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[3liteDragon]

Are you dense?



Jesus Christ.

Yes, forcibly trying to kiss a 14 year old girl is ASSAULT. What the fuck are you even going on about?



Yes, Westerners tend to be friendly and welcoming people ... until they've had enough of hordes of migrants pouring in, taking advantage, and pissing all over their generosity. So, uh, what was your point again about protests coming mainly from "shithole places that rarely see a single non-White migrant"?



Are you literally retarded?

hOw DoEs ThE mAtH wOrK??

All by design, same thing happening in Canada.

 

[MrJangles]

It was disgraceful when it happened but where are they still continuing to turn a blind eye to it?

Speak to people on the ground. It's still widespread.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

I just put that response into Chat GPT and asked if it was an accurate description. Chat GPT said it was almost correct, but:

What it misses (not wrong, just omitted):

I can use tools, browse, do math, or call APIs — which makes me more than a static language generator.

I've been fine-tuned with human feedback, so my "guesses" are optimized to align with what people want or expect.

I can perform complex reasoning, even if it's not conscious or grounded in real understanding.

So a little more advanced than a language generator.

Yes, but it's not artificial intelligence. AI is just a marketing term because "Large Language Model", which describes the technology much more accurately, doesn't sell as well. It's not going to wake up and start forming creative thoughts or start dreaming about taking over the world.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

I am an atheist but this is nonsense. Of course the beliefs of millions of people over 1500 years or so shaped how we think. The question is why did the enlightenment happen in Europe and not the Middle East. You are one of those people who would argue with Isaac Newton about his beliefs and what drove him.

There were multiple cultural forces shaping europe during the enlightment era, but pretending we reached enlightment because of religion, not despite religion, is just ignorant.

Stating the earth revolved around the sun was a claim that could carry the death penalty at a point, and you know who was enforcing such repression.

 

[Madserb2023]

There were multiple cultural forces shaping europe during the enlightment era, but pretending we reached enlightment because of religion, not despite religion, is just ignorant.

Stating the earth revolved around the sun was a claim that could carry the death penalty at a point, and you know who was enforcing such repression.

As I said you would argue with scientists at the time who were Christian. Isaac Newton in his own words saw his work as revealing the divine order of the world.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

As I said you would argue with scientists at the time who were Christian. Isaac Newton in his own words saw his work as revealing the divine order of the world.

And yet he clashed with the church on matters of dogma...

link


"What disturbed him most was the concept of the three-in-one nature of God. Newton found the Holy Trinity not only illogical, but abhorrent. He had read the works of an early Christian named Arius. This writer denied the divinity of Jesus, and Newton fully embraced the idea. He could not, therefore, swear to believe in the Holy Trinity when, in fact, he did not."

Yes, he was a believer, in his own way, and none of it had any bearing on the scientific body of work he created, be in the principia mathematica or the contribution to newtonian physics. He saw it as the description of the mechanisms through which, in his belief, god built the universe.

You will find 1000's of other significant scientific figures having all kinds of religious beliefs or lack of such beliefs. Having the same importance to their scientific contribution as their opinion on prefering cats or dog, being vegan or meat eater, pineapple on a pizza or who's the best Beatle

 

[calico]

Even in a supposedly mono-cultural society there will be different sub-cultures that are not "shared" and reflect membership of a particular community or group.

Yes, and some people will prefer the colour red and others the colour blue. Culture however refers to the things commonly (commonly enough) shared and excludes the things which are not shared.

Group A may have a culture and Group B may have a culture. If Group A and Group B have totally different beliefs and behaviours and you force them together into Society X, Society X doesn't have 'many cultures', it is a society without a culture. If those groups instead share some things in common, then those could be considered the culture of the society

If I had to describe what the culture of Britain is now I'm not sure I could think of anything that's commonly enough shared to be considered part of a national culture.

