That’s why I said mostly.

She’s unharmed enough to give that speech in relatively good spirits, and even smiled a little.

It could’ve been much much worse.

Glad she’s mostly unharmed. Some headlines made it seem much worse.

We have to NSFW things because of the implication now?

I’ve been there before. I notice it when I develop a tolerance to caffeine and it doesn’t wake me up.

Depending on how much you take, your withdrawal might really suck major. If you can afford to lose a weekend or any 2 day consecutively, go cold turkey those 2 days. You’ll lose those days cause you’ll feel like absolute shit when the headache kicks in. But then on Monday go back to caffeine but only around half of what you usually do per day. You’ll feel amazing getting the caffeine again after the cold turkey weekend, and you’re tolerance should go down. This has worked for me in the past.

Or wean slowly. Whatever works for you.

Those 2 days suck though. I love caffeine…

Anecdotal, might not apply to you. I knew a guy like this, was a roommate for a while.

He had a similar issue. He said he would literally set an alarm clock in the opposite side of his room, so that he would have to get up and walk over to shut it off, hoping that would wake him up. According to him, in his sleep daze he would go shut the alarm off and go back to sleep, and not even remember doing it… Crazy.

Regardless, I noticed he drank tons of cheap diet soda. This contains caffeine. He’d drink around one or sometimes two 2-liters of this shit per day, from the afternoon after work, until late into the night, usually gaming.

I told him about the caffeine. He said it made sense, and that also “it might be why he had trouble falling asleep at night”… Fucking DUH.

Long story short. He tried cutting it out for about a week. Mentioned a minimal improvement in being able to wake up, but said he felt like shit the whole time, so went back to his old habit.

He probably felt like shit due to the cold turkey caffeine withdrawal, which I tried to point out. He went back to his old ways.

Anecdotal, but check your diet, caffeine intake and times of day, exercise, consistent sleeping patterns, etc. That’s my 2 cents.

There’s also the other illegal activities like money and financial fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, etc. This was huge with Epstein, and everybody’s focused on pedo stuff. They might think if they can disprove the pedo stuff then everything will go away.

Who knows though. It could be all of the above, and much more. Working with Russia illegally in some way? There could be treason there in some way involving the president of the US. Wouldnt be surprised if Musk too, and others.

Uhhh, this would actually explain a lot right now…

But I think magic jesus definitely would’ve raptured up all the innocent kids and such.

So it’d be like what we’re seeing now with trump in charge, just with all the decent people gone.

But then again I don’t actually know how it would work, due to the simple fact that fairy tales aren’t real.

Nah bro

Got the same message LOL, I was also one of the down voters.

Had no idea mods can see voting stats.

This mod is weird and creepy for the message alone, stalking down voters WTF? Obviously thin skinned and on a power trip.

The freedom of anyone being able to start their own instance, then get a load of the ones that own their own servers… Some will be assholes on a power trip. It’s bound to happen.

Christians support this. Overwhelming support from the evangelical Christian community.

There’s no hate like christian love.

Idk why but this is hilarious to me 😆

I also like cheesecake.

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.