He was technically correct, yes. Of course, everyone pays taxes, not just the upper 53%. It's just people under the magic percentage don't pay income taxes. They, instead, pay regressive taxes such as sales taxes and, via their landlord, property taxes.

He also apologized not because of the accuracy of anything he might have said about income taxes, but because of this:

All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.

That's a pretty shitty thing to say to the military, to non-unionized blue collar folks - especially in the south - who work their butts off but get paid very little, to retirees who may not pay income taxes now but who spent their entire lives paying taxes and have a right to their social security, and even to students who may not pay income taxes now, but will in the future.

And a reminder: all these people pay taxes. Just not necessarily income taxes.

> I'm going to turn your country into a glass parking lot is neither equivalent to or more effective than I'm going to block ships from traveling through a waterway.

Any attempt to turn a country the size of Iran or the United States into a glass parking lot would pretty much have repercussions the world over. Even with Iran on the other side of the world from the US, neither party would escape the results. The real reason no country has been insane enough to use nukes or show signs of meaningfully planning to use them outside of retaliation for a similar nuclear strike has been that it's over for everyone if you do. That's why the USSR and NATO never went at it. That's why India and Pakistan keep sabre-rattling but refuse to actually do it. That's why North Korea hasn't nuked South Korea.

So, in a million different ways, blocking a sizable chunk of the world's supply of oil (which is what you mean by "block ships from traveling through a waterway") is infinitely more effective than nuking a nation. Nuking a nation is, in fact, ineffective. Neither you nor they will be able to do a damned thing afterwards. But blocking oil
seems to be actually having an impact.

At the end of this, Iran will develop nukes, which it wouldn't have done had Trump not torn up Obama's peace deal. Nobody will even complain it did so, with the possible exception of Israel, given it legitimately has good reason now to get them after being attacked by the largest military on Earth. And the world will become a more dangerous place. What a fucking mess. Well done MAGA idiots. At least eggs finally came down in price, I guess? (Which they'd have done under Harris anyway)

You know that "dislike of Musk does not automatically mean someone can't be fair" and "remove some of them solely on that basis" are also factors here, right?

People are capable of being fair to people they dislike. Most of us are. We can't actually get through our days most of the time without dealing with people we dislike.
The judge is 100% right that dislike doesn't mean can't be fair. The lawyers certainly should be demonstrating more than "This person doesn't like Musk" as a reason to reject them.

Also I find the irony of a white supremacist suddenly being worried that a jury might be biased against them just a little... appropriate. People have been convicted many times purely because the majority white jury didn't like the skin color of the defendant. But unlike these jurors, you wouldn't have found any of them admitting this during questioning. The fact these jurors were honest about it already suggests they're more likely to be fair than the average juror.

One of the hallmarks of the right is it cannot understand nuance:

Believing trans people have rights and should receive the only treatment psychiatry has found to work? Perfectly fine. Also not in conflict with women's rights at all, there is literally not a single woman hurt by treating trans men as men in the majority of cases and trans women as women in the majority of cases.

Believing civilians shouldn't be mass murdered just because a terrorist group claims to speak for them? Perfectly fine, has nothing to do with gay rights. Or are you saying Palestinians deserve to be murdered because Muslims are anti-gay? If a mass genocide of Christians occurs, should it be ignored too using the same argument?

Nuclear? A complicated thing that the left doesn't have a unified view on, but given the safety issues with the technology, it's right to focus on renewables.

DEI? Not even discrimination, but because right wingers are generally stupid and incurious, they refuse to believe that anything that undermines the discrimination they do against women and non-white people must be some form of discrimination too. No, DEI doesn't harm competent, qualified, white men, and it does prevent Asians from getting systemic discrimination practiced against them too - making your comment objectively false and dumb. But it does mean fewer incompetent white men will get considered for roles they're unqualified for. Are you really arguing that's a bad thing?

But sure, invent an entire world view that pits people's rights against one another. Because if one person succeeds, others have to fail, right?

It's not just that you feel the need to binary everything, it's that you idiots can't even figure out what the binary is.

Plus someone's going to have to hose down both Musk and Altman's pants on a regular basis or else both will suffer extreme burns after giving testimony.

> I think Musk does that

There's so much obviously bad faith nonsense coming from him these days, combined with his history of... dubious statements that appear to have no basis in reality, it's really hard to tell.

Genuinely, I think Musk is a fraud, among other things. Altman? There's a certain degree to which he seems to believe the Roko's basilisk crap, and even a degree to which he appears to believe OpenAI has built something actually something close to AGI. The people around him seem to believe he believes this anyway.

I think the two are closer than they appear. I'd say there's clear full evidence self Musk driving lies, and Altman's crap is so extreme it's hard to believe he believes all of it.

That's a perfect quote, thank you!

