I read somewhere that Anthropic has $18,000,000,000 in commitments from last year alone, so conceivably, they can stand to lose a mere $200,000,000 and it won’t create a huge issue for them in the short term.

I hope that’s how they’re looking at it.

Preaching to the choir. I predicted Harris’s loss in September 2024. They’ll never listen.

We’re a country that punishes whistleblowers and leakers harder than we punish war criminals, so I’m not exactly optimistic about us ever having a progressive foreign policy. Hell, in 2024, the supposed progressives told us to just ignore Joe Biden’s enthusiastic participation in a genocide that not only targeted kids, but resulted in a state-engineered famine. Just the most ghoulish, disgusting stuff.

I think that’s a very easy thing to say, but for the younger generations, using social media isn’t too dissimilar from breathing. It’s just something you do.

You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

I could get behind this.

Respectfully, I’ve heard all the arguments and do not care to litigate it again.

What you and I think is immaterial. These are the only realistic outcomes in the current ecosystem. You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

This is good info, and you’re right. Engagement is driven by provocative and radicalizing content.

The successive layers of cruelty and reckless disregard - the woman calling the police for an apparent lost handicapped person, the charges, local LE calling BP, the guilty plea, BP taking custody for a “courtesy ride” that no one was told about that left him to die - are just incredible.

Incredible isn’t the word I’d use, personally, but the route to his death was certainly more circuitous than normal.

I’d love to see any solution centered around the individual and a lengthy lockdown of the account associated with their IP.

Oh yeah, especially now that suicide rates are spiking, at least here in the US.

Yeah, I hate that our only two realistic options are allowing companies to self-regulate or age verification, but age verification feels like the lesser of two evils. We’d need to see much more immediate and catastrophic effects for the government to force social media companies to give up their algorithms and actually moderate without using imprecise LLM’s and automods.

Do any of us think Meta will moderate content in any meaningful way? Even for this supposed parental supervision program?

True, and it was a good thing. It’s so dumb that Afghanistan went on for 2+ decades and there were no real goals. America was just killing and displacing millions of people for the purpose of wounded pride and socialism for rich, evil people.

God I wish I she could be my congressperson.

Of course.

They don’t want another WMD vote. They learned from the criticism they received last time, and Donald acting unilaterally gives them cover.

I really hate this system.

The last SOTU I watched was the one when Biden mocked the Defund the Police movement.

It’s just a pep rally for the Epstein class.

In the 50’s perhaps.

Now? Most young men are faced with a choice of a lifetime of debt or enlisting and risking their life in one of the many, many wars the United States unilaterally decides to start throughout the world. They are punished harder both in school and the American “justice” system, and if they show a shred of vulnerability, they are culturally ostracized too.

They also commit suicide at higher rates.

Men are too busy working 2-3 jobs in order to afford a roach-infested studio to worry about women, especially now that the so-called progressives (but really liberals) have decided that food and housing becoming cost-prohibitive is an okay thing. This is reflected in the decreasing population growth, birth, and marriage rates.

The only evidence is anecdotal, there just happens to be a lot of it.

So no, I’d say it’s unreasonable to believe in ghosts. (Though I do love ghost stories and folklore.)

And the conservatives in the blue uniforms throw their hands up and just pretend to be powerless in response.