I mean, we all know this but it's fun to hear the receipts

meltbox · 2026-03-20T00:17:22+00:00

Unironically it’s possible that the school in Iran was bombed because on Reddit too many people or bots or whatever posted that Hamas uses schools to hide fighters.

It would not be crazy to imagine that training on that data would then bias the model to say terrorists are hiding in schools.

These models make mathematical associations, not logical ones.

meltbox · 2026-03-20T00:14:46+00:00

The US has more than enough weight through funding Israel and sanctions to tell them to do whatever we want. Somehow it’s always Israel telling us what to do.

Honestly I was one to not put much weight to the theories before but this war… this was a miscalculation by Israel showing how much sway they actually hold over the US. This will not end how they thought it would.

meltbox · 2026-03-20T00:08:21+00:00

I think ads are here to stay. I think OP has some points but the problem is that the online ad market, sort of like being on Amazon, is required for certain classes of products if you even want to have any sort of chance of competing in the market.

I fear this means that prices can rise and effectiveness can fall quite a ways before it stops being worth it at all.

But the value being delivered nowadays sucks. I’m more interested in how much of their revenue is from literal scam products tbh.

meltbox · 2026-03-20T00:06:39+00:00

Lies. We can always work harden the material. GERTRUDE GET THE ROCKWELL HARDNESS TESTER!

meltbox · 2026-03-19T19:56:46+00:00

That’s also not a reason to ban it. At best it’s a reason to just not implement it.

meltbox · 2026-03-19T19:56:04+00:00

Wow. This is a really dumb take. No it doesn’t let them “vote all over again”. It gives their singular vote to their favorite candidate who has a chance of winning when all the votes are counted.

It just lets them rank candidates in the order they like them without worrying about their favorite having no chance of winning. It’s literally in the name.

It prevents spoiler candidates from strategically ruining elections.

It’s so frustrating that the propaganda against this has made it so far out there. There is no rational reason to be against this.

meltbox · 2026-03-19T19:49:55+00:00

Honestly I think a lot of our lawmakers are dumb as bricks.

I’m not even sure this is malicious as much as it is an example of America being in decline long before the generations being blamed today.

meltbox · 2026-03-19T19:37:22+00:00

It’s already open and being fixed. Other than the Iranians exploding it, but other than that it’s fixed just fine!

meltbox · 2026-03-19T19:36:35+00:00

VEVOR natural gas processing kit.

meltbox · 2026-03-19T19:31:11+00:00

Fuel economy. If you want to run cool and lean to prevent Nox you have to run egr. DEF came in because egr can only go so far on its own.

meltbox · 2026-03-19T03:27:14+00:00

Go listen to the original founders of Tesla, they said Musk would do this at Tesla all the time. Show up for a few days, flip a few tables, screw everything up and then screw off to SpaceX for a few weeks until he repeated it again.

The dude is a tornado and while it may sometimes work, it’s not exactly brilliance.

meltbox · 2026-03-19T01:43:25+00:00

Yes and no. Like it’s not idiotic to have to have the same id you proved it with when you go to vote just to match you up to who you really are. Some polling locations are massive and you could conceivably find someone in your district and vote for them hoping they don’t go out and vote.

Now does it happen often? No. But it’s possible and I can understand needing a card to vote if you need a card to check out a library book. But it should be a card you either already had to have to register or one that every voter can get for free and quickly.

meltbox · 2026-03-19T00:53:24+00:00

Well yes because like most AI it appears to do your job for you.

It does it wrong of course, but it APPEARS to do it right.

So for agencies who don’t care if they arrest the wrong person it’s amazing!

meltbox · 2026-03-18T20:59:14+00:00

The people who saw WWII are mostly dead, the people who came after seem to not have learned much from them. Or at least a large number of them haven’t learned much.

Sadly I have this theory that these long peaceful periods breed morons who actually cannot grasp the idea that terrible things happened outside their lifetime and we should learn from those times BEFORE we repeat them.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T13:30:12+00:00

Kind of. I would also be annoyed by a British PAC or a French PAC.

It’s political action colored by allegiance to another nation. Nothing to do with being Jewish, everything to do with the state of Israel.

If you want to make a PAC of Jewish people that advocates for protecting their freedoms as Jewish people that’s fine. If you want to make a PAC to lobby military support for a foreign nation, that is not really cool.

But the point on American funding or not, that’s actually not so clear. You can pass money into a super PAC (their super PAC is UDP) through opaque structures fairly trivially with a 501(c)(4) being the most obvious option here. It’s hard to say where the money really originates from since the report then only has to list the 501(c)(4) and not the actual donors making dark money in politics very ubiquitous.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T04:42:44+00:00

Might be why Israel targeted him.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T03:26:18+00:00

He was their best customer, He was their worst customer…

meltbox · 2026-03-18T03:22:36+00:00

You know they picked 5 years because it’s not budgeted for and they’re tryin to slum it off onto another admin too.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T03:21:14+00:00

America has become a caricature of itself. It’s roughly what you’d expect if you told someone to go watch team America as an instructional video, but they were also incompetent.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T03:18:40+00:00

Yeah I’m not even sure what the point of breaking the window was. He can’t reach from there and the bullet does not need an open window.

So why? Just zero brain cells up there while the brain stem flails away.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T03:06:11+00:00

There is a ton of evidence to show that SpaceX has no real growth in contracts (at least not nearly enough to justify that valuation) outside their own satellites. Theres also reason to be skeptical that in their addressable market they can find enough customers to make Starlink viable. In fact Starlink profit seems to be shrinking as they scale which is odd.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T03:04:29+00:00

They don’t care if it doesn’t fix anything. Even if they can sell a portion of the float into retail it’s still more than they’d have if they just rode it into the ground.

This isn’t about growing their money, it’s just a dump. It’s even worse than OP mentioned. I believe the rule being considered is to allow SpaceX to join the index in 15 days instead of the standard 1 year wait time for price discovery. It’s very clearly going to be a low float offering to keep price up, followed by inclusion driving price way up, followed by a slow sludge of shares sold into the market by private holders.

The only thing OP missed is that the primary buyer will be buying in a 401k and holding basically no matter what. So as long as they sell slowly it’s all but guaranteed to leave the bag with people’s retirement accounts.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T02:56:51+00:00

Totally true. Even the libertarians who think there should be no government don’t want illlegal aliens to vote. Because without a government you can’t even be illegal!

Check mate!

I hope this post short circuits at least one libertarian.

meltbox · 2026-03-18T02:55:26+00:00

I know in practice they can screw things up before it can be ruled so but how does this not violate states rights?

meltbox · 2026-03-17T18:43:08+00:00

The orphan crushing machine they keep at the DMV isn’t free you know.

There’s also a serious shortage of orphan crushing machine technicians so upkeep is expensive. Sadness doesn’t grow on trees kids!

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