So they lied. And they’ll lie again. And they’ll get away with it.

I will maybe get destroyed for this comment, as I have in the past, but oh well…

The trans in sports topic shouldn’t be considered this binary issue that defines your political alignment or morals.

It undeniably seems more complicated than some make it out to be. Use silly over exaggerated examples: if a man becomes a steroid popping powerlifter professionally, then decides to transition to being a woman, should he then be allowed to compete in women’s powerlifting competitions? Over exaggeration, but there’s a point isn’t there? I don’t really know, but it seems like in this thought experiment, she would easily beat out all other competitors. Insert any other sport where men dominate over women due to biology. Is this a bad way to think? If so, why? You made the example in swimming.

I will forever support and vote politically to protect all minorities, including the LGBT community. I will always reject bigotry. But saying this is not a complicated issue, just doesn’t seem right. And questioning it in this way, doesn’t make me a bigot. Let trans athletes compete in any sport? Categorize them differently? I don’t know, Im not sure it’s that easy.

At the end of the day, this stuff really is a distraction that creates infighting to shift focus away from more important things. The oligarchy likes this distraction because we’re not talking about how they’re exploiting all of us. This is the kind of thing where I say “I honestly don’t know, but why aren’t we taxing the billionaires?”

42 - fully abled, healthy and strong.

He’s just divorced.

Fucking LOL!

Your argument absolutely has merit. However the opposite is that there might be people there who are aware there’s maybe way more to their small world, and want nothing more than to see it.

I care more about the latter, but mainly because that’s how I would think. If we found out there’s an alien superhighway passing over earth hidden from us, and they’re keeping us “protected” and not allowing contact, I’d be very pissed off. I immediately would want to leave, meet the aliens, learn their ways and knowledge, etc…

Just sayin’, it can go both ways. Ya never know if you don’t talk to them.

Also, it seems kind of morbid and archaic in a way, keeping them protected. Not like a zoo by any means, but still. If we knew for certain they all wanted to be left alone, that’d be better.

Bison/buffalo burgers are delicious.

If you’re a sociopath, let them suffer and die slowly, homeless.

If you’re not a sociopath, and decent, tax the rich and give them a good UBI so they can play and do art or music or video games or what the hell ever.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

will also make nonsense mistakes that don’t even make sense

It would blow things up even faster

We are already on the way to the dollar collapsing

Humans are already doing and causing all this.

they have no capacity to reason nor analyze

Nobody thinks LLMs are intelligent or conscious or able to reason, other than stupid people.

It’s a software tool. The anti-ai cult is way overthinking it. It’s insanely valuable and impressive to me as an engineer at small tasks. Fails at large tasks, but generally gets close at 80-90% which is undeniably impressive for what it is, an unintelligent machine learning LLM software tool. It’ll either improve, or something else better will come along to replace it.

Would you trust an LLM to manage your own monthly budget numbers and categorize things properly?

Sure, as a software tool to assist in the same way I might use any other software tool to make life easier. You should probably check and verify the results to verify correctness.

At the end of the day, I don’t really care. I sympathize much more with the accelerationist attitude, then protection of the status quo. If your argument is using LLMs will bring about a downfall of the system in any way, well then I can only get so erect. Hook it to my veins please.

Even by your argument, we have imbeciles like trump elected as the president of the United States, the worlds most powerful economic and military empire. Religious wars are still a thing in 2025. Putins oligarchy dictatorship is killing Ukrainian civilians, kidnapping children, and torturing POWs. This place is a fucking clown show. Let it burn.

I’m not arguing AI is intelligent or a save all for anything. I only comment on the anti-ai cult stuff as it seems more like crowd mentality nonsense. Let them use LLMs to analyze financial markets or whatever. It ain’t like skynet where they just turn it on and walk away, lol. I truly and honestly don’t think it could get any worse than the system we currently have though.

Meh.

Honestly, why would that be worse than greedy, sociopathic billionaire investors and Milton friedman style free market capitalists making all the decisions?

Shit, I’ll take a shitty LLM or even a developmentally challenged labradoodle making financial decisions over the current exploitative capitalist slop we have today.

Me-tray

Not pregnant.

Pregnant.

Super pregnant.

Super duper pregnant.

Super hyper ultra pregnant. (You’re this one)

Hell yes. Any competition to musk is very much needed.

Go Honda.

Facts.

Just like that other guy who was torturing baby monkeys in a blender had a gigantic trump maga flag right next to a confederate flag in his home.

It’s always the ones you most expect.

I totally agree with your thought here, I’ve thought the same thing many times. I’ve see many very overweight cops stopping at gas stations and whatnot.

How can these guys chase down an assailant? Cops should be required to be fit. I’d say they need to prove weekly they can run a mile in like 8mins? Faster? Then, once per month they need to prove they can do a 5 mile, like 45-50 mins? Seems fair.

Upgrade was not a “B” movie by any stretch. Low budget doesn’t mean B. Upgrade was more well done than much of the “A” stuff that’s put out.

But obviously this is opinion and depends how you define B movies.

Yikes. Listening to him talk, and his security guy or whoever that was, leaves a really sickening feeling in my gut. They come across as psychopaths for some reason. It’s that cheap charisma that feels so off-putting. I worry what those types of billionaires do in private that will never reach the light of day. Epstien Island type stuff we’ll never know about.

If a foreigner blocks an American from using a drinking fountain when they’re thirsty, the foreigner should be immediately executed and the fountain should be marked as whites only… oops I mean Americans only.

/s

I’ve speculated that it takes time and discipline of exercising regularly for a long enough time, until you get the psychological reward from it. After which for some including me, makes it an addiction. I literally crave it. And if something happens to where I can’t workout, like an injury or work or whatever, it really sucks and I can’t wait to be able to get back into the routine. I’m talking of a mix of “boring” weights and cardio. I love it.

So my two cents is, muscle through the initial several months of boring suckage but make it count. Eventually, maybe you’ll catch the addiction. But this might not work for everyone.

Yeah but isn’t that just gambling among wealthy investors and meme stock fanboys? I here repeatedly that it’s overvalued.

I mean it doesn’t really mean the company is doing well, or will do well in the near or long term future. Unless there’s something I’m missing.

Absolutely hell yes.

Just walk fast.

Nobody mentioned elden ring, seriously?

The visuals in that game were amazing, and the changes in different scenery and themes. Holy shit. My #1.