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I think this is true of oil companies broadly, not just these two you mention, right?
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
I think this is true of oil companies broadly, not just these two you mention, right?
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(Plus a complicit Senate, House, and Supreme Court)
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Sorry, I’m gonna need you to delete this post. You’re calling America “NAZI SHIT”, but the Nazi party was German. And as this brilliant user points out: our problems are not German, but American. bsky.app/profile/ledb...
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
I also like to make up imaginary people making imaginary arguments in my head to get mad at.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t recall any of the faces on Mount Rushmore being the same people who ordered its creation.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
(AKA: “I actually am not willing to do the bare minimum to oppose fascism”)
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Proof that Reddit is not as intelligent as Redditors think it is.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not the indecision; it’s that they’re morons who are pressured by the CEO (and shareholders) to “make decisions” even though for many companies “don’t change anything” is probably a safer bet.
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It’s funny because the Barbie movie basically makes the same argument; that patriarchy also hurts men. And of course, an extremely specific type of men got wildly upset at a movie because of it.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Those comments are always funny to me because it reveals an inability for them to read something and not make it about themselves.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sorry, you consider CBP officers to be “civil servants”? Are you joking?
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
“Men will [protest fascism] instead of [cramming his feeling down, a clear example of successful therapy]” - you, right now.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
AKA: “Gee, I sure hope everyone else votes correctly, since I won’t!”
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks now I don’t have to watch the video from that gu- hey wait a minute!
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I’d say the devil has enough advocates at this point
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That system wasn’t generating billions of dollars in revenue for the tech overlords, who need to keep selling the “next big thing” or else reckon with the fact that the valuations of their companies are entirely divorced from reality.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
What?
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
(And the big companies behind so much software are making their stuff worse on purpose because they have to sell AI or whatever)
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
The empathy part of their brain is missing, I think
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
(Joking)
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah, I’m just gonna focus on making sure the line goes up each quarter and never think about long term impact. 😎
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My only counterpoint would be Yvon Chouinard, but he’s (intentionally) no longer a billionaire, which basically continues to prove your point.
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Making some great points
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Right, but Yahoo is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t even offer an AI tool at all. Even Ecosia has some AI stuff, which is weird given their whole “eco friendly” thing. As far as I can tell, Yahoo doesn’t have any AI feature offered.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Things you’ll never hear a programmer say
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Yahoo is the only major search engine I’ve found that doesn’t have AI bullshit features.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Gonna be very funny when all of the tech companies embracing AI end up realizing that their only remaining users are AI bots talking back and forth and they no longer have any revenue.
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And like you said, it just turns every mass gathering into a potential superspreader. It’s nuts, really. It just keeps adding to this increasing feeling I have where nothing makes sense anymore. We’re all just living this collective fiction. Why? So the line can keep going up for big corporations?
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Agreed for sure. The big frustrating thing for me is just how aggressively everyone seems to try and pretend it doesn’t exist anymore, at a societal level. People will get sick, not get tested, show up to work and say it’s “just a cold”. (Because they don’t have paid sick leave anymore)
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re obviously not wrong regarding the effects of covid. But I do think the fate of covid was sealed well before Biden said the pandemic was “over”. Businesses had already been removing a lot of their covid restrictions, and socially, many people stopped masking and couldn’t be convinced to.
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I think they also conflate defund the police (which usually means take that funding and spend it on effective alternatives in most instances) with abolishing the police (which much less people are actually asking for, and even still - given their current situation…might be worth doing anyways)
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Also worth pointing out the original use of “objective” in this thread wasn’t even in reference to the quality of the campaign, but in reference to whether or not Trump is worse than Harris…which I really don’t see how you can deny.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
(I also don’t buy that you can measure campaign quality objectively)
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Did George Bush have an “objectively better” campaign than Al Gore? Did Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have “objectively good” campaigns in comparison to Bernie Sanders? I just don’t buy the premise that the result is the single objective measure of campaign quality.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
But if we accept the premise that winning is what determines whether a campaign is “objectively good” or not, we disregard so many other factors. Is it “objectively a good campaign” if the election is rigged? What if you win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote?
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
And I disagree with the idea that it’s “objectively better” just because it won.
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Bad things can be more popular or successful than good things.
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Update: re-read your original post. Somehow managed to misinterpret “also her”. My bad! 💀
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This entire thread is talking about an interview that happened on Colbert, yesterday - where your claim about what she is saying is false.
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Efficiency at the expense of quality.
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They just want every single thing automated to oblivion and ideally they'll pay 0 or maybe 1 person to just push buttons on an iPad to make the green light turn on. Nobody actually wants this as a consumer, but executives who are allergic to the public think that's what people want.
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I keep saying every company wants to be McDonalds. They want to hire literally anybody and have them be able to easily recreate the same median thing as any other employee at any other store. (No shade to McDonalds employees) Nobody needs to be good. No product needs to be great.
