surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

I think this might simultaneously be misandry, misogyny and misanthropy - a variety of gendered toxicity so strong it's actually exceeded the bounds of both gender and culture and started attempting to undermine basic human social instinct.

This is probably going to sound weird and corny AF but like, thanks for being you dude. A+ work.

10:1 they found that dude doing a bump in a bathroom during some alum org event and told him they'd give him a limitless supply of nose candy if he hawked their murder bots, then like 3 sig heils later they had a freshly minted CEO

Have you ever watched an interview with this fuck? Like just watch some footage of the man.

It's immediately, overwhelmingly clear that anyone who listens to this person about anything at all is either dumber than dogshit, higher than a kite, or both.

"Dogs are not elligible"

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

If you brag about 90+ % of "your" code being generated by a robot that fairly opens the door to criticism of your adoption of that practice if your code sucks shit.

The question is whether or not the code indeed sucks shit, they have already told us how much responsibility to attribute to AI.

It's not really a stretch to blame the entity they're telling you is writing the code for flaws in the code.

The premise that this round of DDOS issues is due to a flaw in the code is much thinner than the premise that flaws in the code may be related to the thing that's writing the code.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

- towards people from out of state moving up, as this has a more reliable and more directly measurable effect on the PFD payout amount than oil prices.

But also it's like a hundred bucks a month, it's really not an amount of money for most to care that deeply about.

I get the temptation to see this as a case of multiple aligned incentives but it very much is not.

The whole existence of the fund in the first place was a hedge against that relationship ending.

TBH the only socio-political effect I've observed from the PFD has been an increase in antipathy -

The fund does -grow- in size from money the state extracts from oil companies, but this number is not directly connected to the profit those companies make selling oil, it's connected to how much they pay AK for the right to extract crude. Also, it keeps living and growing if they all leave.

The PFD was initially established and is paid into from revenue generated by the state leasing its land to oil companies - the continued existence of the fund and is not contingent on additional income from oil - that was actually the primary motivation behind the fund.

There's a lot of nuance to the PFD, oil, and AK politics that folks from outside don't really get.

To most, the PFD reads as trickle-down from the oil industry, but this isn't actually where it came from or how it affects the lives of the people who live there.

I think a massive part of the ills of the industry come from the relative infrequency of anyone needing to interact with codebases for applications older than about 5 years.

The idea of anything remotely complex not having an SME you can meaningfully interrogate should inspire immediate terror.

Sounds right. As a kid out of highschool your three options are oil, fish, or leave. Everything else isn't a future it's just maintenance.

PFD isn't really a factor in decision in my experience, it's more like extra Christmas money. It'd probably be different for something like UBI though.

This is somewhat overblown. Investment into the fund comes from taxes on oil revenue but the fund itself is diversified in its investment.

The bigger impact on AK politics is that the oil industry is one of the only significantly sized employers in the state.

The truth here is a lot sadder. It's not about enjoying the suffering on screen.

It's a clubhouse for miserable fucks.

The miserable fuck on screen is an advertisement that offers permission, validation, and community for feeling like a miserable fuck.

The answer to the question is always:
"Because she trusted him"

And if that answer doesn't REALLY piss you off there is something deeply fuckin wrong with you.

As a guy who grew up in rural AK; it's difficult to understate just how much of what pushes people to a perceived frontier is -running away- from some kind of host culture.

The whole frontier ethos is basically surfing the wave between apocalypses.

Dude. We already had commuter rail a century ago. We built lines between pop centers already. They served a lot of people. Most of that infrastructure is still fucking there, in service, right now. Today.

Your whole argument is dumber than dogshit dude. This is a non-factor.

Cooper. We blasted a mile long tunnel through the heart of a mountain in the fuckin 40s to install a railway to goddamned Whittier AK.

We just put a train on a fucking lake like a week ago.

This is not an obstacle that matters dude.

The flies don't CAUSE the shit to stink; nevertheless, the smell of shit is strongly related to JD Vance

Smokey the Bear says: "Only Livable Wages Can Prevent Warehouse Fires." While standing in front of that one fire.

Literally an apocalypse that rides on birdshit, may every leaf and twig of it burn in the deepest hells

I respect the sentiment but like, if we knew a process by which we could make people not turn out to be assholes with just any kind of consistency the world would be a much different place.

In retrospect the final ascendency of the linux desktop finally being brought to fruition by Microsoft shooting itself in the foot seems ... almost inevitable

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