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Captainant

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  1. literally to feed it into an LLM, I would imagine. Considering he's spent tens of billions of dollars on hardware to do just that sort of thing
  2. btw, our own attorney general did this with three houses. Glass houses and all that https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/ken-angela-paxton-mortgage-primary-residence-homestead-exemption/
  3. man if we don't have a good showing against the buckeyes this weekend it's gonna be apocalyptic
  4. Both times I've bought my house I make sure to print out a physical hard copy of my wiring instructions, verify the hard copy with my bank and escrow over the phone, and kept it in a folder to make sure I didn't make that fuckup. My downpayment was only a quarter of theirs but JFC what a nightmare
  5. Those were all actions backed by acts of Congress and signed into law by the president - not unilateral dictations of action from the unitary executive.
  6. Wild how much the free markets are into the State becoming a major player I have been assured on this board that moves like this would engender the opposite reaction
  7. DC is a special case in that it has no governor and is not a state - their license plates say "taxation without representation" for goodness sake! A president can request a governor release their state NG resources to the feds, but they still technically answer to their governor first - not president. The thing is, the person charged with enforcing the law is the person who's breaking it left right and center. When you put a clown in charge of law enforcement as the chief of the executive branch..... It's no surprise it's circuses only and vanishingly little bread even
  8. It's very literally an infringement of the 2A in that if the president can force a state's militia to act against the wishes of that state - then it is not their militia.
  9. Speaking of wish casting, that weird nationalist jobs report you were spiking the football about is a bit of a red herring https://jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-born-employment-has-not
  10. That's a terribly narrow way to interpet music and art in general. It isn't just the mere mechanism of production that makes art so impactful to people - it's the dialogue and conversation back and forth in a medium that isn't always explicit in its intent. I mean yeah sometimes in rap, it's pretty clear what their message is. Kendrick out front shoulda told ya. But with that example, what made Kendrick's music so interesting was its context and delivery and collaboration with other artists. Hell, even just as a musician, you can take the same notes and rhythm on the page and produce a wildly different communicated emotion. Music and art is far more than just an idea, it's the execution and context its delivered that brings so much more meaning. When the thing you're in conversation with is just a set of seven hundred billion parameters in a very very very very large parametric equation...... That's sort of missing the partner in the discussion that imbues art with its metaphysical meaning and value. Not to mention, LLM's definitionally produce an "average" of all the information they've been trained on. They definitionally cannot take in and internalize new information like a conversational partner can. It's very literally talking at a wall and you will never convince it of anything, until you spend another ten million bucks on a new training run for your large language model to give it a new set of ~700,000,000,000 parameters. That's just my opinion at least, both as a life long musician and as a professional technical specialist in machine learning and large language models in particular (and a few other discliplines as well, dm me if you want to nerd out).
  11. The median American is waaaaay down the scale of assets compared to slum lords and private equity groups buying up houses. Because they keep the prices high with an increasing share of overall new purchases, it prevents property values from correcting downwards and continues to reinforce housing inflation
  12. tbh I much prefer an em-dash to the proliferation of ellipsis that seemed everywhere during the twenty-teens
  13. The feds want to get in on the stonks game
  14. Yeah about that... https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/
  15. Ah ok that makes more sense, and it's not supposed to be primary power but rather to improve efficiency by capturing energy that would otherwise be discharged
  16. So they're mixing fresh and salt water, to run a desalination plant?
  17. A dictatorial leader, taking unilateral actions that fuck over small businesses and SBO's that helped put him into power? I swear I've heard this one before...
  18. When you're generationally wealthy, your brain rots and you kind of lose perspective
  19. ICE is disrupting entire school campuses with how much tear gas they're deploying on nonviolent protesters https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-ice-chemical-gas-public-school-portland-1235413558/
  20. You should show em some of their historical work to really drive home how enabling they are for fascists Literally a century of it
  21. Isn't El Yunque in Puerto Rico the only US rainforest?
  22. He is desperate for everyone to forget about his child rape and partnership with Epstein
  23. Counterpoint: "fuck you I won't do what you told me" - Zelensky https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/24/7527605/ "We're using our domestically produced long-range weapons. Lately, we've not been discussing such matters with the United States. It used to be the case. You remember various signals regarding our retaliatory strikes after they [the Russians] attacked our energy system. That was a long time ago. Today, we don't even mention this."
  24. National Guard is going to be mobilized in 19 states now: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming. Trump must have raped a whole shitload of kids with Epstein to go these lengths to bury the Epstein files
  25. So weird how all the people who cared more than anything about government overreach and "picking winners and losers" are conspicuously absent 🤔 It's almost like those criticisms have always been in bad faith or something
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