It breaks my heart that so much of these will end up in landfills. Resell them. Or send them to device recycling. There’s a shitload of rare earths in modern-ish but obsolete computers. And downcycling is possible too - my router is an old Lenovo thin client with a dual port 10g SFP+ card slapped in it.

I made four calls today:

• I called both of my senators telling them I would never vote for them again, and would donate heavily to their primary challengers if they voted yes on the CR
• I called Schumer and began with a cordial inquiry as to the senators health before rapidly escalating to profanely castigating him for being too tired from doing fucking nothing
• I called AOC to tell her I saw the stories about how she called Schumer out on his bullshit, that I unequivocally agree with her position, and would enthusiastically donate to her campaign to unseat Schumer if she were to try to primary him.

That really does sound interesting

Yeah probably, if we’re being honest

I’m sure that was the intention

This is a normal law in a normal country. So normal.

Fuck I really gotta just pony up and get one don’t I 😂

We’ve accidentally bread (lol) bred some dogs for a lot of things, like not being able to properly breathe, eyes popping out, weird joint shit, and being riddled with cancer.

Edit: one might even say that some breeds are quite akin to deli meats - that is to say, they’re often in bread

Yeah honestly it’s pretty clear that nobody in the government right now understands how much of a watershed moment this is. We used to build the best shit, period. Now we build the best shit, except we’re fickle as fuck and the shit is also so complicated that there’s no feasible way to determine if we stuffed a kill switch in there somewhere.

No no - I mean that specifically and pointedly: orangeboi HATES Zelenskyy particularly, and personally, because he pushed back HARD last time he was in office and called him on his bullshit, which lead to one of (I’m laughing! I’m not crying! What are you talking about?) his impeachment attempts. He took it as a personal attack. Anytime someone doesn’t do what orangeboi says or wants, it’s a personal attack to him. That’s how his brain works.

As much as I wish that were possible, I think it’s honestly an unrealistic expectation. Trump fuckin HATES him.

If you think any security guarantee made between orangeboi and anybody but Putin himself is worth more than the paper it’s written on, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell you.

December 31st

Watch them kill it instead of letting it spin off and allowing people who know what the fuck they’re doing take over

Honestly, I’ve been absolutely blown the fuck away at how many people - both here in the states and around the world, both laypersons and people experienced and knowledgeable in geopolitics and history - just straight up ignored the precedent of his first term.

I know a core tenant of geopolitical analysis is “watch what they do, not what they say”… but I think this should be amended to “what what they do and what they try to do, not what they say” in the context of building a model to understand the insanity of the Trump admin. Because he tried to do more than a few things in his first term that he’s now retrying and actually executing on, since he got rid of all the people who stopped him first time around.

You CAN build a model to pretty accurately understand and predict what he’s gonna do. It’s just that it seems most people don’t appear to be including the proper inputs, so their models are garbage.

Outstanding. Hopefully more countries will follow this pattern with the new Syrian government, and help them rejoin the world community. It also offers Syria a clear (and better) alternative to continuing to put up with Russia and the base they’re trying to hold on to.

omg this is so shocking I can’t believe he’s doing this! How could we have kn-

no.

Shut up. Shut the fuck up. They made a playbook years ago. They published the playbook years ago on the internet for literally anyone to see. They said they would follow the playbook. They are now following the playbook. They have been, and will continue to, complete objectives laid out in their playbook. This isn’t a surprise. You are not allowed to be surprised. Fuck that. Fuck you. Fuck off.

ticket closed as “by design”

Im not usually a fan of LLMs in general, but this is 100% an appropriate, reasonable, and correct usage of it.

For what it’s worth, cheers for not succumbing to despair and finding a creative solution for a bullshit task. Though (if I may be cheeky), since we’re talking about the DoD, there’s a lot of silly make-work to keep the troops busy (dig two holes, put the dirt from hole 1 into hole 2, and vice versa), and the enlisted types always seem to find a way to maliciously comply in a fun and entertaining fashion.