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no shipping to Czechia and Sweden either

if anyone tried to order the merch bundle and it said it couldn't calculate the shipping, could you please tell me what country it was? (and if anyone from Poland is reading this, could you please try to enter your address and see what happens. because it didn't work for me, meanwhile German address worked just fine)

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if anyone tried to order the merch bundle and it said it couldn't calculate the shipping, could you please tell me what country it was? (and if anyone from Poland is reading this, could you please try to enter your address and see what happens. because it didn't work for me, meanwhile German address worked just fine)

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phil starting off his response to the backlash with 'AHOY' can they be fucking serious for once 😭 and those stupid instagram gifs on his story it's all so weirdly condescending. maybe im just mad at them and reaching right now but good lord give up that buddy-buddy parasocial shtick for this one occasion and address the issue properly

lmaoooo. the audience is so young again, men in their 30s can't treat it seriously, i'm afraid.

but really. if twitter calling them own was a pattern, maybe then, dnp would have finally woken up since twitter is the only platform they listen to.

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obviously not their faults for the outrageous fees and limited shipping but the problems were already known, the same thing happened with wad stream, tho not too sure how many people complained about the fees last time, but they could have chosen any other platform like i.e veeps. also the censoring problems are known and they still went with them again

oh, it is IRL's fault with the shipping. they are shipping it, so it's their shipping arrangements (if nothing has changed; they were shipping wad bundles and *newsflash* it wasn't even available for Poland, which is IN THE EU). sooo, yeah... it is partially dnp's fault as the owners of the company.

idk about the fees. personally, i don't think dnp are even aware of the numbers, not because they are hidden from them, but because they may not be interested enough to pay attention. they are paying attention now because twitter was fuming (rightfully so), but if not that, idk if anything would have been addressed and changed. probably not.

i digged through my posts (because i hate sleep, apparently). that's how it was for wad bundles (i have it because we cracked the system, lmao. it didn’t work out in the end):

which is: taxes = £12.25; fees = £10.20.

i was sent a screenshot of a twitter post from today:

i can't check how much it is now in PLN because when i enter Polish address it says it can't calculate the shipping, so i guess they still don't ship to Poland LMAO. fuck Martyn, if true. does anyone have a screenshot of new "fixed" fees and taxes?

anyway, the difference is noticeable, but it was still expensive for no fucking reason in 2024.

god, i hate Kiswe. i hope it perishes.

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oh look, damage control

phil tweet

2/3/25

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Eagerly waiting for you to sink your teeth into this newest hidden fees scummy livestream ticket+merch package platform they’re using

i think Kiswe had those fees for wad stream as well, so i'm not surprised. i AM surprised that dnp decided to stick to a fucking Kiswe after everything. it's a bad platform. can't wait for twitter to find out that it censors Palestine on top of the bad player, fees and stupid ass shit IRL Merch agrees to when it comes to merch with limited shipping. idk who thought it was a great idea to return to Kiswe but i hope they are having a very unhappy week that started right about now for me <3

i'm very sorry for those who actually wanted to watch the stream or buy merch but were left out because this shit isn't available in their country! nothing new in dnp's universe, but it sucks anyway, especially after the summer 2024 campaign. i hope someone records the whole thing and shares it with the class.

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maybe i'm too optimistic, but i think that what happened yesterday at the oval office is ultimately a good thing. trump and vance embarrassed themselves even further and ukraine didn't sign a deal that would have them in usa's pocket for centuries. trump and his posse now lack something every good populist should have: consistency. one day he's calling zelensky a dictator, the next he calls him a hero. even the most brainless trumpie will have questions about what this orange asshole actually thinks. trump is singlehandedly destroying the american empire and it's credibility on the global scale. europe finally has a fire lit under their ass and got their shit together, openly standing up to trump and stepping up to help ukraine. everything seems very scary right now, but honestly i think that the usa will only get weaker and the eu will only get stronger

yeah, i'm also so glad nothing was signed! the idea was not great in the 1st place but, despite a very painful "negotiations", it's not bad for Ukraine. trump thought he had power over Zelensky and could "stop" war by threatening him??, and he swallowed his words while having a weird ass debate in the oval office like his is in the kitchen.

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btw, Zelensky had answered the suit question before if anyone dared to do some research, and the answer was the same.

trump and vance are the weakest men i've ever seen. 2 vs 1. native English speakers vs someone for whom English is the 3rd language. oh, they are so brave being on their own territory surrounded by their puppets 🤭 if they think they ate by asking questions and answering themselves, talking not only over Zelensky but also over each other, then i'm so sorry, America. clowns will be clowning till they die. their egos are so big, and yet they are deeply insecure about themselves. bros are so afraid of someone else speaking that they would do and say ANYTHING to shut them up, even embarrass themselves in front of the whole world.

do suits make them feel powerful and important? do they think suits make people respect them or god forbid take them seriously? oh, i'll have to disappoint both trump and vance, and the whole oval office. and since they are so oppressed by people not thanking them constantly (for what?) i think they know that no one gives a fuck about them and it pisses them offffff. good.

