DjangoFett

Still DIY, only you really would rather not have the handyman come help.

I mean, unless you do. I ain’t judging.

I believe so. Nice to have agreement there.

So look, I’m ambivalent right now.

Blues are incoming. This is better as at least things will stop getting actively, aggressively worse since Reds won’t have full free reign. I will take what victories I can right now.

However, your entire point remains entirely undisturbed. I don’t believe they will actually do much. What keeps me ambivalent versus bitter is that nothing has had a chance to happen yet. They haven’t been sworn in, nothing but words have been thrown around yet. Talk all you want, I’ll believe it when I see it.

People didn’t believe AOC was gonna be anything. Now I’m not glazing her, but those same people also predicted she would fail immediately. All I said was she has to make it through her first term before we can really take a measure of the girl, and look where we are now. Those folks were wrong and she is a voice that people have no choice but to reckon with one way or another as she has a following and sway within it. Like her or not, those are facts.

There is a glimmer here, and I think what we can expect from the voting public of this generation is the genuine desire for not the same old shit. That’s why we got Trump in the first place; he wasn’t the same old fart who made empty promises. He came in with passion and common speech rather than boilerplate PC phrases and promised to change the status quo. Monkey’s Paw activated on that one for those who voted Trump, but I am seeing that in the current vote as well.

Again, I’ve got no crystal ball to see how it will turn out, but the hope I once had has somehow limped its way out of the rubble of this administration. Doesn’t mean it’ll get very far, it just isn’t dead yet, y’know?

I don’t have to like him to agree with him on this.

I absolutely take your point - Boo Radley comes to mind - but I think the original commenter was speaking as much about the cold look in the eyes as anything else to do with the photo.

Though I admit that could just as easily be projection based on what we know of him. The brain is a very silly bit of meat after all.

Do they have good people looking into it? The best? Really, seriously, nobody has ever seen people this good at investigating before because they’re gonna find all the corruption?

Don’t tell me about plans you hope to have, show me the fucking results.

Just in case anyone is curious as to what you mean, here’s a brief historical context.

Up until Trump and adjusting for inflation, George Washington was the wealthiest president in history with his net worth contributing an actual percentage of the US wealth at the time. I mean, we were still getting national loans to the tune of a few million dollars per deal and that was considered adequate at the time.

Jefferson used the White House as his personal palace while he was President and spent as much time throwing dinner parties and receiving guests in his dressing gown as being President and trying to undo everything Hamilton left behind out of pure spite.

It wasn’t until damn near Lincoln (1828) that your average man was able to vote, as only those who owned land were considered educated enough to have a say in government, and when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation we had the “who can vote” conversation all over again, and then once more and with feeling for the women after that.

I remember being at a parade some thirty years ago when Chuck rolled by on his float. My father went from silent to rather animated, “Hey Chuckie boy! FUCK YOU, CHUCK!” I was still rather young and so I asked what just happened. My father took a moment to compose himself, then stated, “I voted for him to get to where he is and he betrayed me. I have every right to tell him to his face that he failed me and exactly how I feel about it.”

He’s been a disappointment since then.

I want justice you stupid fuck. Bury these fucks while you redistribute their wealth.

I always felt like cheats were rewards for beating the game. Once I had accomplished a given thing in a game on my own, I never felt bad about giving it to myself again - especially in the days before saving in games was a standard thing. So even when schoolyard chatter taught me where the warp whistles were in Mario 3, I didn’t use them to get to Boswer until I had got that far myself.

As a father with daughters: No fucking way. I will never listen to his music again if that’s what he thinks. That’s heinous, and to go out and publicly announce you wanna fuck your daughter… What the fuck. Ew, please stop breathing.

So its the “law enforcement” equivalent ofa petulant child spreading the peas around on the plate to make it look like they ate more than they did, except the peas are human beings and instead of a petulant child its… Well, a petulant child with frightening power over others.

Worst timeline.

“Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”

I can assure you the actual liberals in America don’t want violence either. Don’t look now, though, because the violence is already happening regardless of what the liberals want. Looks like the kids in France saw that they were headed for an American situation and decided they would make sure the powers that be know they won’t stand for it. They also looted supermarkets to feed the homeless in the process.

When you are sold on an idea and words that quickly turn out to be little more than bait to sucker you in, how long are you willing to take the words of comfort while things around you actively get worse? Everyone has a breaking point. The French happen to be on a hair trigger all the time, sure, but I don’t think these kids are wrong for demanding what they were promised.

The vocal support may be going to Le Pen, but clearly there’s a significant plurality who actively won’t stand for that authoritarian bullshit. Only time will tell where France lands.

Clowns to the left of me

Nazis to the right

Here I am

Stuck in the U S of A

Can you short an IPO? Like, this can’t go well at that valuation with all the writing on the wall.

To be clear, I’m asking this question because I know just enough about this level of finances to know I don’t know a fucking thing, but I also do see that reports show them burning cash like its actually incredibly toxic and must be disposed of with extreme prejudice.

So like, can you bet on the IPO failing and make some cash from it that way?

I disagree this should be the case.

We should have the international, otherwise totally unbiased observers watching as we have had for a very long time. Those same observers Trump disinvited.

No, if we did actually have him then we wouldn’t be in the state we are today.

What with his passion for punching Nazis in the face and all, I mean.

Copying my comment from another post that cherry-picked a specific quote of his, but ultimately I believe still applies.

My last use of AI is in my post history and was fairly down voted because I was being foolishly ironic.

This said, I don’t really disagree with his take here despite keeping away from AI as much as I am reasonably able. I do my own critical thinking and hate that I have to jump through hoops on the internet to have a simple question answered without some layman’s AI summary that may or may not be even remotely correct or actionable. Even still, when I asked it to check on local real estate laws and provide summaries of possible actions based on a very strict set of parameters, it gave me information that my wife and I were able to bring to a human agent and have things work out better than we had actually expected.

I think a better way of putting it - and I’m still gonna ruffle feathers - is that AI is becoming the new electricity.

Put down your pitchfork and lemme explain.

When electricity came out, people rather reasonably pointed out that simply coming into contact with an electrical device could result in death if one wasn’t careful. On top of that, the infrastructure required for it was expensive, unsightly, and at the time incredibly disruptive to daily life. It was going to ruin and disrupt entire industries that had existed for centuries because it could do things a human could not do unaided.

All of this is to one degree or another entirely true even through to modern times, but electricity has become a ubiquitous resource that humanity would now deeply struggle to live without. I won’t dare compare AI that far as i genuinely believe humans would be significantly better off without it, but the initial Luddite response to electricity has a historical echo here.

I think Linus’ point is more that it can undoubtedly be a useful tool when used in a measured, controlled, intelligent manner, and that it is a genie that is very clearly unwilling to be put back in its bottle. Like it or not it exists, and while we can absolutely be unhappy about it, being blind to its actual real world beneficial uses because the companies that make it are actual festering waste is a bit silly - especially when in the hands of the right chaotic neutral parties these companies are about to have a massive lesson in just how messy their tools have made things.