Almost as bad as a non-existent succession plan is a succession plan even the successor knows nothing about. If Linus has a successor, that successor should be well aware, and already be a contributor to that succession plan. This isn't a will where you're pleasantly surprised your rich great-uncle left you his house on the French Riviera, this is a major project that is an integral component of thousands of technologies and workflows.

We don't have generations, and if you think government is a bigger threat than climate change, then you demonstrate ever more the utter idiocy of humanity. You want a free pass for being a greedy idiot, but the universe doesn't care about ideology either. It's rather pathetic to watch someone try desperately to convince themselves they are immune from the physical forces of nature. Well, amusing and depressing, because people keep doing it.

The minute you assert that somehow young men have some sort of right to sexual experience, even within the context that they need to "man up" so women will have sex with them, dehumanizes women and creates this sense that there is the entitlement that can be unlocked.

Women are human beings, not sex toys for good little boys. Toxic masculinity stems in part from a sense of privilege, that men have inalienable rights to sex and affection from women. While I'm sure you care about the plight of young men, you're simply repeating the same dehumanizing language that typifies toxic masculinity. You just think that you can say it if you preface it with "I'm from the Left".

Do you think I'm a fucking idiot? Do you not know how transparent you are?

And here we go with the whole "we can't change, we just gotta keep going". You're precisely the example of the sheer unimaginable idiocy of humanity that I am talking about.

You're going to find out, like all of us, that the laws of physics don't give a flying fuck about your comforts, and will strip them from you without mind, thought or feeling. They are undeniable, unavoidable and they are our master.

Alberta wants to increase extraction and use of fossil fuels, and its politicians strongly imply that if anything is done to reign in emissions, they'll try to secede from the country. Alberta is one of the problems, not some sort of saintly jurisdiction. Its government is precisely the kind of institution which makes moronic arguments like "we need more pipelines to pay for the green economy."

Fuck me. Actually blaming women and claiming most of them are liars.

No one owes anyone sex ever. Not even once. If you're not having sex, that's your problem. Women don't exist to service men, ever. Get over yourself.

You understand your anecdotal claims are worthless. Or maybe you don't. The capacity for idiocy in humans seems to have no limit.

It isn't just boomers. There are plenty of young people who have bought into the nihilistic philosophy that conservatism has morphed in to. Up here in Canada we are regularly informed that we have to build more pipelines and increase emissions because we need the money to pay for all the incredible things we're going to do later to fix and mitigate climate change.

It's incoherence bordering on rank stupidity and possibly severe mental illness, but even many of those who actually accept AGW have been convinced that we need to increase emissions in the "short term" because otherwise our economies will collapse. Meanwhile, my home town has two wild fires burning within 20 miles of it. The costs of mitigation are soon going to exceed whatever taxes and fees the taxpayer manages to collect from oil and gas companies.

When my cat gets a sudden urge to annex Greenland and Canada, I guess I'll know it's full onset dementia.

SNL was making plenty of jokes about it at the time as well. When Reagan finally did reveal his Alzheimers diagnosis, it wasn't like anyone was horribly shocked, more like "Oh, yeah, that's why..."

Reagan was in pretty serious cognitive decline during his second term, which his Cabinet basically concealed. This is the American system, where even obvious signs that someone is cognitively compromised isn't enough to remove them. Basically the only time the 25th Amendment could ever work is if the President's brain falls out of his head, but the brainstem stays intact and keeps informing the heart to pump. Other than that, the Cabinet and Congressional leaders will do everything in their power to keep even severely mentally ill or delusional people in office.

What a fucking moronic system.

I urge you to head over to Conservative gathering places like r/Conservative and see how they think these theatrics in inability to even stay on his own message are signs of his political genius,.

MAGA is a religion, a sort of neo-Pharaohism, where Trump is given the same god-like powers as kings like Ramses or Alexander the Great. He is incapable in their eyes of anything short of complete brilliance, so that even when it's clear he's a moron, they take that evidence of intense terminal stupidity as a sign of just how powerful his brilliance is.

About ten years ago I was working late at night on a server switchover at my office. Starting maybe around 9pm I start hearing this beeping that sounded like a UPS on battery. I poked around the office, when into the server room, looking for this damned UPS. I decided it had to be next door, so I went on with my work. I went out about a half hour later for some fresh air, and there was a guy on the front steps with a laptop and a very large UPS. He apologized, said he was using our wifi (we had a public SSID for clients), and his laptop battery was dead so he'd borrowed a UPS. Here he was, UPS alarm blaring in his ear, a 25lb UPS, sitting on a concrete step in the pitch dark for free Internet.

The next day I set the schedule on the access point to shut down Internet at 5pm.

Which is precisely my point. Let's strip away all the hysteria and hyperbole of AI. This is nothing more than a classic example of Garbage In Garbage Out, which has been a part of computational work since humans invented algebra. LLMs are a lot more sophisticated than abacuses, but at the core is still a mathematical model which, if given bad inputs, will inevitably give bad outputs.

And I think the users, by intent, are driving the chatbot off the rails. Like I said, I have a lot of experience with ChatGPT, and with its hallucinations (I've seen it actually fabricate scientific papers), but to actually get it to start "commanding" someone to do things means someone is going out of their way to override the safety protocols to get the result they want, either to feed their psychological issues, or to generate a moral panic.