If you don't stop hiding behind the block button there will be consequences. You have been warned.

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(It's all just Claude wearing a variety of fake mustaches and funny hats)

Tam (dragon) pressing a much smaller human against his throat. "Feel that? That's where you're about to go. Down my gullet." He swallows her and there are a couple of stylized panels of her going down his neck, ending with a close up of his eyes. "Down, down, down. Where things like you go and don't come back."

"Down. Down. Down. Where things like you go and don't come back."
She's fine and will be fine.

I think I've posted this twice and deleted it because I got self conscious, lol
#greeksnichestuff

Also, if it turns out newer models are better at finding and exploiting bugs than fixing them, we'll enter a fun new world where nobody is safe unless they massively outspend all the hacking groups.

I worry most about the negative externalities of a world where everyone needs to pay Anthropic the troll toll if they want to exist on the open internet, without worrying about 100 new zero-day exploits being found by hacking groups every month.

A particularly nasty combination of the two is when it keeps trying to flush something that desperately needs flushing but refuses to be flushed. Nasty poop water inching ever closer to the rim.

Yes! And in 2032, it will be after a series of costly wars, massive defunding of our social programs, and Trump's disastrous isolationist economic policies.

That premise literally happened, in real life! I just described the economic environment of the 2024 election!

Yeah that's great man, and that's almost certainly going to happen.

What happens in the election after that, where Dems have power, healthcare premiums are up another 50%, and housing is still completely unaffordable, though?

That's a really bizarre assumption to make about voting behavior in a general election, though. People use that excuse in the primaries where the internal logic is at least coherent. Saying "I don't think a black woman can win, so I'm going to resign myself to losing" makes zero sense in the general

The fact that we had this candidate and he had to step down at the last minute because it became clear he wasn't viable is an interesting data point here. Obviously that debate played a role, but he'd been underwater in approval ratings long before that.

"It's the economy, stupid" stays winning.

Good luck confronting Black and Hispanic progressive-leanimg independents who were upset about the Biden economy over their latent racism, I guess.

And 8% of them gave any hint that they had a problem with Kamala's race or gender.

I guess, in an abstract sense? The ven diagram between people who want more racism and the people who didn't like Kamala because she was a black woman is a near circle, though.

It doesn't matter. Dems should not shoot themselves in the foot by trying to woo that crowd, whether that looks like refusing to run black women again or making their policies more racist.

"Our side" is insanely negatively polarized right now. The straight ticket Dem voters all voted Harris, even the racists, because they hate Trump.

The men of color who sat it out aren't on your side, and if you want them on your side you should probably listen to what they have to say.

You can approximate that crowd pretty well in the "Kamala is too liberal for me" bucket, imo. Which does exist, but it's one of the smaller ones in this sample.

I think the vast, vast majority of racists simply voted for the racist candidate. The Biden -> no-show voters are a pretty small group.

I think most of that segment voted for the guy who ran on ending DEI and being "tough on crime", though.

I think if your takeaway from this is "we shouldn't run black women" and not "we should do more economic populism focused on healthcare and lower income housing", you're setting the Dems up for failure.

Dude I really don't give a shit about whatever other weird ass beef you have with the guy. I'll make you a deal: I'll accept your framing of him as a neonazi or whatever for using substack if you admit that you were 100% factually incorrect about his views on the 2024 election.

Literally this entire discussion has been about his view on Gaza. that is the thing you started this discussion with. You're just moving the goal posts now because you were factually incorrect about what that view was, and you don't want to admit it.

Can you really quickly just give me a very short summary of what his views on Gaza are, according to the article you yourself linked?

All the other wolves now want a radio collar of their own, changing their behaviors and forcing scientists to develop a more boring model.

2am character concept (who even needs sleep pfft) 🐑🐺

Then why were you criticizing Hasan, a Muslim American, under the mistaken impression that he agreed with the quote I just provided you?

4 cormorants talking to each other. The males have shockingly blue throat pouches.

A Chorus of Cormorants.