Listen, they don't want you to know this. I might not survive telling you, so *listen*.

You will only know true praxis when you can do Lindy with a stranger to a remix of the Pokemon theme song and be free of cringe.

I have to go. There's Hatsune Miku coming up. I'll see you on the other side.

Today, like every day, is a good day to remind you that Jeff LaRe cares so little about his job that he still has the wrong district on his official web site.

Fairfield County deserves someone who actually takes the job seriously.

More people should consult me, yes, this is Known.

(Well, I say this tongue-in-cheekly but my wife informs me that it's true in sincerity. She's so supportive.)

I think if they weren't going to do mass bans for being terminally toxic, which they should have years ago and still could, they should have all made new accounts and archived their old ones because this site's community is too garbage to handle them being part of it.

People quite literally spent a while showing up in any post they made to scream at them for one reason or another. Someone wrote a stalking bot to automatically post every interaction their T&S head was doing on the site so they could yell at him about not "being part of the community" or something.

Someone described the mood on this site lately as "they just wanted a reversed-polarized Xitter" and it's uncomfortably true, it sucks and the people doing it suck, and I'm not releasing Frozen Dreams for a month and a half. Hm.

I think the weird thing is literally everything you said, because none of it is true but all of it sounds like me when I was seventeen.

They're probably pissy from being screamed at by whiny playground bullies who think they're clever. Frankly, in their place I would have banned them all in 2023 when there was a fad for posting memes of a dev's face with transphobic shit he never said attributed to him.

I guess the good news is that Swalwell getting outed as the horrifying abuser he was means that we have less of a window for fucking this up for ourselves?

So: what's new? Why do I think this is about LLMs?

Because that's what's new. Something new has happened between this year and last year that has got Wyden willing to raise the alarm. If I were an IC leader I would *absolutely* use them to search the information I could lawfully search

You're so valid for this though.

(I joined a Reconstructionist shul, which is basically the same thing but for Jews.)

Yeah. I've seen a lot of people get yelled at for doing or saying something totally normal, and people will just... I dunno, it's the hit new trend, screaming at the particular person, making fun of how they look, coming up with elementary school playground insults.

sigh. it's just such weird shit.

Even if they sucked, why have a whole circlejerk of all cheering on each other's dipshittery and egging each other on to greater edginess? It just doesn't sound like very much fun.

I'm old, Coba. I got earnest and cringe and then I turned into a girl and I'm twice as earnest and cringe.

I had my edgelord phase and I grew out of it, I put quite a lot of effort into growing out of it in fact. I have spent my last decade and a half consciously trying to cultivate earnestness and sincerity. I just... don't see the appeal of being a channer anymore?

the weird psychosexual fetish this website's userbase has for toddler-level "dunking" on the devs is some of the weirdest shit about this website and always has been.

the punchline is "I can be a dick to someone for made-up reasons!" and it gets three thousand reposts, idk, maybe I'm just old.

*if she wins in June and a Republican takes the other slot in the top 2

sorry not sorry but if Beccerra takes a top two slot I'm voting for him

I see people are being Extremely Normal about the correct statement that the primary is for figuring out which Democrats are running in the general and the general is where we all set our disappointments aside to vote for the nominee.

I don't like Porter! if she wins in June I'm 100% voting for her

I'm just saying Vote Blue No Matter Who means Third Way and Searchlight will have to get on board or get trampled by the glorious DSA-to-Bulwark Popular Juggernaut.

Marx would have loved spreadsheets.

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People are gonna be real mad if we ever actually start tackling environmental issues with any degree of seriousness. I expect they will vote out anyone who does it.

This includes agricultural runoff.

The Lord replied, "The times when the servers weren't working, my child, is when I tried to get you to log off."

Ahh it was a dos. Well, now I feel bad. Nobody do crime.

Ultimately leftists don't see Trump as the problem, they see the "system" or "establishment" as the problem, so for them the biggest trigger imaginable was Harris standing with Cheney as they both say "lets save the country we love and it democracy"

MTG will help them fight elites (spelled J E W)

God that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

Wonderfully detailed thread on Draft2Digital's new fees: why they happened, what D2D could/should do differently, things indie authors should consider in making choices now, and how anthologies in particular are being affected.

Is it? I think you all look like you're having fun, I'll grant you that, but I think it's just weird.

I guess I really did get over being an edgelord somewhere along the way. God I'm old.

somehow "my preference in the primary is the only one that matters" fails to move me so fuck him

Maybe the lefties should mobilize to win AOC the nomination and then the centrists get to choke on the "rally around the blue" logic :)

I'm reliably informed that Warren also had a ton of input into policy in 2020-2024, despite not winning the primary!