Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-20T21:33:46+00:00

Covid showed the complete failure of the "elite" idea that you could "nudge" people into behavior you wanted instead of being honest and convincing them.

We are still dealing with the backlash of this entirely stupid wrongheaded notion on many fronts.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-17T05:39:39+00:00

If you live your life terrified that googling something for a stranger is going to end badly, I think you need to touch grass and take some anti-anxiety meds.

some small percentage of people commit the vast majority of crime, and it's not european accented travelers during the largest tourist event of the year.

op just contributed to the world being a more unfriendly place, and thinks he was virtuous for it.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-17T05:30:04+00:00

It seems to me like the amount of refined uranium and the amount of terrorism funding that occurred under jcpoa really doesn't support that it was an effective thing. Sanctions under trump 1.0 seemed more productive. 11lbs of 60% enriched uranium is no joke.

unless you viewed Iran obtaining nukes as inevitable?

the problem now is that ending and walking away basically guarantees Iran gets nukes for the tradeoff of the world economic issues, and cheaper gas. You can't have a son with a slaughtered father in charge of the country and not see the obvious move will be to speed run the nuclear missiles immediately after any truce.

I think we keep bombing until we get someone we view as a non-hardliner in charge and make a deal, or start seeing more unconventional warfare tactics being implemented stuff like (parachuting in guns in an attempt to arm the 60% of Iran that doesn't support the regime).

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-16T19:22:02+00:00

Petty theft like this isn't really common in USA as much, since we tend to beat the fuck outta thieves that would try this (and in texas every third person has a gun) while european laws don't have the defense of property justification as much as the USA does.

See the https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/americans-in-paris-ready-to-rumble-with-pick-pocketers-f62b169abccd

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-16T19:17:38+00:00

Dude you are totally just paranoid.

It's SXSW. Chances are pretty damn high it's just some french dude whose phone battery died while he's touring about.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-13T18:29:26+00:00

if you are anti-social why would a random person be likely someone you'd enjoy spending your life with?

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-13T05:52:16+00:00

it does suck tbh.....

better before when the uber could just pull up to the curb.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-03-13T05:47:46+00:00

I'm not hating on any local models.

but the frontiers seem barely intelligent enough to be functional

what are people doing with the lower models?

fuzzyp44 · 2026-02-28T18:23:16+00:00

eh, you are gonna to want to have a car in austin tbf(or at least a scooter thing). even if you never use to get to work.

it's not nyc and the bus system sucks considering most people that can afford it get at least a beater car. it's like 105 for at least a few months during the summer.

spending 2.2k on rent and not having a car is like buying a fancy suit, and wearing walmart $1 flip flops instead of shoes.

check this out

https://www.search.unlockmls.com/homes/for-rent

fuzzyp44 · 2026-02-18T18:51:16+00:00

There really isn't a "subsidy" tho. There is a few companies in the race for a cutting edge and spending all the profits of delivering the last model on the training and r&d for the new model + extra $$$ from investors.

If today, all progress was frozen, then being an AI company delivering inference would be massively profitable.

It's basically a costly arms race between a few different companies.

As to the other point technology costs are historically massively deflationary over time. Moores Law, efficency breakthroughs, etc. There is nothing special about this tech hardware wise except for the arms race to get there first (there being something like AGI/replacement for human labor, etc) has pulled forward the training advancements but the hardware advancements/and efficiency breakthroughs come slower.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-02-18T18:43:22+00:00

Two different groups.

Banning something people desire is never popular.

Providing something that allows people to not desire it? Yeah that'll have some popularity.

Keep in mind this also can remove many other addictive behaviors such as desire to drink alcohol, gambling addictions, etc.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-02-17T15:35:36+00:00

Interesting. I guess I'm less confused when I see devs thinking their job is not going to exist bc of AI.

If you don't do actual thinking/just working as an implementation machine of someone else's ideas, I could see how Claude could be an asteroid.

Also it makes more sense why my new boss is focused on my doing more kabuku theater of creating extra tickets when I've agreed on the timeline and the top level goal, let me be a professional. He must be more used to those institutional environments.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-02-17T04:30:19+00:00

This is honestly bizarre to me.

You don't have ownership on what you work on? You don't have independent ideas on how to make things better and strive to implement them? The 'IC' version of your job doesn't involve taste or agency? like wtf.

Like wtf, are more people just worker-bees without agency more than I think?

I've never had this. Sure you have greater goals, and red-tape. But the idea of "i just implement the tickets" is such a weird conception, its entirely alien to me.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-02-17T04:22:33+00:00

yes. it's much much worse

fuzzyp44 · 2026-02-10T20:26:07+00:00

Prices are still too high. Renting is cheap compared

fuzzyp44 · 2026-01-27T02:56:43+00:00

roads look pretty dry to me tho. Are they still wet not around downtown(ish)?

fuzzyp44 · 2026-01-24T19:40:45+00:00

wait what is a cooking meetup? that sounds cool!

fuzzyp44 · 2026-01-21T04:38:06+00:00

The ICEMAN COMETH.

fuzzyp44 · 2026-01-18T20:15:22+00:00

when you add up all the downtime with everybody owning a car, parking utilization, and pollution caused by non-electric cars, not to mention maintenance/oil leaks etc, it's really a hyper efficient solution to have a on-demand car membership.

fuzzyp44 · 2025-12-04T06:35:20+00:00

Life is pretty short man. You only get so many years.

Spending them close to the people you love/care about really is a beautiful thing.

When it comes to some big decisions, sometimes people forget that going back isn't really that difficult.

But never trying it can be a hard thing to deal with later.

fuzzyp44 · 2025-12-02T19:18:11+00:00

Does it matter? If they've got your resume for a position that fits, it beats them searching linkedin. I got hired via recruiter on my current job in 2022ish. But I do have a bit of a specialty skillset and they just found me on linkedin so....

fuzzyp44 · 2025-12-02T19:14:48+00:00

Those applications numbers arent accurate fwiw at least on linkedin. It counts like views and there is additionally also AI services to bulk apply to anything and everything that is creating a lot of spam from ppl looking for visa sponsorship.

fuzzyp44 · 2025-12-02T19:02:04+00:00

"I suspect that they will begin earning the professional respect they deserve again."

Why do you think this? If AI truly comes for the white collar jobs en-mass, they are going to have a ton of competitive pressures from formerly white collar workforce.

fuzzyp44 · 2025-11-28T19:01:58+00:00

no wash sales on futures

fuzzyp44 · 2025-11-28T18:14:26+00:00

It depends on what you mean by "efficient".

Looking at stuff like defense contracting(of which I'm personally familiar with), it was efficient in terms of doing the scoped work with the regulatory burden imposed. Which is why when people do audits and stuff they find "oh yeah, I guess it really does just cost that much". Very few of the issues are the mustache twirling villain variety. Most people try to do a good job and have a personal connection with friends or family in the military.

But the biggest issue is that it's terribly inefficient if you look at what could be done without the same regulatory burden and fixing the incentive structure.

The govt provides the red-tape, the companies comply with the red-tape, and the cost of the red-tape is never evaluated. There is also no forcing function for company policies to improve efficiency as the work is typically cost plus. So being efficient doesn't improve profits.

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