They’re just making up bullshit
They don’t actually believe that Dobbs was the Democrats’ fault, any more than the Republicans actually believe that Trump was a genius at international politics who got the best of China and fixed the Iran deal. They’re just making noise with their mouth, like the kid who always wants to argue about the rules and everything always needs to turn out his way and every call is in his favor or he’ll make a big stink about it.
Yeah, see this is why I was so attached to Biden. The average Democrat isn’t really all that left. All this stuff with climate change and unions under Biden was very much an anomaly, and we’re probably returning to a certain amount of status quo with Harris.
Idk, I could be wrong; maybe she’s super left and this guy’s being floated as a gift to the New York Timeses of the world so the ticket will be acceptable to the six figure Manhattan shitheads that their editors are friends with, so they won’t print bullshit about her to try to lose her the election. And she still doesn’t want to destroy American democracy and all climate change remediation since Obama, which makes her worth voting for. But yeah we can expect a certain amount of corporate bullshit to come back into the equation now, I think. 😕
Tell it to Earth
FotVH is full to the brim with people who made bargains or wanted something to turn out some way who wound up in a state of horrible regret because of how things turned out
So yeah in other words go for it. Warning though, they will probably want to be paid in diseased spines
Seriously
I love how the takeaway from this is “yeah fuck politics amirite” and not “dude it is THERE FOR THE TAKING for anyone who is inspiring enough to actually get people voting for them”*
(*and who feels like overcoming the significant hurdles of the media and the DNC cooperating to do their best to tank their campaign which they will definitely do if you are inspiring enough for people to want to vote for you)
THERE FOR THE TAKING I tell you
Dude I feel like The Onion is coming back into its own again
Dude it’s so good
Get you “Fire on the Velvet Horizon” and “Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master” and you’ll be ready to run some awesome games. Maybe get the PHB if you have some money left over and want to know the rules or w/e. Skip the DMG, it is literally 100% worthless.
It’s so good
For my money Stephen King’s old short fiction - Skeleton Crew, Night Shift, Different Seasons, stuff like that - is some of the best stuff he has done. And “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut” is one of the best of that good lot to me.
Someone on Lemmy phrased it in a way that I think gets to the heart of it: With most of the impressive things that LLMs can do, the human reading and interpreting the text is providing a critical piece of the impressive thing.
LLMs are clearly very impressive; I would not say that the disillusionment on discovering what they can’t do should detract from that. But they seem more impressive than they are, partly because humans are so good at filling in meaning and intelligence where there (yet) is none.
Dude I have to say I love that politics is getting weird again
Remember Archibald Cox getting pulled over going 90 mph and telling the state trooper he was the special prosecutor and Nixon’s goons were ransacking his office and he needed to get there right away and the trooper put on his lights and gave him a police escort to get across the state now at 100 mph to put a stop to it? Remember when you had family members who were precinct captains who were involved, before assholes on TV and people who worked in Washington took over the whole fuckin process and coincidentally everything in the country started going to shit?
I really like that something major and unexpected has happened, and not in some catastrophic way. We need that.