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@JennyENicholson @BenBankas Maybe it’s like meta-humor, and making a fool of himself on the internet is supposed to be the joke?

@BenBankas Those aren't even jokes in any sense. They're like, idk, surprises

How it all started…

@coL_Amazonian It’s possible the Consulate loses here too and Chandra is just on the losing side? But probably Jace sucks

The Echoverse Chandra was from an alternate reality where she joins the fascist regime on Kaladesh and helps further their success. Which means their revolution failed and it is not Avishkar in that reality. Jace, your alternate reality is AWFUL.

@_Jason_Dean_ Maybe, but this isn’t one of those “great minds”. This is just a dumbass trying to LARP as cluely

We have our greatest minds working on creating AI girlfriends

@adiosamigo_666 @mattyglesias Right, instead you refused to engage with the question. I’m not saying you have to name a MODERATE position you disagree with. I’m asking you to name literally any position you disagree with personally but believe it would be wise for a Dem candidate to- anywhere - to campaign on

@KHicksEfficient @mattyglesias That's not what I said. Moderation only works if the two poles you're moderating against are reasonable. Currently, they are not.

I mean if you want to win elections in red states and districts then by definition you need to get GOP-aligned Trump-disapprovers to vote for you right? The alternative to moderation is … giving up?

@adiosamigo_666 @mattyglesias So, your position is that all candidates should campaign on the exact same platform, which happens to be the precise set of policies you personally support? This is just an unserious analysis

@KHicksEfficient @mattyglesias You're thinking about it all wrong. It's not about conceding things to those voters. It's about having your own agenda that appeals to them. Minimum wage, support for unions, taking on corruption, and cracking down on corporate abuses DOES have appeal to middle American voters.

@adiosamigo_666 @mattyglesias Can you name a policy that you genuinely support, but would suggest Democrats in red states oppose/abandon, in order to better convince/represent local voters?

@mattyglesias This idea that moderation is the only way to win red state voters always shows how little people in DC understand those states. Economic populism has appeal in many red states provided the voters think the messenger actually understands their struggles. Dan Osborne has done...

@zeeo7824 @CoreyWriting It takes 5 seconds on your profile to confirm you aren’t remotely acting in good faith. This whining is so embarrassing. You don’t sincerely believe Obama’s comments on Zimmerman are the most racially heated remarks by a president. You just want to complain

@CoreyWriting Can you people at least *try* to develop a good faith understanding of what people didn't like about Obama's clearly racially biased rhetoric? x.com/zeeo7824/statu…

Yeah, dismissing Obama's brilliant 2008 run as mere "ethnic political machine" is quite messed up and racist. Wild how explicitly racist comments are coming from the left now. I don't even like Obama, but it's nonsense to pretend he didn't earn 2008 through strategic brilliance

@MPrasad65824 @terminallyOL Oh so you’re like a *crazy* person x.com/MPrasad65824/s…

@terminallyOL They (blue pushers) are also not in the army. I checked with a few. When it comes to really putting their lives at risk - the blue button pushers are never present. But in an online poll with no real risk involved - they are all exceptionally brave and self-sacrificing.

funniest thing i've noticed about the red button vs blue button argument is a majority of the "red button truthers" are using AI generated memes and drawings to try and make their point, but the "blue button bandits" are not (or are barely) using AI

@DeePopTheKing @Logo_Daedalus Wow, red pressers are low trust fascists who cannot conceive of acting selflessly? I’m shocked!

@Logo_Daedalus He's actually right. Pushing blue just confirms you have the need to be the victim in every fucking scenario.

Hahahahahahahaha

(It’s also an extremely clear demonstration of how Musk has destroyed this site - the illness of these people is much deeper than their ostensible political alignment)

The best argument against the red pressers is reading anything that they write. Not only are they (often) terrible people, they’re desperate to reclaim status for their choice.

