That’d be an effective total ban, because noone would want to be on a social media platform with entierly 80+ year olds. It’d be all corny minion memes.

If some manager at a store can find the huevos do it, your state politicians can find em too. js.

a million dollar company is, what, like, 10 employees?

David Graber suggests in Debt: The First 5000 Years, that the way you get someone to do something truely awful to another human is to hang a debt over their head so they feel that someone else is making them do it.

There is no universe where that guy was going to be Trump’s successor. Nobody likes him, he’s only there now because Peter Thiel believe he will allow him to replace humanity with robots or something.

So… no more Irish or Norwegian immigrants?

No. Go read the source material more carefully. I’ve checked like 5 of the trackers and not a single one I’ve read reports a single actual, verifiable death. Ita pure math. That doesn’t mean there aren’t deaths, it just means this is a purely mathematical estimate. The discussion should be “is this estimate reasonable”, not “lets assume this estimate is reasonable and talk about how bad Trump is”.

If you want to understand conflicts, you need to read about their history.

I took a look at the tracker they’re using as a source, and this appears to be (for the few categories I checked the methodology for) referring to mathematically projected deaths, and not literal counted dead humans. I think that’s a pretty important note, especially if we’re titling it “at least 600,000 dead”. I’m not saying noone died, but “I’ve used math to estimate that half a million people died based on this set of assumptions” is a very different statement from “We have tallied up literally half a million dead people over here explicitly because of USAID going away”

I mean, you’re have to be pretty good to lose that hard… or buy penny stocks or something.

How could I forget.

should be “…with communists, and gay linux nerds”

I can’t decide if Trump thinks this will make him look like less of a lame duck when the vote passes the house, or if Trump is trying to reverse psychology them out of it.

I’m not sure I’d go to them for advice…

what’s the old saying? “Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”

My suspicion is that a lot of young (American) people have only ever had canned, or horrifically overcooked veggies and conclude on that basis that veggies suck. My SO thought she didn’t like green beans until she was 19 and had the ones my dad made and was like “Wait… Why aren’t these mushy?”.

Enshittification is a theory of what Cory Doctrow (the guy who coined the term) calls “Platform Decay”. It has three steps.

1. Make a good platform for users by offering a service and usually aggressive interoperability with other similar services to reduce switching costs.

2. Once users are locked in by network effects, make their experience worse to the benefit of Advertisers

3. Once the advertisers are locked in due to network effects make their experience worse to the benefit of investors or other equity holders.

Ok now your platform sucks but everyone ia trapped there.

Id argue most LLM services are still in stage 1.

Can you trust them to follow through on their end of the bargin?

Maybe she is a. “true believer”. I suspect she’s preparing herself to run for a state-wide office. Maybe I’m a cynic.

I read that as “We’re afraid of shouldering even a single gram of risk here, so we’re instead gonna let the brownshirts squat in our building”