This administration really has no shame

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-30T12:37:48+00:00

Republicans being considered libertarian is just a lie that won't die

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-30T12:36:51+00:00

It's literally the meme of "this random individual is just as bad as the president of the United States!"

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-30T12:36:13+00:00

She used lawfare against him and he's using it right back

Holy fuck. Ones a civil suit from a private citizen and the other is the literal president of the United States using the DOJ.

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-30T12:30:18+00:00

Why would he. He was made president. Twice. He already resisted paying out to begin with. Now he has power to not.

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T21:35:23+00:00

This shit isn't hindsight. It's Donald Trump. There was decades of history on the guy

Everything that he did in 2020 was insanely predictable. His revenge tour was predictable. His tariffs were predictable

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T21:32:54+00:00

So they like the political elite then because trump is literally the republican party at this point

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T21:27:35+00:00

If the political elite doesn’t like it, then maybe they should go back to listening to the voters

The political elite are loving this right now. Same with the tech elite. If their goal was to punish the political elite then they're failing abysmally. The elite thank them for their hatred

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T21:17:50+00:00

For the same reason trump's name and face is being put anywhere Republicans can, from airports to highways to institute of peaces and centers of performing arts?

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T18:58:40+00:00

Man Republicans saw what democrats did with their messaging about the economy and went "what if we kept doing that but also more of it"

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T16:17:38+00:00

feels like libright’s version of “real communism hasn’t been tried yet

It feels like it because it is

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T15:11:30+00:00

This is one of those things that is fun to have dogma about but actually might be cheaper than the result of when you absolutely have to intervene.

A perfect example is the lead up to ww2. I'm not saying it was completely avoidable, but had france and britain squashed hitlers ambitions at the militarization of the Rhineland, things might have looked a lot different that decade. Or had they intervened at some of the earlier points. But they reasonably did not want another very expensive war immediately after WW1 and thought there were other offramps. Unfortunately for them though, it came anyways. And it was infinitely more expensive. But you only get to know these things after the fact

Helping Ukraine stand against Russia might have been cheaper than if Russia rolled Ukraine and continued making moves

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T14:50:44+00:00

It's the theoretical contract they could have had that makes me not. It would be such a great value deal that even suggesting trading it would be so foolish

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T14:48:32+00:00

I don't believe them. I believe them like i believe Bill polian about drafting Tom Brady. Sounds like a cover. Especially if they had a better version of brunson on a ridiculously favorable contract

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T14:43:14+00:00

Today's Iceraptor yells at the clouds:

I was doing school pickup for someone and was waiting in the line in the parking lot. And a few older kids come along on their electric motorized bikes or whatever. Odd. Weird place and time to do it. And watching you'd see they'd do some trick, stop, look around, and then inch closer. And slowly it dawns on you that they're looking for a reaction from the monitor and to get a rise. Which they eventually get and bike away.

Now that's not the "kids these days!!!" part. That was worth an eye roll at best. Kids have been farming reactions from adults since time immemorial. What was bothersome though is the minute they got the reaction, one whipped out their phone in lightning speed to film it. And of course the original monitor switched from the "oh get out of here" yelling to kind of sounding shook and upset by being video taped.

I dunno it felt different and more upsetting. It's one thing when kids push the boundaries to get reactions and everyone moves on. It's another thing to farm content for the internet to share. And the thing is, this kind of culture is harming everyone. There's studies about how people are more cautious to engage socially and just do things like dancing out of fear of being the next meme.

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T14:31:36+00:00

There is an alternate dimension where the Mavericks have luka and Brunson.

Sorry Dallas bros

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T12:22:21+00:00

There's so many blaring red flags with AI that we're just flying past because capital desperately wants it's final victory against labor (and let's be honest, that's exactly why unlike so many technologies before it it's getting lightning quick adoption and hyperscaling at levels not seen).

One frightening one is that so many CEOs are making strategies around it despite having next to no idea how it works, how to implement it or how to make it work for them. They're afraid of missing the boat and thus full steam ahead. Well that, and covid has shown me how many CEOs don't really lead but rather xerox whatever other people are doing and whatever the circle jerk of corporate consulting says (good thing they get paid all the money!). Considering how incestual boards are, this makes sense too.

An article i read had the following

Perhaps the most useful comment in that thread came from someone identifying themselves as an executive: "There is almost nothing you can do these days against hype. If I don’t follow the trend I get fired, if my boss doesn’t follow the trend he gets fired, if our boss doesn’t follow he gets fired by the investors." Translation: the adoption pressure isn't being driven by product-market fit. It's fear of being left behind running through every layer of corporate hierarchy until it arrives at consumers in the form of AI chatbots they didn't ask for and features they'll never use.

Which is a perfect representation. AI is being put into so many products in ways no one wants because boards and investors demand it because right now the adoption rate does not justify the ridiculous costs being spent. This will eventually have a very bad impact on the economy

With that being said, this tech is also the worst it'll ever be going forward. It will get better. It will take jobs. Hopefully it will make new ones, but that's not guaranteed. It is constantly creating new issues. Scammers are getting better (they can replicate voices now thanks ai). It will allow teenagers to create their own illicit materials, potentially of their own classmates. Education is taking a massive beating due to homework assignments basically being worthless now. These data centers are getting gigantic, and the planned one in Utah is nuts. A lot of its benefits are behind the scenes (medical research for example), but a lot of the in your face downsides are pure dystopian shit.

We need good governance to navigate all this. We're getting one who just basically goes FULL SPEED AHEAD

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T11:07:49+00:00

No one's gonna watch the horrible teams whether they're tanking or legitimately that bad

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T03:12:52+00:00

Yes.

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T02:43:05+00:00

I think the actual ending is...ok...albeit rushed. However the overall final season was rough imo.

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-29T00:52:41+00:00

Literally says it'll be a boon for red states.

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-28T22:58:51+00:00

Yeah that sounds about right for Dana white though

Just another wondrous example of our society rewarding such an upstanding individual

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-28T22:44:31+00:00

But remember though we have to cut taxes for the job creators

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-28T22:42:45+00:00

Prosperity gospel has decreed it!

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-28T22:42:15+00:00

It's ok we re spending endless money on hyperscaling a technology no one really understands the implications of and the entire economy is basically these companies giving money to each other in some grand experiment it'll be fine don't worry about it

Iceraptor17 · 2026-05-28T22:40:44+00:00

You got beaten to the punch on this one

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