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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.

That's kind of how our relationship is, I handle the technical side of it, she's on spotify because I bought a 2 person plan for spotify, putting her and my son on it. I don't know how big of a difference one platform is from another, because I don't like music. I couldn't get her something to meet her music tastes, and she couldn't get me something for my tech tastes because we don't share those in common.

That's why for me I can't know what's good or bad with regards to selections of music. Because I don't listen to music. My wife mostly shuts down with the tech side, she tends to go "set it up... show me what button to push to start it, and if it's doing something I like I'll use it". So more or less, I'd need to demo it in order to see if she can use it or not... but again because I literally can't comprehend music that she likes, I can't pre-run them to find what she'd be most likely to like before the do or die demo.

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.

Well yes most anyone here knows he's 1/100th as bad as trump. and honestly in practice as president, I have to say he may actually be the best president in my lifetime. Doesn't change the fact that his age was a huge problem in his campaigning. and put simply the democratic party's obvious coverup of his age, that all fell appart on debate day did a pretty awful weakening to the image of the democratic party, which I would say, contributed to a good portion of swayable voters staying home or voting for trump.

You'll find them here https://president.ir/en/president/cabinet

Well I mean the bulk of the features they are railing about aren't even currently in most cars, Emergency breaking seems about 50/50 on protecting you vs others (hits the brakes if it detects you mindlessly driving towards something), and then the system that prevents people from leaving babies in the back seat.

It's something I find kind of amusing about Catholicism.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

I mean to me the whole concept of the catholic religion believing this is one of the 10 commandments. Then simultaneously praying in front of crucifixes or Virgin Mary statues etc...

I mean Jesus you could half way go with assuming trinity and considering him god... but it explicitly says "in heaven" and doesn't give any kind of "except of me".

Actually something kind of funny to me, it says "in heaven", "on earth" or "in the waters below earth". Assuming christian theology... the biggest exception that comes to my mind... is things that are in hell.

I mean pretty large parts of it are, also why they are part of the writers internal game to see how ridiculous they can make the tech scenes in crime shows go.

Like the famous 2 idiots one keyboard scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

where on top of hacking apparently being a huge visible thing that flashes stuff all over their computer screen to make it blatent something is happening, somehow they try to fight back... and type faster by having 2 people on the same keyboard.

The political consiquences of this are unknown. Could mandami be a snake, absolutely, is it possible that behind closed doors he said to trump "I don't actually believe anything I said, go ahead and send ice in and do whatever you want"... can't rule it out, wouldn't be the first time we've been screwed (cough fetterman).

But at the same time... it's also possible they just said a bunch of platitudes. He just stuck up some charm, redirected his ideas in a way that trump thought they were his own.

Point is trump is going to have impact, and getting trump to moderately like you, is a good thing and will make enacting your goals easier, even when your goals are directly going to go head to head against trump. Mandami has a lot of goals, and he cannot get them all passed unilaterally. When he actually changes his rhetoric, or doesn't push for any of the things he said he would, that's when we call him out. Talking with other leaders, is kind of what politicians are supposed to do.

I mean if squaresoft could rickroll in 1995, almost 10 years before anyone knew what rickrolling was, anything is possible.

I mean if it's based on the time of creation it would to me that's the idea of it though. IE the troll accounts that have spent 5 years building up a following, the only way to salvage them if their creation location was bad, is to delete them and start a new one from a VPN in the country they are supposed to be from. At which point smart people are going to note "the wave of accounts made in 2025-2026 and note that timing".

Course unless Elon works to change that rule, not tie in the original country etc, or make a blue checkmark feature "anti-doxing" to protect your private information like country.

I mean it's so obvious... is anyone else unaware that raising the goal for quantity is how you lower quality. Organized criminals are... well organized and hard to find. Finding one big cartel leader is considerably harder than scooping up 100 people showing up for their scheduled appointment with immigration court.

I mean does he have a chance, if I'm not mistaken didn't he win against a pedophile by the skin of his teeth. and now at this rate I'm wondering if pedophilia is less unpopular than it was back then.