Leon English

Sure, and that's why it's also a relevant question as to whether they actually focusing on the things people claim they are (e.g., did Harris overly focus on trans issues? I think demonstrably not, she barely spoke about them).

Like who is the middle class in this consultant's reckoning? Clearly not a working trans individual in a state where its legal to discriminate based on gender identity.

Can you legally be discriminated against? Well you're going to have a harder time putting bread on that kitchen table, ya know?

what bothers me about the "kitchen table" vs "identity politics" framing, as here with saying dems are out of touch with the middle class, is that (putting aside whether or not dems overly focus on identity politics), identity politics are kitchen table issues for the people in those identities

No clue, doubt he even knows.

Yeah that's one of the only things I really liked my smartwatch for too

Autocorrect, mamdani*

My biggest opinion in mamadanis mayorship is people should probably wait until he’s been in office for a full quarter before judging it

And there are tricky issues at the margin there. If I post “Donald Trump go [redacted] yourself” and he does should I be liable?

But afaik it is not well established law that a human driving someone else to suicide is liable; note this is not a comment on whether it should be.

Now, whether that would cover the harms people are looking to protect against here is another matter (and, also for that matter, another matter as to whether humans would be liable; in other words, issue isn’t really applying human liability to a nonhuman actor)

Not gonna quote post cause I’m trying to get out of the house and don’t wanna get into a discourse, but we don’t really have to attach human liabilities to a nonhuman entity to make LLM owners liable, we have a whole class of law called products liability

That is a risk you take when engaging in gallows humor

Gallows humor has to actually be funny like every other type of humor and if it isn’t then it’s going to particularly unfunny because of the whole gallows thing

The anti-woke stuff definitely did not help! They were already shedding consumers and then they went and alienated a bunch more to try to please people who simply would not shop at Target regardless. Masterclass in how to fuck up.

I'm kind of agnostic on the extent to which doing an about face on their anti-woke policies would save them, tbh; to the extent they had a market niche they squandered it over the last decade and a half and I'm not really sure "nicer walmart" is really something consumers want anymore.

Read the interview with the new Target CEO and it's funny because I know exactly the moment from the "archives" he's referring to when he talks about sending buyer's abroad for inspiration (the Global Bazaar from 2006, it did numbers) and man that is not gonna turn shit around for you lol

Also I think most use cases make the most sense indoors and not while you're like walking around in public, which is another plus for the big ass headset.

Also unironically think this is why something like the Apple Vision is better; there are use cases for AR (if the tech gets there) but if you want to use it you should have to be look like the biggest, most obvious dork on the planet so people know you're using it.

I would actually really love to have a AR shopping list, but I think the harms probably outweigh the slightly increased convenience at Costco

Peering into the mind of the median voter is like staring into a god damned abyss

My wife was telling a coworker about how she is hesitant to travel abroad because of all this and he was like "but you're a citizen now, they can't do anything to you!" and man read a fucking newspaper

In some sense we will be no matter what, I suppose; the post-US hegemony is coming.

In a just world we would be, at least.

I mean obviously these are all rantings of an insane kleptocrat but again I must ask what the fuck

So Iran has surrendered but we're going to kill more people that we weren't going to kill before Iran surrendered?

I’ve never related to the first four lines of that Four Non Blondes song so hard in my life. What’s going on indeed

Like we’re in a war for no apparent reason and the president is doing an executive order about college sports? This is a fever dream.

I'm sorry man; keeping you and your family in my thoughts.

Ridley Scott should not have made Black Hawk Down, hindsight.