Since we’ve all enjoyed SaaS allowing us to pay monthly fees until death for everything from our word processor to our sleep tracker, get ready for Compute as a Service to take over everything else once none of us can afford home computing.
This is the internet, you can’t swear here.
Ok, that is much closer to half (or, let’s just say effectively half) than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.
That is so technically accurate, I love it.
Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.
I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.
The other 51% are either intentionally lying to themselves, are so financially secure that they didn’t notice the changes, or are immense idiots.
That’s a great summary of the Trump coalition, generally.
SWF vector animations are incredibly resilient, actually. I can still pull my saved SWF memes, and run them through Ruffle at modern resolution, or Swivel to get 60 fps 4K lossless MP4 versions, or bigger. Kind of cool.
America isn’t a monolith. There are a lot of Americans who fit that stereotype. And there are a lot of Americans who never have and never will fit that stereotype.
It’s apparently Paramount as well, please please don’t let them off the hook. Larry Ellison is a Trump lackey.
I wanted to check, so I did a quick time-travel hop to the future. Here is an excerpt from the opinion by Justice Alito:
“While the prosecution may have had irregularities and formalities of the law may not have been followed to the letter, it is the duty of this court not to impede the application of laws except where the effect of the law exerts a substantive injustice. For this solemn reason, it would unduly constrain the executive to prevent prosection because we all already know they’re guilty. I mean, what are we, strict constitutionalists who need text and precedent? Did you think a democrat became president again? On our watch? Didn’t think so. Then see the precedent of deez nuts, so ordered.”
I’m not on a downvote-enable instance, but I think from the other times this user has shown up, they’ve said that the thorn symbol is meant to disrupt AI.
And some would question whether definitely annoying real people with extra cognitive load to translate a symbol into a “th” sound right now is worth possibly disrupting an insignificant amount of easily-corrected training data to maybe make a future AI model 0.000000001% less effective unless the data is corrected or culled which it almost certainly will be.
Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”
Yeah, I’m not surprised the wealthy person who owns the output of the AI tools and company is enthusiastic about his job being “replaced,” since - as the owner and therefore spout of the AI value funnel - he now has to work even less to extract the value of hundreds or thousands of human lives.
“You know what’s driving me nuts? It could literally be any one of us.”
I’m feeling more and more that they will release something that scrubs any damage to the GOP, and certainly zero chance they release anything that damages Trump. If there is a fix in - scrubbed names or false “complete” files - that would explain why GOP now feels they can vote for it, and why Trump gave them permission by flip-flopping to support the release.
The issue isn’t about ownership, per se. It’s about acquisition of principle value which you carry with you when you sell the house.
The example halfway down the post of a $400K loan fixed at 6% is a good example: A 15-year loan would have a $3,375.74 monthly payment but pay off $305,364 principle after 12 years. A 30-year would have a $2,398.20 monthly payment, but have only $134,978 paid off. A 50-year has a $2,063.74 payment only pays off $66,251 principle.
This is why it’s a particularly bad debt trap. The 15 or 30-year mortgage allows the homeowner to move and have acquired significant principle value, which makes the costs of moving much lower.
And the monthly payment in substance are costlier when you add “interest” (rent into a black hole) and lower “principle” (long-term loan to the bank which is repaid back at sale). When the house is sold, the principle value returns to the seller via the sale and remaining loan payoff. So when you are paying off, say, $1,000 a month, if $600 is principle and $400 is interest, your true (final, after-the-sale-returns-principle-to-you) payment is $400. If you lower the total to $900 a month, but it breaks down as $400 principle and $500 interest, the true payment is $500.
So again, debt trap.
4 cats? In this economy?
The ICP group is anti-Trump and as silly as the ICP aesthetic is, juggalos seem like generally a positive community. They just want to get high and make friends. They are basically hippies in face paint.
So yeah, I get the connection but seems like this is doing them dirty.
I think the commenter’s point was that the 2025 elections show that voters want to elect people who stand up to Trump.
He is a malignant narcissist. He wants people to admire him, but doesn’t actually see them as people with rights or have the slightest actual sympathy or empathy. Thus he’s incapable of acting altruistically because everything he does is to elevate himself, and altruism requires an act of selflessness.
This is no different, because it’s meant to get people taking about how generous he is. He’s using public money to buy one-directional love.
I’d vote for Newsom if he’s the nominee, but I really hope he’s not the nominee (assuming, obviously, the relative utopian future where we get to vote in 2028).
I’m glad when his media exposure goals overlap with doing actual good things, but - and I may be putting too fine a point on it - he’s basically Hillary if Hillary had a penis and was super jazzed about it, and I am fairly confident I know the smug look he makes when he smells his own farts.