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I got all the way down on my one knee and nothing short of the second coming is gonna move me from this spot

I mean, the tech industry can't be beat at getting people like Balaji Srinivasan an obscene amount of money, so they must be doing something right!

I'm sympathetic to the concept, but I think that the advantages that organized parties have in terms of coordination (e.g. people with broadly similar values and policy goals choosing one candidate to represent those goals to avoid splitting the vote and seeing someone antithetical to those shared goals elected) are sufficiently strong that you would just see the current primaries replaced immediately by a primary process run completely independent of government oversight and resources. I can't imagine that being good from a perspective of electoral legitimacy or reducing the influence of money in politics.

I feel like there's a "law as it currently exists" thing versus the ideal. The law as it currently exists makes it illegal to discriminate based on content. This has historically been an important vector for, say, allowing civil rights activists to send essays to be published in newspapers. But much as it was illegal to deny a gay couple their marriage license, it ought be somehow made illegal to spread damaging lies about trans people in order to stir up a hate campaign.

In this case I'd say that 5 days fully paid suspension is probably an appropriate consequence for this rule-breaking, and could only be made more appropriate if it actually included tickets to spend those days someplace warmer and friendlier than that part of Canada and a knowing wink from the postmaster general.

The "important people" line is a huge part of how the grift works and makes tech media partially responsible. Legitimizing the grift rather than criticizing it makes it easy for sales folks to push "the next big thing." And after all, don't you want to be an important person?

The problem is that there could be any number of possible next words, and the available results suggest that the appropriate context isn't covered in the statistical relationships between prior words for anything but the most trivial of tasks i.e. automating the writing and parsing of emails that nobody ever wanted to read in the first place.

I want to know when that report was filed. "I can't find my cat, therefore my Haitian neighbors stole it to eat" is the kind of statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged, unless the idea was already in the water supply because a vice presidential candidate was saying it in interviews ahead of a national debate.

A police report would mark a diversion from the usual pattern of these things where Trump surrogates talk a big game about the massive conspiriacies against them (and therefore against You, the hypothetical American voter) to the media, but if they ever end up in front of a court or a police report or something where lying may have actual consequences they back off hard. How many times did we hear about all the mountains of evidence they had of voter fraud in 2020, and how many of the resulting court cases include those same lawyers specifically saying "we do not allege voter fraud" when the judge asks about it.

It's pretty great. The closing bits of improv from her cohost are a bit meh imo but the AI hype assessments are legitimately amazing.

Also means we're likely to have a better jumping on point to explain these people to those who aren't already here. Hope he does one on Yud and friends in the not too distant future.

Do you think he actively avoids those, or was this just the most convenient seat at the time?

I'm reminded of the guy in a previous thread who claimed LLMs helped him as a rubber duck partner. You know - the troubleshooting technique named for its efficacy when working with a bath toy.

In other news, Germany should be allowed to keep half of Poland and the Sudetenland.

We don't do right of conquest anymore because we recognized how it obviously incentivizes more wars of aggression and the associated humanitarian disasters.

Protesting and striking are valuable ways of organizing and fighting for change outside of the broken electoral system, but that isn't incompatible with using the power afforded to us through the electoral system to avoid the additional damage of a Trump presidency.

Or would you prefer to continue protesting and striking while the president has openly laughed about illegally firing striking workers and backed the use of even more police violence against protestors? Have we really forgotten 2020 so quickly?

...huh. Your sources are certainly more credible than my half-remembered reddit posts. I think I was probably mistaken on this one.

And those people are being told that the moderators were lugenpresse who were on the wrong side and want to protect criminals over your dog as part of their something something woke. The fact that the lamestream media keeps talking about how false it is and going to increasingly desperate lengths to deny it must mean we're onto them.

This is how the propaganda works. This is such a blatant lie that it should be a simple fact-check, but since that doesn't actually change anyone's mind all the attempt does is keep everyone talking about immigration, an issue that fires up the right-wing base and exhausts a lot of their opponents. You're absolutely right that we shouldn't be still talking about whether this is true or not, but focusing on how weird and dumb this conspiracy theory is getting. That's why the "weirdo" tack has been working for Harris in this campaign, and it's unfortunate that the headlines have lost interest.

Just keep smashing yourself into the bricks to "deny the wall legitimacy" or whatever. I'm sure it will work this time.

"They would like you to believe that their indecision reflects a particular attunement to ambiguity and nuance. But in truth they just won’t know where they stand until they’ve figured out where you do."

This is exactly why these people always feel so weird. Like, have you considered not hanging out with assholes?

• sleep( math.rand(15,20));
• print("I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that question.");

I call it HonestGPT, and will accept my billions in VC money now.

I mean, my awareness extends as far as "pure sniff ideology" and basically no context. Definitely heard some extremely bad takes on Ukraine though, which has quickly turned into my number one red flag for "actually pretty okay with Nazis when you get down to it"

EDIT: special thanks to skillissuer below for the correction re: Ukraine takes. Please trust his actual sources over my half-remembered reddit nonsense.