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thefunkycomitatus [comrade/them, they/them]

@ thefunkycomitatus @hexbear.net

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  • yeah, wtf is with job hunting

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  • It's so bad idk what to do. I struggled for a long time to find a job that could support me and was tolerable. Four years of that and they shut down. Now I'm trying to find something else but can't. It's hard to even find jobs that pay more than $15 an hour. I feel like I've seen wages fall over the past 6 months on top of scarcity.

    I'm doing seasonal work now just to stave off defaulting and being unable to afford car insurance. My savings are gone and using credit will just make things worse.

    I've had one in person interview that went well but the company decided to not hire me. The position is still open. I had one phone interview. I have a video interview next week but I expect it just to be something for HR to keep busy rather than hire.

  • Elon reprogrammed Grok to say he's more physically fit than LeBron James

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  • He's gotta get out of here.

  • Elon reprogrammed Grok to say he's more physically fit than LeBron James

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  • I blame systemic issues when I poo. The toilet industry has refused to make openings larger and local building codes haven't adapted to larger poos. I would say that is a systemic failure and it's causing my toilet to clog unnecessarily. Some of us hogs drop huge logs and we should organize society in a way to handle that.

  • Clean your lint filter.

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  • See this is how it starts. "Clean your drier filter." then it's "clean your dishwasher trap" then it's "Clean your drains" then it's "clean your toilet." Now you're just cleaning everything endlessly. That's how they get you. The screw tightens and everyone just goes along with it.

  • Clean your lint filter.

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  • How about I make a site that charges you a subscription and every month clean lint filters are delivered directly to your door. That way you can just throw out the old one and replace it with a clean new one.

  • and so begins the largest transfer of wealth in human history 😤

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  • Nobody is going to understand this and someone will injure a worker for giving too much change back.

  • America's most trusted ambassador

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  • ninky minjaj

  • CW:SA Live your truth king... Wait what?

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  • I should buy some more lye and tarps.

  • Loving the new Epstein damage control strategy of “well he wasn’t a pedophile actually”

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  • I don't think it hurts him. It can hurt the legitimate accusations against him though. If people bundle a rumor, based on misinformation, with real accusations, then it makes dismissing the legit things easier. He can say that the people who want to hurt him are willing to make up rumors about him being gay so the pedophile rumors are also false. MAGAs are willing to drop real accusations of pedophilia so they are willing to drop petty rumors that exist as an attempt to humiliate him. Alex Jones already did.

    Stick to the real implications of the emails. They're pretty damning.

  • Starting to think that Pluribus is a criticism of AI

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  • The core theme of BrBa was pride and how it destroys everything. I can see the theme of this series being cynicism and how to fix it. Like the end goal has to be to make Carol actually happy even if she never ends up as part of the Entity.

  • US Border Patrol and ICE arrives in Charlotte North Carolina this weekend, confirmed by Mecklenburg Sheriff Gary McFadden

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  • It's also where that person got stabbed on a bus. The news story that chuds blew up to show that white people are being hunted in the streets. Part of this ICE thing is overall crime, not just crime caused by immigrants. Chicago ICE just bragged the other day about lowering crime across the board.

  • Chomsky being libertarian on the dl

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  • We have also had (for me) very rewarding discussions on many other topics, for example the prospects for Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, multi-layered neural nets, automation and robotics, singularity, and related matters, exploring the claims and predictions and looking closely at the results that have been achieved, their intellectual contributions and social import. We have also discussed many other issues, ranging from intellectual history, to world affairs and contemporary geopolitics, to foundations of mathematics, to such matters as recent discoveries about communication in the plant world. He has also tried, so far with limited success, to carry forward my wife Valeria's efforts to introduce me to the world of jazz and its wonders. Whatever comes up, Jeffrey not only has a lively interest but also unconventional and challenging ideas and thoughtful suggestions.

    These people elevate their own banal conversations to the heights of philosophical inquiry. They get together over a $400 dinner and say the exact same shit anyone of us says about AI. Well, minus the giddiness of how we can profit from it through our investor friends. The conversation you have with a friend while smoking a blunt after watching a science documentary is just as informed and insightful as what these people talk about. But since they're rich and can summon a pop-sci author to their dinner table, they convince themselves that they're intellectuals. It's just Joe Rogan. Talk to a bunch of "experts" and you become an expert. They don't have challenging ideas because they don't have any ideas of their own.

