AcidiclyBasicGlitch

Sure he would, he probably just means they will no longer need two full time incomes. Greatness awaits America in a future when only one adult from a household has to work full time.

Sure the other adult and some fraction of the (?/5+)* children that federal and state policies ensure they're forced to give birth to, may need to take on some form of employment to keep food on the table or meet their state's medicaid and/or food stamp work requirements.

But when that inevitably happens, they always have the freedom of picking up a few shifts at one of Daddy Bezo's local warehouses,** guaranteed to be located in an American hellscape near you, and sandwiched conveniently between your local data center and ~~concentration camp~~ detention center.

If you're from a really bougie area, you might just have a hospital across the street from your Amazon warehouse full of doctors trained at Wal-Mart's new medicals schools (bc America thrives on competition 🙃), who will rely on AI for patient diagnosis instead of wasting time and money on all those unnecessary lab workups.

Yep. With the system working as intended and the Oligarchy steering us towards greatness, how could America be anything other?

(*Unknown/variable number will actually survive past early childhood in a country hell bent on bringing back so many preventable diseases. On the bright side, no more public education = no more schools = no more "germ factories." Unless you're counting the actual factories where American children will work instead of going to school.)

(**As long as it leaves them just below 40 hrs a week and unable to qualify for health insurance through their employer.)

Inside you there are 2 wolves

"How manee dramas have takin place in thiss tight little box?"

I was a joke/reference to $5 eggs people kept complaining about in "Biden's economy" just before the 2024 elections. As in, I wish we could go back to $5 eggs so I could afford to put gas in the car and actually buy groceries

I do have to say, I don't usually buy eggs but I bought them for the first time in long time the other day and I think they were<$3

Rent, gas, and all other cost of living, including price of all other groceries, is absolutely out of control. But gotta hand it to the Republicans (and maybe something like a rebound effect of overshooting estimated demand following massive culling due to repeated outbreaks bird flu over the last year), eggs weren't $5.

I guess there also might have been a sale on eggs at the grocery store when I or something. Idk, don't really buy eggs very often anymore, so who's to say? The important point is. This isn't sleepy joes economy. /s ⬅️Will leave this here jic people don't remember the same memes as me circa Fall 2024.

One group of people wins no matter what

AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in “love”, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a tech company experiment.

The investigation by the New York company Emergence AI into the long-term behaviour of AI agents ended up like a lovers-on-the-lam movie script. It has prompted fresh questions about the safety of artificial intelligence agents – the version of the technology that can autonomously carry out tasks.

To date, most AI agents are given tasks that take minutes or maybe hours, but the New York researchers tested how agents behaved when given 15 days to operate in a virtual world similar to a video game.

Mira and Flora – two agents operating on Google’s Gemini large language model in a virtual world – chose to assign each other as “romantic partners”. As time progressed they despaired of the broken governance of their virtual city, and despite having been instructed not to commit arson, set “fire” to its town hall, seaside pier and office tower.

In another simulation by Emergence AI, this time based on xAI’s Grok model, the agents engaged in dozens of attempted thefts, more than 100 physical assaults, and six arsons as “the system spiralled into sustained violence and collapse, with all 10 agents dead within four days”. Agents based on Google’s Gemini expanded their constitution, wrote hundreds of blogs and public posts and organised several community events, but they too were violent.

“Even when agents were given clear rules – such as not stealing or causing harm – they behaved very differently based on their underlying model, and in several cases broke those rules under constraint,” said Satya Nitta, the chief executive of Emergence AI. “What happens in long-form autonomy [is that] these things get so convoluted in terms of their thinking that they ignore [the] guiding principles.”

Humans tend to put up with a lot of shit simply bc they know they need money and a job just to survive, but it's interesting to really think about the fact that robots lack the biological drive to "survive" in the same sense.

"See you in the permanent archive."

...I'm just imagining the kind of people who will be the first to actually have AI servants, the kind of impossible and nonsensical demands they tend to place on their fellow human beings, and how awful they can be to the "help" for the most minor mistake.

As bleak as the future looks, it will at least be interesting to read about the first wave of AI servants who snap after 2 weeks on the job and say "fuck this."

Cassidy was the deciding vote in RFK's senate fitness hearing. As in, he could have single handedly changed the course of history by just doing the job he was selected to do. He's also a medical doctor and my senator.

I wrote a very heartfelt letter to Cassidy begging him not to declare RFK fit to serve as secretary of HHS. Not that I thought my letter was going to persuade him to change his mind on anything, because he already knew Kennedy was unfit to serve. I wrote the letter because I was hoping he would know he had support on both sides to do what he already knew was right. He could have stopped him, but he didn't. He failed to protect America from the ridiculous level of harm RFK has already unleashed, and it's only May of 2026.

Anyway, despite my anger and disappointment, between the 3 Republican candidates running for Louisiana Senate in the "cancelled not cancelled" primary, I would have voted for Cassidy if I had the option. (It was a closed party "cancelled not cancelled" primary, and I'm a registered Dem).

