I am not a bot. I meant what I wrote sincerely, without a desire to display satire.
And I'm almost always on your side, rsilvergun. Not this time, apparently.
Even one's friends disagee with one sometimes. Nothing to be embarrassed about.
I'm not sure it's alpha vs. non-alpha here.
I think alpha males are bold. They are inclined to action, and to being assertive. Whether the law can help them or not (and possibly whether the law is even on their side) is less of a concern than driving the action forward.
On the other hand, men who go to the police when they feel they are wronged could be one of two kinds, neither of which seem exclusively "alpha" to me. They could simply be civilized, wishing to avail themselves of peaceful means of addressing conflicts. I can see alphas and non-alphas doing that. Or, they could just be Kevins (the female equivalent of Karens.) That definitely does not strike me as being "alpha."
This may be a stupid question, but I'm sure all of us here have asked one or two.
Will the removal of x32 support affect any older peripheral devices? I ask because I have an old HP printer that no longer works in Windows 10 or 11 because there is no driver, but still works just fine in Linux.
With all due respect to mjwx, I would have been inclined to mark it -1 Implausible. Wait, that doesn't exist. Okay then, +1 Funny.
The problem with the CIA is not necessarily that they exist, but that they apparently operate without oversight. What the fuck is this?
Plausible deniability. That's what it is.
Meanwhile, I often can't even get new clients to believe the demonstrably provable skills I actually have. One has to wonder what his magic trick was...
Social skills.
They do come in handy in the spy business. Maybe more than one's education and work background.
I plead Poe's Law on this post.
But to the facts: his political affiliation is not clear. There are those who are trying to tie this to the Democrats by pointing out the time-line. The thefts allegedly began in 2009, during the first Obama administration.
On the other hand, it appears the overwhelming majority of the theft (the tens of millions of dollars) occurred between November 2025 and March 2026.
Whatever administration this guy served under (and he served under administrations run by both parties) the amazing thing is that he apparently lied so much on his résumé and yet got a job, not just in some company, or even in some government agency, but in the CIA. What the hell.
Notice the key words in each of these sentences: efforts, proposals, sought, advancing. We'll see if any of it actually gets passed.
Indeed. Not to mention the first two items in the GP's Google-generated list are pieces of legislation that restrict states, not AI companies. Except for some protection for children in the TRUMP AMERICA Act. And protection for conservative free speech.
[...] Trump may talk tough, he might engage is lawsuits and legal appeals and a host of other slick things lawyers come up with to delay, but after exhausting such legal options he has a history of compliance.
I'd describe it more as a history of contemptuous attitude toward both the law and the courts that stomps all over the law but usually stops just barely shy of actual contempt of court.
More like a history of defiance. For example:
- Carrying out deportations to El Salvador, despite a judge's order to halt the transfers.
- Withholding billions in congressional funds for Medicaid, school lunches, and low-income housing, in defiance of a Temporary Restraining Order.
- Misuse of the Alien Enemies Act to deport 100 alleged gang-members, despite a judge's order that they be returned to the US.
- In his first term, attempted circumvention of court injunctions regarding the travel ban from majority-Muslim countries.
- Ignoring legal instructions to restore programming and adhere to editorial-independence protections regarding the Voice of America.
The problem is he's unable to pass any federal law. Executive Orders do not supersede state law after all.
[*blinking*] How
or GPTaco
OpenTACO?
[oh, I'm gonna catch hell for that...]
The only reason contempt-of-court citations aren't flying regularly is because judges are accustomed to giving the government every benefit of the doubt. That's changing rapidly, though; the judges are getting fed up.
I think the term you're looking for is Presumption of Regularity. And yes, the courts are granting it to the government less and less.
TFS says OpenAI and Anthropic support this legislation, but Google and Apple (via Chamber of Progress) do not.
If Google and Apple suddenly change their minds, then I'd say you may be right about this being a "paper tiger."
I have interacted with drnb before. It goes nowhere.
Just stop. You'll only encourage more disingenuous responses from him by replying.
I expect he'll reply to the post I'm making right now. I don't care. He can be wrong, and I can just fold my arms and allow the rest of the world to see it.
You think Huang is encouraging China to buy his products by massively increasing his presence in Taiwan, implying the investment could go to China instead?
I didn't read it that way. If anything, this move seems to sweeten Taiwan as a target for China to take over. And I don't see that as being in Huang's or NVIDIA's favor.
Certainly there are strategic advantages to being in Taiwan, but China's covetousness over the region is not one of them.
How can you do 'New Math' problems with an 'Old Math' mind? -- Charles Schulz
