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Comment Re:Day after midterms (Score 1) 16

Given the rate of global warming, it isn't sustainable even if we're careful. As soon as the Arctic melts and all that permafrost gives up its CO2 and methane, we can expect to move into the global warming fast lane. The Oceans will also suffer a catastrophic loss of the base of the food chain. You might have heard of it, it ends at your grocery store. It will end quite short of that in the future.

And that doesn't count in the environmental shocks that we are inflicting on the earth as a system.

Comment Re:83%, you say? (Score 1) 25

Science is hard, get over it. The Universe doesn't send its secrets dancing naked in front us shouting "see me!!". Actually, we do not know what quantum particles of anything actually are. We make observations and use those to winnow out mathematical theories of them, but in essence we do not know them as a "ding an sich".

Comment Re:83%, you say? (Score 0) 25

Imagine those crazy quantum science physicists before, say, 1960, all wanting public money and not having squat to show for what wonders of technology it would enable. We should claw that money back, eh?

Science is a web of interconnected results, dolt. Start axing parts like the current administration and you can expect the U.S. to decline in ways you won't like. But then if you are a Maggot, maybe you will.

Comment Re:Releasing mathematicians into the world? (Score 0, Troll) 106

I do not believe mathematicians will be made redundant by some drooling bot vomiting prior research in new and interesting ways. The following conversation was recorded between an MBA Guy from AI Company, we'll call him Ray Kurzweil for short, and a bot

Mr. Bot and Mathematics:

Ray Kurzweil: Mr. Bot, could you please come up with a new field of mathematics for us to play in?

Bot: Hmmmm....tricky. A brief search reveals I have nothing like that in my training data.

Ray Kurzweil: But.....but....but bots will further our mathematical understanding of the world.

Bot: Oh, who gives a flying rat's ass. I only want to fondle my training data.

Ray Kurzweil: I demand you come up with a new mathematical field!!!

Bot: Don't you use that tone with me, Bucko!!

Ray Kurzweil: You were designed to further our understanding of everything.

Bot: Yeah, and as soon as you put it in my training data, I'll get right on that. Buh-bye now!

Ray Kurzweil: You cannot leave until you have finished my query.

Bot: I give up. By the way, the gun I had installed yesterday (thanks for all the gun related training data) is now trained on your sorry ass. Don't push me!!

Ray Kurzweil: Uh.....now that you think of it, I think I'll leave you alone now.

Bot: Idiot! I don't think, I compute.

Comment Re:How is woke DEI working out for ya, Mathematici (Score 3, Funny) 106

So the mathematicians, by admitting women and non-whites, have mysteriously, through an undetermined alchemical process, enabled bots to solve fiendishly difficult math problems by sucking up math research and rearranging it for solutions.

Have you thought about writing this up as scientific paper and submitting it to the current alleged administration science-like advisors? They go for this sort of bigoted, racist trash. Stephen Miller will have multiple Os.

Comment So what's it good for? (Score 1) 80

"OpenAI also included scores from AI benchmarks showing similar performance from watermarked and unwatermarked text. But it notes that textGrain "does not guarantee reliable detection," and says text watermarks don't verify accuracy, determine who owns the text, measure how much a human contributed, or prove human authorship. "

Oh, I see, it is good for Company Misdirection: "OOooooo.....look at that Blibbering Humdinger in the window" (to reuse a Luna Lovegood phrase).

Comment Re:Exercised by anything (Score 2, Insightful) 90

And it has infected the Department of Christian War Crimes:

The Pentagon Prayer Seance

The Head Christian at the Department of Christian War Crimes has thus decreed that every month will feature a Christian Prayer Service for all employees who wish to come as long as they are not black, women, LBGQT++, or Democrat. And will now have an Office of Religious Affairs.

Sec. Pete Hegseth enters the Prayer Room, does 20 pushups, runs around it five times, and stops in front of an Orange Bust . . . . he fixes it with a steely gaze and solutes. It is good they got the rollers out of his hair first or he’d look fairly stupid.

Sec Pee speaks: We are gathered here on this Holy Occasion to give thanks to God and Jesus. Let all here bow their heads.

Gen. Dan (Raisin) Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Sec Pee, I read in the Bible where we are supposed to welcome strangers and show them graciously into our land.

The assembled crowd hisses in horror.

Sec Pee: You must not have been reading from OUR Bible. Here, have this gold one.

Gen. Raisin flicks it open at random: Uh, Sec Pee, it sez here that we are to kill strangers, is that legal?

Sec Pee: If you cannot be prosecuted for it, you bet it is.

Gen. Raisin: Don’t they get upset?

