James Carruthers

@HamletRising @Gnosisinformant No one is saying anything of the sort, moron.

@Gnosisinformant For 10s of thousands of years men built their families homes. Here comes modern gooner Gunther saying we all need to go into generational debt for a educated blue collar guy to built what his grandfather did with no education at all. Lol Another satire post here, I guess.

This guy is an idiot. First of all who is saying “you need a degree to build a house” ? Is his brain damaged? Second, medieval artists earned Baccalaureus, followed by a Magister Artium (Master of Arts) which is where we get our “bachelors” and “masters” degrees from. Architects of grand palaces, churches, basilicas and mansions were built by architects who earned credentials in stonemasons' guilds through apprenticeships and then earned the rank of Magister. Out of all the things this guy could show that “doesn’t need a degree” he picked the most blatant WRONG example. These places weren’t just built by random people with no education who decided on whim that they wanted a giant basilica. These were some of the most elite and most exclusive stonemason guilds hired by churches that required intensive education and training in mathematics and geometry. These degrees establish credentials for those who studied the knowledge bases that go back to Vitruvius (Ancient Rome) and the keepers of architectural knowledge which was relevant for building these structures.

@EricYoungArt @Gnosisinformant No that's obviously not the point, the point is incoherent rage bait.

@Gnosisinformant I think the point is that apprenticeships are superior teaching methods than our current college/university system that focuses on lectures, grades and tests.

@wakenminds Oh look X's Moron of the Day.

"you need a degree to build a house" Men without degrees 500 years ago:

@UrsusDux @FDRHiker @SentialA79698 @StevenTDennis @jaysbookman Go fuck yourself loser.

Company donated steel to ballroom, then got tariff exemption, per NYT.

@DecipherClown @RichardHanania Who do you think believes shit like that?

Couple things Hanania doesn't undersrand, the temporary, limited sanctions relief on at-sea oil was a pragmatic wartime move to stabilize global prices and ease pain on Americans, not a surrender. Trump maintained leverage, kept U.S. presence strong, and ensured the strait reopens under pressure, not Iranian dictation. This doesn't mean the U.S. moving toward Tehran; it's Iran blinking after getting hammered so hardly!

Trump is amazing. Iranian stood up to him and won, so now he wants to make them partners in extorting the world. Kind of like how he loves Kim because he has nukes. Powerful=good in Trump's mind.

@CZseventyfive @BenKentish Yes we get it you're a loser with no friends or interests.

@BenKentish That would be great. Extreme vetting for anyone who wants to enter the US. I’m all for it. Could care less about Kanye West & his issues. I’m not planning g to visit any other country so I care not what others decide to do.

A reminder that the US government is planning to demand to see everyone’s social media posts from the last five years before deciding whether or not they’re allowed to enter the US…

@CharleeDaCat @jimgeraghty No it's not a serious question.

@jimgeraghty Serious question, why is this a surrender of freedom of navigation when Panama and Egypt currently charge tolls to go through their waterways? Isn’t this analogous to those arrangements?

Any toll to pass through the Strait of Hormuz would not be “a beautiful thing,” as the president contended to ABC News Jonathan Karl. It would represent an unprecedented surrender of freedom of navigation, which the U.S. Navy has fought to preserve and protect since Thomas Jefferson was president. From the days of the Barbary pirates to the Somali pirates and the Houthis, the U.S. and its allies have contended that U.S. ships can sail wherever they want, whenever they want, in international waters, and no state, entity, or force gets to restrict that. The Strait of Hormuz is legally international waters. Neither Iran, nor Oman, nor the United States is legally permitted to charge a fee or threaten force against ships that do not pay a fee. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the reason the U.S. was destroying the Iranian navy was to “ensure freedom of navigation.” If the U.S. had always been amenable to the Iranian regime charging a fee to all the tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz . . . why did we just fight this war?

@BlixArnt @skdh No they didn't, the article is a lie. It's bullshit from a bad Tom Clancy novel.

@skdh Unless you are wrong. With all due respect. They just demonstrated it. Ask yourself. How to identify and presicion strike scores of leaders behind enemy lines, anytime, anywhere. Where is the intel?

Yes, you can use quantum physics to measure magnetic fields very precisely, but no, you cannot do this over miles of distance, that's insane. That said, infrared radiation is also electromagnetic of course and everything is quantum anyway. Yours sincerely, Quantum Sabine.

@skdh It's bullshit, a magic heartbeat-detecting device is a staple of conspiracy theory nuts and grifters. Just look at the losers in the replies!

@ZeroSumOracle @clashreport No it's not new, but it never actually worked.

@clashreport It is not new. It is used also to detect survivors trapped under the rumbles of a collapsed building.

The CIA used a secret new tool, “Ghost Murmur,” to locate a downed U.S. airman in Iran, its first real-world use. It can detect a human heartbeat from miles away using AI and advanced sensors: “If your heart is beating, we will find you.” Source: NY Post

@Noahpinion Yes "wow" as in "Wow I can't believe people are falling for this conspiracy-theory staple I think I read about in one of Tom Clancy's lesser novels 25 years ago."

@llunved @Mericamemed Shut up.

@Mericamemed And of course - while annoying - this isn't per-se a consequence of AI-generated music but of scammers using it. She should get an attorney and this should be fun for her wallet.

Now this is one wild story. The amount of lawsuits coming down the pipeline with stories like this is going to be astronomical.

@jwatte @Mericamemed Fuck off loser.

@Mericamemed So the real problem is that humans are making infringing content and bad-faith copyright claims? Like, the entire business model of certain giant media companies have been doing forever? So AI is not the problem, it just makes the problem easier to see? Might be a good thing!

Andor has set the bar for grounded stories about revolution just too high, they were better off with immortal ninjas digging pointlessly huge holes to look for dragon bones.

So far Daredevil Season 2 is pretty dumb. The weirdly prescient allegory they lucked into when this was written years ago just highlights how comic-book-stupid everything else is. Was there no research done into how smuggling weapons works? Or boats?

"Well that was ham-fisted foreshadowing"

All this death and stuff over 30 tons of weapons? Like enough for a decent trade show display?

@bencasselman The concept is pants-on-head stupid. Setting aside the preposterous hype that only exists in the minds of grifters on X, no there will never be enough robots, human desires are literally infinite.

Seemingly all of Silicon Valley is convinced that A.I. will bring on the end of work, or at the very least massive job losses. Economists have been skeptical, bordering on dismissive. But lately that has begun to change. Economists are starting to take A.I. seriously.

@survive22morrow @mattyglesias You bots said it was.

@mattyglesias was it ever the goal? That's the responsibility and obligation of the Iranian ppl.

Hey @acronis, your stupid software has been telling for over a month that it's been working fine, the System Tray app reporting a Successful Backup every day, when it was actually logged-out of my subscription and doing nothing. That is Not Okay.