@MariGO2thepolls @philosophymeme0 Crazy how “literacy makes the population stupid” wasn’t the wildest part of Phaedrus

@philosophymeme0 Stop calling the Greeks gay. They weren’t gay they were just pedophiles

To be a little less vague, I suspect that we're likely (not certain, but likely) to be entering into a period of unprecedented software degradation, and we're going to be seeing an increasing frequency of outages like this across many high profile products. But IMO the cause is actually not just the-one-thing-that-everyone-is-always-talking-about, it's a number of things that have all been bubbling away at just below critical levels for a long time. Some of the things off the top of my head: - Poorly designed / optimised software has been getting a free ride on hardware improvements pretty much since the invention of the computer. That chapter is now coming to an end, and will only be worsened by the enormous industry-wide pivot to producing & innovating on AI specific hardware, rather than general purpose CPUs etc. - The ZIRP era created a temporary suspension of reality in our industry, and now that it's ended we need to deal with the hangover. Companies that spent years making no profit, paying extravagant compensation to employees / shareholders and giving away server time for free are now pivoting into extraction mode, which is putting further pressure on their low quality software. QA is being laid off, hardware budgets are being reduced, timelines for shipping features are becoming more aggressive, etc. - The enormous amount of free money incentivised too many new people to join the industry too quickly. This has led to an abundance of poor quality education programs (bootcamps, uncertified colleges etc) and an influx of people into the industry who frankly aren't interested in programming. If you compared the average person in the industry now to 20 years ago, I suspect the difference in motivations would be stark. I'm not saying it's these people's fault necessarily, it's simply an inevitable result of the absurd compensation / performance expectations ratio that our industry has enjoyed for the last 15+ years. Working for a tech company has also become socially prestigious, which further adds to the problem. - Because computer programming was once an incredibly niche area of interest, many of our fundamental systems are built on trust. We're now starting to see that if systems like open source, public supply chain, discussion spaces, education etc become flooded with bad actors, we have no real mechanisms to deal with them. - Our hiring / recruitment pipeline has totally misaligned incentives. Even before the AI resume / AI HR-filtering arms race disaster that we're experiencing now, the widespread adoption of the leetcode style interviews IMO selected for a very narrow personality type, and filtered candidates that would have made great contributions to the industry long term. - The pivot from purchasing long term stable releases of software, to paying a subscription for constantly updating software has done huge damage to software quality as a whole. Companies have lost their incentive to get their software "right" because they can just "fix it later", and for the consumer - you can't just go back to the version of github that still works because the new one has problems. This was all happening well before AI entered the picture. I won't belabor the point because there has been endless discussion about it. But to me personally, there are two additional and deeply worrying problems with AI code generation. - It's undeniable at this point that it negatively affects the people who use it. It stops juniors from getting better, and it burns seniors out and makes them hate their jobs. Like it or not, humans are still the core of this industry, and I don't see this ending well. - It's completely unfit for purpose in the most important, high-stakes situations. One of the reasons that we excuse all the small errors it makes, is because it's low effort to type "do it again and fix this bug". That kind of thing doesn't fly when you only get one attempt because a mistake results in data loss or an outage. The damage is done. All the above has led to a silent exodus of many of our most experienced and impactful people. There are so many amazing programmers who made enough through stock options / compensation that they didn't need to work anymore, and were only doing it because they enjoyed it. Many of these people have just quit the industry and switched to doing hobby projects in the last 5 years. These are the types of people who have the experience and foresight to prevent the types of outages that we're seeing at github today. It's very easy to assume that the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back is entirely to blame here. But I think it's a reckoning that has been on the horizon for a very long time.

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call this the greatest piece of prediction market content created to date.

@DeepDishEnjoyer Sorry, i’m playing on Robison Crusoe mode (ironman btw)

this shit is so easy dog

@Cynaigiros @tinioril @LeahLibresco seems harsh, idk

@tinioril @LeahLibresco If you don't have energy after a wedding never have kids and actually just put yourself in a coffin as you're too weak to be of any use to society

The NYT ran a special wedding planning section, and this quiz on preferences seems to omit one notable, traditional option.

@DanteNotAlmeida @nikicaga Unironically, I’d ask them for advice, even if it’s awkward or embarrassing. If nothing else, they probably have other female friends, maybe some that are also struggling to find someone to date. (Though i wouldn’t approach it as “got any single friends?”)

As with most incels, he just looks like a completely normal guy Could easily find a girlfriend or get laid if he wasn't talking about "foid genocide" online!

@DanteNotAlmeida @nikicaga It can help to think about it from the other direction - “where do women go to try to find boyfriends?” Volunteer events - which tend to skew female - are a good opportunity here.

@DanteNotAlmeida @nikicaga The other suggestions are good, but I think the summary is “involve yourself in mixed gender social settings”. Even if you don’t date the people there, making female friends will expose you to their friends, etc.