Can you give the specific, Nazi actions or policies Ukraine has placed on it’s people. I’m not a huge expert on Ukrainian politics. But say if someone were to ask me what nazi like things the US is doing, I’d be able to say

Making threats to attack neighboring countries (Canada, Greenland, Panema), directly attacking other countries like Venuzuala and Iran. Putting people in camps, raising the police state, canceling citizenship of american citizens, prosecuting journalists, Restricting rights for LGBT.

I can make a long list for Russia and Isreal as well.

So educate me, as far as I can see Ukrain seemed to keep to it’s self pretty well. I’ve not really heard any examples of extreme authoritarianism or attacking journalists, or finding an outgroup to persecute… or anything to imply they had any intent of threatening any of their neighboring countries.

IMO I don’t see why you get a second human involved. Store the database in an encrypted form… save a copy to some cloud service. Why count on another human for it

I mean effectively he’s making the same mistake as biden did on messaging, IE Biden basically went publicly patting himself on the back of how the US had a lower inflation than most other countries durring the covid spree. but he phrased it in a way that was regularly interpreted as “I solved inflation… you feeling like everything is falling apart is on you.”

Bottom line, things have been circling the drain for decades… which is why almost universally the candidate that wins is the one at least offering the image of change. It’s why hillary basically promising to keep going in the same direction as obama, and harris’s lack of ability to admit biden may have made some mistakes… gave us 2 terms of trump.

I would say the second amendment got kinda screwed in how it was… Like the primary point was to not have a standing army. Almost all the founding fathers specifically feared the idea of a standing army, as one of the greatest threats to liberty.

“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” - James Madison

“Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.” - Alexander Hamilton

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.” - Thomas Jefferson

So yeah second amendment is great and all… though I would say, it’s primary value was meant to be that we could rise up against authoritarians… because the people are in the same equipment league as the army… instead now somehow we’re watching the nation argue over if the millitary code saying not to follow illegal orders is actually a real rule, while ice thugs are literally grabbing people off the street. At this point I’m honestly not seeing the second ammendment working without actually having a second civil war.

It’s true but I mean the key point is, they had quite a few failsafes set up for this… why we have 3 branches of government all made to slam the breaks on eachother etc… it’s why many of the founding fathers didn’t even want parties to exist. Hell they didn’t even want a standing military, they were pretty adamanant of staying out of other nations affairs… even the nations that we owed favors to.

Because fraud is an official act of a president… even fraud commited before he announced he was running because, our founding fathers didn’t anticipate the possibility of all 3 branches of government being corrupt at the same time.

I fully agree as a tool LLMs are amazing. Throw in a config file or code that you know 99% of what it should be, but can’t find what’s wrong… and I’d say there’s a good 70% chance it will find it… maybe chasing down one or 2 red herrings before it solves it.

The bad rap of course is simply the 2 main factors.

1. idiots that use it to do the entire coding, and thus wind up with something they themselves don’t have even the basic understanding of how it goes together, so they can’t spot when it does something horrifically wrong.

2. The overall reality that, no matter how you slice it, it costs an absurd amount to run these things. so… while the AI companies are letting us use these things for free or off really cheap plans, it’s actually costing real money to process, and realistically there’s no sign of it reaching a point where there’s actually a fair trade of value…

That’s kind of how our relationship is, I handle the technical side of it, she’s on spotify because I bought a 2 person plan for spotify, putting her and my son on it. I don’t know how big of a difference one platform is from another, because I don’t like music. I couldn’t get her something to meet her music tastes, and she couldn’t get me something for my tech tastes because we don’t share those in common.

That’s why for me I can’t know what’s good or bad with regards to selections of music. Because I don’t listen to music. My wife mostly shuts down with the tech side, she tends to go “set it up… show me what button to push to start it, and if it’s doing something I like I’ll use it”. So more or less, I’d need to demo it in order to see if she can use it or not… but again because I literally can’t comprehend music that she likes, I can’t pre-run them to find what she’d be most likely to like before the do or die demo.

