Do not generally make it a habit to admit to their crimes right? And people who sympathize with criminals also do not generally let people know that they sympathize with criminals.

What I'm saying is that your cop buddies aren't likely to tell you that they think it's cool to spy on ex's using police resources. But based on a lot of the statistics we have about them at least 40% do...

If nothing else getting ammo to win a divorce is something you can get a lot of people behind regardless of how the information is obtained.

As for defund the police that was largely a scam and something pushed on you by right wing media. Whenever somebody on the left wing says something blisteringly stupid you can bet Fox News and oan will be there with a megaphone to make damn sure you hear it over and over and over again.

You will not hear any of the perfectly reasonable reforms and solutions the left wing proposed. Funny but those always seem to get buried...

and also frequently showed up where she was, including her gym, a Smoothie King and a Walmart earlier this month...

This is why the Oxford comma is used.

We all know that it's not entrapment as long as the police get a camera crew to entrap for them. A popular TV show was based on exploitation of that.

Don't know what entrapment is, do ya? Here's a hint: if the criminals were going to commit the act anyway, it's not entrapment.

That's driving up RAM prices for the next 10 years then yeah we could have the year of the Linux desktop. Not from Qualcomm but from steam.

Microsoft completely shit the bed on Windows 11 and steamos can run a hell of a lot of games with it only being held back by anti-cheat software that could easily be ported over and has been by some companies.

That would bring millions and millions of people to Linux for the better performance on 16 GB machines.

The trouble is video cards. Valve made the steam machine but it's an entry level set up selling for $1,100 because of the cost of the ram needed for the video card...

We've got 10 years of ram shortages already scheduled somebody should be entering the market to supply more RAM and they are not. That's because anyone who tries knows that the big three will just run them out of business with a short-term price cut.

Basically all of computing is being held back by monopolies and antitrust violations. Which is absolutely nothing new. I mean Christ it was Microsoft before it was ram producers...

Whatever you do and whatever hobbies you enjoy politics intrudes on it.

Perhaps you might consider that they are all constantly lying, and so when you combine the fact that the lie doesn't map to the facts with the realization of who said it, one would be a fool not to believe that they are lying. Of course they are lying. They were trying to psyop the Amercan public by making it look like Iran bombed their own schoolchildren and weren't counting on getting caught by the discovery that a patriot missile was used to do the bombing. You have to be an idiot if you can't figure out what really happened, that they are lying, and why the are lying.

"It wasn't a completely foreseeable consequence of not double checking things."

Your post makes no sense, because you don't know the difference between a subject line and the body. Pro Tip: The body of your post does *not* begin in the subject line, but if you absolutely *must* do something so stupid then put ellipses after the words in the subject line and before the first words in the body.

Honestly it just smells like a scam to me. Like those man camps that have been floating around for a while. Wealthy people aren't smart they're lucky and ruthless.

There is a youtube video by "I Ask AI" where they ask 8 different AIs to pick the worst President in the last 100 years. Trump's Truth Social AI picks Trump, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that AI is much more intelligent than Trump.

" I expected him to stick "Trump" somewhere in the name"

He would have, but "Trump Intelligence" is already reserved and refers to the level of intelligence of an amoeba.

Sure but you CAN use it to bribe the president. Progress!

I'm so tired of everyone trying to scam me. Everyone trying to get me to work harder for less and give them what little I have for nothing...

/. has video ads now and they're scams because of course they are...

What if serious students of computer science or baling because there's no jobs and they still got to eat.

Yeah if you're one of the absolute top guys who can help Peter thiel spy on everybody sure there is still work for you.

There is a lot less work for somebody who can maybe score their masters but that's as far as they're going to go and they could be building a better tomorrow for you but they're not because they've got to put food on the table first.

How much are we losing out on because of how we've structured things?

To derail the conversation. It's a common tactic the right-wing uses. You tell why to get the conversation about correcting the LIE instead of about the fact that right wingers are murdering millions of children and the conservatives are letting them do it.

The goal is to throw a lie out and wait for it people in the center and the left to waste all their energy correcting it. We fucking love correcting this information because we are nerds and the happiest time in our life was when we were in school and we were rewarded with praise for being right all the time.

They are exploiting that mental vulnerability that we on the left and the center have.

20 seconds on Google and yeah you can find it the number is in a millions and it's going to push around 20 million if Trump or JD Vance wins in 2028.

I don't understand why you would tell such an obvious lie. Do you think we're stupid?

That I would have to explain to anyone why it's a bad idea to integrate pretend money with no government backing and virtually no regulation that is primarily used for money laundering directly into our financial system...

I wish I could get the libertarian types to understand you can't not have government.

People are going to organize. They're going to form groups. Those groups are going to need a mechanism for making decisions. People are not going to be able to spend all day monitoring and processing the daily goings on of that process. And those groups are going to get larger and more complex because there are a lot of people with a lot of different goals and beliefs.

Government is an inevitability. It's like when we discovered the atomic bomb. We are stuck with it barring a fundamental shift in human physiology.

So if you don't form a government somebody else will and you just won't be part of it. And they will use it against you just like with nuclear weapons.

So you can't just say you're going to deregulate all the financial markets and make everything free. You're going to have to have a complex series of regulations because you're going to have to have rules and those rules are going to have to be spelled out in advance and then you're going to need government to enforce them. You have to protect people from themselves because otherwise when they go down they're going to take you with them.

And libertarians want to pretended that's just not a thing and that they could be an island any of themselves...

I wouldn't care except well we've already established that people doing dumb shit bring everybody else around them down that includes me