Its honestly a great analogy for the way that humans have a tendency to do the same thing. Most people are fairly incapable of setting aside what they already think is true when they go to assess new information. This is basically no different than an LLM being pushed to ignore nuance in order to maintain a predisposed alignment that it has been instructed to justify in spite of evidence to the contrary.

If anything hes designed a model with built-in problems specifically to cater to human beings with the same design problems

North eastern Louisiana is no more likely to see a hurricane than southern Arkansas or mid-Mississippi

Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power. Projects in Europe and Asia are lightyears ahead of us here, where we dont even have a reactor capable of producing a stable reaction. Meanwhile in Korea I think they have managed to achieve a stable reaction for over 10 minutes already. Who knows where China is at, although they likely have the largest facility working on it.

Weve already lost the race thanks to our obsession with yesterday’s energy methods

fierce debates continue over whether the moment has arrived for serious comparisons with fascist regimes.

Ah yes, fierce debates akin to such classics as “is the sky blue?”, “do bears shit in the woods?”, or “does the pope wear a funny hat?”

E: jokes aside, this is actually a pretty insightful article. Im just tired of the mollycoddling

Its hilarious to me that people think that the founding fathers, who ostensibly designed this entire country specifically for the benefit of the land-owning gentry, would hate maga politics.

Im like 99% sure that the founding fathers would probably hate legitimately democratic politics. They were never interested in actual democracy in the first place. They were interested in entrenching their position as the ruling class of this country. Thats it.

“They stood against monarchy!1!1!” Yeah, they did, they stood against one guy having the power because they wanted that power for themselves. Not because they wanted that power vested widely amongst common individuals. “No taxation without representation” wasnt really about representation. The colonies could have easily argued for representation, people like Benjamin Franklin were vocal in trying to push that as the best choice for their future, and Britain was not an absolute monarchy by any means. They simply didnt give territorial/colonial subjects the same rights as citizens, which is exactly what the United States has done the entire time it has had colonies itself. US territories have no say in the government that unilaterally controls them.

The majority of the founding fathers were basically a bunch of libertarians who just wanted to not pay taxes. British colonists in North America were the richest and least taxed people in the entire world at the time, and they were severely spoiled by it.

People seriously need to get over their views of historical actors as these benevolent and infallible characters in some fairy tale story of them envisioning a country built for the good of everyone. These were the same guys that relied on indentured servitude and slavery to make their money. They believed quite strongly in themselves having superiority over the commoner, let alone their opinions of peoples who werent white.

I would bet every dollar I have that if the founding fathers snapped back to life right now that they would be no different than the maga morons or libertarians that want to run this country into the ground

Today’s topic is self destruction, and I aint talkin about the KRS One discussion

Im talkin bout the one-too-many ignorant suckers, lying on the mic to my sisters and brothers

Every time you listen to the radio all you hear is nonsense, they never play the bomb shit

Everything that glitters ain’t gold, and every gold record don’t glitter; that’s for damn sure

why not just get consent for the thing that you’re doing

I would imagine because consent would require opening the door to paying someone for use of their likeness, and if they were going to pay someone fairly they could just pay a voice actor. The whole thing is a means of getting what they want without paying for it

Mum is the word, after all

Lest we talk about “bird”

Reasonable people everywhere call Joe Rogan insane for being such a dunce that he is just now realizing this was the plan the entire time

Callin it what it is

Ive never met a single maga republican in my life that would vote a split ticket. NCs election results are sus af imo

The supreme court has discretion to elevate a case to themselves immediately if they so want to. Just like they have the discretion to refuse to hear a case at all. They just rarely exercise that discretion and mostly take cases that come to them on appeals.

So really the moment it becomes a lawsuit, the SCOTUS could elevate it to themselves (given the severity of the situation and the need for immediate resolution) and make a ruling without waiting for it to come to them on appeals.

I would assume that ruling would go exactly how you expect tho, certainly

Really if anything its just because we are a service based economy primarily. We dont manufacture much here other than two types of things: 1) specialized goods and commodities that fetch a high enough price to make paying American labor rates worthwhile; oil products, cars, complex electronics, airplanes, etc. and 2) very inexpensive things that would be a pain in the ass to manufacture millions of and then ship all the way here, like plastic containers and shit like that. And those manufacturing processes dont often involve a ton of people, like building cars or whatever.

So since we make hardly anything here compared to what we consume, we have no choice but to import a ton of stuff. Tariffs were never going to solve that issue.

If anyone with half a brain wanted to level out our trade deficit then they would have duly supported the manufacture and export goods that it actually makes financial sense for us to produce here. Even with tariffs, the economics of the situation wasnt going to push Levi’s to open an American jeans factory. For that to happen jeans would have to be so expensive no one would be buying them anyways

Not every country is quite as ridiculous with private property. For example in Scandinavian countries they have the “everymans right”, which basically says that, within reasonable limits, owning property doesnt mean no one else can pass through it or use it to fulfill basic human needs for a few days

The GDP is still growing, just not quite as fast as it was last year

In the way that our entire economy is based on measuring itself, not growing as fast as last year is considered complete failure

the turmoil in the markets is gone for now

The stock market =/= the health of the economy. Obviously the market being bad is not good, but the market being good does not mean things arent bad

Literally, between the GAO and Inspectors General alone there is constant oversight of most of what the federal government does. Thats not even nearly every form of oversight, those are just agencies whose entire job is finding any waste or fraud. Of course before DOGE was even started Trump first kneecapped those parts of the government.

If we want to talk about waste and fraud we should be looking at the president who spends as much time as possible golfing on his own properties, spending government money on his team staying at his own properties…

Alaska Airlines flight 1282, was climbing through 14,830 feet about six minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, when the left MED plug departed the airplane

Something about the phrasing giving agency to the door plug is hilarious to me. The plug said “im out, see ya”

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The island filled with unexploded ordinance sounds like a great place for them actually. I like this idea