I mean I want to switch because I want the minimal evil. I’ve normally defaulted to using things that meet my ethics over convenience. Most things for my family I set up and work around the evils. Music is a harder one for me to work with becasue I don’t understand it, so it’s harder for me to find a good alternative. So for me on the surface all will be equal… for my son and wife, I can’t predict that because I don’t really know enough to see “oh she’ll hate this” or “none of her music will be in it”, because I don’t understand anyone elses tastes in music.

Yeah looking at it, it looks like tidal does… question I do have is what’s overall good for 2 people, who seem to like music a lot, My son probably more indie type things on youtube… my girlfriend probably more I guess generic music, plus techno I think. challenge I have is I probably need to set everything up and get it all ready for them to try out in order to get the switch…

but… I have no taste for music… or really understanding of most of it. So it’s hard for me to pre-judge anything because… not really a service I can use or comprehend enough to tell what’s actually useful or not.

So, I’m not a music guy at all, but my wife and son do like music and use spotify, and I’ve paid for spotify premium. I hear of a lot of alternatives, most comonly tidal.

what would be a good option to switch them to, prefferably something likely to have almost all their existing songs, and is there anything that can transfer their playlists etc… before switching?

I mean I guess the concept is that they are using a system that may not be so well trusted. On the surface there is some potential good, but it boils down to the government buying stocks. The fact that they are index funds make it a little less daunting, but at the end of the day it’s kind of a door to stupid corruption. IE company bribes politicians, government chooses index funds to drive up the stock prices they want. Stocks they want go up… politicians and croneys dump their stock in them at a high price, those stocks go down.

Well I mean the bulk of the features they are railing about aren’t even currently in most cars, Emergency breaking seems about 50/50 on protecting you vs others (hits the brakes if it detects you mindlessly driving towards something), and then the system that prevents people from leaving babies in the back seat.

I mean if it’s based on the time of creation it would to me that’s the idea of it though. IE the troll accounts that have spent 5 years building up a following, the only way to salvage them if their creation location was bad, is to delete them and start a new one from a VPN in the country they are supposed to be from. At which point smart people are going to note “the wave of accounts made in 2025-2026 and note that timing”.

Course unless Elon works to change that rule, not tie in the original country etc, or make a blue checkmark feature “anti-doxing” to protect your private information like country.

Well I mean in this case, her lack of competency and credentials were a per-requisite. No one with skills in law would have even considered attempting these cases.

I’ve long since switched to foundry, but I used to use

https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/

It’s not web based, but the clients are available for linux mac and windows,

Honestly I don’t get how AI isn’t rolling backwards already. Image sites are burried in AI slop. Social media posts are burried in AI slop, and now e-mails, that were probably written by AIs. How is AI even remotely improving right now, when obviously 90% of any new training data it’s getting, was generated by the last generation of AI.

Wow, he’s really not reading the country very well is he? 2020, that was a 50/50 move, piss off half the country, earn the support from half of it. (again just talking on a purely business strategy), unless the millitary is about to buy a shitload of toyota’s, I don’t see how this isn’t a horrific play.

I mean, VR has happened, and been happening for like a decade… is what’s not happening that it hasn’t replaecd every system and been the only or even primary method of gaming… no. Is it mark zuckerbergs “metaverse” where we start working from home, by wanting to go into a VR virtual workspace or hold our productivity meetings in VR… no obviously not.

Is it a viable option of gaming, along with mobile phone games, PC games, Console games, and portable console games, yes it has a place there right now.

I wish, that’s what to me the real horror of this concept is… Biggest thing the media is misrepresenting this is they are using language to make you think 14-18, what you’d expect to find on a fortnight or xbox live lobby of teenagers trying to one up eachother.

These aren’t highschoolers, most of them are past college age. These aren’t edgy teenagers trying to push the envelope. These are young adults, old enough not just to vote, but to run for things.