Democrats in Congress as an opposition party have exactly one job as bare minimum: Procedural delays and vote no on everything that isn't an absolute Must Pass, and even the Must Pass has to have a Lot of concessions. Basically, treat the Republicans exactly the same as Republicans treat Democrats. It should be SUCH an easy job, and yet.......

I think one of the things that depresses me the most about #AI is that kids are going to uncritically slurp up the drek and art creation tools as "normal", same as our generation did with uncited internet sources, and it will just become an engrained part of technology even after the bubble bursts.

I can only hope that sometime soon, there will be some breakthroughs that make smaller language models better and more accurate rather than just continually slurping up every single human written word in the world and consuming geometrically more energy forever.

If someone has "a favorite billionaire", they're probably someone I don't really care to spend my time on.

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I'm sick of leftists who have some moral purity test that you must have NEVER EVER IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE done insert something that is legal, even admirable among conservatives or liberals, but leftists find unethical.

I'm not proud of some of my previous employers. I'm also not proud of some of my previous votes in elections, nor many of the things I've written and done in the past.

I have to remind y'all, a lot of us didn't have the privilege to grow up in leftist households or in towns that taught us that sort of stuff was bad. And we can't pick our childhood. I grew up in a very conservative Christian and right-wing household and town. I survived that environment the best I could by forcing myself to fit in. It has taken a lot of years and a lot of work to try to deprogram some of those biases, bigotry, and self loathing from my brain. They still crop back up from time to time. That doesn't mean I'm irredeemably evil, it just means I'm human.

I have to work every day to become a better person, same as everyone else who wants to become a better person. Feel free to distrust me or even cut me out of your life if that's what you need to do. I'm going to keep working to become a better person regardless because it's the right thing to do, not because I want to be in someone's club.

Every time I see someone putting snarky/jokey bullshit in their pronouns field, my suspicion and dislike of them goes up 50%.

Pronouns aren't a joke, people. For a lot of us, they're extremely important and serious. The fact that you're treating them with sarcasm and goof means I don't trust you. Even if I later do find you're otherwise a friendly and accepting person, I'm still going to hold a grudge about the fact that you can't take such a simple common courtesy seriously.

We have a smoke alarm that started giving us random false alarms in the middle of the night last week. So finally we just took it down and ordered a new one. Well, brand new smoke alarm went up on the wall yesterday, and what do ya know, 3AM, more false alarms ... I'm stumped - it's not a particularly dusty area, it's right in the main stairwell of the house, about 2 meters off the ground, and there was nothing at all that smelled weird in the slightest.

When I die, cremate me, mix my ashes with a bunch of sugar, and put me in the gas tank of people who drive jacked up pick up trucks with thin blue line stickers on them. I want my remains to ruin their engines.