It says a lot about lickspittles like Anchor-Baby Rubio that they haven't quit.
Karoline Leavitt is the only one amongst them with a pair of balls - amazing.
Karoline Leavitt is the only one amongst them with a pair of balls - amazing.
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Pretty wild that Hunter Biden now seems like the grown-up in the room.
Also wild that Trump was OK with Rubio and a few others getting shot down on the decoy Air Force 1.
Also if Iran is defeated why does Trump need air defence to play golf?
Also wild that Trump was OK with Rubio and a few others getting shot down on the decoy Air Force 1.
Also if Iran is defeated why does Trump need air defence to play golf?
Clear he will do nothing of value, Starmer had two years, I think the public is going to be even less patient this time.
Its going to be painful seeing the foot in mouth populist drivel he comes out with.
10p Off a pint of beer?
Everyone gets a weekend in Blackpool?
Then what?
Seems like Britain is stuffed.
Its going to be painful seeing the foot in mouth populist drivel he comes out with.
10p Off a pint of beer?
Everyone gets a weekend in Blackpool?
Then what?
Seems like Britain is stuffed.
Once again, we can just myspace these people, or we could before they became this powerful.
Datacentres are generally going to be white elephant money pits, the govt can't tax us enough to pay for them, the tech-lords are going to bankrupt themselves all being well.
Datacentres are generally going to be white elephant money pits, the govt can't tax us enough to pay for them, the tech-lords are going to bankrupt themselves all being well.
Two weeks in Burnham has decided to ... go on holiday.Dilbert_X wrote:
Burnham seems to have no defined policies, I see no hope there.
Apparently he's already complaining that he needs Starmer to stay in place for three months so he can 'develop a plan', exactly what Starmer has supposedly been doing for the last two years with no output.
Glad I'm not paying tax into this disaster.
When he gets back he's going to go on a 'listening tour' of the UK to 'find out what people want'
16 years in opposition agitating to be PM, two weeks in - he's got not a single idea, or even barely a plan for an idea.
Very like the expensive executives who get appointed then "Uh yeah, I'm going to need an executive assistant and to hire some consultants"
I don't need this kind of negativity in my life - fuck AI
Ready or Not - Here I Come - 8.5/10
Spiderman - Boycotting that one/10
Spiderman - Boycotting that one/10
A mild tapering in population growth won't make a dent, this needed to happen > 100 years ago.
If we ended all man-made CO2 emissions right now and go back to being hunter-gatherers -> we're probably facing unsurvivable climatic conditions.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
why are those your options? population growth is already slumping in some countries. isn't middle class mostly defined by spending power? a family that can afford all basic needs, and extras like vacations, on a single income used to be considered just entry level on the middle class! the middle class has been wiped the fuck out in the race for a trillionaire class. i'd ask how we went from tvs being a luxury to homes being a luxury, but we both know the answer at this point.
remember covid when lower emissions had stunning and almost immediate effects on city skylines? better drive to end fossil fuels and business/industrial resource/energy waste and pollution and pollution output would have dramatic. putting the plastic bottle in the right bin is nice, but isn't doing it. a flywheel analogy is probably more accurate than a pendulum swinging back, and full recovery for a lot of stuff will take decades more, centuries, millennia even in some cases, but how is the default option to just not do anything? i encounter that sentiment depressingly often. someone finally admits that shit is shit, but they're like "ah well, may as well not do anything," because who the fuck knows, or they still want ten cents cheaper gas. a perpetually tepid, selective environmentalist is almost worse. y'all need to get on antidepressants.
Middle class lifestyle for the top 10% of 8.3 billion people, and a top 1% lifestyle for the top 1% -> There's no recovering from this.
I'm not saying do nothing. Radical planet-scale action could do it but its not going to happen - unless I'm given absolute power and everyone else tempers their expectations.
I'm not a racist but...uziq wrote:
i’m not a malthusian by any means
What are our options?
Crimp the middle-class lifestyle? Turf everyone out of their wildly inefficient detached homes, cut their foreign holidays and push them into mega-blocks where the govt controls the heating and cooling and food supply?
Crimp the aspirations of people to be middle-class? Maybe make it a lottery. 1/1000 can have a lifestyle.
Crimp perpetual growth?
Crimp the global population?
Even if the world stopped emitting any CO2 at all right now we probably face unsurvivable warming thanks to the CO2 already in the air and the sea.