    Chomsky, someone who does have some intellectual chops, despite being an establishment stooge, accepts this sophistry at currency. He does this because despite his intellectualism is still impressed by power and money. He's just happy to be at the dinner table.

    Case in point:

  • Government reopening bill contains provision for nationwide hemp product ban, closing delta-8 THC loophole of 2018 Farm Bill

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  • THCa is just back-door legal weed and it would suck if they removed it. It's also going to wreck all the people who started head shops and farms over the past 10 years. Trump is slaughtering all the striver entrepreneur gigs. Wholesalers, drop shippers, and now hemp.

  • Here we go. Megyn Kelly "There's a Big Difference Between 15 and 5"

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  • He had actual child porn as well. He did not stop at 12. Their next argument will be that okay it was children but that's actually trad if you look at the 1800s.

    These people learned nothing from Kirk and "I'm going to say ludicrous shit in public" is only going to bring more hilarious results.

  • Here we go. Megyn Kelly "There's a Big Difference Between 15 and 5"

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  • Oh I see. It's more of a common man's pedophilia like American Beauty. It's not really an elitist pedophilia like True Detective.

  • Serious question - what do you think will happen with the Epstein files?

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  • If congress votes to release the DOJ files then we might see stalling or a court battle. If then the files are released, it won't really be a smoking gun. We will get some more insight into how wide this is, like we did through the email release yesterday. It will allow people to construct a speculative story but nothing concrete. Then it's over. Maybe down the road we get a Warren Commission when it's safe and the government needs a distraction. I think Trump and all will get away with it just like people have gotten away with other deep events. The same group who is trying to use this as political leverage against Trump will turn and be making fun of you for believing it 10 years from now. Just like with 9/11 truthers or JFK people. Jon Stewart and Colbert will be like "Epstein files? Um, okay? Let me guess, you also think the moon landing was a hoax too, right?" The only reason we're getting as much as we are is because it's politically convenient for libs.

  • Republicans released 20,000 pages of Epstein documents, shortly after Democrats published Epstein emails implicating Trump

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  • I think the Dems got ahead of them this morning with the 3 emails. This release feels like an attempt by Republicans to say they released the files. Sure enough the WH press secretary said as much today. However there are still the DOJ files, that everyone has been asking about for months, to be released. Those will only come after a congressional vote now that they're all back.

  • The Day After Tomorrow was an opp right?

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  • The Cheney stand-in and Americans being climate refugees in Mexico were pretty funny.

  • What are the moral arguments against nuclear energy?

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  • For me it's that under capitalism, waste will be a problem. The government and private industry have already proven they are careless with waste and will skimp on properly containing it. You can say that they can design a plant with no waste but if that plant costs $3 more than one that does, you can bet they'll go with the cheaper one. In the US we can't couple a deregulation mindset that everyone in charge shares and do something that requires the utmost regulation. Can that be applied to every other form of energy generation? Yes. That's the point. They cannot be trusted with anything. Even coal plants dump waste in rivers and natural areas that will poison it for years.

    Even if you consider a non-American government like Japan and Fukushima. They were housing cleanup workers in shanties right next to waste. Workers weren't told about the risk. They kept changing the definition of contamination so that it meant less work. They didn't have anywhere to put waste, granted it was a black swan emergency but still. There was rampant wage theft for clean up workers. So much malice and incompetency went on during the cleanup while the world kept portraying this image of positivity. Japan is way more open to regulation than the US yet they too had so many problems.

    Now put several nuclear power plants in each US state. How much planning do you really think would go into mitigating disasters and keeping waste storage above board? Do you think they'll just let the federal government regulate it or break it up between the states? How easy is it going to be for a power company to massage those state regulations like they do already with traditional power sources?

    The supposed payoff is that we no longer have to use coal, natural gas, or oil. I don't think that would happen. The government certainly wouldn't outlaw fossil fuels regardless of how many nuclear plants we have. At that point we would have a very dangerous timebomb of nuclear disaster and then we wouldn't even get the reduction in fossil fuels.