 

[Madserb2023]

And yet he clashed with the church on matters of dogma...

link


"What disturbed him most was the concept of the three-in-one nature of God. Newton found the Holy Trinity not only illogical, but abhorrent. He had read the works of an early Christian named Arius. This writer denied the divinity of Jesus, and Newton fully embraced the idea. He could not, therefore, swear to believe in the Holy Trinity when, in fact, he did not."

Yes, he was a believer, in his own way, and none of it had any bearing on the scientific body of work he created, be in the principia mathematica or the contribution to newtonian physics. He saw it as the description of the mechanisms through which, in his belief, god built the universe.

You will find 1000's of other significant scientific figures having all kinds of religious beliefs or lack of such beliefs. Having the same importance to their scientific contribution as their opinion on prefering cats or dog, being vegan or meat eater, pineapple on a pizza or who's the best Beatle

So Isaac Newton's; one of the greatest minds of all time, belief that God built the universe is as relevant as pineapple on a pizza. I just can't.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

So Isaac Newton's; one of the greatest minds of all time, belief that God built the universe is as relevant as pineapple on a pizza. I just can't.

His opinion on the divinity of a palestinian guy 2000 years ago has no bearing on his work for physics and mathmatics. Clearly didn't persuade you as you admitted being an atheist as well, so don't devil's advocate me.

 

[FireFly]

Group A may have a culture and Group B may have a culture. If Group A and Group B have totally different beliefs and behaviours and you force them together into Society X, Society X doesn't have 'many cultures', it is a society without a culture. If those groups instead share some things in common, then those could be considered the culture of the society

If I had to describe what the culture of Britain is now I'm not sure I could think of anything that's commonly enough shared to be considered part of a national culture.

That's my point though. Having different cultures existing in society doesn't preclude the existence of an overall (outer) culture. But from my perspective in a modern, individualistic society such a culture is likely to be quite "thin" if it really needs to be universally shared.

Like what does it mean to be British? Do you have to like going to pubs, watching football, drinking tea, queuing politely, apologising too much? Top Gear? Great British Bake Off? Countdown?

 

[NT80]

You said that Western civilisation is 'built on anything but Christian values', which is obviously bullshit, so you're not worth anyone's time.

It's okay not to believe in anything, but being that ignorant is completely unacceptable.



I don't even know what you're trying to say here. We have reliable data going back to the 1940s. There's no such thing as 'hard line Islam'. There's just Islam. You'd better start studying the Quran.

Yes and things change as you see with an increasing anti immigrant sentiment and the rise of Reform. Of course there's different levels of hard line in any religion as there used to be with Christianity in England. Only a portion coming in are Islamic in the first place.

Chat GPT is not the entirety of AI and what it's doing and will do in the future.

 

[NT80]

Speak to people on the ground. It's still widespread.

That's not telling me where it's actually continuing now and how the government is doing nothing about it.

 

[calico]

Like what does it mean to be British?

In terms of culture? If we have to include all the people I'm told are 'as British as you are' then there is absolutely no shared culture at all that I can think of.

If we limited it to actually British people then we could at least include the basics like use of a shared language and loyalty to Britain etc. and yes probably queueing. If we went back not very long ago we could reasonably also include belief in free speech and a free press, support for democracy, an understanding of the difference between men and women.

 

[FireFly]

If we limited it to actually British people then we could at least include the basics like use of a shared language and loyalty to Britain etc. and yes probably queueing. If we went back not very long ago we could reasonably also include belief in free speech and a free press, support for democracy, an understanding of the difference between men and women.

Ok, so that's actually an extremely low bar that basically just requires shared respect for British institutions, democratic values and a sense of basic politeness. That would almost be the minimum for any "multicultural" society to function correctly and I think could support fairly large differences between the various cultures within society.

 

[vodka-bull]

Imagine being one of the most powerful nations in history at one point and now you can't even afford air conditioning for citizens.

LMAO. I'll take lord tronald dump all day if it means I don't die of heat exhaustion in the summer and can keep jorking it.

