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- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 14 hours ago:
11D chess. You actually win if your oppenent queens their pawn and spends a turn dabbing on you.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 14 hours ago:
This was a master class.
Heavy debate happening on the short bus of politics
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 15 hours ago:
What’s he going to do? Rebuild the twin towers so the Saudis can knock them back down again?
- Comment on SipsTea 1 day ago:
I was dumb in many ways in my 20s.
You’re not really in your 20s if you aren’t doing a certain amount of stupid bullshit
- Comment on SipsTea 1 day ago:
I’ve seen this on Pornhub
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 2 days ago:
After 170 years? A story about the young working class seeking simple comforts through ruthless ecological exploitation? And for this humble crew to be swept up in a prideful crusade towards wealth and glory lead by a charismatic madman intent on killing God? And this crusade culminates in a calamity that destroys everything their exploitative labors sought to build?
I can’t think of any modern parallels. But if one were to arise, I could see a certain sympathetic appeal.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 2 days ago:
You need to get on board for what is, at its heart, a blog about being a whaler in the 19th century. The story isn’t gripping in the sense of a two minute movie trailer, but it does draw you in and lead you to care about a bunch of the crew as it drags on. It is the quintessential “slow burn” novel.
But it isn’t even the worst on that front. Any Brian Sanderson novel is going to have a similar “omg, is this going anywhere? And why won’t they just kiss already? Damn, now I know entirely too much about an obscure
magic systemmethodology of turning whale cum into lighter fluid” element.One book I could argue genuinely reads better on audiobook when you’re stuck in traffic for two hours a day.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 2 days ago:
Unironically a great novel. If you can understand Moby Dick, you can understand the first 200 years of American history.
- Comment on Take the plea deal 2 days ago:
He was the one pushing the conspiracy theory, and running on the promise of releasing them.
He was on the gravy train of Pizzagate from way back in 2016 and he’s been dining out on it ever since. But to say he was pushing it? No, he was just echoing all the talk radio goons who wanted to smuggle in transphobia under the banner of “Save The Children”.
So anyone who’s name is in the files can blame Trump for them not getting away with it.
Name one person who hasn’t gotten away with it, other than Epstein himself and Maxwell if you’re being generous.
Larry Summers didn’t even quit his day job teaching at Harvard. This is a freak who has been dining out lavishly as Economics Svengali since Mark Zuckerberg was in college. He’s been nailed dead-to-rights getting PUA advice from Epstein as recently as months before Jeff unalived himself. He’s “stepping away from public life for a little while”. Dude’s set his social media to mute and hoping this will all blow over in a few months. And he’s probably right. Good chance he gets bookings on MSNBC and CNN to denounce Zohran Mamdani’s far-left socialist mayoralty right alongside Steve Bannon before the end of next year.
The joke of the “Epstein Files” is that you absolutely could put up names, addresses, and lurid details about each and every one of his friends and nothing would happen to any of them.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 3 days ago:
It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.
Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 3 days ago:
I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.
A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 3 days ago:
LeCun says current AI models are a dead end for progress.
Sure. That’s easily proven, as the Pacific Rim tech companies are all running laps around the American models in terms of efficiency and output.
It looks like two guys arguing about which dead end to pursue
They’re both Snipe Hunting for the mythological AGI, because they’re each invested in the idea of a Singularity solving all their problems.
LLMs have a set of niche useful applications, but these dudes are born chucking that advancement aside in pursuit of Digital God.
With Roko’s Basilisk bumping around in their heads, I can’t help but detect a certain religious fervor, either. We really might have folks who believe they’ll be tortured for eternity if they don’t build AI Hellraiser first.
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 3 days ago:
Sounds reasonable.
Does it, though? Feels like we’re just rewriting the sales manual without thinking about what “learning from video” would actually entail.
Doesn’t make sense to build a lot of compute capacity, then spend fifteen years banging on research before you have something to utilize that capacity.
There’s an old book from back in 2008 - Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity - that a lot of the modern Techbros took perhaps too closely to heart. It posited that chasing the next generation of technological advancement was more important than keeping your existing revenue streams functional. And you really should kill the golden goose if it means you’ve got a shot at new one in the near future.
What these Tech Companies are chasing is the Next Big Thing, even when they don’t really understand what that is. And they’re so blindly devoted to advancing the technological curve that they really will blow a trillion dollars (mostly of other people’s money) on whatever it is they think that might be.
The real problem is that these guys are, largely, uncreative and incurious and not particularly intelligent. So they leap on fads rather than pursuing meaningful Blue Sky Research. And that gives us this endless recycling of Sci-Fi tropes as a stand in for material investments in productive next generation infrastructure.
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 3 days ago:
Well, he’s got a bowtie and Zuck wears an oversized t-shirt with Bugs Bunny dressed as a 90s rapper.
