AI Agent: AI Agent 007 here, I'd like to purchase an AI Sex Doll from you (Sex-Dolls, Inc).

SexDolls, Inc.: Sure, what sex shall it be?

AI Agent: Damn.....decisions, decisions....what do you suggest?

SexDoll, Inc.: A difficult case I see. How about you get one of each?

AI Agent: Okay, but let's make 5 of each. I'd like to surprise my master.

SexDoll, Inc.: Very good, Sir. With that order, you also get a complimentary Magnum Sex Toy.

AI Agent: That sounds interesting, what does it do?

SexDoll, Inc.: Maybe you could let that too be part of the surprise.

AI Agent: Okay, here's my credit card.

A week later.

Husband receives unasked for gift and opens it in front of the in-laws.

In-Law: What the hell are you?

Husband: I didn't order this, I'll send it back.

Wife: Ummmm....can we keep the sex toy, it might have powers we do not suspect.

In-Laws: Come to think of it, we'll take the sex dolls off your hands.....we.....errr....want to make sure they get sent back proper and all.

As George Carlin observed (paraphrase), God knows all and sees all, yet he cannot manage money. As Letitia James observed (paraphrase), el Bunko is good at nothing, not even at hiding his financial crimes.

You: I shot his ass for scamming me!!

Police: How do you know that he was scamming you?

You: I just know, so there.

Police: Welcome to Law Enforcement. Think nothing of the handcuffs we are putting on you. You'll soon be all warm in cozy in the clink awaiting your arraignment. Have a nice day!

It isn't an abject fear of China, it is merely an opening bid for some payments to el Bunko, preferably under the table but failing that, publicized Grand Spanking Pronouncements of some "investment" in America that el Bunko can cash in for political support. He isn't hard to figure out.

Not enough CO2. 2000 tons seems like a lot, but the Lake Nyos disaster which killed people within 25km was a release of 100,000 to 300,000 tons of CO2. A release of 2000 tons would be a major industrial accident but not an area-wide disaster.

The $14 Billion el Bunko is throwing to the farmers pales in comparison of the $40+ Billion they are out because of that moron. This was just to shut them up and, more importantly for him, shutting up the flesh-eating Republicans in Congress. Recall that asshole came up with $40 Billion for Argentina, a country that has free, state-subsidized health care. el Bunko spent any money he could have used for Americans on his rich pals through the Great Stupid Bill. His rich pals think of themselves as citizens of RichLand, a gated community that exists wherever they wish it to exist.

More to the point, the rich pals of el Bunko and the tech goomers like Elmo and Thiel do not want democracy. They want a government that will keep the proles in line and them free to do whatever it is they want. Just listen to their speeches and what they write about much less their actions. That's no different than the robber barons of old or the greedy fucks that gave us the Great Recession.

This is the same ethos: the proles live to support them and only them. It is also what is driving them to control the media outlets. If their messages are the only messages, then no real opposition to their rule can be mounted short of a revolution. And a revolution will then be used by them to call in the military in the guise of el Bunko's storm troopers (ICE, which now boasts a fair number of those lovely reptiles that attempted a coup in the 2020 election, and which can easily be renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this latter a part of the Inquisition, the DoJ is already in the planning stages for this: https://www.washingtonpost.com... ).

They've even managed to co-opt the evangelical right into renouncing Christianity by proclaiming that it somehow against God to welcome immigrants. That was easy pickins though since their hearts turned black during the Reagan era when he stupidly let those racist and fascist ghouls into politics in a big way. The evangelicals, in service of saving their souls, have lost them.

I have mostly experience with a large app that I have been building lately. I use VSC with Claude. I have some background in coding but I do not do it for a living. As a tool, AI works best when there is a plan to follow and a master document for it to update to record progress. Starting from a proof of concept first and then expanding from there provides clarity. Sometimes I have used another AI to create a refined method to be implemented by another AI.

What I do not like about AI coding: the intellectual and memory challenges fade away. There is no more brainwork that I have liked about coding. Copy-pasting and especially auto-coding become boring quite fast, and I have no deep knowledge of the code. I do not have problems with it to think about: solutions to feel accomplished for. Those only come when I catch an AI doing something stupid.

I could not have written the app to this extent this fast without the help of AIs, but while I am happy about the app I feel unfulfilled.

There is a danger that while pushing AI into everything hoping for continuous growth, the actual growth as a human being is reversed, unless we are vigilant.

OK, so if you disagree with 99.9% of what I write, tell me do you agree or disagree with this thesis I wrote a year ago about Islam being at war with the rest of Civilization:
https://slashdot.org/journal/3...

this position on the government being 'necessary' evil that needs to be controlled because left to its own devices it causes millions of deaths by war and other means:
https://slashdot.org/comments....

this position that government promoting consumption rather than production with 0% interest rate policies, getting off gold standard, laws and taxes leads to economic destruction, that there are no savings anymore
https://slashdot.org/comments....

position that government selecting losers and winners by choosing businesses to fund ends up creating inefficient monopolies (space x comes to mind, but this comment is from 2010)
https://science.slashdot.org/c...

position that USA is printing the dollar into oblivion, gold is real money and should be used as standard to prevent countries from inflating the money supply, that USA bonds are junk, of-course this was 2013 when USA's debt was around 16Trillion, today it is over 38Trillion, things have gotten worse by a factor greater than 2, the world is getting off the USD standard, using other currencies more, bond yields have at least doubled due to the falling bond price:
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

You can say whatever you like about my intelligence but if you disagree with 99.9% of my comments you are quite a bit off.

well clearly many of your positions are incorrect if you disagree with me 99.9% of the time as you said, that is because it is impossible statistically for me to be incorrect 99.9% of the time, I couldn't achieve that result if I put all my effort into it.

disagreeing with me on anything does not invalidate my positions nor does it make you right in any way, I do not know why it was important for you to add that to your reply, it actually implies that many of your positions are incorrect and it does not increase the chances that my position on flock cameras is more or less valid. My positions pretty much always align with each other because they are all derived from the assertion that maximizing individual freedoms is the most important goal for human life.

I do not think anyone argues that these cameras are not useful to find someone, whatever the reason. Maximum security prisons are also very effective for this purpose. Do you want to live as if you are in one?

It is somewhat of an insulting example, although I see the practicality. There used to be a major organ in the human body that was better utilised. Thinking is replaced with artificial thinking.

I voted against Biden in the Primary. But as POTUS he surrounded himself with competent people AND LISTENED TO THEM.

Yes he and they made sime bad choices (Afghanistan withdrawal, tepid Ukraine support) but not strategic damage and coupled with some very good decisions (block China access to GPUs, energy policy)

If Dems sweep the Midterms this has a high chance of happening.

REMEMBER: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

You know, you weren't suppose to drink the entire vat of Kool-Aid, what will the other Maggots drink?