They were military-aged children goddammit!

inoculation estimation?

4G was awful for watching videos. I had to use wireless as my main source of internet from 2G to 4G. Increase in speeds is better. 5G was where you could actually watch something (not in HD of course) without it buffering every 3 seconds. Like the way I used to use youtube was to download any videos I wanted to watch. That was less annoying than trying to watch them directly through the site. I would rather wait for the full download and watch it uninterrupted. 5G was my only option up until December of 2023. Well if you don’t count satellite internet which is the worse option.

I think the AI shit is exaggerated. Back around 2018-2020 when everyone was hyping 5G there was a lot of “5G is going to enable self driver cars and IOT” like that was going to be its primary use. It’s barely even used for that stuff. 6G will probably be the same. Machine learning is probably already implemented for network routing and optimization by ISPs. I don’ think 6G will usher in a new age of AI technology anymore than 5G made self driving cars more common.

He asked ChatGPT questions in a way that made it think he’s talking about SCP stories. ChatGPT responded with a generated SCP story. But the CEO guy thinks it’s real. He thinks that ChatGPT found a shadow organization that erases itself from news, the media, the internet, etc and hunts down people who try to treat LLMs as real AGI. He’s basically convinced himself he’s being gangstalked.

nuclear-electric rockets are woke. we need space x rockets that roll coal and have a dixie horn.

RAMPART? More like BODYPART

There have been some criticisms levied against Aldolf Hitler.

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There should be 401k lotteries tbh. You buy bundles of tickets and put them in your 401k. Every 10 years they do a drawing. If you win, your 401k gets the money (no taxes).

Different corporations should run the lottery too, not the government.

Apparently this wasn’t Steam or Visa randomly deciding to do this. They were lobbied by an Australian NGO to remove SA and Incest material:

https://www.collectiveshout.org/

Steam wouldn’t remove SA games so they went to the payment processors and complained until those companies put pressure on Valve.

Or they’re just taking credit for something that was already happening. Hard to tell.

America tells you that the only things worth knowing are those that can be known. America is wrong.

make sure you do the lemon zest, not just the juice. The lemon flavor comes from the zest.

President Vance and VP

Technically Powell doesn’t unilaterally set the federal funds rate. There is a committee and they have a vote on whether to raise or lower the rates. If he fires Powell and puts in someone who wants to cut rates, the rest of the governors would have to agree. Most people would say this wouldn’t happen because the Fed is sort of a sacred technocratic and institutional cow. It shan’t be tainted by petty Presidential whims and even if it was, the adults in the room wouldn’t go along with it. But then I ask, what if they did?

If the biggest fish don’t panic and want to let Trump cook, then “the market” won’t crash. I feel like this is how it’s been playing out with tariffs. There’s some big importer/exporter capitalists out there who will suffer, but all the other big capitalists seem kinda okay with that. And they all share the idea with Trump of power projection. They think we should bully other countries into paying us more and letting us pay less. Even if they lose their shirts in the short term on coffee beans or whatever, if it works, it will pay dividends in the long run. Then the capitalists in other countries, even the ones being tariffed more, are kinda going along with it too, probably more out of thinking this is just a short-term problem. They think that when Trump leaves, everything will go back to normal. It won’t.

So if Trump bullies the Fed, that’s a major breach of the liberal technocratic firewall. Once again Trump shits on the gentleman’s agreement to be a good steward of neoliberalism. That’s bad only if the big fish capitalists react as if it’s a problem. My bet is that they’re kinda curious because it’s an opportunity that their kind hasn’t had since the 1910s. It’s been in place so long that they don’t really understand why it’s there and the libertarian (abolish the fed) element is stronger than most think. So compromising it might be cool? Let’s try it. Rockefeller did okay without a fed, after all.

I don’t think there’s any broader calculus other than he likes debt financing. It’s one of his pet things that likes to talk about. He wanted rate cuts much earlier in his first term but the fed rebuked him until 2019 started looking spicy. Then covid game and gave cover to lower rates. Trump didn’t even get to enjoy the cuts for most of his term. He wants them much earlier this time and he’s not going to wait.

He’s got craft cocktail in a mason jar. He’s got mumford & sons playing in the background. Beto represents a simpler time in America. Remember 2011? Beto will return America to its prime.

It’s slobberin’ time