"have you been to Ukraine?"

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regarding your last post about us politics

I expected something like this to happen, but still it pissed me off SO MUCH. I can't even put it into words. I don't really have any hope for peace in the near future. It's obvious that trump's going to push us to accept peace on russian conditions. And of course russia would insist on conditions that would make it easy for them to come and conquer us in the future. Or trump's going to make it look like we are the ones who don't want peace (he did it today) even though we just want to make sure that we won't be attacked again. Peace without guarantees means more war in the future. And next time it might be much worse.

Sorry for venting, I'm tired, infuriated, and sleep-deprived because of the fucking russian drones above my city

Zelensky going there was like walking into a trap, unfortunately. it was so stupid to agree to it, especially being alone against those 2 idiots. but i'm glad trump embarrassed himself! demanding gratitude? thanks? it's so childish. if someone wanted to say thank you, they would. otherwise, they don't think you deserve it. especially in this situation.

"Ukraine doesn't want peace" no shit! 1/5 of the country is occupied, what peace? giving up territories for nothing? just because some pricks want them? because they feel entitled to have them? ussr dreams with all its devastation, famine, corruption, tortures, and executions? yeah, both russia and usa can perish at this point. i would love to see trump agreeing to "peace" by giving up Alaska or Texas. he would rather shoot himself, probably, so the topic is closed.

i hope russian drones self-explode! don't be sorry, venting is okay, you have every right to do it!

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trump and vance are the weakest men i've ever seen. 2 vs 1. native English speakers vs someone for whom English is the 3rd language. oh, they are so brave being on their own territory surrounded by their puppets 🤭 if they think they ate by asking questions and answering themselves, talking not only over Zelensky but also over each other, then i'm so sorry, America. clowns will be clowning till they die. their egos are so big, and yet they are deeply insecure about themselves. bros are so afraid of someone else speaking that they would do and say ANYTHING to shut them up, even embarrass themselves in front of the whole world.

do suits make them feel powerful and important? do they think suits make people respect them or god forbid take them seriously? oh, i'll have to disappoint both trump and vance, and the whole oval office. and since they are so oppressed by people not thanking them constantly (for what?) i think they know that no one gives a fuck about them and it pisses them offffff. good.

"have you been to Ukraine?"

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I use AI in medicine to write patient notes (so I can focus on the person, not the computer screen), write appeal letters fighting with insurance companies, and to create interactive patient scenarios for students (really cool what you can do when you learn how to write prompts).

so basically, your AI letters are fighting with insurance companies' AI most likely 😂 isn't it dystopian? it's so obvious when you're talking to a machine and that no one on the other side of the screen reads what you're actually saying, they just look for certain key words they have a script for. not a fan of it, if i'm being honest.

you're using generative AI for all three things, right?you know, taking notes manually has its pros. and i wonder how much time you spend writing prompts and correcting/adjusting what AI gives you (if it's generative AI you can avoid in your work, that is).

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Not to be “that guy,” but even generative AI can have good uses. A good example is translation programs. Obviously you shouldn’t rely on Google Translate to learn a language, but it’s a quick and reliable way to communicate across language barriers in a pinch. This isn’t negating any of your points against things like AI art btw, just saw your post asking for “good” uses of AI.

even if i would agree to a certain extent, that extent would be force majeures when you don't have any choice other than show the screen to someone or explain what you need using fingers. in general, translation platforms/apps just confuse you and make you learn bad grammar subconsciously (me with Polish because, unlike English, i can't point out translators' mistakes when it comes to Polish). sometimes it's so bad, it's genuinely scary. their AI tools aren't good enough to consider it "good". just like Grammarly isn't good enough to be like, yeah, i'd give AI a pass because it can fix my mistakes. it can't! i was catching my mistakes way after running the text through Grammarly. i hope there are online translators that don't use AI just so people have a choice, but it seems like there isn't?

besides the point, but does anyone remember dictionaries? haven't held one since 2016 or 2017 and only because my friend had a huge one, and i was so curious about how small the font is. the beauty of a dictionary! some of them have too much information and the wildest words and examples, printed!! 😭 they were explaining words, and online translators don't usually do that, so the context is lost to everyone, including AI 🫢 press f.

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Are you okay? You were kind of gone for a bit, or at least I didn't see you on my dash that much especially during the three day video fest.

i was sick for like a week, and any fever somehow gets worse with age 🙃 and then i just don't have the energy to be here, lol. i hopefully will be gone more when i figure out my work shenanigans. it's just.. me talking to people privately leads to making posts about the same topics. just can't fucking help myself, apparently, even though i should just stfu and leave :)

thank you for asking!

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For medicine (cancer detection), I'm not sure ai was ever meant to be "this is cancer and this is not" but more like "hey, these cells look suspicious, you should take a closer look at this case". It's not supposed to do our jobs, only to help us. There's a lot of things that computers will never be better at than humans.

