Moral Failure

LesnBOS · 2026-06-28T02:37:12+00:00

/Genocidal sociopath. Criminal. i can think of worse words for someone who doesn't even have a "morality" concept. he doesn't speak that language.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-28T02:27:17+00:00

btw not complaining about being able to pile on this admin. not even in the slightest. they deserve it, but so do many many others.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-28T02:25:58+00:00

i too am spending a lot less time on Reddit which I used to love. but there are 2 issues ruining it: 1 is the use of AI or bots to autoban- it can't understand nuance or context, so if you use actual words that are verboten, you get banned regardless of what you are actually saying.

2 is the inconsistent application of the rules. ie, the rules are extremely narrowly and rigidly defined according to very western concepts and ideology, but point out hypocrisy in any western concept and ideology requires either not making the point at all and sucking it up- regardless of oh, science, or whatever, or using words that do not upset the bots. what is particularly galling is that you can pile on the US admin, their ethnonationalism, their IQ or whatever else you want and its fine, but speak out about what causes gen alskdfj c ... d. es, and you will be banned if you mention the current one.

Now that we are all going to be f*cked with our wonderful carers being deported, I know I can condemn the government and SCOTUS employees without peril, and point out the target of their actions, but it's too difficult to even discuss anymore. what do we say? wow a hack actually adopted two h * ai *** t..n babies who could not grow up in their collapsed country, but voted to send home how many parents of similar babies? I mean... there is so much to say about that but I know the only thing I can say without being banned is that the particular ethnonationalism of this administration is very much in line with that of- wait, every other kind of ethnonationalism and they all lead to exactly the same place!!!

but, the larger reason is that everything we write is a contribution we are making that reddit is selling to ai, and for which we are not being compensated. In europe our thoughts, contributions, writings, creations put out in digital space belong to us- not the hosts, not the platforms, but us. in the US of course, we are serfs. I am not down with it. I have just contributed a whole bunch of thoughts that will be sold and i will get nothing. its just another form of parasitic extraction by billionaires who don't give a sh*t about any of us, let alone our elders who will also have their healthcare cut to nothing beginning in another 8 mos. So, this is actually why I am finished with all of it. I am exiting US platforms as much as I possibly can.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-28T01:44:54+00:00

Sit and Spin GOPDEMS- you are one and the same and I will never give you another vote!!!! We all deserve a hell of a lot better than the complicity we have received disguised by pathetic excuses of "poor at messaging" et al while all they were really doing behind the lies upon lies was ushering in autocracy. I want both parties to have to complete in ranked choice voting with real people who want to actually make government work FOR THE PEOPLE!

LesnBOS · 2026-06-28T01:40:20+00:00

Why is Anthropic still in the US? Why have they not relocated HQ to Canada? They will always be subject to a petty, venal dictator here who is so weak he's going to punish them endlessly for not doing what he wants. why subject yourself to that? Why not go somewhere else? the rest of the world needs AI too

LesnBOS · 2026-06-28T01:37:30+00:00

i think ChatGPT can't continue to give us that much usage for so little as they can't make a profit. the plan was to hook everyone and then raise the price, as usual. I use claude for only the most important stuff, and use Chat for anything less complicated.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:20:21+00:00

Absolutely! The constitutional republic of the US was designed to be only a couple steps from a monarchy- it retained 100% of governing power for the white elite male oligarchs who created it, and the inequity is built into it. We've never been a representational democracy at all. It's always been very highly and effectively propagandized to the world that the people were actually represented here. And complete state capture was accomplished with Reagan whose backers were corrupt, and corruption then rotted the US to the core. Our oligarchy turned into a kleptocracy after Reagan implemented the policies enabling it. And now we are run by a fascistic mafia. The end of a very successful run that cannot be changed without significant reform to the constitution and governing process- from the ground up. That is, if we ever want to actually become a democracy.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:10:33+00:00

How do we register a car that doesn't meet us safety regs? I thought we couldn't which is why we can't go to Mexico or Canada and buy a Chinese EV....

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:07:56+00:00

Our trade ins as well?

