We need to get this fun information to Northern California and Eastern Oregon. Neither state is in danger of voting for him but it should definitely cause some consternation in the conservative sphere.
I mean, I’m pretty sure Sanders is well aware, but this is who he has always been his entire political career. He will try to make it an issue, try to make a stink about it, be ignored, and then later be remembered as being on the right side of the issue.
I have to say, I would have given up long ago, so it seems to me he’s a good egg for continuing to fight the good fight of trying to bring attention to these issues despite how often he has been ignored.
Do I think his way of doing things is working? I’m pretty sure it’s not, it could if there were more people like Sanders, but as he’s a minority of being on the right side of these issues, there’s only so much he can do to raise the issue and get others to care. While it’s commendable, you’re not wrong in seeing it as foolhardy and pointless because, well, it pretty much is. (At least not without a significant number of others at his back, which he does not have, politically.)
But it’s how Sanders has chosen to fight his fight, and it’s at the very least respectable, if unsuccessful.
I believe he's the type of guy that's compartmentalized. He full heartedly believes that the rich need to be taxed more and that he'll work tirelessly to prevent it because it's bad for business
Financially, it makes sense to do. But morally and ethnically? Debatable. I don’t think it’s hypocritical to both exploit the law as written and advocate for its change, if it doesn’t exactly harm anyone.
Like if that “legal murder zone” was a real thing, it would absolutely be bad to exploit that. But tax avoidance is pretty far down my list of all the bad things you can do.
I guess so, other than his manifesto saying he wants to kill Trump and showing up at the same place and time. I don’t think I’d wanna be ak-bush-guy in court
edit: are AK’s even legal to carry around? I don’t know if FL has open carry
I think there’s a YouTube channel called the armed fisherman whose deal is to carry an AK as he goes “fishing” because that is allowed. I’ve only seen a couple of vids, so my details are probably wrong.
If I am not mistaken FL has one of those statutes that permits Open Carry only while lawfully engaged in fishing/hunting/camping.
In some states it is legal to open carry a rifle on a sling in public. Pointing it at/across a public street from a semi-concealed position, as the suspect was, isn’t legal in almost any situation, in any state.
I think it’s rather more that it’s painfully clear to anyone with a functioning brain that Donald Trump and his campaign is once again trying to manipulatively present himself as in more danger than he actually is and falsely blaming Democrats for violent vitriol. Donald Trump is firmly the one producing all the violent rhetoric in this campaign. The worst the Democrats have done is imply that JD Vance fucked a couch, and when they did, it was clearly in jest and not serious. Yet he turns it around and blames it on the Harris campaign immediately.
So, let’s go over. What makes this a nothingburger compared to what Trump makes it out to be:
This guy who they caught with the guns previously voted for Trump, and had also previously supported Vivek, after he was disillusioned with Trump. He’s clearly not well, but he’s also clearly not a true and blue progressive who was pushed to violence by evil Democrats being mean to Donald Trump.
Trump was never actually in any serious danger, probably because due to the previous massive fuckup the Secret Service is probably actually doing their job this time around. Since he was never in actual serious danger, because they were doing their job, it’s as much of a nothingburger as the number of times that such a thing has happened to sitting Presidents. It doesn’t blow up the news because it’s stupid when they’ve already failed.
If Kamala was at this golf course would you be singing a different tune? I have zero doubt they’re going to get whatever mileage they can out of this, but idk how we can pretend this is “nothing”.
Also, I’m positive a person intending to kill a (former) president being arrested 600yds away from their target is newsworthy.
I think Trump is reaping what he’s sown too, but I can’t pretend it’s remotely close to “nothing”
If Kamala was at this golf course would you be singing a different tune?
In an America where children are shot daily? No, dumbass, I wouldn’t. It’s not that big a deal when unhinged freaks can get guns, sorry. It’s just par for the course. It’s also literally why the Secret Service fucking exists.
edit: Imagine replying with such hostility lol. Kamala harris almost being shot would be big news. Just because kids are shot too doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be. Many things can be (and are) bad at once. I don’t get your attitude or angle
No gotcha… just a legitimate question I asked you and myself. I ponder these things. I can see you are having trouble playing nice though which is unfortunate
Where did they confirm the rifle? Initial reporting was an AK-47 and a scope, then I heard AR type (whatever that means). I was dubious on an actual AK (not AKM or 74), and am very surprised on an sks. This guy was gonna make a 4-500 yard shot with an SKS??? And it must have been a modified or later paratrooper model, because I don’t think they had scope mounts on regular SKS, not even the side mount bracket. It has been so long since I had my “Big 5 sports” $99 SKS, but I don’t think I could hit a head shot at 400 yards with 7.62 on my best day.
