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”

I’ve been waiting for something like this so we can see who’s heads roll when AI fucks up. I figured we’d see doctors and lawyers losing their licenses first, but maybe it’ll be this. So, who shoulders the blame when a program that can’t learn from its mistakes fucks up a quarter of the internet?

She probably wants to run in a state wide position, and therefore needs to appeal to a broader set of people. I doubt she’s had some change of heart.

If these were in soft flour tortillas they’d go hard af.

I play DnD with some of my close friends. We also try to get together at one of our houses every once in a while to do “arts and crafts” stuff. Paint figurines, carve pumpkins, gingerbread houses, painting shitty paintings with bob ross. Sometimes we have “scary movie night”, or watch over the garden wall, or a new anime that came out something. Sometimes we’ll go out to do things too, the Zoo, or museums, or a haunted house, or coen maze this time of year. We started doing this after COVID. It seems kinda silly, but having a good excuse to get, like, a half a dozen or so friends together and hang out IRL is honestly great. Sometimes i don’t wanna get up on a Saturday to do it, but I’m always glad I did. It’s hard to come up with excuses to do things in person that aren’t prohibitively expensive, nor infrequent.

Natural cooling? Does this dipshit have any idea how hard cooling things in a vacuum is? He’s probably just trying to sucker Sam Altman into announcing he’s “building” his data centers in space (thanks to Blue Origin, naturally) as he is forced to make increasingly ludicrous claims about OpenAI to continue forcing fart gas into the bubble.

if we reduced wealth inequality to the point noone could afford that kind of shit i bet we could ride the plastic straw wave for a few centuries before it really came back to bite us.