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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpism

3rd sentence. I guess take it up with the "fascists" who wrote the article? lol

Don't come to me if you weren't aware that populism is a left/right spectrum.

Trump is a populist.

He supports tariffs for the exact same reason Bernie Sanders does. There is a reason so many bernie bros jumped to camp Trump in 2016 when (globalist) Hillary won the nomination.

There is no secret or conspiracy going on here. Trump is a populist president and is unsurprisingly doing populist things, elected because of his populist stances. At this point you have to have stabbed your eyes out and shoved spikes in your ears to not know that all he does it gush about bringing back 1950's factory worker dad.

Gamblers are seeking a different thrill from what financial markets are designed to provide.

I'd almost agree if the volume on $SPY zero day options wasn't so immense.

Most people seem totally unaware that Bernie Sanders was (and probably secretly still is) a big proponent of tariffs.

Horseshoe theory and all that, populists gonna populist.

Unless one of the open model labs has a breakthrough, they will always lag. Their main trick is distilling the SOTA models.

People talk about these models like they are "catching up", they don't see that they are just trailers hooked up to a truck, pulling them along.

This is great on paper until some jackass wants to access their home NAS over the public frequency range so they can watch anime all day at their desk, which only works when they use multiple channels at once.

There are tons of cool things society could enjoy if it wasn't for a small handful of shameless actors.

40-50% of people are ad-blocking some rather beloved content creators. That means, not paying for premium, and not viewing ads.

Ok, so maybe they are suscribing to patreon? Maybe Nebula?

Well those two have conversion rates around (on a good day) 1%.

You can swim in the waters of cognitive dissonance because ads really do suck and ad block is a great way to stop the pain while still getting what you want.

Understand though, the statistics are so damning against the ad-block crowd, that you come off like the people screeching about human generated CO2 being totally fine for the environment (It helps plants grow!) because they cannot imagine having to give up commuting in their diesel monster pick-up truck everyday. (Ad block does no damage because I cannot imagine having to see ads...)

As an aside, ironically, security nightmare ads are really only served to people with tracking blockers, because those people are the lowest value visitors and only scammers/bottom feeders really bid on their views. Regular tech illiterate people get ads for Tide and Toyota. The more you know.

This is great, but it misses one thing:

The software paradigm is changing.

People don't need a calculator website anymore. They can just prompt their own AI account to generate whatever calculator they need in the moment. I already have a few pinned in my favorites that I use often.

That is the real promise of AI driven software. Bespoke tiny apps available to anyone whenever they simply just ask for it.

Using an ad blocker just shifts the cost of creating/providing content onto people not using ad blockers.

The enshitification of the internet is largely driven by people ad blocking, as is incentivizes more click bait, more ads, and sloppier cheap content.

For engineering/software related content, the impact is immense since the audience is largely people ad blocking. I won't name names, because they fear backlash from their "ad block is awesome" audience, but some well known youtubers in the hard nerdy tech space report 40-50% of views they receive no compensation for.

So you can evangelize how great it is to not have to compensate for content, but don't think it's some kind of everyone wins victory. It's just a cost shift onto someone else, which largely manifests as bad content being needed to cover costs.

The correct approach is paying for what you use, and avoiding ad-supported content to send the message that you want a paid option.

I'd imagine more than a few basement dwellers could as well.

Perennial doesn't make sense in the context of something that has been around for a few months. Observations from the spring 2025 crop of LLMs are already irrelevant.

One wonders if some professional mathematicians are instead choosing to publish LLM proofs without attribution for career purposes.

This will just become the norm as these models improve, if it isn't largely already the case.

It's like sports where everyone is trying to use steroids, because the only way to keep up is to use steroids. Except there aren't any AI-detectors and it's not breaking any rules (except perhaps some kind of self moral code) to use AI.

LLM's are not archives of information.

People seem to have this belief, or perhaps just general intuition, that LLMs are a google search on a training set with a fancy language engine on the front end. That's not what they are. The models (almost) self avoid copyright, because they never copy anything in the first place, hence why the model is a dense web of weight connections rather than an orderly bookshelf of copied training data.

Picture yourself contorting your hands under a spotlight to generate a shadow in the shape of a bird. The bird is not in your fingers, despite the shadow of the bird, and the shadow of your hand, looking very similar. Furthermore, your hand-shadow has no idea what a bird is.

Ideologues usually aren't great at primary source understanding/reasoning, hence why they end up with such strong opinions.

