I hate to break it to you, but most Americans never have the opportunity to personally interview their representatives.
Of course Americans vote for who they’re told to vote for. Every candidate is being built up by someone else. You’d say the same thing if all the candidates that the establishment DNC propped up had won. The trick is finding someone who both shares your values, and has the knowledge to give you an informed opinion. Mamdani is a pretty solid voice to listen to.
From my perspective, it seems like Mamdani has a personal policy of finding things that will make a positive impact, no matter how small, and giving them the push they need to get done rather than letting them get bogged down by committees or fishing for funding.
A lot of politicians in similar positions spend their days wrangling and maneuvering, rather than finding a thing and just doing it.
If they did that, it would trash the cell reception. Metal blocks signal.
Although you are correct, you miss my point.
In the Roman days, the phrase meant superficial appeasement of the masses by the politicians. It was a tactic to prevent the uprising of the lower class. My point is that these days, the ruling class isn’t bothering to give the populace any appeasement. No give, only take. The small artists and performers are fantastic, but they are organized at the small, local level by the very class of people that are being repressed, and so do not fit in the ‘bread and circuses’ quote.
soooooo the lower class is getting priced out of both the bread AND the circuses?
It’s a skull-and-bones. In modern day it is far more associated with pirates than it is Nazis, and he was in the Marines.
Also it’s cheap if you use their stupid app, depending on what you get. When I’m trying to pinch pennies but don’t have time for anything else, it comes in handy.
Their app really is stupid though
It’s not even that. It’s about Steam apparently trying to enforce a clause that doesn’t exist. The most-favored nation clause applies to Steam keys only, but Steam allegedly sent Ubisoft a nastygram about them selling a non-Steam version for less.
Only connected with cinch straps. They don’t have any wire connection to the pole. That’s what makes them so easy to place all around a city; they’re just throwing them onto pre-existing poles.
They have solar panels and batteries, they aren’t connected to anything.
I doubt anyone can actually calculate a line of best using ordinary least square linear regression by hand with no mistakes but no one’s crying about that.
That’s because I can write an algorithm to do it for me reliably and quickly.
LLMs are just the next generation of calculators and programs.
LLMs can do it quickly, but they cannot do it reliably by their very nature. They are very much NOT the next generation of calculators and programs, because the whole POINT of calculators and programs is to do it quickly AND RELIABLY.
nowadays most of it is done by robots.
The difference is that the robots are actually better at reliably making cars than the humans were. Vibe coding very much does not produce better, more reliable code.
I think maybe we’re talking about a different Jon Stewart, because the one I know hasn’t shied away from criticizing Israel.
That’s because it doesn’t really ‘know’ things in the same way you and I do. It’s much more like having a gut reaction to something and then spitting it out as truth; LLMs don’t really have the capability to ruminate about something. The one pass through their neural network is all they get unless it’s a ‘reasoning’ model that then has multiple passes as it generates an approximation of train-of-thought - but even then, its output is still a series of approximations.
When its training data had something resembling corrections in it, the most likely text that came afterwards was ‘oh you’re right, let me fix that’ - so that’s what the LLM outputs. That’s all there is to it.
Because just giving them money, no strings attached, is proven to be more effective AND more efficient in both money and manpower. Every single time it’s studied.
The argument ‘But what if someone abuses it?’ always falls flat when countered by ‘What if people are unjustly denied support they need because of the restrictions?’ Because the first will always happen, no matter what, and the second only happens if you deny support. One person ‘unfairly’ wasting money on meth would be a more than fair price to pay for one more person getting what they need to survive, and if you believe otherwise… I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe go grow some human empathy.
Besides, tax money is wasted WAY more by the rich than by the poor.
They just take it as an excuse to bomb even more.
They’re too used to being able to get whatever they want by whining and threatening loud enough.
The propaganda and isolation algorithms are in full swing with Trump, in a way that they could only dream of in Dubya’s day.
It’s a part of gaming history and a conversation piece, as well as a neat piece of kit. It has sentimental value above and beyond its utility. People who are buying from scalpers are doing it for that reason.