BillyClark

I don’t hate AI. That’s pointless. I hate the people who use AI to ruin everything, which is the majority of AI users today.

He previously made a public call to action. I see no reason why he shouldn’t send the same sort of critical public message again.

I just don’t think you can compare Nixon and Reagan and come to a conclusion which is worse. It’s like the old thought experiment. “If a person who had never had an evil thought in their lives does a good deed, is it greater or less than the same deed performed by a person who had mostly committed bad deeds in their life?”

Not that either Reagan or Nixon would be a good man.

I basically view Nixon as being a thoroughly evil calculating man. The reason he created the EPA and considered progressive policies was that they furthered his political career, and he didn’t care if anybody else benefitted or was harmed.

Reagan, on the other hand, I view as an emotionally driven man. He was obsessed with appearances and with winning. He was sort of like a smarter version of Trump.

Anyways, the problem is that I think Nixon the man was a far worse person than Reagan the man. And Reagan’s corruption may not have been possible except for the way that Nixon’s corruption paved the way, and that Nixon’s downfall stoked Reagan’s fears of losing.

People today watching old SNL sketches: “You know what? I actually do want to live in a van down by the river.”

They’re Republicans, so they already have an 11th commandment created by Ronald Reagan in the 1960s, I shit you not. “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”

It’s one of the reasons Trump so easily took over the GOP, that they had a stupid rule that they followed that emphatically placed party before country, created by a president who seemed to specialize in making sure that the future was as shitty as possible.

It’s only very recently that, with the rise of social networking, the greater public has had the opportunity to really get to know rich assholes like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

And one of the things we’ve been able to learn from interacting with them is that they are definitely not better than other people.

Rich people have been portrayed as being well-educated. But it turns out that they paid for their diplomas and so they’re probably dumber than average. Far dumber in the cases of Trump and Musk.

Rich people have sometimes been portrayed as hard workers who deserve their riches. But it turns out that they don’t do shit except party with pedophiles.

Just like you said, they just pay some stooges to do their work for them. Rich people are nothing but leeches.

Maybe the bird was practicing.

Whoa just a moment. What I heard was that he raped and beat children.

I think there are some historical governments where individual people earned the right to vote. One thing that is appealing about that is the people who worked to earn their vote would appreciate its significance.

But I don’t agree with that style. I think everyone should be forced to participate. It’s called compulsory voting. And that we simply need higher standards for education. These people are dumb as shit because our education system failed them.

Pretty sure that a true sado-vegan also has to kill the plant himself.

The government is not a business, not that Trump knows how to run a business, either.

One of the reasons our world is so fucked today is businesses chasing short-term profit to inflate their stock prices, while offloading any future responsibilities to the future.

Since a government is not a business, we can actually choose to spend money today to achieve monetary and even non-monetary goals in the future.

So even if Trump were correct in his assessment of the costs, and he’s obviously not, but even if he were, this would be a piss poor decision.

I would never leave any clues like that which could be used to lead police to the person who cut their brake lines.

I think the bigger point is that if you type the entire path, you are obviously typing more characters, which gives more opportunities for typos, whatever they may be.

It’s far safer to find ways to type less. Less typing, fewer typos. As long as you can do it safely.

That doesn’t protect you from typos.

rm -rv /home/schmuck /etc

“Whoops, I accidentally added a space.”

I have three ways around this:

1. ls ~/etc … <press up arrow, replace ls with rm -rv>
2. ls ~/etc … rm -rv !$
3. Add the commands to a simple script and use variables to remove the danger of a command line.

I see that you read “behavioral economics scientists” and wrote “manosphere influencers”. There isn’t much of a chance that you did this on accident.

If it was, would that be worse than the zero research you’ve done?

Is that confidence based off of your gut feelings? Because my statement was based off of similar research done by behavioral economists.

And there’s sausages!

I am concerned that people will read your comment, and end up using dangerous dull knives.

I don’t really want to get into an argument, but most people will put off doing anything even mildly complicated to the point that they never do it. If you never sharpen your knives, then you will end up with dull knives, which is the worst possible outcome.

Pull through sharpeners do actually sharpen the blade. I don’t know where you got your information from. You certainly don’t have to sharpen a knife every time, but even if you did, it would be something quick and simple that anybody could do.

There are also different levels of pull through sharpeners, some that make multiple passes for different types of blade care. But any sharpener, even the most basic pull through, is better than a dull blade.

A person who uses a pull through sharpener will generally know when they need to start looking into more advanced methods. I do not think it is safe to warn beginners off of using the tools that they are most likely to actually use.

The thing about the advice you’re giving is that it’s for pretty advanced users. But by the time you’re that advanced, you should probably know all of that stuff, anyways.

At a certain point, you might even get to the point where you feel it’s better to have your knives professionally sharpened rather than doing it yourself.

But when you start out, I think you should buy cheap knives and a cheap knife sharpener. The knives get dull quickly, but it’s super fast to sharpen them, so you don’t have to let them get dull. And you don’t really care if you wear down your knives by sharpening them too much because they’re cheap.

When you need to move on to a better system, you’ll know it.