TurtleJoe

TurtleJoe , 18 hours ago

Duh. Everybody knows the only thing that works is Velostat. You cannot use any other material.

TurtleJoe , 1 day ago

But of course, police are given 3 months of training tops, so they just fire them wherever.

I don’t think they fire them wherever. I think they aim at people’s faces because they think it’s funny.

TurtleJoe , 2 days ago

Bleed the Beast.

Waste money on bullshit like this, then cut useful social services to “balance the budget.”

TurtleJoe , 7 days ago

No, they need to actually report on him. That includes the court cases, but also the constant stream of crazy shit that he says at his “rallies,” as well as what his plans are for a second presidency.

TurtleJoe , 12 days ago

Musk raised $6 billion in a recent funding round for his would-be OpenAI competitor, xAI, whose first product, Grok, is meant to serve as a politically incorrect answer to ChatGPT. In addition to Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, Musk is founder of brain interface startup Neuralink and tunneling venture Boring Company.

In case anybody is wondering why he’s making a big deal out of it.

As to why emoji feels the need to make his own “anti-woke” AI, it’s because he thinks that, at some point in the future, our AI overlords will decide to cull white people to meet “forced diversity quotas.” I’m not kidding.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/i-read-everything-elon-musk-posted-for-a-week-send-help/

TurtleJoe , 12 days ago

Musk raised $6 billion in a recent funding round for his would-be OpenAI competitor, xAI, whose first product, Grok, is meant to serve as a politically incorrect answer to ChatGPT. In addition to Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, Musk is founder of brain interface startup Neuralink and tunneling venture Boring Company.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

TurtleJoe , 13 days ago

It’s not the last 40 years, it’s been since Civil Rights legislation and the Brown vs Board decision.

TurtleJoe , 17 days ago

You should just read what the Republicans will do if Trump is reelected.

They’ve published their plans, and I want exactly zero of any of the “policy” they plan on implementing.

TurtleJoe , 17 days ago

He asked that the state GOP revoke their endorsement of him. That’s something.

His previous comments imply some internalized homophobia, but this recent line of rhetoric from the Colorado GOP is obviously eliminationist, and he seems to have realized it. Maybe it leads to him more closely examining his previous attitudes, maybe it doesn’t.

I’m not saying he’s like, a good dude. Just worth noting that he found a line he wouldn’t cross.

TurtleJoe , 17 days ago

That sounds like more of an assault than a disorderly conduct.

This is one of those situations where I like to imagine what would have happened if the guy did that to a cop. Likely a litany of charges, including assaulting an officer, and would have had the shit beaten out of him.

TurtleJoe , 18 days ago

The article says his department’s budget has increased by $270 million since newsom took office. Poor guy is underfunded!

TurtleJoe , 19 days ago

We don’t know what kind of equipment those ladies are working with…

TurtleJoe , 19 days ago

The Trump Org and various campaign entities have, of course, denied that any wrongdoing took place, and denied that Trump had knowledge or direct involvement in compensation issues.

“We didn’t do anything wrong, and even if we did, Trump himself didn’t do it.”

This is undermined by the multiple witnesses in the trial which just ended, who repeatedly testified that Trump insists on hand signing every single check that is for more than a certain amount of money. It has varied over time, but usually something relatively low, like $10k. He is characterized as a relentless micromanager when it comes to money, and is famous for (and constantly brags about) fighting every financial charge, and never paying a penny more than he has to.

It would not be reasonable to assume that large payouts or appointments to high up positions within any Trump org could happen without Trump’s knowledge and approval.

This brings us back to:

The Trump Org and various campaign entities have, of course, denied that any wrongdoing took place, and denied that Trump had knowledge or direct involvement in compensation issues.

This was essentially his exact defense in that NY criminal trial, and the jury didn’t buy it.

TurtleJoe , 20 days ago

I use the term legacy media all the time. It refers to well-known, corporate owned media outlets, both TV and paper. The kinds of outlets that usually publish unvarnished lies from right-wingers, lest they be accused of being “liberal” and are therefore both-sidesing the US right into fascism.

