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Tuco

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  1. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    But he does demonstrate the anti-woke mindset, with the basic dogma of "Any societal changes after high school is suspect." We have this weird, natural inclination to believe we grew up "right." I first realized this when I spent my first Christmas with my ex and this weird belief we both had that our vision of Christmas was the version we should follow. Being "woke" means you challenge what you assumed previously. There are a lot of people who struggle with that.
  2. Can you point to the part of the article that matches up to "an insular, clannish set of first and second generation immigrants from a notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden locale, who are virtually all dependent on state welfare.." Where is the author implying that Somalians brought this corruption to America? You seem to think this about the mafia; it's not. This is about poor people, loose money during a crisis, and the opportunities for grift that inevitably follow.
  3. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    For me, "woke" is a fairly non-specific realization that you were wrong about what you formerly believed, or at least assumed. "Waking up to the fact that..." That might be at different times for different subjects. For my GenX self, examples might include: Homosexuality is normal, and, as such, there is really nothing to ridicule. Fag jokes are usually just nervous energy channeled into giggles. Not only were black people telling the truth about racism in society, they were likely understating the case due to politeness and fatigue. This is particularly true about their interactions with the police. Body cams made a huge difference in waking up, but the Rodney King case and Mark Fuhrman laid the ground work. My perception of many ethnicities was heavily influenced by movies and TV, the writers of which knew no more than I did. They were just regurgitating the same tropes.
  4. Seriously man, just fuck off. You keep using this story as cudgel against the Somalian as a whole, as if they imported welfare fraud from Somalia. It's exactly why the Trump administration is pushing it and you are just lapping it up. White people, including Aimee Bock, commit plenty of fraud, but your main take-away is that we must do something about those unethical African immigrants.
  5. I am curious what this Supreme Court Justice thinks the legal distinction is between "brief investigative stops" and the inevitable reality his cover provided ICE.
  6. I am guessing during her Senate exploration, she hired a strategist and they are working on her image. With her current negatives, her options were limited to Rep from a very red district or being a commentator on FoxNews. She wants a promotion. Although honestly, with the sheer volume of stupid shit she's said, I have a hard time imagine her winning a statewide election in purplish Georgian. She should just move to Oklahoma. I delight in the irony that some of her angst may be because neither she, nor any of her 32 Republican female colleague members, were awarded Committee Chair positions. Let's face it: if a woman is not qualified to be President then why would one be qualified to run a Congressional Committee.
  7. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    I assume you mean 2024, since that is the data for the map, and most areas didn't have federal elections in 2025. For 2026, I'd expect turnout to be lower across the board, because that is what always happens with non-Presidential years. I'd expect it to dip less in states with Senate and/over governor elections. Theoretically, I'd like to see lower turnout in rural counties and higher turnout in urban counties. But, if there is a "wave" type election in 26, I would guess it's more about changes in percentages in the urban/suburban areas rather than rural America staying home. This map is great in demonstrating how the electoral college (and gerrymandering) reduces participation in states that are dominated by one side.
  8. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    Damn immigrants.
  9. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    Maybe Miller actually hates Sinatra, since he was the child of Italian immigrants. I bet we could even find racist Anti-Italian and specifically anti-Sicilian cartoons and editorials from when they immigrated here.
  10. I mean, I'm glad people have stopped defending Roman Polanski. Jerry Seinfeld is still a weirdo.
  11. Some people are "new money" rich. He's "new credit card" rich.
  12. FWIW, the wage gender gap for ages 20-24 is 9.1%. The wage gap for ages 55-64 is 23.4%. So, in total, men still make more than women, for every generation. (US Department of Labor) Black men between 25 and 55 earn an average of $1098 per week. When men in that same age group earn $1426 per week. Hispanics - $1031. Asian men - $1906. (US Bureau of Labor Statistics) I'm afraid I don't have it broken down in smaller segments. Statistically, men still make more money than women in the United States. Statistically white people make more money than black or hispanic people. I'm not saying everything is fair in all situations. It's not. It never was. But it's a massive exaggeration to say Gen whatever white males are the "lost generation" when they still make more money, on average, than their female and black counterparts. Lets say the average hiring process is slanted against white males. To get to that same end result - that they make more money - it means that there are other non-hiring process factors which more than balances out the hiring basis. Part of that may be personal decisions, like which career men or women decide to follow, or who stays home with the kids. (Although those decisions are heavily influenced by the culture at those jobs and which parent makes more money - so, a feedback loop.) Most of it is probably generational issues, which we need to decide if we want to disrupt. (By generational issues, I mean whether their families were wealthy, professional, etc.)
  13. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    My Grandpa, who treating lying like a sport, used to read newspaper headlines to an idiot he worked with, making up half of them just to rile him up. He would have made so much money in today's media.