It would take planet-scale geo-engineering to even taper it off a bit.
None of this will happen - unless I am given absolute power - which I would accept.
Of course we're not done, this will go on forever, but don't tell me a single 3,000 year old ideology is the right one and everyone else must die.
I thought that was General Tsu
My company is literally not smart enough to think to adopt Honda systems.
We have gone from post-its stuck on walls to - dun dun duh - Jira - literally electronic post-it notes.
In the last however many decades project management has gone backwards, the software which could and should help is being created by people who have never been involved in a project let alone managed one.
We do develop complex products, the standards used to develop complex products all flow from this.
https://www.nde-ed.org/NDEEngineering/S … 629A-1.pdf
We don't use any of them.
This week I discovered that the one safety system for the one dangerous failure mode our products have doesn't - uh - really work.
If it fails or becomes disconnected nothing happens.
eg If the airbags in your car become disconnected usually a light would light up to tell you. In this case nothing.
But yeah, more AI, that'll fix it.
We have gone from post-its stuck on walls to - dun dun duh - Jira - literally electronic post-it notes.
In the last however many decades project management has gone backwards, the software which could and should help is being created by people who have never been involved in a project let alone managed one.
We do develop complex products, the standards used to develop complex products all flow from this.
https://www.nde-ed.org/NDEEngineering/S … 629A-1.pdf
We don't use any of them.
This week I discovered that the one safety system for the one dangerous failure mode our products have doesn't - uh - really work.
If it fails or becomes disconnected nothing happens.
eg If the airbags in your car become disconnected usually a light would light up to tell you. In this case nothing.
But yeah, more AI, that'll fix it.
Republicans are angry and need to prove everything is someone else's fault
If you prove someone who is smart wasn't entirely right about everything all the time that makes you the smart one - Sun Tzu said this, he was a great friend of mine actually, he used to tell me I was really smart, super smart, the smartest person ever.
If you prove someone who is smart wasn't entirely right about everything all the time that makes you the smart one - Sun Tzu said this, he was a great friend of mine actually, he used to tell me I was really smart, super smart, the smartest person ever.
My company has literally one good project manager - an electronics engineer who got co-opted into project management.
The current project manager manager was easily the worst project manager - his first project reached production start with fatal flaws 'yeah lets just go through the stage gate but carry the risk forward', and needed to be salvaged by me.
His second project reached production start with fatal flaws 'yeah lets just circle back a bit and have a refresh' he was replaced and promoted.
Generally the dumbest most useless people end up as PMs, thats how self-promotion works I guess.
The current project manager manager was easily the worst project manager - his first project reached production start with fatal flaws 'yeah lets just go through the stage gate but carry the risk forward', and needed to be salvaged by me.
His second project reached production start with fatal flaws 'yeah lets just circle back a bit and have a refresh' he was replaced and promoted.
Generally the dumbest most useless people end up as PMs, thats how self-promotion works I guess.
At work we are short of some key specialist technical people. Projects have been added, projects have been shortened, we have hordes or project managers and project manager managers, I think we've just advertised for a project project manager manager, or something.
And yet the key people we need have not materialised out of thin air, so the key people we do have have been tasked with using AI 'to be more efficient'.
And yet the key people we need have not materialised out of thin air, so the key people we do have have been tasked with using AI 'to be more efficient'.
Things are going badly for Trump so he needs a distraction, he is in any case obsessed with things which may or may not have happened in the past, Hunter Biden's laptop, crooked Hilary's illegal email server, communism etc.uziq wrote:
can anyone tl;dr for me the drama with fauci. i get bored trying to sift through the MAGA conspiracy shit and manufactured outrage. what did he concretely do wrong? what bearing does it have on the fact america's covid response fucking sucked?
Its not clear what MAGA are enraged about, possibly they are angry that Fauci didn't die working 25hr days in the lab, and had something of a normal life, so they could make exactly zero effort and no changes to their lives during covid - which is what they went ahead and did.
It seems they are livid angry that his advice changed during the course of the pandemic, going from don't wear a mask to wear a mask. How can someone who changes his views in real time be trusted?
There are lingering questions about what he knew about what was happening in Wuhan and how involved he was.
I think thats about it.
