Bernie isn’t a Democrat, though.

The white genocide claim is something that Elon Musk and Donald Trump have been promoting. He even asked the president of South Africa about it when he came to the White House, and he told Trump it wasn’t a thing, but of course Trump didn’t believe him. In fact, he’s offering amnesty to white African immigrants as refugees (something which is denied if you have different color of skin).

Corporations don’t actually care about inclusion. The only reason why they do anything is because they think it will make money.

we are canadian lhosers.

Just look at John Wayne portraying Genghis Khan.

Or Ricardo Montalban playing Khan Noonien Singh!

The Green Party is not a realistic option. The best they have ever done is 2.7% of the popular vote for president and they have never held a single Senate or House seat.

…which is a lot more than any other leftist political party is doing. This is due to how difficult it is to get a party up and running, and then keep it running. Which we Greens have done for decades.

Plenty of people have thought they could do better, and where are those parties now?

It makes a lot more sense to join a party which has already done that hard work, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

“I downloaded a file somebody shared with me” vs. “I downloaded every file on the Web in order to train my plagiarism machine, which I charge people to use”.

She sure seemed to be on the right of Obama during her tenure as Secretary of State. Yes, I know that isn’t an unbiased source, but this isn’t coming out of nowhere. She was buddies with Kissinger. Like I said, this is all stuff that people wanted to leave behind in 2016.

I remember having this same conversation 20 years ago, except instead of Harris and Trump it was Kerry and Bush, and instead of Gaza it was Iraq. We didn’t get somebody smarter than Bush, though, we got Trump.

Here’s the thing. You don’t need to be a smart president to do a lot of damage. You can have smart people in your cabinet. You also don’t have to be very smart to break a ton of shit.

The Ratchet Effect.

I wish that the Democrats had anybody who was willing to fight for Medicare For All the same way Republicans fought to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Didn’t the ACA get rid of insurers denying coverage based on “pre-existing conditions”?

We do have a better option: it’s called the Green Party. I do agree that the Democrats are nowhere near weak enough to be replaced, but that could change very rapidly depending upon how the next few years turn out.

Don’t forget about green onions.

This video would be better without the BS pasted over it.

You mean a rich and powerful person was in the Epstein files? Really??

LLMs shouldn’t be used in place of artists because LLMs can’t make art. There’s a quote I heard somewhere that sums this up perfectly: “LLMs should be used to help creative people do tedious things, not to help tedious people do creative things.”

If a machine can do my job better than me, then a machine should be doing that job. That’s progress. Eventually all of this mindless toil should be done by machines so that people have the ability to pursue their dreams. The actual problem is that we’ve built a society where people need to toil mindlessly in order to live. This could be solved with something like a Universal Basic Income, so if my job gets taken by an LLM I can go back to school and learn a new trade. Or write some books. Or go ramble around Europe as an art bum. Or whatever.

Having said that, I think that LLMs are being used to replace jobs where the machine can’t do it better than a human. It saves the company money in the short term, but it’s going to catch up with them in the long term. On the other hand, some people are doing jobs that don’t need doing, and replacing those with an LLM doesn’t change anything, because the job was bullshit to begin with.

At the end of the day, people need food, lodging, and healthcare. They don’t need “jobs”. We should be fighting to get people’s needs met, not fighting to keep people in their shitty jobs that they hate anyway.

“Pokemon Go to the polls” was just a silly meme. I think voters wanted somebody to the left of Obama, and Hillary felt like a big step back to the '90s.

Dissing Bernie’s platform didn’t help. One key moment I remember was her saying that Medicare For All was something that would “never, ever happen”. Instead of adapting her platform to win over Bernie’s voters, she just dismissed it completely as foolish pipe dreams. Just really tone deaf and smug about it.

You can also listen to Internet radio for free.

Until you get to Mambino, the boss of bosses!