Yea, I read it. I’m not buying it.

I feel like this is just gift wrapping being a dumb racist hick in prettier paper. They are scared of cities because their full of black people, gays, and Mexicans. They like assholes who show the same level of hate as they do - who will keep the black people, gays, and Mexicans away. And they like someone who justifies hiding behind religion so they can tell themselves that God made them this dumb and rascist. So they can delude themselves into thinking they are really the good guy.

I’m somewhat ashamed to admit it, but back before he did “The Apprentice”, I’ll admit I was somewhat fascinated by Trump as a business “mogul”. I read at least 5 of his books starting with “Art of the Deal”. Here are some highlights I remember:

• He constantly bragged about deals in which he completely fucked someone over. Not once did he acknowledge it - at all. It’s like it never entered his mind. Or, that the more he fucked someone over, the more proud he was.

• He bragged about never preparing for speeches. He likes to completely wing it every time - which I guess is obvious.

• He claimed to never eat lunch. Too busy “making deals” he said.

• He used to be very good friends with the Clintons. Went to their parties often. Spoke very highly of them.

• Didn’t mention Jeffrey Epstein at all. You know, like all those pictures of them together might have been a secret?

• Talked about times when he was flat broke or in the hole and how he needed to fake that he was rich to keep up appearances so people would want to do deals with him. I remember one paragraph where he was walking into a building in NY with Ivanka and pointed out a homeless person and told her “See that man. He has more money than me.”

Long before he entered politics, based on those books, I knew Donald Trump was a despicable piece of shit.

The javelin was officially redesigned in 1986 to limit its distance to keep it in the field, and to ensure it doesn’t land flat. They are likely only counting post-redesign throws.

The consultancy I used to work for in the late 90s would have crucified any developer that didn’t write “a data abstraction layer that allows you to pop off the original db and substitute a different one later”.

How many times in my 25 year career have I swapped out the database (and been thankful for such an abstraction layer)? 0 times.

Agree for these reasons:

• Legally: It’s always been legal (in the US at least) to relay the ideas in a copywrited work. AI might need to get better at providing a bibliography, but that’s likely a courtesy more than a legal requirement.

• Culturally: Access to knowledge should be free. It’s one of the reasons public libraries exist. If AI can help people gain knowledge more quickly and completely, it’s just the next evolution of the same idea.

• Also Culturally: Think about what’s out on the internet. Millions of recipes, no doubt copied from someone else, with pages of bullshit about how the author “grew up on a farm that produced Mohitos”. For decades now, “content creators” have gotten paid for millions of low quality bullshit click bait articles. There’s that. Most of the real “knowledge” on the internet is freely accessible technical / product documentation, forum posts like StackOverflow, and scientific studies. All of it is stuff the authors would probably love to have out there and freely accessible. Sure, some accidental copywrite infringement might happen here and there, but I think it’s a tiny problem in relation to the value that AI might bring society.

I’m down

It needs to be a nobody. Frankly, probably an boring older white man, so people could picture them in the Pres seat if needed, but otherwise unremarkable. Keep the interest on Kamala.

That’s one way to ensure you get shot by the police.

“Except anything in our power”

Went down the rabbit hole on this guy a bit. He went on to participate in the CyberNinjas audit of Arizona’s ballots after the 2020 election. He claimed to have technology that could detect whether ballots had been folded in the mail, and claimed to detect bamboo in “fraudulent Chinese ballots”.

He was such a kook, the other kooks rejected him.

Doesn’t this effectively kill the argument that the U.S. shouldn’t implement socialized healthcare because it wouldn’t pay doctors enough - so there wouldn’t be enough doctors?

Shatner definitely has them all

On a similar note for parents: At some point, you did/will pick your child up and then put them down for the last time.

The CSV specification (RFC-4180) is pretty clear. If a value contains commas, you wrap it in double quotes. If the value contains double quotes, you double each double quote to indicate its part of the value and not the end of the value.

A properly formatted CSV should have no problems from Skeletor!

I think they can work, but only when certain pieces are there. The protest must have:

• A clearly defined goal
• Existing support somewhere in the government, or a financial incentive for people in the government that oppose you.

For example, civil rights and women’s right to vote had some governmental support. The protests had well defined goals, and helped raise awareness and support for those people already in government to enact change.

On the other hand, the 1% protests a few years ago, and more recently, BLM, had ambiguous goals. Without clear goals, no existing government support could be identified. And there was no financial incentive for others to act. The protests raised awareness but ultimately had little real effect unfortunately.

I do wonder if things have changed though. I think public shaming helped enact some changes in the past, but no one has shame anymore.

I wonder if anyone found it yet.

Oooh, cool. Thanks. The way it’s used, I always thought it was the Star Wars equivalent of “bullshit”.

Doesn’t it come out of the banthas?

Holy hell, this first women’s brother was killed by police after they slammed him to the ground. Then, years later, they run over her son and bury his body without telling her.

That whole police department needs to be disbanded, prosecuted, and replaced.