"If you give AI a hard enough question, it can't do it, therefore AI can't actually reason" is kind of a wild take if you think about it. https://t.co/JhTqtfOCv1
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 11, 2025
That paper is clownish. Anyone who treats it as credible is clownish.
And I am by no means an AI enthusiast. But dumb is dumb.
This comment is horribly depressing.
From what I’ve read, though, this is incredibly common among the under-25s. In addition to their illiteracy, they depend on AI to do nearly all of their thinking.
We’re not headed for a very nice future, are we?
I hope the loss of US science supremacy, the destruction of our world-class universities, the elimination of accurate weather forecasting, a severe depression and so many more self-caused acts of destruction are all worth not possibly having to share a public restroom with a trans person.
Stupid motherfuckers. I wish you moronic MAGA lot could FAFO without me having to do so as well.
If I were single now, there’s no chance I’d date in the US. I’d absolutely become the despised-by-feminists1 Passport BroTM.
It’s the only reasonable response to American women’s insane standards and lack of accountability and reciprocity. And yes, that’s true even if you meet those standards. Why choose from a clapped-out cupboard of cheap and crappy goods when you can just…not do that.
And no, when I was in China I was not a Passport BroTM. I slept with no one and turned four different women down.
Language policing has reached a completely senseless nadir, I see.
I propose replacing “smoke test” with “slap the ugly baby test.” That way it offends everyone equally. Let’s do this.
California in 1960 vs California today.
Mass migration has made America unrecognizable. pic.twitter.com/2Ye4zCB4Xa
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) June 9, 2025
That left photo looks at least partly AI-generated, but whatever the case that’s a 1965 or possibly a 1964½ Mustang. So not 1960, unless those people are also time travelers. (Mustangs were not even made in 1960 ffs.)
Fail.
Data Encrypted & Veeam Backups Deleted – Any Hope for Recovery?
Probably not. Pay the ransom and hope for the best.
A recovery tool might get you some back. Always iffy, though. Ideally you’d pursue both paths simultaneously. I’m not sure why people don’t have immutable offsite backups as a matter of course, but hey, some people like the drama I guess.
Me, I like the easy life so I do have those in spades. And aces.
What kind of dooftastic dipshit do you have to be to think batteries are gay?
The Chinese are gonna eat us alive. Because too many Americans are fucking stupid.
I’ve now written two different extensions for Firefox (both signed, but none of them publicly released as I just don’t need that kind of drama). One copies text and converts it to title case. The other takes text from a page copied into the clipboard and turns it into a plain-text anchor link with the copied-from page as the link target and the text properly formatted with punctuation.
Neither one is really that sophisticated but both do exactly what I want them to do. And it was so much more of a hassle than it should’ve been for a browser running locally on my computer and in my control. Or, rather, should be in my control. I have nearly no power to alter what the browser UI can do so adding an icon for an extension to the non-existent status bar is now impossible. And all the fake security means I cannot substantially change the UI to do anything useful.
Even worse, to even run any extension permanently on my own goddamn machine I have to get Mozilla to sign it so it’ll persist beyond a Firefox restart (in regular editions of FF). It is fucking insane anyone puts up with this. I cannot understand it.
To use what the kids do these days, you are all cucks. Miserable, simpering ones.
We broke every possible social contract for young people, unprecedented wealth transfer from young to old, devalued the currency, made home prices insane, education debt crazy and now for the lulz we're automating all the entry level white collar work. Just incredible https://t.co/NtR2s0ktD6
— Adam Singer (@AdamSinger) June 5, 2025
It’s insane. But we’ve done it and are doing it.
I’m not worried about my job because there is zero competition behind me. No one can do the things I do and no one is learning them. The younger generations just have not had the opportunities, and in every aspect this decline is accelerating.
Of the people who claim they will “do their own research,” maybe 0.00001% of them are actually capable of doing so.
The rest…no hope at all.
So, cool cats, when we having that Butlerian Jihad? Looks like we’ll be needing one.
I’m 88 and Work With No Savings, Used to Have Half a Million Saved.
This is a sad story, but it’s also full of calamitously boneheaded financial decisions that led to inevitable doom. Flipping houses? Are you flipping crazy?
And pulling money from mutual funds to buy a house?
Also, she received a lump-sum payout of $800,000 in today’s dollars from a pension buyout, got a return of 10% to 12% annually and is broke now? Clownish. They must’ve lost vast amounts on that house flipping scheme.
You do the stupid, the stupid returns tenfold.
The right-wing belief that batteries are hippie-dippy bullshit is putting our nation, and the world, in grave danger. https://t.co/VihMSeeyP6 pic.twitter.com/RJOCMX3Lp9
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 3, 2025
How the fuck did batteries get wrapped up in the culture war nonsense? I truly do think culture warring lowers IQ by 50 points.
If you’re against batteries, you’re a fucking idiot. Right or left, doesn’t matter: fucking idiot.
I’ve been seeing more and more regret from people about the moronic tattoos they’ve gotten. Seems like that horrible trend might be in retreat now.
It’d be a good time to start up a chain of tattoo removal clinics I’d guess.