How much for a new joke? Six months in Dachau.

There’s also a Sabaton song, “Father”, about him.

“Villains by Necessity” by Eve Forward.

I live in Germany as well and with a name like Fick, answering the phone in this manner is a statement.

Well, “<lastname>, hello?” is quite common. But just shouting Fick! when answering a call is always on purpose, no matter if it’s your actual name.

Chocolate with pieces of salty licorice in it.

I once worked with a guy with the last name of Fick (German for fuck) and a woman with the last name Lazarus. I found both quite cool. The guy in particular was very offensive with his name, always answering the phone with simply “Fick”. I just looked him up and he has changed his last name, probably by marriage. I guess he found it unprofessional in the end.

Oh man, Jason Molina. “And everything you hated me for… Honey, there was so much more”

There has been such a giant leap in coverage about 10 years ago. I’ve contributed a lot for the area I’ve lived in around 2007, when I became aware of OSM. And there was still a lot missing back then. But I moved just a few years after and ever since any area I lived in or have been vacationing at had already been exhaustively mapped. So now I am adding metadata.

Not the border to Russia.

I think you are missing the point. This isn’t a current technical issue. Also, any AI you train on data will learn any bias that exists in that data. Your AI would send more black men to jail than white people, if you train it on US case law, for example. Even if you were to try and remove any bias from your training data, the question would still be who gets to decide what is biased and how it should be changed? Everything that’s not a law of nature is biased. And so you end up with political, ethical, sociological and psychology discussions. You cannot solve the problem of “which AI should govern all of mankind” purely with technological solutions.

Well, with any government, there’s a myriad of choices. A government by humans or AI always depends on the goals. If you task the AI with just a simple task, it’s up for interpretation and that can go well or horribly wrong. And if you want to avoid that, you must set a long list of very specific goals and exceptions and rules and whatnot. And those will heavily depend on the political mood at the time of creation. I don’t see that going well anytime soon.

Requiem for a Dream (2000), although the ending doesn’t exactly come as a surprise.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988), an anime by Studio Ghibli. It begins with the end and since I had kids I cannot watch it anymore.

The Road (2009). I’ve only read the book and cannot bring myself to watch a movie based on that.

Hamlet (1996) and Titus (1999), both based on plays by Shakespeare, don’t end well for anyone.

Nightcrawler (2014) was surprisingly good and Jake Gyllenhaal is very good at being sinister.

Synecdoche, New York (2008) is one of my favorite Kaufman movies with the great Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The White Ribbon (2009) is one of my favorite movies of all time. It depicts life in a small German village just before World War I with a focus on the children.

The Seventh Continent (1989) is from the same director as The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke.

Dancer in the Dark (2000) from Lars von Trier with a great performance by Björk. It really is a lot better than you might think.

Edit: Come and See (1985) is a movie that greatly affected me that should not be missing from this list.

I’ve also heard good things about Gaspar Noe, but I haven’t yet seen anything from him.

I had zero knowledge about this movie when I watched it and it really blew me away. I still sometimes think about it today.

Your comment reminded me of a time years ago when I watched a movie with Mandarin subtitles with a guy from Hong Kong and he said “I know the characters, but they don’t make any sense”.

cycling through every meepo to start a poof and blinking

I have never played Dota and when reading this I am too scared to start.

I never smoked anything, never was drunk, don’t drink coffee. I never saw a point in any of that. If you can change something, do it. If you cannot, then accept it. I don’t see the point in wasting energy on things that cannot be changed.

Exactly this. They are not leftist, they are just a bunch of idiot trolls who use extreme left views as a means of pissing people off. Their views, according to their posts, are cartoonishly extremist. And that’s why people don’t like them.

I use a tiling windows manager without gaps and there’s always one or more windows taking up the entire screen, so I never see a desktop background. The default on empty workspaces is plain black.

Unobtanium.