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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 15h \ parent \ on: ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments lol
(1) Its uncomfortable that both the left and now the right is being conditioned to fall for the "hate speech" meme and cheer for silencing people
(2) At the very same time, I honestly think Kimmel only had his job in the first place due to gov support from previous administrations. Who knows what back room deals existed between ABC Corp and Big Gov to "enable diverse and progressive" voices.
I honestly don't know how I feel about any of this....on the one hand I never liked Kimmel and disagreed with nearly everything he has said, on the other I don't think the "cancel wars" are sustainable for a healthy democracy.
Its only a matter of time until the other team gets in power and payback will happen.
Having said all that, lots of people pressuring a company to change course is a valid free market expression....So hard to pinpoint exactly how I feel except, 'uneasy'.
Plus any managers won't even know the policies they are supposed to manage as those were generated, so they'll just say "no"
The one benefit is maybe when we call MegaCorp instead of the soulless automated voice system we have now, we can be told our questions are "Amazing" and our complaints have "Excellent Insight!"
Then finally... when the AI bot ultimately can't solve the problem maybe we can witness it go into a schitzo doom loop and finally admit to us that it utterly failed and should be permanently turned off.
To be honest I debate that as well. I think it will have less of an impact than internet but more of an impact than say "Google" or "Social Media".
The "hell" I worry about is not being gunned down by sentient AI drones, but rather losing any ability to find a decision maker in any given context.
Imagine the hell we feel now trying to call a MegaCorp (ie. Cable company) to get some problem resolved....now multiply that by 100.
Your debit card will stop working one day and you wont be able to talk to anyone to find out why or what you can do to fix it.
I hate KYC. I hate the idea of the huge honeypot(s) that exist with my data in it.
I had long resisted opening any CEX account because of that, when Fidelity got started with BTC wallets I thought "great, I already have a Fidelity account so they won't put me thru the stupid take-a-picture routine".
Nope. Even though I've had a Fidelity account for 15+ years, they still made me jump thru those hoops. Its maddening. Are there special laws requiring this for "crypto"?
I hope one day we become a large enough political force to undo all the stupid/pointless KYC laws. They are all a violation of 4th amendment (not that politicians care)
They might have a point if their pattern matching algo was sentient or could even learn by itself. But it cant.
The "AI" industry regularly engages in these "investment farming" tactics (ie. oh wow look at how dangerous our new tech is, imagine how much it must be worth).
We really don't have the right terminology yet for what they've built. Its not technically "AI", but its certainly useful. Its something like a dynamic search engine, but thats not nearly as exciting to invest in as the "this tech is nation-state level critical that may wipe out the species!" sales pitch.
That's why we fought a block size war in 2017 to limit supply.
Well....the result of SegWit actually increased the limit by 4x during that time. However the popular narrative tends to ignore that. I often wonder if miners today (with extremely low fees) have benefited or been harmed by that....hard to know....
but filters don't work
That argument is actually immaterial to the larger point. Such a concession to data-storage in core is a signal that developers agree with that use case.
What you incentivize you will get more of....
It raises the question: Is the fully assembled gun they found in woods the real gun or a decoy.
Tied in with the people falsely screaming "I shot him" after the event, it seems that this is not just a 'lone shooter', but instead some sort of orchestrated event.
If its the later, then that opens up much bigger questions like what group did this, etc.
I only found this out over the weekend, but it seems the 'official' narrative is this:
- Shooter had the rifle disassembled and carried it to the roof in that condition
- Shooter assembled rifle on roof
- Shooter took shot, disassembled rifle and carried it with him off roof
- Shooter reassembled the rifle in woods
- Shooter left assembled rifle in woods.
I fully believe #1 and #2 could be very probable.
The rest seem very suspect....why would you even bother taking the gun off the roof....assuming you wore gloves, why not just leave it on roof? Further who would ever go thru hassle of disassembling rifle to take it off roof and reassembling to ditch? All seems very confusing....
Putting aside whether or not Brigitte Macron has a dong or not. The fact remains (which maybe you don't know) that Owens and Kirk worked together for years. She was hired by him in 2017 and they spent 2 or 3 years touring together.
This is basically why politics is not a useful thing to dedicate your time to. Ultimately the political space is populated by Egos that are usually broken in someway and it leads to endless infighting over pointless issues -- all for self-aggrandizement reasons.
I was never a big follower of CK, maybe I've seen 2 or 3 of his talks on youtube over last few years... But one thing that stood out to me was suddenly Ben Shapiro basically announcing he was going to sort of takeover the role.
I knew enough to understand the Kirk-Owens vs Shapiro dynamic, so it seems incongruous he would announce that. Obviously it could be entirely innocent and just be a slightly hamfisted way of him voicing his support.....
What I'm going to say is 100% pure speculation, I haven't put hardly any time into the NAKA deal, but I have evaluated other of these PIPE deals....
David's sorta panicked state over the last few days, and his now very sincere effort to "reassure" stockholders leads me to believe he got over his skis a bit here.
Odds are he was either told, or just sorta assumed that all the PIPE investors weren't just going to dump once they unlocked. He probably felt something like "Bitcoin treasury companies are such a good long term hold why are they going to dump for a mere 2x return, when it could be 10x a year from now".
But, well welcome to wallstreet. Now its dawned on him that he has unwittingly dumped on his core constituency. Obviously this situation can turn around...and maybe now all the profit takers are cycled out....but nonetheless he definitely gave off the vibe that he is stressed.
When I was young my Dad told me something that I always think about. The power of being debt free gives you a single word: No.
To the man in debt he must work Sat when the boss asks, he must stay an hour later for work when asked, he must accept the new assignment that is lower pay and more responsibility.
However the man that is not in debt can simply say, No.
Recently mining btc just doesn't feels even profitable.
Most of the new mining in US is due to "bonus depreciation" IRS rules. Direct profitability of mining is not the sole criteria for miners anymore.
As long as total returns over a 3 year period + residual value of miners is greater than current year taxes the situation will continue.