Don’t jump to conclusions just yet. Epstein had lots of ties to people. Not all of them are pedos. Look at the actual correspondence they had, there isn’t anything incriminating except the mere association with him.

And additionally, looking at the emails he actually sent and received from Epstein, they seem totally innocuous. Until I see actual evidence of wrongdoing, I’m going to withhold judgement. None about anything untoward, just literally stuff about politics and linguistics. Chomsky seemed to be corresponding with a similar rushed tone like he does in other correspondence - man answers a lot of emails.

By contrast, Trump has many accounts of sexual harrassment and assault perpetrated by him, lots of circumstantial evidence tying him to the shady side of Epstein’s dealings, emails about him blowing bubba, etc.

Well sure. CEOs’ main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they’re a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.

Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board along with financial results.

The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.

LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can’t really make decisions properly. But they cpuld pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.

That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.

Yeah. Autopens have been used for like… 150 years or something? And they involve the president actually authorizing the signature, whereas Stephen Miller or some aide or somebody is just copying and pasting this shit on random documents

Edit: over 200 years. https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/

Compliance does need to be considered. The company I work for is trying extremely hard to comply, but because of complexities and ambiguities in the law, it is difficult to find out how to comply. I don’t know all the details, but I know legal, compliance, and the data engineering teams spend a lot of time figuring out how to be compliant and there aren’t always clear answers.

That said, the solution is not to roll back protections but to be very explicit about how to comply.

Oh, well if that’s the primary goal - to eliminate food deserts - then hell yeah. Makes total sense

Yeah this was always my issue with it. I can understand the plan to drive down the price of goods with government subsidized competition, but that only works if it’s a highly available alternative.

It does not. The legal system has essentially lost the ability to be a check on the power of the executive branch. Partly because of the capture of the judiciary and regulatory bodies by right-wing extremists and partly because of the speed at which the executive branch is acting illegally - it takes time to build cases and the jsutice system can’t keep up.

Recruiters specifically, yeah. Also DEI, but that cratered largely because of the US’ political stance on DEI.

And marketing & sales - that was the largest change because the whole idea was to take advantage of untapped demand

Also engineering - particularly AI related. Thats a big reason the enginnering job market is hot garbage rn

During the pandemic tons of companies hired very large numbers of people in anticipation of increased consumer demand and historically high savings rates in the US and other countries. During the pandemic people counterintuitively burned through cash to the benefit of companies like amazon. When that excess demand cooled (and it still is, especially in the US due to incredibly bad economic policies) those jobs were/are not needed anymore.

Yeah I think that’s largely true. Kellog did a number on the mayo race

Since US guys are like 68% circumcised, Jewish folks get circumcised for religious reasons, should be easy to determine that US guys and Jews are like 2x+ as autistic as guys are worldwide

That was my first reaction. Using LLMs is a lot like being a manager. You have to describe goals/tasks and delegate them, while usually not doing any of the tasks yourself.

I feel like this is shooting themselves in the foot a bit. During covid, maybe you could argue Dems were more likely to mail in vote due to there being a pandemic, but now? It’s old people doing most of the mail-in votes. Old people are more likely to be Republicans.

Me, a socialist: nationalize critical industries

Also me: wait not like that

Are they making fun of how she looks? Yeah, sure. But they’re really making fun of the fact that she chose to look like that. It’s about the freakish nature of all the people in Trump’s orbit. They’re like the fucking godhand from Berserk - evil, inhuman, freaky looking, etc.

Its a whole spectacle that I think media is afraid to talk about (sure Trump = orange, but… why?) - it’s worth interrogating why all these people get super obvious plastic surgery/fake appearance related things. Trump’s crazy bad spray on tan and shitty toupee, giuliani’s classic bleeding hair dye, all the various women in the Trump admin with their fake everything, gaetz with his crazy botox and facelift… the list just goes on.

“What’s with that?” Is a super valid question

Yep! I have a container of it to make otherwise non-melting cheeses melt smoothly.

Sodium citrate

Yeah, Lyme Disease can potentially cause that. It’s weird they’re saying “meat allergy” and not lyme disease, but lyme is pretty bad and can cause lifelong complications (post-treatment lyme disease syndrome)

Edit: guess I’m wrong

Bro, it’s the original Lemmy instance. It does not matter what instance you’re on. I have two accounts with the same name one on dbzero and one on ml - feel free to peruse.

You didn’t give me anything to respond to except for: “MAGA and Marxist-Leninism are equally incoherent” - and you gave nothing to substantiate that point, ergo it is a “braindead take” because it required no thought. If you want it to not be a braindead take, then make an argument rather than an unfounded (and probably uninformed) statement.