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Remember when Coloumbine happened and politicians started blaming DOOM (a several year old game at that point) and Quake? Hell didn’t they also try to blame the Matrix simply because the shooters were wearing trench coats? meanwhile the film came out like what? one or two weeks before the shootings?

Politicians just LOVE their scapegoats.

I’m old enough to remember “Mortal Monday” with the release of the first Mortal Kombat on consoles and everyone was CONVINCED that it would result in kids ripping the spines and hearts out of peoples bodies.

Hell I remember when the original TMNT and Power Rangers was bad because it would encourage kids to do “ninja stuff” to the point where in the UK they changed “Ninja” to “Hero” and eventually Michaelangleo wasn’t allowed to use nunchucks anymore because out of ALL the weapons the turtles had, THOSE were a no-no. Sword? Sai? that’s fine…even the boe! but heaven forbid a child crafted their own nuncucks!

yeah this wouldn’t surprise me at all especially now with the “FBI can’t find the shooter!” shit. My tinfoil hat says distraction op.

university/college campus buildings are notoriously easy to get into. Doors unlocked pretty much 24 hours, Libraries open late, etc. I mean hell I’d still go to my University library and student lounge areas well after I graduated late at night to do work because the wifi was excellent and…no one bothered you. One night I even passed out and fell asleep in the lounge and no one woke me up. Plus Campus Police are like a middle ground between security guards and actual cops.

So a dude rolling in to one of the buildings from like 200+ yards away to set up a shot with a rifle doesn’t surprise me at all. It was a pretty good shot too if you saw the video so they had time. Probably had a decent amount of time to slip out also.

And the conspiracy theories are are already flowing. Apparently Kirk was convinced Israel was going to assassinate him so he had more security and wore body armor during public appearances recently. Another is that he pissed off the Nazi’s to the point they wanted him gone. Another is that it was a distraction op.

It’s been a fun read the last few hours. Like “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” so…it was probably a baby.

meh let the babies have their bottles. He said it himself as you posted that shootings are a necessary evil of the 2nd amendment so he went out, as far as I’m concerned, exactly as he would have wanted. He died for his cause so why should I or anyone else care?

One less Nazi.

bingo. According to Kirk he went out the way he would have wanted to go out. I don’t feel sorry for him and neither should anyone else. He was a Nazi, you don’t sympathize with Nazi’s you celebrate their extermination.

To OP, don’t feel like a piece of shit bro. If you were speaking at some event and you got blasted in the throat Kirk would NOT have felt ANYTHING for you whatsoever. Don’t waste your time on him, one less Nazi on the planet.

Ok, I don’t condone this but…that was a pretty good shot.

honestly looks like they tried popping a balloon/small blimp with a missile.

can’t speak for OP but for me, surprisingly, youtube shorts. Once that damn thing gets your algo figured out for you suddenly you can start finding bands that are in your wheelhouse. Start by looking for shorts on your current favourite bands and eventually new stuff will start popping up that should be similar to your taste.

Honestly for all the crap that’s on youtube, shorts has been one of if not the best tool for me to find new music/bands. Once I find something I like then it’s off to SoulSeek/Nicotine+ to add it to my server.

“Until it happens to them”

I do volunteer work for homeless outreaches and yeah I’m totally sure the women who are homeless right now due to escaping domestic abuse it was totally an “individual choice” to get their faces beat in on a daily basis. The kids who are homeless because their parents abandoned them for being LGBTQ+ - totally an individual choice on their part. The military vets who are homeless because their country ditched to the curb, yup that’s an individual choice because they decided to serve their country and then their country said “get lost”. The ones who end up on the streets because they couldn’t get treatment or help for their mental illness. Why that was an individual choice to go mentally ill in the first place! The Elderly who can no longer afford to pay the constantly increasing rents on whatever fixed income they have, totally an individual choice to not some how make more money at the age of 80+.

you can easily get the entire SNES and Genesis library roms which alone will give you enough. Those alone will give you some awesome RPGs like Chrono Trigger, Secrets of, Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, etc.

I mean…it’s kinda silly to go into Silksong without playing Hollow Knight yeah? Unless Silksong has something at the beginning that sort of catches you up to speed OR is like a Souls or Final Fantasy where it has nothing to do with the previous game entry.

But If I were a fan of the series I would hope the game ramped up difficulty and didn’t hold my hand for the sequel. That, in my opinion, would be a worthy purchase. I had playing sequels that kind of “reset”.

So the asshat went on twitter and posted some stupid AI image of him like he’s in fucking Apocalypse Now and essentially declared war on a US city.

and the US will do nothing about this and continue to let him run rough shot over the nation while news articles come out left right and center stating “what he’s doing is illegal!” US democrats will also shout “what he’s doing is illegal!” what I’ve come to learn about the current US Political system “nothing is illegal if there are zero consequences”

Honestly at this point what’s to stop him from just saying “There will be no more elections, I’m in charge for life and when I die I will pass down leadership to my next of kin” who would stop him at this point? I honestly don’t think anyone will.

yup and now many of those places are realizing “oh fuck…”

My client base for the past year has been those “oh fuck…” moments. “Hey our app that we built with a junior dev and Claude Code isn’t really working and we really don’t have anyone available to see why, can you come in for a consultation and review the code?”

