immutable

But that carbon tax would have made a few mega wealthy people ever so slightly less mega wealthy.

I would imagine it’s more ChatGPT getting about as good as stackoverflow.

Couple that with the ability to ask a question without someone closing it as off topic, or a duplicate, or telling you you don’t actually need to do the thing you need to do, or bringing up the XY problem, or… well the list goes on.

ChatGPT might hallucinate sometimes but it’s nice about it and it fundamentally changes the barrier to entry to ask a question in the same way that stackoverflow once did.

Stackoverflow was a step change because it excelled at being a a great place to ask questions because they gamified people actually answering them.

ChatGPT is another step change because it makes it so you can get a similar quality answer instantly and without any of the social baggage. It also allows you to have follow-ups and get into a groove of question and answer. It’s not always right but I was pleasantly surprised using it to navigate unfamiliar libraries and apis and being able to drill down on something. Even when it got something wrong it got it right enough that I could course correct without having to argue back and forth with someone.

The best thing everyone can do is just tune out this bullshit.

MAGA is what happens when edge lords grow up. They love laughing at people freaking out over every dumb thing they do.

During the first trump term I watched the news, I got angry at every thing he did, his supporters lapped that outrage up.

This time fuck it. Rename the Gulf of Mexico to trumps big boy bathtub if you want. Enjoy it MAGA people, enjoy all your epic trolls but I won’t be on the other side getting upset. And then enjoy when the tariffs make your construction business unprofitable. Enjoy when his bungling jacks up prices sky high and you can’t buy bananas anymore because he threatened to nuke the countries that grow them for reasons no one can identify.

This term they can just enjoy the fucking mess they’ve made and I’m not going to give them any satisfaction in getting upset and yelling at the village idiot to not play with fireworks. Go ahead, blow your fucking fingers off dumbass.

Lazy comedy punches down. You find a group that it’s socially acceptable to make fun of and then you do, because you don’t need a punchline.

Go back and watch some sitcoms or comedy from the 90s when it was acceptable to punch down at homosexuals. Comedians didn’t need to write the hard part of the joke, they could just do a gay lisp and the audience was in stitches. Sitcom writers didn’t need to work hard just put a character in a situation where another character would think they are gay, audience whooping and hollering.

Were these moments funny? Not really. But at the time homosexuals were a group it was ok to make fun of so people did and audiences liked it. They liked it because implying someone was part of that group was scandalous, the members of the group could be treated with derision, and it affirmed in the audience their own goodness merely by not being a member of the group.

Blackface was working for largely the same reasons. It was acceptable to mock and denigrate black people. It requires no hard thinking or creative writing to have a character slap on some blackface and act in a stereotypical fashion. Doing so was as easy crowd pleaser because it was a joke “everyone was in on” and it made the white audience feel superior.

Telling audiences comfortable jokes that affirm that they are good people is a great way to make boatloads of money. What jokes are comfortable and what makes people feel like good people changes over time and we look back and go “cringe, why the heck did we find that funny at some point?!”

Yea 39 checking in, that’s the way I was taught to type in school as well. I never broke the habit and still do double spaces after a full stop.

I’d honestly be more surprised that someone could tell enough to be bothered.

As a leftist, leftist are fine with gun ownership.

I’m sure there’s plenty of corpo centrist Dems that don’t want gun ownership, but you know, fuck them.

If you are in the middle of a class war you don’t disarm willingly unless you are too stupid to recognize what’s going on.

Yea and those damn Americans want enough pay to cover their massive student loans, what selfish bastards. Better to bring in foreign workers you can threaten with deportation and pay a third the pay.

Ok I might have an opinion on H1B

His America First policy is starting off real interesting with backing H1Bs, literally a program that allows foreign workers to take jobs that could be filled by American workers.

I don’t really have much of an opinion on whether H1B is good or not, but it’s definitely not America First.

For the last 13 years we lived about 2500 miles apart. You can make the drive in 4 days driving about 10 hours a day.

We recently moved back to our home state though, so it’s about 30 minutes drive to my in laws and 2 hours to my mom’s now

Oh the dudes that make tons of money by exploiting workers would like cheaper more easily exploitable workers. Shocked pikachu

I’m in the “fuck it, I’ll check back in in 4 years camp”

If I watch the news every day and get angry, the fascists are in power. If I don’t, they are still in power. The amount of news watching and angry I get does absolutely nothing to change how much power they have right now.

Especially after nearly a decade now of the never ending

1. Trump does or says something outrageous or awful or fucking stupid
2. News talking heads go on and on about how this time he will really face consequences, this time is different. Mueller is a pit bull, Jack Smith is not someone to fuck with, the southern district of New York put Capone away. This time for really real, he’s going down
3. No consequences
4. go to step 1

What’s the point. I know the stories already. Maybe one day the magats will kick down my door to carry me off to the gulags, at least I have the power to not give them rent free space in my brain until they do.

We moved back to Ohio recently (born there then moved out to California for over a decade for work and now back to Ohio so we can be near family). The amount of fucking shacks festooned with trump shit is wild. Doesn’t really seem like he did so great for you the first time Cletus, given that you live in a rundown shanty in the middle of one of the cheapest places to buy land and real estate…

My favorite though is there is some sort of steel recycler / wholesaler. His sign cycles between his business name the cost for a ton of steel and “you’re fired! trump 2024.”

I can not wait for the tariffs to absolutely destroy his business and for that reader board to say “thank you for 27 years of business”

I’m a pretty well off leftist, so now I guess I’ll sit back and watch these poor rubes get fucked. It’s the only solace left.