Comment Re: Entertainment, huh? (Score 1) 53
It runs MacOS and it's pretty fast, unlike any netbook ever.
Yeah it's got gimped specs but they will be fine for most users, unlike netbooks.
Comment So that's not actually the problem (Score 1) 21
We always like to blame the kids because we're old farts and old farts hate kids because kids backs don't hurt all the time and kids have their whole lives in front of them whereas we're staring down the barrel of eternity..
But no the problem isn't that young people don't care about truth. The problem is virtually all of the news outlets have been bought up by a handful of billionaires and those billionaires not only don't care about the truth they are actively opposed to it. So the last thing they're going to do is buy a bunch of AP stories and run them and pay the AP for real journalism. They want AI generated slop propaganda that tells you how great having an Epstein class is.
So for example they don't want journalists reporting on all the dead bodies in Iran from the civilian infrastructure we are targeting. And they don't want journalists explaining that when Trump said he would attack Bridges and power plants in order to get leverage during the negotiations that it became a war crime because you aren't allowed to attack civilian infrastructure just to get a leg up and negotiations, they have to be legitimate military targets.
Stuff like that is why the AP needs to go. Now billionaires don't do things out right and directly because you would notice and get pissed off. Instead they buy up all the newspapers and TV stations and then just stop buying content from journalist outlets. And then the predictable happens that the associate press can't make enough money to survive and here we are.
And most people don't put two and two together and realize that it was downstream impacts from the Epstein class season control of our media that killed journalism. Instead we blame tiktok which is to say young people because tick tock is associated with young people...
But no the problem isn't that young people don't care about truth. The problem is virtually all of the news outlets have been bought up by a handful of billionaires and those billionaires not only don't care about the truth they are actively opposed to it. So the last thing they're going to do is buy a bunch of AP stories and run them and pay the AP for real journalism. They want AI generated slop propaganda that tells you how great having an Epstein class is.
So for example they don't want journalists reporting on all the dead bodies in Iran from the civilian infrastructure we are targeting. And they don't want journalists explaining that when Trump said he would attack Bridges and power plants in order to get leverage during the negotiations that it became a war crime because you aren't allowed to attack civilian infrastructure just to get a leg up and negotiations, they have to be legitimate military targets.
Stuff like that is why the AP needs to go. Now billionaires don't do things out right and directly because you would notice and get pissed off. Instead they buy up all the newspapers and TV stations and then just stop buying content from journalist outlets. And then the predictable happens that the associate press can't make enough money to survive and here we are.
And most people don't put two and two together and realize that it was downstream impacts from the Epstein class season control of our media that killed journalism. Instead we blame tiktok which is to say young people because tick tock is associated with young people...
Comment It's easy to call for things (Score 1) 29
When you know damn well they're not going to happen. It makes it look like you are getting out ahead of all the problems you're causing even though if there was the slightest chance of us actually taxing them they would spin up dark money super packs so fast your head would whirl.
Throughout all of human history everything you have has been taken from the Epstein class with that best the underlining threat of violence.
Unfortunately violence doesn't really work anymore because you cannot beat a standing army. Fuck over 200 years ago the people who found it America knew that and they didn't want standing armies because of it. But you have to have a standing army or somebody else with a standing army comes over here and takes your stuff.
Honestly I just saw a story about how the police are using the data generated by people's routers to track where they're moving in their homes and who is entered their homes and where people who are being tracked have moved in the homes. I mean Jesus fucking Christ what do you even do with something like that?
Honestly don't think this civilization has a future. People are too fucking stupid. Every single system designed to protect you is collapsing and every single right and privacy you have is being taken away and about 40% of the country is deathly afraid that trans girls are going to play in women's sports. Sports they have never once given one rat's ass about..
I get it it's a moral panic it will eventually burn itself out but Jesus fucking Christ it never should have happened in the first place. It's like when we all freaked out over mortal Kombat or when we all freaked out over Satanic music lyrics or when we all freaked out over comic books or when we all freaked out over Penny dreadfuls or when we...
Seriously at some point we should fucking figure out the pattern.
Throughout all of human history everything you have has been taken from the Epstein class with that best the underlining threat of violence.
