Since its inception, the US government has never liked paying soldiers for war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783

Alexander Hamilton didn’t even want to pay the IOUs back, until he decided that many were owned by investors that had bought them from soldiers. The quote was something to the effect of, “those investors are true Americans and they should get their money.” The Dollop podcast has a good 4-parter on Hamilton that covers that and other issues.

If I recall from The Dollop Podcast correctly, corn flakes were first used as a douche.

They are all some binary file that completes a task. That LLMs have a statistically derived “personality” (if one would be dangerous enough to call it that) to make people like them was a purposeful mistake in development to trick people into embracing the technology. LLM is non-deterministic by nature which means results can never be trusted.

Honestly, the Photoshop filter analogy may be wrong because the filter is deterministic. The same settings produce the same results every time as it is math on an image file. LLMs literally can’t do that.

LLM tech is only seeing more “reliable” results now as they often throw the tool against a sandbox environment where it has to execute deterministic code to compensate for the random unreliability, and it still screws up.

Linus knows code, the tool sped up his process. In the absence of his knowledge, it would be useless.

Neat toy, but way too inefficient to bank the future on, and very dangerous to have such a religious reaction to.

LLMs are akin to fancy Photoshop filters for code. They can be used well by professionals and terrible by n00bs.

They are but a (very inefficient) tool.

He isn’t distracting. His mind is just gone.

That is likely exactly what that propaganda piece is for. “Don’t drink water, it’s silly anyway!”

Coupled with pushing sales of beverages for money.

I figure when the datacenter bubble bursts, the tech companies will keep consuming the same amounts of water and just start selling it.

Gotta find some way to the plot of The Water Knife. (Book has gas pumps that sell water, water meters next to sinks and showers, etc.)

That would suggest intelligence.

As many as necessary to misdirect taxpayer money to the rich.

The actual threat is hyperscale datacenters.

As for this, just a grift to find a way to funnel more money to his buddies so they don’t have to pay to fix their systems and/or pocket money from taxpayers.

Every one of these is always a grift.

Just make sure to check your dirt first. So many properties use(d) nasty chemicals to make “pretty” lawns.

The amount of high-ranking spam reviews for that program is astounding.

It looks like Google hijacked their own project “Google Package Verifier” that has been dormant in the Play Store since 2012, and hadn’t been touched in 13 years until 2025.

Google is no better than the spammers this process purports to protect against.

The original:

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-package-verifier/variant-{"arches_slug"%3A[]%2C"minapi_slug"%3A"minapi-14"}/

We have the power to say no, not just accept crap.

1: Starlink

2: All providers don’t have to upgrade all of their infrastructure and can sell a 50Mbps link as fast. Backhaul can be much smaller and they can over-sell 50Mbps to a lot more people in a neighborhood than 1000Mbps.

3: All that core backhaul can be reserved for flock camera cellular feeds and AI datacenter traffic without having to spend on further upgrades.

A general regression, brought to you by the Regressive party.

The downside to the app, is 40 or 50 companies and several government agencies now know how much you spend, how much laundry you do, what cycles you chose, what laundromat and what time, and many other downstream metrics, inferred or otherwise.

Quarters don’t snitch.

Motorola is owned by Lenovo since 2014, which is also Chinese: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/motorola-smartphones/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility

That phone claiming US/western hemisphere support is laughable.

It supports T-Mobile native bands, but without more extensive band support, domestic roaming will not be the best. (Some LTEiRA markets T-Mobile can currently roam on Verizon thanks to the USCC acquisition, for example. No band 13, no go.)

I’d not really claim it supports AT&T either. It’s missing band 14, 29, 30, 46, 48, n260, n261. It’s also not on AT&T’s list of supported phones: https://www.att.com/scmsassets/images/support/pdf/Devices-Working-on-ATT-Network.pdf

14 is basically the only way to get signal in markets where AT&T doesn’t have 5 or 12 licenses, like 2/3 of Nebraska.

n260/n261 are big at venues, airports, etc. The lack of those mmWave bands will affect coverage in high-density locations on all three carriers.

Even if it did support Verizon, without band 13 in the modem, Verizon’s low-band nationwide band, it’d be a mostly-brick.

All three carriers require some kind of certification to be allowed on carrier networks (which alone should be illegal as they do it as a tactic to control the phone market.) Not just Verizon. (Verizon, at least, has a web site of certified devices: https://opendevelopment.verizonwireless.com/device-showcase and it’s quite broad.)

Ironically, it will probably work with Verizon, even the BlackBerry Key2 does without certification. It just falls back to a very basic profile for flip phones. They don’t tend to actively block phones like AT&T does.

Basically, it’s a T-Mobile-on-network-only phone. Things are going greeeeeat over at that carrier right now with the tens of thousands of layoffs and forcing customer plan changes even on grandfathered plans.

Fixing the idiocy is great. Trying to justify abstaining from voting, which has directly led to killing so many humans, even just USAID alone led to 700,000+ deaths, mostly children, all over one president (which alone is dumb as anything, a president isn’t a king, they are just a figurehead that does stuff and takes blame) doing a policy decision based on historic engagement spanning almost a century is basically one-dimensional moronic.

Justify your mistake all you want. The hard line is protecting as many people as possible and then targeting the rot when you’re able to. You don’t just let the rot live and hope you can somehow fix it afterwards with hopes and prayers.

Those that thought they had power by not voting killed so many people with their concept of having power, without thinking of the bigger picture. The ripple effect is huge. Power grids, data centers, transportation, air travel, medicine, elder care, medical, insurance, vaccinations, communications, emergency preparedness, welfare in disaster zones (in the US), water, massive job layoffs, food safety, access to food, health and safety, inter-government agreements. Pick a dart and throw it, you can’t even trust lettuce anymore. All because some idiots didn’t care about their own lives and thought that using their vote in their country for some other far away land might make a difference even though it never would because they were hoping their decision for a leader in one country somehow would have any active effect in a corrupt nation on the other side of the planet that was always dead-set on genocide regardless of who the US puppet is. Instead, they were just unknowing pawns.

It did make a difference. It destroyed everything. Kudos. RIP critical thinking times a thousand.

This negative angle has to be minimized before the loudest supporters are actually just the loudest detractors.

More are leaving that orange moron every day, and will continue to do so.

Just the fact he doesn’t understand “pool” was something many people from many walks of life could comprehend and put in a context of just how idiotic he is.

Now, more physical evidence of his ineptitude.

What a weird take to try and justify the way morons didn’t vote to keep their own country functioning. Instead, they helped to directly destabilize the entire planetary governance system but somehow still think it was justified action.

Other countries are not the scope of the US vote. Especially now more than ever.

Conflating internal problems with external ones is just missing the point. Can’t have it both ways. Either the US dictates world policy and you accept that with that will come chaos to other nations, possibly without their consent. Or the US stays completely out of world policy, and you accept that with that will come chaos to other nations, possibly without their consent.

It isn’t a trolley problem. Both sets of tracks are piled with bodies.

You can’t have feelings and turn them into a non-vote that determines your own country’s downfall because of what happens in another country in either of those two scenarios, because destroying your own country helps nobody, and in fact has already led to the death of hundreds of thousands (mostly children) across the planet and many more will follow.

Now, your own country is in jeopardy, and with that comes jeopardy to all the people in your nation and many other nations. Not just trans rights. Everyone’s rights. Everyone’s lives.

RIP: critical thinking.

But how can he work from home, if congress forced a new mother to fly from Colorado to DC just to vote because no more congressional remote work? Flip-flopping scam weasels.

Also, the already dead part.