In America if you want to have computers you need to vote democrat
OMG I think he's serious
Yes, you'll get promised some RAM in every pot ("a chicken in every pot").
What you'll get though is some studies on the racial equity of RAM or something like that.
1) yeah probably but I wouldn't pretend that I'm presenting objective facts, either.
2) the facts don't back me up?
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"USAID Is Not Worth Blindly Defending
Trump and Muskâ(TM)s war against the agency should be opposed on principle. But we canâ(TM)t overlook that USAID has been a destructive arm of American imperialism for decades."
See also: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2Fprogr...
The Biden admin (treated) "...U.S. foreign aid apparatus as a global platform from which to implement overseas a rigidly ideological and domestically divisive agenda to promote abortion, climate action,
âoegender equity,â and âoeracial justice,â"
(https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.congress.gov%2F118%2Fmeeting%2Fhouse%2F116508%2Fdocuments%2FHHRG-118-GO06-20231025-SD004.pdf)
I *fully* agree that Congress SHOULD have destroyed it. This congress has spent most of its time politically wanking and getting little actually done. And yes, I agree that DOGE was largely a failure. Its only successes were killing USAID and driving 250,000 gov't employees off the books. Only about a million more to go.
3) personally, I think the shitheel Republicans in Washington are only slightly less toxic than the Dems. Both their houses are deeply corrupt and have little or nothing to do with their nominal constituencies outside the beltway. I'm convinced that NEITHER party insiders will allow any 3rd party candidate to survive, and will cheerfully collude with their "opposition" to prevent anyone else from stepping up.
Trump is a COLOSSAL narcissist asshole. Then again, he is despised by the insiders of BOTH parties, and I expect at this point only a wealthy narcissist asshole could possibly make it through their gatekeeping to actually be president anymore. I believe that's a large portion of why every demographic (save white women, lol) shifted rightward in 2026.
But like the Jesse Ventura experiment in MN, it turns out that 'outsider colossal narcissist' doesn't magically turn into a competent leader either if he finally does win. He just stays a narcissist and legislates for himself.
In the end, I'd rather have an incompetent boob in charge that the 4th estate actually scrutinizes, than a Biden/Clinton/Obama figure that is just as deeply corrupt, vastly smarter, and has a servile media cheefully licking his balls.
The initial instinct is correct. Parent is off his rocker. Simple formula is to make having 2.1 kids on average easy and pleasant. IMHO that means -free childcare from 4 months to Kindergarten -free public schools K-12 that are good nationwide -Very low cost education incl state colleges and training + apprenticeships for trades -Affordable health care -Available work that pays the bills, keeps up with inflation, puts a roof over your head
There are solutions to each of these none of which require unseemly new -ism's nor Eisenhower era 90% tax brackets. But it does require taming the corporate and political interests that have effectively sabotaged childcare, education, healthcare, retirement and wages. We see it again and again decade after decade, and somehow don't have the stones to fix it. Oh, and the foreign wars. Those have proved to be absolute wastes of treasure. Back to watching the intro to Idiocracy again
Oh, sure. That's why native Europeans are so fecund, after all!
You realize all your "solutions" have been tried, right?
We should be at about negative one million family farms in the US by now. Because trend lines never change
10% brighter every year. How long until we go supernova?
I live in the upper midwest.
I have now seen projections for
- a milder winter than usual
- less snowy winter than usual
- a shorter winter than usual
as well as
- a more severe winter than usual
- more snow than usual
- a longer winter than usual
I think that means you guys have all your bases covered. No matter what the result, now we can confidently say we predicted "how bad it will be"(1, TBD April 2027)
(1) or "how uneventful it was"
This is mostly fearmongering and rage-baiting. Probably not 100%, I'd concede that yes, there's almost certainly some asshole with that plan.
But the fact is that repricing is a MAJOR way for a low margin business to squeeze out some tenths of a percent, but not if they have to do it manually.
Large grocery stores (one of the consistently lowest-margin businesses) in the 1990s would - I am not kidding - have a dozen or more laser printers in the back running full-out printing new price tags for everything. Do you have any idea how much manual labor it took to have stock clerks flipping those to drop the price by 3 cents or raise it by a dime?
Digital tags let grocery stores do these changes enmasse, and look it up:
- they have NOT increased average prices above inflation over 25 years of data
- they have made temporary discounts much more available, allowing groceries to likely reduce food waste by selling things nearly expired with lower prices instead of tossing them out because nobody wanted them.
LOL Elon Musk's politics put him below a LITERAL NAZI?
Sure, this is a completely rational take.
1) he picked a side you didn't like, full stop.
2) he disbanded a gov't agency that had been designed to destabilize foreign governments outside of congressional oversight and was used for at least the last 20 years as a naked leftist slush fund world wide.
3) yes, he put his foot on the scales. Remember why? Because Twitter was a leftist echo chamber.
He's not "doing the wrong things" he's doing things you politically dislike. Sane people understand their opinions don't define reality.
Score 0?
Glad facts matter,
The U.S. should just open up all immigration from China. Better having them here than hitting the beaches of Taiwan.
Nice attempt at "only one siding". Oh look, it's Comrade amimojo
Shockingly he actual facts are different than you present!
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(from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...):
Results (left-wing/centrist/right-wing)
OpenAI - 80 / 17/ 3
Anthropic - 43 / 57 / 0
xAI - 40 / 27 / 33 -- this is the one amimojo claims is right wing, which should tell you something
Google 7 / 93 / 0
they are charging you more if you shop in store. they want you to shop online and have walmart+ and they will offer you the lowest price if you do
other stores like HEB are doing the exact opposite: they claim no curbside fees on their website, but they lie and they will increase the price of the item 5% if you choose pickup. try logging to an account to confirm what i am saying
There it is.
The underlying social reason why it should be this way is that copyright is (allegedly) for the purpose of protecting human effort in order to induce additional creations.
First, I would question empirically whether copyright (as normally applied; distinct from copyleft) has even served that goal, for software. I mean in my opinion, the best recent innovations from Microsoft have been 1. open sourcing a lot of stuff, and 2. WSL
Secondly, the use of copyright against LLMs serves (again, empirically) as an attempt to suppress creations.
The other argument to be made about LLMs not washing away copyright is that even if they were considered to be thinking, that is arguably not enough to make what they do legal. Even for humans we have the concept of taint, for which we invented clean room engineering as a circumvention strategy. But the LLM doesn't have any separation, as the model is a direct product of the input data.
That's a fair point.
Good god, this does seem like a disaster in the making. Glad I use Libre Office. Will we have cells in cells all the way down? It is supposed to be a spread sheet, understandable, for crissake!
"It's full of cells!"
10 to the minus 6th power Movie = 1 Microfilm
