Retired Outlaw Gunfighter

I love Dune for 2 reasons. First, the complex political and economic world building. It teaches you how to read and understand that kind of structure. Second, the fact that it follows the laws of physics as closely as possible...

He's an elected dictator. The only reason he's not a full-on despot is the courts keep pissing on his stupid EOs. But he has plenty of time to deal with the judiciary...

He lies. All the time. About everything. Relentlessly. This is the master key to unlocking Trump.

He's lying...

And pig hunting in oak scrub leads to acorn-fed pigs which leads to many delicious breakfasts...

Nice little blue haired ladies at his rallies holding signs that said Mass deportation now. What did they think that actually meant..

The books you love most resonated with you for a reason. Go back to your favorites and think about why the words written in this way affected you the way they did. Now you have a starting place...

?I'd just like SOMEONE to answer this one simple question. Why is it so desperately important to you to try to convince me not to use an LLM? If you don't want to use GenAI, that's fine. Frankly, nobody cares. But why do so many people scream at me all day about how evil I am for using it?

It's so weird. Nobody accused me of being anti-American when I loudly opposed the odious GW Bush and the occupation of Iraq...

Every now and then I'm reminded why I've been following you around the internet for multiple decades...

The good news is a whole lot of them are going to vote D no matter what people are saying, because Trump is so clearly fucking everything up. Even hardcore racists - many of whom voted for Obama because GWB & Rs kept fucking everything up - will vote for Ds this cycle...

So much of it is just luck and magic. The Giants had GREAT teams with Mays and Bonds, Bonds and Kent, on and on through the decades and the team that finally won it all didn't have a superstar (except maybe Lincecum and Bochy), they just had the magic...

I worked for an enterprise security software company (Securonix) for about 4 years, and when I left to take a job at a data management startup I suddenly felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Having to think dark thoughts all day every day truly affects your life...

I think AI is really cool and I make extensive use of LLMs but I haven't spent a dime on any of it...

Clearly they made the chart and super Mario...

The regime is blatantly, utterly racist.

That's the explanation for so many of its lies and actions...

The trading algorithms are brilliant. They will engineer a 1 or 2 day steep decline based on something in the news. That's just algorithmic traders taking their profits before they 'buy the dip' and drive the markets up another couple percent and repeat. It's a money machine...

HIM: [mumbles] what th'hell you shootin at?
HER: [slurred] not sure. little purple hairy spider-lookin things
HIM: man, those are some righteous peyote buttons, huh?
HER: gimme a box of ammo and the brandy, clem

Umm, kinda morbidly curious what she used for drumstix...

Meh. That obviously means the answer is yes...

They faked their deaths to get away from you because you're a dick...

Pretty much everyone you ever met hopes so too...

Thanks sonny. After you spend a few years on this planet, you'll learn some things. Things like logic and an ability to actually have a discussion without hiding behind insults and sneers...

Are you saying state sanctioned homicide is somehow **better** if it's humans announcing it?

I never saw the movie, but the lyrical poetry of McCarthy's narrative somewhat lightens the darkness of the subject matter...

Yeah I look at global refugees trudging along rubble strewn paths and I think oh shit there's no way I could do that today. I just have to sit down on a rock and wait for the inevitable...

It's just like counter-terrorism. You have to be perfect while they just get to try everything over and over...

It makes so much sense. If he IS a star and you wait, you'll pay a helluva lot more. And that is a club friendly contract if you want to trade him in three years...

And OF COURSE she said that. How do they think she got to club fed, fer crissakes...

My great weakness is dairy fat of all sorts. Yogurt, milk, cheese, crema - give me all of it...

Nobody tell them about broadcast radio and electrical transmission lines...