I don’t know what the person you’re responding to is on about, but “legacy media” is definitely a real term.

TurtleJoe , 22 days ago

He’s actually not that old. He just looks like shit.

TurtleJoe , 22 days ago

You can’t forget that any true nut jobs were weeded out during jury selection.

TurtleJoe , 23 days ago

I read a brochure at my local butcher shop. The chickens they sell are put in crates and gassed to death. Supposedly pretty easy on the animals. This seems much more efficient than individual submersible trips.

TurtleJoe , 26 days ago

People say this all the time, and I’ve never seen any kind of proof, either.

The only thing people point to is one area in a Houston suburb where they installed red light cameras, and people were so scared of running the lights, they would stop short in the yellow, resulting in more rear end accidents. Hardly a compelling reason to be against these cameras nationwide.

TurtleJoe , 26 days ago

I bet their lawyers might not think it’s a great idea.

TurtleJoe , 27 days ago

The Internet immediately worked, which is one big difference. The dot com financial bubble has nothing to do with the functionality of the internet.

In this case, there is both a financial bubble, and a “product” that doesn’t really work, and which they can’t make any better (as he admits in this article.)

It was obvious from day 1 how useful the Internet would be. Email alone was revolutionary. We are still trying to figure out what the real uses for LLM are. There appear to be some valid use cases outside of creating spam and plagiarizing other people’s work, but it doesn’t appear to be any kind of revolutionary technology.

TurtleJoe , 28 days ago

I mean, he makes the rounds in the right wing grift-o-sphere somewhat regularly, has huge name recognition, and likely a very positive q score among maga types.

He probably doesn’t need any leftist outrage to win a primary in the right district.

TurtleJoe , 30 days ago

As somebody who has been through liver failure and transplant, it really sucks. I do not recommend it.

TurtleJoe , 30 days ago

I dated a woman that worked in TV ad production. Everything has to be real food.

TurtleJoe , 30 days ago

I’m saying that you can’t use scotch guard or anything like that.

It’s been a while, but I don’t believe that they were allowed to use cardboard or anything of the sort to prop up or modify the appearance of the product. Instead, they would cook say 100 burger patties, go through dozens of heads of lettuce, slice 100 tomatoes, etc, and pick out the perfect pieces to make a burger that looks the way that they want.

The most that they could adulterate the food was to make a slurry with corn starch, water, and food dye that could be applied with a paint brush to make things look juicy, etc. They would use a clothes steamer to make a pizza look just right. Lots of tricks, but it had to be something that you could just pick up and eat, even if you wouldn’t necessarily want to.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

I mean, just lock up the nitrous chargers. Put them in the office or the liquor room or whatever. They don’t need to be kept in the walk-in.

If this manager is buying readi-whip or any other pre-made whipped cream canisters, they deserve to be fired from both a culinary and business standpoint. (I don’t think those kinds of canisters need to be kept refrigerated anyway.)

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

I would think that to be the case, but he final line stating the population of Norway implies that these aren’t rates, but total numbers.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

The dream of the right since public schools became integrated.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

The biggest problem is that it’s classed as a civil issue, not a crime.

I steal from my employer: they call cops, I go to jail. Very simple.

My employer steals from my paycheck: I have to call a lawyer, they have to agree to take my case, we have to sue, employer produces fake payroll documents, I better have proof of what my real pay should have been, we have to go to mediation, figures are exchanged, employer claims they can’t pay the full amount without going bankrupt, have to take a settlement, lawyer takes at least a third of that. Big pain in the ass, no guarantee you’ll see a dime. Even if employer pays you back, they can go right back to screwing the rest of their employees over.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

Because Elmo demands that his people redesign the idea of a car from the ground up, just because he wants to prove he’s The Most Special Boy. Remember when they were having all those problems with power steering, and they were like, “hey, our company is basically brand new, we’re still working out some kinks.”

Like, power steering has been solved for a long time now, there’s no need to try to reinvent it.

I’m surprised that they haven’t released any cars with three, five, or six wheels yet.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

It’s very frustrating. Here in Ohio, there was a maybe bribery scandal on a bailout for two energy companies. The former house speaker and one or two other legislators got prison sentences.