Unfortunately violence doesn't really work anymore because you cannot beat a standing army. Fuck over 200 years ago the people who found it America knew that and they didn't want standing armies because of it. But you have to have a standing army or somebody else with a standing army comes over here and takes your stuff.
Honestly I just saw a story about how the police are using the data generated by people's routers to track where they're moving in their homes and who is entered their homes and where people who are being tracked have moved in the homes. I mean Jesus fucking Christ what do you even do with something like that?
Honestly don't think this civilization has a future. People are too fucking stupid. Every single system designed to protect you is collapsing and every single right and privacy you have is being taken away and about 40% of the country is deathly afraid that trans girls are going to play in women's sports. Sports they have never once given one rat's ass about..
I get it it's a moral panic it will eventually burn itself out but Jesus fucking Christ it never should have happened in the first place. It's like when we all freaked out over mortal Kombat or when we all freaked out over Satanic music lyrics or when we all freaked out over comic books or when we all freaked out over Penny dreadfuls or when we...
Seriously at some point we should fucking figure out the pattern.
Comment Re: Go Vegan and Nobody Gets Hurt (Score 1) 67
[learn to internet]
Everyone who cares about this already knows this
You don't actually care
So fuck off
Comment Propaganda for the Epstein class (Score 1) 21
The associate press along with reuters are one of the last bastions of reality. The Epstein class needs them to go away. That's what this is really about.
90% of our news media is billionaire owned propaganda. They spent the last 50 years buying everything up and what they couldn't buy up they sued into oblivion. Gwaker was a muckraking operation that did real journalism funded by that muckraking. That's why Peter thiel took them out. It wasn't because they outed him or anything, literally everyone on the planet already knew Peter thiel was gay and as a member of the elite he didn't have to fear persecution the way normal gay people do. But Gawker would often report on theil's dodgy business dealings. So they partnered with hulk Hogan to shut them down and we lost a shitload of journalism. Teen Vouge was also doing real journalism and they got bought up and their journalists fired. Independent journalists were also making good money on Twitter and of course musk bought them and shut that all down
Over and over and over again any attempt to get the truth out is being silenced.
A few years back someone noticed that if you wanted propaganda it was free but the truth was paywalled. Now you can't even pay money to get the truth.
There are a handful of hobbyist journalists but they simply do not have the time and resources to do the kind of work a professional journalist does. It takes a lot of time, effort and money to build the kind of contacts that make journalism work.
It's another reason why our civilization is going to collapse and there's not a lot we can do about it.
On the plus side as long as you're okay with the propaganda you'll have a good five maybe 10 years without getting triggered before it all collapses. And if you're a older baby boomer you get to die before the shit hits the fan. As always, I got mine, fuck you.
90% of our news media is billionaire owned propaganda. They spent the last 50 years buying everything up and what they couldn't buy up they sued into oblivion. Gwaker was a muckraking operation that did real journalism funded by that muckraking. That's why Peter thiel took them out. It wasn't because they outed him or anything, literally everyone on the planet already knew Peter thiel was gay and as a member of the elite he didn't have to fear persecution the way normal gay people do. But Gawker would often report on theil's dodgy business dealings. So they partnered with hulk Hogan to shut them down and we lost a shitload of journalism. Teen Vouge was also doing real journalism and they got bought up and their journalists fired. Independent journalists were also making good money on Twitter and of course musk bought them and shut that all down
Over and over and over again any attempt to get the truth out is being silenced.
A few years back someone noticed that if you wanted propaganda it was free but the truth was paywalled. Now you can't even pay money to get the truth.
There are a handful of hobbyist journalists but they simply do not have the time and resources to do the kind of work a professional journalist does. It takes a lot of time, effort and money to build the kind of contacts that make journalism work.
It's another reason why our civilization is going to collapse and there's not a lot we can do about it.
On the plus side as long as you're okay with the propaganda you'll have a good five maybe 10 years without getting triggered before it all collapses. And if you're a older baby boomer you get to die before the shit hits the fan. As always, I got mine, fuck you.
Submission + - 'Microshifting' Puts a New Spin On 9-To-5 Schedules (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events.