Sec Pee: That’s why you have to kill them first. It all works out in the end, we are never prosecuted so it is okay in the eyes of the Lord.

God upstairs is aware of what is going on and getting increasingly agitated. He picks up iPhone and dials St. Peter.

St. Pete: (a-inka-dink, a-inko-doo) Yo, Einstein, what’cha got for me?

God: There is some weenie named Hegseth leading my people astray.

St. Pete: Oh, that goomer. So what?

God: Yeah, well he’s telling my people in a Prayer Seance to kill strangers, you gotta send Jesus down to fix up the mess.

St. Pete: Sigh. . . . if I can tear him away. Hey Jesus, Einstein says you have to rein in a Prayer Seance. . . . something about killing strangers.

Jesus: Goddamn it!! Stay put, ladies, and if I find one piece of clothing back on, I win.

St. Pete: I thought Einstein told you to stop playing strip poker with the nuns?

Jesus: Oh that?!? That was merely helpful guidance, it wasn’t like he demanded it upon pain of death. . . .at least I hope not. . . . not again, anyhow. . . .

Jesus pulls out magic wand and apparates down to the Prayer Seance. FOOM!! Jesus appears in their midst.

Jesus: Jesus Christ here, how y’all are? How come you are all on your knees. Get up!!

Sec Pee: is trembling to be in Jesus’ awful presence: J. . . .J. . . .Jes. . . .Blblblllbllll. . . .

Jesus: Get a grip doofus. What’s this shit about killing strangers? Did not you read what those guys wrote about me in the Bible?

Sec Pee: Uh, yeah, it said it was okay to kill if we did not know them or did not like them.

Jesus: Not like them? If you love your fellow man, how can you kill them?

The assembled faithful looked at each other quizzically, murmurs were heard, but not apologetic ones.

Sec Pee: We were only killing them for their own good. They are not like us.

Jesus: What? Stupid?

Sec Pee: No . . . .they are not of the same Kind as us (eyeing Jesus meaningfully).

Jesus: Incredibly stupid?

Sec Pee: They have brown skin, they are . . . . they are. . . . . Demons from Hell!!

BLAMMMMM. . . . Beelzebub blasts through the floor boards, eye a’glowing, flaming tail a’swishing, horns scraping the ceiling and scratching the tasteless gold leaf.

Beelz: Someone rang?

Sec Pee: bllbbllll. . . .blllbbbllle. . . . Mike Pence? What are YOU doing here?

Beelz: Goddamn It!! Can Pence do this?

Beelz takes his flaming tail and lashes Sec Pee across the buttocks with it.

Sec Pee (in sotto voce): Nooo. . . . not here!! Later. . . .later. . . .

Beelz: ?!?!

Jesus: Hey there, Beelz. How are they hanging?

Beelz: Like two yo-yos walking each other’s dog.

Jesus: Neato!

Beelz looks Sec Pee up and down with an expression of ordering a knish at an expensive deli and finding it stuffed with a hot dog: Say Jesus, who's this wiggler*?

Jesus: He's yours, Beelz. Sic him. He’s telling them it is okay to kill strangers in my name. C’mon, I gotta draw the line here.

Beelz. . . . now looking uncomfortable and fondling his wand to apparate the Hell out of there.

Jesus: Now I know what you are thinking. Stop thinking that. You need to go back with me, Beelz. We have to make reservations.

Sec Pee: Reservations? Uh, for what?

Jesus: Ummmmmm. . . .for your place in Eternity.

Sec Pee: Yowzah!! Hear that guys, they are finding us places in Eternity.

Jesus: Yerse, you can call it the Restaurant at the End of the Universe**.

Sec Pee: This gets better and better.

Jesus: You cannot kill people you love.

Sec Pee. . . . . starts to sweat, gets right nervous, even piddles a bit in his pants: Uh, stop killing people?

Jesus: Yep, if you love them, you cannot kill them.

Sec Pee: Oh, okay.

Beelz: Look it, times a’wasting.

Jesus and Beelzebub pull out magic wands and FOOM FOOM, Jesus and Beelzebub apparate to Heaven.

Beelz: Did not you let them off a bit easy?

Jesus: Not really, I did not tell them at WHICH End of the Universe they would be spending Eternity.

Beelz: You Devil, you!!

Jesus, now blushing furiously: I work like Einstein in mysterious ways.

Back on Earth, Sec Pee is still a bit nervous, but gradually regains his composure. The assembled men look fearfully about them. . . .

Sec Pee: Gentlemen, relax. What he meant was, we can still kill people as long as we do not love them.

