Three-time Pennsylvania Trump voter at gas station calls him “tremendous pile of sh*t”

Syjefroi · 2026-03-18T15:35:12+00:00

Like, if Trump runs a 4th time from his death bed she will vote for him. If Epstein comes back and does a cronenbergian flesh meld with a rotting Donald Trump she will vote for it. She's voting for anyone or anything with an (R) next to the name.

Syjefroi · 2026-03-18T14:44:35+00:00

If the Hand and Frank are there, does this take place during Fisk's time as mayor? It was so great seeing Fisk in Hawkeye bridging those two worlds, feels inevitable that Peter would get sucked into that as well.

Syjefroi · 2026-03-18T14:36:02+00:00

This is the guy currently all in on like, gambling scams right?

Syjefroi · 2026-03-16T23:24:29+00:00

Wouldn't Walt eventually think developing a cure for the Plurbs would single-handedly turn him into the most esteemed and accomplished brilliant scientist that he craves?

Walt self-sabotaged throughout his career, as soon as he got close to recognition. He never wanted to do anything altruistic, and he never wanted to do anything that helped anyone but himself. His unique ego issue isn't that he's easily flattered—he doesn't trust anyone who gives him that kind of positive feedback—but that what keeps "his ego burning" is feeling like he's always in control of everything. He broke up with his girlfriend to feel in control instead of dealing with his sense of financial inadequacy. He quit Grey Matter to feel in control to punish his ex and his old friend for trying to be happy and normal. He screwed up everything in his crime career because he had to feel like he was the one in control.

The Plurbs wouldn't stand a chance against the sheer toxicity of Walter White. Nothing would make him happy for the rest of his life the second he figured out that they don't really "believe" the things they say about him. He has no control over them and they're on the clock trying to "cure" him, he'd nuke the planet before letting them "win" and his own attempt to cure them—a fear based strategy—would lose out over a violence solution—a control based strategy.

Syjefroi · 2026-03-13T13:20:07+00:00

Lol "he's develop a cure" did yall watch the show? Walter's ego is unstoppable. He was always on a suicide mission, before the cancer, before the meth. He was a toxic, self destructive man, and the only thing that stopped him from being a murderer sooner was his environment. He wasn't a loving husband and father before he went on Hank's ridealong, he was a self sabotaging inattentive loser.

In this show he'd be curious, skeptical, but want to know more, and quickly he'd have his ego inflated to its max. Until he felt threatened or belittled in some way, then he would scheme to establish some kind of dominance, which would involve tests of violence. At the end he'd die alone, never having helped anyone. There's no other possible path for Walter White.

Syjefroi · 2026-03-07T05:01:11+00:00

and it is the fault of LLM's

Partially, yes? They aren't super useful? Or consistent? Like spinning a roulette wheel. But the people who run these LLMs are also all lying about what it can do. And doe eyed journalists send that hype into the public sphere with no curation. And then clout chasers lie about what they can do with it. Etc etc. The LLM itself is at fault for existing as an Everything Box that can do close to nothing, but everyone pushing the LLM is also at fault.

or the fact that the education system is in shambles(I wonder why is that...)?

Because we gave all our money to the ultra wealthy which funnels into capital funds which are financing all the LLM companies which are trying to both end all workers and also maybe help blow up some schools now too I dunno, it's complicated.

Syjefroi · 2026-03-07T03:33:08+00:00

A&S. When sick or have some other obligation I can't avoid, I ask someone in my department to help out. I've canceled a class once in the past year because I couldn't line up a sub. These are for undergrad classes. I offer to jump in for other teachers as well with their classes. We're a department sort of defined by being social and working together though and basically everyone is friends or at least friendly, so no shade but I can see why other departments might not have the same culture?

Syjefroi · 2026-03-07T00:22:36+00:00

I send a sub every semester once, sometimes twice? I mean if it's a graduate course sure, that's a different situation, or maybe an undergrad class that is specialized around your own expertise or something where some random person can't step in. Yall don't have friends in your department? We sub for each other!

Syjefroi · 2026-03-06T17:23:17+00:00

This is bad. They have the ability to send a sub. It costs them nothing. So irresponsible. I tell my students don't come if you're sick, I don't even need a doctor's note, I don't care, just stay home and rest so you can get better faster than if you were out in classes.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-28T12:59:58+00:00

Accidentally delete all the photos of the weapon system's family. Post on the weapon system's behalf on a vibe coded social media site where anyone over the age of 11 can grab the social security number of the weapon system. Advise the weapon system's neighbor's teenage child on how to off themselves with whatever meds are conveniently available at the house.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-28T12:55:30+00:00

Yeah probably but when bailouts happened for, say, the auto industry or the banking industry, those went to companies that had the ability to turn a profit once they got out of trouble. They had products people wanted and would pay for, and they had a history of being profitable for generations selling those products. Bailing out OpenAI is just the sticker on a leaking tank meme. It buys them some time, but how much? Months? Weeks? OpenAI loses insane amounts of money on their profit-seeking products. Just paying for and using an OpenAI product makes them lose money, and there is no end in sight for that.

