He'll find and jail as many Trump supporters as required to make the attacks in Iraq stop.
In 2008, I came up with a concept of a "deregulatory bubble and bust". It applies to anything that was held down by a rule for a long time.
The idea goes like this:
1. Something is a bad idea. Everyone knows it's a bad idea.
2. Someone makes the bad idea against the rules.
3. People stop not doing the bad idea because it's a bad idea and start not doing the bad idea because it's against the rules.
4. Someone goes "Why do we have this rule?"
5. The rule is repealed.
6. Everyone does the thing that's a bad idea since nobody remembers it's a bad idea and only didn't do it because it was against the rules.
7. For a short time, everyone gets the positive parts of doing the bad idea, so more people do it thinking it's a good idea.
8. The bad consequences of doing a bad idea happen to everyone at once, causing problems everywhere the rule existed
9. People end up learning the bad idea is a bad idea and stop doing it because it's a bad idea again.
I think we're at step 9 with respect to many parts of the sexual revolution. Gen Z is having less sex than most generations before them, and in part it's because it turns out sex is dangerous -- it isn't a magical purse filled with gold coins that can be thrown out, there's a cost and people have realized that so there's a return to more care and less risk taking.
So all this really seems like hopping on a bandwagon after it's already reached its destination.
The idea goes like this:
1. Something is a bad idea. Everyone knows it's a bad idea.
2. Someone makes the bad idea against the rules.
3. People stop not doing the bad idea because it's a bad idea and start not doing the bad idea because it's against the rules.
4. Someone goes "Why do we have this rule?"
5. The rule is repealed.
6. Everyone does the thing that's a bad idea since nobody remembers it's a bad idea and only didn't do it because it was against the rules.
7. For a short time, everyone gets the positive parts of doing the bad idea, so more people do it thinking it's a good idea.
8. The bad consequences of doing a bad idea happen to everyone at once, causing problems everywhere the rule existed
9. People end up learning the bad idea is a bad idea and stop doing it because it's a bad idea again.
I think we're at step 9 with respect to many parts of the sexual revolution. Gen Z is having less sex than most generations before them, and in part it's because it turns out sex is dangerous -- it isn't a magical purse filled with gold coins that can be thrown out, there's a cost and people have realized that so there's a return to more care and less risk taking.
So all this really seems like hopping on a bandwagon after it's already reached its destination.
Yeah, I understand. It's ultimately their choices how they want to run their instances, but there's a reason why I nonetheless advocate people not to mindlessly follow stupid lists made by people they don't even know.
I added myself to fediblock by calling the maintainers nazi gestapo repeatedly and demanding I be added to it, so when people block me assuming that the people who made the list must be good and the people on the list must be bad, they're following the orders of one of the people they think are so bad they must silence the entire instance at the admin level.
You might think I like being blocked based on that action, but in reality it's an action I took because I oppose the whole cliquey system they've created.
I added myself to fediblock by calling the maintainers nazi gestapo repeatedly and demanding I be added to it, so when people block me assuming that the people who made the list must be good and the people on the list must be bad, they're following the orders of one of the people they think are so bad they must silence the entire instance at the admin level.
You might think I like being blocked based on that action, but in reality it's an action I took because I oppose the whole cliquey system they've created.
If you end up on one of those nazi gestapo's lists, then consider yourself part of the fediverse that's fun and cool.
The first of many. Might be a good idea to brush up on Chinese, Arabic, and Russian so when civilizations that don't commit suicide roll over us we can make nice with our new overlords.
This feels like when Tom Sawyer convinced all his friends to pay for a chance to paint his aunt's fence.
I have to assume at this point pretty much anything good.
It's like in the 90s nobody wanted to play super Noah's ark, today no one wants to play the latest industrial woke simulator.
It's like in the 90s nobody wanted to play super Noah's ark, today no one wants to play the latest industrial woke simulator.
There's no way that 99% of the products on Amazon are not loss leaders. I don't think anyone else could compete.
Let's take two sets of low end earbud headphones. The same headphones, one of them is at the store in town and one of them I order on Amazon.
The earbuds in both cases start at a factory and then go to a distribution center.
From there, in one case the big box of earbuds travels to the local store where someone unpacks it and puts it on a shelf along with many other pairs of earphones. I walk in, I grab the earphones myself, I likely ring them up myself, I put them in my pocket and I drive myself home.
In the other case, at the distribution center they take out a box, remove my one pair of earphones, transport my one pair of earphones in a box to a distribution center in my city, and then pay someone to put them directly on my doorstep.
Now according to amazon, the latter costs exactly the same or less than the former. In my view there's just no way.
Have you ever sent out a package before? I know it's just a single package and there are probably bulk rates available for big businesses, but sending out a single package for me costs more than the pair of headphones costs in the first place, and not by a small amount.
So my stands for a very long time has been that there's something fishy going on. The biggest thing I can think of is that certain items make a lot more profit than others and subsidize the low cost items, and that virtually every part of Amazon's business is solely an advertisement for AWS where they make huge money at huge margins.
Let's take two sets of low end earbud headphones. The same headphones, one of them is at the store in town and one of them I order on Amazon.
The earbuds in both cases start at a factory and then go to a distribution center.
From there, in one case the big box of earbuds travels to the local store where someone unpacks it and puts it on a shelf along with many other pairs of earphones. I walk in, I grab the earphones myself, I likely ring them up myself, I put them in my pocket and I drive myself home.
In the other case, at the distribution center they take out a box, remove my one pair of earphones, transport my one pair of earphones in a box to a distribution center in my city, and then pay someone to put them directly on my doorstep.
Now according to amazon, the latter costs exactly the same or less than the former. In my view there's just no way.
Have you ever sent out a package before? I know it's just a single package and there are probably bulk rates available for big businesses, but sending out a single package for me costs more than the pair of headphones costs in the first place, and not by a small amount.
So my stands for a very long time has been that there's something fishy going on. The biggest thing I can think of is that certain items make a lot more profit than others and subsidize the low cost items, and that virtually every part of Amazon's business is solely an advertisement for AWS where they make huge money at huge margins.
I feel like that could be truly insufferable.
"Racistchatgpt, I was to talk about cars."
"Oh yeah, (((cars)))? I bet you want to talk about (((Henry Ford))) too?"
"Racistchatgpt, I was to talk about cars."
"Oh yeah, (((cars)))? I bet you want to talk about (((Henry Ford))) too?"
Well, I figure a human animal hybrid made up of a super dangerous animal and a dangerous human with weapons of mass destruction for hands would be the most illegal person I can think of. :p
Yeah, I could never get all 3 without some serious tinkering with prompts and pre-established images.
Ok, this is the last one.
But I have to admit, it was pretty funny in the house telling everyone what I was working on.
But I have to admit, it was pretty funny in the house telling everyone what I was working on.
That's a good point. I think the term "debunked" is thoroughly debunked at this point.
I did, that's how I got my image in the end.
Krita with the localdiffusion plugin is pretty incredible tbh.
Krita with the localdiffusion plugin is pretty incredible tbh.
You know, all I wanted was a picture of an adolf hitler/scorpion hybrid with atomic bombs for hands, but apparently that's to much to ask of most AI websites.