Also the villification of experts as people hell bent on leveraging their expertise to dominate our control non experts.
I recently right that a useful counter to that conspiracy their is to point out that experts should be thought of as tools to be used for different purposes. Like any tool, experts can be misused in a variety of ways, including accidental and purposeful.
those are rookie numbers, we can do better!
I was watching the stream when the splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico and the NASA commentator said the stupid MAGA version of the name.
I just can’t even…
So we gave up 1 mad king 250 years ago only to pick up 2 now?
everything ought to be transferred to Ukraine, but only the European stuff is likely to be in the near term.
that’s one thing Biden really should have done after the election.
maybe that should be an addendum or footnote to the “best days of a boat owner’s life”
I assume this includes changing the past so how about have Bernie win the 2016 Democratic Primary.
Or go back and have SCOTUS say the 2000 Florida recount could continue until the true winner was determined.
Or go back and have Carter win in 1980 by revealing the collusion between the Reagan campaign and Iran (might have to include breaking the OPEC bullshit too).
If none of that, and assuming “free will” can’t be overridden, maybe Freaky Friday the consciousnesses of the 2024 Democratic candidates &. spouses into the bodies of the Republican equivalents. If there’s some limitation based on the biological sex of the participants, put Doug into Trump and Kamala into Melania, they’re a team anyway.
with “hire more” you do run up against the “9 women can have a baby in 1 month” limit, but in this case it’s likely to help.
The Democratic Party as a whole is like milk in your fridge that’s a week past its “best by” date.
The Republican Party is milk that a dog vomited on a Texas in July sidewalk.
We’re drinking one of them, because no alternative is possible in the near term.
It’s possible to vote for Democrats in 2026 and '28 and '30 and '32 while we build an alternative that can have electoral success, or takeover the Democratic Party from within or heck turn the Republican Party into a party worth supporting…
it’s been an honor serving with you
Well the Google results i saw say about 64% of eligible voters voted, which is apparently high for the US.
Based on 2020 numbers it does look like a lot of 2020 Biden voters stayed home and most 2020 Trump voters came out again. Add in some economy frustration and surprise we get this shit show for 4 years…
always yelling “the Democrats should do something!” but never saying for example what…
interest groups were mad at Senate democrats so the Senate Dems started filibustering everything they can (all confirmations are not subject to filibuster), and forcing the longest delays possible for all confirmations by using all of their speaking time.
did the whining jagoffs say, “finally thank you for at least doing something!” No. They just keep accusing Democrats of not doing enough.
figure it out
I’m done listening to this crap. Democrats are doing what they can with the incredibly limited power they have.
it is “for now” with the justification being they should have a proper hearing.
aren’t so-called AIs really just a computer version of the infinite monkey/ typewriter thought experiment?
it’s a combo of trolling and attention seeking. “there’s no such thing as bad press” and all that.
we should point it out, condemn it, but not engage in arguments with them about what is and isn’t a sig heil.
and when they pop up in other places trying to talk about other stuff, just bring up the fact that they threw a Nazi salute from time to time.
the most important thing is to focus on their evil policies and actions. but we can’t forget their performative evil.
if this is machine learning and neural networks, I can believe it’s a good thing, maybe even meaningful for the potential of so called artificial intelligence.
if this is an LLM that’s alleged to have popped this “virus tail” theory out of… what exactly…? I’m not buying it.
this is a rift between MAGA and Ukraine.
or they could say between the US government and Ukraine.
I still support Ukraine and most Harris voters and many traditional Republicans (Eisenhower type) do, too.
I hope that the Biden admin did a good job of building them up and building Europe up to last through 2-4 years of a potential MAGA administration. Even if they were confident it wouldn’t happen. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst and all that.
I’m really hoping that Churchill’s quote about Americans doing the right thing is evergreen, because this first month (!!!) of Trump has been A LOT.
I feel like we’re really close to having tried every alternative by now, right?..right?
After WWII there was a halcyon era where nearly every adult in America agreed that nerds had been crucial to our winning. That’s why Operation Paperclip came to be where we stole all the former Axis nerds we could find.
It also led to an unprecedented boom in education spending, research spending, etc., mostly aimed at beating the USSR at technological development. Sputnik goosed that significantly, and the Apollo program briefly did as well, until Americans got bored of Moon landings…
That was probably the first major flashing red warning light most of us ignored: Moon landings… boring!!!
Anyway, educated people started doing things that weren’t directly associated with winning the Cold War, like exposing the dangers of lead in everything, the dangers of smoking, the dangers of chlorofluorocarbons, the dangers of greenhouse gasses, etc.
That threatened the ability of grotesquely wealthy hoarders to hoard even more grotesque levels of wealth.
So they started the project to dismantle education in America.
That project kicked into afterburn once the USSR collapsed and the Cold War ended.
And so far, nerds haven’t been successful in regaining their status.