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  • Make sense why when Trump was asked today, “How you holding up?” He was like, “Have you seen my new ballroom to the White House?”

    They giving Charlie Kirk the fucking Herman Cain treatment. Going to forget him like his name was Phil Valentine. Going to hang his family out to dry like a former mayor of New York City.

    And then you had that fucking Governor of Utah saying:

    For 33 hours I was praying that if this had to happen here, it wouldn’t be one of us.

    Just FUCKING HELL. No chill, all racism. Damn. They going to have to forget about Charlie Kirk like they did all those people who died from COVID, like all those farmers who going bankrupt because of trade wars, like all those people who are like “He ain’t hurting the right people.”

    I ain’t in the camp celebrating Kirk’s death. But the way Republicans are jumping ship from Charlie’s death is fucking hilarious. So now that we all know the mother fucker ain’t getting any deader, how about them fucking Epstein Files? How about all them Republican fuckers who voted to protect a pedo mother fucker?




  • It’s that allure of “might makes right”.

    That guy, he believes that ends justify means. He’s likely been told about how bad crime is, about how there’s no one left but him on this planet to save this nation, and that there will be a golden day one day ahead when his actions will be what makes the country better.

    But that ignores the lie that might makes right. Might removes opposition that there is none. Might takes away discourse and reason. Might takes away justice and law. Might serves but one end, to make those who wield that might the ruler over all. There is no golden days ahead, just more requirements for might, more violence, more suppressing dissent. It doesn’t save a nation, it tears it apart. It give no voice to those who oppose the regime, gives them no other avenue but violence to seek redress.

    Might has never made right. Might has always been upheld by the lie that without difficult action there would be no order.

    But this man, behind those eyes are just a goal. Just some idealized peace far off in the distance that just seem ever inches out of reach. For him, there’s no low that he will bear that his hope is that his children will not bear. For him, he has to be the one that does the things that others will not. And that false hope of peace, of bearing the burden, of being the one that fights. That will drive him to do things other would not. That will cause him to turn a blind eye to things others would recoil at. That will cause him to see fellow humans and citizens as less than his ideas.

    This man isn’t there to uphold the law. That man is there to show you his might. Because he believes that everything this nation was built upon, law, order, civil service, discourse, freedom, justice, are all weakness.





  • The issues with a ton of these use cases is direct tying to avoid middleware, which is absolutely NOT something one should be doing with AI. At best AI should be used as a speech to text processor that has the optional ability to provide a formatted output, like say JSON. Past that, you are doomed to deal with issues that AI will not handle correctly.

    That’s the key issue, once you have to have some logic layer in between, the cost of these things starts flying northward and the savings you’ll get from replacing around 8,000 minimum wage workers is nowhere near what you though you would be saving. So these companies believe that they’ll just bake in the logic into the system prompt. Which, LOL, gets you $15,000 priced combos.

    The Taco Bell one is actually about as well as it should handle for a lazy deployment. The issue is that Taco Bell isn’t ready for everyone in the world to be bypassing their AI system and the AI system doesn’t have any good fall backs. There’s just a thin layer that says when something goes outside of parameters to trigger a human being, that’s striking too cautious a balance.

    AI isn’t a replacement for humans, it’s no where near that ability at the moment. But if you think about say an IVR system, as long as you are keeping parameters incredibly narrow, you can fit AI somewhere in there. But that rarely justifies the cost, especially if you’ve already got a well developed IVR that you’re still dealing with.

    That’s the biggest thing, there’s a lot of promise in these things. But we’re not there. We are not anywhere close to these things replacing 100% humans taking orders. If you’re a place that’s not yet built out an IVR, the AI agent might be something to look into, IF you have programmers on your team that can do the heavy lifting for the logic layers. In short, treat these things like a Small Language Model plus serialization, that’s about as far as they are good at the moment. Trying to toss logic into these things is just going to induce pain and failure along the way. And if that doesn’t save you enough money to justify the super high cost per credit, then don’t do AI. There’s a very small application for AI in public facing things at the moment.

    The only thing I’ve seen AI at the moment be really good at is RF signal processing. It wouldn’t surprise me if down the road we saw some sort of model embedded for boosting Wi-Fi signal processing. But this kind of application with Taco Bell et al. No. At least not right now. Or not enough to justify it to most companies at this time.





  • Sadly your employer is likely in the right here. Oregon just recently passed a law requiring what you have indicated. Senate Bill 906. It goes into effect January 1, 2026. However, before that point in time, employers are not legally required to spell out anything about your employment to you at any given point so long as they fulfill the requirements to give you a timely W-2 when tax time rolls around.

    As for the $1232, that is quite the amount and I would not see that as reasonable. However, it really depends on if you want to call their bluff on attorney advisement. The letter looks like something they blew out their own printer, but doctors are petty as fuck and will drag your ass into court over six pennies, or at least in the time I’ve ever known them.

    However, take none of this as legal advice. More like a suggestion and you should absolutely look at whatever your local laws are. Oregon JUST got on the bus about requiring employers to provide exactly the documentation you are requesting. I know, but some States still don’t have a legal requirement to provide paystubs. And Federal law absolutely doesn’t require that, they only require the whole “things you need to fill out your taxes”. In many of the States that don’t require it, if your employer does hand it off to you, it puts a ton of responsibility on it being correct on the employer. So some will literally go to a CPA for this one off, which is a much higher rate than a regular book keeper.

    But yeah, your Government just recently addressed this, but it doesn’t go into effect until next year. So sadly that new law does not help you here. However, you should absolutely speak with your department of labor to see if there are avenues you can take.







  • That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally

    What happens when they have oven mits or you know, just gloves, or just wait until night when the metal is cooler and they have cover of night?

    Whatever, I guess I shouldn’t care about that $500+ million that goes to put on a single coat that peels off six months later because they didn’t prime the surface.