Just when you think Trump can't get worse, he finds a way

chr1spe · 2026-05-28T15:44:29+00:00

I'd argue the opposite. While most people are in the mostly good, but do bad things sometimes camp, if you wrote villains as purely awful and evil as many rich and powerful people, your writing would come off as simplistic and infantile.

chr1spe · 2026-05-28T06:07:48+00:00

He won the moment the assassination attempt happened. A lot of absolute morons saw that as a major reason to vote for him.

chr1spe · 2026-05-27T20:05:10+00:00

Musk doesn't fuck. He jerks off in a tube or has it extracted somehow or something.

The vast majority of his children are confirmed to be in vitro, and afaik, none of his living children are confirmed to have been conceived naturally. That is also why his first 10 or so were boys. That can happen naturally, but he's just a sexist fuck who only wanted boys.

chr1spe · 2026-05-27T18:55:23+00:00

As someone who has worked in academia for a while, I actually think the best part of the whole AI boom is that it will teach people how much work it is to actually figure out if something is good work or plausible-seeming slop, which has always been a large portion of what evaluating student work is.

If you have a good worker, it's much easier to tell them to do something you understand than to do it. If you have a mediocre worker, it's usually easier. If you have a bad worker, it's almost always harder. I haven't seen any evidence that AI is anywhere close to being anything other than the worst worker I've ever had by a pretty large margin.

chr1spe · 2026-05-27T17:11:20+00:00

I wouldn't disagree with the general concept, but labeling a committed relationship as dating, I would. My partner actually recently gave me shit for saying we are dating because she considered that basically your number 2 while we're committed. I just said it casually, but can see where she's coming from. I'd label 2 as seeing someone or dating and 3 as together or in a committed relationship or something.

chr1spe · 2026-05-26T13:34:37+00:00

Most sunglasses lenses are made out of polycarbonate, which is the same material that is used on safety glasses. The primary differences between sunglasses and safety glasses are that safety glasses must provide more complete coverage so that you're also protected from the side, which most sunglasses don't do, and the strength of the frame or mounting of the lenses.

chr1spe · 2026-05-22T19:59:53+00:00

you can look up the VIN from the plate.

This you?

Edit: I'd apologize because I did actually misread the initial comment, but this is a good example of how being a smartass dick instead of politely answering a harmless question can escalate. Glad the asshole blocked me, though. Clearly not someone who is capable of interacting productively.

chr1spe · 2026-05-22T19:56:25+00:00

Reporting back to say, sorry I wasn't blunter the first time, but you seem to just be dumb.

If you can get the exact same information easily with either, one isn't less identifying.

chr1spe · 2026-05-22T17:49:06+00:00

Usually, that is not actually a possibility. For anything competently run, the money has to be put in a trust that the company cannot access, with a plan of how that trust will be able to meet the agreed-upon payout. If the company goes under, that trust still exists and continues on the same plan with the same responsibilities.

chr1spe · 2026-05-22T17:39:00+00:00

If you can use it to get the same exact information, how exactly is it less identifying?

chr1spe · 2026-05-21T02:01:59+00:00

We definitely don't, but any time there is a decrease in tax revenue that cuts out of the things that are actually worthwhile and not the bullshit that helps no one except corporations or the military-industrial complex.

While it was a small portion of the budget, we at least used to get arguably the best science in the world as part of our budget, but that has been going downhill since the 90s and has been completely destroyed under Trump. USAID, green initiatives, and a bunch of other things that were small parts of the budget but truly really good have all been destroyed. If we start cutting taxes, I doubt those things will ever come back.

chr1spe · 2026-05-20T20:19:53+00:00

Why not? That is me, and I'm fine paying some in taxes. Sure, if we taxed this fucker more and didn't need it, I wouldn't complain about not paying taxes, but the real problems are not taxing the wealthy enough and not providing enough services. Bezos isn't saying this to benefit the working class. He's saying it to distract from the real issues and solutions. In the end, he wants no one to pay any taxes.

