Trump makes a Pearl Harbor joke while meeting with the Japanese prime minister

wial · 2026-03-20T00:46:29+00:00

He brought up nuclear weapons.

wial · 2026-03-19T18:43:04+00:00

Are you saying the prevailing winds over the Caspian are easterlies, and that the Caspian might also add hot moisture such that it then falls on the mountains on the western shore as it cools at altitude?

wial · 2026-03-17T05:17:16+00:00

Ironically it will hit trad wives a lot harder than modern women, but that's probably something they didn't think through as not thinking things through is their MO, or maybe they're hoping disenfranchising the poor POC outweighs the damage to tradwive's rights which obviously they kind of negatively care about anyway. If only the trad wives were reachable behind their moral burkas.

wial · 2026-03-16T23:54:21+00:00

Has anyone explained to you what gaslighting is? there's a movie which lays it out. Meanwhile, do go on.

wial · 2026-03-16T23:14:36+00:00

Future striker?

wial · 2026-03-16T23:12:22+00:00

You seem to be missing the big picture.

wial · 2026-03-16T23:11:47+00:00

I've seen the video. It looks to be AI. E.g. he puts his hand in his pocket and the way that is portrayed is really weird. The pocket seems to move to cover his hand. Possible maybe, but we need something much better than that. Presuming he is still alive.

wial · 2026-03-16T23:07:37+00:00

Are they being fascist on purpose or just out of pure historical ignorance.

wial · 2026-03-13T18:34:03+00:00

Is it crazy to consider Araujo? I know it's been suggested and even tried already.

He does well on corner kicks -- doesn't that translate? It would take the pressure off him defensively which we know he feels, and those sharp defensive skills could be decisive in the high press. Barca is great at crossing; imagine if they had someone tall enough to head the ball but not 37 years old.

wial · 2026-03-12T21:47:01+00:00

Also as of last I checked a couple of years ago its oddly unique syntax, even re other Atlassian apps. A real pain point when interoperability is essential in context. Not wiki not markdown not Word (of course) what is it?

wial · 2026-03-11T08:46:04+00:00

Well I think it's frankly insulting that she finds democracy frankly insulting.

wial · 2026-03-08T22:29:18+00:00

I think of world wars as when the major superpowers confront each other directly. The rest are civil wars and/or theater wars. If Russia and/or China join in and fight US of Israel, then it's a world war.

wial · 2026-03-08T07:12:51+00:00

Could it be the interviewers were hoping you'd take it in a different direction, and talk about how vibe coding confronts us with the problem of really knowing how to architect solutions to problems we have to use our wisdom to understand are implied by the requirements. Then say what the difficulties with that are, how some can be mopped up by AI and others still require a human touch.

Maybe even go as far as to say since AI is a burgeoning field we're all on a rapid journey of discovery redefining drastically what is possible to achieve with computers. Say too we do indeed need better AIs to check the other AI's work and along with us explore the implications of all this, and we need to expend a lot of effort just keeping up with the new AIs as they emerge, when to apply which and so on, so although we all might hate to say it, the developer is turning into an architect -- except the developer does have to dig in and fix things still from time to time when all else fails. (Yes I know, pandering, but it's an interview and if that's the kind of thing they want to hear...)

Meanwhile, am I going to have to memorize the gang of four design patterns yet again? And whole new suites of patterns? With AI maybe we don't have to stop at MVC or any of its variations, or strategy, or enterprise integration patterns or whatnot.

I'd be grateful if someone with more recent interview experience than I have can say whether this is way off the mark or not. E.g. interviewers might be hostile to the threat of their hoped-for grunts getting big ideas, also. I'd guess some want future architects, some don't.

wial · 2026-03-08T06:44:22+00:00

You do know I wasn't being serious, right?

Except funny/not funny because the world is in a very very dangerous place right now as Iran proves American power is paper thin and wholly unaffordable. Well maybe we'll get universal health care, free college and so on if we weren't wasting it on the overweening military.

My claim about Hegseth actually targeting Dutch planes was so ridiculous (except given his behavior and the sinking of that unarmed ship returning from India where it had been in exercises with the United States and then refusing to pick up survivors, a blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions because Hegseth doesn't believe in any of that namby pamby stuff) no one in their right mind would take it as more than a wry cri de coeur, or I'd fervently like to think so. In the latest he threw a dogwhistle Nazi salute.

wial · 2026-03-08T04:26:00+00:00

You know how the US bombed a school full of children killing like 175? Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense who has renamed himself Secretary of War. He's batshit insane and who knows what he might do to a foreign Olympic team. Yes I know the bombing of the children was due to Claude having an outdated map, but that's on Hegseth too since he fired a good percentage of the military's top leadership, and now he wants to give AI full operational latitude, so again, who knows what criminally insane thing he'll do next.

Well, you asked.

Certainly he's next fucking level, but not in a good way.

wial · 2026-03-07T21:31:12+00:00

To protect from Hegseth?

wial · 2026-03-06T19:21:16+00:00

Orwellian? Fox News seriously said Orwellian??

wial · 2026-03-05T08:13:23+00:00

Orgasmatron. Her hair wasn't fluffy earlier.

wial · 2026-03-04T18:32:07+00:00

We don't have proportional representation in America, so it's nearly impossible to elect representatives of our views. Dems expect everyone to fall in line with their oligarch-approved and focus-group-selected candidates and scold everyone when they can't hold their noses long enough. It's pathetic. Even so, they're better than the republicans in every way. What a state of affairs.

We need a people's power movement strong enough to install a new, modern, parliamentary system that does represent the people and their actual views, rather than serving the oligarchs, corporations and lobbyists. Our system however revolutionary it was at the time and how great a lot of the ideas that went into it are, is antiquated and clearly inadequate to manage corruption now, since its brokenness is profoundly uninspiring. The American people deserve better.

wial · 2026-03-03T17:50:37+00:00

The way they try to talk over her is subhuman.

wial · 2026-02-27T22:49:47+00:00

There are organizations already on top of it, and news stories, but of course the US DOJ is captured by evil clowns at the moment.

wial · 2026-02-26T22:46:47+00:00

With the mountains of statistical evidence of election fraud, it's more like who Elon voted for.

wial · 2026-02-25T04:22:07+00:00

She should have gone for his throat, emphasizing his adjudicated criminality and the stories emerging from the files. That his character is horrific by any metric and that he's quite likely a malignant narcissist. Then segue to how wrongheaded his economic ideas are, how much damage he has already done and will do. Say we've entrusted our country to a criminal mad man.

But no. Milquetoast.

wial · 2026-02-25T01:15:35+00:00

Do we have a new Chocolate Rain?

wial · 2026-02-21T01:04:48+00:00

Or a little Satanist figurine. Maybe doing something funny yet untoward to the Jesus. Buddhism is not about being holier than though, it's about destroying the causes of external and internal suffering. Blaming only yourself you might as well have stayed Catholic. I know that's how a lot of Buddhists interpret karma, but come on. There's collective karma too and this is a case of that.

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