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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago

‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting

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‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago
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    Wasting an entire week of the entire US military top brass on this thing is one of the best things this government has done.

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    it would be so sick to think you are some cool general guy and then your boss makes you fly 26 hours for a useless meeting and is visibly drunk

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    Some officials spent their time doing back-of-the-envelope math on ChatGPT to figure out how much the spectacle cost.

    everythings computer all-my-apes-gone

    The Pentagon has insisted the U.S. military is retooling to prepare for a potential war with China. But sending American troops to patrol their own cities will “distract warfighters from actually training to fight and win” against Beijing, said a fourth defense official.

    xicko

    • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      WHAT DOES CHATGPT DO THAT A CALCULATOR DOESN’T ALREADY DO BETTER

      USE WOLFRAM ALPHA WTF

      • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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        calculator can add the numbers, but somebody still has to make up the numbers.

        • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          Hey, Chappy Tea, how many money does it take to fly 2 star general first class to DC? Chatchy petey, how many generals not in DC a week ago? Chant jeep ET, make them numbers what you just told me together.

          “Hey kevin look at my phone it says this meeting costed a lot”

      • underisk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        these are us military generals; they aren’t competent enough to use a calculator, let alone wolfram alpha.

        • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          I’m having a bit of a mental error realizing how cooked everyone is

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        It gives you the answer you want, even if it is incorrect, a calculator can’t do that, it can be disappointing. Like I ask a calculator how much money I’ll have left if I spend a bunch on fast food and it gives me a bad number, but if chatGPT gives me a bad number I can tell it is wrong and it’ll change the number to one I like more!

        • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          Good point

      • Sleepless One@lemmy.ml
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        It has plugins for WolframAlpha which gives it many analytical tools.

        • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          I’m glad I clicked the link and remembered. I wasn’t considering it was a bit and was about to basically say a dumber version of that post that calls it out.

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      back-of-the-envelope

      on ChatGPT

      blob-no-thoughts

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      The Pentagon has insisted the U.S. military is retooling to prepare for a potential war with China.

      A chud family member called me a conspiracy theorist for saying America wants war with China, but they’re so openly brazen about it.

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    Critical support to comrade Hegseth for degrading the morale and war fighting capacity of the Great Satan

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    A second whiskey has hit the bloodstream

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      looks like Hegseth is about to give him a kiss on his forehead

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        Bwahaha now that I think of it…

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    These griping generals weren’t invited to the secret real meeting where heggy pulled aside the loyal commanders and informed them of the upcoming purges

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    Pete Kegsbreath lol

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