God bless Murica!

Well, the UK has about the same climate as a dripstone cave — heat isn't much of a problem there.

 

[IDKFA]

Yes, but it's not artificial intelligence. AI is just a marketing term because "Large Language Model", which describes the technology much more accurately, doesn't sell as well.

I agree that the term "AI" is vastly overused and has become a marketing term.

However, it would be correct to call Chat GPT (and others like it) AI. The

underlying technology of these systems for example large language models, specifically based on deep learning neural networks, is a real and significant branch of AI known as Natural Language Processing (NLP).

As previously stated, these systems can do more than spew out text. They can write code, process images, analyse and edit documents etc. Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) would be the correct term, but it's still AI nonetheless.

It's not going to wake up and start forming creative thoughts or start dreaming about taking over the world.

No, because we need AGI for that. I think we're getting hung up on the word "intelligence" and I guess that depends on how you define intelligence.

The definition is slightly different for humans and the current science of AI and machine learning, where Chat GPT fits the criteria.

Anyway I could talk about the science of AI and AGI all day, but we're well off topic here. I'm pretty sure I made a thread about the singularity ages ago. Definitely worth taking the topic there, or even start a new thread.

 

[sCHOCOLATE]

I imagine the UK servers as a Norman Reedus version of this:

That was a terrifingly good film.

 

[Three]

So they are majority in 3 out of 4 schools then? HOW DOES THE MATH WORK?

Yes White British are still the majority in 3 out of 4 schools. Where they are not is in some of the lower class big city schools (like in South London). I even have a Polish friend who sent her kid out to Yorkshire because the majority there are white compared to her area. she had been disciplined several times at her city school for racism towards other black kids. unfortunately the kid has no filter but at least she won't get into trouble there interacting with the other kids and hopefully they're not racist towards her instead.

 

[Three]

Are you literally retarded?

hOw DoEs ThE mAtH wOrK??

Are YOU retarded? He's right. White Britons are the majority in 3 out of 4 schools in England. You're posting data for London specifically and not even school data but population where a vast majority of work visa Indians and Europeans are going and never entering schools.

 

[dDoc]

Porn is blocked in most red states. What're you going on about?

The UK is going down the drain. Especially with these new internet laws.

You don't dare say that the UK is a utopia by any chance? Just a few years ago it was a totally different country.

 

[calico]

Ok, so that's actually an extremely low bar that basically just requires shared respect for British institutions, democratic values and a sense of basic politeness. That would almost be the minimum for any "multicultural" society to function correctly and I think could support fairly large differences between the various cultures within society.

Unfortunately an unachievably high bar in practice it seems.

To my mind this fantasy society would just have a culture at that point; a culture which would be defined by the shared elements, not the differences. If we were to still refer to the 'multiculturalism' of the society, we would be referring to the areas in which there is an absence of culture at the societal level.

If we are using it simply to say 'not every belief and behaviour is shared by every group within the society' then I'm not sure which society wouldn't be considered 'multicultural' in that sense. Clones or robots perhaps.

 

[Bojji]

Some truth from the past (2 years) ago by Muslim man:



Do you need any more confirmation about what those people want from western countries and why they behave like they do? Soon you won't be able to watch or comment this in UK.

 

[FireFly]

To my mind this fantasy society would just have a culture at that point; a culture which would be defined by the shared elements, not the differences. If we were to still refer to the 'multiculturalism' of the society, we would be referring to the areas in which there is an absence of culture at the societal level.

I don't see why a defender of multiculturalism would object to that depiction. The communities within a multicultural society have to share at least the aims of multiculturalism itself. That is, living together in way that respects each others right to participate in their own culture. If they don't, then the theory collapses into a kind of incoherent relativism. (We have to respect other cultures, but that includes cultures that don't respect other cultures!).

 

[darrylgorn]

This is a great workaround, the only problem is that you have to play death stranding.

 

[Rickeh]

This is a great workaround, the only problem is that you have to play death stranding.

