Good to hear. Now I’m confident that the US definitely won’t succumb to mission creep and get sucked into an interminable war that will end countless thousands of lives.

Maybe, but the other guys with lidar are using 1.8 RDP’d in Filipino drivers (without US driving licenses) per car… so maybe its a pipe dream either way.

Consider it practice.

While I love cozy warm bed, I will in fact be going for a walk in the worst part of the big scary blizzard purely for fun.

42.07 seconds. Have never used the function before. I just used the “search commands” function.

Yeah, but have you considered that this kind of technology can’t sustain the delusion idea that you could replace all workers with a chatbot?

You’re asking the wrong questions. The institutions which created the conditions for what we are seeing now will not be able to un-create those conditions without being fundamentally altered. The reality we Americans need to internalize is that “no institutional actor will be saving us”. If we make it through the next several years without a significant, socially disruptive rupture, we will not have been saved. We will have mearly postponed it. If Democrats take power in the house, senate, and presidency, and try to recreate the pre-Trump political period, they will create a fallow field in which a less incompetent analog of Trump will grow.

The only way this stops is if Americans reject the things which have made it possible to occur, for instance, the expansiveness of the military, the legal imperviousness of the president, the inaction of the legislature, the “apoliticality” of the supreme court, the expansion of the surveillance and security apparati of the state, militarization of police forces, ect (by no means exhaustive). The people in power will not voluntarily give up power to allow this to happen.

Much of what we’re seeing now has happened before, and Americans have never rejected it before. From this I can only assume it will take a lot more deterioration before we see it end.

Great. Now i can get that “real book feeling” of wrestling the books pages to lie flat enough for me to read them as I lay down.

I had to check, but voyager, evidently.

So you’re saying that thorn guy might be on to somthing?

That’d be an effective total ban, because noone would want to be on a social media platform with entierly 80+ year olds. It’d be all corny minion memes.

If some manager at a store can find the huevos do it, your state politicians can find em too. js.

If you want to understand conflicts, you need to read about their history.

I took a look at the tracker they’re using as a source, and this appears to be (for the few categories I checked the methodology for) referring to mathematically projected deaths, and not literal counted dead humans. I think that’s a pretty important note, especially if we’re titling it “at least 600,000 dead”. I’m not saying noone died, but “I’ve used math to estimate that half a million people died based on this set of assumptions” is a very different statement from “We have tallied up literally half a million dead people over here explicitly because of USAID going away”

I can’t decide if Trump thinks this will make him look like less of a lame duck when the vote passes the house, or if Trump is trying to reverse psychology them out of it.

I’m being less than 100% precise here. The line I’m drawing is that abolition of private property rights is co-terminus with abolition of capitalism.

“Ask them ‘what’s more important, human rights or property rights’. If they reply 'property rights are human rights, they’re on the right”.

e: I’m just going to add explicitly, since there’s clearly some confusion looking at the other sister comments. It’s not about monarchism or any of that. Its two things: Property rights and social hierarchies. If you want em gone, you’re on the left. from that perspective you need not change the definition of left and right in 1799 and 1848, and all the same from Maréchal to Mélenchon.

I mean, its not really a purity test. It’s just kind of definitions. The political terms “right” and “left” have meant the same thing since the French Revolution. Democrats are not left wing. We can have a whole bunch of ancillary discussions about whether that means people should or shouldn’t vote for them, which I’m not interested in having, but i struggle to see how one could argue in good faith that the Democrats are left wing. Its really not even clear that Ocasio-Cortez or Sanders are “left wing” since neither seems to oppose private property rights, nor do they advocate for the weakening or abolishment of capitalism - the traditional dividing line of left and right.

what’s the old saying? “Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”

My suspicion is that a lot of young (American) people have only ever had canned, or horrifically overcooked veggies and conclude on that basis that veggies suck. My SO thought she didn’t like green beans until she was 19 and had the ones my dad made and was like “Wait… Why aren’t these mushy?”.

Enshittification is a theory of what Cory Doctrow (the guy who coined the term) calls “Platform Decay”. It has three steps.

1. Make a good platform for users by offering a service and usually aggressive interoperability with other similar services to reduce switching costs.

2. Once users are locked in by network effects, make their experience worse to the benefit of Advertisers

3. Once the advertisers are locked in due to network effects make their experience worse to the benefit of investors or other equity holders.

Ok now your platform sucks but everyone ia trapped there.

Id argue most LLM services are still in stage 1.