The polls show that voters were most motivated by inflation and immigration and that is what resulted in republicans winning

Just one comment ago, you claimed it was Russian bots. Now you're agreeing that it's people feeling economic pressure.

If what you’re saying is true then it disproves the claim that democrats didn’t go far enough left according to voters.

If you give people a choice between Republicans and diet-Republicans, they pick the real one. Would you have them try to outflank republicans more next election?

Oh, Obama governed as a Regan-era republican. The Affordable Healthcare Act was based on a Heratige Foundation proposal, and given the blessing of health insurance companies. But he campaigned on the left, that line of broken promises got him into office.

As for the rest... pay no attention to the declining lifespan, the increasing precarity, the rising cost of just scraping by. People aren't voting because of real grievances, it's all Russian Bots don'cha know?

Like, jeeze, you'd rather have a Sinister Villain to peg this on than actually examine the conditions in this country. That's some saturday morning cartoon nonsense you've spun.

Then compare it to 2016 - it was practically the same campaign strategy, only this time it lost the popular vote on top of the electoral collage.

Trying to flip people at the margin is not a winning strategy. Obama won in '08 by campaigning to the left and promising meaningful change -- it got people who normally don't vote to engage. Why is that strategy so anathema now?

Unpopular candidate? Yeah, her rallies were ghost towns.

On Tuesday there was a spike in google searches asking why Biden wasn't on the ballot and at least 15 million fewer people voted than the last presidential. You consider that popular?

oh so sanctimonious "purity pedestals" like, Stop abetting an exterminationist campaign

It was only broadly popular with most of the country and polled well in swing states; thank goodness party leadership had the stones to stick to their values and loose on this issue. Nobody to blame here but people who didn't make campaign choices and do not have access to the levers of power!

I know these things take time, but it's really hard not to be skeptical of CHIPS amounting to much. It reminds me too much of all the grant money given to telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon - supposed to be for improving infrastructure and implementing 5G, but they just pocketed the money as profit.

I like to think by the time Kirk gets the enterprise, all those spacious crew quarters we see in Strange New Worlds have been eaten up by retrofits and upgrades.

The trouble with phrases like 'neural structures' and 'language parsing' is that these descriptions still play into the "AI" narrative that's been used to oversell large language models.

Fundamentally, these are statistical weights randomly wired up to other statistical weights, tested and pruned against a huge database. That isn't language parsing, it's still just brute-force calculation. The understanding comes from us, from people assigning linguistic meaning to patterns in binary.

It's stripping out the copper wiring for cash. Buy a game studio, fire all the employees. Now their paychecks can be served up as profit to shareholders. Move all the files to your servers, it's your "Intellectual Property". Sell off the computers and the desks and anything else not nailed down. Do they own the building? Great, sell that too! Or, better yet, rent it out!

now now, let's be fair

it's also so that evangelicals can ban recreational sex

Squidward is churlish and often over-reacts when his personal time is intruded upon. Maybe his neighbors don't recognize when they're being intrusive, but they do value Squidward's company. It took drastic conditions for him to realize he values their company as well.

Micky Mouse entering public domain is historical benchmark. Cool, but also... that mouse is hollow. Good for a cheap horror game or thumbing your nose at the big theater conglomerate, but otherwise meh

Donald Duck going public domain will be a real treat