This is basically how Republicans handled the ACA. The votes they held that they knew they would lose to repeal it weren't legislation. They were campaign promises. They were statements of intent. "If you elect us, we will do this for real."

That's politics. That's how politics works.

Stephen Miller writes a decent chunk of his tweets at this point.

It's exhausting but it's good to remember that every single thing they're mad about or think is important is an entire fantasy. Nothing remotely true about it. That's why trying to address their concerns is for suckers. Their concerns are as unaddressable as a crisis of unicorn shit.

Fair enough, but holy fucking fuck I hate this picture so much. Invoking the image of laborers who literally built our skyscrapers with their hands and at great personal physical risk for a bunch of CEO's who have never worked a day in their lives is boiling my blood.

Okay, but what if we made an app so you could skip the last step of grieving, acceptance? Just never do it. That would be good, right?

I have so many books in my backlog to read. It would have had to have read almost every book ever written before I even considered one with any AI influence whatsoever and wouldn't read one written by AI for any reason.

Cool except we already had tools that did that better than LLMs ever will be able to. AI could be used to improve search engines but once they start plopping a bunch of bullshit we are expected to sift through that's just more work. 500 billion dollar LLMs fall short of fucking Wikipedia.

It's not crazy to want a quantifiable return for spending tens of thousands of dollars on education, but that very framework is what motivates a college to not give a particular shit about you because you're just one customer of many.

In theory they are motivated to have as many graduates as possible get high paying jobs, but that mainly motivates them to attract students who already come from wealth which is the best indicator of future wealth. At that point the quality of the education is secondary.

In order to do this they have adopted a vaguely utilitarian approach but far more important to their business model is the predatory pricing and financing. A graduate will be on the hook for their loans even if they have to get a minimum wage job at the end.

It is undeniable that in the current system students are customers. That's bad because that shifts the focus of education away from either utility or enrichment to profit. The schools goal is no longer to provide education or training, but to get as much of your money as possible.

I remember the first time I saw them, figured out how they worked and immediately said, "Oh, so you're a client. You're a client making a work order with a slightly different format."

Boy they sure did not like that comparison.

BvS, extended cut! Now it's longer!

This picture must be saved so that when someone asks 'what was 2025 like' I can just send them this. What a distillation of all all the shit going wrong.

Yes. It is.

You can improve things while still conserving them and indeed this is now the ethos of the Democratic party. It is a conservative party. The reason Republicans don't like the ACA is that they would better be described as a regressive party.

And racism. Never forget that part.

It is. It kept the health insurance industry unchallenged while providing some relief. The relief it provided can be measured in lives saved and in reduced suffering. That's good. It's better to have it than not, but it is conservative. It conserves the existing aparatus and industry.

It's amazing what you can fail to accomplish when you don't want to accomplish it and in fact want the opposite.

I cannot imagine anything that would drain my desire to learn more than finding out that literally no human being, even my teacher, will read what I wrote. Why bother?

Yeah. Incandescent fury.