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Comment Re:Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score 1) 71

Ukraine will endure wothout the USA support, just with more casualties.

Uh, you might want to check with Reality on that. Last I heard Grandpa is back on the front lines because most of the sons and grandsons are already dead. And that goes for both sides. Not exactly a good sign of being able to sustain this much longer.

As far as folding, this ain’t a card game. Death is the price paid. There won’t be many winners of this war no matter where blood lines end up drawn in the dirt.

Comment Re:Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score 1) 71

Message to you and Trump: NOBODY CARES about Biden any more. He's gone. We do care about Europe being invaded, NATO doing nothing, and Russia winning the war it started, so likely to start many more.

Oh, you mean all that shit that was allowed to metastisize under the Dumb and Dumber DEI dementia regime for years?

Don’t dare ask yourself what created President Trump. Twice. You just might find the root cause and accountability you don’t CARE to admit or accept.

Comment Re:Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score 1) 71

"son started working for a Ukrainian energy corporation" Did he siphon money the corporation?

A wholly unqualified Biden started working for an energy company in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.

Just a few years later, that same country would receive over one-hundred billion dollars in warmongering funds, provided by American taxpayers.

A now-infamous Bahamian crypto orgy fund was donating to the DNC considerable millions for the midterm elections in 2022. And we don’t have to wonder how easy it would be for an offshore crypto fund to manage funding transfers from American taxpayers via Ukraine.

You tell me if “siphon” is a strong enough word to describe that. Hunter Biden could start his own line of commercial smokers at this point. He’s already a world renowned artist.

Comment Re: Surviving Capitalism. (Score 1) 82

If GDP per hour worked is now over $100 in the US, how can you be so sure $50/hr minimum is "no answer"?

Because not even the billionaires want to pay $200 for a fucking pizza. That’s why.

You’d think COVID would have made the problems of rapid unjustified inflation quite obvious. About 98% of the world still remembers pre-pandemic pricing. The only reasonable price tags that survived that were under the category of mass addiction. Go figure.

And I’ll believe that $100 GDP value as soon as the AI overlords agree that $300/hr is the standard corporate tax penalty for AI entities that replace human workers, with at least half that going towards funding UBI. Until then, it looks like pointless girl math that ignores every problem with rampant inflation taught in history class while ignoring the growing problem of AI driven unemployment.

Comment Re:Modern Miracle (Score 1) 123

"Don't let them vote. Don’t let them buy porn. Don’t let them enter into contracts. Don’t let them own land. Don't let them own guns. "

Then the only challenge will be defining who "them" is.

Even though my child like list was minor in size, I thought it was sufficient to identify exactly who “they” is. It would be the actual children we call minor children for too many a valid reason to list.

No need for "actual crazies", just make it everyone but wealthy white, male landowners.

The thing about free societies is the free part.

"Sometimes we DO actually need to think of the undeveloped minds we call children for a reason." The disturbing part is what your reason is.

No. The disturbing part is watching you turn my simple common sense reasoning into some unjust “racist” argument. My first statement stands. You wonder why people question who’s running the asylum.

Ever wonder what’s next in the devolution? All it will take is a 5,000-strong mass suicide event triggered by ChatGPT to..to..what? Get lawmakers to maybe think about funding a survey to study the risks of studying social media? Not hard to read the greasy palms of Greed. Getting harder to understand why Freedom feels it needs to devolve into Freeing Dumb and let it roam the streets as a teacher, because children demanded it.

Not sure why we’re not demanding a psychological evaluation for every human that can engage with Future AI that will make current brainwashing tactics look like a Taco Bell commercial streamed to a drunken frat house at midnight. My drivers license analogy stands too. There’s a difference between Freedom and privilege. By the time humans need AI to survive and justify it as some kind of ordained Freedom, Skynet will have already determined our deserved fate.

Dare to ask; Is the goal of AI education, or addiction? Social media turned humans into anything but social.

Comment Surviving Capitalism. (Score 1) 82

I mean, learning is effort. Paper and pencil can get you a long way specially on hard topics.

Even having a laptop pc can be detrimental because it's super easy to get distracted.

Remember when suggestions like this were more often received as sound wisdom gathered through decades of life experience instead of going viral as a shitty “racist” comment from some CIS-gendered..well you get the point from Gen Victim professionally trained to broadcast abuses for gig profit.

There are those that would argue the American higher education system is doing just fine, and in no way needs help from AI. Unfortunately those are the same professors who tuned the American college campus into an overpriced political indoctrination camp for grown-ass child refugees escaping reality for four more years while bending over and learning about com-pound-ing interest loans the fucking hard way financing a Phi Drinka La-Tay-All-Day addiction, living on a palatial campus that wears no less than 37 popular fashion and food brands of flair.

Sadly, it’s bad enough to actually question how AI could make it worse. Because we know how the status quo certainly has.

Learning proper financial management living in America is becoming as necessary as learning Brazilian Ju-Jitsu in MMA. You won’t last long without it, and yet the American education system doesn’t dare prioritize making our citizens fiscally wise. Perhaps we should start asking why until they run out of excuses. A college graduate could find a way to make a million dollars a day in America. America wields the power to take ten times that in an hour if you’re dumb enough to fall for it. And most are. By design.

When keeping your money becomes harder than making it in America, it tends to shine the spotlight on a cancerous problem metastasized by Greed. Children can be taught how a $50 minimum wage isn’t the answer instead of being brainwashed into fighting for it.

