Sometimes I see this misunderstanding and I’d like to clarify it. When Ukrainian say “russian drones/shahed drones/iranian drones,” we don’t mean this kind of drones:
We mean THIS kind of drones that can carry a warhead and are essentially used as missiles:
While they’re not as large, destructive and difficult to intercept as, say, ballistic missiles, they can still cause significant damage. Russia launches them at us every night, but most are successfully shot down.
Common Cause put together a $115K deal with the Washington Post in partnership with SPLC to have these two huge ads in the WaPo papers that are delivered to Congress, the Pentagon, and the White House.
When they saw the images, they backed out, presumably bc Bezos doesn’t want to piss off the Trump administration.
Well. I can’t get these images into Congress, but I surely can start them running around the internet.
I’m no Musk fan, but geez, people. Get some political literacy.
Musk is a Special Government Employee (SGE). Hires don’t go through elections or congressional confirmation.
SGEs have been a thing since 1962. Just because the TV has told you Musk is Satan incarnate, and you believe everything the TV tells you, doesn’t mean this is an unprecedented unconstitutional scenario.
Before I block your condescending ass, perhaps you could learn to fucking read. Nothing in this says that Musk being hired is an unprecedented unconstitutional scenario. What he and his crew are doing certainly break an awful lot of laws, shit on the separation of powers, and are causing a constitutional crisis, but him being hired? No, that was legal. Sort of. Because what he’s doing doesn’t meet the definition of an SGE, you see. I know that your favorite podcast host probably told you to scoff at people and say “SGE,” but some of us actually know what that means and that Musk is far, far outside the range of what an SGE actually does. Here, I’ll link to a very short, basic explanation for you, since you seem to be really fucking confused about this incredibly basic concept.
That’s why the ads say “FIRE MUSK,” you useless sack of wet dead mice. Because that’s what you do with someone you hired who sucks shit through a soggy paper straw: you fucking fire them.
They don’t say “Musk is Satan,” they don’t say “hiring Musk in any way was illegal,” they say FIRE MUSK. Nobody elected him and we therefore don’t want him to have the level of power that he has, in part because he has outright stated that he will ignore any attempts to place checks or balances on him, and he’s doing that right now. Just fucking ignoring the checks and balances built into our system of government.
I know that you’re really eager to run in and condescend to people and feel so much smarter than others, but before you do, you should try being, you know. Actually correct. Otherwise you don’t look very smart at all. 😦
Please fucking understand that some of us read the text of bills for fun, have an active list of bills we’re following on various bill-tracking sites, devour books on political history, and read/watch legal analysis, again, for fucking funsies. I will literally sit at my computer with the text of a bill before the OR House open, reading through multiple versions to compare the changes because I want to know what’s going on in my state. You are barking up the exact wrong tree if you want to throw the “oooh the TV told you to be scared” at someone, babykins.
And unlike you, I have basic fucking reading comprehension, so I know the difference between an SGE acting within a narrow, defined advisory scope to a committee or as a consultant, which is what an SGE is supposed to do, and a single man and a bunch of untrained college-age sycophants running roughshod over specialized COBOL databases twice their age, literally breaking the law because the money that Congress disburses via the federal budget is in fact disbursed as part of a law because that’s how that fucking works, “disbanding” agencies that he has no authority to disband (and who coincidentally started investigating his business dealings in Ukraine last year) and all other kinds of fucking bullshit.
Anyway:
FIRE MUSK.
Oh, and P.S., if his toadies really were in the Dept. of Education databases like they claim they were, that’s a violation of FERPA and if you have outstanding student loans you should file a complaint. :)
Imagine spending all that time on a response when I could have just written “lol, antivaxxer” and moved on with my life.
One of the common mistakes I see for people relying on “AI” (LLMs and image generators) is that they think the AI they’re interacting with is capable of thought and reason. It’s not. This is why using AI to write essays or answer questions is a really bad idea because it’s not doing so in any meaningful or thoughtful way. All it’s doing is producing the statistically most likely expected output to the input.
This is why you can ask ChatGPT “is mayonnaise a palindrome?” and it will respond “No it’s not.” but then you ask “Are you sure? I think it is” and it will respond “Actually it is! Mayonnaise is spelled the same backward as it is forward”
All it’s doing is trying to sound like it’s providing a correct answer. It doesn’t actually know what a palindrome is even if it has a function capable of checking for palindromes (it doesn’t). It’s not “Artificial Intelligence” by any meaning of the term, it’s just called AI because that’s a discipline of programming. It doesn’t inherently mean it has intelligence.
So if you use an AI and expect it to make something that’s been made with careful thought or consideration, you’re gonna get fucked over. It’s not even a quality issue. It just can’t consistently produce things of value because there’s no understanding there. It doesn’t “know” because it can’t “know”.
its been just over a year since i posted this and i still encounter people saying things like “i asked chatgpt and…” or “i made this with chatgpt and…”. and these arent like teenagers or students they’re adult professionals using this shit for their job. i dont know how people live like this
I don’t know how to make this any more clear but if you use ChatGPT to do work you’re only hampering yourself.
If you stop using it (or Co-Pilot or any other bullshit AI helper) you will learn and grow more, develop new skills, and become a more valuable employee at work and/or do better at school. There’s no shortcut to developing useful skills, you just gotta keep working on it.
TikTokers are such pussies when it comes to ships. “B-but they’re not canon 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😖😖” honey back in my day we shipped characters from entirely different medias uphill both ways in the snow
We need to reintroduce crackshipping into the zeitgeist. We use to be a society damnit.
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