ShittyBeatlesFCPres

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this about the piss tape?

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 48 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Medical things, mostly. Everyone experienced the speed that mRNA vaccines can be developed and deployed at scale. A lot is coming from that tech. One of the objectively good uses of AI is protein folding and discovering new compounds. Just being able to target a virus’s weak point is so new, stupid people are freaked out by it.

Consumer tech stuff like batteries and whatever the hype cycle is promoting — crypto or LLMs — gets all the attention but the life sciences field marches on. There are things that are going to revolutionize the way we think about certain diseases. In my lifetime, AIDS went from death sentence to something more like expensive diabetes.

And with emergency care, there are things that even an ER doctor with $200,000 in equipment can only hope to triage today that will be something an EMT can begin to triage on the way to the hospital with something simple. (NARCAN exists now but it’s an example of slow and steady progress. Imagine a NARCAN for heart attack or stroke where we just keep it in our first aid kits.)

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 5 points 5 months ago

Free tools that’ll probably last 1,000 years too. Like, say what you want about the quality of some more complex Soviet products — the cars famously sucked — but there was no planned obsolescence on basic tools.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This would be great but you know centrists will fuck it up and it’ll be like, “You can get up to $25,000 as a tax credit if you’re a veteran who owns a small business in an opportunity zone and have a low income but also somehow have a spouse who is a lawyer and can spend 30h finding and filling out the paperwork and tracking down bank statements from when you both were 19.”

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cousin Eddie has entered the chat.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 12 points 5 months ago (8 children)

No one has ever suggested that. We suggest — and I’ll just say it clearly rather than suggest — that people who talk about “races” made up in like 1600, people who cite IQ tests, and people who show their whole ignorant, racist ass online are the fucking morons. Maybe they should show a little humility about their wack ass genetic inheritance.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 49 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He needs to get off his couch and debate.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a good opportunity to memorize the difference between empathy and sympathy, if you haven’t already.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 8 points 5 months ago

The interior department might need help with bear carcasses and he proved he can do that at the amateur level, at least.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 8 points 5 months ago

The judge should absolutely take his passport if he’s a flight risk. If he wins and the case gets put on hold, The Department of State can issue a diplomatic passport. (I’m not even sure if heads of state need them.)

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are no reliable narrators. This is wisdom, not logic, but you have to find your own truth. Even particles have Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. There’s always uncertainty.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It’s not necessarily bad logic. If a regular at a dive bar says someone drinks too much, it’s probably a sign that person drinks way too much. If a college kid tells you an all-you-can-eat buffet sucks, it’s probably not secretly delicious.

Trump (like his diaper) is always full of shit so him calling someone corrupt wouldn’t mean anything. It’s not about logic; it’s about whether the narrator is reliable or not.

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