So does that mean wester culture is moronic too? We have lots of terrible things, including child brides (as long as the parents say it is ok). Does that mean everything that the speaker doesn't share is a sign of american inferiority?

I actually got to meet him when I was at university when he came to give a talk.

I also remember 'respectable community leaders' and ROTC students calling in death threats to a lesbian radio host I knew for speaking at all. Police told her it was her own fault. She was ok, others in that era were killed.

So yeah, 'decent' tends to be pretty subjective.

You expect and anti-abortion person to actually know anything about abortion? They don't even know their own moral framework, which really does not matter to them. They know consistency and morality matter to liberals, so they use the wording of it to make it sound like they care, when really all they want is a way to assert the natural order and hurt those they believe don't know their place.

Why do you think evangelicals hate muslims so much? They look in to a mirror and get pissy that countries like Iran are closer to theocracy than they are.

Well the labor market part is right. But the time zone this is nonsense. H1B hires are all but indentured servants. There is always a fear of losing your job, then losing your sponsorship, then being shipped home. So H1Bs tend to not rock any boats within a corporation and will work whatever hours are asked of them. My comment was a cheeky way of saying that corporations have no morals and will always reverse course on a previous "culture" decision they made if it is economically expedient.

Tech CEOs are gonna fall back in love with remote work.

The MAGArats just want a clip of them ranting about liberals.

Today? Are you 12 or something?

I doubt many children have access to the resources (or knowledge) to train their own LLM from scratch.

So it had 10 right answers... how many wrong, and could it tell the difference?

That comment was referring to Linux.

Who gives a shit what you want? If Linux was as much of a supported platform as Windows is, Linux's market share would be much closer in parity to Windows.

Don't be a fool. Linux is NOT easy. There's no way a person who is computer illiterate manages to successfully replace Windows with Linux.

Plus, there is still very little native game support.

On the other hand, 'code review' is one of the things that really splits senior software developers from the lower levels. Just being good at programming makes you a good programmer. Reviewing and signing off on other people's work is what (generally) makes you a senior or a lead. Probably the number one complaint I hear from senior devs is that they miss coding since so much of their time is spent doing reviews.

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.