Practical effects for the gremlins are table stakes or I'm out.

I fear that the advent of AI scraping undermines this model. You do all the work, some aggregator slurps it up and gets all the advertisement revenue. You are probably better off with a guild system.

'actiones oris ergo os'
-Rene DeMasticatus

It's a book on procedure from some fraternal organization. Think eagles, masons, lions club.

Oh silly me, I assumed you had good intentions.

That requires introspection, which is not masculine.

Because those rich white men control the media and provide easy scapegoats?

That is surely one hypothesis, though it is also callous and devoid of understanding. The collapse of the American middle class leaves men unable to provide for their families, which is emasculating. This leaves them full of rage and looking for easy explanations.

Now he will have more time to play tennis and go-cart with jr.

Hume might you be talking about?

He should take the deal... On one condition. That the DOJ release the full unredacted Epstein Files.

I think the biggest learning challenge is in the philosophy of java vs newer languages. With java, there are no 'batteries included' and you need to make every decision.

Some newer libraries are written in a user friendly way, but the standard library is still like this.

I think this chart actually describes that 36% of the data points are now guess work whereas previously only around 10% of the data points were guess work.

In a world that increasingly makes no sense, the Epstein scandal is the one thing that explains everything. Imagine what you could do if you had blackmail evidence for every Republican mega donor, and then compare that to reality.

...but now the sentence isn't a pangram, and this example would be trivial in most programming languages, and if implemented in a traditional language would run with at least 1000000x less compute and memory cost.

In before DND gets its own bat girl fandom.

Well, there are some people who seem convinced that nightshade is capable of doing something. As a rough idea, mixing nonsense data into your art so that people will either have to blur your image or risk degrading their model's ability to generate details, seems plausible.

I'm not trying to be a dick, but can you link to a source? I'm hoping for something like a running tally so I can prove such a claim to family members.

You are onto something here. No notes.

By peacetime theory, I mean theory about how politics should behave under normal conditions. It should be apparent that we are not operating under normal conditions.

It sounds to me like you are using peace time theory to argue for creating stable safe seats, in a cycle where the ruling party is deeply unpopular and a greedy approach would maximize short term gains.

Ok, I get that there is more 4D chess here if you are willing to sacrifice a few seats packed with hard Rs. The maximally greedy approach is actually the most democratic.

False. The gerrymandering plan has to sacrifice strength in district to expand coverage. Post gerrymander large scale changes in public opinion have a greater chance of swinging seats because a +20 district becomes a +10 district.

I'll admit I'm completely in the dark for Newsom's rhetoric. Yes, absolutely, institutional reforms should be prioritized. That goes with the recognition that the current system is broken, and it won't be fixed by Republicans.

And this is a problem because...? If the Democrats fail to govern well, public support would change and they would lose seats. That sounds exactly like democracy working.

That depends on what you want from a party in power. If you want Democrats to immediately disarm and give Republicans a chance to blow everything up again, that seems like a bad outcome. The good outcome is to change the rules so that bad faith actors can't play any more.

Norm preservation is not a reasonable approach when the opposition refuses to be bound by those norms. The reasonable approach is to play the same game, then strengthen democratic institutions once in power.

So you agree that the majority shouldn't be bound by rules that the minority refuses to play by?

This is objectively funny. Subjectively, if black cats could read your shit posts, they would be happy to hear that you fear them.

This is an attempt to force you to choose a side, and the disagreeableness of the poster is an intentional nudge.