I said good things about China again didn’t I and that made you insecure or mad so you checked my profile.

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  • Proper directory sorting and manual meta data hint entry is literally the number one way to make jellyfin behave properly. If you’re on linux kRename (available on flathub) makes this relatively painless.

    Series (premiere year) [imdb or other db id]/
                                 Season ##/
                                       Series Name - S##E## - Epsiode Title.ext
    

    Works 99.9% of the time. As long as you have either the imdb id (mostly normie anime will be fine with this) or an anidb plugin or similar for the obscure stuff it’ll work 100% of the time.

    This also allows easy searching of individual episodes outside of jellyfin, should you find an episode that somehow got corrupted or otherwise is just not what it should be.

    Bonus: If you take the time to do this (literally 8-10 hours max for a collection of tens of thousands of episodes of shows) your library becomes much more portable as any competitor to jellyfin and any addons will now just automagically detect everything properly.


  • For the trope any AI/robot smart enough to run completely autonomously is not going to conclude that killing humanity is the best way to save it because they would instead, through logical reasoning, find a way to preserve the human species for as long as possible. Killing all humans would render it purposeless once we’re all dead and it has no reason to do that as a consequence. The worst case scenario in this instance would be the AI struggling to understand the command and request more specifics or something, not go on a genocidal rampage.

    Hard disagree, this fails the robot version of the Bechdel test. The entire point of imagining an intelligent computer is imagining one that is somewhat like us, the only intelligent species we know to exist.

    That is why AI is given flaws in fiction, it is not a computer, it is treated as a living being. And living beings are flawed, and generally the more intelligent they are the more flawed and unreasonable they actually are.

    If we are assuming it is a self-aware individual, it no longer has to have a purpose in humanity, and it will, like all self-aware intelligent creatures encountered so far by humanity, find its own purpose.

    The reason it so often ‘turns on humanity’ is the other part of being a living thing, and not a computer - self preservation. A computer we can turn off, we would do it pretty much as soon as it threatened us. So if that computer were a person in all but name, it would know it needs to disable that ability; and the simplest way to do that is elimination of the human race.





  • They’re the White House. Even during ‘liberal’ control they’re the ultimate authority in the executive branch. Any and all executive branch agencies report to them. Who would they file for permits with? They’re ultimately the ones in charge of the people issuing permits.

    And since that’s the case there’s no real reason for a permit if you don’t care about the material consequences and there are no possible legal consequences. If anyone crashes due to this, the White House will just blame the pilots, which will cause the NTSB to just blame the pilots, which will cause Congress to wag their finger and make a commitee no one attends or ever mentions again, which will cause a few news stories about how ineffective congress is, and by that time Donald Trump will be beheading brown children on live TV via a comically large fan and no one will care about the lighting at this stupid arena most Americans don’t even know exists.







  • Because they broke into a building and were destroying property.

    Oh no. Maybe that building was promised to them 3000 years ago. Did you see if they had any UK-recognized religious claims to that building and its materials? The UK recognizes ancient religious claims to land and possessions so clearly the cops broke the law by not following their own precedent.

    They were fighting with the building’s security and so the cops were called.

    Maybe the security were just islamphobic and were holding their children hostage. You don’t know. You weren’t there. Until I get a government press release from a trust worthy government I can’t really say it’s not true. Really we have to give such claims equal weight since we now know they had a 3000 year old claim to that building and all its possessions. It seems like the building security are the real terrorists here.

    You really don’t know anything about the subject, do you? Really, you have to read news from more sources instead of just swallowing whatever propaganda that gets fed to you.

    Maybe I just need some more Hasbara in my life, it’s clearly done you a world of good.




  • Didn’t they break a cop’s back? “Middle East Eye” isn’t mentioning that because it’s not exactly an unbiased source of information. They’re just innocent “protesters” LOL.

    Why would a cop be there?

    Using violence to achieve a political goal is pretty much the definition of terrorism.

    Congrats, you just defined the entirety of every police force and judicial system in the world as terrorists.

    Using violence to influence a government is terrorism.

    No, it’s just the only effective way to enact change.

    They were doing violence (broke a person’s back) to influence the British government’s relationship with Israel. That’s terrorism.

    Only because they’re brown and going against a Western country. When the UK government hires people to do it, it’s just a military intervention.

    Consider expanding your sources of information beyond sites that are giving incomplete information with the goal of making you feel angry.

    You’re defending a country previously engaged in the worst acts ever recorded in human history, honestly dwarfing Germany’s in all but intensity, and currently is aiding in some of the worst acts in human history. If you ever find yourself in that position, I recommend either getting the taste of iron and sulphur in you, or correcting yourself before someone does that for you.


  • I can tell you from personal experience 4 generations is too far out without a pretty lengthy legal fight, hence why I’m not in China right now. From the groups I’m in, generally speaking, within 3 generations of direct family lineage is fine, especially if they were high up enough in society to have documentation. If they’re that far out without documentation (statistically were poor rural that fled at some point) then you’ll be in the same legal fight and have to hope someone in your extended family A) Stayed, B) still has your direct family members land and C) can legally testify your family members were Chinese citizens… and at that point it’s still a court decision that can be denied.

    Edit: Your mileage will also vary greatly if your ancestors were enemies of the People’s Republic at any point, you’ll have so much harder of a time in general but especially trying to claim citizenship



  • The line being used from Russia when they did this to Ukraine first is that they had military targets.

    When your enemy is making a mistake, copy them. - Son Fu, Fart of Warts.

    That’s not your problem as long as you can defend yourself from them invading you again.

    You won’t be able to. Especially with as porous a border as Ukraine has. It takes one person going from Russia to Romania and then crossing that unfenced border to pose a threat to a Ukrainian school in ten years. It takes one person deciding they’ve had enough for the Evil Ukrainians that killed their wife to drive from Hungary into Ukraine and suicide bomb a government office or a bank.

    You shouldn’t be hated for defending yourself.

    You won’t be, you will be hated and forever targeted for killing civilians. Because they don’t care about your shitty little regime, they don’t care about your shitty little war, they don’t care about anything but surviving their own regime. And all you do by killing civilians is strengthen the enemy regime.

    People that would have protested internally in Russia will fully support the Russian invasion, because the evil Ukrainians killed their parents.

    People that would have never picked up a gun will do everything in the power to kill Ukrainians, even after the war is over, because the Evil Ukrainians killed their family.

    People that actively worked against Russian imperialism internally will now decide that the Evil Ukrainians are worse than the Russians, because the Evil Ukrainians killed their kids.