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a real concern is companies who *do* have a treatment on the market, who are selling it at an enormous price, and do everything they can to prevent the introduction of generics

like with this case: www.propublica.org/article/revl...

I've gotten too good at my right leg injections. no one can believe how good my right leg injections are! don't ask me about my left leg injections, that's rude

Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.

do the liberals have an answer for this?

if left-wing politics don't work and aren't popular, then why has the right done everything it can to discredit, destroy, and erase left-wing projects, governments, and ideology?

why does the right have to work so hard if leftism is self-evidently bad?

I didn't need to know that about Tony Clark

photo of a painting on a cement wall of a green frog with yellow eyes that is wearing a backpack and holding a large mushroom like an umbrella. they are smiling

feeling good

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

what the TSA agent sees when I go through the machine

In the Housing For All section on my website, you will see that I'm advocating for a Hunger Games style tournament to provide fair, equal access to low-quality transitional housing.

After setting fire to their tents and belongings we encircle them with police and make them fight to the death. then,

universal public housing and a legal right to be housed? sorry, temporary housing only after we've sufficiently punished the unhoused

great example here of the liberal urge to focus on managing the consequences of societal structural violence aimed at pleasing the imaginary Reaganite Middle Class Tax Payer instead of working to end the underlying structural violence

Ranking all the Pokemon games I have played:

1. Pokemon Snap
2. Pokemon Gold
3. Pokemon Blue
4. Pokemon Stadium
5. Pokemon Ruby
6. Pokemon Sun
7. Pokemon Pearl
8. Pokemon Y
9. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond
10. Pokemon Violet

I might be forgetting one but clearly it wasn't worth remembering

someone said to me yesterday that llms are "by orders of magnitude the most complex things humans have ever built" and that they're "closer to being human beings than spreadsheets"

I pointed out that we sent people to the moon and asked if chatbots are more complex than that but they didn't answer

If conservatives are upset with coverage, one must re-configure the paper so they never for a second feel like they are condescended to. If libs are upset with coverage, they’re stupid and can’t read.

And you see this manifest, endlessly, in the way centrists and those to their right (and even many liberals) talk down to and condescend to anyone they perceive as being a leftist or having leftist views.

It’s the exact language & style our culture teaches us to shut down and stifle mouthy women.

excited to celebrate Family Day 2026 by laying in bed, doing some laundry, and maybe going to the grocery store.

if I see any families outside, I will perform the customary Family Day Family Greeting, honouring the traditions passed down from our elders

was she working backwards from "my trans identity is valid even if I don't medically transition" and got to "ensuring my trans identity is valid by preventing anyone from medically transitioning" with bad theory?

like listen honey you're valid, but the fascists would actually love to take away my e

you should be kinder than this to yourself, this is sad

and here's another question. do any LLMs work as well as those moon delivery systems or a mRNA vaccine? do vaccines have the same rate of failure as literally any LLM? what have we actually "built" with gen ai?

the spreadsheet thing is mostly a joke, although partly a philosophical argument. I do think it's obvious I'm not meaning it literally.

here's a question though. we've sent people to the moon. are LLMs countless orders of magnitude more complex than that? or more than mRNA vaccines?

random nobody: life is hard, I hope we can find ways to make things better

random tech ceo: [posting to twitter] the People yearn for the Torment Nexus

... humans designed it, choose to use it in certain ways, and develop cultures of use around it. there is no "demands" to it. it's a choice!

it is not the "when using it" part I am talking about! hope that clears things up

so, machines and software cannot be enslaved because they do not experience any kind of existence. you are not enslaving your computer when you "offload [your] writing work" to it, although I think there are other problems with doing that.

it is still, though, gross to talk and think like you are

the painting of a sexualized woman hanging between them with her head cut out is like a bit

the only rat I would give it up for is Master Splinter. I appreciate his kindness and fortitude

and then, could we call that something like conscious self-destruction or like, what do we do with that? personally, I don't like that for us, collectively. sounds like something to guard against!