They think he staged his own fake assassination, while also blaming Jews and remaining staunch Trump supporters. So just the usual incoherent cultish mumblings, not any actual insight or any movement away from him.

Maybe when they get another trillion dollars they’ll figure out how to feed their soldiers.

Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them.

In this case, the President ordering a needless war on Iran against all expert advice, and then vowing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention all the USA’s attacks on other countries and moronic isolationist trade policies over the last year, makes it more the President’s fault than it usually would be.

Mullen, who in 2025 drew a salary of $336,518, is suspended with pay and was required to surrender his badge and gun pending the outcome of the investigation, according to a spokesperson for the department.

Fucking hell. These guys are not worth a third of that salary, even when they’re working and not just on vacation as a reward for being extra shitty.

“That is what we believe in. That’s a capitalist society, a market. The other one is socialism. Socialism does not work. You go around and dictating and overseeing every single price, no. If there’s collusion on pricing, I’ll go after them and tear them to shreds, but nothing beats a free market.”

One thing I keep noticing about right-wing thinking is that it tends to be very coarse-grained, black and white, with no subtlety or shades of grey. It’s either all or nothing. But reality is never all or nothing, it’s always shades of grey, ambiguous and complex. Look at how conservatives talk about any topic - vaccines or immigration or science funding or transgender health care or climate change - and you’ll find this tendency for unrealistic all-or-nothing crudeness.

It may not be that he doesn’t understand. It may be that he’s not working for us.

How about cutting off USAID and thereby causing the deaths of about 10 million people by 2030, or accelerating the pace of climate change beyond what anyone thought possible, and thereby killing life all over the planet? Those are also big achievements.

He’s not “out of touch”: he’s devoted to Israel, as he has repeatedly stated throughout his career. He sees his role as being a defender of Israel from political attacks in the USA. He’s not confused about this, nor does he try to hide it.

Or all the ones at the top, since if you go far enough there’s probably something living or formerly living in each square.

Or all of them because if you can see them it’s a sign you’re alive.

Or just switch off the computer and walk away because you’re starting to take joke Captcha memes way too seriously and you’ve had enough internet. Sorry. Time for a break.

Does “antisemitic” here mean “not approving of genocide”?

Microsoft and Apple. The internet will only allow OSs from large American corporations.

I’d like to see the rest of the world say “fuck it” and carry on as before, leaving the Americans to censor themselves. But governments around the world are suddenly rushing to implement very similar terrible laws. It smells very coordinated.

Would this bill ban the use of all operating systems released before it became law? That seems unlikely.

So then how about OSs released before it became law, with patches released afterwards? That also seems unlikely.

So then how about my computer’s current OS, which is a heavily patched version of a little hobby OS called Linux, originally released in 1991?

Your Rollercoaster Tycoon example is a bit odd, since coding a whole game in assembly indicates deep understanding of what you’re doing, whereas the problem with vibe coding is that it requires only the shallowest understanding. Unless I’m misunderstanding and that was your point.

There may be a maintainability issue with both, but for a different reason in each case.

Seemingly just because the title has “PHP dev” in it. It’s not entirely fair.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260415152353/https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-schools-global-crisis/

https://archive.ph/ZSW1a

(The first one is more ethical, but the second one works better.)

I guess bullshit is easier to make than shoes.

Overregulation and underregulation are both problematic, so it’s not an easy thing to get right. But sometimes you get the impression a regulation is all agenda and very little thought (e.g. this one in California, and the FCC’s recent banning of foreign-made home routers).

The only criterion is: are billionaires into it, or does it threaten them?

The FCC ruling prohibits the sale of new models of consumer router. It doesn’t forbid the continuing use of existing routers or, if I understand it right, the continued sale of models that were already on sale. So you can continue to use existing models as WAPs or routers. But when the tech and the security moves on the FCC wants the USA to be left behind.

It it the methodology or the sample size you’re criticizing? I looked for any details of the poll’s methodology and couldn’t find much, which is a bit dubious, but the sample size seems fine all else being equal.