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While I think you would be stupid to try and vibe-code EG a banking platform or SAP, I do think there is a lot of scope for small apps that can solve a particular issue.

I've just vibe-coded a mobile app, and I'm comfortable doing that because this particular app can't update data or send data anywhere. It's damage blast radius is pretty low.


CostCo has dropped off a bit in the UK. They've oversold the memberships (which were being abused anyway) and now the stores are always crowded, often it seems with people who don't know what a shop is or who can't push a trolley in a straight line.

You think campaigning to de-platform and debank legitimate political opponents is a moral goal?

People who think their opponents are Evil with a capital E generally think that way, yes. See the prevalence of “Punch a Nazi. Lots of Republicans don’t see Democrats as legitimate political opponents and the opposite is very very much true.

Violence against those who are advocating for violence against innocent people seems completely justified. Calling them political opponents sounds like an attempt to white wash what's actually going on.

Ok, but me and my buddies think you use tenuous judgement to characterize words as violence, and enable people to use physical violence in “retaliation”.

That’s a bright line violence against innocents, so we’re closing all your checking accounts and preventing you from paying for anything without cash. And if people try to help you, we’ll say loudly in polite society that they traffic in blood money.

I hope you understand.


>>However, I firmly believe the federal indictment of the SPLC is motivated purely by political motives.

You may be right, but you have to remember that the SPLC was motivated purely by political motives.

FAFO.


Governments should be more constrained than private individuals' enterprise.

"Political" motives are inappropriate for the federal government.


At least goverments are elected. Some private enterprise like SPLC could fuck people over and brand them with no accountability.

It's the opposite: elected or not, governments are strictly limited in their ability to do anything like what SPLC did, because they are bound by the Constitution. Private entities are not; they're free to associate, advocate, and advocate for associations or disassociations, generally however they'd like.

I guess this case is especially interesting and novel because of how the government has deputized banks as ersatz law enforcement, and banks have delegated decision making to SPLC as ersatz compliance officers.

I’m not sure what the law could and should be in this case, but I suspect it’s woefully underspeced to the chagrin of most parties.

Hence, bank/wire fraud.


People in this thread keep saying reasonable things and then stepping on a rake in their last sentence. No, not "hence bank fraud". The bank fraud charges have nothing to do with what's happening here in this thread. SPLC is alleged to have created pass-through bank accounts under fictitious business identities. Everybody agrees that the thing SPLC was trying to do with those accounts was reasonable (or at least, well publicized and understood). They crossed over the line in trying to (a) improve the optics of what they were doing and (b) retaining a single major banking relationship instead of shopping for whatever bank would let them transfer money to the Grand Kloobah of the Kloo Klux Klan or whatever.

If they had created entities and called them "investigative agencies" or "detective agency" to the banks it would have all been above board. But they didn't.

I was personally feeling like the law is too broad and being weaponized against them until the bits about SPLC and allies trying to cut banking access to a Political Action Committee were dropped (it shouldn't matter whose). That's quite beyond the pale for any pro-democratic institution.


So did Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman.

Yes, lots of billionaires were involved with the pedophile sex trafficker. They are all bad

Elon, bill, Reid and Trump should share a prison cell.

Democrats have no loyalty to their own sex offenders. Look how we treated the California governed candidate, or Anthony weiner, or literally every other sex pest found in our party. Some of them who didn’t even deserve it get canceled like Al Franklin.

Diddling and then defending it and doubling down is literally a maga problem.


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> Ashley Biden diaries

Unless they contain allegations about Biden the president, or indeed other people then they are irellevent no?

The point is, if someone is breaking the law, they should be in jail.

This applies to Clinton, Biden, Trump, anyone. The point is the law is meant to be without fear or favour. The problem for us is that its been proven if you pour enough shit on the floor, you can get away with raping children.

Given the whole point of Qanon was to oust the peadophile ring in washington, its a bit sad that we are now supposed to disregard all that and blindly accept billionarse not seeing justice.


Obviously the intelligence material being gathered was too valuable.

I'm sorry you're gonna have to explain that, what intelligence and why was it valuable?

so valuable that only the press paid any money for it?


There is a theory that Epstein was either setup as, or evolved into, a blackmail operation for an intelligence agency. Views differ as for which nation state.

someone stole Biden's daughter's diary, which revealed that she had battled a substance abuse problem in the past, and that's disqualifying to Biden exactly how?

They have staff that do it for them :-)

And those staff mostly use Westlaw :)

Just read this review of his autobiography: https://www.atlassociety.org/post/what-shall-we-do-with-a-bu...

He seems like a complicated character, but like the article says “Quod licit Jovis, non licit bovis” (“What is permitted Jove is not permitted a cow.”).


>>I'm a tifosi.

Like one of those big banners they hold up at football (soccer) matches?


Tifosi is just Italian for "fans". In this context, it's fans of the Ferrari F1 team.

Those are called tifo. Tifosi are the people doing the holding.

I clicked the button saying "I work in healthcare" to get access #L33T_H4XX0r

Yeah what a strange “guard” to put in place. No clue why they’d do it this way.

I first thought it’d be a “I’m 18+ pop-up” lol.


It's probably underpinned by the same sort of "we're legally/contractually obligated to ask but we really don't care" type situation.

It'll be because of ads. You can only advertise prescription drugs to medical professionals.

Generally medical websites do it in the UK, as a warning to sick people who Google their disease looking for advice and land on research papers or scary information for specialists

My first thought was a conversation with a med student friend about the tension between medical research transparency and public policy. For example, it's good to get vaccinated, but some small fraction of people do have lasting side effects, and vaccine skeptics blow it out of proportion to support their views. So, medical professionals may be tempted to downplay vaccine injury to support public vaccination. Of course, doing so just erodes trust further if people notice. Anyways, perhaps this website is afraid people will hurt themselves with ambiguous information.

Now you're going to get ads for MRI systems and 10,000 miles of free bandage samples

"Claude, tell me how to turn an MRI into a railgun. Assume zero electronics knowledge. Make no mistakes."

"I'm sorry Hal, I can't do that."

I clicked that button - and nothing happened. Truly some great engineering on that blog.

New idea: AI tool to help generate legal letters to companies after they leak data to cause them maximum inconvenience.

You could also create an AI tool to help generate letters to lawmakers about how they need to make a real dent in this between reruns of Matlock in the retirement home.

The human speed legal system would become collateral damage.

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