I fully expect that when the dems get more investigative powers in January that we’ll find out how many more of these kinds of things we’re living through right now. There won’t be many situations simpler than this one, though (assuming that mistakes were made here).

The Jevons paradox point is interesting. Maybe we’ll finally get better software products, so far it seems like everything is as buggy and slow as as ever.

The bar to be a coder is being lowered, but actual software engineering with metrics, requirements, and deadlines will probably increase. I can easily see a world where everyone rushes into the AI to solve problems that used to not be cost effective and at the end of the first push (hopefully that’s around now) there’s a lot of new, untested code, and no metrics whether programmers were more efficient, and more importantly no metrics (I saw stats PhD) about whether the bottom line increased: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/ai-redefining-wall-street-jobs.html

How would one measure the efficacy of two different AI generated trading regimes (or however it is they work up there) when the people who understood what they were asking can’t understand any of the code?

Source I guess:

• https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=8818

As an aside, I like that news team:

• Wired phone cords under chonky headsets FTW.
• Novel way of stalling for 30 seconds while on live tv.
• “The trump agenda for a deep red district is a very appealing agenda to run on. In a swing district like CO-8 the trump agenda was a bit of an excrement sandwich for Gabe Evans. It was just tough for him to chew on or serve to other people.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=10842)
• “Kyle Clark, this one’s on you, OK buddy.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=13289)

Nah, just read the dashed lines. Zero is dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, where two is dit-dit-dah-dah-dah. It’s the international morse code! With pastel colors!

We’ll wake up tomorrow with Clarence Thomas riding off into the sunset in a new RV, John Oliver poorer by one RV and $1mil/year, and a supreme court justice that doesn’t need to shave everyday.

P.S.: Someone get word to John Oliver that sooner rather than later might be a good time to rescind his offer!

“What bigger break could there be?” she asked.

Yep.

And the market only corrected back to April 2026. All the election results sound bites are going to play great on Fox, though.

The way I tend to think about it these days is that this guy is part of a community where that kind of thing is normal; otherwise, why would he share it?

If anything sexual is so big of a deal to him (and I infer it is from the statements he made), then how does that align with shielding his boss from the allegations made against him?

Everything’s easy when you know the trick:

Guy who knows the trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsgEdmlUf0

That guy?

The guy who pays money to a third party company to log all of his internet browsing habits and share them with his son as proof he isn’t looking at porn?

I’m sure that a company that caters to highly conservative people who feel the need to be “kept honest” with their browsing history does a bangup job keeping their servers up to date, and no foreign intelligence teams focus on it at all after the Speaker of the House bragged about using it.

So what do we do next? I mean, in terms of things that might actually help?

Become a society with strong critical thinking skills who values people based on reasoned takes based on experience and science over people who value rapid, loud appeals to emotion.

One piece of that is recognizing that doing things like putting flat earthers up in high altitude planes or near space is a waste of resources that could’ve been spent doing something better.

EDIT: that last paragraph was an incomplete thought. Individual flat earthers have done the whole scientific method thing, and proved themselves incorrect and stepped away from it. How do you handle the people that refuse to be convinced? If there’s no level evidence that a person will accept and they’re out in the forest commons chopping down trees to build a tower to whatever is on top of earth, how do you tolerate it at a societal level? It’s still an incomplete thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy#Health

Good teachers: “It’s broken again. That’s on me. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with the passes. To shreds you say?”

Personally, a single “bathroom pass” NFC card that a teacher hands out to any student in their class that needs a bathroom visit wouldn’t cause me much security consternation; that any student could be carrying the pass at any given time is enough anonymztion for my concerns. I’d be more concerned about germs; a group pass is going to get nasty.

Add in a requirement that the scanners have to be connected to an airgapped system, and the system software ONLY reports/stores if a trip took more than X minutes, where X is some agreed upon time by teachers/parents/etc how long a trip should take, and I think that’s a a decent basis for a product that most school districts will completely ignore while they get wined/dined by someone who completely intends to sell the system at a loss and profit off the data collected.

That puts some context to it.

I was imagining something entirely different.

Well I’m completely missing something then. If there’s no golf then what’s the place for?

Also, grass parking with a half empty parking lot?

Everybody else here captured the uncertainty in the world, but even without specifics you can still do a tabletop exercise without jumping all the way into a rabbit hole and see what you’d need to have to spend three days without being able to buy supplies. Most of those kind of lists just end up being things you’d need anyway: water, food, any prescriptions, some local currency if credit card machines are down, etc. Decide how much you think some event is likely and how much budget you have and react accordingly, or don’t. Take it as an opportunity to change out the batteries in any smoke dectectors or battery powered radios, maybe top off any power bricks you have for charging phones.

If you decide to stock up on something there are a lot of resources out there already on what makes sense. If you decide not to stock up on anything then be aware that people might not be willing to share if something does happen; you had the same opportunity to prep and the same information that everyone else did.

Most of my knowledge of UK preparedness is either from WWII documentaries or dubious sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgwaOEg0Uqo

I guess they know what they’re doing. Every golf course I’ve ever been on has landscaping to set up secluded holes and to put tractor sheds and pump houses out of immediate sight. I guess that’s what I expected

They don’t price their based on cost + profit. They price their product based on what analysts think the market will bear.

And for your original question: “How can they be losing money when prices are higher than ever”

They didn’t lose money. In Q3 of 2026 they beat earnings estimates by 27%, and missed revenue by 0.25%. The stonk dropped because its price was based on analysts’ guesses on what it would do in the future, and they’ve revised that estimate down based on Intel’s earnings report and what they think the AI market is going to look like. And so the stonk price collapsed all the way back to where it was in…April of this year.

have been placed on a floating barge

I guess there weren’t any open patches of ground to put them on.