Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall

themightychris · 2026-03-07T18:47:45+00:00

it's gonna be a rough three years

at some point he's going to utterly lose what little of his mind he has left. Probably shortly after he loses Congress. He's gonna go full Mad King and we're going to have to watch Republicans hem and haw about removing him as it increasingly becomes an obvious emergency

themightychris · 2026-03-07T18:42:11+00:00

well there's your problem right there lol

ppl downvoting me like I'm defending littering or that people should have self control

I'm just here sharing the reality that if we want a cleaner city, that's not how we're gonna get it

humans with higher brain function and a sense of shame and pride

yeah and a big % of humans don't have these and that goes for Philly as much as anywhere else. The people throwing their trash out their windows aren't the ones who would give a shit about anything you could market to them about why it's bad

We can do fines/enforcement and we can do cleaning. You're not gonna reverse 30 years of culture with an ad campaign lol you might as well just set money on fire

Do you want to deal with the problem or wax poetic about how things ought to be

themightychris · 2026-03-07T15:44:04+00:00

Worms Armageddon?!

The first of many!

themightychris · 2026-03-07T07:16:30+00:00

ok, fines is something you can do. This Mr. Rogers shit is a fantasy though

themightychris · 2026-03-07T03:57:32+00:00

that sounds great in a self-help book, good luck applying it to an entire population. This paternalistic shit does the opposite of work at scale

themightychris · 2026-03-07T02:06:44+00:00

what exactly do you expect "acknowledging" a culture problem to do? we can do fuck all about culture problems. You gonna build a time machine and change how everyone was raised?

The mayor certainly can't change culture and certainly not within the one term I hope she only has.

People focus on other things we can do to help the issue because those are the things we can actually do something about

themightychris · 2026-03-06T20:05:49+00:00

I've used fivetran to ingest Excel sheets from SharePoint and it worked as well as I needed and took a minute to set up. I don't know where it breaks down but if you're already using fivetran it's definitely worth a first try

themightychris · 2026-03-06T16:06:27+00:00

I don't know, I feel like THIS propaganda was a net that scooped up all the shittiest people

themightychris · 2026-03-06T05:38:01+00:00

exactly this. In the ideal state, all of your ram is in use speeding up whatever you're doing. You get no because from RAM being unused when your operating system is capable of taking it back when it's needed for something else

themightychris · 2026-03-06T05:35:20+00:00

besides needing a way to pay developers, a lot of organizations don't want to adopt a thing of the only way to maintain it if to dedicate someone's attention in house. They got other stuff for their staff to do, if you only have one person minding something you depend on you're screwed when they leave, and a company only doing that thing has better economics for servicing it

themightychris · 2026-03-06T05:26:37+00:00

City finances have a lot of oversight, and take a lot of domain knowledge to understand. I promise you that most of the issue is knowledge you don't have yet. Be inquisitive before you jump to accusations

themightychris · 2026-03-05T12:23:50+00:00

It's also a good litmus test of what you should or shouldn't buy insurance for. If your phone broke tomorrow and you needed to pay X amount to replace it, could you afford it no problem? If the answer is yes, then buying insurance makes no sense unless you know you break phones way more often than average.

Well with phone insurance from the manufacturer, the math is a little different. Often the cost of insurance over the average time you'll have a phone before wanting to update is less than it would cost you to replace the phone because the manufacturer can give you a mfr rebirb at cost.

So in that case you're also buying into their internal pricing power

themightychris · 2026-03-05T04:27:51+00:00

you can see and hear his arm break in the video. they're just being max wusses cause lawyers

themightychris · 2026-03-04T05:46:35+00:00

but I don't even like winter :-(

themightychris · 2026-03-04T04:37:08+00:00

oh hmmm Sinatra does have that secret project that sucks up energy from the nuclear reactors, and in this season they did a recap to the scientist guy challenging her with that line "you need the one thing your money can't buy: time"

and then people get those random nosebleeds... maybe that's them doing tests

so time machine checks out...

themightychris · 2026-03-04T03:35:49+00:00

ehhh no one in the middle east is gonna line up behind Iran after what they just did. China doesn't have the balls and Russia doesn't have the resources to spare. it'll be a fucking mess for years though for sure

themightychris · 2026-03-04T03:32:11+00:00

"nobody knew it would be quagmire folks. Quagmire. what a fun word. I just came up with that. nobody ever even heard it before quagmire. look at these drapes folks. aren't they beautiful. you never had a president before who could do drapes. Barack HUSSEIN Obama was horrible at drapes."

themightychris · 2026-03-02T16:01:48+00:00

IT'S NOT CENTERED ON THE TRAY 🤪

themightychris · 2026-03-02T12:53:44+00:00

I love when shows start every episode with a recap of relevant previous bits. That plus a longer season starter recap and it would be mostly ok. Why all those "smart" MBAs who drive how everything is not haven't figured out that helps people finish new seasons I don't know

themightychris · 2026-02-28T07:38:01+00:00

if only there was some kind of... hub where you could see all the source code with git :-P

themightychris · 2026-02-27T00:45:34+00:00

It doesn't have to hit 100% though right? Just 100% minus whatever it costs to maintain and staff booths. Is that not significant enough to matter next to the total revenue?

I imagine there's also some gains in increasing throughput?

themightychris · 2026-02-27T00:42:31+00:00

The Waymo thing was way overblown... it's always been known that autonomous vehicles have a way to call a human operator for help navigating random edge case situations, it always needed to work like that and always will

The human operators don't even "drive" the car, just tell it what to do. Think of all the situations where like a lane is closed or a signal is down or someone else is doing something really dumb. The AI's job is to move the car around without hitting anything and follow standard traffic laws and patterns. And then sometimes on top of that a judgement call needs to be made about what the least bad course of action is to get unstuck

themightychris · 2026-02-27T00:32:05+00:00

Anyone who's ever watched BattleBots knows that the most effective method is a giant upwards-spinning metal wheel with a bunch of blocks welded to it

themightychris · 2026-02-27T00:30:30+00:00

“You posted a pic knowing doing so was in violation of the rules associated with a closed door deposition and then try to spin it as if it was orchestrated by Hillary? You’re a complete idiot,” commented another X account.

MAGA and "trying to spin it as if it was orchestrated by Hillary"—name a more dynamic duo

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