I don't think it's even about candidates, but just focusing on appearances.

That's what grabs attention and makes money. Even the robotic social media feed algorithms know this.

I then joked that I half expected a woman in a red, white, and blue bikini holding up the round number between each question.

That's the next debate.

Trump's idea, until he backtracks on stage and says he 'never knew this woman.' And Biden's team goes along with it, thinking it will be a distraction, and somehow Biden blurts this out and makes it backfire.

CNN can't help themselves. They need to compete with social media I guess.

I dunno, that debate just made me sad.

Oh, they will play this debate in clips forever.

We live in an age of YouTube and tiktok shorts.

We live in a world where Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is more electable than the candidates we have.

I figured Idiocracy was prescient, but it's coming true awfully fast.

It's like a cherry on top.

Or anyone period.

It's not a hyper personalized model of users running on GPUs.

The irony here is most AI is "mundane" and not diffusion or LLM AI.

For instance... the "AI" X is using to produce feeds ingest posts, serve ads and such.

X, Facebook and so on are the real villains here, and Mastadon, Lemmy, and (I guess?) Bluesky are the heroes, skipping all that attention optimization nonsense.

No, I never meant for it to be. I just wanted to stay alive and not give covid to someone else like, you know, someone sane.

But alas I didn't want it to be political, but it was. I could assert that all I want, and it doesn't change the community I had to interact with.

I dunno. I felt judged whenever I was walking around wearing a mask. One time I put one on when some guy walked up to me when I was walking my dog, and it kinda started an argument. A tow truck driver literally told me masks were government control devices before he jumped our car.

I felt like I was masking alone sometimes, like I was offending the public for doing it.

Just because that's absurd doesn't mean masses of people didn't see masking as political. To me, it was kinda hard to ignore.

It was a late night comment in bad taste, yeah.

But as a devil's advocate, it was just my observation of where I live in the US. I was trying to convery the general mood around me, and it was very toned down from what my neighbors actually said and did at the height of the pandemic. For reference, my neighbor had an anti mask party when covid was raging, and they were very liberal for this neighborhood... it still kind of boggles my mind.

I meant to present it as something absurd, not an opinion that I thought was reasonable.

Yeah. Normally I wouldn't care, but when the colonies/galaxies get big, even a 30% TPS hit or whatever starts to feel very painful.

What's the warhead on those? Is it a cluster bomb, or the other variant which looks like a bunker buster?

But getting that kind of popularity is like being struck by lightning, especially now. He had a very advantageous start on TV (not to belittle how amazing he was).

Is this actually a thing in russia?

I used to talk to Russians in Discord, and even before that they were super uncomfortable with... all this. The coup must have been something as it was happening.

Cross compatible social media?

We really are in the future.

It's really amazing how much damage his loss probably did to the world.

I can't think of any pro-wildlife "influencers" that would be at his level today, much less wherever he would have reached in the remaining years.

They're political.

It's like wearing "I love Fauci" right on your face.

That sounds trivial... but it's really that simple, and that stupid. And I would guess the restaurant doesn't want to deal with it, just like they don't want to deal with somone coming in with a really crude hat or something.

I would note that Rimworld and Stellaris (for me) run much slower in linux than they do on windows, and they are kind of perforamnce sensitive games.