Steve Young

I mean, I think we all know why he won't.

We're just supposed to pretend that we have no idea why the guy with a nazi tattoo, who lied about knowing it is a nazi tattoo, who closely follows and speaks highly of nazis, won't make a statement that makes it clear he is opposed to antisemitism.

"Stop improvising! No more improvising, everyone! I said knock it off!"

I think the math of this is not understood by most of the "it's just a plagiarism machine" crowd.

Likely no game of chess has been played twice. Very few non-trivial sentences have ever been unintentionally spoken twice. A non-trivial response from an LLM is not just copied from training data.

anyone who lards their prose with just insult after insult is expecting the insults to do what the argument should

This is such a concise and accurate observation of something I see all the time (not just on this topic, but generally).

Right. I mean, if you're sitting around following a bunch of neo-nazis, and your information diet is chock-full of neo-nazis, it stands to reason that you might occasionally retweet a neo-nazi. I just don't see any way to avoid that outcome. It's a real head-scratcher.

Our lawless, fascist regime is now engaged in another flagrantly illegal war.

We need impeachments, removals, and prosecutions across the administration.

Having just bought a new computer, I guess I am now consigned to seeing ads for the exact computer I just bought on every webpage for the next few months. It just seems so wasteful.

I had to look this up. Those Oasis guys have always been assholes. I think they think it’s clever to be abusive.

Bunch of smiling dunces.

Watching it made me think, "What if all people doing sports were just enjoying themselves and having a good time doing their sport? That would be great."

I get that I'm not a competitive-sports-watching-person and so my thoughts probably don't count. But I think I'm right.

We need whistleblowers. There have to be some remnants of decent people who have access to the report and are willing to do the right thing.

I mean, I guess they could start murdering people on the high seas all over the world. That and some really, really wild parties. That's probably Hegseth's full list.

I have been waiting for the inevitable whistleblowers to start shedding light on what is going on. I figured that at some point, some people at these agencies must develop a conscience.

Yeah. Fuck those guys.

Between this and the White House response to the win, I get a real “ick” feeling about the US hockey team.

If they won't bring an impeachment case for the attempted embezzlement of $10B, then when *will* they bring it?

I can't believe that he retains his notion of the US spreading democracy around the world while even mentioning Central America.

I agree with you on both points.

But when people think that a thing is simply the particular part of it that is visible to them, and then they say that the thing is wrong and should not exist, I feel the need to make an (almost certainly futile) attempt to draw attention to the full picture.

Reading what he wrote in the full thread, I think it is clear that he is unaware of the distinction. He is unaware that he is missing half the story and is painting with a too-broad brush.

I remember driving home from that movie feeling disturbed. I recall thinking, "you know what, maybe Star Wars isn't for me anymore."

Then I thought, "you know what, I still like the original Star Wars trilogy. That world started in 1977 and ended in 1983."

I am kind of still there.

You believe that the current set of tools to help with software development are garbage? I use them regularly, and I very much disagree. I am sure there is a lot of snake-oil being sold to enterprises as well, but the most useful tools are quite useful.

I think one issue in this back and forth is that people are talking about different things when they say "AI". The free chatbots and the stuff crammed into products which worsen their quality is one thing. The tools that companies pay for in order to do useful things is entirely different.

I think people are getting just a *touch* carried away with the idea that the current hardware shortages are going to be a permanent reality.

I will be surprised if the semiconductor boom-and-bust cycle doesn't have people fretting about unsustainably low prices within the next few years.

The overt fascism of the republican party is just sickening.

This shit rocks and the comment section on the YouTube video is, somehow, extremely funny.

I think that the coming reconstruction will also need anti-corruption constitutional amendments:

1. Elimination of court-created immunity
2. Limitations on the pardon power
3. Establishment of an independent anti-corruption office to prosecute federal employees and officials under criminal laws

I used to be a big Target shopper. I preferred going there than anywhere else to get things they had. But with the DEI backsliding, I stopped and have not been back. I find Costco a bit of a challenge (the crowds and parking lot), but I go ahead and shop there since they are on the right side.

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Right. Quite often, CBP acts worse than ICE (both being utterly horrible and beyond reform). Just picking ICE alone for dismantling while leaving CBP (and who knows what other malignant agencies) in place would not solve the problem.