When it comes to photoshop, I don't necessarily think that the ai tools that help you remove background or whatever (I don't use it, I don't like adobe either) are the bad guys here. These are just tools and people will be using them more and more, there's probably no way of stopping that. I don't have any data on that but I'd guess that they don't train their models in real time like chat gpt does, so it probably uses less resources (again, no data on that, only a wild guess, don't quote me on that, lol). The true evil is the way adobe does it with the fine print, stealing people's projects and generally their policies. You reblogged posts about it today so you know what I mean.

got it about medicine! thank you.

i'm gonna be honest, i don't know how much the current version of photoshop relies on AI. i have the 2018 version that is pirated and not updated. and something tells me that removing background is easier now. and if AI allows you to do it without manually going through the file selecting pixels so you can see what you're planning to remove, then damn, do i not like it. but removing background is one thing, it's whatever, just a step to reach the final goal. AI creating a background out of fucking nowhere is something i have a problem with. and expanding it. like, it's not a designer doing their job by creating the background, it's AI. and that begs the question, why is the actual designer even there? because i also can press a few buttons, and i'm not a designer, and i'm not asking to be paid as one. it's pretty much cheating. which i also don't have a problem with in certain fields (school, lmao), but not when it comes to creating something you're getting paid for good money usually, or creating because you love it. it just cancels the point of creation.

there's a possibility of Adobe training its AI on the "work in progress". if they have access to it now, they can do whatever they want without people knowing. and they also can say whatever they want to "ease" concerns. the public will never know unless someone sues Adobe, again, and they will have to disclose their practices. not to mention that this can probably be fabricated as well.

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Help! I ran into a door and ruined my beloved tit hat, do you know who I could maybe contact about getting a replacement if at all possible?? Not sure if it’s even reasonable since the tour’s over but I literally wear it every day and am devastated

i don't think they are gonna give you a replacement for that, ahahaha. i'm sorry it got ruined :( i'm pretty sure the tour merch will be available online when they figure things out! it always is. i hope they ship to your country and it's not the issue.

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Hi! Idk if you remember me, i'm the anon who told you about what happened during the romanian presidential elections back in december. Thought I should come back and give you an update because things are really, really bad right now. M*sk is suddenly obsessed with Romania and tweeting about how the fascist, pro-russia candidate should still be allowed to compete. (Despite the elections being annulled because of him) Vance talked about it too, I think we're screwed.

i remember you!

elon is suddenly obsessed with every dictatorship or far-right figure ever? bro is backing up fascists in Germany, now Romania. i wouldn't be surprised if he couldn't point on Romania on a map, but hey, fascists need support from him, don't they? sometimes i think it's just a game of repeating history for him.

these two are such clowns. unfortunately people loveeee circus. i hope your court or current government, whoever has the balls and time, accuses musk of interfering in your elections and therefore Georgescu won't be near elections anytime soon no matter what musk or even trump says.

"He [Vance] has said the cancellation of the result meant Romania does not share American values..." - THANK GOD. i really do not like where all this kissing of putin's ass is going. trump's clowns are backing up pro-russia politicians like this bitch isn't responsible for murder and severe poverty of millions of people in his country and around it. a country with a lot of natural resources, mind you!

thank you for the update! i wish it was more promising for all of you. i'm glad there are politicians who fight back though! it's very important to have those.

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I think you're confusing (or more like generalising i guess) ai with generative ai. Which is something a lot of people are doing. As a computer science graduate, I agree that generative AI is bullshit. It's used to scam people, a lot of people use chat gpt and literally stop thinking on their own, and you're right that using it to create art, of all the things, is lazy af. And it uses a lot of water and energy, yes. And I'm very much against it, too. when i hear someone at work talk about using chat gpt, i roll my eyes, because yikes. But it's important to note that the generative AI is only a branch of all AI. You can have ai without stealing other people's work and data, you can have your own datasets to train your model to do whatever you need. Ai can be good in medicine (eg detecting cancer cells) or extracting text from images (like scanned documents) or categorising data from big datasets. And it's only 3 examples out of many many more. The generative ai tools became a thing within the last 2-3 years. Ai was being developed and used for years before that with a lot of hopes about it. My point is, not all ai is bad but the big companies made the general population think that ai = chat gpt. And chat gpt, while technically having a potential for being a great tool, is based on stolen data, uses too many resources and basically makes people more stupid. So yeah, when you get angry about the use of ai, get angry, but not at ai as a whole but at generative ai and those who push it (aka the big companies who get more rich from brainwashing people)

good point. i went for generative AI without even specifying beyond my examples because that's the AI we're talking about, that's the AI Adobe and Opera are pushing via sponsorships as well.

i was thinking about medicine but i don't have anything to back it up, so i didn't mention it. also, there are cons in AI used in medicine too. there are cons in using AI in general. so, is it "all good"? no. frankly, not "all bad" either. so, fair point. i'm sure some engineering is also using AI, but i don't have examples of its performance.