For those who don’t remember, the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 lasted over a year. They had over a year to plan and it still was an unmitigated disaster.
Trump’s team was negotiating with Iran at a table 48 hrs before bombing them. There is no plan.
How can I put this. Being a parent is the most meaningful and joyful part of my own life, and any time I see someone wondering aloud if they should have kids my reflex is always “what, no, are you insane, run”
Yes! I have two small kids and they are amazing and I cherish even the hardest moments that I’m lucky to share with them but also we pay $2,400/month for daycare that runs for 6 hours a day and everything in this country is built antithetically to every need a family has to raise healthy children.
hiring a new Executive Vice Dean of Fart Huffing to drive systemic improvements in fad-chasing while first gen immigrant students risk abduction by federal goons to get a jar of peanut butter from the on-campus food pantry
And in so doing, destroy one of the few remaining paths to a middle class life in this country besides landlording. Y'all should be _in solidarity_ with us in _dictating_ how and _if_ we use the machine are bosses are foisting upon us. Jesus Christ I feel like this is remedial worker solidarity shit
And there are many more like me, some from far more dire backgrounds. If you're left-wing and you endorse this shit, and it actually performs as well as you claim, you must know that the inevitable result will be for capital to intensify production from far fewer workers
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
i am extremely open-minded about LLMs and my conclusion that theyre catastrophic dogshit has been arrived at through diligent investigation
Again, re “Trump’s Iran war is *just* to distract from the Epstein Files” crowd:
The US has tried to exert control over who rules Iran since before Jeffrey Epstein was BORN.
God. At this point there’s almost a moral obligation to grift these dunces
lmao
online MAGA men are falling for the AI creation "Jessica Foster," who is a combination US Army adviser to Trump and foot fetish model. The character already has nearly a million Instagram followers.
Charlie Brown's life was one surrounded by hoes—then, October 7 transformed and isolated him.
“The swastika and iron cross…section?”
I never even considered the possibility that my books could have a signature scent…
Speaking to what you said about "it makes me feel like it's helping me," I think one of the bigger concerns with it is that it leads non-coding executives to think they're Coding™ when what they're creating isn't production-quality at all and requires so much cleanup to be quality/stable.
He'd vibe-code prototypes for features and then there'd be this expectation that "you can just drop what I did in there, right?" when the code was like 15,000-line labyrinthine God Class view controllers full of redundant code that spewed pointless logs. It was… deeply frustrating.
At my last job the CTO was super into AI and there was a soft mandate to use it ("or it'll look bad on performance reviews"). Tried using Claude to fix a bug and it just kept breaking things in different ways for like 4 hours. Finally I just fixed it myself in like 20 minutes. AI coding is garbage.
That's enough green pepper for 2 meals
Misread this as "expectorate" and I was like "yeah…"
That's it, I've seen enough… [claws out one of my eyeballs in sacrifice to gain wisdom from Mimir's Well]
After a few weeks he finally figured out how to get into his car without setting off the alarm I guess, which is good for him because at that point I was thinking of pushing like 3 dozen nails into his tires
At one place I lived at in Queens, this dude's car alarm would go off at ~1AM every night and just keep going for like 2 minutes while he sat there inside it. So I got a high-powered flashlight and every time it went off I opened my window and shined him with it. Soon it'd stop after like 3 seconds.
I think about this one all the time
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
lol yeah same
"Whatever you may think of HRC, the lady does not suffer fools"
bsky.app/profile/nerd...
She been married to Bill Clinton through at least 2 scandals.
She is quite literally suffering one of the biggest fools of my lifetime lol
I'm thinking of bringing it back in some form or another. I miss the way the web used to be, like, "everyone's got a website" rather than "everything is on like 4 websites that algo-fuck what you see for their own benefit"
I started making fun of Chick Tracts and eventually ended up getting like 12,000 unique visits a month somehow, which I was too dumb to ever monetize. Looking back I feel like I missed a huge opportunity. And then I lost the domain after like 10 years due to the registrar fucking things up