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I just listened to the whole interview with an ear for that sentiment explicitly because of this post. She didn’t say that or anything close to it. The user you’re replying to is just lying.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
If she died in a vacuum, you might have a point, but she wasn’t the only victim of the shooting.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
6. There IS evidence that suggests he was targeting the NFL headquarters but took the wrong elevator. So I say again: you’re a moron, and this guy killed random people who had nothing to do with the problems society faces.
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3. Such a role requires a license issued by Nevada’s Private Invesigstors Licensing Board pilb.nv.gov/Licensees/Li... 4. He wasn’t at a Blackstone Office, he was at an office for Rudin Management. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/midto... 5. There’s no evidence that he intended to target Blackstone or Rudin.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
1. There’s no evidence that he held a role as a private investigator. 2. He DID have a role as a surveillance department employee for a hotel and casino abcnews.go.com/US/shane-dev...
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You’re a fucking moron. The guy killed random people who had nothing to do with the problems society is facing.
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Even just implementing the Wyoming rule would improve things
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(I agree with the point tho)
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I used to really enjoy that channel but when they covered topics I knew about, I realized they don’t really do their due diligence on researching what they say, which makes it hard to trust on any topic, personally.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe he doesn’t know how to tell the instruments apart.
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[existential crisis]
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I think it’s a good thing for representatives to represent their voters tho.
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200 is almost the number www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/pol...
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Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally a method of fighting back
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“I deserve respect! It’s the least you can do! Also I hope you and your entire family dies and here’s some slurs while I’m at it! 😤😤”
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Amazing cover! I’d love to hear Birdy give this song a try, too. 👀
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Shut the fuck up
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They all voted against the bill broadly, and just disagreed on this particular amendment. I really don’t see the issue, especially since none of their votes would’ve changed the course of the bill / amendments passing.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I think it’s fine and normal for groups of people to not always vote in lockstep. People can agree on broad strokes but disagree on specifics. I think it’s fine for AOC to vote against cutting defensive spending, but I also think it’s fine for Omar and Tlaib to vote for those cuts.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Genuinely struggling to see where the person you’re replying to made that statement or anything resembling it.
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Excellent plan. 😎 No specifics, just go revolution the whole system everybody. I’m very plugged in.
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You mean I can’t buy boxes of “KEMWAR”, “REMVAR”, “ISST”, and “ʚɞ{n” at the store this person is located at?
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
It worked for Charlie Kirk fans because Charlie Kirk fans are idiots.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Agreed. I always feel like it just needlessly elevates and platforms a bunch of right wing ignorant grifters, and by framing it all as a “debate”, it implies their “arguments” are…worth arguing against and not simply wrong.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
The only time Trump has ever told the truth was when he said he could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose support. He’s the leader of a cult of personality. There is no line that can be crossed. There will always be an alternate story, a defense, or simply “fake news”.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Could always get into doom posting
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry, which country invaded which? I was under the impression that Russia invaded Ukraine. Is that inaccurate or just inconvenient?
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It’s worth noting that she made a post addressing this bsky.app/profile/aoc....
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You’re fighting against ghosts, pal. Nobody in here is wishing harm to the kids.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
(But I also agree - guy can still get fucked)
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
You aren’t wrong, but there’s no billionaires involved in this story.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
No argument from me on that front.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Gee, I wonder why she wanted a divorce.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
This could also be extreme copium because the alternatives really suck
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I’m partially convinced Rubio is somewhat responsible for Trump’s current uh…”falling out” with Putin. Like…publicly, the man has no spine and is a monster. I just think privately, he’s a monster with at least enough of a brain to try and steer Trump away from the worst things.
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social)
Great day to be a Birdy stan; Espys playing her music on national TV
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I’d elect burning down the station for sure
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It’s Chris Hemsworth
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This is awesome! Any chance you could setup a feature where we could login and sync this stuff across computers in the event that we’re working on a coll—
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Congrats on defeating an argument nobody in this thread was making.
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(Bezos frantically turning off all the lights)
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh yea it does say updated somewhat recently. Kinda wish news articles were like Wikipedia so I could see the edits. But alas. Anyways - I have nothing more to contribute here and I’ve gotta go. Have a good one!
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
(Again, sorry for being hypercritical - I do not mean to attack you personally, I just wanna make sure we’re being accurate when talking about this stuff)
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that news story the Washington Post wrote wasn’t confirmed by the DoD when the announcement from the DoD was basically their primary source. I get that the actual logistics might lead to Grok never getting used, but the article reports that the DoD *intends to* work with Grok; which is true. 2/2
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
To be clear, you’re talking about the reality of getting it logistically approved? Meanwhile the link I posted is just about the DoD’s *intention* to begin working with these AI companies, right? Sorry for being so nitpicky about this, I’m just thrown by the insistence your first post 1/2
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, but it nonetheless confirms that the DoD intends to start utilizing Grok, right?
Sheldon Corcoran (@awesomolocity.bsky.social) reply parent
Would this source help confirm it for ya, from the DoD side of things? www.ai.mil/Latest/News-...
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This is my argument for 10 foot charger cables
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Nearly every reply to this article is some conspiracy theorist and it makes me want to log off the internet forever.