The system needs to be dismantled. The cameras need to be removed or destroyed. Hand-slaps for everyone won't work. Cops don't get fired or disciplined like normal employees and anyone who says different isn't paying attention.

Funny how when you start making awards about politics or religion, nobody cares but the political and religious. We need neither types in Fantasy or Sci Fi, but it doesn't matter. AI has already ruined reading new authors anyway, even more than the political folks could have. I'll never read all the Sci Fi and fantasy already written anyway, even the good stuff, and I'm a voracious reader. I just keep mining the older stuff. It's fun to go to old used bookstores anyway.

That is also my assumption, as well. Doesn't matter much once it starts, but yes, absolutely true.

100% agree. Stop funding the war effort and the war effort will suffer.

Taiwan. POTUS is head of the military. The current gangster Uniparty folks ignore the Constitution and start wars whenever they feel like it. Have you not heard their rhetoric already over Taiwan? Have you not seen how dumb our politicians and electorate are? All the elements are there. Dropping bombs on China isn't something you can cancel with a Tweet, either. Once it starts, it'll be impossible to stop.

So, what? Working with other programmers doesn't automatically mean sitting next to them while they burp and fart and I write code and try not to be distracted while "pair programming". So, your statement means nothing. I don't need to accept some manager's wet dream of how it's "supposed" to be, with Agile, XP, Scrum meetings, etc...

Do you think Linus has Scrum meetings (answer: no)? Do you think ID software coders like John Carmak stood around in a morning stand up because you think it's cool corporate culture (answer: no) ? They didn't even use version control until Quake 3. John himself said of software development "methods" that "feedback beats planning". His "methodology" was working 10 hours a day wizard-in-a-cave style and we see the results. John is probably one of the most accomplished coders on Earth (but tell me I'm wrong and it's some Ph.D ivory tower guy who loves Agile).

You sound like a lot of frat boy managers who love frameworks. You probably sniff your own farts and those of others, too, but stop making up a rationale for that. While you're at it, go re-watch I want Agile.

Opus only competes with Grok when it's on Max Effort in terms of Thinking. That burns tokens for Claude Code like crazy. Grok with default settings will generate better code, less code, and gets the job done faster (than Opus) by our benchmarks and is less than 3% difference in the global benchmarks, too. Fable is nice when it works but OFTEN quits if it has to touch a single line of crypto code. It's pretty unusable for our work, despite the fact that we don't work on security or hacking tools at all. Fable won't work on a fucking screensaver because of the login password hashing code it needs. Pathetic.

Trump? The guy who won two elections for POTUS, started a new war, grew government, and attacks individual freedoms and Libertarians like Thomas Massey? That's absolutely ridiculous, but it shows the quality of your thesis here.

Rather than do any real research you just double down on ignorance. Rick Santelli's "floor rant" started the Tea Party and Ron Paul is widely seen as the grandfather of the movement. Of course if you think you know better than actual Libertarians and Wikipedia, have fun continuing to not only be wrong, but look extremely ignorant.

War is still institutional groupthink and murder and proxy war even more so. I found your (lack of) reasoning extremely unconvincing and uncompelling as reasons Americans should waste stolen tax dollars on foreign wars.

The Spainish CNT, Ukranian Makhnovists, and Korean Shinmin were the most successful. Your assertion/speculation earlier about Anarchists only being able to survive surrounded by a powerful State is actually completely wrong and opposite. They seem to have always been crushed as soon as any nearby state becomes successful. The Spainish CNT were the longest lived (because they emerged during the chaos of the Civil War), but probably not "true" anarchists. Lots of debate here, but certainly not along the lines you painted.

Wasn't like there were great choices, but I didn't vote for Trump, personally. Many did. Many were taken in by his false promises. There is a lot of regret about that. However, it doesn't mean Libertarians = Republicans. Personally, after seeing what Trump did to Massey, I'd say it would probably have been better if Kamala won. At least we'd still have Massey.

I see. We are misguided clairvoyants who can see the future, but still make bad choices. Okay, man, suuuure.

Gimme a break. The LP was never shit. Their disfunction is definitely one of the reasons we lose a lot. It's a org that's poorly run and pulled into too many directions. However, that doesn't mean the Uniparty is right on principles, it means the people with good principles have poor organizational skills (so far) or have been captured by enemy camps.

Nah, sorry man, I think you must be lying. I work with teams of coders also. Claude Code is absolutely sucks hind tit. It generates more code over longer periods of time that is less effective. We measure this weekly on OpenAI CODEX, Grok Build, Cursor, and Claude Code. Right now Claude Code using Opus (the only workable model since they constantly disable Fable access and don't even give you Mythos access) it's about 20% slower in our measured metrics. You can look at broader metrics here at Livebench and you can see Opus is ranked at 80% (but that's with max effort which burns a lot more tokens and will result in a much shorter session) and Grok at 78%. My guess is you have a political problem with XAI and want it to seem like they are being crushed. We barely even use Claude anymore.