“sure thing client, I"m going to nickle and dime you for this but sure i’ll code review it” I then proceed to tell them how fucked they are, how much money they DIDN’T save, and how much it’s going to cost them to start over. not fix it, you don’t fix this slop, you have to start from scratch.

It’s the same song and dance for these places. They get a license from anthropic, keep a couple junior devs on board to be vibe coders/prompt monkies and then axe the rest. And always a few months to a year or so down the road they realize they fucked up and how much money they DIDN’T end up saving. Then they hire people like me to come in and clean up the slop and then in turn end up having to look for actual devs. then once people realize they’re hiring they get absolutely blitzkrieged with resumes (many of which are AI written and fake themselves) thus costing them even MORE time and money to deal with. Then they hope they can find a REAL developer in time (which they never do) and then their investors get pissed and eventually they end up getting fucked over. Not before I get my cheque though.

All these places think in the short term, think of immediate savings, but always it will come down to massive tech debt as a result of leveraging their LLM’s that WILL cost them a hell of alot more money in the long run.

sooooo a site that says it’ll do something but in turn won’t actually do it.

companies already post ghost jobs via AI on linkedin/indeed/etc so there’s no need for this. No one, other than the Linkedin Tech Bros/Wannabe middle managers, is going to use this.

Feels like Sam is grasping at straws right now to keep his shit afloat.

yeah this isn’t WH 40K. You can’t make a “Primaris Putin” and “continuous organ transplants” are only going to top you out at a few extra years, maybe, unless this fucker has somehow struck a deal with Nurgle or Khorne or some other Warp entity.

Now if his flesh starts bubbling and his intestines are suddenly on the outside of his body and he grows a maw on his shoulder? yeah then I’d start worrying.

as a consultant/freelancer dev whose entire workload for the past year has been cleaning up AI slop, no with dev it hasn’t been what I would say a smooth or even good implementation. for my wallet? been a fantastic implementation, for everyone else? not so much.

The thing is as a TOOL it’s great depending on the model. As a rubber duck? fantastic. As something that the majority of companies have utilized with vibe coding to build something end to end? no, it’s horrible. It can’t scale anything, implements exploits left right and center, and unlike junior devs doesn’t learn anything. If you don’t hold its hand during a build then it’ll quickly go off the rails. It’ll implement old APIs or libraries or whatever simply because those things have the most documentation attached to it.

An example. a few weeks ago a client wanted to set up a private git instance with Forgejo. They had Claude Code set it up for them. the problem? Claude went with Forgejo 1.20. ForgeJo is currently on 12.0. MASSIVE security hole right there. Why did Claude do that? 1.20 had more documentation as opposed to 12.0. And when I say “documentation” I could simply be referring to blog posts, articles, whatever that talked about it more than the latest version because The LLM’s will leverage that stuff when making decisions for builds. You also see it if you want something in Rust+Smithy. Majority of the time the AI will go for a very outdated version of Smithy because that’s what a lot of people talked about at one point. So you’re generating massive tech debt before even throwing something into production.

Now like I said as a tool? a problem solver for a function you can’t figure out? it’s great. the issue is like I said companies aren’t seeing it as a tool, they’re seeing it as a cost saving replacement for a living human being which it is not. It’s like replacing construction worker with a hammer attached to a drone and then wondering why your house frame keeps falling over.

it’s because Youtube is a content monopoly. TikTok is a platform for short content…on youtube it’s a feature with shorts. Twitch is a platform for live streaming content…on youtube it’s a feature with, other than discoverability, the same features. Any music streaming service? again…it’s a feature on youtube. The fact I could export my playlists from any music streaming platform and import it to Youtube and listen to it ad free via an ad blocker? come on. So as opposed to using multiple platforms, with youtube you have it all in one place. So no, this will not get people to stop using it.

Premium you don’t need if you’re even the slightest bit tech savvy. but no one is ever going to stop using youtube, there’s no point. I mean I use peertube as much as possible but every now and then I’m back on youtube because of all those features in one place and some things I just can’t find on peertube.

I mean there’s no point to it, it doesn’t speed anything up.

For example this morning I had a client meeting (saturdays, ugh) so I went to the train station cause it has a mcdonalds and it opens at 630am. They have 5 kiosks there and one person manning the til. People who were ordering from the til were getting their orders faster than people who used the kiosks. I had to wait 10 minutes just to get a coffee and muffin simply because I used the kiosk.

And it doesn’t even make sense. I would have assumed all the orders go through the same system regardless of where it was placed but apparently not. apparently people who don’t use the kiosk get priority?