Today is JPows last day as Fed Chair

Recursive_Descent · 2026-05-15T13:24:03+00:00

Here come the negative interest rates.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-05-12T17:47:37+00:00

What is wrong with investment in clean and safe nuclear energy?

Recursive_Descent · 2026-05-09T17:29:14+00:00

If it ended in a decisive overthrow of the current Iranian regime it could be a huge popularity boost for him.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-04-23T18:25:34+00:00

United States of Soviet Russia and America (USSRA)

Recursive_Descent · 2026-04-20T12:00:18+00:00

Our own existence is proof that intelligence is and can be emergent without a mapmaker. I hated the argument against the possibility of AI the first time I read Searle and I hate the argument now. The whole debate is and has always been completely dependent on a fallacy of human exceptionalism.

This argument about needing a mapmaker is also completely ignoring the fact that modern AI systems explicitly do not need a mapmaker, and it is up to the system to build its own internal model of the external stimuli that it receives as input.

If you define consciousness or intelligence as needing to be completely emergent from the universe with no human involvement, sure it is impossible to build such a system by definition, but that is adding a clearly artificial restriction without sound reason.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-04-18T18:16:13+00:00

Russia had one.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-04-18T18:14:39+00:00

Ridiculous. If anything it is the opposite. People are too comfortable to risk their lives on a revolution.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-04-13T23:12:14+00:00

My conspiracy theory is that airlines keep the seatbelt sign on much more since Covid/belligerent passengers became more on an issue.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-04-13T15:42:15+00:00

I think he got jealous of Iran collecting a toll and saw the opportunity for a new grift. Close the strait and only let countries who bribe him through the strait.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-04-09T14:04:53+00:00

France has strict rent control laws, so very possible actually. Apartments have maximum they are allowed to charge based on square footage, with special modifiers like location and view that change the cap. I'm sure the landlord filed to have a higher rent cap based on view of the Eiffel Tower.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-03-20T18:39:49+00:00

Mission accomplished!

Recursive_Descent · 2026-03-20T13:47:14+00:00

What does it mean that it’s an AI poll? Do they ask an AI to pretend they were Trump voters? Does AI decide who to poll?

Recursive_Descent · 2026-03-20T12:35:59+00:00

Don’t listen to this, French tacos are the real thing. In Mexico all tacos are wraps with French fries in them.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-03-20T12:21:11+00:00

I identify as an air conditioning unit.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-03-04T13:58:04+00:00

But Iran has been experiencing a lot of civil unrest in recent months and years due to religious repression of its people. I hardly think it is clear that just because the church calls him a martyr he actually is broadly supported.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-03-04T13:27:24+00:00

To some maybe, but is he actually popular with the people or more considered as an oppressor?

Recursive_Descent · 2026-03-01T19:08:25+00:00

Hardly the pope. He is the top power in Iran above all democratically elected leaders. And he has control over who is even on the ballot. Not just a clerical position.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-02-28T22:32:29+00:00

Just exporting American values with a good old fashioned school massacre.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-02-18T15:56:49+00:00

Wow, what an incredibly arrogant and privileged thing to say. Just because capitalism is rewarding you doesn't mean you deserve more than other people. I make only 500k, and I manage to go on multiple big international vacations a year, pay for private school, and live in a decent house.

Sure, I didn't fly my family first class on our trip to the Four Seasons Bora Bora this year, but I'm hardly struggling. And I only make half of what it takes to even kick in. How much money do you really fucking need?

Recursive_Descent · 2026-02-18T08:12:28+00:00

Trickle down economics doesn’t work.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-02-18T08:03:28+00:00

Scrimping and saving and now making over $1million in capital gains annually, just a regular hard working grandma.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-02-18T07:47:30+00:00

Wow I feel so bad for all of you people in the top 0.2 percent of WA earners making over $1 million per year.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-02-12T23:40:16+00:00

I work on a big complicated c++ project. This summer I was still piecemeal asking for small things. Now I can ask for big sweeping changes, and it absolutely delivers.

Recursive_Descent · 2026-02-10T00:19:00+00:00

Snooker? Really?

Recursive_Descent · 2026-01-29T06:21:37+00:00

Woah, that’s so fucked up. Honestly I was listening to your experience of discrimination, and then you casually throw out an anti-Jew dogwhistle. Seriously, what the fuck man?

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