The bailout stayed in place, however, and all Ohioans are stuck paying an extra $50 a month, just for having a fossil gas line active. If you have a gas stove, water heater, or furnace, it’s fifty bucks a month just to be able to use them, plus whatever you actually use on top of that.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

The ironic thing is that the show Seinfeld was more like IASIP than Friends, in that the characters were mostly shitty people, and the joke was usually on them (even though they similarly often destroyed the lives of people around them.)

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

Tyson announced several months ago that they were cutting back supply, just so that they could charge more. They’re one of, if not the largest chicken supplier (and they are fully vertically integrated) in NA, so them raising prices affects prices across the board.

Prepare for more pain as bird flu seems to be spreading in US cattle populations.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

Because the unite the right march was explicitly about white supremacism? You think there were some “very fine people” marching around and chanting, “Jews will not replace us”?

Spoiler: there weren’t.

I’ve never seen footage of a group of Nazis marching around and thought, “I bet some of those dudes are actually pretty alright.” That’s also not something I want my presidents thinking.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/

Overall, it shows union rates being mostly a wash in 2023, but that’s due to a large increase in total jobs that year; raw number of members went up, rate slightly declined. Black workers made up almost the entire grid increase.

The point that maybe relates most to what OP was saying:

These statistics don’t capture the number of workers who want to join unions. Evidence suggests that in 2023, more than 60 million workers wanted to join a union but couldn’t do so.

TurtleJoe , 1 month ago

It seems clear to me that he hates the people that are ruining the tech industry, ripping off customers, and pumping out shitty projects for short term stuck pumps, and he takes every opportunity to shit on those people and point out their idiosyncrasies. That’s pretty much every tech CEO these days.

It’s also pretty clear to me that he believes in the promise of the industry, and thinks that workers deserve better than the people that they work for.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

It seems that this is more about killing a popular program that Dems are responsible for, and could point to during election season as a reason to vote for them again.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

A redundant concept.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

Media isn’t reporting his obvious dementia. They call the nonsense he spouts “rambling speeches.”

Some other recent examples:

“We can’t have an election in the middle of a political season. We just had Super Tuesday. And we had a Tuesday after Tuesday already.”

"Gang boong. This is me. I hear bing.”

" I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, ‘we’re gonna use magnets!’ to lift up the elevators with seven planes.”

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

She also offered a $6.99 per month home purifying cleanse that stripped people’s residences of “stagnant energy,” citing better sleep and an increased “vibration” as some of the benefits. Activating the service was simple: purchase the cleanse, get a piece of paper and title it “home purifying cleanse” and write your address on it. Then tuck it away in a safe place, she wrote.

Definitely a grifter.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

Under the Ayoka moniker, Johnson issued a torrent of antisemitic screeds, conspiracy theories and alarmist warnings on Thursday and Friday. These included a repost of a debunked apocryphal speech attributed to Ben Franklin about how Jewish people “depreciated” societies wherever they settled, a video about Jews promoting pedophilia in the entertainment industry, and unproven theories about the origin of COVID-19.

This is qanon shit. Don’t know why OP didn’t include it in their excerpts of the article.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

“X” is such terrible branding that every news article always has to do what you suggest, otherwise people don’t know what the hell is being discussed.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

Sancerre, for sure.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it.

Machine Learning, no matter how well trained or advanced, is just doing a make-em-up.

Besides that, in this case the experiment has been going on for years and humans were still doing like 70% of the work. It was a failure, that’s why Amazon shut it down

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

A term created in order to vacuum up VC funding for spurious use cases.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

Everything that is labeled “AI” is made up. It’s all just statistically probable guessing, made by a machine that doesn’t know what it is doing.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

This concept was in season 2 of Slow Horses.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

Fighting climate change takes systemic change, as to truly solve it we need to do away with extractive capitalism. Turning on the money taps to fund the military industry fits neatly within the current system.

TurtleJoe , 2 months ago

US society sees a woman using her own body to make a bunch of money, and wants to cancel her. It’s not necessarily about being sexual, although that’s part of it.