You’re not missing anything. This is a politically stupid move.

It would be the exact same character, except wearing a MAGA hat.

That there wasn’t a single mainstream Republican who stood up to Trump during his presidency.

I mean, come on. Who wrote this?

We’re supposed to believe that EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN in government went from taking about how unfit Trump was when he was a candidate … to standing behind him 100% even when he cozied up to Russia, paid hush money to a porn star, and lied about a Presidential election?

I go to lemmy first, but it doesn’t have nearly enough content to replace the endless scrolling of Reddit.

Yes.

I mean, I’d be very bored with that content, so I’d see it more as getting paid 10k to stop consuming media for a year.

It would be a good excuse to do more writing, and getting out and socializing.

Like people don’t lose their saving in the market anyway? But when your 401k goes in the tank, your broker doesn’t have the legal obligation to fund your retirement.

401k plans are a scam not because of what they are, but what they replaced.

Companies used to offer pensions. These were retirement benefits that were handled by the company, and the company bore the risk of underperforming markets.

For a number of reasons, pensions were much better for workers. Now, only some unionized workers get them.

I’m sure there were a huge swath of people who used Twitter and didn’t care at all about Musk one way or the other.

Then he rebranded and threw his ego and control in everyone’s face. And all the people who like Twitter IN SPITE of Elon were now forced to acknowledge that their Twitter is gone.

Just like over at reddit now, the latest move has alienated the people who really cared about the platform itself. If they rebranded to “Spez’s World”, though, a lot of the people who didn’t give a shit before would suddenly be ready to bail.

Yuuup.

It’s just a lack of posts and comments. It’s not busy enough here to allow for endless scrolling.

Not necessarily. You can put safeguards in place. For example our appeals courts don’t ever decide fact. They make rulings about the law.

You can also have bipartisan panels that oversee this, with extremely limited power unless they rule unanimously.

You also have congressional oversight adding another check.

If the original inception and scope of all these things is cleverly drafted, we could see a lot of new media pop up that is vastly superior to the crap we have now.

Absolutely. And a new version of the Fairness Doctrine, and guidelines that take into account everything we’ve learned since then about media malfeasance.

I think it would be great to publicly fund journalism. And make public funding contingent on whether news sources accurately represent the full substance of their source material, practiced evidence-based fact-checking, and had rules to prevent the selective application of either of those first two conditions, and by omission bias their audience.

Journalism is a public good and should be publicly funded.

Pan-seared sea scallops.

The key here is to get good scallops which were flash frozen, NOT stored in liquid.

All you need is a good skillet, a hot flame, and several tablespoons of good quality butter.

Watch a bunch of videos for various techniques. My preferred method is just basting them in butter.

Don’t crowd the pan. Don’t burn the butter. Don’t overcook the scallops.

Master this dish and you will always have a last-minute gourmet option.

Serve with a mixed-green salad, grits, white wine.

Perfect for date night because it is classy, satisfying, decadent, but also light, and won’t stain your clothes if it you happen to have a slip.

Note: the quality of this dish 100% depends on the quality of the scallops.

Sometimes, even when you pay top dollar, you can get a batch that are really bland.

Good news is that generally you can get great frozen ones from Costco, and keep them in your freezer, ready to go.

If you have time, and a lot is riding on the meal, do a test scallop in advance to make sure it’s delicious. If it isn’t find a new plan.

Desperation or buckets of money.

I’m employed now, and actually pretty happy with my job. It would take a lot of money to get me to work in an office again.

But realistically, a couple months of unemployment would be more than enough to make me jump at any office job that would allow me to live comfortably.

Have you tried Whisper from OpenAI? It’s the best I’ve ever seen. I’m curious how it would handle accents.

I’m not ready to talk about it in detail. Even my boss doesn’t know. But you’re in the right ballpark.

I’m actually building a proof-of-concept prototype for what I want to work on… and I’m using a browser extension so that I can build it independently without anyone from the tech team being involved and slowing me down.

Yes it is the paid version, and you should not wait until your budget loosens up.

This is an absolutely CRITICAL new technology. Think of it the way we think of the boomer generation when the computer revolution hit.

Some of them got on board and learned to use this new tech, and some decided it was too hard and assumed they’d never really need it.

I shit you not, learning how to really use gpt-4 has made me probably 100x more efficient at my job in all kinds of ways… most of them unexpected.

Within a few years the workforce is going to be divided between people who are super workers using gpt-4, and people who aren’t.

Someone out there is going to figure out how to use gpt-4 to take your job. So, if you’re smart, you still decide to be that someone.

And you’re already 5 or 6 months late to the party.

In my experience, what makes gpt-4 great for coding is its astonishing knowledge of available software libraries, built-in interface features, etc.

I’ll tell it the task I want done, and it will tell me where to find, and how to install the necessary dependencies.

With zero experience in browser extension design, gpt-4 helped me to build an incredibly complicated Chrome extension, using vector database; creating a custom, cloud-based server; web scraping with headless browsers, voice recognition, speech synthesis, wake-word capabilities, and a sophisticated user interface. I had ZERO experience with ANY of these.

For me, using gpt-4 was like collaborating with a just okay programmer, but one who had extensive experience with literally every programming language, API, protocol, etc.

And it was a collaboration. We would talk through problems together. I would make observations and guesses about why a block of code wasn’t working, and it would tell me why I was wrong, or alternately tell me I was right, and produce a fixed version.