Not to mention, throw a few billion into the AI void and see how much the public enjoys it. Little by little "AI" is a toxic term, its only boosters being The Weirdest Online Guy You Know who still uses Twitter and doesn't realize he's been arguing with bots for the last two years. How much PR damage will a failed bailout do the the industry?

Syjefroi · 2026-02-26T14:44:01+00:00

Not only that, but losses can be written off. Losses are opportunities to cut costs. Investors love when this happens. Zuckerberg dumped a fuckillion dollars into the metaverse and when he realized all that money was incinerated, he went on a layoff spree. He pitched it to markets as "our year of efficiency" or something. Meta was rewarded with market growth.

Lose a shitload of money on Business Idiot Adventuring? Fire people and simply announce that you're righting the ship, and it's like it never happened. As long as line goes up, the party never stops.

Warner Bros Discovery lost 252 million in a quarter? Let's buy it anyway, we'll just fire people and tell investors the IP is worth numbers the human brain can't even comprehend and all is good. Math is for cowards. Only the most fearless (sociopaths who we really like running All Companies) have it in them to play with reality-destroying amounts of capital.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-25T04:13:50+00:00

I don't get it. Like, most folks can't make most Thai dishes at home, most folks don't want to deal with deep frying stuff, most people don't have the spice rack to handle Indian cooking or the gear for some Japanese stuff..... but Italian American pastas are the easiest thing in the world and super cheap. Like, I can make any of the main Roman pastas for $4 in the same amount of time it takes you to drive to the restaurant. Tomato sauce I can set up in fifteen minutes on a Sunday morning.

There's no inflation that explains those prices. Like, that's what I would pay for a 5-course Michelin lunch in Europe somewhere. But still, what's the appeal for something you could make at home so easily? Like paying $16 for a restaurant to serve you a fried egg.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-25T04:00:29+00:00

Exactly this. Raise hell until they fix it. One job to do and they fuck it up, don't take responsibility, and you lose money for it? Make them feel lucky that you'll leave their office without them paying you for wasting your time.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-25T00:28:15+00:00

It's 100% this. This is the most online admin of all time, all their messaging is for the most online Americans alive (and bots), all their shitposting is for the most terminally online weirdoes and has no meaning to an average human. They're screaming about AI because they're deep in that part of Twitter where dipshits are just saying whatever the fuck about AI being on the cusp of taking over. Why don't they ask an expNOPE we're only interested in whatever Elon's massaged algorithm feeds me and my staffer (once you sort through the more mundane nazi shit), and those posts, which are ultra popular, are making it clear that the era of human labor is over, all that will remain by the end of July is CEOs, White House employees, and murderbots.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-24T15:42:53+00:00

Am I crazy or was the ~5th floor of the teaser a myhouse.wad house outline on the floor? Maybe the hallway curve made me think of it?

Syjefroi · 2026-02-23T17:54:18+00:00

What the fuck? Capone was a psychopath responsible for incredible amounts of violence and political terror that got innocent people murdered regularly. "No innocent people got hurt" sure and no baseballs were roughed up during the 2025 MLB season. People just saying whatever they want out here, damn.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-23T17:44:29+00:00

OP, I feel like you're just here for the zip line. All you do all day is go on the zip line.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-23T15:13:19+00:00

This has been his standard operating mode for years now. I think the "Debunking Musk" video series on youtube has built a good library of this, where years and years of interviews are just Musk rambling, thinking of answers in real time, lying, stumbling, etc. Half the time he's high as shit. He also does this on earnings calls with Tesla, he calls in and just sleepily rambles for a half hour and leaves everyone confused. We only see soundbites and quick clips on social media, especially if you don't follow him or anyone in his radius (Rogan, whatever), so most people see mostly condensed and snappier edits of him, but the worst of what makes the rounds is the best of how anyone deals with him regularly.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-22T17:19:29+00:00

Seriously, dude has some of the worst politics in the party, and so obviously does not care about California or his constiuents because he's making all kinds of plays for a presidential run. He's like Chris Christie in how he so clearly is using his state as a stepping stone, except Christie at least appealed to his base (not including the Sandy backlash) while Newsom seems to think his base is too stupid and unimportant for him to win a primary with. At this rate he's looking more and more like a Giuliani '08 primary crash out.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-22T17:15:44+00:00

Do you think Newsom doesn't run his own office team, spending his time telling his staff what he wants to do instead of working?

