Maybe they asked like, “SERIOUSLY thought about shooting someone” or perhaps “thought about shooting someone at a time that you actually had the means to do it” or even “made mental plans to shoot someone.”
Or maybe I’m more of a psychopath than I thought I was. Like I don’t actually want to hurt anyone, and I don’t even own a gun, but the number of times it crossed my mind…
Yeah if this won I’d hope it would lead to the “stop killing hardware” movement next.
It legitimately is squeezing out the entry level already and that is its own problem. Maybe it’s good for some of us, in that people with experience will be needed for a long time as they prevent all these younger people from getting that experience, but it absolutely sucks for a whole bunch of people trying to make a career, and it will eventually suck for the economy as a whole. AI, whether it’s ready or not, or will even ever be fully what the marketing people claim it is, is leading to a whole lot of shortsighted decisions that are hurting people.
Oh Lord it’s all blurring together on me. You’re right. I don’t get the theory either then.
Yeah it’s pretty far down my list too but I think the theory goes that Hilary wanted him dead because if he ratted on Bill then it would hurt her election chances. Plausible enough as far as motives go. Still, I agree that Trump is the obvious choice.
The only thing that makes me hesitate on that one is… Trump or the Clinton’s or whoever could have had him assassinated in prison, I don’t believe they would have gone through the added effort of keeping him alive. He’s gonna have a hard time sourcing kids now so why bother? Certainly not because any of the list of suspects values friendship or loyalty
TBH if using my death to get rich was an option and my wife didn’t take it, I’d haunt her ass.
I think that’s called “appeasement.” It’s worked great throughout history.
It was a wild character arc. Paraphrasing heavily…
90s “Corporations are stupid and abusive to employees”
2001 “What if we’re all just fragments of God? Why do we fight each other?”
2009 “Place bets on the people you hate most, they always seem to win.”
2023 “Black Lives Matter is a racist hate group.”
2025 “Trump will fix everything. Also please get me into a medical trial daddy.”
I was really holding out for the redemption arc but alas.
I’m a little sad about it. I liked his writing in the late 90s/early 2000s. Very anti-corporate. Imperfect but fairly progressive. It seemed like he was just a hippie at heart. I wish I understood what happened to him. From the outside looking in my best guess is falling victim to his success, he began to think too highly of himself, and maybe a bit too much paying attention to Fox News. It was a wild turnaround from my perspective.
The biggest problem with leaving it up to the states is that the party that is always harping on about states’ rights is a bunch of disingenuous liars who immediately start restricting states’ rights the second the state doesn’t do what they want.
It’s actually something that gives me hope in the world. LLMs are predicting the words they use based on being fed tremendous amounts of data. The fact that they’re having trouble getting them to parrot lies is a good sign that the vast majority of data sources are actually agreeing on the truth. At least that’s how I view it.
If I could make one wish to fix things, it would be to eradicate all externalities. Don’t get me wrong, I’m aware this would absolutely suck for a while. Without some kind of matching increase in wages or subsidies, it would ruin a lot of people that I don’t think deserve it. But when you have to pay for the cost of recapturing the CO2 you produce, when you have to pay for the actual cost of producing the plastic you throw away, we would very quickly get better alternatives. Biodegradable packaging would become more common. Alternatives to gas would explode. Interest in walkable areas and public transit would grow. Industries that really need disposable plastics are also rich enough to afford proper disposal, like medicine and electronics. After enough time, we’d just live in a better, cleaner world with less waste and more care put into our distribution networks.
We only have all the bullshit because they’ve been pushing the bill along to the next generation and the next and the next, and we are seeing the bill come due.
Fox News is already going with “lawless mayhem after Knicks win” so