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Comment Get your goddamn vaccines (Score 1) 52

You damn well that I'm going to tell you how to raise your goddamn kids when it comes to vaccination and education.

I am tired of right-wing douche nozzles raising these little disease breeders full of wrong information and bigotry because that's how grandpappy raised them.

You have a right to impart your culture and values up to the point where you are just wrong.

Objective reality exists whether you like it or not. Measles is real. Ivermectin doesn't treat covid. America is not a Christian Nation. These are facts and you don't get to teach lies to children just because they popped out of your crotch.

Comment I do wonder what's going to happen to Nvidia (Score 1) 77

If they can't keep up with custom hardware then somebody else is going to build it. What's more because AI is a technology that by design is going to consolidate into a few players who have access to training data (google, Facebook and maybe Apple) you are going to have companies so huge they are just going to want to make their own chips.

You've got these companies that a few changes in who makes the chips could drop their value by hundreds of billions of dollars. And you have investors buying in during those high-valuations.

I don't think AI will go away, the ability to replace paying wages is so valuable to the billionaire class that it's going to keep getting pushed, but I do think that it's likely that a bubble will burst and of course when it does it's going to screw over working people because it always screws over working people.

Plus we all know we're going to have to bail out the banks that wound out all the money to these AI startups because if we don't when they go down they take the entire economy down and us with it. And we're too much of a bunch of pussies to just nationalize them however briefly

Comment The whole economy got its ass kicked (Score 2, Interesting) 54

Black Friday was bigger in raw dollars because of hyperinflation but overall units of everything sold were down.

Traditionally we get 8 years of Democrats fixing Republican malfeasance. We didn't get that this time we barely got 4 years and two of those for the Republicans were heavily sabotaging anything the Democrats did.

So buckle up it is going to be a rough three years and it's entirely possible Trump's getting a third term.

Comment Re:Meta (Score 1) 20

To be honest, if I had that much money I too would chase pie-in-sky ideas.

But this VR chase is stupid. Meta should purchase the Second Life or Roblox franchise, get a web-based world working well with FaceBook, and THEN gradually add 3D and reach stuff. He has it backward.

Comment Also play politics (Score 4, Insightful) 52

Right wing politics do not result good economic outcomes. It's basically trickle down economics combined with corruption.

So they have to give their voters something. Some reason to keep voting for them even as the economy collapses.

Anti-science and anti-vaxx are the solutions they came up with. You might not have a job or a home but nobody's going to tell you how to raise your kids and nobody's going to make you get the fauci ouchie.

Comment This is another check and balance (Score 0, Troll) 90

And another protection that is failing you. Stuff like this is critical to keep capitalism functioning and it's all being torn down.

It's become painfully obvious that the billionaires don't like capitalism and don't intend to keep it around.

That would be the time to start asking what that means for you personally.

Comment Holy shit I didn't think this bot (Score 1) 54

Was so basic and limited that a few posts from me about how Trump fucks kids and me repeating several times in those posts did Trump fucks kids would get this crappy little llm bot to repeat it.

It makes me wonder if we couldn't do another santorum if we put a little bit of effort into it.

Like if everybody just went on to their socials and just started posting the unmitigated fact that Trump fucks kids and reminded people over and over and over and over again how Trump does in fact fuck kids if mnd be we could get the bots to start repeating the basic truth that Trump fucks kids.

Imagine if Trump would be known not as the former president but as the former Kid fucker.

Comment They don't care (Score 1) 54

As long as they can tell themselves that it was at least a teenager they think it's fine.

A depressingly large number of men in their 20s hit on high school girls because they are vulnerable and easy pickins. Now Trump went after girls as young as 13 with an emphasis on ones that looked Young. I think Trump is an actual full-blown clinical pedophile. And that's just the clinical definition he's certainly a pedophile by any reasonable person's definition.

But as long as there is the slightest amount of wiggle room people are going to give Trump a pass.

The men are going to do it because of what they did when they were young.

What's depressing is the women doing it. There's a thing humans do where if they suffer they want other people to suffer the same way. So women who are taking advantage of when they were young are going to sometimes be okay with other women having the same thing happening to them...

I have a trans friend who was briefly upset that younger trans girls were getting better treatment than she did when she was young. The funny thing was she knew what she was feeling was wrong but she couldn't help herself feeling it. To her credit she knew it was wrong.

It's just a thing humans do. Misery loves company. The sad thing is that thanks to the Republican trans panic my friend can no longer say the younger generation has it better...

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