I think it doesn't need to be agents provocateurs--it's simply that the people here to burn stuff and break stuff are held in check by the majority of protesters, but the moment the police starts firing tear gas the "normal" protesters leave and the police can't possibly control everyone

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The violin didn't exist yet. The closest you get is the rebec, which sounds like this

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Don't get me wrong: it's very bad that a centuries old town hall caught fire, but a society that thinks this is worth getting preoccupied about and doesn't seem to much care about people losing hands and eyes and life is a society that needs a serious rethink of priorities

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We have not kept this exquisite spite business alive for 18 years just to let a moral panic take it out without the mother of all fights first, and the people manufacturing this moral panic can fucking kiss my fucking ass, I'm too invested at this point to just hand them the win.

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Someone compared building AGI based on LLMs to expectation that breeding ever faster horses will finally create a locomotive.

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