Same. I nearly got sent to one of these when I was 14. Dodged a bullet

I dunno, prosthetics have only gotten cheaper and more advanced. $6M still buys some pretty top shelf tech.

True leftists, like any medium-small minority, can make or break any coalition of medium-small minorities. And likewise, they can’t really direct policy all on their own, because the rest of the minorities in the coalition aren’t on board yet. One minority can’t make it, but they can break it.

I also hope this brings progressivism to the Democratic party. That would be a good way to bring more of the coalition on board.

That’s what I’m thinking, wonder if I can isolate joints themselves in the slicer to just show down for those parts

it would be like going to the Olympics in Berlin 1936.

That’s what it reminded me of! Thanks, that was bugging.me.

Oh I never said he shouldn’t be held accountable. I’m just saying there was almost certainly a pipeline of small steps to being fully implicated. There were definitely people who got involved with Epstein because he was a power broker that had his fingers in a lot of pies, and by the time they were past the point of no return it was too late.

Not saying that’s the case with Gates, but it’s important to recognize that part.

I think a lot of people were pressured into participating at pedo Island because of existing blackmail, which generated more powerful blackmail. Using blackmail leverage to create more blackmail leverage is like blackmail 101.

I’m not saying Gates was a “victim”, but it seems silly to ignore the role blackmail played in Epstein’s operations.

I think the point is more that he’s not physically in a good enough state to give lengthy testimony.

Sometimes PR people don’t write defensively, at least not entirely. Sometimes there’s an error, and the correct PR response is to acknowledge the error and communicate intent to rectify it for the future. Being totally defensive in the light of an actual error can do more damage than gracefully acknowledging it.

LLMs are trained on data. They learn from actual human content. They’re usually pre-prompted to be agreeable, professional, and diplomatic. PR writing is probably a good chunk of the training data used to inform LLM word and phrasing choice.

You’re essentially arguing that an impressionist painting “reads like AI” because you’ve seen a lot of AI images generated by models trained on impressionist paintings.

“you’re right to raise this” is an LLMism on the same level as “You’re exactly right!”

It’s also a standard PRism. Given that this is a PR post, that’s not really proof.

*deep tissues

Well if someone doesn’t, we’ll never have anything but lesser evil candidates.

Maybe if non-evil people ran in primaries, and people showed up to vote for them, we’d get to vote for something else. Have you considered running for office, or canvassing for good primary candidates?

My throughput isn’t as high as it used to be, I’m not constantly printing, plus I’ll be too busy to do much for the next month or so. That should only be what, 10-15 hours of print time tops?

Yeah I saw that, though I’ll probably just wait and print on the U1 when it gets here.

That assumes a corporation can be convicted of a crime.

Whereas the study of thyme would fall under horticulture

Eh, they didn’t say “plan to build 400,000 affordable housing units”, they said “plan for 400,000 units”. The plan involves building 200,000 units, and stabilizing 200,000 existing units. That’s not really a false headline.