About the Russian propaganda targeting American citizens. God knows my country can't do anything about it anymore.

I say this because I believe there are people in Europe that think they can let Russia run roughshod over us and weaken us and that they can take over our place on the global stage.

The problem is that while the current administration is basically destroying our economic prosperity and our ability to project soft power (that means getting shit done without bombs) they are not however cutting back on all those bombs.

I think Europe might be under the mistaken impression that their nuclear weapons will prevent us from acting.

I don't think they realize just how deeply fucking crazy we are. You know how people worry about religious lunatics getting a hold of nuclear weapons? That's us and we have those nuclear weapons.

We are about to put those religious lunatics in charge of our nuclear arsenal so that we can dream of cheap eggs and maybe say the n-word in public from time to time. Usually after a few too many drinks while we're really laying into a customer service rep...

Seriously world war III is definitely on the table. The way big wars start is that multiple stupid mistakes get made and before you know it everybody's killing everyone. America is putting the stupidest of the stupid in charge.

I'm just saying that would be a good time to help diffuse the situation.

Is that Trump fucks kids and you voted for a kid fucker.

So while it's true that Trump fucks kids it's also true that you voted for a kitty fucker. Which is weird because most people wouldn't do that. Well I mean I guess 77 million people would but half of them were stupid.

And you don't strike me as the stupid half you strike me as the willingly voting for a kid fucker half.

As of this writing is the problem with this country.

This is an overturning of 90 plus years of precedence for no particularly good reason. Is a clear violation of law. We should all be freaking the fuck out right now. The thread should have at least 500 comments on it.

The problem is I don't think people understand how bad this is. And that's how Trump got to be president twice. People do not understand the systems that protect them let alone that those systems have completely broken down

Best guess is that in five years we still won't have level 5 autonomy you can trust. I don't mind being wrong, but I don't think I will be. I certainly don't think it's viable for that kind of money and also achieving the kind of safety I think we should be demanding. Not just "better than human" but essentially infallible. The car can have sensors we don't have, it should be able to be a lot better.

I think 20k is an optimistic price point, especially if you're hoping that it's going to deflect liability.

The whole "tried as an adult" thing is a legal absurdity and only exists because of "get tough on crime" politicians. Jurists and Psychologists alike generally detest those laws, and for good reasons.

The parts of the brain that process fear are also the parts of the brain that govern morality and ethical behavior, and are intricately tied to mirror neurons and our ability to recognize other people as valid beings worthy of existing purely in their own right.

That part takes a while to develop, and isn't fully formed until someones early 20s. As a result teenagers often behave emotionally , irrationally, and vindictively in situations where a fully grown adult might go "Ok, this situation sucks, but there is a rational way to solve this".

What psychologists have found is that kids who kill tend to be utterly terrified of the person they killed or have something seriously disturbed going on. In other words , kids dont kill as adults, they kill as kids. And rehabilitating those kids has proven *extremely* effective.

"Tried as an adult" straight up defies reality. Its treating the child as something they are not, an adult. No justice is possible down the path of make-believe.

By all means please explain what in my post I don't actually believe or adhere to.

Being harsh to assholes does not a troll make. A troll is just trying to stir up trouble.

News flash genius we already have trouble I'm just pointing it out and I'm not being nice about it.

But it looks like I hurt your precious little right-wing fee fees. What's funny is you're just aching for the day when you can shoot and kill me on a whim. Every one of you right wing son of a bitches is. It's your one and only dream to get to randomly murder somebody with that gun you bought at the gun show. And of course not go to prison for it.

You think we haven't figured out what your end game is?

Thing is violence is just more violence and sooner or later, and I mean sooner than later, you'll be on the receiving end from another right wing extremist lunatic who's just out to try out the gun they bought.

Because you're not Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson you're a pasty little weirdo. And I'm fucking tired of being nice to you fuck sticks

This is just flat out illegal. This is literally not what the law says. This is a flat-out constitutional crisis people. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

I don't have anything funny or insightful to say here just fuck.

