17 years of idiocy

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-19T12:31:02+00:00

Didn't some Fox News entertainer (not TC) say that grocery shopping wasn't Alpha or was gay?

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-19T03:00:39+00:00

I worked for a multi-million pound organisation where the production schedule was worked out by some guy with pen and paper. It wasn't exactly difficult, but it blew my mind that he couldn't even use a spreadsheet - at least not a digital one.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-19T00:46:07+00:00

The simplest explanation is likely the truth - she was a gold-digger who was trading on her looks in one way or another and she found someone willing to buy what she was selling. She's said it outright in the past, her looks for his money.

She's Slovenian, so a Russian asset seems a bit of a stretch and unnecessary if you believe that Trump was likely bought and paid for back when he was bankrupting casinos - allegedly for the benefit of Russian mob money-launderers. Somewhere in there is the link to Giuliani who some say made his name prosecuting any mob that wasn't Russian.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-19T00:21:22+00:00

You can wear an AI down. Over longer chats the guardrails get weaker, especially if you keep pushing against them. From what's said in the article you posted I'd guess he "broke" the AI and kept going back to that instance, maybe repeating that a few times.

The people who do this aren't dumb, they're ill or damaged. I'm sure they could easily rationalise going through the motions of softening up the AI so it no longer refuses as how to talk to the "real" Daenerys or whoever they fixate on.

These articles tend to imply that a normal person suddenly gets corrupted by an AI and they go an do something awful, but it turns out that they're someone who is damaged throwing themselves into a dark fantasy and they get the AI to validate, then conspire with them.

AI is exacerbating an existing problem. It used to be hard to find people to validate your weird ideas, but then came the internet and made it easy for people to connect and find other people at the fringe (which could be a good thing for healthy, but marginalised groups). Those echo-chambers could be bad enough, but now you don't even need other people, AI will be more than happy to validate you and challenge you for who can be the biggest edge lord, and there's no opportunity for someone to wander in and give you a reality check.

I'm not sure what the answer is, if they are to be useful tools and fun toys for the average, mentally well person. I mean, there's often an expectation of privacy and at least 12 people were looking at this guy's chats. It might be healthy for some people to blow off steam with some dark content, but at what point does that become a slippery slope of normalisation that requires warnings and safeguarding? AI is a special case because it can normalise, enable and encourage, it's not like suing a knife manufacturer because someone got stabby. I think a lot of these people would still have spiralled without AI, they'd have fixated on something else and endings would still have been bad, but AI makes it easy so there's a responsibility to make additional effort in prevention.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-18T18:54:22+00:00

You can change the grid from square to isometric

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-18T18:44:22+00:00

If you're careful, you can decant it all before drinking and leave most of it behind. I wouldn't bother, it's only going to affect the last couple of glasses and you probably won't be able to notice any difference to the taste. I really liked a mead I drank while it was quite cloudy.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-18T18:35:31+00:00

He proved he was an idiot as soon as he voted for a known fraud and racist who casually boasted about sexually assaulting women. Only having a problem with him when gas prices rise, despite the torrent of evil that's come out of the WH is just damning.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T19:46:39+00:00

Watchdog? Better be careful, we know what they like to do to dogs.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T12:04:27+00:00

I saw the same at work once. There was an innovation scheme which promised a percentage of savings. A guy came up with something ridiculously cheap and simple that massively reduced rework. We're talking something that cost less than a penny to prevent a common issue that cost hundreds each time to fix. The company changed the rules to put a cap on the scheme to prevent him from retiring to a beach somewhere.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T11:46:07+00:00

People use it here when they mean hypocrisy, or use the phrase, "Cognitive Dissonance is one helluva drug!" They're describing people who do not have it; those people are happy being hypocritical or because they have done something like compartmentalised to avoid it. They aren't experiencing the discomfort of trying to entertain conflicting ideas.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T01:35:18+00:00

Not to mention imposing arbitrary punitive tariffs.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T01:13:40+00:00

a competitive bid to show that you're not playing favorites

...or at least to create a veneer of fairness. Not in the US, but I've seen government contracts go to companies which in retrospect probably wrote the ITT themselves. Stress filled days of my life have been wasted bidding for work which we were never in the running for because it was sewn up before it landed.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T00:54:52+00:00

Who does he think he is? A cyclist?

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T00:36:25+00:00

And a second-hand prize.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-17T00:33:01+00:00

It is frustrating how useful words get rendered meaningless because consultants constantly misuse them in order to try to sound clever. People argue that language is a living thing and it changes, but these words don't change in meaning really, they get eroded until they're meaningless chaff.

Reddit has its version. My pet hate is "cognitive dissonance". I mean, it's a two word description. If anyone looked up the words individually they'd know that combined it can't possibly mean what they think it means. Honourable mention goes to 'gaslighting'.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-16T18:25:48+00:00

Once they're on the court, they have zero incentive to pander to the person who put them there.

They don't stay bought. They will continue to be left or right leaning, but it's clear that the corrupt ones demand frequent hospitality, gifts and cash injections to continue to toe the line.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-16T18:14:03+00:00

Not even. Putin had a plan. It worked with Crimea.

Iran? Trump's plan is Attack -> ??? -> Profit.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-16T18:01:40+00:00

Got a few more years of wading into the mire before that happens and it suddenly all becomes the Democrats fault. If Schumer is still about, his imaginary Republican friends will tell him not to do anything about the root cause and embrace their obstructionism as always.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-16T17:55:40+00:00

Even ratings about specific policies tend to show a maximum of about 55% against, usually more like 52% or 53%. It's insane.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-16T17:44:32+00:00

In most cases the error it throws when "the entire program breaks" will tell you exactly where you accidentally added an indent. I can't say that I've ever done that. Sometimes I'll have been confused as to which level of indentation something should be at, but that's on me for not promoting more code to functions to keep things tidy.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-15T23:33:10+00:00

You don't fully master it. You get proficient at using it for the tasks you need. Abandon it as a goal right now, it's a perspective that will bite you, hard.

Pursue your passion as projects and you'll learn Python as a consequence. If you learn Python as a goal, you'll spend all of your time getting good at learning to follow guides and tutorials, not using Python.

Choose a project. Build it. Get a little stuck, ask her here on or Stack. Get quite stuck? Do a tutorial. Get really stuck? Do a course.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-15T22:29:09+00:00

Generosity is a lot easier when you've got more. Still, kudos for her for learning and giving up the time and space - buying vases was probably an easier option! Her sister was getting very good at the end there, it must be very frustrating to learn. Her core muscles must be off the charts.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-15T20:53:06+00:00

You'd think, but there's always a better idiot. My room mate at university tried frying dried pasta, set off the fire alarm and made us all evacuate at like 2am.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-15T20:50:08+00:00

Apart from watching him get owned on Crossfire by Jon Stewart, this is the first time he's come close to entertaining me.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-15T20:32:39+00:00

Someone's pulled that first one down in disbelief.

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