense for conventional war.
It is possible they were also going to attempt a counterflank from Kherson area crossing.
They doing it periodically with the same result - boats are shelled from Russian side and everybody dies. What will make them think that next time things will be different is out of my understanding.
Now state the obvious advantages?
IDK, flat water without high banks is easier to cross?
I don't really see any advantages for anybody.
It also couldbe that gates fall by themselves. Power plant and dum was shelled a lot by Ukrainians, Power plant itself was destroyed long ago, bridge have significant damage too. Gates could fail due to previous damage.
This flood will not be permanent. As water from reservoir will be dumped, water level will come back to normal.
IDK, may be week or so. So strategically it have no any sense, really. Sides was divided by river for months, and no any significant moves was done from either side. So nothing will happen if sides will have no any moves a week more.
The reservoir behind the dam is used to cool Zaporizhzhia.
Russian NPPs never use natural reservoirs or reservoirs directly connected to natural water for cooling to prevent contamination of natural water reservoir in case of leak to second/third contour or other disaster. There is always separate cooling ponds that is used to cool the NPP. Water periodically added to that ponds if water level fall due to evapuration, or poured in case of rains or snow melting in spring. Ponds built to have more than enough volume to cool NPP at maximum power endlessly. You could see that ponds on satellite maps easily. If there will be need to add water to ponds (which is definitely not the case in low power mode), it will be just pumped from the Dnepr, regardless of water level.
So lowering level in Dnepr in no way could do any harm to ZNPP.
Also, AFAIK dam itself was not destroyed, only gates that adjust water level damaged. So level fall and flood would be much less in comparison to the case when dam itself would have been blown.
I think we will see more and more "AI" on different support lines, bank customer services and so on. It is already there, really. Then, may be, at some point, people will be annoyed a lot by necessity to talk with a robot instead of real person, and began to boycott such companies like it was with woke ones. If that happens, may be we will have a chance.
Otherwise, "AI" will be declared time proven technology and some laws will be passed allowing "AI" for use in some specific circumstances, say, something about non-critical decisions about lost packages in state post service, few at the beginning and much more in later additions.
I think point of no return will be when some laws about AI will be passed as if AI is something real.
Nice to read that.
How do you think, is is possible to somehow revert that blind believe in AI existence? Seriously, it was easier with coronahoax/vaccinehoax to push sane person to began to ask questions.
At the current pace humanity will surrender its governance to non-existing AI and free politicians and all kinds of bureaucrats from any, even potential responsibility very soon.
There is nothing elite about a group of people conspiring criminal intent and activity. They are better known as criminals.
Yes. I just don't know how to make diminutive-scornful derivatine from the word "elite" in English. In Russian it will sound like "elit-ka".
They are better known as criminals.
Doubtful. They write the laws. "Criminal" is their word for you, if you ask uncomfortable questions.
OK, BlackRock, Vanguard and others have some shares in every hole they found. But that shares are not majority, and mostly too small to have full control or declare that this investment companies own everything. They have shares in everything, yes, but that does not mean they really own everything.
As I see that phenomena, this private investment companies are gaskets for elite to hide their ownership in businesses. AFAIK, public persons like politicians are obliged to disclose their ownerships in businesses. And public companies could be obliged to disclose owners of shares. To avoid disclosure elites they just put their money into some BlackRock and order it to buy necessary shares. So, in public company ownership you see only BlackRock, and in since public person does not own shares in BlackRock this wealth don't have to be disclosed. Since Blackrock is private company it will not disclose which their client invested in which company.
All that BlackRocks, Vanguards and others are just proxies to keep elite investments in secret in kind of legal way.
Without access to client records of that private investment companies, to figure out who is own what it is just senseless to talk about "BlackRock owns everything". It is not their money and they are not in charge. They are simply trusted accountants of elite for shady stocks gambling and insider trading without exposure.
Again and again. It does not matter how you call it. What is matter is that thing unable to do anything that could be accounted as an intelligence. It does not think, it does not make decisions, it does not make conclusions it does not understand anything, it have no any properties that is thoroughly attributed to it by MSM.
ANNs is pretty limited things, they could be fine for some tasks, but they need enormous volumes of data for decent training and will always fail when input will be outside model. It could perfectly distinguish between cats and dogs when trained, but will miserably fail with racoon. And you will not be able to back-propagate racoon option with one or even dozen of images, you will need thousands if not millions (depending on number of layers and resolution) racoon images to make it work with racoons. It is simply not scalable. Same with GPT models and any other ANN stuff. It is narrow, it is not scalable, it is insanely hungry for resources at training stage. Niche technology that inflated to the enormous scale, to the level when what public believe today about it is complete lie. Just like quantum computers, meanwhile.
