This is why it's time to end social security.

I look at how much I've paid in over my life, and what it would be worth to me today EVEN IF you took out a lot to take care of the infirm and disabled.

There is no way that 65% of the population needs a full handout, but that's about what I'm paying.

Why? If any coins moved at all (bold assumption) it was no doubt into accounts controlled by the owners. "Oops we accidentally gave away $40 billion, that totally happened and we're not crypto scammers trying to promote ourselves!"

Promotional campaign, yeah I'm sure. I'm sure they had 40 billion worth of bitcoin lying around and managed to transfer it to actual other bitcoin accounts without anyone noticing.

Obviously I support the ban but what you said is not true and the people who chose to live near an airport did so with the knowledge they would be buying affordable homes in exchange for the tradeoff.

They probably didn't know about lead emission from avgas, and even the neurological effects of lead they're unlikely to know very well. Lower land prices near airports, to the degree that's a thing, are probably more about noise.

I love this result.

Butâ¦I also saved for many decades and am fine living on my small catamaran catching fish and ignoring the world.

Sucks you all had to have the latest car and binge Netflix all those years.

Keep in mind that at this point, if you did bad things with Epstein, your best bet is to draw attention to the noise. Yes, there's damning things in there, but if you can keep the public's attention on a phoned in tip from a crazy person, you can ride it out.

Also, it's undoubtedly true that Epstein fell out with a lot of people when he went down, and did his best to take them down with him. That includes Trump and Gates. That does NOT mean Trump and Gates are innocent, but things like e.g. the "short route home" Larry Nasar letter are not good evidence. We should look for claims which corroborate each other and align with externally verifiable facts (e.g. that he was that on that day, or that someone did make a police report at the time an account says they did).

I am a very lame producer, but I make really good money at it. It started as a hobby back in 2015.

I use Ai now with all our customers. We will NEVER hire anyone who has EVER used the word "SAG" in their resume or social media profile.

SAG => monopoly => control who can act => if you don't agree with SAG's politics, you can't act.

It's well past time to remove SAG from the market through market forces. Ai is absolutely AMAZING for my client base, they love being able to change the race, gender, location of a commercial with a few clicks.

I absolutely can't wait to send these SAG clowns packing.

Probably straight up LLM role playing games have come further along than last I tried them with AI Dungeon 6 years ago, but either way, that's a bit too freeform for my taste. There's got to be a game in there too, and object permanence + some stuff elaborated in advance.

Yes, the goal with all procedural generation is to surprise yourself, and give your imagination something to play with. Think of all the wonderful stories which have come out of Dwarf Fortress over the years - or from that matter from Minecraft, one of the many games inspired by it.

Ho, I understood this joke.

The same can be said about generative anything. As I see it, AI can be just another kind of procedural generation. Will it be meaningless? Yes, in a sense. But no more meaningless than any other procedural generation. In sandbox games, you supply a lot of the meaning yourself.

There was an obscure genre of games, I don't remember what they're called, but they were text-based "life sims" where you simply were a regular person in some setting, and you got a series of pick-one choices, from a random draw of situations a person in that setting could come into. The game would then track attributes like health, money, attributes etc. possibly affecting which situations and options you might encounter later, until inevitably you die of course. Think like Slay the Spire, but only events, and a lot of them.

The problem was that all the events were handwritten, and to make matters worse the games were often didactic, to "teach" e.g. economic responsibility, or what life is like in some war-torn country. You could of course learn these events and game it by giving the answers the authors approved of. Leading to people telling stories of how their poor character from a war-torn hellhole had three children as a result of rape in war, yet had managed to become a multibillionaire at 35.

So, a game like that, but actually good. Not predictable, not intentionally didactic. Should be possible to do much better with an LLM in the pipeline.

I wouldn't mind AI in a lot of games. There are a lot of games where the stock assets, the quick and dirty pixel art, or even the 5-minutes-in-a-DAW music could benefit from AI replacement. Anything that isn't the selling point of the game anyway.

There is also a huge potential for AI IN games. I like narrative games, I also like open world games, why can't I have both at the same time?

But there's also the thing about quality signals. The best games in the world aren't worth anything if I'll never hear about them, and right now AI assets is justifiably a signal of really bottom-barrel effort, probably even worse than asset flips.

I have zero care what you voting twats think.

Good riddance.

Public transportation makes people poorer.

...I didn't support Trump (ever), but I am actually happy about this.

1. I am spending about 70% less on Amazon. I cancelled Prime already, after so many years.
2. I am decluttering what I do own. We found some unopened boxes of Amazon orders from years ago, in the basement. Sold that NIB stuff on FB Marketplace.
3. I am paying more attention to how I can buy in bulk for the items I do want (whey protein, nitrile gloves, etc). Amazon is too expensive on EVERYTHING, but the convenience seemed "worth it".
4. I don't know what else I might ever actually need from buying online, really.

I used my Ai agent to analyze my Amazon spend over 15 years, and it's ridiculous. I want to cut that spend by 90% in 2026, and put the 10% to relationship vendors I can buy bulk from.

Open AI's censorship is insane. I can't get ANYTHING done without it first warning me I am hitting a limit, and then telling me it can't even discuss "that" anymore.

It doesn't even matter WHAT I am working on, I hit censor walls DAILY across pretty much all of the topics I came to work on.