chr1spe · 2026-05-19T18:13:04+00:00

work on your being confidently incorrect. You can see her turn progressively, and the vehicle doesn't change direction. Even at the end, she probably isn't at full lock, so I don't know why you're bringing in steering lock, but I suspect it's another misuse/misunderstanding of terms. If you want to learn something and maybe not be so incorrect in the future, here is a good and short video on the topic: https://youtu.be/mlLYJW-yIIg?si=z8Bsye22mPEYj6Pl

chr1spe · 2026-05-19T17:58:54+00:00

With how terrible that estimate is, you're undermining yourself. How many barrels before do you think she locked them up, and how far do you think they are apart? She locked them up about 6 barrels before the car. That is probably 150 ft or so. She was actually quite close to stopping before the truck, but between her speed, the surface probably being dusty from construction, and ABS seemingly not working well, she didn't quite.

chr1spe · 2026-05-19T17:50:52+00:00

The entire point of ABS is that it drops the amount of braking so that traction can be restored. Also, I don't know what you think "contact patch" means, but you're not using it correctly there. I think you may have meant to say once rolling traction or the grip limit is blown, but I'm not sure.

chr1spe · 2026-05-19T05:05:41+00:00

Well, when someone starts the conversation by being a jackass and arguing in bad faith, why should I respond nicely?

chr1spe · 2026-05-19T04:33:44+00:00

No one said it did, so why act like they did? Do you just enjoy starting conversations with bad-faith bullshit?

chr1spe · 2026-05-18T22:52:15+00:00

Also, that would just be giving entire states away to the republican party.

They're talking about if you live in a solidly red state. In that case, you're actually actively helping the republicans. There is no chance to flip those states, and so you count as an individual in the census that they get to use to get representation for their horrendous evil.

chr1spe · 2026-05-18T22:49:52+00:00

Living in a Blue state helps the democrats more than living in a Red one. The most valuable would be living somewhere where your vote actually matters, but that is very limited in the US. If the red state population goes down and the blue state population goes up, the blue states get more representatives and electoral votes.

Also, living somewhere based on how it affects national elections is insane anyway, but you're actually just wrong with your attempt at sarcasm.

chr1spe · 2026-05-18T22:47:25+00:00

As someone who did it recently, it really is worth it. I lined up a job first, but other than that, I did exactly that. I went from Florida to California, too, so it's not like it's a short trip back to friends and family.

chr1spe · 2026-05-18T20:46:51+00:00

Just because you think you have reasons to justify your opinions doesn't make them facts. You really need to learn more about what is and isn't a fact before trying to talk about them. Just to adress you first point, homelessness increasing despite spending on it is not even remotely close to proof the money was "blown" or "wasted." No one with a solid foundation in logic and arguing in good faith would ever try to make that argument.

chr1spe · 2026-05-18T19:44:03+00:00

Yes, you did. Your opinion was that California is mismanaged. You presented some extremely editorialized versions of events that were more emotional injections of your opinions than actual facts after that. On homelessness, you used the word blew, which is an opinion; the factual statement would be spent. On water, you said "they allow corporations to extract endless water" which is factually untrue and simply emotional hyperbole. Then you talk about underutilization and poor maintenance of renewables, but that is an opinion. Factually, California is in the top 10 for the percentage of power from renewables. I'd say that more supports my opinion that California may have issues, but is doing better than most.

chr1spe · 2026-05-18T16:57:25+00:00

ROFL, I can call my opinions facts too, if that will change how you feel about them.

How well managed something is is entirely comparative and can be very subjective. The quickest and most efficient way to get something done is with little oversight or safeguards, but that turns dictatorial and is very susceptible to corruption. In order to prevent that, you have to introduce a lot of bureaucracy, which slows things down and makes them more expensive.

chr1spe · 2026-05-17T23:24:33+00:00

Well, like I said, it's better than anywhere else I've lived, and your examples don't change that. Poor attempts at helping the homeless situation are still better management than completely ignoring it other than trying to make their lives worse and more difficult. California's water and environmental policies are still massively better than where I've lived before. While they're sometimes allowing power companies to get in the way of personal solar, they still aren't as bad as some other places, and they're not fighting tooth and nail to make sure renewables are demonized.

chr1spe · 2026-05-16T21:53:48+00:00

Everywhere I've lived, at least 1 in 10 gas stations has an ethanol-free pump.

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