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Wait a second... these are fake hands!

I enjoy FF, I've never had any expectations of them to do anything beyond what their sthick is. For some reason it fits the whole brand to continue with a replica vocalist  it's uncanny valley when listening. The song is much aligned to a more modern sounding mesh of mechanize / obsolete.

Got a bit creeped out scrolling through the comments on YT to see the same bot like responses scattered throughout "fear factory are finally fear factorying" "this slaps"  but maybe people are just generic with their replies I can't tell anymore 

The evidence is all there online of what a lot of their family members think of them (and not one shred of decency in them to say anything about the innocent victims fighting for their lives in hospital right now).

Trying to attach Trump/Musk to discredit my opinion is disingenuous and has nothing to do with it. Driving down the opposite way of a motorway is what, high IQ? Family members posting photos of them stealing is high IQ? What are you actually trying to do here? Arguing for the sake of it because it twists your lefty knickers that god forbid we build a new prison for these twats.

I reckon at least some of those five families will have just had their naive obliviousness regarding their sons completely crushed out of them.

Not if you go by their fb posts...their perfect, "harmless" little "angles" - it's sickening really. One put up a post of a photo of one of the sons in someones house stealing 

The population growth of the past 10 years warrants a new prison, overcrowding is an absolute joke now and that had a knock on effect in terms of assaults within prison and people not serving any time. No one should have 100+ convictions, you ain't gonna rehabilitate someone at that stage. The garda that got suspended etc regards those 3 criminals getting crushed by the truck on the n7 in 2021 should have been rewarded and given a medal, instead now we have gardai that will never risk anything in fear of their careers/lives ruined, a force that is shrinking relative to population size, not adequately trained or resourced.

Also, how hard is it to have a dedicated team of Gardai (even non Gardai) setup to gather video evidence online and arrest these low IQ scumbags before they do in fact injure or kill someone? It's not that hard to find these posts online.

All AI companies are in insane debt. Also didn't realise but GPUs in data centres have a 9% burn rate per year https://fullhoffman.com/2026/03/21/gpu-failure-rates/

I've heard instances in the US where companies have had to rehire the developers they cut loose as they embarrassingly thought AI could do the job already. Also this    ->
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

I'm in IT on the data end of things so yes probably another 5-15 years left before AI eats every single section of the work there, all dependent on advancements + how people work. Productivity has definitely jumped up a notch but if you kept up with that rate yourself you'd quickly suffer burn out. It's like the self-service checkouts reducing the staff at tills from 6+ to 1-2. Seen the programming team shrink naturally but not get replaced - down from 6 to 4 so far (AI assisted coding).

Yeah the hallucinations are something else though, always weary if I hear any financial people using it. But like crappy photoshop from the 90s, it will get better, just a matter of time. That time might get pushed out if the billions upon billions pumped doesn't offer a worthwhile return and the bubble pops in these big tech companies and the financial backers behind them. Maybe these companies see it as a race for survival, anyone that makes it out of the bubble pop still intact will reap the rewards next decade. Data centers currently being built on borrowed money that the AI companies think they will pay back with future revenues....mmm https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2025/11/19/trillion-dollar-ai-borrowing-binge-could-spark-the-next-credit-crunch/

I also think government policies on a range of issues is on a complete collision course with this AI development if jobs (livelihoods) start to disappear.

Don't worry, scientists will train artificial intelligence on libraries of crayfish species and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes to wipe them out.

Same, I had to install a new smarttube too about a week or so back, all good now.

Believing The WHO is like having faith in FIFA

Some cracking tunes though!

🎶 "Behind an eminence front
Eminence front, it's a put on" 🎶

Interesting to read back over the initial pages of the thread. 2020 feels like a mad fever dream 

Also interesting is back in March 2020, WHO said the death rate of reported/confirmed cases was 3.4%. By late 2024, WHO recorded about 776.8 million confirmed cases and just over 7 million confirmed deaths worldwide. Works out at roughly 0.9%. You can logically assume that's much lower with the amount of infections that were never diagnosed due to poor data in many countries. And when omicron emerged, those initial strains died out and with it, the more harsher pneumonia symptoms etc. Basically ended up no where near 3.4%.

Looking back, post 2021 all the government decisions/lockdown are now viewed by the majority in a different light I think. Some hilarious stuff like the six foot distancing, the 2-5km limits from your home, eating a succulent 9 euro meal protecting you from covid while out at the pub and save countless lives 

The whole trying to shut down debate on the Wuhan links were always suspect to me as well. Fauci said vaccination made it a 'dead end' for transmission, nope. He categorically stated the NIH had not funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute and pushed the whole natural narrative. Pleading the fifth a bijillion times while already issued with a very broad pre-emptive pardon by Joe B looks bad alright, again suspect to say the least.

Got the recession prediction part wrong - well initially there was a dip but quickly recovered and then pent up demand coupled with central banks printing money galore (QE) and rampant inflation, fragile global logistics & supply chains  - it seems governments/central banks across the world have a few levers to keep the house of cards afloat for longer, how long? I can no longer take a decent stab at predicting that kind of stuff. Still amazing to see Australian property price graphs as they never had a crash even in the 2008 recession, a small dip for a year or so before prices just keep going up and up again Anyway, turns out the real long Covid was the house prices we made along the way.

The real lesson was never bet against central banks, pharmaceutical companies or a 2-bed apartment in Sydney.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html

Be grand 

RIP Rod Liddle, died on Eamon Dunphys birthday... survived by his wife and a young one!

Mmmmm

https://x.com/AFpost/status/2083660651050713416

Yes this is deadly, also got a whiff of Bolt Thrower when the vocals kicked in on the first track! And funnily enough some passages reminded me of a mental deranged Opeth 

Bandcamp says Dublin, Ireland + on their IG the logo is coloured green white orange, one of their messages on their posts says "vocalist lives in Dublin. The rest of the band is wherever pays the bills!"

But yes a public burning 14th century style is in order