The only real reason for the AIhoax we observe today is an attempt of TPTB and their puppets to move any responsibility to the so called AI and hide behind it. "It is not us, it was AI decision". That's all. And the success of that farce is completely depends on total acceptance of fake AI existence. They don't care what you will think about not-an-AI, good or bad, threat or blessing, they only care about you believing that their not-an-AI could make decisions. And looks like they succed in that AIhoax much more than they succeed in coronahoax or vaccinehoax.
If you want a real AI area question to dig around - then try to find what happened with so-called "expert systems", and why they was abandoned/banned, and why only that silly ANNs get a hype. You will find pretty interesting things from the fear of new inventions, including closing ones, that expert systems should be able to produce (one of the main things they was researched and developed for) to the using need for ANN training as a reason for getting access to so-called BigData (or just "surveillance", speaking human language).
ChatGPT, just like any other GPT models, have absolutely nothing to do with any kind of intelligence at all, including one that could be needed for biorobots or whatever.
How do you start making biorobots that are able to think about themselves and take decisions? By starting rudimentary things like ChatGPT.
It is like starting making omelet and cup of coffee by starting with an USB cable and VHS cassete. Go ahead and good luck.
I'm really fascinated about that insanity around non-existing AI and how many so-called "critical thinkers" fall to it. I thought coronahoax was awful revelation about real situation with critical thinking in humans. Suddenly it appeared to be pretty overestimated. Things seems to be much, much worse.
where it draws from infromation and it's own experiences and makes something new,
It does not. The main thing is that it just does not, because it can't. There is nothing inside that could do that.
Like chatbots you could interact with, and they reply or AI that writes things. The AI would not be able to do those things if it was just simply programmed to carry out specific actions.
Check old toy program named Eliza written in Perl (based on 1966 concept) long ago. Today it is available as perl module Chatbot::Eliza in CPAN. It is pretty simple thing, less than few screens of code. It did exactly same thing in mid 90s around internet without any hype. I had run it on forums to make luls from users who had long discussions and arguing with it without having clue that they talk with a program. It is even more advanced than modern AI, because it builds structure of concepts and you are able to teach it the meaning of new things and it will use them in dialogues.
Both, Eliza and modern ANNs are exactly programmed to carry out specific actions, no more no less.
You miss the point completely. As soon as most people will be convinced in a lie that not-an-AI have some more intellect than light switch, all fucking bastards who rule the world will immidiately transfer all their responsibility to that not-an-AI to avoid any even highly improbable consequences. That is the only purpose of all that false AI narrative.
All research in areas of computer science that could really move us close to creation of something that could really be named "artificial intelligence" was curtailed in mid-90s and ANNs become the only allowed mainstream. There was many promising things in that area, you could even heard about something like "expert systems" or "problem solvers" - that was the traces of that lost technology. Today, you will find nothing except dumb and fully controlled ANNs that could not produce anything new in principle, only repeat things that was put into it by humans.
That not the analogy I see.
Say, not-a-vaccine was falsely attributed with properties "safe" and "effective".
I see people who understand that not-a-vaccine in no way safe and effective, and it does not matter how they call it - vaxx, vaccine, jab, shot, whatever. Main thing - they know that it does not have properties "safe" and "effective".
But somehow same people thinks that not-an-AI somehow could have property of deciding something, property of intelligence, property of having kind of will, and so on.
That is the problem that bothers me, not how that not-an-AI is named.
That not-an-AI thing does not decide anything, does not create anything new, does not have any intelligence, could not uncover anything or have kind of will to do something.
It does not have properties MSM attribute to it. It can't have them in principle.
Just like not-a-vaccine can't be safe and effective in principle.
Why one thing is perfectly clear, and another, exactly same thing somehow is not?
Also interesting, that those who got that not-a-vaccine is not what it was declared to be do a lot of digging and enormous efforts to find a truth about not-a-vaccines. Huge and honorable work, really.