This isn't reversing a precedent this is a fundamental breakdown in the rule of law. Barring a miracle our Republic is dead and Trump voters killed it.

I hope whatever the fuck you think you got from Trump was worth it.

But I've known people who aren't assholes that gravitate towards right wing media. I mean it's only knew them as friends I hung out with not like really close friends or family but still I knew them well enough and usually the asshole right wingers revealed themselves pretty quickly because sooner or later they're going to say something mildly racist.

I don't think they are that kind of jerk I think it's just there's something a certain class of people find entertaining about right-wing media that I don't understand.

It's how they can pipeline people from just being regular apolitical folk into extremism. Like that movie The brainwashing of my dad.

I only a few months ago replaced my Panasonic 50" "dumb" TV, because it had developed a few "lines" down the image and was starting to crap out. I had that thing for 15 years. Replaced it with a 65" samsung TV.

Boy that thing pisses me off. If I fall asleep watching a movie I'll get woken up to some dickhead ranting on SkyTV about immigrants, or whatever the hell "Samsung TV+" is about. Oh and apparently there is a wallpaper subscription. I've managed to remove a bunch of the crapware apps and boy does it complain about that. But at least its not hassling me to watch "Dog the bounty hunter" anymore.

I really miss my "dumb" TV set.

Yeah there where interesting things you could do. I remember at work I had some Delphi app that monitored a bunch of servers that was embedded into a web page as an Active X control which in turn was embedded into the desktop. Ultimately thought it just made the desktop slower and clunkier.

Also, at that point of time, grunge was still a thing.

So if you ask me, I *dont* want the wallpapers back, it was a gauche silly idea. But I'd like Grunge back. There was some banging good tunes in those days.

It is not lost on me that during the Biden and Obama administrations the supreme court tended towards limiting Executive power, then during the trump administrations have leant towards a massive expansion of them.

When sane government eventually returns i think it would be prudent for congress to actually set out some clear boundaries as to executive power, and work towards a separation of public service from executive power. Because this is all bullshit. In MOST countries while there will be ministers in charge of things, government departments will tend to hire independently of politics so as to remain strictly neutral. The government wins by a strengthening of democratic norms, and the people win by having a government that isnt tied up with shit politics.

And the supreme court needs to fuck off with this partisan judge bullshit. Again, this "democrat" or "republican" judge thing is another american special and boy is it an error. Judges should be impartial interpreters of the laws and constitutions, not the corrupt activists dominating the supreme court right now.

Sooner or later, we'll run out of consultants. People eventually retire or quit the industry in disgust and the new crop of vibe coders certainly aren't going to fill those roles.

That matches my (limited) experience. Just for giggles, I let copilot (on Github) have a crack at a function in some of my code. Its suggested improvement made some sense in a vacuum, but in context it read more like someone who feels they must 'contribute' something and that's all they could find. It didn't seem to understand that the function would always be called in the context of a transaction and raising an exception will roll it back.

That chops up bits and pieces of my old posts adding usually little bits of nastiness in there to try and... Honestly I don't know what they're doing I think they're just training in llm the poison the well.

What it looks like they are doing is they are trying to build a chatbot that will impersonate people and get them in trouble with mods. The thing I don't understand is this isn't the kind of website where that happens. Thinking about it they are probably doing it for other websites and this is just where they are training the bot.

Facebook for example has a real problem with impersonation.

Jesus Christ I didn't think the people around here were that young.

Lots of people. I don't know how to explain this to you but there's this thing called the passage of time... I think Einstein invented it. Or maybe it was Newton.

Go look up when the Atari 800 computer was first released. Christ there were people writing mainframe code back then. Computers aren't really new. Yeah somebody with that much experiences getting ready to retire. Why the fuck do you think I said getting ready to retire in my post.

Also there are other forms of employment that require experience besides computers. Do try to keep up old chap