I sincerely don’t want him to get shot at any time before the election but it doesn’t make me feel bad to know that he knows there are people who want to shoot at him, especially republicans who want to shoot at him
At this point I don’t care if he takes one to the dome. His followers are going g to be violent regardless it’s better it happe lns with a Democrat in office
The better question is if anyone actually fucking cares? It sure seems like all those climate pledges are just out the window in favor of more money now. They’re not worried about keeping up the ruse. The people that run this world feel like they’ve given up on caring about the future at all and want to strip-mine the entire planet of value before they die.
Like those fucking Effective Altruism people who act like they are but are hiding sinister intentions saying “it doesn’t matter how many people we kill now as long as we achieve this great thing of an AI God who will save us from ourselves.”
Like, believing humans are so special that we can create an AI God that is smarter than us is somehow dumber than believing in the God’s of the ancient world. At least the ancient Gods weren’t entirely wrapped up in existing because of human hubris.
The rest of humanity isn’t asking for that or being asked what their opinion on that is, it’s just full steam ahead for the fucktards who think they’ve already figured out the future. They’re about as clever as the people who claimed human flight wasn’t possible, just because they’re going extreme the other direction from skepticism to belief doesn’t make them smart.
Why do you think its so crazy to create an ai god, as you put it (agi)? Can i ask your background on that topic? Im a dumb new software engineer and i use LLMs. They fascinate me with the potential for mass accessible education and quantifying huge amounts of information for new insight.
I know some tech companies are investing a lot into energy solutions because the energy problem seems very real. I agree the acceleration of resource usage seems pretty crazy. Are their any opinions from top minds in the industry that raise similar concerns? Between uneducated memeing doomers on here, and self interested companies using it, its hard to objectively talk about ai. Isnt it kind of like… its here and not going away, and we should be on the cutting edge to not let bad actors capitalize with ai (fraud is crazy rampant since ai).
For me it’s because I’m not convinced LLMs are really a stepping stone to any actual AI. They don’t have educational applications imo because there isn’t any way they can separate truth from fiction. They don’t understand the words that they output; they’re just predictive text generators on a huge scale. This isn’t something that can change with better tech either; it’s baked in to the very concept of an LLM. And worse, when they are wrong there’s no way to tell without already knowing the answer to the questions you’re asking. They’re literally just monkeys with typewriters. This is an extremely good article about the kinds of problems I’m taking about.
Thanks. I sped read and hope its okay if i raise some quick thoughts.
I thought it was interesting how it mentioned LLMs arent a mind that is formed in nature. I would offer a dumb conjecture that agi, while a mind, might still need an LLM as a component to actually handle the amount of data of a society. Like you said, LLMs are useful if you know the answer or at least suspect when to revisit a result. Maybe we are missing the biggest piece of agi, but handling data is really important and this still benefits us right? I think we will need more than a mind from our local nature to create god.
Im a pretty skeptical person. When i used chatgpt i was pretty blown away and wouldnt say i was leaning into the idea that it was sentient. I just saw an incredible new tool, and through using it, now understand the pitfalls and can get awesome results that would have never been achieved with googling in the amount of time i spent. Most all of the heavy lifting i have it do i immediately verify through testing and its correct often enough to realize huge gains over googling and my local library etc…
I think the criticisms of LLMs and their capability arent inaccurate but maybe short sighted? I think criticsms should currently focus on its performance for how we are using it… not how laymens might imagine using something they dont understand. Ultimately any use cases should be heavily tested and perform more accurately than human counterparts (where we are talking about replacement of humans anyway). If we dont find the gains from those applications to validate the power use… or whatever… then we are always capable of recognizing that.
But i think its 100% valid to push back against idealized predictions but i also think shits gonna get crazy. I think theres a lot to be gained, and i question why LLMs cant be a stepping stone to greater computing milestones even if LLMs themselves aren’t a component of agi in the end.
What im trying to be convinced of is the criticisms arent as overblown as the hype.
Yea this is getting dangerous. We need to put him somewhere safe. Like really safe. Maybe like concrete walls so bullets can’t get through, and barred windows to prevent would-be assassins from getting in. Have like multiple points of entry under lock and key, with armed guards all over.
Wall off the entire area too - big tall concrete walls. And barbed wire on top. No one’s getting through that! Ooh and some towers around good vantage points with spotlights and snipers.
We really can’t be too careful.
Does anyone know a place like that where Trump might belong?
There’s no where like that for rich( or pretend to be billionaire?) orange people that I can find. If he was noticably poor I bet something could be figured out without much hassle.
Such a shame there’s no institutional protection for the pretend billionaire oompa loompa class when they invite violence.
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