And rich kids generally grow up to be trust fund adults. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a chance.

I may be biased because I’m a drunk who is both from and currently lives in Texas. But I feel like I would say that no matter where the kids were from.

It very much is. I do not trust the current federal government to do anything. The only reason I think the state government might do something is Camp Mystic has hosted a lot of privileged white Christian girls over its history.

There’s no better way to kill your political career in Texas than by not giving a shit about privileged white kids (it used to be rape jokes, check out how our last Democrat governor won, but I don’t think that counts anymore). There’s a history of politician’s kids and alumni kids being the first ones in line. It’s over $4k for a 30 day stay which a lot of folks couldn’t afford even if they could get in.

Let me be very clear. I hope every single one of these children is recovered safe and sound. If I were a religious man I’d pray for them. I wish no ill upon any child, no matter who their parents are. I think (and hope) this will mobilize our awful state government officials.

It’s a harrowing tragedy.

Keeping that in mind makes one a bit more sober about what they post.

Speak for yourself, buddy!

I salute you. I love the fact that everyone takes off the day before or after a holiday and the entire time between Christmas and New Year. No one is around so I get to sign in, turn on my script to keep my computer from sleeping, and walk away.

I did check the backups this morning. I’m sure some jackass wants to deploy tonight since it’s a 3 day weekend. Not my problem and backups are good as of 10am. If they call me out over a holiday weekend my contract is very specific about the on call fee, holiday pay, and minimum hours. So today I’m just hanging out and prepping for Saturday’s cook out.

All of my behavior is wildly inappropriate.

🎶If it takes forever I will wait for you

For a thousand summers I will wait for you🎵

What movie? Never heard of it.

Peppa isn’t as bad as shit like Caillou, but Bluey is the best one by a mile.

Can I get in on that?

Case in point: the downvotes are from people who don’t know or care about the difference.

Unhealthy salad? Ha! Pull the other one!

Seriously though, the amount of greens that I’ve seen recalled due to e. coli is crazy.

Depends on what you’re calling AI. LLMs (and generative AI in general) are garbage for all those things, and most things in general (all things if you take their cost into account). Machine Learning and expert systems can do at least some of that.

I absolutely hate that generative AI is being marketed as though it’s deep learning instead of a fancy Markov chain. But I think I’ve lost the battle over that nomenclature.

But he had paper he printed out!

How will they sell a human at the lowest cost? People have to eat and sleep.

Those aren’t computers! They’re PCs! And that doesn’t stand for anything.

And the biggest drunk! Wait…

They’ll argue that a computer is a woman who performs calculations and since slavery is illegal he doesn’t own one.

Worked for me! Half my teeth are fake due to poor education, poor hygiene when I was young, and well water.

Quck edit: I’m not actually recommending it. It destroyed my confidence. I’m being sarcastic.