I’m actually wondering if the epstien bomb may be an additional part of it. IE if trump goes down, less focus goes on the files and they can be burried again.

I’d say a second hypothetical… obviously will be a conspiracy theory, but what if say in the near future trump is assasinated. Vance takes the throne… epstein file coverage goes down now that the primary implicated person is out.

Hell that could be the main driving force of the media backing trump. He was meant to burry them, but he made them a center focus

Short term absolutely, the specific prereq of being “happy” is on there. Though say making him napoleon just before Waterloo would fulfill that goal, obviously I don’t think that happyness lasted.

Nah come on, we can corrupted wish this one better… He’s transformed into Napoleon. Now he knew his father (who died when he’s 15), He’s happy when he’s succeeding, obviously doesn’t lack in confidence.

looks like it’s true… in Brooklyn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZcKrUx1Ts

I think it was Portugal’s concert, Weird Al and Jorma Taccone were guests

I’m sure we’ll be hearing a huge handful from everyone that attacked those who dared to speak badly about kirk after he died any minute now!

(Skeleton in front of computer image)

I mean, it’s a very large dependency on which journals, how well cited they are etc…

I mean yes there’s absolutely problems, but it doesn’t make much sense when we are comparing to basically completely unsourced arguements from complete and total laymen. That’s basically in the category of calling out Obama did some unethical things as president… in a discussion about trump. Yes 100% agreed with the premise, but also have to say they aren’t even in the same league.

IMO I don’t see why you get a second human involved. Store the database in an encrypted form… save a copy to some cloud service. Why count on another human for it

I mean effectively he’s making the same mistake as biden did on messaging, IE Biden basically went publicly patting himself on the back of how the US had a lower inflation than most other countries durring the covid spree. but he phrased it in a way that was regularly interpreted as “I solved inflation… you feeling like everything is falling apart is on you.”

Bottom line, things have been circling the drain for decades… which is why almost universally the candidate that wins is the one at least offering the image of change. It’s why hillary basically promising to keep going in the same direction as obama, and harris’s lack of ability to admit biden may have made some mistakes… gave us 2 terms of trump.

I would say the second amendment got kinda screwed in how it was… Like the primary point was to not have a standing army. Almost all the founding fathers specifically feared the idea of a standing army, as one of the greatest threats to liberty.

“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” - James Madison

“Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.” - Alexander Hamilton

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.” - Thomas Jefferson

So yeah second amendment is great and all… though I would say, it’s primary value was meant to be that we could rise up against authoritarians… because the people are in the same equipment league as the army… instead now somehow we’re watching the nation argue over if the millitary code saying not to follow illegal orders is actually a real rule, while ice thugs are literally grabbing people off the street. At this point I’m honestly not seeing the second ammendment working without actually having a second civil war.

Or just on twitter, or parts of reddit, or the internet in general etc… I mean there certainly was no shortage of outrage… with say the little mermaid etc…

Now I will admit a good portion of it is that producers have really gotten shitty on writing in general, and often try and compensate it by throwing in a less represented in media character. IE say the last 2 doctors, girl ghostbusters etc… IE things aren’t terrible because of diverse casting, but if it is terrible, diverse casting isn’t going to fix it.

same reason why every black person in all positions is considered DEI even when they have decades of relevant experience pages, graduated top of their class in ivy league schools, and some white guy with middling experience, possibly even in the wrong field… gets put in and nobody questions it.

It’s true but I mean the key point is, they had quite a few failsafes set up for this… why we have 3 branches of government all made to slam the breaks on eachother etc… it’s why many of the founding fathers didn’t even want parties to exist. Hell they didn’t even want a standing military, they were pretty adamanant of staying out of other nations affairs… even the nations that we owed favors to.

Because fraud is an official act of a president… even fraud commited before he announced he was running because, our founding fathers didn’t anticipate the possibility of all 3 branches of government being corrupt at the same time.

I fully agree as a tool LLMs are amazing. Throw in a config file or code that you know 99% of what it should be, but can’t find what’s wrong… and I’d say there’s a good 70% chance it will find it… maybe chasing down one or 2 red herrings before it solves it.

The bad rap of course is simply the 2 main factors.

1. idiots that use it to do the entire coding, and thus wind up with something they themselves don’t have even the basic understanding of how it goes together, so they can’t spot when it does something horrifically wrong.

2. The overall reality that, no matter how you slice it, it costs an absurd amount to run these things. so… while the AI companies are letting us use these things for free or off really cheap plans, it’s actually costing real money to process, and realistically there’s no sign of it reaching a point where there’s actually a fair trade of value…

Very 100% agreed it’s in the no shit sherlock category. The american people want you to at the very least pay lip service to the idea that you are going to try to make their lives better. Rather than just calling the republicans bad.

A podium… across the room from the actual podium… that’s clearly a random box he had lying around.

I mean I want to switch because I want the minimal evil. I’ve normally defaulted to using things that meet my ethics over convenience. Most things for my family I set up and work around the evils. Music is a harder one for me to work with becasue I don’t understand it, so it’s harder for me to find a good alternative. So for me on the surface all will be equal… for my son and wife, I can’t predict that because I don’t really know enough to see “oh she’ll hate this” or “none of her music will be in it”, because I don’t understand anyone elses tastes in music.

Yeah looking at it, it looks like tidal does… question I do have is what’s overall good for 2 people, who seem to like music a lot, My son probably more indie type things on youtube… my girlfriend probably more I guess generic music, plus techno I think. challenge I have is I probably need to set everything up and get it all ready for them to try out in order to get the switch…

but… I have no taste for music… or really understanding of most of it. So it’s hard for me to pre-judge anything because… not really a service I can use or comprehend enough to tell what’s actually useful or not.

So, I’m not a music guy at all, but my wife and son do like music and use spotify, and I’ve paid for spotify premium. I hear of a lot of alternatives, most comonly tidal.

what would be a good option to switch them to, prefferably something likely to have almost all their existing songs, and is there anything that can transfer their playlists etc… before switching?

Maybe rather than giving them powers, it just puts then into the right place, and modifies them slightly to be able to deal with it. Like say, makes them fat and teleports them in front of a runaway vehicle.