Gin and Tonic. Doesn't have to be fancy. But good gin is very good.

The whole dream here is ”what if productivity but not labor?”.

My take on Succession (I only watched a few episodes) was that it was very well made and written, but why would I pay HBO to show me what I can get for free from the news? We have "Here's a miserable SOB who's drunk on power and ruining America" at home.

Counterpoint: No I will not

The most parsimonious explanation here is the best one. This guy sucks.

I 100% agree but people don't feel this way because they feel like driving is a mandatory activity. And they have a point. Which points to further problems upstream. (We could, for example, have good buses. It's not actually that hard.)

It’s real. And it’s fantastic.

The key to happiness is finding someone who loves you as much as the Senate hates working.

White collar crime or conservative grift. But in repeat myself.

I’m glad we’re getting clarity on the social dynamics here. At first it was like “AI is here to help you, personally”. And now that the mask is off it’s more “deal with it. Pay me.“

Let’s try it and find out.

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

I can honestly tell you that if I were offered a seat on a rocket, I would have MANY questions and would not just get on, as the idea of being reduced to dust over the Atlantic Ocean does not appeal to me.

Me to my wife: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don’t criticize me. You know I made a deal with myself that I will no longer feel guilty about eating cheese after midnight. Why are not respecting the deal?

I don’t believe Trump is building a holdout bunker and plans to hunker down if/when he loses or is impeached. But if he is, how does he plan on supplying it?

The academy has been degrading since the 80s but there is a step change after the financial crisis. I know because I was there.

It is true that I was wrong. But in an even more important way, that just shows how right I was. (I am very smart.)

Blanche here is trying to make the point, that ok yeah the child molester who Trump pardoned might have been hoping to use money given to him by Trump to pay for his victims' silence, but that money couldn't have come from this *exact* fund. I can see why he's such a good lawyer.

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Sactimony in service to vice. That's the JD Vance guarantee.

we’re not going out with a bang or a whimper, but with a secret third thing which is fart sounds that may or may not be fake

“Large president makes thinking hard!” You could not have tortured such an admission from me.

Strong A2 although I think the environmental effects will taper off because I also think hyper-scaling - but not AI - is a bubble.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

In a better world we would recognize that our advantage is democracy, self-determination, and respect for human rights but… you know.

All true. But have you considered how *absolutely owned* the libs are?

Everyone: We don't want this. Please just keep fast-food cheap. Fast food companies: HELLO GOBLIN -- $10 BIG MAC?

Nobody wants this.

The key is that, it’s not that black people in the south tend to vote Democratic. It’s that, especially in the South, the GOP is an anti-black people party.

They should have picked Colossians 5 but that might have caused a moment of intellectual friction.

Not only is this bad for America, it’s bad for the church.

Absolutely wild take from a guy who presumably has read Luke 4 and is actually a physician.

“if”

Apart from considerations of any particular politician’s career I think those who want to restore American democracy need to keep reminding ourselves that 1. It will be a multi-decade project. 2. Restoring the power of Congress is as important as SCOTUS reform.

Said it before but the only reason I don’t want AOC to be president is that likely limits her political career to 8 years and I’d prefer her to be Speaker of the House through 2050.

That said, he now has about 6 months to do the honorable thing by using his remaining time in the Senate to undo or stop as much of Trump’s agenda as possible. But I doubt he will.

But how can this be when the Higher Ed consultants told all of us to cut, cut, cut the humanities? Surely you aren't implying the consultants are ~wrong~?!?

Without any snark one big expense this video misses is the need for someone to check all the AI work because the person who will be in trouble if the AI makes a mistake isn’t Sam Altman but the lawyer who used it. And those costs are not going to be trivial.

The correct reply is “then prosecute me for it, big guy!”.

Olivia Miles throws a basketball like Captain America throws his shield.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change

In a normal world I would be somewhat scandalized by Newsom's ties to the diaper non-profit. But, like Jared, Eric and Don Jr. exist. So it's hard to get too worked up.

This simultaneously bums me out and puts my own situation in perspective. If Princeton is having problems…

One of the justifications for killing everyone at the end of Rogue One was that, if they had lived, people would wonder where they are after Return of the Jedi. This same logic should therefore apply to the Mandalorian and Grogu. In this essay I will...

LeBron gets it.

How do you do an entire segment on McDonalds in Amsterdam and not make a “Royal with Cheese” joke?

This is my concern. What if he’s so washed he just can’t be bothered about the US and world slamming into a deep recession. I would actually like this not to happen because I enjoy employment. But I am concerned.

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Ad a simple man I generally like Sam Adams but their summer sampler is trash. Blueberry lager? Sir you have 20 seconds to leave my property.