A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 (PDF) in finding that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over the sports-related event contracts that Kalshi allows people to trade on its platform. The ruling marked the first time a federal appeals court has ruled on what has become the central issue in an escalating battle over the ability of state gaming regulators to police the activity of prediction market operators.
Kalshi and companies like it allow users to place trades and profit from predictions on events such as sports and elections. States argue that firms like Kalshi are operating without required state licenses, in violation of gaming laws, including bans on wagers by those under 21. Those states include New Jersey, which last year sent Kalshi a cease-and-desist letter stating that its listing of sports-related event contracts on its platform violated state gambling laws that prohibit betting on collegiate sports. Kalshi sued the state, arguing its event contracts qualify as "swaps," a type of derivative contract, that under the Commodity Exchange Act can only be regulated by the CFTC, which had granted the company a license to operate a designated contract market (DCM).
A lower-court judge had sided with New York-based Kalshi and issued a preliminary injunction, prompting New Jersey to appeal. But a majority of the judges on the 3rd Circuit panel concluded the Commodity Exchange Act likely preempted state law. "Kalshi's sports-related event contracts are swaps traded on a CFTC-licensed DCM, so the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction," U.S. Circuit Judge David Porter wrote. The ruling was in line with the position advanced in other litigation by the CFTC under President Donald Trump's administration. The regulator last week sued Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois to prevent them from pursuing what it called unlawful efforts to regulate prediction markets.
Kalshi and companies like it allow users to place trades and profit from predictions on events such as sports and elections. States argue that firms like Kalshi are operating without required state licenses, in violation of gaming laws, including bans on wagers by those under 21. Those states include New Jersey, which last year sent Kalshi a cease-and-desist letter stating that its listing of sports-related event contracts on its platform violated state gambling laws that prohibit betting on collegiate sports. Kalshi sued the state, arguing its event contracts qualify as "swaps," a type of derivative contract, that under the Commodity Exchange Act can only be regulated by the CFTC, which had granted the company a license to operate a designated contract market (DCM).
A lower-court judge had sided with New York-based Kalshi and issued a preliminary injunction, prompting New Jersey to appeal. But a majority of the judges on the 3rd Circuit panel concluded the Commodity Exchange Act likely preempted state law. "Kalshi's sports-related event contracts are swaps traded on a CFTC-licensed DCM, so the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction," U.S. Circuit Judge David Porter wrote. The ruling was in line with the position advanced in other litigation by the CFTC under President Donald Trump's administration. The regulator last week sued Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois to prevent them from pursuing what it called unlawful efforts to regulate prediction markets.
Comment Re: Fuck ACs (Score 1) 43
Right, that's why my karma is maxed and you have to post anonymously because it actually makes your posts more visible.
Comment Re: Go Vegan and Nobody Gets Hurt (Score 1) 67
Bison don't produce as much methane as cows
Submission + - China Flies World's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine (fuelcellsworks.com)
walterbyrd writes: China says the AEP100, a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China, has completed its maiden flight on a 7.5-tonne unmanned cargo aircraft in Zhuzhou, Hunan. The 16-minute test covered 36km at 220km/h and 300 meters altitude, with the aircraft returning safely after completing its planned maneuvers. State media described it as the world’s first test flight of a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine.
Comment Re:Typical Stupidity (Score 0) 107
and if it was coming from you I'd still ask the worst possible AI to verify your claims
OK bot. There isn't even a "you".
Comment so like faux news (Score 5, Funny) 53
Due to this news, I suggest we refer to it from here on out as "fauxpilot".
Comment Re:no nukes for Iran (Score 1) 43
Uranium is not a nuclear weapon. HTH, though I know it won't.
Submission + - Damning study reveals how ChatGPT is damaging the way you think (dailymail.co.uk)
schwit1 writes: New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable.
When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.
Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying them.
When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.
Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying them.
Comment Re:Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolut (Score 1) 43
well they're not a threat if you keep stopping them from making nukes.
Netanyahu, is that you? Was this lie about nukes they never had promised to you 3,000 years ago?
Comment Re:"Force-updating" (Score 1) 63
I see you've run out of intelligent things to say.
I admit that it's not intelligent to continue to waste time talking to someone like you, who thinks you can't do things I've done because you have no practical experience.
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