Comment Re:Modern Miracle (Score 0) 123

So you're inevitably going to get crazy people using your service. What can you do?

Try and remember why we don’t let the actual crazies run the asylum for staters.

We can dictate a written test to receive license to drive a car, but we seem to overlook ANY similar control we could possibly require for using an LLM? Just how easy is it for a certified mental case to get a drivers license anyway?

Don't let them vote. Don’t let them buy porn. Don’t let them enter into contracts. Don’t let them own land. Don't let them own guns. But by all means don’t dare limit their access to mind-warping LLM influence only a CIA black site interrogator could love, because profit? Make it fucking make sense. Sometimes we DO actually need to think of the undeveloped minds we call children for a reason.

Comment Why social media shouldn’t have children. (Score 1) 123

"too eager to keep the conversation going and to validate the user with over-the-top language.") But they were overruled when A/B testing showed users kept coming back..

If you dare call yourself a concerned parent of a child you care about, I’d suggest you read this over and over again until it becomes crystal clear why children should be banned from social media.

Not one of those greedy cocksuckers gives a shit about their mental health. AI is clearly no exception.

We make drugs illegal for this kind of mind-altering harm. If you think social media isn’t a drug, I dare you to rip that teenagers Precious from their hands and describe the reaction to a substance abuse specialist.

Comment Re:Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score -1, Troll) 71

Russia is run by an evil man who is indeed turning it into a shithole. But it is not a *communist* shithole. The fact that Russia appears to be controlling the US president is maybe something to be more concerned about.

It wasn’t a “maybe” concern when a dishonorably discharged cokehead son started working for a Ukrainian energy corporation. It was blatantly corruptly fucked. And a liberal media turned a blind eye, because The Big Guy.

Spare us the Russia Russia Marsha maybes. We’ve barely started unmasking President Autopens blatant corruption.

Comment Re:I'll tell you what will happen (Score 1) 229

What always happens when you try to block kids from doing anything: they find a way to do it anyway.

We older folks too were "blocked" from doing stuff as kids, pre- and post-internet, and we too did it anyway. And it actually made us smarter, as we had to devise ways around the obstacle.

Kids are smart. This will just make them smarter.

Hold that thought on that last comment until you remember what they’re fighting to access. And then remember why we’re more needing to ban them from that content until the frontal cortex actually hardens a bit more with reality instead of delusion.

Status quo sure as shit ain’t making them smarter making the fucking Idiocracy sequel as a wildlife documentary.

Comment Re:Blast off to Mars in 2026? What are they smokin (Score 1) 47

When I raised the problem of zero atmosphere I was referring to the fact that a simple meteor shower on Earth is merely entertaining instead of completely terrifying on a planet with NO protection against asteroids pummeling the surface at speeds far greater than any containment shielding is designed for. The 2013 crater we discovered on Mars has an observable impact radius almost 10 miles wide. Not to mention frequency:

..the existing observations of new Martian impacts suggest that asteroids of a given size impacting the planet are about 3 times more common than on Earth and the Moon..

Pretty shortsighted to say we need to build that to Earth standards without taking into account how much Earth is providing physical security. Not even the radiation problem is as large.

Comment Re:Often Excel _is_ the right tool for the job. (Score 1) 91

Are the latest versions of Excel tracking to 42 decimal places and offering rounding accuracy that makes GPS timing look like a 19th Century pocket watch, or am I missing something as to how certain flavors (rhymes with sex sell) of inaccuracy are perfectly acceptable in business?

The problem here is geekmux, not Excel. I've never heard of somebody saying a spreadsheet does, or should, "track[] to 42 decimal places". I don't even know what you meant by "rounding accuracy that makes GPS timing look like a 19th Century pocket watch" -- I can tell you what kinds of errors exist for different GNSS satellite and receiver clocks, but rounding errors are dwarfed by others.

If you have some technical complaint, be specific about it rather than trying to be cute, because you run a risk of making yourself look stupid rather than clever. There are some well-known problems with Excel's default behavior, like how it aggressively treats text as dates -- but a lot of spreadsheet errors and loss of precision are purely user errors.

Just to clarify:

..as some spreadsheets involve 20 million cells..

Defending that stupidity is more a you problem. And if you want to know my “technical” complaint, somewhere behind a 20-million cell spreadsheet is someone actually trying to excuse broken default behavior in Excel under the guise of user error. When errors are not the fault of the user, what then is the always-acceptable excuse for the financial messiah?

Part of the acceptable inaccuracy I speak of is the absolute blind adulation for Excel in business. If that program was found to be broken severely and proven quite inaccurate in a future update, no business would ban the use of Excel. Not one. They all sit around waiting for a fix to their fix.

Blind adulation, is blind for obvious reasons. None of which are good.

Comment Re:Blast off to Mars in 2026? What are they smokin (Score 1) 47

To get people to Mars will likely require use of nuclear power. If nuclear power works to keep people alive on Mars then it can work to keep people alive on Earth. If we can pick up a few tricks on minimizing risks from radiation from nature then that just makes nuclear power an even better option.

Uh, that’s a nuclear reactor on a planet that has no protective atmosphere. When you say “minimizing risks”, just be prepared for a lot of laughter from an audience who likely knows better. The idea of any of that being anything but high risk, is a joke.

We will grasp this concept well when the first Martian meteor shower shows the human race the value of atmospheres.

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