These days people are msoty rational about this and aren't trying to live their lives or reshape the world according to some 'belief' which has dribbled down over exactly 3,000, not more or less, years.uziq wrote:
that in-itself is a 14-year-old reddit user's take.
in fact, that's a bit harsh to reddit users. they've all moved on from the dawkins-harris type of 'hurr durr religion' takes.
is a 3000-year-old bronze age myth more or less credible than a myth invented in the 19th century like 'white australia' or 'manifest destiny'?
whether nationalism has an ancient scriptural provenance or is a hodge-podge of volkisch bavarian kitsch, gussied up by amphetamine-addled propagandists, isn't really that important. basically every modern nation state has an origin myth or 'tradition' that's largely an historiographical fiction.
Nuremburg: 8.88/10
Very apt in the circumstances of the genocide currently taking place - and the Americans furiously defending it this time around.
Very apt in the circumstances of the genocide currently taking place - and the Americans furiously defending it this time around.
Its the 21st century, are there really still groups of people who as grown adults believe 3,000 year old hallucinations as fact?uziq wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHrboQm4GRw
We should be post-religion by now.
Well Tom Holland was cast into a role which requires him to be a permanently pubescent teen, which seems to be his role in this thing.
I've never cared about spiderman, I guess he's OK in it, and this is tempered by working with someone who is a big spiderman fan and I have to suffer the same animated sugar-rush enthusiastic ADHD millenial stream of consciousness babble that Peter Parker, um, does.
I would suggest you have a couple of beers, go see the film with an open mind and accept its not going to be exactly how you managed it.
But time your beers as its three hours long.
I've never cared about spiderman, I guess he's OK in it, and this is tempered by working with someone who is a big spiderman fan and I have to suffer the same animated sugar-rush enthusiastic ADHD millenial stream of consciousness babble that Peter Parker, um, does.
I would suggest you have a couple of beers, go see the film with an open mind and accept its not going to be exactly how you managed it.
But time your beers as its three hours long.
I thought most of the acting was outstanding, there was nothing wrong with the main characters.uziq wrote:
i did enjoy the review of the odyssey in the nation. i don’t make a habit of reading film reviews for films i haven’t seen - pace Cats - but this one was written by a hipster literary critic who appears in my much-toted LRB a lot.
https://www.thenation.com/article/cultu … ey-review/
Whoever wrote the review was butthurt for some reason.
Hang in there dummy.
Could be a normal reaction to the world as it is, or some health problem - go to a Doctor and at least get a blood test.
Could be a normal reaction to the world as it is, or some health problem - go to a Doctor and at least get a blood test.
I've calculated that keeping my heap going is worth A$8k/yr in my pocket - hear me out.
A$50k for a new car - annual cost (rookie numbers):
A$2k in depreciation
A$2k in opportunity cost
Put that A$4k in the bank for 20 years > A$4k in interest.
Also don't have to deal with the 'face not recognised, engaging immobiliser' issue every morning when I look worse than normal.
A$50k for a new car - annual cost (rookie numbers):
A$2k in depreciation
A$2k in opportunity cost
Put that A$4k in the bank for 20 years > A$4k in interest.
Also don't have to deal with the 'face not recognised, engaging immobiliser' issue every morning when I look worse than normal.
uziq wrote:
wasn't it a game of thrones fanfic?
It was obviously a Spiderman crossover, it had Peter Parker, Mjay and Batman in it.
If I'd waited until the post-credits denouement I'm sure Peter Parker would have woken up in his bed 'it was all a a dream"
Its funny how its obligatory for historical dramas to be in oxferd english no matter where or when they are set.He should hire somebody better at writing them. There are some risible lines, and most of them belong to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. “We’ve been on this beach for 10 fuckin’ years,” he says in a flashback of leaving Troy. “Let’s go home.” Sure, any soldier or sailor will curse, but the line is unpoetic. So too is Damon, when he demands to be tied to the ship’s mast saying, “I wanna hear the sirens’ song,” like a Boston teenager in 1988 cuing up the new Aerosmith album.
But yeah it does grate when Telemachus calls his parents 'Mom' and 'Dad'
The Odyssey - 8.5/10
Good overall, some jarring bits, can't wait for the book of the film to come out.
Good overall, some jarring bits, can't wait for the book of the film to come out.
The goddam cat is on streetview.
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Thats one time more than I am.
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Thats one time more than I am.
Also please stop complaining about our zionist AI overlords - firstly its anti-semitic and secondly this happens.
