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I believe so. Nice to have agreement there.

He thought it was water and so drank the entire thing. This consumption killed him.

So look, I’m ambivalent right now.

Blues are incoming. This is better as at least things will stop getting actively, aggressively worse since Reds won’t have full free reign. I will take what victories I can right now.

However, your entire point remains entirely undisturbed. I don’t believe they will actually do much. What keeps me ambivalent versus bitter is that nothing has had a chance to happen yet. They haven’t been sworn in, nothing but words have been thrown around yet. Talk all you want, I’ll believe it when I see it.

People didn’t believe AOC was gonna be anything. Now I’m not glazing her, but those same people also predicted she would fail immediately. All I said was she has to make it through her first term before we can really take a measure of the girl, and look where we are now. Those folks were wrong and she is a voice that people have no choice but to reckon with one way or another as she has a following and sway within it. Like her or not, those are facts.

There is a glimmer here, and I think what we can expect from the voting public of this generation is the genuine desire for not the same old shit. That’s why we got Trump in the first place; he wasn’t the same old fart who made empty promises. He came in with passion and common speech rather than boilerplate PC phrases and promised to change the status quo. Monkey’s Paw activated on that one for those who voted Trump, but I am seeing that in the current vote as well.

Again, I’ve got no crystal ball to see how it will turn out, but the hope I once had has somehow limped its way out of the rubble of this administration. Doesn’t mean it’ll get very far, it just isn’t dead yet, y’know?

I don’t have to like him to agree with him on this.

Do they have good people looking into it? The best? Really, seriously, nobody has ever seen people this good at investigating before because they’re gonna find all the corruption?

Don’t tell me about plans you hope to have, show me the fucking results.

Just in case anyone is curious as to what you mean, here’s a brief historical context.

Up until Trump and adjusting for inflation, George Washington was the wealthiest president in history with his net worth contributing an actual percentage of the US wealth at the time. I mean, we were still getting national loans to the tune of a few million dollars per deal and that was considered adequate at the time.

Jefferson used the White House as his personal palace while he was President and spent as much time throwing dinner parties and receiving guests in his dressing gown as being President and trying to undo everything Hamilton left behind out of pure spite.

It wasn’t until damn near Lincoln (1828) that your average man was able to vote, as only those who owned land were considered educated enough to have a say in government, and when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation we had the “who can vote” conversation all over again, and then once more and with feeling for the women after that.

I cannot argue the logic, but something in me still kicks against the idea of tolerating this kind of bullshit in any way in the future. Like, immediate and unmistakable consequences for espousing certain views - like the genocide of [group of people] for example.

Social consequences aren’t enough because, as we have seen, any amount of tolerance allows Nazis to sway the hurt and impressionable to their side. The weak who wish to project strength will always find it easier to side with those who tell them they were the right ones, the superior ones all along and crush all who disagree.

In this regard, tolerating their ideals in any way has led us to where we are today. “Safe spaces for absolute free speech” allowed for it while the actual moderate voices were shouted down by the vitriol of the Nazis. They festered and found power there and were allowed to and encouraged to do so.

There needs to be a visible consequence for fucking around like that. Just like you fuck around in your car and get pulled over for endangering the public and eventually lose your right to drive a vehicle, so it needs to be with Nazism and those ideals. Humans are humans and deserve to live, period. Fuck your hard on for men with guns, feed people first. Fuck your god, help those in front of you right the fuck now or get out of the way of those who will regardless of which god they prefer if any.

My tolerance for tolerance has worn thin.

I remember being at a parade some thirty years ago when Chuck rolled by on his float. My father went from silent to rather animated, “Hey Chuckie boy! FUCK YOU, CHUCK!” I was still rather young and so I asked what just happened. My father took a moment to compose himself, then stated, “I voted for him to get to where he is and he betrayed me. I have every right to tell him to his face that he failed me and exactly how I feel about it.”

He’s been a disappointment since then.

Johnny was a chemist

Johnny is no more

What Johnny thought was H2O

Was H2SO4

So even my shitty mid-range card is now more valuable than when I bought it? What the fuck even is this timeline?

There is, unfortunately, no way to know how one would react in a situation until one is put in that situation.

I can imagine, based on what I know of myself, that I’d have gone one of two ways. Either I would have become infinitely more withdrawn and sullen to the point of taking my own life because of the overall repressive situation you very briefly describe, or I would have become an angry, hypersexualized version of myself who would probably have ended up in a similarly early grave through some other, external means rather than deliberately self-inflicted.

Words on a screen, but I am still sorry this happened to you. Nobody asks for this, nobody deserves this, and there are absolutely people in this world who are happier and better off for your presence and who you are, entirely independent of those horrible moments in your life.

Thank you for sharing your story, and I wish you greater joys in your life than all the pain you’ve yet known combined.

Clowns to the left of me

Nazis to the right

Here I am

Stuck in the U S of A

And old spin drives have a limited lifespan as well thanks to wear and tear on mechanical parts. Whichever tech you prefer has its own unique drawbacks.

RAID and backups are the only surefire way to protect any amount of your data long term.

I can’t wait for PC parts to be super cheap. I saw somewhere that, bubble-pop-notwithstanding, NVME production is projected to hit a level within a year or so that will outpace even the last year’s demand for storage and could even drive prices for storage down to below what they were prior to the bubble. Oh, and that’s even accounting for inflation. So when the bubble does pop, we are going to have an absolute storage glut.

The fact that the rest of the world is going to be miserable and impossible is another matter entirely, but at least I’ll have my hobby.

When you’re right, you’re right. I just found it funny to have the thing he touts blatantly say no as the response to his bullshit.

For shits and giggles, I asked Lumo only because I get to use it with ProtonVPN. Welcome to my fifth ever AI query to it. Full answer follows:

Defining Superintelligence

Superintelligence refers to a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that vastly exceeds human cognitive abilities across virtually all domains of interest—including scientific creativity, general wisdom, strategic planning, social skills, and problem-solving.

Core Characteristics

Unlike narrow AI systems that excel at specific tasks (like chess or image recognition), superintelligence would possess:

• General cognitive superiority: Outperforming humans in virtually every intellectual endeavor
• Recursive self-improvement capacity: The ability to iteratively redesign itself, potentially leading to rapid intelligence explosions
• Cross-domain adaptation: Applying intelligence flexibly across fields rather than being confined to one specialty

Key Distinctions

Important Considerations

The concept is primarily theoretical—no such system exists today. Researchers like Nick Bostrom (author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, 2014) have extensively studied the potential implications, both beneficial and existential, of such systems emerging.

Key questions in the field include:

• How quickly might it develop once AGI is achieved?
• What mechanisms ensure alignment with human values?
• How do we manage the transition period safely?

Current Status

As of my knowledge, we remain at the narrow AI stage. Estimates for when superintelligence might emerge vary widely among experts, ranging from decades to centuries—or possibly never, depending on one’s views on AI feasibility.

Is there a particular aspect of superintelligence you’d like to explore further? For instance, the technical pathways to achieving it, safety considerations, or philosophical implications?