US used search and destroy in Vietnam. Perfect example of the Imperial Boomerang

The current leadership in the US is, uh, less than equipped to handle day to day functions, let alone a real crisis. It will be quite bad.

Yea, the best thing for bubbles is to pop early and often before they start snowballing. These companies have negative net revenue and are burning billions. The tech is neat, but I don’t think text generators are going to completely revolutionize industries the way the industry is presenting them. NVIDIA giving OpenAI money to give to Oracle to give back to NVIDIA just screams house of cards.

It’s tough when one side has literal billions of dollars to spend and the other side is struggling to pay rent

Don’t you folks eat white bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles for breakfast?

I wonder how the original artist feels about his wife’s miscarriage becoming a meme

The only place I’ve ever seen a cashier sitting in the US is Aldi because that is normal in Germany

Trust me, other people in the government do care. This is not just punishment for Comey; it’s a message meant for everyone else that if they criticize Trump, they’ll be prosecuted.

Engineer’s disease is real

!techtakes@awful.systems has a lot of criticism of AI, though it extends toward all the silliness of the tech industry. There is a weekly thread called stubsack for things that don’t warrant their own post.