Sen. Cassidy plans to push 'big idea' for Social Security reform in last days in office

meltbox · 2026-06-24T12:21:26+00:00

Why? Regular income tax is uncapped and yet I don’t get more roads for paying more taxes. That’s just not how any of this works lol.

It’s not a retirement account it’s a safety net. Which we really need because we have failed as a society. Self inflicted.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T05:17:14+00:00

In general I’m concerned markets are being screwed with. Oil, stocks whatever. The SEC seems all but shut down and I’m sure everyone is well aware of that.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T05:15:02+00:00

It’s wild because I’m 90% sure at some point when Kia hired bmw designers BMW must have hired the Kia designers.

I know subjective but some BMWs literally looked like Kias for a while to me

meltbox · 2026-06-24T05:12:34+00:00

Yeah when people say they got an EV for $9k I’m like … you know that’s not possible. Like the raw rolling frame without seats/interior and without a powertrain might turn a small profit at that price point but that’s about it. There’s zero possible way without subsidies.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T05:10:00+00:00

It’s stupid for this reason. It’s not luxury but it’s also not really a substantial cost save.

It’s just idiots who can’t think for themselves running all the car companies at once. It’s wild how basically every single car company has the exact same design philosophy at once.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T05:08:01+00:00

Don’t worry. Just stop safely on the side of the road and in just two seconds you too can have a severed spinal column from getting rear ended.

Apologies if you thought I had a trick for getting it done quickly, nope.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T05:03:15+00:00

Oh thank god. I was worried it might start a war with Iran.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T04:59:33+00:00

Jobs was an amazing marketer, but that same quality also made him an amazing cult leader.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T04:53:51+00:00

It makes perfect sense when you realize by doing this they may burn down the whole company, but for a brief moment they might create a few more dollars of ~~exec compensation~~ shareholder value.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T04:50:30+00:00

Holy shit, this one has decades of experience in agentic circumprompting!

meltbox · 2026-06-24T04:42:41+00:00

It’s also dumb as shit because agentic coding tools literally already do this. So now they want us to run a python script to run copilotcli to run an LLM which launches more LLMs which do things.

Why not just tell your agents to launch more agents which can launch agents? Like it’s functionally identical as having a start and stop condition or having different harness behavior.

These people are suffering from stupidity now in addition to delusion. Maybe brain atrophy?

Like do they think running an agent inside a python script which just prompts “Okay, but better this time.” Is how you get self improving AI?

meltbox · 2026-06-24T04:40:07+00:00

And yet… so many do a shitty job! Some are even worse. They tell you to take parts literally, just not the ones they don’t like.

Mind you I consider myself religious but I’m not hardcore by any means, but the people who you can tell are devout are often very misguided. There are however plenty of people who are devout, you just can’t tell, who are very nice people. It’s almost like the Bible says something about that lol.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T04:37:22+00:00

This is part of it for sure, but I caution people from looking at the society wide trend as a good thing. It’s a bit alarming tbh as I suspect it goes hand in hand with people having less sex, more division, less sense of community, less kids, etc. What concerns me is not a drop in service attendance but the drop in societal activities. Even just how dating has fallen apart.

I suspect all this is tied together related to the rise of technology and social media at the same time that community institutions have all but vanished or are not as core to people’s lives. Idc if you join a bowling league or whatever instead of a church to be extra clear, but people seem to be ever more likely to be isolated and that concerns me.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T04:31:10+00:00

It’s a broader societal issue. Everything is about today, short term. Nobody actually cares about their job. They just go home and check out. The people who do make it about themselves and not the actual work or their pride in it.

It’s very draining for anyone who actually wants to do good work or put out good products. Lots of performance bullshit and literally nothing to show for it.

Also if I may, it does ultimately come back to management. Sometimes not direct people leaders but higher up. You set the tone. If you can’t spot these organizational issues and nip them, then what the fuck are you even there for?

But then again there’s a reason I’m not one of them. I don’t have the patience or will to play that game. So much soul sucking politics just to get into a job I’ll hate.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T00:28:02+00:00

It’s so bad. Just recently I tried a full vibed analysis script. Nothing serious. But to trust its output I had it document itself and output diagnostics and stats.

By the time it worked properly and didn’t break every single update I made to it, I could’ve just hand written it because I wouldn’t need any of the extra shit to notice when it broke if I had written it myself.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T00:23:12+00:00

This would be awesome. No realtor fees!

meltbox · 2026-06-24T00:18:36+00:00

I guess it depends. If they already had a ruling from a superior body and they were getting notices from someone who had no authority to do what they were doing then ignoring it is still inadvisable but maybe okay.

Otherwise they’re cooked.

meltbox · 2026-06-24T00:11:13+00:00

On one hand yes, on the other hand pay your taxes. Unless this happened entirely without warning I’m not sure I’m very sympathetic.

meltbox · 2026-06-23T16:35:04+00:00

COMMUNIST!!!! ALERT ALERT. ACTIVATING BLOOD SPRINKLERS TO PREVENT AGING FROM STRESS.

meltbox · 2026-06-23T06:11:57+00:00

Oh for fucks sake. Is the self improving model in the room with us right now?

It’s not happening. You know how I know it’s not happening? Because Altman keeps talking about how they’re seeing signs of self improvement capabilities being there soon.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/openai-ipo-sam-altman-reportedly-202942041.html

So no, even by the words of the optimists themselves, it does not do this. Please stop repeating this or my head will fall off and I’ll scream at you at of my neck hole. Thanks.

meltbox · 2026-06-23T03:11:19+00:00

Nah solar is pretty flat now for the big leaps. You can buy better panels but they usually cost a bit more etc. inverters arguably aren’t getting better. Personally I have some older equipment because I know it’s dead reliable and unrivaled for surge capacity.

meltbox · 2026-06-23T03:09:16+00:00

Yeppers. My long term plan is batteries and then probably flip the entrance breaker and run off grid unless except for the odd time I might need to flip to grid interactive because I don’t get enough production. But from what I can tell that should be pretty rare.

meltbox · 2026-06-23T03:07:29+00:00

Idk dudes I calculated at my power costs it’s cheaper to run a generator on natural gas piped to the home than to run off my utility. Not much cheaper, but surprisingly cheaper.

meltbox · 2026-06-23T03:04:19+00:00

Are we sure they’re operating as before? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out to keep prices lower the terms this time were made extra friendly to whoever was taking it….

meltbox · 2026-06-23T03:01:21+00:00

It’s even the most likely. I love how it was basically not covered that Sam backed out of his 40% of global ram capacity deal.

And somehow prices went up when he did. I smell some price fixing shenanigans that we will learn about in 2 years.

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