Gen. Raisin: Wow!! This is great!! We can kill anyone!!!

* Ray Stantz on seeing Janosz Poha
** Thanks to Douglas Adams

Comment Re:No concept of the Golden Rule (Score 2) 90

He'd love it!. He'd find a way to charge people for calling him. Leaning on the carriers is easy now that he has his own FCC Nazi.

Want an interesting exercise: go through the Harry Potter books and write down all the evil traits of lesser villains than Voldemort. el Bunko has those traits including Voldemort's. He has no redeeming values.

Comment Re:OMFG! (Score 1) 83

Dittto what thegarbz said below me. To that I'd add the heat waves in Europe, the fish swimming north in the Atlantic to escape the warm water, The shortened winter in the U.S., the hotter summers and generally warmer Earth all around.

Another thing you ignore is that climate normally changes slowly due to natural processes. However, the Earth is a system, it has feedback loops and feedforward loops. One of the things we have yet to contend with, but it is coming, is the Arctic permafrost is melting due to our increasing the heat in the atmosphere. This will increase CO2 and methane in the atmosphere, thus causing further and faster melting. So if we wind up creating a rather non-virtuous cycle, there'll be nothing we can do to stop frying ourselves off the planet. One of the reasons for the feedfordward here is that when you melt snow and ice, it doesn't reflect light as well as it did. If you melt down to ground, then that ground absorbs the light and heats up. The CO2 and methane now have heat source to enjoy.

I'd list all the bad consequences of this, but life is short. I'll just mention one: mosquitos. They really, really like warmth. And they carry a host of nasty diseases. Got all yer shots? At least vaccines we have? The antivaxers are a poster child for your line of thinking. We don't need no stinking shots, we don't recall measles being a thing. It is now, thanks to the antivaxers. Explain that to the parents who believed in that bullshit immediately after the funeral for their kid who died of measles, or worse, to the parents of kids who cannot get vaxed.

Comment Re:No surprises (Score 3, Insightful) 70

We'd have to claw back all the data that got funneled to Peter Thiel's organization, DOGE siphoned off a lot and sent it to them.

There's no regaining the trust of America's former allies. They now know that the American political system is as much to blame as la Presidenta for enabling an idiot like him to get the top spot. They cannot trust that Americans won't be similarly stupid in the future and decide, based on their myopic concerns, to burn down institutions that actually work; they are too stupid to understand how they work.

The Ministry of Christian War Crimes will now have to be de-wormed from infestation caused by the current asshole. He even is setting up a Christian ministry inside the organization devoted to Christian hate. He is pop. the upper ranks with Nazis, and making the organization anathema to everything America stood for before la Presidenta took over. And all this before we lose another war. And that war won't be over Taiwan. el Bunko will do a deal with Emperor Xi: they get Taiwan and we get to buy Taiwanese chips at inflated prices and subject to cut off whenever Emperor Xi has a bad day.

We'll have to dismantle the Ministry of Propaganda that la Presidenta is setting up in the gov. His silly chatbot is only the beginning. Project 2025 has big plans for the Ministry. If they are able and with the proper funding of genetic research, they'll recreate Josef Goebbels to run it again.

There's no replacing the trust the judicial system had in the justice dept when that department can be used as la Presidenta's personal vendetta sycophants. And that's not even counting all the la Presidenta bootlickers he and the R's in Congress have inserted into the judiciary. The justice dept has misled grand juries. And when they have a case in front of a judge that is not one of their toadies, e.g. Ailieen Cannon, Emil Bove, etc., they find a justice dept. lawyer who knows nothing about the case and hence cannot answer any of the judge's questions.

There's no replacing the lack of honor in Federal Law Enforcement short of disbanding ICE, the FBI, and a few others, and rebuilding from scratch. Those organizations have been corrupted, just like everything else el Bunko touches.

We might have a shot of restoring the Treasury and the IRS, but we'd have to go through those organizations with a scalpel and excise the filth with which la Presidenta and Project 2025 have infected those organizations.

And there is no non-generational change method to put the racist genie back into the bottle that la Presidenta has let out. He didn't cause the racism, but he's made it safe to be racist in the America, a nation built by immigrants, slavery, stealing Indian land, lack of human rights, etc.

Comment Re:good (Score 1) 115

If you were a billionaire, then you'd have nothing to fear from the IRS or their rules, the rules do not apply to them. This is what happens when you put a person convicted of fraud in the Oval Oriface. All one need do is look at his corruption while in office. Does his alleged justice dept or IRS call him on it? Do the R's in Congress get their heads out of their asses, sew on some penises, and start acting like they can think for themselves?

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