I’m getting AI-hate fatigue, like there’s a lot of valid reasons to hate AI based on how it’s been implemented and how it’s fucking with markets regarding PC components. But it’s gotten also to a point where, just the minor things in where AI actually has a use in, it gets scrutinized anyways because it’s the norm and cool thing to hate it.
The constant barrage of insane statements and actions from the current US administration. It’s exhausting (by design).
Say what you want about the Biden Administration. It did since good things, and it did since bad things. But it just ran the country in a mostly quiet way. And if nothing else, it was nice to not hear crazy shit from it every fucking day.
Even something like that, which seems reasonable on the surface, is itself highly skewed. Since there’s no FV counterpart, you can go to r/WhatBidenHasDone and see a deeply impressive list of accomplishments. The body of presidential scholars rate him highly, equally impressively.
So where does the ‘Biden was a so-so president’ sentiment come from, anyway? I’m not entirely sure, but it seems to me the news media has some real explaining to do, just as they’re not remotely going after the current admin nearly as much as they should.
Think about what an utter disaster this last election was-- the nation collectively giving up on what was a quality administration, in order to elect arguably the worst in history, with every bit of evidence pointing that way ahead of time.
It’s because the things he did were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. When there’s an insurrectionist running for president who’s promising to break every law that’s been written, you don’t clutch your pearls and ignore it.
I agree with you on Biden’s accomplishments (at least in the first half of his term - he kind of tailed off in the last year or two). But I know some people feel very strongly that he didn’t get anything of note done.
My point is that regardless of whether he got a lot of things done, and regardless of either you after with what he did… he and his staff did it quietly and calmly. And as a result America (and the world) weren’t flooded with insane crap. And I really really miss that.
Seriously. And we’d already had a huge taste of the chaos of the 1st Orange administration, and somehow decided… that life was too boring or something, without it.
Those people are just ridiculous to me, and I apologise for kind of sideways lumping you in there. I think it’s more accurate to say that Biden’s was generally a strong admin, but with some terrible failures in terms of appointing Garland as AG and not doing enough to prosecute those who badly needed to be prosecuted. In short, not taking seriously-enough the existential threat of what wound up following.