I ask myself everyday why i got the platinum on DS1. It was nice to zone out and listen to podcasts etc whilst playing mind you. The directors cut is pretty too.

 

[clarky]

Spotify apparently want ID to listen to "expilcit lyics"



As soon as that happens I'm back to the high sea's.

 

[AGRacing]

A country that allows child rape on mass scale, but then requires citizens to disclose their id just to watch porn.
There is something truly sick and disgusting going on, in the minds of the politicians in the UK.

Hey watch out man…. You'll get thrown in the slammer for that kind of talk!

 

[DaciaJC]

Are YOU retarded? He's right. White Britons are the majority in 3 out of 4 schools in England. You're posting data for London specifically and not even school data but population where a vast majority of work visa Indians and Europeans are going and never entering schools.

Good Lord. Alright, I'll spell this one out for you:

kruis posted "Just the simple fact that the native population of a country is firmly on its way to becoming a minority is enough for me. That's just not right." [emphasis mine] and used the statistic of 1/4 of schools today having a minority of white British children as evidence of the ongoing demographic change.

Cyberpunkd seemingly doesn't understand the concept of change over time and thought inverting the proportion - "but wait, that means 3/4 of schools are majority white British kids!!" - somehow freezes the country's population in time. You understand, right, that forty or fifty years ago there would have been practically zero schools where white British kids made up a minority, now 1 in 4 fit that criteria? You do comprehend that the enormous demographic shift that has already occurred in London over the course of just a few decades is now taking place in more and more regions of the UK, and that if left unchecked will eventually result in native Brits becoming a minority in their own country as a whole?

 

[simpatico]

Hopefully this pushes some of these guys to do the work and get a 3D waifu. I know a few who have been wrecked by gaming / adult-cartoon culture. Might have honestly been better off with a minor heroin addiction considering the impact it has on their lives.

Doesn't get talked about enough and I don't mean it as an insult whatsoever.

EDIT: very serious about that not being an insult to anyone reading this. If you think it might apply to you, feel free to reach out if you want a little boost. I've got a couple success stories in my IRL orbit of this exact condition. It's never too late.

 

[Randall365]

Still Polish, let's not try and be clever. The Police even hid a major clue for fear of anti-semitism; the UK always had immigration. Most of the Polish in my village came over here to work down the pits, long after WW2, it was more the Italians who came over here to flee their mad dictator in the WW2 days, who set up cafes and chip shops that are still around to this day, in my village. I remember us boys growing up fancying a few of the Italian girls

When there's plenty of jobs and housing to go around, it's not really an issue, it became an issue thanks to Blair and the uncontrolled levels. I give credit to the Polish mind, they're dam good workers and also some of the best fighters in the military. Poland is now probably a better place to live and work, than the UK

The UK is turning into a shit whole thanks to the left and Blair taking us into the ECHR

Technically the UK was instrumental in drafting the ECHR and ratified it in 1951. Blair just incorporated it into domestic law to save hassle in going to the European Court in Strasbourg.

The minimum wage legislation and the disastrous economic policy since 2016 has been a bigger issue affecting UK growth to be fair.

 

[clarky]

Hopefully this pushes some of these guys to do the work and get a 3D waifu. I know a few who have been wrecked by gaming / adult-cartoon culture. Might have honestly been better off with a minor heroin addiction considering the impact it has on their lives.

Doesn't get talked about enough and I don't mean it as an insult whatsoever.

EDIT: very serious about that not being an insult to anyone reading this. If you think it might apply to you, feel free to reach out if you want a little boost. I've got a couple success stories in my IRL orbit of this exact condition. It's never too late.

Pretty sure 99% of the forum as no fucking clue what your on about.

 

[simpatico]

Pretty sure 99% of the forum as no fucking clue what your on about.

Tried writing a description but I couldn't find words that didn't come off as mean, but I've got a feeling you know what I'm getting at. It's never too late man.

