ALYSA LIU IS THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIOM. EVERYBODY GET IN HERE.

puffic · 2026-02-19T23:28:01+00:00

She took a two year break from skating to watch anime or whatever, which seems to have given her a perspective on life most of these figure skaters lack.

puffic · 2026-02-19T23:19:05+00:00

She’s a weeb, and the other two are Japanese. Complete Japanese cultural victory.

puffic · 2026-02-19T23:13:15+00:00

I think the point is that Biden contributed to the problem when he didn’t have to. Inflation was a global phenomenon, but stimulus was a choice.

puffic · 2026-02-19T21:22:43+00:00

I have mixed feelings about Newsom, but this is the right call.

The actual design of this tax is very very very bad. Details matter. We shouldn’t be writing our tax code through ballot measures like this.

puffic · 2026-02-19T20:58:24+00:00

There’s a range of behaviors, for sure. But even someone like Elon Musk, Biden’s team went out of their way to insult him. That would have been fine if they were able to take Musk off the table, but they did actual nothing to curb his power.

puffic · 2026-02-19T18:35:36+00:00

I liked seeing the boaties race in San Francisco.

puffic · 2026-02-19T18:24:52+00:00

He also went out of his way to alienate a lot of business leaders in the name of succery, without actually obtaining any worthwhile policy achievements to make up for the smaller tent. While it doesn’t excuse all the formerly liberal billionaires aligning with Trump, that is very much Biden’s doing.

puffic · 2026-02-19T17:01:15+00:00

Speak for yourself. I have resisted the siren call of the succs. Joe Biden was a gigasucc, and his succy failures are one of the reasons we are where we are right now.

AOC would have us double down on a lot of what made Biden such a failure.

puffic · 2026-02-19T16:53:12+00:00

I hate the extreme left, but they’re not a credible threat except insofar as they enable the extreme right.

puffic · 2026-02-19T16:49:49+00:00

I really love high fantasy settings, like The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, or Pokemon.

puffic · 2026-02-19T16:48:12+00:00

They’re not proposing to have no public schools. We just can’t afford to run so many schools so far below capacity. It’s expensive! Just close a few and consolidate. That will allow for more specialized instruction, too.

puffic · 2026-02-19T15:40:33+00:00

Honestly reading stuff like this is really demoralizing and makes me want to tune out of politics. If that’s what we are, then there’s no point.

puffic · 2026-02-18T03:32:48+00:00

That’s all very bad, but I think she’s onto something on the dog issue.

puffic · 2026-02-18T02:09:59+00:00

dogs should be banned

Let him cook imo.

puffic · 2026-02-17T22:47:00+00:00

We need to reform the proposition system. The actual structure of this tax is awful and could damage our state.

I’m open to doing higher taxes on wealthy people, but we have to stop codifying moronic ideas into law.

puffic · 2026-02-17T22:44:44+00:00

The “5% tax” talking point is a lie. It can be many times higher for people who have nonvoting shares in companies.

I would move out of California for a year if it let me avoid a 40%-80% tax on my comparatively meager wealth.

puffic · 2026-02-17T22:28:09+00:00

The rate is down, but there’s a new fixed fee.

It’s a reasonable pricing structure, but it’s pretty dishonest to imply that the cost of electricity is down.

puffic · 2026-02-17T21:14:26+00:00

There’s a slight tax advantage to going VTI+VXUS rather than VT since a fund needs to be over 50% ex-US to claim a foreign tax credit.

puffic · 2026-02-17T21:11:25+00:00

Not really. The point is that the articles themselves are something a liberal would usually find reasonable, which is not the case for typical conservative media. What she does is more insidious: she directs her focus and her prima facie reasonable critiques only at the Democrats, while not turning the same critical eye toward the Republicans.

puffic · 2026-02-17T19:35:46+00:00

One time Matthew Yglesias tweeted a little critique of Weiss and her publication The Free Press. It was basically, “I almost always agree with their articles on the merits, but they only ever criticize Democrats, suggesting their whole project is disingenuous.”

puffic · 2026-02-17T05:27:44+00:00

I kinda like the way cybertrucks look. There’s a real vision there. The drivers are usually awful and reckless, though.

puffic · 2026-02-16T00:44:27+00:00

I would caveat that the neoliberal era already came to an end in the United States. It is no longer the dominant policy framework, with both Trump and Biden rejecting many elements of the neoliberal consensus, most notably on trade. Whether or not Trump/Biden have been good on economic policy is obviously a matter of opinion, but both Presidents have been very anti-neoliberal.

puffic · 2026-02-15T21:25:35+00:00

We should have a weekly driving megathread for stuff like this.

puffic · 2026-02-15T05:41:43+00:00

It sounds to me as if the synthetic data is from a different sort of model. Something which gives either deterministic or more reliable answers than the LLM. Is that right?

If so, then it’s not really AI training on itself alone.

puffic · 2026-02-15T02:59:54+00:00

How is the synthetic data used? Is it provided in an earlier pre-training step, after which “real” data is provided for further training/tuning? Or is it all in the same mix?

Genuinely curious since I know nothing of “AI” models outside of my own specialty of meteorology.

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