durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
6mo ago
I initially read this as "in which way is she otherwise disabled?"
durdenhobbes
6mo ago
This is maybe the funniest comment I've seen in all my years on SSC/CWR/Motte
durdenhobbes
7mo ago
Trump now had the dubious honor of becoming (iirc) the second person to be represented by photographs of himself, after Saddam Hussein.
Numerous celebrities have been depicted this way, although I think it's been a while.
durdenhobbes
7mo ago
Concur with Nybbler in that it shouldn't be called "permaban", then. Call it indefinite ban and leave the door open.
durdenhobbes
7mo ago
I laughed at both episodes quite a bit, even as a twice-voter for Trump. This guy summed up a lot of my internal thoughts though. For a show that famously "goes after everybody", they were suspiciously hands off the low-hanging fruit that was the Biden administration.
I really hope they don't make the entire season about Trump. It's already way overdone and feels beneath them.
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
How did illegal immigration become so polarizing? The last two Democratic presidents prior to Biden, Clinton and Obama, both talked about maintaining strong borders and deported millions of illegal aliens. Suddenly in the last few years, Democrats act like it's always been our cultural policy to allow whoever wants in, to live here. Is this really just a crass strategy to build a larger blue voting base, or is it something more?
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
Because a 12-year-old who believes everything his parents believe often grows up to be an adult who believes in very different things.
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
Meanwhile I've already used it to do things for my startup that I can't even imagine how I'd have paid for otherwise.
Would you mind sharing any examples? I've failed to engage with AI in any meaningful way, not for ideological/luddite reasons, but the simple inertia of doing things the way I've always done them. I'd love to try something new, and don't know where to begin.
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
I have never seen a store that didn't make the less expensive item the discounted one in a BOGO sale.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
How do you handle it logistically? Do you leave it inflated all season? Seems like it would need to be rolled and stored somewhere dry if not inflated, but running the pump 24/7 seems inefficient and noisy. But something that large has to be heavy as hell to move back and forth frequently.
durdenhobbes
11mo ago
Having been unable to contain my inner thoughts and having had my career and social standing indeed torpedoed, I too can't help but feel a large dose of schadenfreude toward the cathedral these days. I hope that with a true swing of the pendulum, more of these silenced voices can join an open dialogue to help rebuild a high-trust society from the ashes of the torn country we have today.
durdenhobbes
11mo ago
I predict that AI music will never make a significant impact in pop culture. There are millions of decent songs already written every year; the bottleneck has always been distribution. There are simply not enough hours in the day for any single person to listen to even .1 percent of what is produced, and thus they'll listen to whatever is most available that falls within their range of taste. For the bigger pop stars, it's not that their music is any better than the milions of unknowns, it's that they got promoted enough by the industry to gain critical mass. There's also the shared experience factor/marketable personalities/songs seemingly sound better once you've heard them enough times.
I thought XP was pretty much the pinnacle of personal computing, before I switched to OSX.
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