bribery is totally fine of youre a conservative because no one will do anything about it.

He also said that the Iran war will be over the day after the election.

A ponzi scheme is a very specific type of scam, and this isn’t it.

if it was AI generated it would be more geometrically correct.

I’m also curious.

My supposition is that it’s real but it’s not a swastika nor a number 5.

The downward slope on the right is not long enough for it to be a swastika. For that matter the top point of the slope on the left should align with that slope on the right, but that’s too short also.

From the right hand point, it looks like there’s an edge that follows the seam of her pants.

If it was a fake / AI generated swastika tramp stamp none of the above problems would be present.

My guess is that it’s some kind of unique geometric symbol someone designed for a college or university or something, and she’s had it tattooed without realising that with the wrong pair of jeans on it looks like a swastika.

Obviously, of course, that’s just supposition.

I don’t do electronic intake forms where possible.

Like when they text me in advance definitely not.

When they give me something in the waiting room I just do basic details.

When paying exorbitant rates I don’t think talking to a human is too much to ask.

Fuck that. That’s awful.

Churches aren’t generally like that here in Australia. Although that is a generalisation.

I could really get behind a community group that practiced Jesus more socialist teachings, even though I’m not into the spiritual aspects.

Churches here do support local communities but it’s usually very targeted: we might give you some frozen meals provided that you play along with the spritual & religious stuff.

I think Canadians probably feel more directly oppressed by Trump.

I’d love to see Albo tell Trump to fuck off, but if he does, he won’t receive the same adulation that Carney has.

Hanson is doing well enough by emulating Trump.

Indeed. Nothing I’ve seen thus far gives me the impression LLMs will ever be truly useful outside of a few niche tasks.

What even is the story?

I was in a place and a thing creaked and I ran away with some assistance.

Amazing. Loser.

This. Temporarily embarrassed billionaires. People “identify as” wealthy so they behave like wealthy people.

I think everyone wants to “enact change”.

The problem is, the people with the requisite skills can earn much more than $60k doing something else.

Salary will have unintended consequences.

Why would anyone choose that job unless they were already very wealthy?

This was my first thought as well.

The vast majority of users couldn’t care less about “the algorithm”, and probably think it’s a good thing.

The people who need this aren’t interested.

I don’t mean to be dismissive, but most of what you’ve described is present elsewhere to varying degrees.

Australia seems comparable on all points, although our pension / super system is not great but not terrible.

Our real estate market is shit, with most people priced out of the market over the last decade.

No way.

Cunts just need to invest the bare minimum of effort required in order to be a member of society and return their trolley to the bay.

The coin lock thingy is shit.

I’ve switched to kagi.

It’s not free, but it’s absolutely the best IMO.

When I search something I don’t see an AI summary. Not sure if I disabled that or not.

I posted this somewhere last week but it’s just as relevant here:

I listened to this podcast recently:

Well, so we know we went and saw him in the middle of the war. I mean, early stages of the war, very intense period of the war, about two weeks and a bit into the war with Iran. And he the thing he first thing he wanted us to see, he was holding up photographs of maple trees. And he’s saying, you know, I’m buying these maple trees for the White House. Turns out I’m good at buying trees. And then underneath it were photographs of the ballroom and the columns. He wanted us to know the columns are, I think, bigger than the Supreme Court’s columns or more of them or what have you. And one side was inspired by Athens and the other side by Rome. This occupied probably first 15 minutes of our time with him before we got to anything to do with the Iran war.

and earlier …

It’s truly an inordinate amount of his time is spent redecoration, renovation, the ballroom, but also building monuments and naming things after himself. It’s become an obsession. And we have a scene in the book, actually, in the Oval Office last October where he he’s talking to a couple of visitors about he wants to build essentially a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Washington, which they call internally the Arc de Trump. You know, he’s got different models of it. There’s a huge one, a middle one, a small one. You know, he wants it to be bigger than the Lincoln Memorial. Anyway, he’s in the room with some of his agents. He says, let’s call Emmanuel. Let’s call Emmanuel. Ask because he had some questions he wanted to know about the Arc de Triomphe, which presumably he could have just Googled. […] But instead, he gets Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, on the speakerphone. And he starts asking Emmanuel, you know, does your arch have a viewing platform? Do people jump off it? You know, all this. How big is the arch? You know, all these sort of questions about the arch. So I just there’s no way that I can overstate how much time is spent on these matters.

(emphasis added)

That last sentence has really stuck with me.

A robust and intelligent rebuttal. I find myself convinced.