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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Chamfort

Stupidity would not be totally stupid if it did not go in terror of intelligence. Vice would not be entirely vicious if it did not hate virtue.

[La sottise ne serait pas tout-à-fait la sottise, si elle ne craignait pas l’esprit. Le vice ne serait pas tout-à-fait le vice, s’il ne haïssait pas la vertu.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 139 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]

#quote #quotes #quotation #folly #opposition #stupidity #vice
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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

Man Whose Job Never Involved the Use of Firearms Fired for not Knowing How to Use a Firearm.

A US Navy ship's captain was relieved of duty for not knowing how to use a rifle.

Those who fired this captain are the ones too stupid and ignorant to keep their jobs.

In my entire 6 years in the US Navy I never touched a firearm. Why would I? What do firearms have to do with standing watch in the engine room of a submarine?

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5100305

#ignorance #unfairness #stupidity #pig-ignorance #idiocy #us-navy #government #foolishness #firearms #rifle

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mlansbury@despora.de
Mark Lansbury

#Kafkaesque: Starling Bank blocks cash transfer & froze their account

An Edinburgh academic has accused #Starling bank’s fraud team of behaving like officers in a police state after they repeatedly refused to allow him to send a €15,000 (£12,800) payment to a friend in Austria, then froze his account when he complained about their “absurd demands”.

When he told the #bank that he considered its demands a gross invasion of both his and his friend’s #privacy (and likely data rules) and totally disproportionate in the circumstances, he says it still refused to transfer the money. The staff could have told him the payment was at his own risk, but wouldn’t.

The final indignity came when he said he was so fed up with his treatment that he wished to close his account: the bank announced it had shut him out of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/17/bank-blocks-cash-transfer-ai-scam-fraud

#StarlingBank #banking #CorporateTerrorism #Orwellian #money #money #laundering #CustomerService #CriticalThinking #stupidity

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

More Fun with AI

News app makes up news and credits it to made up people.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-news-app-us-has-chinese-origins-writes-fiction-with-help-ai-2024-06-05/

Another example of an "AI" pulling shit out of its anus.

LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) - Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, opens new tab, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined "Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns."\
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The problem was, no such shooting took place. The Bridgeton, New Jersey police department posted a statement on Facebook on December 27 dismissing the article - produced using AI technology - as "entirely false".\
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"Nothing even similar to this story occurred on or around Christmas, or even in recent memory for the area they described," the post said. "It seems this 'news' outlet's AI writes fiction they have no problem publishing to readers."

#ai #as #artificial-intelligence #artificial-stupidity #google #be-evil #stupidity #misinformation #incompetence #worthless #worse-than-worthless #joke #tasteless-joke #painful-embarrassment

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad 🆓🇵🇸 ☮️Now

This is infuriating and shameful: The deputy of Kermanshah Cultural Heritage announced: The nationally registered Masih Kermanshah Hospital, the country's second historical hospital, was demolished on Wednesday, June 2, by the order of the owner of this building.

Kyomarth Khani Lalabadi, pointing out that the municipality has issued permission to demolish this historic hospital, continued: "For the past two or three years, the owner of the building was seeking to remove this building from the list of #registered_national monuments of Iran with a complaint in the Court of Administrative Justice. He failed to do so, and it seems that with this complaint in hand, he was able to get permission from the municipality to destroy it."
#Hamava

معاون #میراث_فرهنگی #کرمانشاه اعلام کرد: بیمارستان ثبت ملی شده مسیح کرمانشاه، دومین بیمارستان #تاریخی کشور چهارشنبه دوم خردادماه، به دستور مالک این بنا تخریب شد.

•کیومرث خانی لعل آبادی با اشاره به اینکه شهرداری مجوز تخریب این بیمارستان تاریخی را صادر کرده است، ادامه داد: "مالک بنا طی دو سه سال گذشته با شکایت در دیوان عدالت اداری بدنبال خروج مجدد این بنا از فهرست آثار #ثبت_ملی شده ایران بود که موفق به این کار نشد و به نظر می رسد با در دست داشتن همین شکایت توانسته از شهرداری مجوز تخریب آن را بگیرد."
#هم‌آوا

#Iran #Culture #Heritage #Stupidity #Money #Hospital #History #Greed

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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

We're already there. It's just getting hotter.

♲ Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua: - 2024-04-13 21:28:31 GMT

Oh great now we have another possible avenue for a WW3 starting
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-attack-strikes-live-updates-rcna147477Is there a bottomless pit where we can throw all politicians and start again? That or someone wake up Cthulhu as it would be preferable to go mad than to keep seeing the stupidity that ends up forming the worlds governments

#ww3 #iran #israel #us #stupidity

Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua: (@ncrav@mas.to)

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