Beginning to think that part of the reason the Democrats won't budge to accommodate the left isn't merely material interest or even ideology but the fact they are just too dumb to even consider it.

The quality issue could be real as Baratza was bought a few years back. But the Encore isn't actually good for espresso and few other things

Not sure how I feel about the Encore hate

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the easiest reason to bully these AI advocates is they want more than anything else to be liked

I'm definitely a snob about certain things (coffee), but I'm glad that I grew out of that sort of sanctimonious attitude about it

had someone in middle management propose my company use an LLM to answer basic questions and I was the only person to adamantly pushback it was a bad idea because they'd walk away way overconfident in the answers it gave

Have the forever covid people made it over here finally?

This is what I remember her for and let me say, knowing Bill Maher's past, he must be furious he couldn't have gotten a shot with her sometime between Olbermann and Lizza.

There's a concerted effort to make it seem everyone would have believed Biden was a-okay and a great president if not for the scheming dishonest media tearing him down, so having Nuzzi do this is going to really energize them

Rupar is another awful boil on journalism but not in the way Nuzzi is. He's more a partisan hack who reports on nothing but gets treated as a trusted source.

Saw another quote saying the lib media types are going to try to pin the public turning on Biden on her which is perfect for them because they believe media figures dictate reality and it lets them avoid admitting their enemies were right about Biden all along

whenever I see one of that guy's tweets, I know I'm getting some stupid bullshit

In the immortal words of Matt Christman: They're dabbing on us

The real legacy of Trump isn't whatever brand of meme-based fascism or the end of democracy, but it is the end of keeping up appearances. We're not going to even hide the elites are disgusting amoral sex monsters because what the fuck can *you* do about it?