I miss the days when everything was not taken as some political position. When it was ok to not like an artist because their music just didn’t do anything for you.
It really did not improve anything — not politics, not art — to drag everything into the political realm. Sometimes not liking Rush is just not liking Rush.
Related to the below post, much of the left believes that all humans are basically interchangeable widgets with no important differences between them. It’s a very neoliberalized view of human diversity and individuality.
And, like what most of the left believes, of course it is wrong.
Humans are not in fact interchangeable widgets. Culture is extremely strong and not something that just alters with the direction of the wind. People are not all the same. Neither are sociocultural practices or their results. Why the left believes that — or at least pretends to — makes no sense as all the evidence of human history is against this conclusion.
But, somehow, they do.
Yeah, that there were no “Dark Ages” is horseshit claptrap invented by ahistorical clowns for facile reasons related to fake equality.
Anyone who believes that is smoking crack. Companies post something like 40% ghost jobs now. That number is just bunk.
Indeed. If the IDF had really wanted to conduct a genocide, every Gazan would now be dead.
When you don’t know anything, you should refrain from writing.
The PoW did a pretty dangerous military job for quite a while and saved many people. Those medals were earned just like anyone in the armed forces earns theirs. Think what you want about the British royalty, but those medals anyone would be proud to wear.
Spoken like someone who has never worked on anything real-world-adjacent. This contention demonstrates fundamental misunderstandings of how corporations work, how the world works, how long things take, what it would mean to even see this in the world, and much, much else.
Models that can easily best a junior dev only came out about six months ago. Even in the most “move fast and break things” type companies, it still takes a few months to get everyone moving the same direction, the product side to create specs, those specs to be turned into designs and those design to be coded up (whether by human or AI), tested and refined. So we’re talking 3-5 months to even get anything out the door.
Remember what I said about the high-quality models only coming out about six months ago? Do the math. Therefore, I’d not expect to see any real apprecial results for 1-2 years given that most companies move even slower than that — yes, even with AI assistance.
This will never be a button-press. Faster, yes. But not what this doofy dismissal imagines.
I lived in Charlotte, NC, for many years.
My daily commute ranged anywhere from 45 minutes to four hours, depending on traffic. Yes, each way. For those not in the know, Charlotte has some of the worst traffic in the country. Rush “hour” there often lasts 10-14 hours of the day.
It was a pretty frequent occurrence there that traffic was immobile enough that me and other people would get out of our vehicles and chat on the highway as pre-smartphone there was nothing else to do.
I’m old enough to remember when we were told it was “impossible” the Patriot system would ever work, much less be able to intercept hypersonic missiles.
For many reasons, I trust other people’s (especially degrowth liberal types) assessment about what is “impossible” about as much as I trust a flatworm’s opinion on how to make a good burger.
Exactly. Opening “Quality Learing Centers” to steal money and send it back to some shithole country is not making this country or even the receiving country of that thieved loot any better long-term.
Women often claim they get tattoos to repel men but go on to complain bitterly when the men they desire are no longer attracted to them because of those tattoos.
Other than that I have to look at them, were I in the dating market, I’d appreciate those disfiguring bits of personal defacement in the sense that they are accurate advertising that the woman in question is unsuitable for me. In that way, it’s a win. A fast, easy, reliable sorting mechanism. Those are rare.
Too bad tattoos are so ugly, though.
That’s way too much immigration. Assimilation doesn’t work when it gets too high — probably about 10% foreign-born is the hard limit.
Risk is too high, return too low. Girls have made it clear they do not wish to be addressed anywhere in any way, shape or form.
Men listened.
About this, if women insist on telling the world repeatedly how weak and powerless they are, someday, someone is going to believe them.
I don’t think they’d like that world much.
Good lord, I’d kill myself if I had to look at that all the time.