A lot of the 2099 stuff was fun.

The other eight are in his Thought Cabinet.

I still think he did some weird ass treatment with his coma in Russia though that he isn’t telling anyone about.

I prefer Flesh Simulator’s three-step plan.

Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.

Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, “I don’t get the intent… I don’t understand why tariffs are bad”)

Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.

Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.

Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>

Insert “we are not the same” meme here.

People who believe the administration and drop Tylenol for Motrin, Kenvue is happy either way.

I mean, when the profits for all of those drugs funnel to the same company…

ABC is a Democrat funding organization

ABC is owned by Disney, one of the largest corporations that ever existed… what the fuck are you talking about?

They have no spine, and will cave to pressure in any direction, as this whole Kimmel episode has perfectly illustrated.

It’s the PR stunt of trying to relate to his audience. Of course, people eat it up because they are desparate to say shit like “Taylor Swift is just like us!”

People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn’t even directly ask for.

The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can’t possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:

The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.

Yeah, sorry, if that boss can’t see his worth from 17 years of experience, then fuck that boss and fuck the company that thinks a low-level AI could replace him.

LLMs are tools, not replacements for humans.

Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.

I’d go get some breakfast after arriving, though there’s no assurance that the food at most airports is going to be much better than what you get on a plane.

The restaurants at airports have brand names I recognize. I have no clue how competent the chef is making the airline food on a flight.

There are assurances that the food is going to be better, because you know what you’re going to get off the plane.

This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.

What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?

Going private could have been a net positive. But, not from venture capitalists, and certainly not from the Saudis.

Also, taking on this much debt as part of the buyout is just asking to be gutted and carved out, complete with record-breaking layoffs.

We know they are part of the oppression of the people, and they will be reckoned with the rest.

No, we were reminded that they are part of the oppression of people. We’ve known for decades.

People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There’s all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi’s AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.

Just because you don’t know how to use it doesn’t mean “no one ever knew how to use it”.

To be fair, so was many of the internet industries. So much social media out there, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, without any sort of real profit model, yet propped up by their parent companies or venture capitalists.

Sounds like an awful lot of work to get the hallucinating, environment destroying, billionaire enriching, Hitler praising slop machine to work right.

This is a very reductive and ignorant take. Media promotes the edge cases and makes fun of them. Meanwhile, people are using this shit all the time without incident.

We’re all better off binning the trash.

Not going to happen. You’d have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.

It’s not trash. It’s just not the “replace every worker in every industry” hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.

I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.

The Gartner hype cycle doesn’t crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it’s difficult to reach any sort of “good enough” point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.

But, that’s not how this works.