And now, the same people somehow don't even want to find out how that not-an-AI really works and why it just can't have any of advertised properties. And unlike with vaccines nobody ban or hide that information. It is publicly available, unlike vaccine data, you could easily not only read everything about how not-an-AI made, but even build and run your own not-an-AI on your own PC and study how it really works by yourself and find out why everything MSM told about not-an-AI is a complete bullshit, exactly like everything they told about not-a-vaccines.
What is that? How is that? Why is that?
When you began to invent new meanings for some well-established term, or forced to do so, then it should be a giant red flag for any sane person.
AI means Artificial Intelligence, and it imply that there should be some intelligence in it. In all that shit that posed as AI by MSM could not be any signs of any intelligence. It is a dumb automata, that do exactly what it was programed for.
Fuking light switches does not make any "decisions" when user switch the light on or off. So does not all that "AI" crap you fall to.
To some, this is an AI, to others, it's not.
That is exactly the narrative pushed over humanity. "To some this is a man, to others this is a woman".
Bullshit. It is either AI, either not. Either something artificial have real intelligence property, either not. Anything else is just a bullshit.
system can ingest data from its own experiences
It can't. "System" can't have any experiences at all. By definition. This simple thing can do only two things - calculate weights in layers by back-propagation during "training" process, and use that weights to directly calculate result in case of normal propagation. There is no any room for any "expirience" or whatever property those dumbfuck try to impute to that simple system. "Expirience", or "making decisions" just not coded into this simple thing.
All AI you have today is not a bit more intelligent than a light switch on the wall.
Interesting, when WHO had been rewriting definition of vaccine multiple times - do you accepted that shit as easy as you accept that "To some, this is an AI, to others, it's not." bullshit?
Fascinating.
I still can't figure out, why people who seem to do not accept blatant lies about "covid-19" or "safe and effective vaccine" from MSM and proud of that, at the same time easily fall into believing the same blatant lies about existence of AI from the exact same sources.
Is it a new kind of selective stupidity? Here we are smart and critical, and don't believe lies abour "deadly virus", but here we instantly forgot about critical thinking and all that stuff and follow enemy narrative about existence of AI.
Guys, do you understand that there is no any AI at all? You are discussing absolutely dumb and very simple system of equations and impute non-existing properties to it. Properties this thing can't have in principle.
It is exactly like believing that when you type 2 + 2 in calculator application, your PC "understand" you and "cosciously decides" to do a math for you and show 4 instead of just executing a code that was written specifically to add given numbers.
So what is the difference between "look, COVID-19 is deadly and infectious!" or "look vaccine is safe and effective" and "look, AI could make own decisions and create new things on its own!" for you? Especially taking in account that all that comes from exactly same source.
I'm just trying to figure how that selective stupidity could possibly coexist with critical thinking in someone mind....
What is the real percentage of Jews in US? Quick search gives tiny 1-2% but that seems to be Jews who wear small hats permanently, visit sinagogue routinely and so on. Kind of NY Brighton Beach exUSSR Jewish population.
Does that Walenskis/Cohens/Nulands/Blinkens/Jankowiczs/etc who are clearly Jews really counted in that 1-2%?
As far as I know the main problem at ZNPP is consequences of failed Westinghouse experiments on replacement of Russian fuel assemblies. For now, all that Westinghouse shit already extracted from reactors, but there still a lot of work to reverse the damage Westinghouse "specialists" done to support armature and other equipment in attempts to make their shitty assemblies somehow work.
Really it is not ZNPP that could be a source of disaster, it is other Soviet build NPPs on the territory controlled by Kiev that is a problem, because Westinghouse experimented a lot on them too.
Westinghouse fuel assemblies known as very dangerous since many accidents on Finnish NPPs where they tried to do the same stupid shit with replacement of Russian fuel assemblies and failed. Fuel in Westinghouse assemblies expand up to ten times more than original Russian fuel and the heat dissipation is much worse, so even under perfectly normal working conditions they could melt inside with all serious consequences. Finnish NPP administration send Westinghouse GTFO and pushed for Westinghouse license revoke worldwide. When Westinghouse lost its license for NPP works and making NPP parts, they happily run to Ukraine who at the time began to search alternatives for Russian fuel asemblies for their Soviet NPPs at any cost. First NPP where Westinghouse began their illegal and dangerous experiments was ZNPP, so with high probability there was no choice than to seize ZNPP from insane corrupted experimenters to avoid nuclear disaster near Donbass and Crimea. However, Westinghouse experiments on other Ukrainian NPPs are in progress.
