Yeah, sex and initiating sex is increasingly an awkward thing for people, so FWB’s are nice to have and people love them until the one comes along.

I say this every time I hear a Democrat whine about voters, but it’s applicable here too.

You don’t get to punch people in the face and then complain when your hand is broken. That’s doubly true when you go it alone in war and, evidently, think you can just order up the outcome like it’s a fucking Big Mac.

Sadly, as much as it’s a joke in this commentary, it is.

We went from Lawrence King and his ring in the 80’s and early 90’s to Epstein in the 90’s and 00’s, and both were publicly and evidently connected to the highest levels of the US government. King’s ring also had mysterious deaths, including the lead investigator and his son being killed in a plane crash.

Man, yeah.

And it is magical. My 20’s and 30’s I was that guy for a few people, and it’s a noble calling.

Totally, man.

Thank you for your commentary. Have a great day!

But the motherfuckers at FB had the time and wherewithal to identify people trying to coordinate for out-of-state abortions of Facebook and then report them to the state and federal authorities, of course, just not human traffickers.

That’s not terribly accurate, but okay, don’t read the article.

A more fair summation would be: “Blue-collar politician wins hearts by answering tough questions, being authentic with people, and explaining his past.”

But there’s no bigger turnoff to the median Democratic partisan than authenticity.

That’s an oversimplification, I think. There are a hundred material differences between the two. Further, if Platner were another Fetterman, he certainly wouldn’t be running as a progressive, because that sets him against both parties even if he is calling himself a Democrat.

As for being a Nazi, I don’t think that’s accurate either. One can’t really know for sure outside Platner’s own mind, but it’s probably more fair to say he was a bit of an edgy douche when he was younger. After all, it’s easier to get elected as a Nazi in America than it is to get elected as a progressive.

Always appreciate the Catholics: quick to moralize on any subject except their own church’s sanctioning of child rape.

He’s not wrong this time though.

Donald is such a pussy ass bitch.

Really hope he wins. I wish I could vote for him.

One more independent vote in the Senate is one more vote towards actual change.

Yeah, it’s nothing particularly special IMHO. The best feature I’ve found in using it is that, for Microsoft products in particular, it can tell me capabilities of certain things I didn’t know previously when I present it with a problem.

Search engines used to do that before they got enshittified.

The closest facsimile I have in my work is occasionally running an Excel formula I’ve written through Copilot in order to find a formatting error or to help fix an Access query, but If fundamentally understand what I’m doing, can validate that the produced result is correct, and can fix it if I have to somewhere down the line.

It’s good you’ve found some simple ways to use it, but in the vast majority of work I do, it would take longer if I used AI because everything produced using an LLM has to be human-validated regardless, so I might as well not skip the important step of learning and understanding it.

I never use it to ideate and never use it for anything that isn’t eminently simple, like creating a sheet with x number of columns and rows or something like that. I hate the idea of the environmental impact and that helps me avoid it.

Yes.

Hate turning mine on and having to reset the input every single time because they’re trying to annoy me into connecting it to wireless.

Not with wars fought the Israeli way. Fair point.

I know schoolteachers who can’t get kids to pay attention to anything for more than 60 seconds, even when it’s literally written on the board in front of them. I don’t like age verification either, but people are burying their heads in the sand about how harmful these applications are to developing brains, and IMHO age verification is the lesser evil.

30% of their kids off of social media is a huge success.

You sound like a gun supporter in the US: “It’s not perfect and is, therefore, not worth doing at all.”

Absolutely right.

I’d love to see 30% reduction in kids being on these platforms globally. That would be a good start.

A 30% reduction of kids being exposed to these harmful platforms is a good thing and I’m glad to see it.

Also, all laws are imperfect, and expecting 100% efficacy is moronic.

Yes, but it’s not like that’s a rare trait for presidents or national leaders throughout the history of the US.

One of the only good things about Donald, historically, was his reticence for war and disentangling the US from foreign wars, such as with Syria and Afghanistan. All that’s out the window now that he needs a way to supercharge his grift before November and also to distract from his raping of kids.