Palmer Lucky turned into a real piece of shit after the Facebook sale. He's now one of Peter Thiel's acolytes with his own weapons manufacturing company, Anduril. Promising to kill third worlders at a lower cost than Lockheed.

“The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing,” they write. “Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use AI agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.”

Somebody invested money into this company. And there's at least hundreds, maybe thousands, of other businesses with these asinine ideas about how to use AI. They're all getting capital from someone who's supposed to be smart because they have capital. Remember that when llm providers cost correct token prices.

And Insurance companies might start considering underpaid employees as an insurance liability.

That'd truly be righteous but I suspect they'll start expecting more surveillance, security, and fire systems instead.

Well my ISP dillegently itemizes every single state local and federal tax they pay as an additional "fee" on my monthly bill. Therefore, I should see that the federal item drop off my bill, right? Right?

All blue check marks. Anyone who's actually paid for verification on Twitter is most likely a bot completely reversing it's point. Someone without a check mark is more likely to be a real person.

No its a barrel of hard tack (aka crackers). Supposed to be old timely grocery store version of a water cooler.

Its a name of a streamer you're better off not knowing about.

She's right. Idk why this has to come from a pop star but she's right.

About 10 years ago it was The Distro for first time linux users to prove they were a True Linux Enjoyer. Think a bunch of channers bragging about how they are the true linux master race because they edited a grub config.

Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo. Since then that role has transitioned to NixOS who aren't nearly as toxic but still culty. "Way of the future" etc.

All three of have high bars of entry so everyone has to take pride in the effort they put in to learn how to install their distro. Like getting hazed into a frat except you actually learn something.

The Ubuntu hatred is completely unrelated. That has to do with them being a corporate distro that keep making bad design decisions. And their ubiquity means everyone has to deal with their bad decisions. (snap bad)

In 2021, the House passed legislation to raise the minimum from $7.25 to $15 an hour, but it failed in the Senate despite a slim Democratic majority after eight centrist Democrats voted against the measure.

And would happen again because the party is addicted to losing.

7/10 Photoshop job. There aren't distortion lines but it is noticeably blurrier where its been edited.

I don't object to photoshopping billionaires. Im only asking for a sharper job.

Patrol Cop once told me a joke about how he ran over a black kids bike. When got back to the station he saw the kid at the desk trying to report the incident. He'd carried his busted up bike the entire way. The cop behind the desk called out "Hey Rob, did you run over this kid's bike?". "Nope". Case closed. No report filed.

Edit: PS: This was one of the "good ones". He voted Clinton in 2016 because the rival faction in the Union was showing up to Trump rallies in class A's. Took him the entire Trump admin but he works retail now.