Hellscape is a little much. Depends on your hukou. You can live in a shining modern city with maglev trains or you can live in hut with an unpaved dirt street. But yeah, “communist” is a joke.

I think the funny thing about racists is that they don’t care and it doesn’t have to be consistent.

I don’t think Trump has the ability to stop. His ego won’t let him and his party won’t force him. If the US surrenders (and that’s exactly what it will be), the MAGA movement will die. Trump and Iran are like Putin and Ukraine right now.

Consequently, this is also why the Democrats absolutely can not force a surrender either: it will give MAGA a scapegoat. “We were winning but the leftist socialists made us surrender!” It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t make any sense, MAGA will accept that as absolute truth because they’re a cult.

People lack the necessary motivation. I explained DHCP, IP, and ports to my kids in like 10 minutes. Because otherwise they couldn’t play Minecraft together.

Also they missed the much more obvious conclusion: the lone holdout juror was a man with no evidence, no logic, and all emotion. Shouldn’t we take away men’s voting rights instead? /s

I keep seeing “networking is hard” come up here. Where is this coming from? Is it IPv6 or something?

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That’s not as bad as the defense attorney making a public call to Trump for help. In Massachusetts.

Go ahead and offer it then? Paxton is a coward who won’t go near Kimmel. He already won’t debate Talarico. His election strategy is to be quiet and unnoticed.

Their sales strategy is built on their researchers quitting? Like I get the internal tension between biz and engineering but that seems far fetched.

Actually, that’s even better. The original tariffs were done under a “national security” proviso. This would mean that Canadian beer is a threat to national security.

You really couldn’t ask for better marketing.

Temu Elon?

I understand many will find this a silly question but bear with me:

Under what authority can Trump ban imports from Canada?

I don’t think he has any statutory ability to just ban shit from Canada. I’m sure this will go through the courts and eventually be ruled illegal, like the tariffs were. It’s crazy that “President declares blatantly illegal thing but it’s defacto legal for 90 days” has become the norm.

While Ukraine has a huge domestic drone assembly industry, I’m sure a lot of the basic chips and radios are still coming from China. It’s not hyperbole to say the war hinges on that supply continuing.

OTOH, Russia AA loves shooting down civilian airliners and they’re going to be getting twitchy around airports now.

Replace Medicaid with Medicare to scare the Boomers more.

More than anything, it depends on the developer using it. In my experience, most are just slop shovelers that don’t read or review what Claude does. Then it falls on the PR reviewer (me) to be an asshole: Did you review your own code? Do you understand what this part over here does? Why did you choose this method versus alternatives?

Unless you tell Claude/Opus otherwise, it’s not going to take the initiative to refactor things, tidy up parts it didn’t touch, or hell, it won’t even spellcheck things. Can you really call it a language model if it outputs misspelled words? Its unit tests are great boilerplate but never comprehensive enough for me.

Claude is the developer that puts zero pride or effort in their work beyond the bare minimum to not get fired.

You’re arguing that, to buffer against a black swan event, businesses should be making significant extra profit.

I think you’re creating a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.

The changes are anticipated to happen in 2027 and enrollees will find out the new monthly cost later this fall, administration officials said.

I’m guessing “this fall” means November 4th.

It was admittedly 3 half-thoughts tied into one post.

When filling out a form, why is Taiwan a “region”? Because companies are catering to China. Why do we buy 3ft USB cables and not 1m USB cables? Because companies are catering to the US. But if the US makes itself irrelevant, those little courtesies are going to go away.

And the US is treating its relationship with China like a Cold War. Except our economy is severely crippled right now while China’s is going absolutely crazy. Making the US contemporary analogue to the old USSR, while China plays the part of the post WW2 US. Young people look at it through an oversimplified lens of “capitalism vs communism”. I think the truth is that either system can fuck itself and the real key to success is moderation.

Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism: they will reject democracy.

• David Frum, 2018

This was so prescient, it’s amazing. To be a Republican is to be a traitor.