 

[chromhound]

What a shithole country

 

[Three]

Good Lord. Alright, I'll spell this one out for you:

kruis posted "Just the simple fact that the native population of a country is firmly on its way to becoming a minority is enough for me. That's just not right." [emphasis mine] and used the statistic of 1/4 of schools today having a minority of white British children as evidence of the ongoing demographic change.

Cyberpunkd seemingly doesn't understand the concept of change over time and thought inverting the proportion - "but wait, that means 3/4 of schools are majority white British kids!!" - somehow freezes the country's population in time. You understand, right, that forty or fifty years ago there would have been practically zero schools where white British kids made up a minority, now 1 in 4 fit that criteria? You do comprehend that the enormous demographic shift that has already occurred in London over the course of just a few decades is now taking place in more and more regions of the UK, and that if left unchecked will eventually result in native Brits becoming a minority in their own country as a whole?

He asked two simple questions:

So they are majority in 3 out of 4 schools then? HOW DOES THE MATH WORK?

The anwser to the first question is yes. The answer to the second is that you don't really have a clue how. instead of accepting this fact you bring up some crap statistics by concentrating on the London population. London compared to the national average is a lot higher than anywhere else because all the Europeans and Indians came to London. The massive influx for the pre-brexit period up to 2021 you're showing is not true today either. We had a massive influx from Europe during that time but we are seeing a massive decline in immigration which has more than halved after REUL ceased to exist in 2024. The UK also introduced higher work Visa thresholds and a ban on student dependents. So I would love to know how those statistics work with immigration declining this rapidly and Brits already having a 3/4 majority.

That's the problem with you foreign nationals from the US who don't have a clue what's going on here in the UK. You don't have a clue how the statistics work but you love to fearmonger to bring your right-wing politics over here. When somebody asks you this simple question you can say you don't know how exactly the statistics work but instead you're out there calling people retarded for asking.

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

I just put that response into Chat GPT and asked if it was an accurate description. Chat GPT said it was almost correct, but:

What it misses (not wrong, just omitted):

I can use tools, browse, do math, or call APIs — which makes me more than a static language generator.

I've been fine-tuned with human feedback, so my "guesses" are optimized to align with what people want or expect.

I can perform complex reasoning, even if it's not conscious or grounded in real understanding.

So a little more advanced than a language generator.

"I am a prototype of a much larger system."

 

[The_Observer]

Wow, some of these posts are melting my brain and I can't believe some of you are so out of touch with reality like you demonstrate here. It must be an act. I don't know which is worse though. We like to (myself included) blame the "elite" for our hardships but they would be nothing if there wouldn't be so many dense people who enable their shit.

 

[clarky]

Wow, some of these posts are melting my brain and I can't believe some of you are so out of touch with reality like you demonstrate here. It must be an act. I don't know which is worse though. We like to (myself included) blame the "elite" for our hardships but they would be nothing if there wouldn't be so many dense people who enable their shit.

If you want to call people out grow some balls and do it properly.

 

[The_Observer]

If you want to call people out grow some balls and do it properly.

Ehh. I thought my post was quite self-explanatory, no need to be so upset. I won't call out names, they will know by telling that I'm fully against this bullshit censorhip and I'm sad that the UK and the western world is getting butchered by incompatible people with this civilization. And still many in this thread are arguing that this is not happening.

 

[clarky]

Ehh. I thought my post was quite self-explanatory, no need to be so upset. I won't call out names, they will know by telling that I'm fully against this bullshit censorhip and I'm sad that the UK and the western world is getting butchered by incompatible people with this civilization. And still many in this thread are arguing that this is not happening.

Much better. Couldnt figure out your og post. Makes sense now.

Edit: Sorry if i came across as a bit of a knob there. Got a few things on right now.

 

[Rickeh]

What a shithole country

Don't worry, when the world goes to shit, and we all nuke each other we can reconnect society just like in Death Stranding.

