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Brisketexan

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  1. "Volatile" is not the word you are looking for. The judges would have accepted broken, non-functional, failed, and fucked. "Volatile" implies unpredictability. Nothing here is unpredictable. Quite the opposite. Throw a Republic off a cliff, and gravity will compel it to continue to fall. That's what's happening.
  2. The end-around on that is the Elon-Thiel worldview: human beings have no inherent value. We are either a source of revenue, or a cost center. Either way, they don't care if we live or die, or are miserable beyond measure. All that matters is whether your existence or elimination can yield them anything greater than $.01 to their bottom line. And sure, there have always been such cutthroat profiteers in this world. But these guys have full capture of the entire US government. They can do whatever they want.
  3. You sound woke. Human beings are obsolete. Does that scribe bring profit to an oligarch? Alternatively, will eliminating the cost of that scribe bring profit to an oligarch? That's the only calculus that matters. We have a choice of two shitty outcomes here. Shitty outcome (1): AI succeeds, and eliminates most jobs except the most basic of manual labor. Humans have neither any purpose nor any income. OR shitty outcome (2): AI doesn't come close to delivering on its promise, the bubble pops, and it crashes the global economy that is propped up by just that foundation. Pick your poison. But you WILL be drinking poison.
  4. Yeah, that's the thing I've had a hard time processing. Everything bad I learned about totalitarian communist states: "papers please," secret police not bound by any law and grabbing people off the streets, military beholden to the dear leader being deployed to provinces that are not suitably obedient, oligarchs living in opulence while the people struggle, etc. etc. I thought "yeah, fuck that bullshit." Turns out, you can just go to Kinkos, have them print out some "CAPITALIST" signs to cover up the "COMMUNIST" signs, and not only is all of that stuff okay, it's worth fighting for. Exact same shit. EXACT. Just put a different brand on it, and it's wonderful. Fucking idiot state we live in.
  5. Man.....that looks fucking good.
  6. I was itchy, and umm....million to one shot, doc!
  7. The takeaway point there: The question is....what happens when they don't win. When the music stops, and they don't have a chair to sit in? Sure, the companies that have diverse enough interests will likely weather the storm. But those that are all or mostly AI-dependent (see Nvidia)? They're fucked. And so we're fucked.
  8. Dammit, you're making me do a "well actually" in defense of AI. Which, by the way, IS a technology that has a place. It's just not the miracle cure for everything. AI transcription of meeting notes is really quite good. We've used it for various boards and committees I'm on, and it's great. We have accurate and detailed notes in our in-box right after the meeting. No depending on faulty memories etc.
  9. Ain't no desperate/starving civilians if you just kill them too. Which is fine, because they're also terrorists. QED. Problem solved. And....scene.
  10. It's like the observed rule of reincarnation from Bull Durham:
  11. You know, for someone who fucking HATES immigrants and thinks that they're responsible for bringing about the downfall of western civilization.....Elon's fucking companies seem to make all of their repairs EXACTLY like my mexican ass would do it. Ain't nothing that duct tape, or some gorilla glue, or a drill and some screws you have in a coffee can, etc., can't fix.
  12. When visiting? I don’t. When living there? The kiddos want a taste of home.
  13. So….that interceptor drone…. There’s a 100% chance some bored Russian soldier is gonna find one of those that ran outta fuel and stick it up his butt.
  14. It can be had. The boy found the Mexican grocery store in Glasgow, and Berlin had several legit taco places. But opening a place called “Texas Taco” in Northern Europe is a backup plan for both kiddos. Like, Norwegians LOVE tacos…they just can’t make them for shit. Serve them an ordinary taco (carne asada, picadillo, whatever), and their eyes bug out in delight. Germans too. There’s a market there.
  15. I bought a simple hand can opener with a “kitchen gadget” set at wal mart when I started college well over 30 years ago. It’s our can opener today.
  16. He should come over here. Based on that resume, we'll make him President. Can he lie incessantly and cheat at golf? Those also seem to be important qualifications.
  17. I mean.... It's all fucking insane. Every single word, every single second. But none of it fucking matters. We've handed the entire country to a deranged lobotomized lower primate who is steering it based on misfiring neurons, and nobody seems to give a shit.
  18. If we had any of those....my grandpa sure as shit didn't provide me any. He took great pleasure in subjecting us "soft city kids" to the grittier parts of ranching life. Wouldn't have done any good anyway. Once everything flew out at once, I looked like the end of Men in Black.
  19. Yep. Had to pull a calf with a come along, and had to pull one with my grandpa's LTD Crown Vic. Both calves lived, both mamas died. Heavy duty and messy shit both times. Especially when we pulled with the car, because that calf popped/flew out, hit me in the chest, and I was covered head to toe in cow gunk. Just walked over to the stock tank, took my boots off, and walked right in to wash off the worst of it.
  20. He's a royal. All royals should be beheaded. I'm an American. Fuck kings, fuck royalty, fuck all the way off. I bow to no man. Sharpen the guillotine.
  21. I looked into it, and it appears to be mostly true - Bojangles is phasing out bone-in chicken. It's still available at some locations, but none of the newer ones. That's some commie America-hating bullshit.
  22. Well, when reality is stealing all your best bits of satire, it's a fucking challenge.
  23. Pretty sure a lot of their "solution" was buying them a bus ticket to Austin. Not sure Austin can use that strategy. Oh, I don't know. I can absolutely see our leadership deciding that we should give homeless people in Austin a bus ticket to Austin.
  24. All it takes is for one time -- one fucking time -- for the Dems to call their bluff. The Repubs keep putting a gun to the head of the American people, saying "we'll shoot the hostage." And the Dems, because they actually care about the American people (to some extent at least) always fucking cave to the threat. Well, fuck that. Call the bluff. Give the Repubs two choices: (1) come to the table and restore the ACA spending, or (2) go ahead, shoot the hostage. The Dem mistake has always been that they've thought that capitulating could avoid pain. It can't. It just means the pain is slower and more insidious. Rip the fucking bandaid off, and make the Republicans be terrorists in broad fucking daylight.
  25. Yep. That's the evil hell of wars of attrition. It's less about who wins, than it is about who loses the most.
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