That is a really good article. I remember most of the main points, but I didn’t remember (or never knew) a lot of the political posturing that went into the votes. Thanks for posting.

Honestly, pretty sad to see for a lot of the not innocent people too. Inhumane.

And the senator called it “the most consequential technology in the history of humanity”

The wheel. Fire. The steam engine. Easy access to porn. I could go on.

I think you (and I) are on the wrong side of that battle. I’ve been there so many times. I just find myself drifting away from popular culture. Started with refusing to use facebook and it’s companies a long time ago.

Then, I set up a local LLM, fed it some manuals for some engines I work on, thought it was kind of an interesting way to interact with them. Ultimately, I just went back to the manuals. I haven’t touched an LLM, on purpose, for a year or so.

I just searched for chrome vs firefox and just about every article from the past year or so say firefox is more secure. Not that it matters a lot either way. Two party system is crap.

These types of news articles always have me chuckling. And feeling bad for the victim(s). But chuckling at how stupid we are. Collectively.

Shredded you say.

Private equity firms own 10% of all units in the US.

Vance may be worse, but I don’t think he would have whatever voodoo control it is that trump has on the deplorables.

I could almost understand if it was super complicated, but this case seems pretty straight forward without too many loose threads waving around.

Ah, if only life had the clarity and balance of Algebra.

Bad breath?

I was living in Germany in the '80s. My mom, a civilian US citizen, had to get a hysterectomy. She chose to go to a German hospital (as opposed to the US Military hospital) and just pay whatever it cost. She mentioned the other day she doesn’t think they ever sent her a bill.