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wildncrazyguy ,

So now it will likely go to the State's appellate court. I'd venture it won't be resolved by Election Day.

And now we get to find out if the US citizenry have the audacity to elect a convicted felon as president. Oh, what a precedent to set.

wildncrazyguy ,

"They're Chinese" sounds a great way to "liberate" the people's of Taiwan, Bhutan and Singapore from their current democratic shackles.

wildncrazyguy ,

While I agree with your sentiment regarding people losing faith in their government, we have been on this road before a few times (antibellum era, William Jennings Bryan era, Joe McCarthy era). After a time of painful soul searching, we've always come back from these low periods. I have no reason to believe we won't overcome it again.

wildncrazyguy ,

Keep fighting, my brothers and sisters.

wildncrazyguy ,

I’m going to answer this honestly, because on the internet I can’t tell if you’re being funny or curious. Kanye referred to Jesus as Yeezy. Once he became so grandiose in the music industry, and his mental disorder started to take over, he started calling himself Yeezy. So Yeezy should be pronounced like Jesus, I suppose.

In any case, the man has a God complex.

And this article confirms what we all already knew - he likes fish sticks.

wildncrazyguy ,

He should setup a Go Fund Me.

wildncrazyguy ,

Tangentially related to the title, one of my favorite songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl3Ib11lIIA

wildncrazyguy ,

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-ai-transforming-the-way-aircraft-are-built

wildncrazyguy , (edited )

Did you read it to the bottom? They’re using 3D printing to build the organic shapes and have already done so to build space vehicles, airplane parts and dune buggies. It also mentions where parts are too complex to manufacture, they ask the AI to account for it and break it into components.

If you think people aren’t already using this for civil engineering, then I’ve got a bridge I want to sell to ya.

wildncrazyguy ,

This is like saying that LLMs are not AI, they're just incremental probabilities to determine what the next most probable word is in a sequence of word combinations.

Machine learning is machine learning.

wildncrazyguy ,

I use it to ask questions I’d otherwise google, I also had it tell me some jokes and also present a list of interview questions for a candidate in our field.

That’s cool and all, but I do want my “show desktop” button back.

wildncrazyguy ,

Affording to live comfortably: not even once.

wildncrazyguy ,

To put it simply, this is just not how the legislative branch works. Most of their power derives from the power of the purse. People who are only in power for 2 years are not going to cede the main power that they invested so much time and money in order to obtain.

Moreover, 10 years is a lifetime in politics. Our government already moves slow enough as is.

Instead, I propose a few changes:

  1. Get rid of the debt ceiling fight. We already agreed to the commitment of funds.
  2. 3 people per house seat, based upon top 3 ranked choices. This will encourage minor parties and cooperation.
  3. I get that laws need to be long so that they cover loopholes, nuance, interpretation, sausage making, etc. but laws should have simple summaries that the general public can understand. At least one of these summary pages should read like a change log: new features, bug fixes, changes to existing stack, deletions, etc.
  4. Robust Sunshine laws for office holders and staff, except where classified for national security
  5. Continuing ed: Politicians or at least their support staff should be educated and qualified to understand what they are legislating on.
  6. Computer generated, panel approved district maps
  7. The fed has a dual mandate, something similar should be developed for politicians. Spend I’m lean times, save in boom times, but never stop aspiring to do great big things.

/kbin March update ( kbin.social )

I'm feeling a bit better. Starting today, I'll be returning to work as much as possible. This week will likely be spent catching up on tasks, replying to emails, reading overdue comments, etc. I also need to work with Piotr on instance infrastructure. I'll be more actively handling spam as well, but it's clear that we need...

wildncrazyguy ,

Glad you’re feeling better, Ernest. Where’s the best place to donate to your efforts? Is it still buymeacoffee?

wildncrazyguy ,

I mean, I’m not a Musk fan in the least, but the article does say that the receivers are being sold through an intermediary in Dubai, perhaps unbeknownst to Musk and SpaceX.

wildncrazyguy ,

Any chance it could be a fragment of Theia?

wildncrazyguy ,

Interesting, what's your take on contango?

wildncrazyguy ,

Powerful insight /u/DogPeePoo

wildncrazyguy ,

You act like the Japanese didn’t want to lift their people out of poverty. That the people within SONY didn’t aspire to be one of the largest corporations in the world.

The Japanese owned a significant amount of real estate within the US at their zenith (kind of like China today). They faltered because it started to cost more to import certain materials then it did to improve those raw materials and export them. Econ 101, cheaper markets existed for that type of manufacturing. It took some time to transition to a service economy. They still excelled at heavy industry and still do. They’re still one of the predominant ship builders and car builders in the world.

Japan was also one of the first countries to be hit hard by an aging population, partly because of xenophobia, but I think mainly other cultural factors. It’s challenging to try to keep your economy going when the workforce is shrinking and more of a country’s wealth is going towards caring for the elderly. I think anyone with aging parents can attest to that.

It’s not always America ruined their lives, plenty more nuance than American geopolitics. Lest we not forget that America helped to build them up in the first place. And not having to fund a military can do wonders for a country’s growth (you know, so long as they aren’t invaded).

Your hate for America and capitalism has distorted your world view. I’d prefer to live in a world of opportunity rather than a world of schadenfreude.

wildncrazyguy ,

Yes, the city certainly is for the better now that it is a pawn of the politburo.

How dare a Chinese city demonstrate free thought. No wonder your handlers are so desperate for Taipei.

wildncrazyguy , (edited )

Please, tell me which of these airlines is the most “woke”? Hell, you can sit me next to a literal crying baby, so long as it’s not their crybaby asses.

wildncrazyguy ,

By God! (He?)'s broken in half!

wildncrazyguy ,

I read the article, it didn’t propose any solutions, just an opinion that the US should withdraw from their closest allies in the region.

That doesn’t sound like a tenable option, particularly when there’s real opportunity for these nations to have actual normalized relationships and be a counterbalance to Iran and China in the region.

A major world shipping lane goes through there, and of course, the area is also resource rich. I don’t foresee the US abdicating their stance as the guarantor of free trade; it would be geopolitically dangerous (and clueless) to do so.

What’s more, the author doesn’t address that the current foreign policy - up until recently, and may again still - worked pretty well for the west. Oil flowed and ships sailed. Incursions primarily stayed within the region. A perfectly ideal solution? Of course not, but utopias are exceptionally rare throughout history.

And yes, the headline is clickbait. It infers that the multi-decade US strategy is wrong, but then mentions in multiple instances, that the strategy hasn’t yet had a chance to play out due to foreign actors. Shouldn’t we fully test the experiment first before doing a 180 and snubbing our allies in the region?

wildncrazyguy , (edited )

I mean, like every tool, it serves a purpose. It’s just that in this case, they are using a really large hoe and pretending it’s the biggest and best shovel.

Petrostates and nations that are heavily reliant on one primary industry tend to have high PPP, look at Gabon, Brunei and Kuwait as oil examples or Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda and Syria for other examples.

wildncrazyguy ,

Maybe it was sold by the generals, and so the soldiers doing the actual fighting on the ground received inferior equipment, if any at all!

Oh no wait, that was Russia.

Am I doing whataboutism right?

wildncrazyguy ,

Thank you comrade, may your bread lines always be full. Na Zdorovie

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