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Comment Re:Itâ(TM)s should be refunded without needin (Score 1) 103

Well... more than that.

Everyone... Every, Single, Person... who played any part in ordering, planning, setting, implementing, or collecting them needs to be prosecuted and imprisoned. Theft, fraud, official misconduct, services fraud, the Hobbs Act, wire fraud, malfeasance in office... whatever it takes to make those fuckers BURN!

Comment Re:YouTube Too (Score 1) 68

It's easier to look at the videos, especially the frame they use to try to draw you in. For example... there are a lot of ragebait videos wrt/ entitled airline passengers trying to bully people out of their seats, or generally behaving like asses... in "airliner cabins" whose sides have no curvature, or the windows are so large it could only be a private jet, or with missing overhead bins, or seating in a configuration that no airliner uses or even supports. Another fun one that's stubbornly in my "For you" list is a "How the navy feeds the crew of a submarine from this tiny kitchen... but key frame shows the kitchen is HUGE, shares the same room/space with both enlisted and officer berthing, AND has (rather large) windows down the wall looking out into the underwater of the ocean. And no matter how good the AI voice is... real humans say "World War Two". We don't say double-you double-you eye eye, or even double-you double-you.

They'll probably get better so the above will no longer work. But I'm reporting and blocking every single example of AI slop that I see now; in the hopes that google will figure out that I don't want to watch any of that shite.

Comment Re:Anthropic _is_ the odd one out. (Score 1) 21

'Depends on which cops you're talking about. If you're talking about our local municipal PD then, yes, I would be very concerned. If you're taking about the so-called "cops" who are *actually* feds... any and all agencies that fall under the executive branch... I consider see those businessmen to be very moral and absolutely worthy of my respect. Anyone who refuses to be a bootlicking simp or stooge for maga automatically earns a higher-than-average baseline of respect in my book.

Comment Re:I Wonder Why? (Score 4, Insightful) 95

The instances like this that I was aware of had in common that a person in the hiring process was from the same community as the chosen applicants.
It's a safe bet that a department head from China did not preselect a group of men from India for these jobs. It could happen that way, but I'd bet it didn't.

Comment Re:NSF does outstanding work, most of the time ... (Score 1) 303

Didn't you guys have a 'no kings' movement? What is the point of a government if one man can rule 300 million people by executive decree?

He fired 24 people that work in the branch of government that he is the chief executive of.

While the National Science Foundation does some absolutely outstanding work, and helps fund some absolutely groundbreaking research, some of the stuff it funds is a bit sketchy. The firing probably has something to do with the latter, a lack of oversight. I've been involved in NSF funded projects for well over a decade, observed a bunch of stuff at my university, and sometimes professors get a block of money and parts of it fund iffy stuff. It's probably a crackdown on that sort of thing, better oversight on what is getting funded, where the money is going. I've seen some stuff that is a bit sketchy, funds used at the university level more as a slush fund to keep grad student employed that fulfill the goal of the funding.

All that is irrelevant. This is driven by Project 2025's general antipathy to science.
This specifc action wasn't called for, but it was a necessary step to eliminate "wokeness" in research such as climate change.
A lot of the administration's weird dismantling of agencies can be found in here. Everyone should have read it because it drives a lot of what has happened.
https://static.heritage.org/pr...

Comment Re:You can't make a sequel to nothing (Score 2) 152

Oh man, that's a name I haven't heard in many decades!

I built my career around dBase, starting in 1986; evolved to Clipper around 1992. My Clipper work kept me busy until nearly 2000, and I was still patching my old Clipper apps well into the first decade of the new millennium as I made the transition from developer to DevOps working primarily in SQL and Powershell.

Comment Re:Microslop is guilty (Score 1) 68

Does setting the default browser in the settings not fix it? I also fix Windows users' issues and I haven't seen this one, but that's because their comptuers are so locked down. In my mind there's the default browser in settings and if you uninstall the current default, it changes to another or at least prompts the user to set a default like I've seen with filetypes. Just let me blame Windows :)

Comment Microslop is guilty (Score 2) 68

Microslop is so guilty in this regard. Outlook has an option buried in the settings regarding whether to open web links in Edge or the user's preferred globally set default browser. Guess which setting is the default! When you go to the Google Chrome website, Edge both shows a popup and injects an ad over and into the site begging people to stick with Edge instead. Mozilla is also right about it's complaint; many things in Windows just open Edge and ignore the default browser. It's so blatantly illegal monopolistic behavior.

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