I’m pretty sure both Nebula and Floatplane look for their talents themselves, you can’t just decide to be there. And they look for something more sophisticated than a guy yelling n-word at children in a currently popular videogame.

I’m convinced that people who are fascinated by llm chatbots are those who usually aren’t better than a chatbot at whatever they do. That is to say, they can’t do shit.

Nobody’s saying that our royals are classy, except themselves, their paid weirdos, and, weirdly enough, americans.

When everyone was talking about them paying their workers fairly, I did not expect it being 60 bucks a year. It sounds like an insult to be honest.

Fair use or something

Middle age progressives didn’t vote for Bernie twice. Is it because they’re actually small in numbers or is it because they are pissed but don’t channel this energy into anything? I let you to decide which is worse.

Give them

Again with this passive shit. Nobody is supposed to give you anything, it’s politics, people present their worldview and gather votes of those who agree. Regressive democrats vote, progressive don’t, that’s why you are “given” candidates you generally see. If you want to see better candidates, vote for better candidates.
It pisses me off for no end, you go to any lefty space, all that you see is perpetual “voting is pointless, don’t vote, I voted once 20 years ago and look what it brought us, you should firebomb wallmarts instead. By the way, why all the candidates that win are so bad, it’s like they don’t listen to us”.

You just described what coalition politics actually is. When your candidate can gather support, or when a group of people can gather together and push a candidate, that group of people can do political activism, and elect their candidate. Do it enough time, and you get yourself a political force that can then communicate with other political forces to achieve their goals. The way US democracy operates, there can be only two viable coalitions, but the rest remains.
Americans have this weird perverted view of the political process, they believe some kind of higher force should produce them a magical person that is favoured by all, and then they can benevolently think about maybe supporting them or not, and they got irrationally angry when political groups they aren’t parts of, don’t deliver them this magical person.
Unfortunately, politics doesn’t work like that.

Will it force the Democratic voters to finally show up to vote? That’s the main question.

The Democratic Machine whatever the fuck you think it is, is a magical machine of the gaps. When voters don’t show up, The Machine does whatever it wants. When voters vote, The Machine has to listen.

Yet, buildings that are being built today don’t have it, and you need to spend a small fortune if you want to have a split system.

I had a conversation with an older dude this May. It was +30°C in Germany and Germany doesn’t really do air conditioning. The older dude, while sweating bullets, was telling me that we don’t need to do air conditioning because we rarely have high temperatures.
It was +30°C in May. It was +30°C in May for the last 10 years. I think that dude will die of heatsroke, and till his very end he will believe that nothing ever happens and things are exactly the same as they were when he was a child.

I don’t feel like I’m getting through you, but I recommend you watch this video, https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU. It’s about very related problems, and the host explains the problem I’m describing in an entertaining way with visual examples.

because of the enormous privilege I have, one so big I can’t even recognise the problems they’re facing.

Well, I don’t recognise a problem, it probably doesn’t exist then.

For a lot of people in America, a lot a lot, all those people whom I am talking about, there is no such choice.
They’re in food deserts, they’re overworked to death, they don’t have skills, they don’t have equipped kitchens, they don’t have time to cook, they don’t have energy to do it.
It’s a bootstraps problem. How can I work good job and can happily spend an evening cooking a nice meal, but half of Americans can’t? Well, obviously because they’re lazy and probably stupid. Not because of the enormous privilege I have, one so big I can’t even recognise the problems they’re facing.

I like to work from home. That’s me.

And there is, as it turns out, a lot of people like that. Doesn’t actually mean everyone is like that. But it does mean that being given this option, we, as humanity and as workers, are happier.
Your reply reminds me that “I’m not pro-life or pro-choice, I just want people to be able to chose do they want to have an abortion or not”.

I am familiar with performance testing of complex product, I agree that it’s hard to overestimate the insane complexity of this process. But if anyone has both means and obligation to do it, it’s a megacorporation that weaseled it’s way into being a monopoly with an iron grip on the world’s infrastructure. If it wasn’t for that, I would agree that it should be a collaborative effort, but when you’re monopoly you don’t get to blame third party on your unilateral decisions. “I just changed everything about the infrastructure that I forced you to operate under, now your shit doesn’t work and it’s your fault actually”.

but without it, Windows 7 would have suffered the same fate as Vista.

Alternatively they could test their shit in advance. It’s not like Microsoft is too poor to afford an array of average computers and a dozen of testers.

If you struggle to save $600 in 2 years, you don’t have a car already, it required $3000 worth of maintenance 3 years ago and you didn’t have it so you sold it for parts, or it still rotting behind a dumpster. If you struggle to save $600 in 2 years, your problems aren’t coffee.

If you can barely save $600 in 2 years, $600 will do jack shit for you in emergency and you better spend it on drugs, at least that way you can forget the pain of living for a moment.