It inferred exactly what happened, spooky no?uziq wrote:
for e.g. all that stuff about me expressing an emotional wish to be real friends with users. lol. it sets up this ‘cold snob but with real emotional attachments hidden beneath’ psychological profile. sounds very plausible! but actually i wasn’t desperate to make friends with dauntless - we are friends off the forum and have met in person hahaha. of course it doesn’t know that, so instead it infers this weird picture about my state of mind.
I think it did a moderate job of analysing the Dilbert persona, not yet inciteful enough to detect self-parody and absurdism, use of shields etc but it was close.
At this point I don't actually know if I have become the Dilbert persona or if the persona is me.
Thank god this thread is now about communism.uziq wrote:
it’s all rather frightening really, isn’t it?
The 'elite' have an agenda and a plan.uziq wrote:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/articles/anton-jager-hyperpolitics-in-command
good essay on the new hyperpolitics.
What seems like chaos, incompetence and mixed messaging seen from our side is steady incremental progress along a path seen from theirs.
This goes back well before Thatcher and Reagan.
"How did Israel fail to prevent October 7? Makes no sense"
I bet Trump is about to start bombing Iranian oil facilities, he's already bombing bridges.
Then Iran will bomb gulf oil facilities.
What then genius?
Then Iran will bomb gulf oil facilities.
What then genius?
Maybe the death of forums is part of it, they know everything recorded can be used against them.uziq wrote:
i think that's definitely part of it but there's also something prudish, puritanical even, about a lot of gen-z.
fair enough, alcohol is overall a bad deal and they've got generations of elder peers giving examples of why it makes you do dumb and occasionally dead ... but most generations at least find some sort of chemical for the usual dionysian expending of youthful energies, and so on. this lot are just joyless, everything glazed behind a dead-eyed stare.
Must be pretty joyless knowing that you can't say or do anything when the permanent record might get you cancelled.
^ I stand by my work.
OK its not a lot of fun to be deconstructed, maybe this is how my Subaru feels.
Not sure if AI is not nuanced enough to detect playing to a stereotype, self-parody etc.
Sometimes I'm not entirely sure.
OK its not a lot of fun to be deconstructed, maybe this is how my Subaru feels.
Not sure if AI is not nuanced enough to detect playing to a stereotype, self-parody etc.
Sometimes I'm not entirely sure.
OK thats spot onChatgpt wrote:
Uzique, ultimately, lost literally every argument
Yeah.
Supposedly many don't want a video of themselves doing something stupid finding its way to social media, so they avoid doing anything stupid, or at least out in meatspace - very sad.
Its written into every fibre of my being.
Even if people had money these days I'm not sure what there is to do.
Here the nightclubs have shut down and been replaced with 'novelty activity venues'.
I'm sure air-hockey and axe-throwing are fun about once but for a regular night out?
Here the nightclubs have shut down and been replaced with 'novelty activity venues'.
I'm sure air-hockey and axe-throwing are fun about once but for a regular night out?
So..... people are actually somewhat gender-fluid?
How do you not know this stuff?uziq wrote:
but isn't the alien fictional universe all about grunts and miners being sent to far-off rocks with bugs on them to die for shadowy megacorporations?
Exactly the point, its subversive socialist propaganda, if I'd known I'd never have watched it.
I do all kinds of weird stuffuziq wrote:
dilbert reading?
I will be going to see Odyssey
If I'd known Aliens was socialist propaganda I would never have watched it 11 times.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/aliens-came … king-class
Currently part way watching it again to see if the article is right or not.
If I'd known Aliens was socialist propaganda I would never have watched it 11 times.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/aliens-came … king-class
Currently part way watching it again to see if the article is right or not.
Back in my day it was travellers and black kids doing the street crime.
Economy is screwed and I don't see it recovering.
But as long as billionaires can become trillionaires there's still hope.
But as long as billionaires can become trillionaires there's still hope.
Beyond parody that the Mad King is charging gulf arabs protection money for shipping oil through the blockade he created.
Will the Chinese pay 20% extra for their oil? It would be fun to see them run through the blockade.
Will the Chinese pay 20% extra for their oil? It would be fun to see them run through the blockade.
In a local huge box hardware store I pointed out someone shoplifting to a staff member
"Uh yeah, happens a lot"
"Uh yeah, happens a lot"
He's in hell now.
I think its about now that we should give thanks that the US constitution was written so perfectly that it would be impossible for America to be governed by a mad king again.
Make it the hat-trick.
