WatDabney @ WatDabney @sopuli.xyz

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I think this ruling might just be the acid test.

It's painfully obvious how the SC should rule, both based on the Constitution and based on precedent. Add in the fact that the cited justices' questions and comments clearly indicate that they understand the legal realities, if they still go ahead and rule in Trump's favor, that will pretty effectively mark the end, in failure, of the American Experiment.

I wonder where the misdirection is, and what lies it's hiding.

Google would not agree to anything unless it was better for them than whatever they'd get stuck with by losing, so the fact that the agreement superficially appears to be even better than the terms that were set to be forced on them means that they're lying.

I can't see yet what they have up their sleeve - how they're planning to continue enshittifying Android and the app store, but it's guaranteed that that is their intent, and that this agreement furthers it.

So the message to poor Americans from Trump and the Republicans is "If we can't take away your health insurance assistance, we'll take away your food assistance."

And all so that they can pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

They're psychopaths. They really are - they are, and rather self-evidently, entirely unconstrained by morals, principles, empathy or conscience, so meet the DSM standards.

That don't just need to be voted out of office - they need to be institutionalized.

It's neither a ceasefire nor a truce - it's a PR con-job.

Trump played a role because he wanted a Nobel and when the Nobel committee passed him up, he stopped pretending to even care. And Israel never intended to abide by it - they just wanted to dodge some of the heat they were taking for being genocidal monsters. And nobody else ever intended to try to make them abide by ot.

And predictably, they violated it almost immediately, and have continued to brazenly violate it ever since.

They were profitable from the beginning.

The "problem" was that the original business model didn't generate enough revenue to pay for obscene salaries and perks and lavish offices for a full complement of executive weasels, so they've been changing the business model and dicking the drivers over progressively more virtually from rhe day they first incorporated.

This is just a sort of ultimate step in that ongoing process - the final conversion of a company that started out serving the needs of the drivers and customers ending up entirely directed toward satisfying the greed of a relative handful pf psychopathic shitstains who contribute absolutely nothing of any actual value.

Like I said, corporate America in action...

Corporate America in action - a company that started out just as a sort of middleman between people using their own cars to shuttle around paying passengers and people who were willing to pay for a ride is now moving to eliminate human drivers.

Huh... that sounds about right.

Alito, for instance, was always a demagogic piece of shit, and Thomas was always a corrupt piece of shit, but for a while there, Roberts was a relatively decent justice, all things considered. But no more - now he's at least as corrupt/compromised as the rest of them. But I was never quite sure how that happened, and that's a plausible explanation.

They could - Congress has the exact same authority to impeach a supreme court justice as they do a president (or any other federal office-holder for that matter).

But they won't.

A Dem majority wouldn't be enough, because Schumer and Jeffries and all the rest of their neolib hack allies would still be there, and they're owned by most of the same big money donors that own the Republicans.

The only way there's any chance that Congress would actually exercise its authority is if all of the corrupt shitweasels are primaried and the Dems end up not just with a majority, but a majority of actual leftists with actual principles and integrity.

And that's terribly unlikely, since both the Republicans and the Democrats would fight it tooth and toenail.

Though he likely won't hold public attention, I suspect that Roberts will, in the analyses of professional historians and political scientists, be judged second only to Trump in responsibility for the coming collapse of the US.

More precisely, since it's an honor system, Trump, who possesses no honor whatsoever, is immune.

lol

Okay, so usually an instant self-own.

"Do you know who I am?!" is an instant self-own.

I did lift that basic concept from an article I read, and I would assume it was that one. Thanks for the link.

Of course he won't stop - he's arrested at an emotional age of about 14.

He's effectively a permanent chuunibyou, and the only way out of that is to outgrow it and he long since failed to do that.

Effectively, what LLMs do is exactly the same thing that mentalists do - they wait for "prompts" to indicate your area(s) of interest, then feed you strings of words that are statistically likely to be well received.

Or in much simpler terms, and by design, they tell you what you want to hear.

I'd say that calling what they do "hallucinating" is still falling prey to the most fundamental ongoing misperceptions/misrepresentations of them.

They cannot actually "hallucinate," since they don't actually perceive the data that's poured into and out of them, much less possess any ability to interpret it either correctly or incorrectly.

They're just gigantic databases programmed with a variety of ways in which to collate, order and regurgitate portions of that data. They have no awareness of what it is that they're doing - they're just ordering data based on rules and statistical likelihoods, and that rather obviously means that they can and will end up following language paths that, while likely internally coherent, will have drifted away from reality. That that ends up resembling a "hallucination" is just happenstance, since it doesn't even arise from the same process as actual "hallucinations."

And broadly I grow increasingly confident that virtually all of the current (and coming - I think things are going to get much worse) problems with "AI" in and of itself (as distinct from the ways in which it's employed) are rooted in the fundamental misrepresentations, misinterpretations and misconceptions that are made about them, starting with the foundational one that they are or can be in any sense "intelligence."

Huh.

What would've happened if they'd told the actual truth? They were actually a mob of insurrectionists.

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That says everything that needs to be said about his complete lack of integrity right there.

So... there are more important things to focus on than a tattoo that resembles some obscure nazi-associated iconography, but we need to focus on the tattoo exclusively and make our decision based solely on that, as if nothing else matters.

It's not the tattoo that exposes the Democrats' greatest weakness - it's the tediously absolutist responses to it like this one.

Platforms matter. Principles matter. Voting records matter. Ideals matter. Ethics matter.

Tattoos do not.

Fucking losers.