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Comment Re:Also, their pandemic performance (Score 1) 169

As it was reported at the time, Vietnam had REALLY effective, fast and deep contact tracing.

Hats off to them from Australia, we had a great head-start but aside from vaccinating kind of didn't follow through. We've _still_ got people claiming that every death must be vaccine-related, which I consider an abject failure of some kind. Erosion of trust, if I had to put it in words.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 159

You're modded Insightful, but were probably not being serious.
But to my point, I opened a book of Roald Dahl short stories the other day, and skimmed through them to remember what they were. One in particular was very relevant to our current times: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

The Great Automatic Grammatizator is essentially a mechanical LLM, which eventually takes over ghostwriting duties for all popular authors, who sign away their literary likenesses once they see that it produces better work than they.

Comment Re:Lego has lost its simple modularity (Score 1) 81

I don't really like the new sets either, but I see what the other posters are saying. I haven't kept up with the vast variety of new blocks (who has that kind of time)?

But luckily, the Gandalf character can be reused as Magneto in an X-men set, and of course there's that amazing crossover where the elf lord says "Welcome to Rivendell... Mr Anderson!"

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