YT premium comes with their own version of sponsor block, but you manually have to hit the skip button.

But I don't hold youtube accountable for what creators decide to put in their videos. I would grind my axe with the creator instead, it's their video and their choice. Youtube gets no cut from those segments.

Reminds me of vid.me, who picked up on the intense hatred towards youtube and launched a competing video host that actually got some serious traction. No ads, no subscriptions, just pure good content.

They went bankrupt in a year. Turns out internet consumers are just painfully entitled.

It is.

I don't why people say this. They even include their own version of sponsor block, which is generous, because technically sponsor segments aren't even part of youtube, they are purely the creator deciding to make the ad part of their content.

Also, just to put it out there, many creators would likley be able to cut sponsored content if the 40% of viewers not viewing ads paid up. Not every creator is a greedy ruthless overlord, many just want to keep the lights on. Especially in tech/nerdy channels, where ad block use is the highest.

Cable TV is a bad analogy because it was a natural monopoly. Even the disruption route (satellite TV) was another natural monopoly.

Netflix doesn't have the moat of "built a physical wire connection to every persons home" that cable TV enjoyed.

Google realized this a long time ago; there is no ad-free paid version of Google Search.

Google actually experimented with this about a decade ago (I know, I was one of the suckers who paid), but it got canned because why the fuck would you pay google when u-bloc is free?

Companies absolutely will offer ad-free experiences. Google has youtube premium, which even compensates creators with half your sub as well. Evenly distributed too.

People get wrapped around the axle of ad-subsidized models, the "I pay and still see ads" but they just are confused about a hybrid monetization structure.

At some point the larger internet has to look itself in the mirror and recognize that it's either ads, credit card, or a hybrid of those.

And no, blocking is not an option, it just offloads costs onto honest users.

The proposal is the spray purpose made reflective aerosols high in the atmosphere.

We almost certainly will end up doing this, negatives be damned. Even worse it's just a bandaid not a fix.

It's just another layer.

Assembly programmers from years gone by would likley be equally dismissive of the self-aggrandizing code block stitchers of today.

(on topic, RCT was coded entirely in assembly, quite the achievement)

It sort of is. When a property owner has loan against a commercial property, the lender uses the monthly rent to calculate how much they will loan you. The rent number they use is the last paid rent.

So you, the property owner, end up in a situation where if you lower rent to attract a new tenant, the bank will recalculate your loan, potentially ending in a margin call.

Because you are a heavily leveraged house of cards, a rug pull on a few of these loans could cause a cascade liquidating your commercial inventory. Your business is buy a property, take a loan against it, use that loan to buy a property, etc etc.

Therefore it becomes worth it to carry vacant properties, because they are acting as the stilts holding up your money making properties. The vacancy becomes a cost of doing business, and gets factored into the rent of places that are getting leased.

The current location my office is in, was vacant for 12 years before we signed a lease, owned by a big name commercial real estate firm.

The outcome of this is just people lying about using AI.

It's incredibly naive to think you can stop AI use by banning it. Banning AI just means banning admitting you used AI.

I showed my father how to use the live camera mode with Gemini and it's been a boon for him

And consume 50% of global coal production.

But coal is the worst fossil fuel from a practical stance. It's really only good for energy generation. You can't really power tanks or warships with it.

People worship China for being "green focused".

The reality is that they don't have a good source of fossil fuels, and energy independence is a core necessity.

Around me, conservatives started a grassroots "save the whales" campaign to block wind.

Conservatives, protesting on the street to save the whales. Talk about a sight to see.

You can use DC fast chargers to fill gaps as needed.

Also if you are always driving 40mi/day, you likely float with a battery percentage around 80%, leaving plenty of capacity for those consecutive 100 mile days with your standard overnight slow charge.

Again, this cannot be said enough, EVs are not gas vehicles, they do not refill like gas vehicles, if you apply gas vehicle logic to them, they look awful. But they are not gas vehicles, they don't follow the same logic and rules of gas vehicles. So you don't apply gas vehicle logic to them.

It's like handing chopsticks to an 18th century westerner, they'll stab their food with it and laugh about how stupid and useless they are. You need to learn and use chopsticks before criticizing chopsticks.

This whole thread (as always) is full of people stabbing their food with chopsticks.

You could do 400 miles with a model 3 LR with one ~20 minute charge.

For 6 hours of straight driving, 20 minutes to stand and use the bathroom isn't too bad.