A completely dysfunctional FBI? No, wait, stop, please.

I think Home Alone was the movie that taught me how product placement worked.

Oh, right, the consequences of my actions

Trump has poisoned the information well so much that we have no idea if opening the Straight is real or not. The entire world economy depends on whether it is or not.

Some people and organizations send clear signals about what they care about. For X, it's making sure there's no criticism of Holocaust and rape jokes.

There's a huge selection bias in saying technology always gets better. The ones you would cite are the ones that worked in a massive way. The millions of dead ends usually only get mentioned in a few research papers nobody reads.

Now we have a tech that is very publicly not going anywhere.

What a lot of people don't realize is that any one technology can get stuck in a rut.

I have a book from the early 90s that says bubble memory is going to be the next big thing. Capacity of hard drives, but the speed of RAM. Now, bubble memory did find some niche applications, but that's it.

This may also break the presumption that technology *always* gets better, and it does it on short time periods. We live a unique time period in human history where you can even argue that.

13th century French farmer? Probably using the same tools as their parents, and their parents' parents.

Nor does it matter that LLMs will never be capable of what they want out of it. You might as well try telling a devout Catholic that the trinity makes no sense.

When you view LLM operations through the lens of a religious cult, it tends to make a lot more sense. It can never make a profit based on the money already dumped into it. They can read numbers in Excel. Doesn't matter. The god must be born.

Tech CEOs are burning a pile of money as part of a ritual to summon a god out of runes etched in silicon. They don't have a plan beyond that; they just assume it will be good for them because they caused it to happen.

The last one died when JD demonstrated live that the couch fucking jokes were real. Just keep furniture out of the room and it will be fine.

People fall into hate because there are communities built around hate.

We need to build communities around opposing it. We need groups we attend like it's Church.

I agree. Everyone keeps saying he's got dementia or like here, he's "confused". I don't buy it. He's a strategic pathological liar and like you say he knows his devotees will believe anything he says without question. Also that the oligarchy owned MSM will air it without fact checking.

It is important that the working class be held accountable. Services must follow strict guidelines to the letter. You know how they are.

Rich people are paragons of virtue and intelligence (which are inextricably linked in my Victorian mindset), and therefore can be left to their own devices.

"Dementia" here is letting him off the hook. No matter if it's brain damage or deliberate lie, his followers will absorb his statements and form it as truth in their minds. That has consequences.

Either way, get him out of office.

Yes. These are retail traders, which means everything is very public. Even if the SEC looked the other way, they would tend to get a lot of bad PR. So they do actually follow the rules here.

Until there was no rule.

If you took the Project 2025 pdf and fed it into an LLM, its output would be indistinguishable from Ron Johnson.

If you took the Project 2025 pdf and fed it into an LLM, its output would be indistinguishable from Ron Johnson.

These aren't just a Tulsa issue. They're all over the US.

Completely unenforceable, but that fact ultimately depends on the Supreme Court continuing to consider them unenforceable. They could easily change their minds, and all of it comes flooding back.

DoorDash grandma perfectly capable of being a tool for free.

Koreans have mastered the art of deep frying chicken, and it's not close.

The British Empire really was about spreading out to find something good to eat.

Wish that it involved less genocide.

Ffs, the White House does not let random Door Dash people hand a bag to the President. Of course it was staged. This isn't even just a Trump thing; stuff gets staged for photo ops all the time in politics.

That's a banal kind of bad, but don't bullshit me that it's anything else.

Right, I'm basically arguing that this entire approach has been misguided for a long time. 3d printers just made it obvious.

I so feel this. In high school, I was able to blow through 900 pages in a weekend. Those 900 pages may have been the schlock we now call "Legends Star Wars", but I was still reading them.

OK, so there's some stuff here that I think a lot of gun control advocates don't understand about how the current system works. And I do think it results in ineffective regulations being written. This is going to get into the weeds a little bit. 🧵

So to come back to the original question, none of this was covered by existing law because there wasn't a compelling reason to change it. The US also made an odd, arbitrary definition of the part that constituted "THE firearm", and the march of technology has destroyed its assumptions.

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Barrels are relatively small and easy to bring across open state borders. One state doing this, or even several states, is not going to solve anything. What it does is create even more confusion around firearms laws and the way they interact between federal and state levels. Which is already a lot.

Beyond 3d printers, regulating pressure-bearing items means you can limit the power available. This is basically how UK firearms regulations work.

Colorado is trying to pass a bill along these lines, but doing this at the state level causes more problems.

leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-043