Yup, both the Paul Ryan and stock market metaphors are apt.

But taking the Paul Ryan comparison to its conclusion is probably also apt - he never had the chance to buy back in low, because he didn’t factor in that this particular market has no bottom. The only rational move with the GOP, ever, is to just cash out and leave forever.

But they’re bracing for long hours and possible late nights in a bid to build momentum for the bill, which already has broad public support. A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters found that 71 percent support the SAVE America Act.

That’s pretty depressing. But then, I suppose low-information people would support any bill if they just called it “The Good Law Act.”

Oh, right, that’s basically what they did when they passed the, what was it called, Big Conservative Wet Dream Bill last year.

Edit: Oh, seeing the headlines alongside the poll that are all extremely suspect and right-washing, I wanted to check further.

Despite that TheHill reports uncritically about it and it is somehow associated with Harvard, the poll was commissioned by Stagwell Global, a marketing firm that is run by Mark Penn, who is apparently a “deep state” conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter, and contact info for the poll is not Harvard, but Stagwell, who also somehow was allowed to “release” the poll (“Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today released the results of the February Harvard CAPS / Harris poll…”).

All in all I feel the most likely fit for the above is this is propaganda and not reliable.

But if you ask hasjohnolivermadelovetoacouch…

Hopefully we live to see them have to argue for their own stupidity as a defense in a criminal war crime tribunal.

It’s just a matter of perspective. If you’re an evil psychopath, which is apparently the only demographic that has power and authority anymore, it bodes very well.

Fortunately for Trump, American corporations are so spineless and amoral that any type of threat, no matter how toothless or unconstitutional, will induce immediate pre-emptive compliance.

Love the article, nice work!

You’re right to feel insulted. LLMs are verbose and unreliable often enough that you have to check any work that comes out (or be negligent).

So what’s usually happening is someone is saving their time by spending yours. They saved the time normally needed to write a thoughtful reply by shifting the time and cognitive cost of reading and verifying to you, with AI as an excuse (often not without condescension, which is a type of “virtue signaling” driven by c-suite AI boosting). The slop output looks like “work product,” but is neither - it took no work and is a facade of a “product” because it’s unverified.

They are being selfish, and it is objectively an insulting act.

It would be nice that he said this on Fox News, since his supporters wouldn’t ever see it otherwise.

But if they’ve gone along with him this far, I’m sure they are fine with this as well. “He shouldn’t say it, but I know what he meant, and I have good genes so I’m fine,” is probably as far as they’ll get.

That isn’t nearly enough to protect Trump’s ego from reality.

It’s been said many times, but to say it a different way: the government and Camacho in Idiocracy were much much better, since they immediately elevated the smartest person they could find to a cabinet-level post and accepted help rather than just lied about the problem.

Literally thousands? Have you tried bookmarking things after they’ve sat unused for awhile?

I typically just periodically save my browser windows with a tab manager extension. I just say because thousands sounds like way too much to keep track of…

Funny story, they actually did this to me before this all happened, and I was on a “I’m never going to update again” beta firmware that they gave me a link to, when the forced-update happened that broke my wifi. I didn’t disable any ADB-level processes, and I don’t think the system let me disable updates.

I mean, that’s great in theory. But the amount of manufacturers of non-smart TVs is tiny, and if you are interested in the best panels and display technology, refresh rates for gaming, etc (even removing affordability), it’s very very hard to just boycott if you want to have a modern TV at all.

Yup, really a core monopolist mindset. Money is a way to avoid competition, not win it.

Unfortunately the firmware was the issue, not just OS software. So factory-resetting didn’t help us. But yeah, that definitely radicalized me to the “never connect it to the internet” camp for future TVs.

I outright told them it’s illegal, since they are unilaterally altering the terms of any T&C agreements when we started using the TV and materially interfering with our ownership and use of the TV we purchased. They didn’t care. I then sent it to our state attorney general and nothing happened.

Would have loved to. It was just over one year (right after the warranty ended as well), though.

Zuckerberg more than any other tech CEO uses acquisitions to either adopt or strangle any potential competitor in the cradle. But he isn’t a visionary, he doesn’t actually know what technology will be useful. This is a perfect example.

Relatedly, Hisense also forces updates and disables use of the TV if you do not accept the update (via a full screen non-cancelable prompt).

I learned this the hard way after Hisense broke my TV via an update that I didn’t want and then refused to fix it even after 6 months of escalations and emails.