gattsuru
4hr ago
There was a moment at the end of the Biden administration where I thought there was relatively broad bipartisan agreement that something needed to be done about immigration. The left knew it was a losing issue, all the talking heads on the center left agreed something needed to be done, etc. The right (well, Trump really) chose to score political points instead and unilaterally take a bunch of actions that will be reversed three years from now.
No, the Biden administration tried to throw out a completely toothless bill to distract people before an election, and remove some of the few constraints on progressive immigration bullshittery remaining.
gattsuru
10hr ago
They're definitely vastly improved, but I've still been burned recently. Both Grok and ChatGPT independently invented hallucinated time mandates (2000 and 2250, respectively) when fed in this, this, and this. To be fair, that's a hard enough problem that the FAA's gotten pushback over a proposed regulation not just because of normal problems like cost and necessity, but because literally zero mechanics can understand the charts and formula. It's one of the worst formatted set of PDFs I've ever seen, and I've worked with badly-translated Chinese microchip docs.
If you want to interact with me in some mutually beneficial way, then interact with me. I'm not chasing you with a cluebat and then disappearing into the wilderness after every bonk. Hell, the first reply I had to one of your comments I can find is nearly three months old, and it's not some harsh teardown of your every claim: it's saying that I wanted to believe you were right, but that being right wouldn't be enough to argue against malicious actors.
Or, you could comment on ways I'm wrong. Lord knows it happens enough. I'm not a gracious loser, but I like to think I can at least notice when I've lost, and you've got the domain expertise to do a credible contest in some matters.
I'm sorry that I'm not just pointing "this (up arrow emoji)" on the MMUD or tauren druid posts, but I generally try to avoid posting unless I either have further information or a correction, especially since this time of year is a clusterfuck.
That's more close to a coherent claim, though I'd quibble about how the start time works.
But you do understand why it's not that persuasive as a crux of your argument? There's zero trust that 'moderate' enforcement regimes would be tolerated or accepted -- not just because of the Lankford bill showing that 'moderate' meant no actual mandate, or that literal decades before that 'moderate' enforcement meant wildly net-positive illegal immigration, but simply that Trump tried that in the first administration, it was overwhelmingly not tolerated or accepted, and indeed its use was made to justify the massive uptick in tolerated illegal immigration under Biden.
Why do you think anything could be done about immigration on January 19th, 2025?
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