Wolfers, a frequent economic commentator, said Trump’s statements reflect something more troubling than a bad policy take. “I don’t understand the logic of looking us in the eye and telling us an outright falsehood,” he said.

Hahahaha!!!

Trump is a singular idiot, and because he only speaks at about a 3rd grade level, he has been able to politically activate a part of the population that was disinterested in politics because it was above their head.

If you look at voting patterns, there are an astounding number of voters who go to the polls to vote for Trump and leave the booth without voting for anyone else. In Michigan there were hundreds of thousands of fewer votes for Supreme Court justices than for Trump. Because those races are nominally non-partisan, they had no idea who to vote for. The liberal candidates both won handily while Trump took the state. Midterms have gone against Republicans and I think it’s because Trump isn’t on the ballot.

I think if we can get Trump out of office, there is a good chance America will return to normalcy, albeit with a greater awareness of the current of fascism that bubbles before the surface.

It’s perfectly fine to like something that isn’t art. Hell, it’s perfectly fine to have a definition of art that can include AI, that’s just a framing for talking about the things AI does well vs. the things it doesn’t. I find that where a human can mix different things together in a way that enriches the whole, AI mixes things together in contradictory ways because it lacks human experience. It’s why, AI pictures usually come out flat and lifeless or includes nonsense details that don’t fit or includes requested details in incongruous ways.

That said, I only know about Hatsuni Miku through my kids. I don’t really know anything about that specifically.

He has such self-awareness of guilt that no one even knows what the fuck he’s talking about, but he’s sure people would be pissed if they knew.

I like to split it into the art and the craft. AI can execute the craft of drawing or creating music or lyrics, but only a human can exercise and elevate a medium to something that really speaks to people on anything more than a superficial level.

Last thing I want is to have the person guiding my flight to have gotten the job based on how hard they salute the flag. (Which is really just a way of saying kissing Trump’s ass.)

If they are as effective as all the true patriots he’s put in charge of the FBI, HSA, DOJ, etc. air travel is doomed.

Octopodes?

Ahk-top-o-deez nutz.

English can always make things worse.

The end result of this is everyone buys homes and cars in cash or they just invent something that is interest without calling it interest. They have that for certain religions who have a faith-based objection to interest. It seems dumb to me, but apparently structuring it with the interest rolled into the principal and called something else makes god happy.

Narrator: They aren’t.

Ironically, Republicans having complete control might just change peoples’ individual politics for the better. That could make a big difference. If we survive that long as a democracy.

If you are starting from a place of zero knowledge about investing, invest in a S&P 500 indexed mutual fund with the minimum “load” (percentage taken by the platform/company you invest through).

That will never be the wrong move, though other strategies might perform better in some cases.

Starting your own business is fraught. Investing in real estate is a completely different beast and I can’t offer anything there.

It’s fine to be up to the user. But it’s also fine to say it’s just a spam account and block it to save bandwidth. Easy for me to say, of course, since I’m already not seeing the content.

The cool thing about the fediverse is that no one really controls the whole thing, so I give a lot of deference to folks who want to run things their own way. Anyone with a strong option that it needs to be done differently can stand up their own instance pretty easily.

Or to summarize, you have a point but that doesn’t oblige the server to be run that way.

Maybe it’s different now, but two years ago it was just an echo chamber. No one responded to the posts because they weren’t responding to an actual person. You can’t tell people who the asshole is or answer their weird sex questions.

I never saw any point and blocked that account and whole server. It’s just noise and a waste of bandwidth.

The safety has gone from safer than driving to… still safer than driving. I’m much more worried about long lines and having flights cancelled, but work said I have to be in CA next week and I don’t have time to drive.

I don’t have patience to work a phone tree like my life depends on it so if they cancel my flight I’ll probably just go back home and tell them it’s the shutdown’s fault.

I don’t use the terminal often (outside my job where I’m using git commands or launching code) but when I use it it’s generally for things that are almost impossible with gui. Troubleshooting network issues or boot issues or searching for files. Fuck, sometimes I can’t even get to a folder I know is on my computer without a terminal.

And of course I have to fly across the country next week for business. Perfect timing. Oh well. This is the pain the country needs to feel—the consequence of supporting Trump. I’m off to have the week someone else voted for.

All I could think of…

Well
Trump is a bitch, he’s a big fat bitch
He’s the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
He’s a stupid bitch, if there ever was a bitch
He’s a bitch to all the boys and girls

Imagine the ketchup all over the new marble and gold…

Google is full of SOE slop. I think I prefer AI slop.

I’ve never seen anyone shoplifting food.

And I never will.