I read that situation as the republicans had the democrats in complete checkmate and just did what they wanted to do. They made up arguments on the fly to suit their needs, and I think they will continue to do that in the future. The US is a system in which there will be constant elections, so try not to get too twisted about that?
your thesis is that people weren’t tuned into the election 2 weeks before the election?
In case you forgot, that wasn’t a hypothetical. It actually occurred during Obama’s admin. Enough people thought “yea that sounds right” to the point that there wasn’t even a procedural change in SCOTUS selection
And then one of those ghouls, Barrett? was sworn in like 2 weeks before an election when it suited their needs.
It’s also normal for them to put christmas decorations out in some stores before thanksgiving and you’ll still get people whining that it’s too soon or whatever. This is all just a weird complaint, because it happens every election cycle, and, we’d ideally like to move on. The zombie corpse of Mitch McConnell can read a calendar and the political reality as much as anyone. They’ll use whatever tricks they have to fuck over as many people as they can as long as they can. But we need to start talking about whatever the post-Trump era will look like, nobody wants to stay mired in this.
In American electoral politics, it is ‘fucking normal’ to be talking about the next presidential election cycle following the midterms, and the midterms are in like 2 weeks. It’s ‘fucking normal’ to start marginalizing the current administration because they can’t run for re-election again and to start focusing on new people, and despite your hysterics, I think we could actually agree that paying less attention to Donald Trump would be a great thing for literally everybody, so calm your fucking tits.
talking about the next election (2028) is the fastest track to acknowleding the lame-ducked-ness of the current occupant. I say speculate away.
oh come on, haven’t you seen Elon’s new car? It’s all like vrroooom skeeeerrr pssshhh! Finally a solution to all those half pipes out there.
So there’s hope.
everybody should delete their ‘x’ account, fuck that site.
I’m getting whiplash trying to decide which group of humans is more insane about AI…
every time the Americans go ‘oh shit I think we’re obviously living in a fascist regime!’ they forget about it within a week, this is like the 8th time in the last 2 years that this headline has run.
Well we are also trusting an advertising company to filter out ads.
Yeah no shit, 20 years of gmails ‘s complete inability to determine spam from real email is testament to this
Ok but does it have denuvo?
Is there ever not an oppressor and oppressed? If not this is a shit framework for evaluating anything.
ooh nooo people are making games whatever should we dooo
I can’t vote for him, so it doesn’t really matter much to me one way or the other, but it’s great to hear someone articulate something with a nuance that also shuts up stupid questions.
Never heard him speak before but that was great.
The kind of specs that would enable local LLM usage were available on laptops since 2020. The floor for acceptable performance for LLMs stopped literally just before 24+gb of VRAM would have become pretty common in consumer applications. The reason this technology isn’t more ubiquitously available is because ‘they’ thought it would be more profitable to hoover up literally every byte of RAM and GPU in the world rather than let the technology continue to naturally evolve to a place where any consumer could have run useful models on their home computers. In other words, your anger is misplaced.
I have personally passed up a trip to Vegas over US nonsense this last year.
Ok but if the democrats had shoved Ginsburg out of her seat and rammed through a supreme court justice at whatever price (even via -gasp- hypocrisy), then the world would be a lot different now. So I kinda wish the rage went into electing effective motherfuckers.