The downsides are basically unlimited. Skew energy markets to kill green energy, make the market look strong while hiding inflation data, scaring the world off the USD as a reserve currency.

It wasn’t forefront of my mind but I knew a conflict was happening in Syria at the time and primarily the media reported it as a “Syrian conflict”.

I remember when Gary Johnson got absolutely crucified for not knowing what Aleppo was; a name I hadn’t heard before or since that interview.

Say it publicly and you got yourself a new customer.

I’m like, “Who the hell on the right got canceled?” About the only person I can think of is Tucker Carlson and that was done by Fox without any real campaign for his dismissal. It was totally out of the blue.

This almost sucks in a way. Yeah the NYT probably would’ve capitulated but there was also a golden opportunity to prove he is all of the shitty things he says he’s not.

Clearly this admin doesn’t care about pesky things like laws. If they don’t like you they’ll pull any dirty trick they can to stop you. Only reason they haven’t gone after normal people is time and money.

Ahh, come, come. Get down and stay quiet.

If you look over here it’s just astonishing. I had not seen one of these in ages.

Here, we have just a textbook example of antisemitism!

Same. And they basically jizz their pants when they see a practical use for AI, but 9 out of 10 times there’s already a cheaper and more reliable solution they won’t even entertain.

How do you ensure your teammates don’t start committing their own IDE settings or committing “secrets.json” files or helper scripts or log files?

Disagree on the .gitignore file. If you’re the only developer and you only work off of one machine then it doesn’t need to be committed. In a team setting it’s absolutely imperative to commit it.

If I try to get it to do more than predict the next two lines of code it’s gonna fuck something up. A nervously laughable thing I saw at work was someone using a long spec file to generate a series of other files and getting high praise for it. It was the equivalent of mustache templates but slower and with a 30% chance of spitting out garbage. There was also no way to verify if you were in that 30% zone without looking through the dozens of files it made.

Trump says “Crawl”, they say “How low?”

This Holocaust brought to you in part by AI. “AI: Replacing workers since 2023.”

I once heard that artists get more money from merch than plays or record sales (per dollar spent). If you want to support them buy a tshirt or something from their official site.

If there’s sufficient water and land you can put a data center anywhere. If you’re going to screw over the locals somehow it’s better to do it in a place that’s relatively poor with no real power to fight back against the pollution, utility increases, and noise that follow.

Oh, no, that stuff sounds scarier than traditional fascism. You can avoid giving Microsoft or Amazon money but the government gets it’s hands on your money before you do. If the Federal government is working against you you need to find ways to sustain yourself without giving them money.

*Searching if Elon Musk has ever performed a Nazi salute*

And probably even pull out of NATO.

That would at least include some kind of deliberation. This sounds more like Judge Dredd shit.