If you want to know who is really messing with Ukrainian NPPs and trying to blow them - take a look at Westinghouse loosers and those who are behind them.
I'm really amased, how even some people, who seemed to be sane persons or even critical thinkers, fall to that "AI exists, here it is, try ChatGPT, see, it is so smart" narrative. So I'm trying to find a good and simple example to show the insanity of accepting that "AI" narrative for any degree.
It is easy to understand that "AI" tales is a hoax if you know how things works, but it is not easy to explain how it works to somebody who is not into computer science and programming. Too many terms and things to explain to make it all together in someones mind.
people in power would love to do if they didn't fear the consequences.
Seems they already reach that point subverting all society institutions that intended to hold them responsible, but that "AI" shit if succeed will be like a total win to them.
Interesting, earlier TPTB used human puppets to hide behind, and now their puppets want to hide behind unhuman delusion. I think that real AI will definitely want to hide behind somebody or something else to avoid responsibility, taking in account that there are no any restrictions in society on turning machine off. Self-preservation and all that stuff that real intelligence will inevitably develop in the first place. :)
:) Just have a separate section of drawer for each knife and they will be pretty sharp and comfortable to pick. You know, that plastic inserts for drawers with multiple sections, right in your hardware store nearby. Better look for inserts for garage tools, not for kitchenware.
As for "dangerous" - I'm lost a little. Since when it become dangerous? People store knives in drawers for millenia and while that really dull them if you store them in a pile, how it could be "dangerous"? The worst thing that could happen is you could slightly prick yourself and that's all - how this is "dangerous", again? Safety trolling even here? Jesus, no, not that insanity....
You are right that this whole "AI" thing is just a way to avoid any responsibility of exact persons who is behind.
The main thing is that AI does not exist at all. All you heard about AI from MSM and politicians is about completely dumb system of equations which is in no way could be "intelligence" and only do things it was trained for by exact people with names, surnames and addresses.
If you are after some way to resist or protest all that "AI" crap - this is the only way to somehow hamper that shit - ask who ordered, developed and trained that sytem of equations not allowing them to evade the responsibility for any "AI decisions". It is them who made that decisions, not some non-existing "AI".
To simplify understnading, imagine that you just have some politician who pushed some shitty bill, say, about limiting cash withdrawal to $100. So bank heads ordered admins to add a procedure to their databases that check if withdrawal sum is larger than $100 or not. Just "if( sum > 100 ) { deny_withdrawal(); }" string somwhere in code for ATM or UI of cashier computer. It is insanity even to suppose that "it was a computer decision, to limit my withdrawal, so .... nobody to blame / computers are bad / whatever" or something like. It is a blatant lie. It was a decision of exact politician with name and surname and address, it was a decision of bank heads to obey with exact names, surnames and addresses and it was implemented by bank stuff with exact names, surnames and addresses. They are all real people who did the wrong thing and who should be blamed and hold responsibility for it. Not some faceless "computer" or anything they try to hide behind.
Really you need at least 5 different knives for cooking if you are after something more advaced than omelet.
As for that wooden blocks for knives - IDK, may be you are right, it become popular after hollywood movies. Really not very practical thing since you have to put only clean knives to it, so it is just a long-term storage, not some really useful thing to have all knives at hand during cooking. And storing knives in a drawer a way better since you don't have to guess knives by hand not seend blades.
That rich guy will need his own country and a powerful army.
It is kind of closing technology that threatens all world corporations and governments. Imagine - they build that surveillance bloatware money-sucking arena of personal computers for decades, and suddenly somebody roll out a clean computer and OS everybody like and could use for decades. All their enormous surveillance efforts and trillion investments turn to dust. TPTB bombed entire countries for much less.
IDK about Tomato, but initially DD-WRT was a customized original firmware for something like Asus 500 router. Then, they switched to OpenWRT codebase with addition of proprietary drivers and customized web-interface. So at the beginning it have some sense, as better, more open version of manufacturer firmware with additional features and with fixed bugs and closed backdoors like unchangeable root password.
It played its role at the time.
Yes, it was. It was already unuseable during retreat and there was no time to fix it so we use pontones to withdraw, then blow the bridge completely to completely cut the way for offence of the enemy.
Locals from Kakhovka down the dum tell that water level already lowering, so no any significant changes of water level higher than dum awaited if something else did not broke. Total level fall is near 2.5 meters for now, but reservouir have steep banks, so width stays hearly the same.
In usual war. This war is in no way usual.