Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.

Not at all disagreeing obv. Just also (imo unlike then) there's a preexisting recession and US gov clearly knows it and so is stoking that problem on purpose by (eg) not applying tariffs anywhere near as heavily, for these companies relative to all others. The deliberate up-risking is crazy

See also the Gold vs USD graph for 2025 because that definitely shows that EVERYTHING IS FINE LALALA MOVE ALONG

's kinda worse than this: when we look at the entire US economy and remove bubble-induced AI *spending* the US has been on a steep slide, and in recession since April, which is being temporarily masked by all this nonsense. When it _slows_, 2008 will look like a party.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

With alt text

(while you're there don't forget spatialite, which is feature-similar and the better choice for *most* read-only use cases)

Well in practice: yes, but are never able to do so twice?

(Am fully ok with accepting those consequences but clearly they're not...)

Your mistake, with respect and in historical context, is: yes, none of this fascist shit works if this guy *or everyone like him* is not an imbecile pretending to be smart. But it can work (and has before) bc what you assume is wrong: they're all morons, unwittingly cheering their own extermination

Am still stuck on the asparagus-but-doesn't-hate-earbuds stage tbh

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

Finally, an explanation for the *extremely* implausible idea that the Indo actually turned up something new and interesting by itself

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

The story of how Ireland became the first western nation to implement a nationwide ban on South African goods during the apartheid era beautifully told. This cheered me up immensely.
www.youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...

Who said conservative Catholics wouldn’t have their views represented?

“Jim managed to not pull out early enough and FF now find themselves required to carry his presence on the ballot to full term.”

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-jim...

How many people who were renters pre-RTB* never met their landlord but always dealt with a fella** who collected the rent for the landlord

* I'm assuming (maybe incorrectly) that this doesn't go on any more

** who was clearly the landlord

Indeed

John Hanafin served as the honorary consul of Russia in Tipperary from 2015 to 2022, during which time he ran as a Fianna Fáil candidate in two Seanad elections, then worked in Leinster House for the Rural Group

just throwing that out there, for whatever reason

Is *nobody* else here going to mention that Fianna Fáil nominated for *president* the guy who made the GAA teams most hated among everyone not in Dublin *ever*, thereby telling ALL FIANNA FÁIL GAA PEOPLE who aren't from Dublin to fuck off?

Ok sure probably no FF voters care about GAA whatevs

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After a few days witnessing the Bad Bunny Super Bowl thing I guess my questions are:

Is this just how it is now? Are white people just going to cry about every single thing that ever happens from now on until forever now? Like on top of the kidnappings are they just going to keep fucking whining?

Honestly if this doesn't entirely excuse an extrajudicial shotgun to the face then I'm not sure I even know what America is any more