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HSBC exists because of Opium. It has always been the bank of the drug cartels.

> HSBC was founded after the second of the Opium Wars, by which time the trade was already well established. The founders included several opium traders who recognised the profitable banking opportunities presented by the new market.

https://taxjustice.net/2015/02/27/hsbc-and-the-worlds-oldest...

They’ve been in the thick of it since forever, unrelentingly.

https://www.cadtm.org/HSBC-the-bank-with-a-shameful-past

https://unpublishedarticles.com/hsbc-hong-kong-shanghai-bank...


The fish rots from the head down.


ChatGpT does not know anything. It vomits words that are statistically likely to convey meaning, but there is no guarantee that it is truthful: it is always a probability, not a certainty.


How is that different than an average human? Wanna take odds on which one appears to be smarter on average?


It ends with a cruel and thieving dictator being deposed, and a free democratic nation remaining so. No nation should fall to Russian dictatorship.


Really good, until the day it hallucinates a novel answer that suggests doing something bad.


what are you exactly saying?


These AIs tell lies. Do not believe them with blind faith. If they say something true and valuable, it is not because they know something. They don’t have knowledge: they have word vomit that is statistically likely to have meaning.


yea they basically just say things that sound plausible


Why would the school need anything more than, if so concerned about a student’s health, a doctor’s note? “This girl is healthy and can participate in whatever.”


As the article says, this is about trans people. It's not about health.


A subculture is generally hidden from the mainstream culture. Few are those who display their BDSM subculture in obvious public fashion.

A counterculture is in the face of the mainstream culture, trying to change the cult. It is countering the mainstream. It is activist or, at the least, unabashed with the intention of normalization.


Gathering space: The Men’s Shed


The Signal: You do not carry a Phone.

You definitely do not carry a smartphone. You might be excused a flip phone, if only because you’re not likely to b super-connected with it, but honestly that’s pushing it; even the most primitive cellphone has sms.


I stuff everything into Safari’s “reading list” and then never read them :-/


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