Tried to get one at 42 - they required a cola-guard screening first. Requested a cola-guard screening and insurance didn’t cover it until 45. Tried to manually buy one - couple thousand dollars. So basically you can’t start getting screened until 45.

If something like that can be easily be undone, then either it wasn’t anything or the people who made it didn’t try very hard to secure it.

Let’s make a trade, Republicans… we will help you oust McConnell if you help us oust Fetterman. Both do not belong in the senate.

Anti-iraq war protesters killed John Kerry’s presidential bid and led to 4 more years of Bush. Did that mean the democrats ran away from the issue and everyone supported the Iraq War?

No, we changed leadership and polling so much so that we finally got out of the war. The option shifted so hard that in 2015 the only republican in a huge field of candidates that said the Iraq war was a failure won the primary, the whitehouse, and (eventually after he left) got us finally out of Afghanistan. (Yes I know that was Biden, but was odd that Obama didn’t do it).

With AOC at the helm, they can no longer tar and feather Bernie supporters as anti-women because we didn’t like Hillary or Harris.

Wonder how much of Windows 10 was written by Stack Exchange?

Wikipedia had bots writing US census gathering-place articles in 2002, 20 years before LLMs were a thing. They’ve got decades of regulations in place, so I am not scared that the quality is going to drop.

There are still some family owned farms. Can’t go back to feudalism without all the family farms going bankrupt and selling out to mega-farm conglomerate corporations.

Why? Because now is the time to do things that people won’t remeber in 19 months when the next poll that matters takes place.

No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger

I’ll believe it when someone gets kicked off the DNC for helping incumbents.

I have a feeling that AOC is going to run for Schumer’s seat and Booker is going to be the nominee.

Was watching a clip from “the Crown” about how when Tony Blair was elected, people were contemplating getting rid of the monarchy due to how popular he was. Now a “Blairite” is a slur in British politics due to it’s connotation with the Iraq war debacle. Second biggest modern mistake just behind allowing the Brexit poll and just ahead of the Lib Dems propping up the Tory government.

Dude, it’s been 2 centuries, take a hint

That is exactly why I said it

If you open up your camera app and spin around and take a picture, 99% of the picture will be garbage.

If you boot up a AI art program and type in a random prompt, 99% of that will be garbage.

Photographer have specialize lenses and choices of FOV that affects how the pictures look. Ai artists have specialized weight and loras that affect how the picture will look.

Photographer don’t just take pictures at random. They set and frame the scenes - doing prep work and framing. AI artist can use base pictures instead of random noise to bias the outcome (image to image).

With live subjects, photographer can either give no guidance, or direct the subjects (think “look at the camera and say cheese”, only more nuanced). With AI art, there is a whole subfield of prompt engineering l which is akin to this.

After a photographer take pictures, they do minor touch ups and photoshoping to clean up parts that didn’t come out right. So too with AI artists.

And with both, you can get 100s if not 1000s of pictures of a subject. The photographer and the AI artist true test is being able to pick from those thousands the one or two good shots.

Yes there is a bunch of legal and copyright problems with AI art. When the camera was first invented, people argued that you couldn’t take pictures of crowds without getting everyone’s concent, nor could you take picture of other people’s property with out breaking the law. That the legal realities around photography weren’t settled didn’t mean those taking picture back then weren’t artists, and it doesn’t mean that people doing AI art today aren’t artists. AI generators are like camera in that you get out better results depending on how much work you put it.

“I am a photographer!”

“So you just push a button and steal people’s privacy? Not real art!”

Everything can be automated, just with lower quality, speed, and a high up front and ongoing cost.

But for a large segment of jobs, no one cares about quality. Speed can be increased by increasing the number of parallel automatons, thus cost. If you really want to get rid of all work, raise the minimum wage to $100/hour for one year. Don’t tell anyone that it will only be a year. By the end of the year, almost every job will be automated.

Day 1 is 7 years ago. Hillary was being demonizing in 1992 and ran for president in 2016.

Biden was deporting more immigrants than Trump did in his first term WITH A WORKING GOVERNMENT. Trump can’t do more with less, so to appease his base, he is targeting particular people and doing extreme things to cover up the fact that he is deporting less.

Sort of like how he called his huge middle class tax hike during his first term a tax cut. He knows his base won’t actually check and will call truth tellers anti-trump liars.

Trump is deporting them back to Melissa Majoria

The market has factored in these tariffs. They haven’t factored in the retaliation tariffs, since they haven’t been announced yet.

I feel like there should be a name for a tariff terrorist. A tarrifist? A terofist?