FearandLoathingintheMotte
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FearandLoathingintheMotte
2d ago
Such a good post
FearandLoathingintheMotte
5d ago
You're one of the best commentators here
Thanks for this
FearandLoathingintheMotte
5d ago
This is a gateway drug into AI
Start getting it to write you for macros for anything you do more than 3 time
It's really really good
FearandLoathingintheMotte
5d ago
the last big improvement to text generation models I've seen happened in early 2024.
What was this?
This is an absolutely unhinged take given in early 2024 we didn't even have reasoning models at all lol
FearandLoathingintheMotte
9d ago
Just make sure it's not one of the sketchier / discount brands that tested high for lead
All psyllium plants like to absorb lead, but some of the metamucil-like products had a bit too much
FearandLoathingintheMotte
11d ago
For what it's worth, I've been using ChatGPT codex, Claude code, and Gemini CLI the last month
My ranking is codex>Claude code>>Gemini
Gemini is the worst, although not profoundly, but noticably
FearandLoathingintheMotte
11d ago
One of my favorite parts about this website is how people manage to express my ideas in ways much more descriptive and eloquent than I ever will
Great stuff, thank you for sharing
FearandLoathingintheMotte
13d ago
6.5% means it's actually much closer to equity returns and the psychological benefit does matter
FearandLoathingintheMotte
14d ago
What is your interest rate? Why would you pay it off fast when basically every other asset class has been on a mega bull run for like 15 years and returns higher than your interest rate?
One of the most OP parts of homeownership is the leverage. No bank is giving you $500k to buy SPY.
Milk that baby. The people who locked in at ultra low rates at the bottom of COVID have printed. A mortgage with a rate lower than inflation is quite literally free money (for you).
FearandLoathingintheMotte
14d ago
While AI has many issues, and is very far from perfect, I do need to rise to it's (limited) defense.
Copilot is BY FAR the worst AI system I have used. It lags so far behind ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini (or their respective CLI agents) it's kind of mind-blowing that it was made by an American tech company at all.
Copilot was the only AI we had at work for a while and it was genuinely faster to use Google AI studio with anonymized data/to make generalizable frameworks to then use on client files by hand than to use copilot for anything.
Seriously copilot is so bad I genuinely believe, given it's such a huge % of people's AI experience, that it is in very large part responsible for people not taking AI as seriously as they should.
Copilot is so bad, don't use it.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
It's almost like the red vs blue thing is a big distraction from the fact that our civilization is run by a small group of rich people who do not care what you think
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
The world where ICE is completely professional and competent would have near identical protests and complaints to what we're seeing now, although probably with fewer deaths.
Yes, and that would be a massive political win for Trump. If ICE were absolutely impeccable and locked in, the protestors would look like fanatical lunatics, moderates/swing voters/independents would all look at them, go, "I'm not voting for the party that panders to these retards" and help Trump not get whacked in the midterms.
Instead, they still look kind of like fanatical lunatics, but they also look somewhat like people standing up against big government, which is based (in general) and more importantly, a profoundly American tradition. Plus, the ICE violence and dead American citizens are scaring the hoes (swing voters).
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
There's this image of the "Bundy sniper"
S-tier angle, beautiful
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
After the summer of love
This makes me laugh every time, I wish it was a more widespread meme
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
> 2026
> not getting protein foam in my lattes
> im not gonna make it
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
FWIW I immediately thought they had cast Anya Taylor Joy when I read that at first. Until the next sentence when he said her actual name.
But the gut reaction was "oh Anya's in this?" not "this dude doesn't like black people in Hollywood"
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
Amazing comment
In the future, will mestizo peasants be praying to Trump in thanks for his efforts to delegitimize immigration enforcement? Will they light little candles with Trump's face on them and place them on their ofrendas to honor him as the patron saint of illegals? Looking at situation as it presently stands, it wouldn't shock me.
This is hilarious
FearandLoathingintheMotte
18d ago
> name is "yestrusocialist"
> "Employers are not the villain here"
Snark aside, I'm not super interested in assigning blame here. Although I imagine many (especially farmers and hotel owners) employers do know they're hiring illegals, I imagine they try to.
My logic rests upon the core facts:
- illegal immigrants come here to trade their labour for money
- the person on the other side of that trade runs an American business
- there are less Americans businesses than there are illegal immigrants
- the vast majority of American businesses have much more documentation/paperwork on their existence, location, etc
- due to the smaller # of businesses, and the significantly higher ease in finding them and monitoring them, it's way easier to enforce this via american businesses
I don't know the exact policy/regulation structure that both stops employers from hiring illegal immigrants while maintaining worker dignity and privacy, but I'm very confident there's a way to accomplish this. Also, the current status quo of ICE is 1) of middling effectiveness relative to the stated goals of the admin and 2) a shitshow that is very obviously not doing good at "dignity" or "privacy" so the bar is pretty low here
FearandLoathingintheMotte
20d ago
I am saying that a Trump that wanted to actually enforce immigration laws would not be doing what he is doing now.
This shouldn't even be up for debate. If they wanted to stop immigration they'd go after American employers who pay the illegal immigrants American money to work for them, in America. The immigrants don't come here for the weather, they come here to get paid USD.
Trump literally, with his own mouth, said they wouldn't be going after agriculture or hotels(?!) which are known industries that employe massive amounts of illegals.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
21d ago
If cops are going to get the benefit of the doubt in use of force because it's their job (as I believe they should to some degree), then they owe a moral debt to those they defend.
Phenomenal take. I've never thought about police in this context of bravery/honor but I really like it.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
21d ago
Well given the topic of this thread is that Canadians are starting to value liberty more, and Americans are going "what's the point", your comment doesn't really add anything relevant to the discussion
Unless your point is "due to the fact you weren't sufficiently liberty seeking in the 1700/1800s, you don't get to be now"
FearandLoathingintheMotte
23d ago
There's an irony in an American saying "just give up bro you can't do shit" when the nation was literally founded on the principle "fuck you, don't tell me what to do"
Liberty is important! And it's worth it when if it hurts
FearandLoathingintheMotte
23d ago
Running away from the USA to the arms of China is running from the frying pan into the fire.
What other options would you suggest? If you're a middle power, the only thing you can do is play the great powers off each other and hope you don't get mulched
FearandLoathingintheMotte
29d ago
oligarchs who fled when their patron was ousted in a coup
God that must be tough, I can't imagine that kind of oppression
We should give them some money to open a small business, a daycare maybe
I love this website, I love you guys lmao
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