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Gee, America spends 500 billion dollars on a war initiated by Israel, and all it gets in return is a 21 day detention?

Ivermectin and bleach injections!

Imagine you are so dumb, you decide to rename your company for its biggest failure, and then you get to fire everybody else because they are redundant. Facebook renaming itself Meta is like Tesla changing its name to Cybertruck Inc.

I can’t wait until the AI bubble is over and drags the worst people under.

Absolutely. But the founders are heavyweights in the field and I had hope. I guess it’s cold fusion two, too good to be true 😭

Or the 90 billion loan just approved, that should give Ukraine a lot of breathing room.

The part about TAE is devastating, as a lot of people had high hopes they would come up with a fusion reactor. Them being sold to TMTG probably means it was BS all along.

Ew… I remember this one time I stayed at an AirBnB and forgot to log off YouTube on the TV. OMG the stuff that was in my feed for months!

Well, there are two ways to make artificial intelligent as smart as humans: one is to work on AI until it is smarter, the other is to make the human dumber. This person seems to have chosen the latter method.

Having worked Silicon Valley through two boom-and-bust cycles, my impression is that these people hurt because they don’t understand their success. What I mean is that the Internet is a random multiplier: if you have the right idea at the right time and the right structure, you become almost infinitely rich. If you lack anything in the combination, you get nothing.

Take Facebook: the idea had been floating around for a while, but successive implementations suffered from technical, then legal issues. Then Zuck comes along, steals the idea, implements it successfully and boom, you have an infinillionaire. But when the same guy comes up with the next idea, it fails. Then the next one fails. Then the Metaverse happens and the failure is astounding.

It’s basically a lottery, where your startup is the ticket. One person wins, a million plays for nothing. The winner is selected at random.

But people hate that idea, so they come up with stupid “logic” justifying why Zuck won and Yang (Yahoo!) failed. You can’t imagine how many people in Silicon Valley devour Ayn Rand’s ideology, how many believe in genetic racial superiority, and other fairy tales. I was always surprised they didn’t go for divine intervention, but they are largely agnostic.

Fat chance. America needs the base for forward projection to the Middle East.

He doesn’t have to! Last year’s winner already solved the conflict, sixteen times over!!!

The book they swear on is their choice, though.

Isn’t it crazy how the US Constitution allows a President to do stuff like that? You’d think once the billions are hit, there needs to be someone else to consult?

I think it was a discretionary move, and an unusual one at that. Normally, the FBI does not comment on pending investigations of public officers at all. This is doubly the case near an election, to avoid the appearance of favoritism and impropriety.

In 2016, rumor was that the (allegedly highly pro-Trump) Manhattan office of the FBI was going to announce that the email investigation had been reopened. It would have been for political reasons, but that seemed to have been part of the calculus.

Comey then decided to come out and make the statement himself, making the Manhattan office’s parallel move redundant. At the time, it was thought that he (a) believed that Clinton would win, anyway, and (b) thought the move would give him credentials for future office when the Republicans were back in power.

Especially not as a flat percentage! I could understand a cover charge, a corking fee, or a fee for substitutions, but if everything gets a 20% charge, then it’s really just pretending the prices are lower and nothing else.

I get the why, but with what?

Music is a weird art form, because something sounding familiar is very important to our ear. Many people have a really hard time liking music that is too foreign to their taste and end up sticking with only a select few genres.

Where familiarity is important, AI can deliver easily. I would think as much as we hate the idea, there is a pretty significant market for AI-generated music, specifically because it’s so predictable and follows convention to a tee.

I mean, when your two best allies in the world are Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán, and you are cozy with Vladimir Putin, you really should revisit your genocidal priorities in life, don’t you think?

Right? Argentina having a beef shortage is weirdo bizarre, like Russia running out of vodka or Saudi Arabia out of oil.

Don’t forget Reddit! That has always been a skidmark-filled guilty pleasure.