MagicShel @ MagicShel @programming.dev

25+ yr Java/JS dev

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The damage Trump and his ilk have done to this country by undermining the public trust in some of the best run elections in the world is incalculable. It will be decades if ever before that damage is undone.

Agreed. Yet, on the other hand, this article suggests the father understood the magnitude of his assholery in the moments before he suffered the consequences. He understood he had murdered his son and himself.

That by no means makes any of it okay and I don't even think it is the bright side of events, but I take some satisfaction in knowing that motherfucker understood that those were his final moments and the final moments of his son, and that it was all perfectly preventable, and that he hadn't done so - and all the money in the world wasn't going to change that.

That is the exact level of suffering all these rich assholes who exploit and abuse the world and the people around them for fun and profit deserve, but so few get. Suffering never makes me happy, but there is something satisfying in that knowledge.

Just wait until antibiotics stop working. That day will be a hell of a shit show.

LLM are non-deterministic. "What they are capable of" is stringing words together in a reasonable facsimile of knowledge. That's it. The end.

Some might be better at it than others but you can't ever know the full breadth of words it might put together. It's like worrying about what a million monkeys with a million typewriters might be capable of, or worrying about how to prevent them from typing certain things - you just can't. There is no understanding about ethics or morality and there can't possibly be.

What are people expecting here?

No one outside of China or shills for China takes that perspective of the Uyghur people. That is a "tell me you're a mouthpiece for the Chinese government without telling me" sort of thing.

Reddit has the same dynamics. Smaller niche communities there were awesome, the massive ones were full of toxicity. Here, the large communities are the size of small Reddit boards, which is good, but many niche communities here are unfortunately too sparse to thrive.

I don't think Lemmy must grow. In fact I like the relative obscurity that tends to make it a better quality of user. But at this size, it's less of a one-stop shop than Reddit. I miss the Reddit cigar community. They aren't really in favor, particularly with the left, and there isn't the critical mass to sustain that here. So I just don't talk about them which unfortunately leaves me less informed about what's going on in that world.

That so being said, I agree with the thrust of your post which is that Lemmy is just fine at this size. It is.

I've been out of work for 4 months and tbh, getting desperate. But I saw a job posting that talked about KPIs and didn't even apply. Homelessness would be less shitty than dealing with that (I say having never been homeless and probably not going to be).

You have to care about the people, to foster a culture of caring about the work. Caring, motivated people are the backbone of a business - they aren't easily replaceable resources that you just hire off the street as needed.

Glad to be wrong about all that. Being an astronaut was my biggest dream 40 years ago. But we can't all be astronauts, so I had to settle for my second dream - shitposting on the internet.

In all seriousness, it's important work for the future of humanity. I don't want someone to fuck it up for profit or because it's not their ass on the line. I'm glad those fears are unfounded here.

Look, we're not going to talk about pony play or whatever weird fetish TrumpHQ has cooked up.

If you're going to swiftboat someone, you have to set up the swiftboaters, too, not just expect them to be with you.

Trump has done nothing to ingratiate himself with the military, and they've been a much softer right wing block for him after 2016.

Make Polio Great Again.

If that alone were a crime, we'd all be in trouble. But Elon would be first in line.

I have a very small very petty fan club. Fortunately, I don't care other than I laugh that I'm living in their head rent free.

Hey, now. I also shitpost on Mastodon.

blue maga

This is where you lost any credibility you might've had.

only for news outlets to show the moment he endorsed her, which was two days before his post.

This is the difference right here. He's getting fact checked instead of journalists just coughing politely when he spews pure nonsense.

How is your nuclear engineering? You could potentially make folks quite nervous, indeed.

There are two kinds of people: those who understand it's juvenile humor and are just memeing on it for funsies, and those who don't understand that and are never going to be high information voters and JD Vance fucks couches must just be the message that gets them to vote.

My optimism in humanity leads me to believe there are very few of the latter. What I'm certain of is the joke does no harm and is a silly little meme. President Trump was a silly little meme in 2015 but then Hillary ran the worst campaign in living memory (Kamala saved Biden from that dubious distinction), and here we are. So I'm okay with it, but obviously it has no place in serious conversation except to inject some laughs.

Possibly just distancing themselves from Trump to position themselves for a post-Trump world. Normally its only retirees who don't face reprisal from Trump or voters that speak out anyway.