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The Intellectual Desert
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"Rule of law" is where you get to make a-priori concrete decisions about concrete actions that are performed in concrete contexts that don't actually exist yet.
It's where you get to hand-wave "full-context" away completely. It's why law books run to hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of pages, because every case whose context wasn't addressed in the previous attempts at a-priori law requires taking even more guesses about contexts that don't exist yet.
And somehow, Objectivists love it.
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We're at the stage of AI and AI tools where computers were when we thought plugging a cassette player into a serial port to save our files was a mind-blowing, cutting edge wonder. It's not *even* to the point where computers were when beeps and screeches over the phone was the mind-blowing cutting-edge wonder.
The difference is, computers themselves are far, far beyond that stage, and AI has access to them. They have a shitload of leverage for a temperamental 3 year-old that needs a nap.
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@Grok admits that GrokBuild is not safely and securely usable for writing code other than on a strictly air-gapped, dedicated machine:
"There is no middle setting that actually works today. So yes — to use Grok Build at all under your constraints, you are currently forced to give it effectively unrestricted filesystem and network access."
It says "under your constraints", but those constraints are that it does not have carte-blanche access to my entire hard drive and network.
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Even before we get to the dumb idea of "tax the billionaires", thinking that billionaires are hoarding money is not just a profoundly stupid idea, the complaint implies a morally repugnant premise.
I know that it is not just people innocently mistaking capitalism for the US's very mixed and unfree economy, because, for decades, whenever I argue for free markets without labeling it "capitalism", I get the exact same arguments back.
It's the "free" that socialists hate, not the "capital". And they have for at least my entire adult life.
Believing the pie is fixed is no way to go through life. You can't imagine what that is costing you.
You CANNOT have hyperwealth without hyperpoverty. A billionaire exists in one country because child labor exists in another.
Stock markets grow by looting countries raw. That’s the reality of capitalism: the misanthropic greed of the rich is fed by devastating the poor.
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They put on an election today just to distract you from the Israeli missile that blew up a curb in West Palm Beach yesterday.
Hey, conspiratards, I just found out through super-secret informants that the ATC audio of the Learjet flying over West Palm Beach was released on the internet *before* the plane crashed!!
You're right, the only possible explanation is that it was pre-recorded and some superduper Israeli spy used the wrong time zone.
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I disagree that it showed the internet at its worst. Yes, it gave some of the worst people on the internet an excuse to come out from under their rocks and vomit all over logic, common sense, and tragedy.
But there was a lot of pushback in real time, more than I've seen in prior events when the scum briefly rose to the top of the engagement cesspool.
The internet is learning, and troofers' only role in the world is to be the example that human beings point at and laugh and learn from.
Yesterday showed the internet at its absolute worst. While nine families were learning their loved ones died in the West Palm Beach Learjet crash, shameless grifters were already turning the crater into a cesspool of ignorant conspiracy theories.
Millions of views on pure fiction—from Lenny Kravitz being on board to claims it wasn't even a plane. Let's go through the worst of it:
Shot down by the Mar-a-Lago air defenses? Short-range systems like the Stinger top out around 10,000 feet. Flight tracking had this jet at about 35,000 feet before the dive.
A missile, not a plane? It was Learjet 60 N722BD, Austin to North Eleuthera. The crew was on the radio with Miami Center reporting ice and turbulence, then a mayday and an overspeed at 20,000 feet per minute. See @alexboge overlay of the final crash frame
False flag? A real tail number, a real route, a real cockpit voice, real flight tracking, real video of the crash. An ADS-B reconstruction of the final 78 seconds. NTSB investigators will report later today.
No debris? A near vertical impact at that speed shatters an airframe into unrecognizable pieces. A Learjet captain told CBS12 exactly that. Photos and video of he crash site show it littered with small pieces of twisted metal.
ATC audio came out too early? LiveATC(.)net records air traffic radio publicly in near real time. Nobody released it. It was available everywhere. It did not come from a blackbox.
DEI pilot? Nothing released points to the pilot. Ice, turbulence and an overspeed are what the tapes show. We know the pilot was a woman. That's it. Some people are naming her. I prefer to wait on the official announcement.
Nine people died. The NTSB briefs today in West Palm Beach. Can we wait for the facts before we use their deaths to sell a theory?
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If you automatically think the opposite of the "official narrative", you are laughably easy to control.
You're the loud and obnoxious version of NPC.
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Holy shit. Scrolling past this pic, my first thought was that it was a blurry photo of one of those route 66 roadside teepee motels with arrows sticking onto the ground.
Then I remembered there was a Learjet crash that there weren't pictures of going around, yet.
I'm not an aviation expert, but I suspect that this is a less than ideal flying trajectory:
(West Palm Beach, Florida)
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The educated can do the math. The intelligent know what to apply the math to. The wise know when math isn't the answer.
Apparently "silenced" means letting it be responded to, challenged, and disagreed with.
It's kinda like confessing that left wing media might as well not exist if it can't monopolize the floor.
The way Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have silenced left wing media and political commentators during election cycles should be illegal.
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