On national security, I wanted him to get us out of Ukraine entanglements and end the war in Gaza, and start no new wars. So far he's doing well.

Extremely conservative, you say? Whom did you vote for, and what are your voting principles? Your denigration of conservatives and use of empathy as a guiding principle (instead of virtue or real compassion) sounds like you're trying to cosplay as a conservative.

You called millions of Americans white supremacists with zero evidence. My point stands.

See my other comment. If you think Weiss is conservative, you are way, way outside the Overton Window. How did you get there?

Weiss is a Rorschach test: if she looks far-right, chances are you are a rabid leftist. If she looks far left, opposite is true.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Making a blanket statement about millions of Americans? Show the proof or own that it is just your opinion.

Same rules apply to 2024. Dems did not go to court because they had nothing. Republicans should have done the same in 2020.

I voted for Trump, but not for any of the reasons you imagine. Most of the people I know who voted for him had a few simple reasons in mind: the economy, immigration, and national security.

Honestly most conservatives do not think about liberals at all, except when you are trying to tell us how much you despise us or meddling in our lives.

I get the impression that you have not spent a lot of time around manufacturing, because the need for it and especially the need for it to be done by humans is not going away anytime soon. There are some aspects of the manufacturing process that can be automated, but most cannot do to the very specific and complicated nature of manufacturing.

A good example here is the boat industry, which has a significant presence in my area. Making the cylindrical pontoons for a pontoon boat is boring for a skilled welder. One of the boat companies nearby recently deployed, a robotic system to make the long straight weld that seals the main part of the pontoon cylinder together. The first people to cheer were the welders, because now they can do more piece work, which is so complicated that we are at least 20 years away from having a robot do it, and pays significantly more per hour.

Yes, we will have some automation, which is why the programmers are needed, but for the most part these are jobs that are not going anywhere.

What if you own the rights to a character, and someone wants to generate a character that is very similar? For instance, if Amazon owns the rights to James Bond, and someone designs a British spy who dresses well and engages in espionage, will the system flag that as under the control of Amazon? We are entering weird territory where the creation of new characters and the overlap with old characters could lead to new creators being slapped with restrictions that do not exist anywhere else.

I am a professional coder who works with LLM tools every day. I can say that the tools are very helpful, but they have plateaued asymptotically in the past six months. We are getting about all the juice we're going to squeeze out of random token guessing machines. Coders need to learn to use the tools but aren't being replaced by them.

New hires in the field are coming in at a premium here in the Midwest. Manufacturing is roaring back and a lot of companies are making capital expenditures to modernize, or are buying up little mom-and-pop manufacturers in the 2nd or 3rd tier and modernizing them. All these companies need coders and can't find them. They're advertising to grads in major cities and the coasts and wooing them to midsize cities and towns.

You won't make six figures right out of school, but you also don't need to. Median housing prices for 3 bedroom 2 bath starter here is like $200k.

Nothing draws a crowd like telling people it is too scary to be seen. Trigger warnings are the latest in a long history of reverse marketing. Maybe a few people use them with seriousness, but rarely outside the luxury beliefs crowd.

Serious question- what makes a WiFi router space qualified?

So apparently AGC doesn’t just melt ice caps, it’s also out here running a dating app for birds. First swipe right: Blue Jay. Second swipe right: Green Jay. Pretty soon we’re gonna be spotting a Limited-Edition Pumpkin Spice Jay every fall.

This case isn’t really about Ethan Klein or even YouTube drama; it’s about whether powerful figures can weaponize the courts to strip anonymity from critics. Copyright is the pretext and silencing dissent is the goal.

It's a statistical guessing machine with lots of data. Doesn't that mean it's going to do something stupid, at least some small percentage of the time?