Posts posted by GenXer
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I say thank you to it when it completes a stored procedure to reinforce that it has achieved the goal. I scold it when it repeatedly does the wrong thing.
It often forgets database table joins; this is frustrating. I’ve learned to tell it to commit joins to memory. It says “you’re absolutely right!” when I correct it so it appears to be intentionally designed to be placating. I admit that its positive responses are calming when solving complex technical problems. However, the positive responses are even more frustrating when making technical images to explain concepts and subsequent images get worse with each iteration.
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6 hours ago, flatdawgs said: Apropos of absolutely fucking nothing, the first two counts of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:
Crimes Against Peace: Planning, initiating, and waging wars of aggression, violating treaties.
Unpossible. FIFA out front shoulda told ya.
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5 hours ago, mchookem said: a leopard feast close to home...
Trump vetoes bipartisan bill to provide clean water to rural Southeastern Colorado
hmmm 🤔


Lulz

40 billion to argentina says hi
Have the water you voted for
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1 hour ago, Helobious said: Woke to me is anything that undermines traditional masculine or American values like toughness, independence, freedom of speech, personal responsibility, and/or is an overreaction to a perceived cultural problem. It’s beyond politics. For example to me honoring black soldiers or teaching about the trail of tears isn’t woke. It’s just our history. Guardian caps in football, pronoun obsession, the extra first base bag in baseball, etc. are examples of woke things.
Laws against dranking and driving is woke, y’all
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37 minutes ago, 'stache said: Can't say I'm in regular contact with people like this, but a very common response I hear to this stuff is that the Natives lost their wars and should be grateful they weren't completely wiped out. They don't deserve special treatment because of their race (and as someone who works in this area I have to always try to correct people that Native American is not a race is a polical classification).
My queued up response to this is: “Oh! so you’re cool with the executive branch disregarding the judicial branch?”
If dullard says yes
Response: “So you’re not in favor of the constitution? Not into the 2nd amendment are we?”
That being said, this argument has lost its luster this year.
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39 minutes ago, RomaVicta said: We won't be a woke nation. And that's evidently how we like it.
Woke basically means tolerance. We hate it!
Or, an understanding of history and its subsequent effect on current day.
I always have this loaded up for whenever a stupid (my dad or his buddies) start berating woke. Being from oklahoma, there is an inexplicable soft spot for the plight of native americans amongst the most ardent right wingers.
The set up: The cherokee were one of the five “civilized “ tribes as I learned in oklahoma history. They took the US to the supreme court to prevent their land from being taken. The cherokee won their case in the supreme court. Then andrew jackson sent the us military to force the cherokee to walk from south carolina, traverse the mississippi river, and walk to oklahoma along what is now known as the trail of tears. Many died along the way.
I then pose the question: do you believe that the cherokee were put in a disadvantageous position?
The answer is always a “well.. yeah”
My response: “congratulations! You’re woke!”
With a big motherfucking smile.
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1 hour ago, Bullneck said: Maybe it's not just that woman who has the dementia in that family.
Other than political deepfakes, what value does AI have. I guess that's enough for the billionaires.
It’s very useful to write code. I’ve commented several times in this thread with examples where it’s helped me. I’m not a developer.
I pay like $30 a month for claude. It’s well worth it. My use case, and others like me, in no way justify the billions invested in ai.
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I scored big this year. I got a couple new patagonia fleece jackets with explicit instructions to toss out my old school north face one that acts as a magnet for cat and dog hair.
I got a Made In griddle that I just seasoned.
Big score was a brisket BBQ class at Goldies
Already told my wife that she can expect me to come away from the class with a need for a smoker.
Wife made out pretty well. Ralph Lauren purse, a 1967 first press of The Master and Margarita by Harper and Roe, and a legit oasis los angeles tshirt with the pop up store tag because she wants the original because reasons. We went to a chicago and LA show; I wasn’t going to wait in the pop up store line in hollywood after spending 4 hours doing that in chicago.
It was harder to find the oasis shirt than the book from 1967.
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
There is one real scary aspect of that.
The stay decision depended on an interpretation of the phrase "unable to enforce federal law using regular forces" or something very similar, with regular forces being the key phrase.
The parties assumed regular forces meant civil authorities like cops and ICE.
The amicus law professor brought up that historically, that meant the regular military.
So the upshot is that POTUS can only mobilize/deploy the Guard when the regular military is insufficient. And that means there must be some exception to the Posse Comitatus Act that would allow domestic deployment of the military before the Guard can come in. Trumpco argued Insurrection Act, SCOTUS said nuh uh, tentatively.
So that decision may actually encourage Trump to attempt to use the regular military domestically. I don't know that they really have the stomach for that, but we'll see.
Or, if the regular military is insufficient due to being engaged in a war in, say venezuela.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
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Concepts of a plan