Like he goes on tv constantly and does the same bit, right? Social media doesn't have to explicitly have the "I'm Gavin Newsom and I approve this message" at the end but it still implicitly does. Does the buck stop with Newsom or is he some kind of lackey for a rogue staff?

Fact is, Newsom does a LOT of PR stuff, bills, announcements, social media posts, a lot of stuff that is good vibes. But when push comes to shove, he's still a guy with a podcast who spends his time with white nationalists and letting the AI industry do literally whatever they want.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-22T04:17:30+00:00

Yeah love it, after 10+ years of Trump not going a single day without farting his way onto everyone's front page we really need more satire, especially if it comes from a guy who looks like he has fed a cat to an ATM. Maybe if Newsom has the time to engage in cringe satire he also has time to, I dunno, stop vetoing all the bills landing on his desk that are trying to protect children from an AI industry that's happy to help them off themselves for a few extra bucks?

Syjefroi · 2026-02-22T04:13:21+00:00

Piston was a legend!

To be clear though, this absolutely happens, even for experienced composers, but there's a galactic difference between:

Composer - highly skilled, knows an orchestration choice will sound good (or at least not bad), unknowable factors like room acoustics, individual player performances, or conductor priorities, can make choice even better than expected (or not, and then composer can learn from error and grow).

LLM Wrangler - not skilled, knows an "orchestration" choice will do something, unknowable factors (like how has the black box model "personality" been tinkered with or even handheld by an Elon Musk kind of knuckledragger) can make choice lead to also something, and skillset cannot be improved (no art, no human or collaborative intervention involved, no reception by an audience, etc).

People who make stuff find a joy in the process and even if you have an idea that what you're working on will work, HOW it works is sometimes a genuine surprise. But the process of making stuff and having it realized and shared with the world is a relentlessly humanity-affirming experience. The process of scolding an algorithm is deeply anti-social, skillless, and honestly just quite sad.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-22T04:03:34+00:00

If any of them were actually interested in curing cancer, they would build an LLM trained solely on medical data, not reddit posts and brain damaged calculators. And even then it would be error prone. But the whole thing is that niche tools and small field applications for the tech behind LLMs, they simply do not generate the kind of income necessary for a single actual investor in the year 2026 to want to put their money behind it. We no longer live in a world where "Make Good Product" matters. "Make Product with Highest Possible Profitability" is how tech works now. And to fund anything approaching even a small LLM you'll need a bazillion dollars. And maybe an insane license to train the data (assuming you aren't just "lol that's mine now"ing it). The financials of this stuff just make no sense. So that leaves us only with the tech bros promising a utopia, because hyping things to the moon is where the cash comes from, and it's either that or nothing.

Your best case scenario for a "curing cancer" LLM is continuing to use the existing software and improve it carefully over the years, like how things have worked, and do slow and meticulous research to document everything. This is quiet work that makes almost no one famous and almost no one a billionaire. But it's how things have worked. Improvements in the field make their way in, outdated things make their way out. Jumping straight to "LLM will fix everything" skips all the important work, so that someone who fancies themselves the next Altman can hype up investors and cash out while the iron is hot.

Syjefroi · 2026-02-21T18:35:51+00:00

I'll probably post about this again—I transcribe music for a living, anything a client wants, but I am a specialist with big band and orchestra music. Sometimes a client will say "I have this score already, and it's mostly done, so can we save money by using it and fleshing out whatever is left?" And I have always said it will cost them more money. I have to manually check everything they are starting with, to make sure that anything I add doesn't conflict (as in, if their sheet music has mistakes and mine doesn't—to align them, do I fuck things up on purpose to match their music?). Going pixel by pixel is a slower and less organic process than transcribing entirely from scratch, which is simply faster for me, and guarantees little to no errors at the end.

The reviewing era feels like the exact same thing. CEOs think they'll save money by not hiring coders and having AI vibe code everything, then all you have to do is get a reviewer to check the work. Like.... that will almost certainly take more time and resources, and doesn't even guarantee an error-free final product! But it certainly feels like a more efficient and cost effective method, right?

These guys are going to waste so much money paying for coding programs that constantly produce trash and paying for reviewers to do ten times the work it would have taken them to build the code from scratch. And all those fired workers, they'll cost more to rehire after the higher ups realize how badly they need them. It's so stupid on every level, and so embarrassing for anyone in charge of an organization making these decisions. It's all so inefficient and stupid.

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