“Under my administration, we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months” “Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

Donald Trump, PBS NewsHour, Trump Rally in North Carolina, 8/14/24

Hell, I’ll do this for free.

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?

It’s only bizarre until you realize this isn’t a failure of the system. This is a success for the people getting the payout. They have lobbied and deeply infiltrated the government. The US government doesn’t serve the citizenry anymore. It serves the rich and powerful. The rest of us are just useful as consumers to funnel money to the corporations.

Don’t worry, I’m sure there will be a huge government bailout that the people have no say in. Remember 2008? I don’t remember voting to give away piles of money to the bankers.

You know what Iceland did when there was suspicious investing and they had bank failures? They put the bankers in jail! What did we do? We gave them a bonus!

God bless America, because we’ll need it!

What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?

What’s your point? People that don’t like Biden don’t like Kamala either? I agree.

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.

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It should be also pointed out that he’s totally innocent of elder abuse, due to the age of the victims. Why are people refusing to see the bright side of this? There are scores of crimes he’s innocent of!

I didn’t think Donald would fit in a bikini. Well, if he’s got the photos, who am I to disagree?

I think Trek needs more witty banter, scenes filled with sexual tension, car chases and loud explosions and conflict. That’s what people are looking for!

Too bad there aren’t any older, successful series to look to.

Ah, but all those states aren’t TRUE capitalist states. That’s why we can’t point to a successful example.

The Democrats don’t do shit except send me weekly texts from ActBlue begging for money. That’s the only time I hear from them or there is some outreach. I’ll never send a cent ever again. The state of our country is partially their fault for not even maintaining a functional party with candidates that don’t require holding your nose.

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.

Ah, but the cost of the miner with black lung is increasingly handled by that individual or their family.

If you are a coal miner and you think that a man that lives in a gilded apartment can relate to you and has your best interests at heart you are going to be sadly disappointed.

Jellyfin.

That is all.

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.