While I generally love mechanical keyboards anyway (I definitely have fewer typos on a red or brown), the other nice aspect of them is that they have key styles that aren't just "same colour/shade as all the others, letters in the top corner"

I know there's an audiophile-like element to many mechanical keyboard advocates, so I get why people get turned off by the advocacy, especially seeing many advocate absurdly expensive $300 keyboards (for reference, the one I bought was under $50), but they're definitely an improvement. I am surprised how people don't seem to care, with most laptops, especially anything from Apple or Apple-inspired, having a keyboard that even Sir Clive bettered with the QL, and sometimes people actually buying keyboards designed to look and feel like laptop keyboards (Apple, again. WTF is wrong with Apple?)

I mean, if you need to type, you want to type on something comfortable and accurate, not something that hurts your fingers after a few minutes of use...

Wordpress is a framework for publishing web content. It's not really relevant here. You can publish slop using AI too. And the fact a website is Wordpress based does not mean the content is good or bad.

This is idiotic snobbery, and you should know better.

FWIW https://www.keychron.com/produ... has more or less the layout I've been using (several keyboard manufacturers make keyboards like this.) Despite the lack of legends on the numeric keypad it is a navigation pad when Num Lock is off. I think that's a decent compromise, and it's close to a Model F but fixes the main problem by moving the F keys up to the top.

I think if that's too big for a desktop, then the desktop probably has ergonomic problems anyway!

> There are good reasons to oppose this but "fairness" and/or "spitefulness" are far from the right arguments.

Don't expect the "I don't understand it, so it must be the politics of envy" crowd to understand this. It's easy to think you shouldn't pay taxes to support a society which built your wealth when your imagination thinks that Jeff Bezos worked several million times harder than anyone else at Amazon.

There's a useful idiot called Arthur Laffer who made that claim in the 1970s. Reagan appointed him an advisor, cut taxes, revenues went up, and he and his supporters did victory laps claiming to be vindicated.

Of course, it's complete bullshit. Tax revenues went up because the economy had started to get better after Carter's pro-deregulation and monetarist policies started to take hold, and the effects of the oil crisis subsided. It's rather obvious to disprove anyway: if tax revenues increase when you decrease tax rates, then in theory we could have a negative tax rate, with everyone being paid money proportional to how much they earn, and tax revenues would be through the roof!

There's also the small problem that billionaires are, as a whole, not paying much in taxes, even with a top rate of 37% for income above $626,351. Larry Ellison reportedly pays virtually nothing. Elon Musk pays some, if he is to be believed, but as a proportion of his income it's tiny compared to the proportion of his income you or I pay. While bootlicking apologists like to claim that billionaires pay more tax than the rest of us put together, they pay a far smaller proportion of their total income than you or I do. And, to you or I, 1% of our income can often be the decider as to whether we can afford to pay the mortgage each month, while to a Zuckerberg it literally has no affect on their life at all.

It probably is true that there's, in any economy, a constantly changing limit above which taxing doesn't net any new revenue, because it ceases to be useful to earn money above that marginal rate, but that doesn't imply that all tax cuts net more revenue. Indeed, well run companies, instead of paying their CEOs so much they're now in the 90% bracket, would normally be paying their regular employees more. So there's still a good chance that revenues would increase even with a 90% bracket.

Laffer? Don't make me laugh-er.

I don't think you necessarily need to. The prompts outlined in the summary, if I understand LLMs properly, wouldn't make a blind bit of difference because the AI isn't generating anything from those pages, instead a rather simpler bot is simply breaking the core text down into words (or some other token) and assigning frequency information to it.

So the prompts are mostly amusing, not actually useful. To actually hack an LLM you need to put information on the page to bias what the LLM will output. The real estate marketer has the right idea, but it needs to be on multiple websites, ideally on Reddit and Wikipedia in many relevant places), not one website that will be weighted poorly when producing the frequency maps.

(Yeah, Reddit and Wikipedia gods help us. At least they're probably not scraping Slashdot, otherwise every LLM's answer would start with "Actually...")

Nah, everyone will be charged through the nose for all the things they keep turning off but that keep being turned back on and jumping in front of the features they're trying to use.

I am so fed up with this timeline. Can we all, as a society, find a way to invent a time reset button, something that maybe takes us back to 1999, with some knowledge of what NOT to do this time around?

Outside of laptops, where there are serious design problems with including one (though as my eyes get worse, 15" laptops - which Lenovo has proven can have a decent numpad - become more and more attractive), I always get keyboards with a numeric keypad.

Here's the problem: it's not about data entry for most of us, it's about what we do when an application that expects a keyboard that at least had all the keys on it that an IBM PC or PC/XT had in 1981, decides to use the numeric keypad for something specific.

And yes, I have run into programs that do that. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, for example, is impossible to play by hitting Num Lock on your laptop keyboard and using the "U" key for "4".

Am I weird for wanting to play old but excellent games? Sure! But I still want to play old but excellent games!

What I don't understand is why the stripped down keyboards tend to have no keypad but do have three rows of "Home", "Pg Up", etc. For one additional row you can have those keys on a numeric keypad instead, and use Num Lock to switch between using it as a navigation pad, and using it as a numeric keypad for the occasions to need it for that. You know, like the original IBM PC keyboard did it. And TBH, the original IBM PC keyboard was almost perfect, the only complaint anyone really had about it was that the function keys weren't in a great place.