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- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 9 hours ago:
Investors understand that he’s going to do everything he can to transfer wealth to the top. That makes it safe to invest more because more will be coming in. That’s my casual guestimate.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
We’re on the way down. The Right in this country (well, really, everywhere, but it’s more maniacal here) are growing more unhinged. The Dems keep pulling to the right as a result (since at least the 80s). The overtone window keeps shifting. We’re absolutely fucked.
William F Buckley was a major source of inspiration for the Right for decades. I recently watched his debate with James Baldwin at Cambridge in 1965. He argued racist points about Black single moms, but he tried to sound compassionate and denounced racism. He hid his racism in plain sight but sounded educated. There’s nothing like that now. “They’re eating the dogs.”
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 2 days ago:
I’m glad the DMV has moved off their own domain and is now using Hotmail for email.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Dude did the work. Well done.
- Comment on How do you express romantic interest in someone? 4 days ago:
Ask them questions about themselves. You need to be genuinely interested, though. Faking it doesn’t work. At least not longterm.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 4 days ago:
The best thing about having a lot of RAM is that you can have a ton of apps open with a ton of windows without closing them or slowing down. I have an unreasonable number of browser windows and tabs open because that’s my equivalent to bookmarking something to come back and read it later. It’s similar to if you’re the type of person for whom stuff accumulates on flat surfaces cause you just set stuff down intending to deal with it later. My desk is similarly cluttered with books, bills, accessories, etc.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 4 days ago:
Nah, it’s just fewer parameters. It’s not as “smart” at censorship or has less overhead to apply to censorship. This came up on Ed Zitron’s podcast, Better Offline.
- Comment on Best way to turn off people and get lower tips 4 days ago:
I would ask to speak to mgmt and tell them that they’re hurting their staff.
- Comment on NSA is the only government instution that actually listens to you 4 days ago:
Damn. That got me.
- Comment on YSK there's a web page where the defense team of Luigi Mangione shares updates about his case and dispels misinformation. 4 days ago:
Just because his family is well-off doesn’t mean they are paying for his legal defense. I donated. I hope you do too.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Why don’t these people go away.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 5 days ago:
Though I had a hot streak in my late twenties to early thirties, I was pretty lonely for a long time because I wasn’t finding anything substantial and then I couldn’t establish even short term relationships. I was pretty hopeless when a partnership sort of formed without my realizing it. Now we live together and we’re pretty happy. We are 100% genuine about who we are with each other and that’s great. Don’t give up hope. I wish you luck.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 5 days ago:
There’s a sort of depression and malaise there.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 5 days ago:
Culture war.
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- Comment on Nice try guy 1 week ago:
“Hi, I’m not scheduled today, I’m doing stuff, see you next shift.”
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 1 week ago:
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
Can’t get smaller than one man.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
No checks and balances when JD was learning social studies. We need to have a word with his teachers. The other acceptable answer is “fuck you, you’re not made of teflon and we know what you’re doing.”
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
Look here: ollama.com
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
Running the models locally.
- Comment on Cola facts rule 1 week ago:
I laughed at this a lot more than I would have expected. It’s the pointing finger that gets me.
- Comment on Just day dreaming when this struck me 1 week ago:
Fuck if I know.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 week ago:
I’m convinced that he believed he was the Messiah. I don’t think he considered himself divine. I think that was invented later.
- Comment on The parable of the "Good Samaritan" is an ancient example of Israeli racism / bigotry 1 week ago:
I like your take. Thanks!
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
It’ll work this time. He just has to be even shittier about it. /s
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- Comment on YSK: Charles Lindbergh Pushed Anti-Semitic Conspiracies As Part of the America First Campaign 1 week ago:
The HBO series was decent. I believe I watched in during pan-times. Adding it to the list to watch with my partner.
- Comment on The parable of the "Good Samaritan" is an ancient example of Israeli racism / bigotry 1 week ago:
Had a peak at the wiki entry:
The Book of Joshua (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ Sefer Yəhōšūaʿ, Tiberian: Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ; Greek: Ιησούς του Ναυή; Latin: Liber Iosue) is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile. It tells of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan, the destruction of their enemies, and the division of the land among the Twelve Tribes, framed by two set-piece speeches, the first by God commanding the conquest of the land, and, at the end, the second by Joshua warning of the need for faithful observance of the Law (torah) revealed to Moses.
Yeah, I was reading a lot about Jesus and the early church (atheist, history nerd), and I pretty much came away thinking that the ancient Jewish texts are pretty brutal.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If they’re well-known in the culture, yes. You can test by typing Zeus in lowercase. My iPhone autocorrected it to a proper name. But this is a figure known worldwide-ish and has been in Western culture for thousands of years. There’s also a historical element.
