Learn to fucking read.

Pop quiz: Which would you rather have, the Labour Party or the Democratic Party?

I can’t decide which is more repugnantly bad at their job.

SOP with Trump: lose and declare victory.

AI is going to crash the economy. It doesn’t have a business model that pays for itself. Less capacity is being built than is claimed, and companies like Microsoft and Google would essentially have to double their total revenue to cover the AI capex. Read Ed Zitron for a sober detailed take on the state of the AI industry.

Show me a “religious conservative” and I’ll show you someone high on the “Likely Rapes Underage Girls” list.

Standard AI apologia. Blame users for the problems, when fundamentally it is technology completely oversold as to its capability and reliability, and burning hundreds of billions of dollars trying to get folks addicted to it, before everyone finds out the true cost of a token.

It’s a swamp that’s going to destroy the economy, where the goal is to unemploy millions of people. No thanks.

A lot of GIGO comments here, from I assume AI supporters.

Possibly true, but misses the point: AI is fundamentally untrustworthy, and billions of dollars are being spent making them, and saying they’re ready for anything you throw at them. Safeguards built into many of these AI agents are trivially bypassed and routinely just ignored by the agents. You can get some them to ignore safeguards by simply asking the same question repeatedly.

When I type “ls” I’m pretty fucking sure I’m not going to get “rm” style results. AI is non-deterministic, sure, but selling these services with such a wide possibility space between “deterministic” and “random” behaviors is unethical and immoral.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

To a first approximation, all boys suck.

In case you didn’t notice, he gains power and confidence when you try to act above the fray and not confront him.

It’s a media war, and fighting him and his propaganda in all ways is not a distraction, it’s an obligation.

I own one, and my experience disagrees with your conjecture.

You picked a bad start date for Arab/Jewish trouble in Palestine. You also appear to ignore how the other Arab states screwed over the Palestinians to keep them desperate.

But I didn’t comment to debate this. I commented to disabuse the notion that Israel is using the Iron Age to think what they think. Neither are the Arabs.

Uh, no. They live in the living memory of the Six-Day War. I’m not going to defend the behavior of the current Israeli government, but in no way are they just living out the biases the Old Testament when they think neighboring Arab states are antagonistic to them. They remember 1967, and if you think that all neighboring Arab states have done a 180 from where they were then, you’re very much wrong.

I very much hope Ukraine’s reported success is as good as they claim. Deleting 1/3 of the Russia’s bomber capacity against Ukraine is nice.

This is not enshittification. It’s just shitty.

Someone he doesn’t like personally came from Norfolk Island, I’ll lay odds.

The chaos is the point: make nothing normal, make nothing certain, and he can be free to do anything.

If he’s not a Russian asset, he’s working for them pro bono.

You could not more wrong. American capitalism is the worst form of capitalism in the world. It is only attractive to people from truly desperate situations.

This is always the Libertarian shitpost response: “you’re free to do what you want” because you don’t recognize economic coercion. It’s a perfectly OK form of limiting freedom. Fuck off.

The kabuki performance that is international diplomacy is almost never dropped, but in this case, it is justified, and the world should line up with Zelenskyy.