  14. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    My vote is for the John Milius special - a massive stroke that prevents him from talking or writing, but he can still hear and understand. He just has to sit there and listen while his legacy is debated. I believe that would be his customized hell and we could watch.
  15. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    When Iraq had it's first vote and had something like 98% participation rate, so many people compared it to America's dismal participation rate. But, in Iraq, whether your side won affected whether your people got jobs or were persecuted by police. Iraqi elections could literally be life or death for your clan. That wasn't the case in the US. So much of how the government operated was apolitical. You didn't have Presidents denying FEMA or SNAP based on whether 55% of a state voted a certain way. You didn't have the government directing or canceling criminal investigations based on your clan. Politics was more academic or philosophical or at least big-picture, slow burn shit. The low participation rate reflected stability. That has changed. Don't get me wrong. I've been political all my life and have always found it important. The philosophy and slow burn shit is important. But I've knocked on enough doors to recognize it's not always easy to explain the importance when there aren't immediate, tangible consequences.
  16. If he is currently DACA, he couldn’t vote. I don’t understand this story. Edit: article says they are Trump supporters, not Trump voters.
  17. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    I’ll always take a raise over a bonus because raises compound. I’m curious if this changes the calculation in Congress’s eyes.
  18. That’s why it’s something to watch. But I do wonder if the value of first-to-market is overrated. For this to payoff, it needs to reduce payroll. I’m not sure brand loyalty would hold up if there is detectable differences in functionality.
  19. Something interesting to watch is OpenAI and the recent consensus that they are no longer the leader on AI, with Google’s recent releases being considered superior. If they aren’t the leaders, then suddenly they aren’t nearly as valuable as they once were. It’s not just about position, but velocity and acceleration. If OpenAI can’t catch up - and I know of no reason to expect they could - then they go from being a Ferrari to a Kia. Granted, even the most delirious AI cheerleader will say there will be winners and losers, so OpenAI losing is not an indictment on AI as a whole. But there is a difference between knowing the stove is hot and burning your hand. OpenAI losing will hurt a lot of investors, fortunately just private investors at this point. It might also spook folks who saw OpenAI as the posterchild for AI investment. Should have done that IPO a few weeks ago.
  20. Tuco replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    No offense taken, and did skim over those points previously. Fair points. And it does illustrate a major problem I think Dems/liberals have: how much do you prioritize helping the desperate at the expense of the middle class? The desperate need it more, but neglecting the middle class loses elections.
  21. As someone else mentioned, fiber connections-large and redundant- are critical for siting. Although, it’s less critical for an AI learning facility than most data centers. Also, this generation of chips are mostly liquid cooled because their energy density is so high. It’s literally impossible to blow enough air to cool them. Some older data centers did just have outside air for cooling in colder climates, but that’s not practical now.
  22. Tuco replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    Being poor is expensive. It means you can’t buy the best value in many situation. 10k in hospital bills won’t bankrupt you or me. For many Americans, 10k or 200k has the same impact on their financial security. That’s the point of insurance.
  23. FWIW, this generation of data centers are mostly closed loop cooling with little water usage. Up to about 2 or 3 years ago, most were evaporative cooling, which are the water hogs. The big techs switched to closed loop due to community pushback. One big example was in Uruguay, which was developing a Google dc while citizens were drinking brackish water due to a drought. But closed loop is much less efficient, resulting in more power usage.
  24. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    I'm curious if she has a new person in her orbit that might be influencing her. If she was exploring going for office higher than Rep, she may have brought in new/more consultants. Maybe there is one that she trusts and is amplifying. Pushing back on Trump is one thing, but she also seems to be doing it competently. That competence is surprising.
  25. I think the problem(s) that AI would have in engineering problem solving include: - AI is all about replicating patterns and interpolating within data. I think most of the creative solutions in engineering are either novel or pulled from a different application - breaking the pattern. AI is not going to do that. (It's the same reason why AI is shitty at writing jokes - many jokes rely on "subversion of expectations" while AI is good at matching the expectation from the pattern.) - Most technology owners aren't going to make their stuff public. The tech companies building the data centers sure as shit aren't sharing the designs publicly. Without data to train on, there is no AI. - AI is currently making obvious mistakes. That is much less problematic than when it makes fundamental mistakes that "look" right. It's going to get harder and harder to tell what was engineered vs. what was pattern-matched. So, I think there is an opportunity for AI to do extremely common types of designs that are publicly available through permitting. I'm thinking residential building designs maybe. For 95% of housing, you aren't looking to innovate. Maybe road design, although it's likely I am underestimating the complexity there. I think AI is currently a good tool for certain aspects of engineering, but it's one of many, many tools.
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