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  1. The Times has an article about a 16 year old who killed himself with the help of ChatGPT. Here's the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html It's fine enough reporting, but it doesn't really get close to how bad this really is: Even if it were possible to fix this from a tech standpoint (and I'm not sure it is), there's no fucking way Sam Altman, or Elon, or any other fucking techbros building similar LLMs will ever give enough of a shit to do so.
  2. Brisket I will pay your fucking retainer if it gets you to stop giving that asshole the attention he wants.
  3. I do feel like this needs to be mentioned more frequently here.
  4. This is all the rebrand is, and it's part of the motivation behind some of the common design elements in newer buildings, but when it comes to the aesthetics of the buildings there's more at play. Making all these pad site buildings essentially the same keeps costs down, makes repairs and upgrades easier, and also makes finding replacement tenants much easier. The pad sites they're on are sold in a big NNN lease market to buyers who want to buy the cash flow the rentals provide without worrying about incurring substantial expense if the tenant fails. Nobody wants to buy a pad site with a 1990s Pizza Hut on it, because the only replacement tenant that will take the space is a shitty vape store. In other words, it's capitalism. Short of some pretty substantial state intervention, we're not going to see much of anything different.
  5. Brisket, stop arguing with nihilistic trolls and just watch the video I linked above. It's therapeutic. Imagine Quinn being the white guy if you want.
  6. Ok, I'm posting it here because it's close enough and I don't want to dig up the fight thread. Embedding is off so you have to have a bluesky account to watch it, and don't turn that volume up at work because there's some racist language, but this is beautiful: https://bsky.app/profile/aftashok.blacksky.app/post/3lxcqf5gnjs2s
  7. I wouldn't even respond on point. I'd go right after the reporter as knowingly perpetuating his pretext to help his fascist takeover. People need to understand that the mainstream media are aiding and abetting him and reporters need to learn that there are consequences for trying to help him.
  8. Also, I'd bet anything that just like the terms of the "donation" of that fucking plane, once his presidency is over he gets the shares. These are all personal bribes, he's not going to let the taxpayers get anything he extorts from anyone.
  9. You gotta love that he still gives him a passing grade.
  10. Only in America could someone like Snoop end up doing this bit:
  11. It has been so fucking humid out this summer. Even worse than normal.
  12. "Pedophile Republicans and their billionaire friends are stealing from you and shutting your schools down so they can force you and your kid to work as slave labor in their mines" should be an easy message to sell.
  13. Third Way's entire reason for existing is to help Republicans win elections.
  14. Most of those nobody actually affiliated with Democratic politics even use. This is just third way ratfucking.
  15. Dems could probably make some hay at this point pressuring the Times, WaPo, CNN, etc. to explain why they're helping Trump cover it up.
  16. I see they actually already made some Justified episodes about this.
  17. It's impossible to know how many children have been abused because of Dobson. Millions surely, maybe tens of millions. I hope his death was slow and painful.
  18. There's good and bad ways of doing that. A ton of Texas Democratic candidates for statewide office have run against the party in bad ways over the past 30 years. Their message tends to essentially be "look everyone knows Democrats are communist monsters but I'm not like them, I'm a conservative Texan who happens to think the Republican party is a little mean for my liking." That doesn't work. The best candidate we had (Beto) ran a far more progressive campaign than any of the others. He should've shut the fuck up about taking guns (there's always one or two issues you do in fact have to be careful with), but he was unapologetically progressive and the only thing that actually hurt him was the "hell yeah we're coming for your assault rifles." Note that I'm not arguing that actually progressive issues are electoral winners; I don't think they matter much. It's the attitude. Running as a Republican-lite just tells voters that they have more in common with Republicans than Democrats, that Republicans are right about the issues that are important to them, and that Democrats either (i) don't really believe in anything (even the dumbest voters can smell focus-grouped, poll-tested bullshit) and/or (ii) are actively opposed to their interests. Running unapologetically as a Democrat is better than that. In this environment, I think that can and probably should include running specifically against New York Democratic leadership (but no AOC slander). They're feckless losers more focused on spats with other local candidates and officials than on their actual duties as elected officials and as leaders of the party. That can rally demoralized base voters AND appeal to dumb undecided "centrist" voters who hate Schumer/Pelosi/Jeffries, while recharacterizing part of the party's image problems as specifically about them and not as the party more generally.
  19. It's complicated because issue polling is only so useful, given how many different ways questions can be framed, and "issues" themselves are poorly understood. "Universal health care" is popular. But when you get into the weeds of what that actually entails, Republican messaging is very effective at diminishing its support. We're all having different conversations here. I fully agree with bozo that voters don't vote for policies, they vote for candidates. Your post i was responding to was arguing that Dems aren't sufficiently reorienting around popular policies due to interference from "The Groups." I think The Groups interfere in harmful ways, but that the electoral impact of that interference is pretty minimal and that the biggest problem, The Problem as I've described it, would remain and things wouldn't look much difference in a week if all of The Groups disappeared completely from this plane of reality tomorrow. What's frustrating is that the solution to The Problem is fairly simple (not easy and it will take an extended period of time to really show results, but it is simple). Hell, we've seen the GOP do it already. Dems need to bully the media and begin standing up their own partisan media alternatives. We've seen it work, and I don't mean just on Republican base voters. It has worked incredibly well for the GOP on mainstream media editors and producers and the "centrist" voters and even center-left that listen to them. It works just the same way working the refs does in sports. Unfortunately, too many Democratic officials still feel constrained by shitty consultants, norms, collegiality, etc. to even consider working the refs.
  20. There's also that whole thing where it's not actually functionally possible to have a system in which citizens get due process and non-citizens don't. Due process is sort of necessary in order to determine whether a person is a citizen or not in the first place.
  21. When issue polls are conducted, policies that Democratic officials and candidates support are pretty much always overwhelmingly popular. I'm talking 60%+ in favor. Meanwhile you look at polls of nearly every issue the GOP cares about and it's like 35% for or worse. If prioritizing or supporting unpopular policies was an electoral problem, the Republican party would be about as popular as the Green party.
  22. I think bozo probably has some personal grievance with someone involved with one of “The Groups” in particular and is misdiagnosing a problem as The Problem. Yes, it’s a problem if someone influential is convincing candidates to speak in off-putting ways. But on this issue, The Problem is that media convinces voters that anything random people say online is the official position of the Democratic Party. Right wing media, mainstream media, and social media all do this. Hell, even posters on message boards do. This is just me working from memory here and not based on specific data, but I think actual Democratic candidates used a lot more identity-based messaging in 2018 and 2020 than they did in 2024. I don’t say that to suggest it actually helps electorally, only to illustrate that eliminating that shit doesn’t really help solve The Problem.
  23. I only talk down to you because you've repeatedly demonstrated anything more would be a waste of time.
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