anti_dan
8hr ago
There are also plenty of OpenAI researchers at that number.
Im not really that familiar with AI hiring but that would be surprising. 1200 is an average student at a 2nd tier state school. 1200 is U of I - Chicago, not flagship campus (1400+); Michigan tech, not MI (1400+) or State (1300); University of Southern Florida, not Miami, Florida (both 1400) or FSU (high 1300).
anti_dan
9hr ago
120 is only moderately above average. There are still plenty of schoolteachers at that number (roughly translates to a 1200 SAT).
anti_dan
2d ago
This is the insane thing that Democrats seemingly cannot get through their heads. If you went to any politically inclined person in 2000 and described the 2020 election without telling them the country, they would have assumed it was Russia or Iran or Congo. If you told anyone about California today without telling them its California, they would tell you to send in the UN to monitor the election because its almost certainly being manipulated.
anti_dan
2d ago
"Grace to accept defeat" being utilizing their legion of plants already in government to harass their enemies and prevent their legitimate governance even after losses!
anti_dan
4d ago
Nate Silver tweeted out that something like 120k ballots in CA went through the process in the 2024 election. While as a % of total votes this isn't much, its still a huge number that gums up the works. And given CA's ridiculously low signature rejection numbers, it means those are only the most egregious of ballots. IMO signatures, in an actual verification procedure, would likely be rejected 90%+ of the time. Most people have very inconsistent signatures.
anti_dan
4d ago
This article confirms my earlier suspicion that Platner is getting the kind of hostile media coverage usually reserved for Republicans. The elephant in the room is that this is because Platner likes Nazi imagery (it is beyond serious dispute at this point that he knew for years it was a totenkopf) and dislikes the state of Israel. I am 90% sure that both of the authors are Jewish. It feels icky to break out the calipers for this (though I am not basing my assessment solely on their names and faces. I was able to find old articles linking them to synagogues), but I really do think it is relevant.
He's still being treated with kid gloves compared to a Republican.
anti_dan
4d ago
One reason for the slowness is the incredible amount of grey ballots. They aren't provably fraudulent, but they come in large dumps of "harvested" ballots that often dont have the appropriate signatures (which is a laughably low level of verification as is). These ballots then have to go through long "curing" processes which in CA is essentially just a very slow rubberstamp at allowing illegally cast ballots to still count. It is probable that large swathes of grey ballots are actually fraudulent, but there is no way to know if the harvesters got the signature and had the harvestee fill out the ballot, or if they did it themself.
anti_dan
6d ago
It's already started a good discussion. What do you think the real reason is for Republican senator backlash then if it's not about crime or the appearance of corruption? Or if it wasn't from internal backlash, why do you think it was dropped?
Many senators are still very media sensitive. J6 carries undue weight in DC because of the media, the culture (95%+ of their neighbors will be Democrats), and other factors. The reality is that this is a tiny slush fund by Obama standards; has a very legitimate purpose outside of J6 defendants (for instance, reimbursing conservative media outlets for legal fees from when Biden forced social media companies to de-platform them); and certainly wont be the last such fund if ever a Democrat is President. The fact that this isn't legislation gives the game away that this is just Washington Generals behavior.
anti_dan
6d ago
It is basically political suicide for Republicans to come out against this without getting meaningful legislation banning it. Obama and Biden did the same thing dozens of times, for totals far higher than the current fund, for more spurious reasons. Unilateral disarmament is never a good idea.
anti_dan
7d ago
No not a hookup app, its a filesharing app. In a wholesome world you'd go to Kik and say, "hey I was at the yankees game yesterday does anyone have pictures? I'd like to see if you got a picture of Derek Jeter running into me." In real life a guy takes a dick pic posts it and says, "who wants the meat" and 15 other guys use code words to swap gigabytes of child porn.
anti_dan
8d ago
I do really fear for this on some games I love and still play. Diablo 2, Starcraft Brood War. Eventually I dont think servers will exist for them. WOW seems to have some sort of equilibrium (although I haven't played that in years, but I do sometimes get tempted to pay the $15 or whatever to reactivate).
anti_dan
8d ago
I'm sure there is some humans in this world that use Kik for something other than distributing, soliciting, and illegal pornography. Maybe Platner is in that 1% of Kik users, but that is a tough bet to make.
anti_dan
13d ago
There's a reason every retirement home has a pool but almost no preschools do.
anti_dan
14d ago
Yeah I saw it after I posted. Still an absurd program though. If he didn't keep screwing up over and over in such rapid succession he'd have cleared a lot of felonies. Even in IL its basically one gun or one drug case you can get out of. Even a misdemeanor domestic will stick as long as the victim cooperates.
anti_dan
14d ago
That sort of diversion program is so progressive we don't even have something close on Illinois. Domestic strangulation getting diversion is a joke. That's like 10 seconds from being attempted murder and another minute from actual murder.
anti_dan
15d ago
It appears your problem is a dislike of making value judgements. A 16 year old getting pregnant is pretty normal. Getting an irreversible (and implants don't fix a breast to normal function) surgery is abnormal and bad. Enlisting in the Army has risks, many permanent, but it also has virtues, whereas cold blooded murder does not.
anti_dan
21d ago
Communes arent inherently leftwing. There is something very conservative about sticking with your own people and raising kids in a very orderly community based way. The problem of the left wing commune (and possibly Sparta, I am no expert on Greek history) is the intentional dissolution of family units which results in pedophilia, pederasty, and polyamory (with the associated bastardy) which are degenerate. A commune with strong families is just the Amish with electricity, and is a very strong social force indeed.
anti_dan
23d ago
Orban was a corrupt, out of touch wannabe autocrat who lost the election in a landslide despite having control over all the mainstream media. Don’t let the culture war stuff fool you, it was just a distraction so that he and his cronies could rob the country blind. He didn’t care about Hungary at all and was happy for the country to stagnate, suffer economically and to cause a brain drain due to his policies, so long as he was in power.
You are basically just describing the Harris campaign. Not that wild.
anti_dan
24d ago
I am not an art expert or anything, I've been to the Art Institute a few times and they have Monets. That looks a lot like a real Monet to me, albeit the resolution on my computer appears really bad so I could see someone thinking it was something like a scan of a copy of a picture of a Monet.
Perhaps, I just googled "IQ score SAT equivalent". I'd guess SAT % is not exactly correlated with IQ because a lot of the dumbest kids will not have taken it. Particularly in the South and Midwest where they make the ACT a mandatory test for juniors.
Still, even 1350 doesn't seem like a top level company talent to me. I had a score 200 point higher almost 2 decades ago and didn't get into Stanford or MIT, despite a solid GPA and being a 2 sport athlete and having won multiple academic competitions quite casually. And when I graduated from a T1 state school with an engineering degree I wasn't picking between dozens of offers from FAANG (or the then equivalent) companies, I was deciding between a mediocre private sector offer or law school, again despite not being average at the state school, but being a high performer.
But perhaps OpenAI is not an elite company so I shouldn't think much on it. Or perhaps it is and they have a bunch of 120 IQ people in the place, and maybe that is why AI cant stop regurgitating middling journalist takes and fake history thats part of the official middle school curriculum.
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