It's giving self-loathing

in fairness, the machine lets me not think, and that is a benefit that far outweighs any harms I can think of

This is an illuminating point. After all, all parties in WWII were waging total war. It just happened that only one got atomic weapons before the war ended.

Coy about being coy is a good play

Either reporters literally don't know what a sixth-grader knows, or they're intentionally misleading the public discourse.

I don't mean this snarkily, I just can't tell if you're being coy about being a Marxist or if you're sort of reinventing his wheel

I don't think the anglosphere's "middle class" is either typified, or made up mostly of, small business owners. I assumed your point was that even comfortable middle class workers like physicians and lawyers are still dependent on wage income, which was the criterion Marx used to divide the classes.

I assumed you were intentionally echoing the 2-class distinction articulated by Marx, but maybe I was assuming incorrectly

Sometimes I wonder if a bigot's eagerness to debate should tell us something not about the bigot but about the audience

I wonder if he knows what happened to the ancestors of "people who live in the inner city" if they got a bad back, during the hundreds of years they harvested cotton, rice, tobacco...

All I can think of is Arendt's point about the banality of evil.

I guess it's our equivalent of plumbum

in fairness, February is much longer ago than the last tiktok I watched. So I'm not sure why you'd expect me to remember (or care about) anything that happened in February

No doubt people also yelled at old Harry "Stick to menswear"

the last thing i'll say is the reason williams' writing is so bad is he has nothing to say that isn't about himself

Those bone spurs add like ten pounds

In fairness, the price of eggs was a lot more important back in the days when we were still pretending not to be racist. Now that we've got ICE funded to quadruple the level of the Marine Corps ... who cares about the price of eggs.

Anyway we can always fire any official who says eggs are expensive

Something interesting to consider is that software surpassed humans at playing chess literally decades ago. But that software was not an LLM. I wonder if the present fixation on LLMs will appear as a bit of a detour on the longer arc of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

Agree very much.

One of the most telling things about Trump, going way back to 2016, was how although loyalty *to him* was of primary importance, he had no loyalty to anyone else. How many of his early functionaries were cast aside to lie disgraced, disbarred, fired, etc.?

I didn't know this, and it is chilling.

Donald Trump's history with Adolf Hitler and his Nazi writings: ANALYSIS Trump once again broke new ground, becoming the first leading presidential candidate to find it necessary to insist he had never read "Mein Kampf."

Trump is known to have studied Hitler's writings.

They are not mutually exclusive, on the one hand doing what a narcissist does, and on the other taking an interest in how other narcissists have governed.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/don...

Same for countries. Every "deal" is subject to betrayal by America if our mood changes, and the terms will depend on how well another country's head of state is liked by ours.

Ooh, what a haul! plus now you're ready for the holidays 😎

So glad to see you where the skies are blue!

it's giving B O N E S P U R S

Hope everyone's taking notes, this is a masterclass

A friend noticed the lighting in a coffee shop was super cool and took some pictures of me for my dating profile. I looked at them, and they were really flattering. I hated them! Which obviously says something about where I'm at 😂

How do you know that a Yorkie is a small dog but a Maine Coon is a big cat, if you don't know the size of a typical dog and a typical cat?

I think the most sober look at our reality reveals our problems run very deep and will not be fixed with tinkering or tit-for-tat. I think big goals right now are the opposite of naive, they are the only thing one can take seriously.