Peer review is still a thing.

If your peer review process is just a rubber stamp, then you're already fucking it up whether AI writes the code or not.

If anyone is blindly accepting AI code, they deserve what they get.

I've found that AI is a great copywriter. It can write copy. I turn into an editor, accepting or rejecting things.

This is faster, and usually ends up with equal or greater quality, and absolutely meets functional requirements, testing requirements, and the stated "definition of done."

If the Democrats get the House, then we will at least start seeing some government oversight again. They can hold hearings, subpoena people to appear, and generally dig into all the shit that the current spineless GOP twatwaffles refuse to look at.

Enforcement is still not an option, because the best they can do is refer criminal cases to the DoJ who can summarily ignore them, especially if the Attorney General still thinks of himself as Trump's lawyer instead of the Peoples' lawyer.

The best we can hope for is total gridlock while they drag all his shit through the street in preparation for 2028.

It should surprise absolutely nobody that he wants to rent-seek to get a taste of the Wall Street TACO trade...

You still don't see it.

He doesn't care if he gets prosecuted "some day" because he'll delay, appeal, and waste time at every single opportunity to delay his moment of accountability to after his moment of not sucking oxygen any more.

How long did it take him to finally pay up on the E. Jean. Carrol thing? 10 years? And the final disposition only occurred last week?

That's because it takes a special skillset to be a successful politician: you have to have such a massive ego to think that you alone can fix it, and everyone else is wrong about everything.

People that have a little more grounding in reality aren't interested in dealing with that out of every single colleague they would have in high office.

Only if you can explain how enriching himself at the expense of the taxpayer is somehow a core responsibility of the Office of the President.

Care to take a crack at that, in a legal sense? No? Then maybe shut the fuck up.

Oh, they never went that far down the train of thought. They were reaching for bad-faith whataboutism; an argumentative habit that completely disregards every other dimension of comparison besides the simple "hurr your guy did this, so therefore all my guys can do far worse, way more times! Derp!" logic that 7 year olds try on playgrounds after a shoving match.

It's patently stupid. It makes the person who employs the tactic look pathetically stupid when you recognize it for what it is.

Two wrongs do not make a right, but apparently they make a right-winger get a semi-chubb thinking about it.

And we just saw Trump's appointee for Attorney General lie under oath to the Congress, just this week, during his confirmation hearings.

He claims there is no evidence Epstein trafficked underage girls to anyone else. This is a fucking lie, because we already know about Prince Andrew and the UK ambassador that was shitcanned because of it.

If you're going to get all riled up about perjury, let's worry about the currently serving perjurers first - they're far more dangerous than some has-been who lied about getting blown by a staffer 30 years ago, where nobody involved is in government service any more, and hasn't been for at least 20 years.

TL;DR: shove your whataboutism. Some slimeball doing bad 30 years ago doesn't excuse bigger slimeballs doing worse today.

And yet when 2.5 out of 3 branches of the federal government disregard the law and their own oaths to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, what does that leave us with?

The Executive is brazenly breaking laws.
The Legislative, which is tasked with executive oversight, is derelict of duty.
The Judicial is mostly holding, with the biggest problem being SCOTUS making shit up out of fantasy land that has no basis in actual law.

This is as close as we get to the brink and still have the ability to pull it back. Vote accordingly in November.

Found the guy who thinks that everything must provide economic utility / social value, etc.

What does a sports book offer in those categories?

Hint: gambling is parasitic in nature.

You seem to think that being a gambling addict and being irredeemably stupid are mutually exclusive, when they are rather complementary to each other.

He was placing bets on the speeches he had advance text of, because he's loading the text into the machine the guy giving the speech will read it off of.

You don't find a problem with that?

It's not. This guy's fatal mistake was not realizing that he's not important enough to merit protection while getting in on the action.

The plebs aren't supposed to benefit, only the oligarchs.

If he would have kicked up, we wouldn't even be hearing about this right now.

The corruption runs from the President all the way down to the guy who scrolls his speeches for him.