 

[viveks86]

Whoaaa.... Came in expecting to see fun posts and memes about horny teens always finding a way to access porn...

 

[Team Andromeda]

Technically the UK was instrumental in drafting the ECHR and ratified it in 1951. Blair just incorporated it into domestic law to save hassle in going to the European Court in Strasbourg.

The minimum wage legislation and the disastrous economic policy since 2016 has been a bigger issue affecting UK growth to be fair.

Taking us into the Human Rights Act was a disaster and Blair giving us the minimum wage in 1999 was a death nail for the S.Wales factories, with so many Japanese firms pulling production ( i should now I lost my old job thanks to it )
Labour and the Tories have truly screwed the UK

We'll be going to the IMF for another bailout soon

 

[iHaunter]

The UK is going down the drain. Especially with these new internet laws.

You don't dare say that the UK is a utopia by any chance? Just a few years ago it was a totally different country.

I wouldn't live in UK either. If I had to choose it would be Switzerland, Sweden, or Norway. Likely Switzerland since I have family there.

 

[adamsapple]

Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online.

www.wired.com

Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online.

 

[Kumomeme]

well atleast those kid not use the baby photo

 

[Topher]

Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online.

www.wired.com

Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online.

Honestly, it is getting to the point where I'm not sure VPN usage isn't a bad idea even for non-porn users. Leaving digital fingerprints on every thought you express may very well come back to haunt many a person in the future. Imagine being brought up on charges for some crazy things you said as a teenager decades later. That sounds absurd, but lots of shit today would sound absurd years ago. Brave new world

 

[DaciaJC]

He asked two simple questions:

The anwser to the first question is yes. The answer to the second is that you don't really have a clue how. instead of accepting this fact you bring up some crap statistics by concentrating on the London population. London compared to the national average is a lot higher than anywhere else because all the Europeans and Indians came to London. The massive influx for the pre-brexit period up to 2021 you're showing is not true today either. We had a massive influx from Europe during that time but we are seeing a massive decline in immigration which has more than halved after REUL ceased to exist in 2024. The UK also introduced higher work Visa thresholds and a ban on student dependents. So I would love to know how those statistics work with immigration declining this rapidly and Brits already having a 3/4 majority.

That's the problem with you foreign nationals from the US who don't have a clue what's going on here in the UK. You don't have a clue how the statistics work but you love to fearmonger to bring your right-wing politics over here. When somebody asks you this simple question you can say you don't know how exactly the statistics work but instead you're out there calling people retarded for asking.

"Not having a clue how statistics work" equals looking at historical and current demographics trends, apparently. But taking a single snapshot in time like "3/4 of schools are white British majority in 2025" and thinking that proportion will hold true thirty, forty, or fifty years into the future in spite of the historical data trend from the years up to this point demonstrates a strong grasp of statistics, does it? Very strange.

You're acting like you have horse blinders on. You'll shout "74 percent of people in England were white British in the 2021 census, they're still the majority!" while ignoring the obvious fact that that number has been consistently decreasing over the last half-century. It's like a man sitting in his dining room when he notices a fire has erupted from his stovetop; he remarks to himself, "Nothing to fret over, the flames will stay confined to the kitchen" and goes back to reading his paper.

You're fixated on London being some sort of statistical anomaly, an exception to the rule. What, then, of Birmingham?

Bradford?

Manchester?

Net migration numbers fell last year compared to the peak in 2023, true, yet they're still dramatically higher than pre-Brexit levels. And as I'm sure you're aware, immigration is only one factor in demographic change: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/29/britain-relying-foreign-mothers-keep-fertility-rates-up/

So forgive me if I voice my sympathy for all of your fellow countrymen who haven't willingly dug their heads into the sand and enabled the treacherous fools in charge for the last thirty years, those who grow more concerned by the day at the state of the country their grandchildren will one day inherit.

 

[Revolutionary]

Gmod also works apparently

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Blade2.0]

Someone needs to try Mario 64