Nope, all of that is your assumption. I said you sound like you've never written a single line of code because people who think programming is a social sport and advocate for that get poor results and, in my experience, are ex frat boy managers and "Agile" fans. Anyhow, I know I'm wasting your SCRUM time, so I will let you get back to your circle jerk.

You're just another voice in the same chorus of folks who want to take a swing, but only if it means you don't have to defend any of your liberal ideas. The minute we start actually discussing the murderous failures of partisan politics, you will either wisely duck out or start losing badly. Let's discuss your Uniparty's policies of stealing, censorship, warmongering, and corporatism, shall we? Yeah, I didn't think so.

That's right. It IS very easy to say. Of course folks who want to play fair don't ever win a rigged game. Is that a comment on the player or the game?

You obviously weren't paying attention. The Tea Party movement was started by Libertarians and was pretty much wholly owned by them. It wasn't coopted, it simply failed and faded away. Our candidates lost. There wasn't enough support for it to actually accomplish it's goals. It did, however, influence a lot of political discourse and inspire a few great folks like Ron Paul, Thomas Massey, etc... Your ignorance of even the fundamentals in Libertarian history is obvious.

Typical insults from you but they are just to avoid actually having to debate your true philosophy. You've always been for stealing, warmongering (you were one of those "Slava Ukraini" guys), and censorship. These are the core principles of your Uniparty. Stealing and censorship are wrong. War is institutionalized murder.

You don't even want to talk about your actual policies and you never do: because they are unpopular loser policies. Politics is a team sport for partisans like you.

Read about the history of Anarchism because you sound like you barely know what it is and have no idea what you're spouting off about. Of course, that's typical of you. You often act like an authority about things you really know nothing about and make judgement on things you're nearly completely ignorant on. Don't you ever wonder why you're always losing debates to just about everyone you spew your venom at and having to constantly dodge questions you cannot answer? Don't you every get tired of being crushed all the time or are you just too wrapped up in your own ego to notice? We aren't laughing with you, we're laughing at you, just FYI.

MAGA steamrolled the Democrats in 2024 and 2016. Libertarians never had a chance in any case and were "steamrolled" by Democrats when Obama won, too. Big deal. You literally have no point. What they did to Libertarians was lie through their teeth to get a few extra Libertarian votes. No small government, no wars ended, and individual freedom was actually decreased, not increased. We did get a huge Israeli sponsored loss of our best guy in Congress, but other than that it was just another loss in a long series of losses. Truth is always treason in an empire of lies.

Liar. Reference needed.

Spoken like someone who has never written a single line of code.

I agree. That was the same thought I had. "Have these fucking children ever heard of version control systems?"

This is probably because social assholes cannot stand anyone doing things on their own. They have to make it social. Remember "pair programming" back in the day as part of "extreme programming"? It was completely laughable and any fool that's spent 10 minutes around programmers knows it's a completely ridiculous idea. Anyone who ever was forced to try it can attest to how childish and brain dead of an idea it was. Yet, they floated it. That's the kind of programming solutions you'll get from frat-boys and sorority-whores who cannot imagine someone not wanting to take any activity and make it more social.

No, world, you go fucking pair program (or just fuck and give each other your STDs already and leave real programmers out of it).

I am a user of all those except for Gemini. I have pro-level ($200-$300) a month accounts with each one and I rotate them all weekly (because they all gouge for additional-time/tokens, so I just switch a lot instead). I also use Cursor and others. At this point every one of them is beating the stuffing out of Anthropic/Claude.

Let me explain why with an example. I have a whole huge desktop DE I work on that's like 600k+ lines of C. The only security related code is password-checking stuff like crypt hashes and SHA hash comparisons and system auth for my XDMCP greeter and my screensaver lock-screen code. That tiny bit alone is enough to trigger Claude Code's safety protocols and it'll refuse to work on my project without identifying any actual issue other than "safety protocols" it refuses to elaborate on. This prevents me from using Fable, their 6th-gen model that's mostly available for general use and the only one that comes close to competing with other models of the same age. They won't let you use Mythos (their leading model) at all, while others have no such compunctions (not that Cursor and Grok weren't beating Claude Code already). All that Hype about Mythos might as well be fantasy: nobody can use it except spooks and assholes.

At this point, Grok Build is much better. It generates less code to get the job done, clearer code, and most importantly in less wall clock "thinking" time. So does OpenAI CODEX but it also has "safety panic" issues quite often (but it's at least still usable). If you pay Anthropic for their pro-level account then you cannot use it to work on your project, it's worse than useless. I've canceled Anthropic twice now because they cannot figure out how to run their operations properly.