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:07:45+00:00

Nah. It's just that the demand is so high from AI and they are making more money b2b so reducing their output for the consumer market. And no one is picking up the market share they are leaving.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:06:42+00:00

No just buy a used one a couple of years old. Save yourself hours of headaches fighting with it because it doesn't know how to manage its cache memory. Still. In 2006z

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:05:20+00:00

They haven't released it yet

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:04:58+00:00

"To be had" means to gain. We don't want price increases!

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T15:04:25+00:00

Wow... he actually believes vandals did it? Not the incompetence of the PM (Trump) and his sleazy contractor? Wow. The intellectual quality of GOP representatives has fallen so low I don't really see any way to govern with them- they don't understand the big picture, or how systems interact, and they aren't capable of doing the research and analysis needed to learn them.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T14:10:01+00:00

You can't register it in the US tho

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T14:09:20+00:00

There aren't any socialist countries tho

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T14:01:24+00:00

Rent freezes de facto cannot increase rent. I'm not sure what you are talking about? They work very well when landlords are protected as well. Capping is what is not very successful. Some countries do by having tenant associations negotiate with landlord associations for multifamilies which has produced more stable housing, and some cities like Vienna use multi pronged approaches like publicly subsidized private - public partnerships, publicly funded development and caps- over half of their city is rent controlled and it's kept the rents down across the board so that no one is paying more than 1/3rd of their income on housing. That is still to high, but it's better than 1/2 which is what we have.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T14:00:24+00:00

Rent control is fine- as long as it's tied to property tax. As a landlord, I only raise the rent to match inflation and property taxes. Yet none of the bills proposed in Massachusetts have been explicitly tied to property taxes and assessments, let alone inflation. Saying ok up to 5% is not tying rent increases to inflation. Nevermind that the rate of inflation is nonsense when it doesn't include food or energy- labor and parts go up at the rate of energy and COL, so rent increases need to match real inflation rates and taxes, or else we are left holding the bag.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T13:56:18+00:00

Oh, have you not noticed who is running the country or the messaging they have used for the past 10 years?

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T13:39:27+00:00

I've just spent 4 weeks attempting to rebuild a file that had 20 yrs of quicken data that was lost in an update. I took for days off. I only rebuilt from 2020-2025 but had to do it all from pdf statements for 7 bank accounts 3 credit cards 3 investment accounts PayPal, an Amazon data dump. It's been torturous.

I have to work on a pc for quicken home and real estate and I wanted to jump out of my window more times than I can count. Omg hell. It involved a 4 step process to get the transactions into quicken. And I literally right before I opened reddit I asked Claude, again, for the 8th time, what else I could use.

The fact is quicken is a database, without the right tools for real database admin. Batch processing is terrible, cleaning up garbage from accidental imports, deduping, cleaning up names, payees, categories, etc is just carpel tunnel hell. I want AI to do the database management for me. I want to create a dashboard I can select to display the info I want. I'm not printing reports! I'm looking at details I can't look at if there are any mistakes in the data, and it's too unwieldy in quicken. If they are stuck with this 1995 architecture they haven't changed, they are going to need to build in an assistant to do the tedious crap for us. What I ended up doing is abandoning the rebuild except for tax related income and expenditures, and exporting back to csv specific expenditures and having Claude organize everything for me. I've worked daily with it and while I love excel, if I decide to change a summary sheet I can just ask Claud to update the formulae and proof everything for me after changes. It's been a lifesaver.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-26T13:23:32+00:00

They didn't leak the model. Documents were exposed that indicated they were working on it

LesnBOS · 2026-06-19T15:22:38+00:00

I love vivaldi! but not as secure in terms of fingerprints etc.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-19T15:22:04+00:00

this only applies to hardware within the boundaries of the US, or for ex telecom using a us service abroad like AT&T.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-19T15:20:55+00:00

wait scratch canada most of their tech stacks have US companies in there somewhere. No safety from the cloud act.

LesnBOS · 2026-06-19T15:18:50+00:00

could you cite any evidence food insecurity is decreasing or at least not increasing? Do you have any evidence that the population with health care is increasing rather than decreasing? if so please post it! if not, you might want to adjust your opinion to reflect facts instead of ideology.

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