The definition of a “home” here is what gives me pause. A mud hut that you’re not paying rent on might count as a “home”. Conversely, I ‘own’ my home in 'murica, but if I didn’t pay my taxes on it, the state would come and kick me out.

Walz is a much better HUMAN and would’ve made an excellent president, let alone VP.

A ‘business’ contact that is on a social media that I have to use for work, posted essentially the opposite of this, claiming that none of these are abortions, and if your provider says that they are, that you just need to find another provider. Challenge here is that none of the providers are willing to take the risk…

I really don’t think that Trump is taking these orders from Putin. Trump is jealous of Putin’s power and wants to seem stronger so he needs a land-grab to make his pee-pee seem bigger.

Money isn’t a thing. I saw that Musk is at 700B now. He can spend a million dollars a DAY for nearly two thousand YEARS.

I don’t want AI crammed into all the nooks and crannies either, but companies are using AI to advance productivity in very real ways, not just writing software. Just data analysis alone where you throw a bunch of sales data at an AI and have it spit out some less-intuitive trends that it’d take a team of people to suss out is an actual cost savings that can make-line-go-up.

I do agree that it’s a bubble for sure but just like the housing bubble, there is still a lot of underlying value that will stick around after the burst.

But also 100% predictable. Sad, but not unexpected.

For reference, I could absolutely take a job in the next couple weeks with a $50k signing bonus where I get to shoot people in the face with impunity, but I also know that the Nuremberg Trials were a thing. Also, I’m not a horrible human.

That’s the old Slashdot model. It does change how echo-y the chambers become when you limit how things get amplified. Those with higher engagement get to push things a lot harder and I’d actually fear the opposite. An Ai model would certainly be able to echo the general feeling of a place and then slowly turn the dial toward a goal, and do it more effectively in that case as it can comment on everything anyway.

Honest reaction to a serious question. The American military complex isn’t about specific fighting doctrine. It’s by far the world’s largest logistics organization. The airlift capacity of the military likely means that a carrier group wouldn’t have to stick around.

I have mental images of carpet bombing paths through sea ice. Ice is tough, but 500lb dumb bombs do pack quite a punch, and there is a big fleet of bombers that would operate with relative impunity once air dominance is achieved with the aforementioned carrier group.

Back in the late 90s, at a seedy bar with my tech-head buddies, we snagged a booth/table with a crappy half blown speaker that was pumping music so loud you couldn’t hear ANYTHING. My buddy whips out his multi tool and proceeds to stand up and snip the wire going to the speaker. An amazing idea that I’ve really never had the chance to replicate, but inspired me to carry a multi tool a lot more.

I on the other hand am ready for my kids to go back to school where they have instructors who are trained, and staff to cook, feed and clean up after them, as well as friends to converse with that they can get their energy out with as opposed to constantly being all up in my face. I LOVE my kids so much but the office is gonna seem like a vacation. Note that I’m COMMISSION ONLY so it’s not like I’m not in a somewhat stressful spot there either….

In the daycares (multiple) that my kids attended, the doors were always locked, and the staff all learned my name before I did theirs ( along with hundreds of other parents). I was checked in for that first week just to make sure I wasn’t some weird person and congrats to this school for doing the basics right.

Obligatory f Trump, but I’m GUESSING that current ticket prices aren’t cheap now. Lee Greenwood “9 shows only” tix are probably gonna be… inexpensive. Also, most armed branches have a band. I foresee a lot of that.

Back to steam with the clouds here…

Can we ban rawstory links? Every single one is sensationalized crap.

Uh, the food at both those restaurants is considerably worse. It’s all just microwaved crap as far as I can tell. You CAN get a beer as either tho, which has them generally winning in my book tho.

There always seems to be plenty of money to support a failing pillow grift.

Their voters don’t care. They’ll pay through the nose since it’s going to get sliced off to spite their face that is being eaten by a leopard.

You’re not an edge case. My family isn’t that large but we still have challenges with this exact thing.

There’s a screen device that my wife gets incessantly advertised to her that is probably a better option than it being built into a fridge that has been engineered to last 3 weeks longer than the warranty.

I’m the grand scheme of things, I REALLY don’t give a FUCK about him tearing down part Of the WH. There are a thousand things more pressing.

Release the Epstein Files.