Look, the man is an awful person, but don’t give him THAT much credit. Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Lee Atwater and anyone involved in the southern strategy was major parts of it. McConnell, “The Freedom Caucus”, and “Tea Party” were major parts of it. The Koch Brothers with the heritage foundation is a major part.
And this is the short list. I didn’t go into the evengelicals, AM conservative pundits, Rupert Murdoch and so much more.
Of course they condemned Islam for that. It’s Islam.
For Christianity, it’s different for the evangelicals.
I have found a couple times an LLM being good for searches. My example is scooters in the US, because of commute I’d like to find an electric scooter, the kind like a Vespa. But you do a search, you find all sorts about the standing scooters, look for electric motorcycles and they start getting to car level prices or aren’t street legal, it gets to be a mess. Chat GPT turned that search into a relatively quick one that I could find a local place that I’m going to check out when there’s not ice on the ground. But the important part was making it require links. As a tool, it can have its uses.
So all of that said… Google and other searches doing AI did fuck all and nothing to help on this, and I agree 100% I do not want AI on the search for DDG
Ehhhhhh… I don’t have faith in it. The manufacturing sector has been in the process of getting worse back when I tried to get into it in 08, and finally gave up on actually finding work in the industry and moved to healthcare. I know people who’ve quit welding jobs because they hit the ceiling on pay and it’s still not making living wages here in the midwest.
Yet that’s an industry that has consistently anti-union my entire life. They just buy into the foreigners taking their jobs. I fear the programming sector will drink the same koolaid, just Indians instead of Mexicans.
I agree on the tricking them, but there’s another part I look at. Basic fucking pattern recognition. The jobs have stopped being the in demand for a while now, and they’re not so much on the negotiating power. But the idea of a union is still apparently more anathema and are shocked at these mass layoffs that keep happening.
Don’t worry, we won’t get a Blade Runner-esc hellscape.
Because Blade Runner for a movie had to give us a fascinating world that was interesting that even as a hellscape there was a “Man, it’d be cool to be there.”
No, our hellscape is going to be more like how fast food restaurants all look the same now, the corporate architecture version of taupe agreed to by committee.
Huh… it’s always nice to see Texas do something right for once.
I have a friend in programming. He says it’s baffling that the entire industry is anti-union and tends to be pretty pro-corporate.
You ask that question, in a lot of rural areas the small walmart in town is run down and doesn’t get as much stock. It reduces slowly over time until shopping at that walmart is a waste of time and people go to the next one. So Walmart closes down the “Underperforming” walmart forcing people to go to the bigger one few towns over, centralizing and cutting the amount of staff/delivery locations walmart has to deal with, making them more money.
The Waltons were major named donors to the Heritage Foundation.
I’m a pessimist and past few years have been showing how it can get worse even when I can’t imagine how much worse it can get.
There’s only one guarantee, as long as there are two people on the planet, it CAN get worse.
It’s a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys… it’s bleak down there…
We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they’ve swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn’t a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.
Seriously… if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature… but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity… there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.
Live in a right wing state…
They’ll still call it the “Liberal media” any time it says ANYTHING against their world view. Fox is “liberal media” around here.
Look… I’m more on board with this than not… but at this point betting on this administration to cook the goose that lays the golden eggs is the best bet. Sure… a goose dinner is nice, but in the process legit destroys what made the goose amazing in the process.
IE: Don’t worry, they’ll fuck it up somehow
Honestly way I’ve been listening to NPR it seems like they had gotten sick of things last Trump administration. I was shocked when you had a senator trying to fight the Green New Deal because “gonna stop cows” and the reporter kept pressing him for where that was until she read it outright to him. Of course the little gremlin couldn’t be bothered to answer after that but expecting anything out of the right is impossible.
Bunch of hospitals in my state getting close to shutting down, all in districts that voted heavily Trump. I feel bad for the anti-Trumpers out there… but most of the communities that are crying as they’re also worried about this and losing their farms voted for him and this shitstick of a state government and my sympathy level is at the point of a Nelson laugh.
Always have been. They just have to be in control.
The antichrist is the communism we made along the way.
We’re right before the “Madagascar Solution” part of history.
We all know where this is going.
That’s what I keep saying is the greatest failure is the traitor leaders got to skip off.