That’s why I wish someone would steal my coin right before I throw it in. It’s win-win

Is it wrong I thought of RFK when I read this?

I propose a herpes and SARS party for her.

I mean, statistically at least ONE person must… especially if they were a federal worker that was fired.

This feels kinda far fetched. It’s like saying “well, we won’t need cars, because we’ll all just have jetpacks that we use to get around.” I totally agree that eventually a useful model will run on a phone. I disagree it’s going to be soon enough to matter to this discussion. To give you some ideas, DeepSeek is a recent model. It’s 671B parameters. Devices like phones are running 7-14B models. So, eventually what you say will be feasible, but we have a ways to go.

I have to assume that most of these “swindled” people were low-information voters

I’m sorry, if you’re a low information voter in the information age, you are getting what you deserve. How many of these people share links on Facebook with memes that can be disproven with a 5 minute visit to the library? This is the “science is fake” crowd I’m talking about. They are constantly surrounded by information and turn up their nose at it. They are proud to be ignorant. Well, there’s a real cost to being ignorant, and that cost is being swindled by con-men. The very same con-men will blame things on Biden, and I’m sure not 100% of the voters will wake up, but they didn’t want to listen before and they made this bed. Now we ALL have to lie in it.

I’m struggling to believe these articles are anything but pandering to the left.

There’s not exactly any good news to go around, so chuckling at the misfortunes of others is all we have. I’m very aware I’m on the same sinking ship. My only hope is to stay alive while this happens and hopefully still be on board when the holes are patched.

I don’t know what the appropriate response is. Empathy is hard.

Sorry, my tank is empty from the constant bullshit during COVID. Can’t wear a mask to help prevent the immunocomprised? Well, here’s your FREEDOM. It’s finally here. I hope they get what they were wishing for. All those red states wishing us ill while the blue states supported them with our tax dollars. No more! Don’t wan’t FEMA? Wish granted! Good luck on those hurricanes!