I have cars with very basic controls, but even then, one of them has a screen (and a number of basic controls for AC anyway).. I know foe sure that a phone in my hand with the map on it or with a YouTube channel (I listen, I watch the road) is much easier from point of view of reaction speed than the car's touchscreen. A phone I can glance at for a fraction of a second and control it from memory mostly, the car's screen is so much slower, it requires much longer time to deal with its interface Using a touchscreen in a car is more dangerous than a phone, for sure.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

High interest rates are designed to cause layoffs. That's how they fight inflation

That's not a given. And we haven't seen that in the current labor market. High interest rates suppress business growth by raising the cost of borrowing. This doesn't necessitate layoffs, although it can cause layoffs. In the current economy, we've generally seen reductions in job openings and reduced expansion plans. However, we've seen subdued growth nonetheless, coupled with maximum employment.

Hollywood has been woke and pandering throughout all of its existence. The problem has nothing to do with woke, it's got to do with bad writing and bad acting

Huh? This is a matter of scale and focused intent. For instance, if you don't see a difference in levels of pandering between say the 1989 Little Mermaid and the modern day one, you're being deliberately blind. They literally changed lyrics in the most popular classic songs purely on pandering grounds. The writing is bad as well, but that's because the focus is on the pandering rather than just telling a good story. You have writers going "so how do we shoehorn in a good message about the environment/racism/patriarchy/etc here" instead of going "what would make a good character arc and a satisfying story?"

As a second example, Doctor Who was always woke to some degree, but it's utterly jumped the shark at this point. Again, compare current day Doctor Who to ~20 years ago. If you think the level of wokeness is the same, you're deluding yourself. You have characters literally soapboxing/diatribing to the audience Atlas Shrugged style. That kind of thing never happened back in the day. Writers knew of "show, don't tell". Modern writers are "preach the message through all means possible."

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

There are only three resolutions to a constitutional crisis. The first is President becomes king. The second is Congress agrees with the president and changes the law. And the third is Congress impeaches the president. The Democrats aren't going to accept #1.

I wish I knew this for sure. I have seen many inklings that would lead me to believe they'd be perfectly content if it was their king. They've already pitched packing the courts, eliminating the filibuster, and rewriting the laws to favor their party (ala electoral college elimination). They've shown a sustained desire to work around Congress rather than with it.

If a popular Democratic president started doing illegal things broadly popular with their base, I'm not certain Congress would hold them to task with an impeachment. Say a president declared a national emergency, saying we can't have another fascist regime take over, so they start taking away everyone's guns, and they ban "misinformation and fake news" (meaning anything that doesn't support their dogma). Then they declare a climate emergency and start going wholesale destruction on the fossil fuel sector -- say they ban coal and natural gas nationwide. Can you legitimately tell me for certain that Democrats would rise up and impeach their leader? Again, I'd like to hope. But in today's day and age, I can't say that for certain.

But up until then Twitter was a great place for independent journalism without corporate propaganda

Hardly. It was just a different brand of censorship. Shadow banning was rampant, particularly on politically sensitive issues like COVID or the Biden laptop. The whole reason Musk bought it in the first place was in response to the fact it was a carefully groomed left-leaning stovepipe. In fact, I remember the common quip from the left when the right would complain about Twitter censorship was "then why don't you start your own social media platform? we don't have to give you a megaphone"

"Perhaps if it had adequate funding"

LAUSD has about half the number of students they had 20 years ago. They have more than double the number of administrators and about 20 more teachers over that same time scale -- and the budget of LAUSD is over $18 billion -- up from $8 billion 20 years ago. The number of students in that time also went from closer to 800,000 to about 400,000 now.

What this doesn't include are the various city, county and state bond initiatives that added additional funding (which came at increased per dollar spent due to interest on the loans).

The amount of money we're spending is not justified based on the student population. The number of administrators is not justified by student population.

And "oh". Student performance have continued drop.

It's not a funding problem. It's a gross mismanagement problem along wtih turning LAUSD jobs in to "rewards" for both union employees and political supporters.

They will get impeached.

That's not a guarantee. The only historical precedent we have (Clinton) only had 5 Democrats vote in favor of impeachment even when he very clearly perjured himself. Now to be fair, that's a far lesser offense than what we're seeing now. But in today's hyperpartisan times, I legit don't know what Democrats would do if put in a similar situation. They sure as hell defended Hillary to death with the email server, even though that was roughly on par with Signalgate.

His slogan should be "Everyone's listening!", because it's going to be FBI, CIA, IRS, DHS, DOT, FHA but also the ruzzians and Chinese and Hegseth's wife.

Well, I think it is only possible to make this movie now, after a decade and a half of bullshit that has been pushed onto everyone by various pro trans, pro socialist or even pro Marxist movements.

Now that Trump is running (and likely ruining) the place, it is possible to come out with anything I think and who is going after Brooks, what are they going to do, cancel him? :)))

I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

Human mucking about with nature has a bad track record, and many creatures depend on mosquitoes for food. It would be a terrible idea to mess with ecosystems on that level.

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