TIRM
11d ago
Recently one of the Pod Save America hosts interviewed DNC chair Ken Martin about this report.
It's quite the train wreck. Ken kept asserting that the report was free and the host kept cutting in to question how that's possible. I guess this is how. Your incompetent buddy does it for free. Not literally free since people supposedly traveled to every state to interview voters and the effort took more than a year. But free-ish compared to actually paying for a well made report.
Indeed. Look at them heightmogging this shortcel. Or whatever gen alpha slang Clavicular's fans would say to describe this.
But yes it looks silly when your soldier or guard looks like a child next to theirs. There was an incident during the Obama administration in which a woman Secret Service agent was shoved out of a doorway by a man breaking into the Whitehouse. She's small, he isn't, he just pushed her out of his way.
TIRM
14d ago
That person is anonymous and large bureaucracies are opaque and resistant to external investigation. In a better world this person would be in prison. But alas we don't and won't live in such a happy world.
TIRM
14d ago
I think that is comedic exaggeration. USAID was funding similar things. Trans theaterperformances and whatnot. Raw progressive culture warring funded by my tax dollars. Also I presume graft in which a cut is kept by a non profit.
I don't want to excuse everything Trump has done by pointing to the excesses of the other side. On the other hand, now suddenly they care that Republicans (or Trumpists) are getting a taste of this.
TIRM
15d ago
The IRS was out of control and lawlessly leaked his tax returns. This is a reoccurring problem with Federal bureaucracies illegally defying the Executive if he's a Republican.
TIRM
15d ago
Revelation is singular. The Greek term apokalypsis it was originally named is also singular.
I've mentioned it before but this is part of the premise of Diamond Age. With easy nanotechnological manufacturing most consumer goods are free or practically free. So of course the wealthy only wear hand made clothes and write with ink pens on hand pressed paper. Sheets of diamond are practically free, so they have genuine glass unlike poor people.
TIRM
18d ago
driving stoned is safer than driving drunk
There are people who believe this. I've heard it argued in person. And I've smelled weed smoke wafting out of open moving car windows.
I doubt the Indian ones are drug addicts or that they're allowed to shit anywhere near rich people. Designated vs non-designated, etc.
It's hard to exaggerate the very worst I've seen in San Francisco. Having personally seen human shit on the ground right outside comically expensive condos is too obvious an observation.
TIRM
18d ago
elites live in their pristine multimillion dollar apartments in skyscrapers while the street outside (literally right outside) is squalid, covered in garbage
But enough about San Francisco.
And I'll take the cows over the junkies. I know cows shit a lot, but they'll shit less in public walkways than the junkies do. They're animals but they're not animals.
TIRM
20d ago
frankly describe, outside of the gatekeepers eye, the physical acts being performed routinely in great detail
Oral and anal sex? Non-monogamy? I know they do that. "They" being a portion of gay men. You got something more scandalous?
TIRM
20d ago
The school would rediscover their power to expel violent students and apply it to kiddie-Batman.
TIRM
21d ago
Based on announcements and videos from the highest level people at my company: it is using LLMs to massively increase worker productivity. The productivity increase is not optional. They tell positive anecdotes about being shocked at how fast someone is delivering results and then learning it was by using an LLM to help. Or at least that's the story being told.
This is the push incentive for new tool adoption.
As a counterpoint:
Uber Technologies exhausted its entire 2026 annual AI budget within four months, specifically by April 2026, due to massive adoption of Claude Code by its 5,000 engineers. The explosive usage saw up to 70% of code generated by AI, forcing the company to rethink its token spend, which reached $2,000 monthly per engineer, according to reports in April 2026.
As summarized from published articles by an LLM. Giving the engineers unlimited token usage makes them want to use lots of tokens. I don't work for Uber, but I can attest that some of my coworkers are heavy token users in novel work that will not be replaced with simple reusable code.
Even non software devs. One guy described how he got some LLM agents to optimize PCB layout. Trace connectivity and the actual layout is represented in text form ingestable by LLMs. There is already a simple built-in auto-routing feature. It is practically a single button press. But that doesn’t optimize what he wants in this manner. He wants to go far beyond what the simple already made software does.
TIRM
21d ago
I live in a locale in which hard drugs are illegal and simultaneously there are addicts all over some regions of the nearest major city. There are trash strewn druggie encampments and Hep C infected shit everywhere. It is pure anarcho-tyranny.
Given wide scale non-enforcement, I'd like it to be officially legal. Or I'd like actual enforcement.
TIRM
23d ago
And their restrictions on media depicting time travel. What are they hiding?
TIRM
24d ago
Indeed. Actual government conspiracies such as COINTELPRO, MKUltra, Operation Choke Point, etc were not leaked by conspirators. They were discovered by unrelated means despite perfect lack of leaking. You can indeed get a bunch of people in the FBI or CIA to coordinate and keep their mouths shut afterwards. Even (or especially?) when their actions are illegal and immoral.
This is the premise of the Predators franchise. The predators did not invent their technology. They were a slave race who slaughtered their masters and took their advanced tech. Now a bunch of savages have plasma casters, stealth tech and convenient interstellar travel.
Any time you see something dumb in a Predator movie: that's because they're dumb.
TIRM
30d ago
He sometimes ate sausage or meat dumplings. He wasn't a very devoted vegetarian.
TIRM
30d ago
To be fair to them: Lobsters pass the mirror test. Shrimp, lobsters and other sea bugs may well be conscious and have feelings. Not human feelings but shrimplike feelings.
TIRM
1mo ago
In case anyone reading doesn't know. In the 1960s they rounded up low IQ people and sent them to Vietnam. So they could benefit from military service.
Turns out low IQ people are terrible at modern combat. Whatever quickness or coordination it takes, they don't got it.
TIRM
1mo ago
familial breakdown following the sexual revolution
According to conservatives on radio it is Great Society welfare policies that destroyed black American marriage rates. There are old articles asserting such. The government subsidized and incentivized single motherhood and certainly got a lot of black single moms.
I listened to the Pod Save America episode in which a few Harris campaign staffers were interviewed. They said that they tried to counter that ad, but the counter ads polled poorly with test groups. They were better off with generic ads about the economy.
Supposedly the "she's for they/them, Donald Trump is for you" ad is the mightiest ad in modern history. Around a 2% shift in voter sentiment; arguably election flipping if somehow that was very well targeted to likely voters in swing states.
I think an accurate autopsy would say to not stake out the most extreme and unpopular positions on culture war issues on camera. But they can't plainly state that so we get this report instead.
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