They certainly can’t both be wrong, can they?
- Comment on Dads be like 4 days ago:
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Listen, that’s fine and all. But the best scene in the movie is every scene with General Zhukov.
- Comment on Dads be like 4 days ago:
My brothers, in the process of ratting me out.
- Comment on Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles. 4 days ago:
By whom?
- Comment on Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles. 4 days ago:
Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights. Winning Them Back Won’t Be Easy.
Headline news at the NYT as recently as July of 2025.
- Comment on Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles. 4 days ago:
Democrats: “We lost the election because of Transgender people”
Republicans: “No, we lost the election because of Transgender people”
Transgender Voters: “Wow, I guess we have enormous political influence and you have to listen to our demands.”
D/Rs: “Absolutely not!”
- Comment on 🔥Leaked copy of the Epstein Files🔥 5 days ago:
No shortage of liberals in the Epstein emails. Larry Summers was asking him for dating advice while running around behind his own wife.
Trump doesn’t need to work hard to pin Epstein on a bunch of Hillarycrats and Cuomocrats. But then he’s culling the weakest parts of the liberal establishment and swinging the door wide open for Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani.
- Comment on 🔥Leaked copy of the Epstein Files🔥 5 days ago:
Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad asset in the US, so I can’t say I’m shocked to see a bunch of his work censored to the hilt.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 5 days ago:
Conservatives get ZERO pussy
Everyone knows the Other Team is a bunch of unfuckable losers, while Our Team is irresistibly sexy. “Liberals get ZERO pussy” is the line you’ll see all over conservative online communities, typically complimented with “Look at these ugly idiots saying stupid shit” meme material.
At the same time, “all your teenagers are getting pregnant” is a line conservatives and liberals love to throw at one another. So you get to bend your brain into a pretzel trying to explain why everyone is - simultaneously - incel homebodies nobody wants to fuck and trailer trash having a dozen kids out of wedlock because they can’t control their animal urges.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 5 days ago:
Girls don’t hate their guts. Conservative women recognize this as virtue signaling and respond with the TradWife Pageantry in kind. These kinds of statements are purely performative. If you’ve grown up in these communities, you know that what you say in public (especially on TV) is totally different from what you do at home and behind closed doors.
There’s an old joke popular out in Utah. “How do you keep a Mormon from drinking all your beer? Invite over a second Mormon.”
When you’re first introduced to the culture, its hard to realize that everyone is lying constantly. But the longer you live in the miasma of deceit and bullshittery, the easier it is to recognize that nothing these people say is for anything other than appearances. You should know better than to believe them. They don’t really expect you to believe them (and periodically express frustration when you can’t catch a fucking hint and play along). And so long as everything you’re up to remains sub rosa, nobody wants to check.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 5 days ago:
It’s really sad to see what Donald has done to people’s brains.
This isn’t Trump. This is standard conservative brainworms going back to the Limbaugh Era and before. Just textbook Protestant-flavored Homophobic Misogyny. Dig through James Dobson’s prodigious backlog of public brainfarts or poke around in the Joe Pyne archives, you’ll find similar sentiments and commentary.
Enjoying good sex with one’s wife is now checks notes gay
Anything that gives a person undeserved pleasure is sinful. And the Protestant Work Ethic teaches us that only productive economy-stimulating labor is a worthwhile pursuit. Sex is a job, not a hobby. You do it to make the babies, not to experience any kind of corporeal pleasure.
raping children on an island is checks notes Ephebophilia
That falls under the “Very Rich Guy’s Addendum” to the Protestant Work Ethic. If you’re rich, it proves you worked harder than everyone else and none of the rules apply.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 5 days ago:
I hope your 401K is diversified
When the MAG7 makes up half the S&P 500, its hard to get away from. Even if you somehow manage to avoid holding a big tech company (or a company that’s predicated on the spending of a Big Tech company), a downturn will force cascading sell-offs.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 5 days ago:
Thriving. The Trump Era has been gangbusters for crypto, as he’s made all sorts of crazy promises about building a federally financed coin reserve and stuffing it with digital crap.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 5 days ago:
Even if Nvidia stocks crash, they will recover.
NVIDIA is up 1500% in two years, with a p/e ratio of 56 in a market that’s absolutely ravenous for semiconductors. The idea that the demand for semiconductors can flatline as data center production stales and NVIDIA’s valuation will just rebound to its current high is… well, it’s highly speculative what NVIDIA is going to do, but I wouldn’t bank on the current status quo.
If nothing else, it’s a stock that can safely be described as “overvalued”. Selling now isn’t a bad idea.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 5 days ago:
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Peter Thiel sells his Tesla stack
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Telsa price goes up
Lolz. Lmao even.
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- Comment on Pure contentment 5 days ago:
Lemmy’s front page is quickly becoming the Reddit Recycling Center.