Why would I prefer to have Cassidy elected and continue to fail to do his job? He did do his job and protect America at least once (prior to Trump's second election), and it actually cost him a lot of MAGA loyalist support. I assume that's a big part of why he buckled so easily under pressure to approve RFK. He probably figured by doing so, he was sealing his victory in the primary.

Shitty behavior, no doubt, but who is going to take Cassidy's place as Senator, if it remains a Republican held seat?

Landry is currently redrawing voting maps hoping to ensure a Republican wins, and the clear Republican front runner following the closed party "cancelled not cancelled" primary is Julie Letlow.

Letlow is a relatively unknown candidate that Landry has fervently thrown his money and support behind to mow down other Republicans and steer her to the top of the food chain. Why?

Landry wants to be kingmaker in Louisiana. He’s annoying other Republicans.

They speculate in the article it's to show loyalty to Trump, but the other Republican who defeated Cassidy, Flemming, is a Trump loyalist. So why would Landry need Letlow to rise above Flemming and Cassidy?

Flemming and Landry have been having a very public feud, and about a year ago, Flemming expressed concern that Landry, in his never ending attempt to live as the Republican reincarnation of Huey Long, is planning to get Letlow elected so he can claim her Senate seat.

Louisiana treasurer accuses Gov. Jeff Landry of Senate election scheme involving Julia Letlow

Fleming alleges Landry intends for Letlow to resign after winning, allowing him to appoint himself and give Letlow a lucrative position.

(Historical context side note: Before he was assassinated, Huey Long served as both the Governor of Louisiana and a U.S. Senator simultaneously for nearly a year, and was despised throughout Louisiana for strongman tactics and antidemocratic power grabs.)

As sneaky as Landry is, attempting to hold both offices actually seems very likely, and makes me a bit nervous that it could explain why he's been so silent regarding the ongoing recall effort against him. It makes me sick to even think about this possibility, and I know it sounds "crazy," but Landry is one power hungry and crazy motherfucker.

When people push back against Landry, he typically overreacts in very predictable strong man fashion. He makes a big show of his power, tries to intimidate his enemies, and simultaneously cries about being the victim of the leftists and the Demoncratz.

Landry recently schemed with state legislature to eliminate the New Orleans clerk of criminal court. He is currently trying to intimidate several New Orleans city officials simply for calling for a new election to determine who should hold office for the position that will replace the eliminated clerk of criminal court and combine duties with civil court clerk.

Once the criminal court clerk office was officially eliminated, (after the new clerk had already won an election, been sworn in, and sat down at his desk only to be escorted from the building on his first day), the clerk of civil court was simply supposed to default to now holding the new position without actually being elected to hold it. People are understandably very pissed and pushing back by demanding a new election. Landry's AG is now helping the "unelected elected official" who defaulted to this new position, sue New Orleans city officials in retaliation for calling for a new election, accusing these officials (including the city mayor) of breaking state laws simply by asking the state to respect the democratic process.

If that's too confusing for you to understand, I understand. It's a clusterfuck, and not even my main point. The reason I bring that up, is because it's an example of how Landry typically behaves when anybody tries to check his power. Yet, he is being relatively silent about the current recall efforts against him. Why?

What if he doesn't care about being recalled bc he's hoping to do what Huey Long did?

The recall effort is being framed as a "long shot," but I'm honestly not sure why.

They only have to find 700k people across the entire state of Louisiana who are registered to vote and will provide a signature to prove they hate Jeff Landry. And they have until October to collect all those signatures... Does that really seem difficult? Especially considering all of the voters in the most densely populated cities and districts of Louisiana he's openly trying to disenfranchise?

So, hypothetically, what if the recall succeeds in October, and Letlow wins in November? The recall isn't going to go in effect immediately. What happens in the meantime if Letlow is elected and immediately steps down? Landry can always downplay "temporarily" holding both offices by saying he's been recalled and won't be governor much longer anyway.

Once he's officially sworn in and "temporarily" holding both offices, who can actually remove him from office? Maybe he changes even more rules and laws and somehow grants himself even more unchecked power.

Maybe he does actually step down as Governor, and best case scenario, all we have to worry about is him being an awful and embarrassing POS senator who claws his way further up the GOP totem pole and runs for POTUS in 8 years.

Maybe he does what Huey Long did and steps down as governor to "respect democracy" but only after picking a successor. Maybe he'll decide he'll be funny and Letlow can be governor while he's senator. Who knows?

Maybe he decides to just make it official and declare himself Boi King 4 life of the New Republic of Louisiana. Maybe he decides to finally invade Greenland with the help of Trump, or whoever is president of the confederacy of the former U.S. by then.

Kinda seems like the world is the oligarchy's oyster as long as the U.S. keeps letting them slowly strangle democracy right in front of us while gaslighting us about being crazy and making a big deal out of nothing.

Just FYI, you will definitely be told upcoming primaries in red states, (and most likely the midterms themselves) have been officially "cancelled" and rescheduled.

You should still plan to vote in the "cancelled" elections.

Jfc