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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Ted Cruz is blaming life-saving car safety regulations for the rising cost of cars

    This is correct. They will be cheaper. The question is not how much money is spent, but it is what you get for that money.

    I’m sure if we get rid of all food safety laws there will be cheaper food available as well. It will make manufacturing much easier.

    Likewise, if we eliminate the EPA and the huge amount of environmental protection laws we have, manufacturing will be much cheaper and feasible to do in the USA.

    Chesterton’s Fence remains in effect, as ever. Fiddle with these rules at your own risk. Consequences don’t care about your feelings and the universe will make sure to pay you back.


  • “Did I give you permission to delete my D:\ drive?”

    Hmm… the answer here is probably YES. I doubt whatever agent he used defaulted to the ability to run all commands unsupervised.

    He either approved a command that looked harmless but nuked D:\ OR he whitelisted the agent to run rmdir one day, and that whitelist remained until now.

    There’s a good reason why people that choose to run agents with the ability to run commands at least try to sandbox it to limit the blast radius.

    This guy let an LLM raw dog his CMD.EXE and now he’s sad that it made a mistake (as LLMs will do).

    Next time, don’t point the gun at your foot and complain when it gets blown off.


  • They will have you believe the only two options are: a) Keep the DoE exactly as it is b) Shred the whole org

    It’s a false dilemma. It could be overhauled instead of eliminated. The citizenry of the US has grown so foolish that some people will actually defend this as a great move!

    I don’t find it as interesting that the DoE is being dismantled. I am more interested in what will replace it. In this case, I think it’ll be a bunch of hand-waving, like “states will step in”. Sure, but what about the grant monies the DoE used to provide? I guess that’ll just appear out of nowhere?






  • Kamala is so out of touch it’s outrageous. If you take things at face value and Kamala says “I wouldn’t do anything different from Biden” and you have Trump saying “Biden destroyed the USA” it seems to reason that voting for Kamala means you want more fails.

    Of course, things are usually more nuanced than this, but do you think the average American voter is extremely savvy? If anything, the future of the country is determined by quips and sound bites.

    Here’s a clue: if you need to hire “influence experts” to figure out how to “outreach” to younger voters, you’re out of touch. For several categories of voter, it seems that they are valued for what they pick in the voting booth instead of any kind of actual consideration.

    Trump’s rhetoric and puffery makes some people believe he has their back. Kamala’s pitch seems to boil down to “I’m not that other guy”, which historically doesn’t get you very far.

    It was frustrating to watch the election more or less be handed to Donald Trump, because the only segment of society the Democrats seemed to appeal to was the large corporations that hand over large amounts of donation money. The plight of the average citizen was nowhere near the top list of concerns.








  • Don’t worry guys, even though Donald Trump promised to get consumer costs under control on DAY ONE he still has huge throngs of apologists saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day!” “You think you can fix this much stuff Biden broke so quickly?” “Actually, things ARE fixed already!”

    For a con-man to flourish, he requires a steady stream of gullible people. Our country has a surplus and more are being manufactured every day. You might say ignorance is our #1 export.




  • Here’s a record related to the decision:

    IMPORTANT MEMO
    To: Disney Leadership
    From: Donald J. Trump
    Subject: JIMMY KIMMEL IS AGAINST CHARLIE KIRK — VERY BAD!

    Dear Disney,

    You know me — I love the great people. But Jimmy Kimmel? He’s not a fan of Charlie Kirk. He said some very unfair things. Like, he called the Maga gang “desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.” That’s NOT nice! That’s NOT TRUE!

    I told him, “Jimmy, stop talking about Charlie Kirk!” But he didn’t listen. He’s a disgrace. A DISGRACE! And when I say “disgrace,” I mean anti-American. So I want you to SUSPEND him. S-U-S-P-E-N-D. No more jokes about Charlie Kirk. No more laughs. Just a big, beautiful silence.

    If you don’t do it, I’ll have to say you’re NOT doing your job either. And that would be terrible.

    Best regards, Donald J. Trump

    P.S. Jimmy’s a loser. A total loser.