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?

really? does USA have a dictator running the place for 25 years, regardless of the rules? Who even appoints State governors, maybe mayors even? Court judges who rubberstamp decisions sent down from him? An actual oppressive apparatus designed to jail anyone and torture and murder? A population poor enough that an offer of a couple of thousand dollars a month is enough for them to go die in a pointless war, where theft and rape and murder and torture is not only for the enemy but is a common tool to force the own military to go forward? There us more, I can do this all day.

"some students are lowering their standards and joining companies they wouldn't have considered before."
yeah, I also remember this moment when I graduated 30+ years ago. I came out of college with a list in my head of about three famous companies that I wanted to work for. Thing is, 99.99% of people don't work for those companies. Leaving college is a hard reality check for sure.

Of course, I didn't work in software - since we're talking about Stanford grads and software engineering, there has been a 25 year-long bubble in the Bay Area where probably most of them stepped direct from Stanford to one of the tech giants.

This world is upside down, where getting plentyful cheap stuff is considered to be a problem, where tariffs will make something great again. It is like living among amoeba brained monkeys.

I guess we can start paying for AI by using your salary. After all, you goomers are the ones who want this, it is only fair we start by making you pay.

Whatever. His tariffs have thrown a lot of small American businesses out of business because they relied on stuff that is not made in the U.S. but is made by China. That's American jobs down the dumpster because that idiot never thinks further than his nose. People like you should stop buying his cheap bullshit.

We all know the counter argument. However, it will take a fair amount of time for American manufacturing to gear up. Except that won't happen because, these being small businesses, the market to them is not large enough to make American manufacturing fill the void. Let's suppose that pink unicorns do exist and American manufacturing gears up. Any new widgets will be made by widget robots.....now Powered by AI....in the word of a teenage girl, eewwwww!!! Not a lot of jobs there. And even then the new widgets small business needs will be more expensive.

In soccer, we'd call this an own goal. In the U.S., we call it stupidity.