Contabo is cheap but has some weird quirks. I pay about five euros a month. My server got mysteriously rolled by two days and they denied anything happened to it. I restored from backups but it was odd.

There are credit cards for people with bad credit who will charge you $200 annual fees and 50% interest.

They will have better luck than you.

That’s not what people do when they steal your identity. They open credit cards and take out loans under your name.

My problem with this line of reasoning is that AI makes it very difficult to tell a genuinely good job candidate from a poor candidate using AI as a crutch. This is doubly problematic when the interviewer is also likely using AI to write the questions that they ask the candidates. One could go back to in-person interviews, but there are monetary costs to that. Because improving the hiring process presents immediate tangible costs, employers will not do it even if it is likely to result in savings later on.

I do, however, agree that AI inbreeding is likely to cause newer models to stop getting better and eventually decline in quality as the training data becomes contaminated with other AI-generated content.

Who am I gonna call?

Ghostbusters

Riemann sphere has entered the chat

This is a serious suggestion, however blasphemous it may seem: Change your registration to Republican and then vote in the Republican primary for the most respectable person who is running. Changing your registration doesn’t cost anything and doesn’t affect anything. The Republican Party will also send you election material by post which you can simply discard or send back empty donation envelopes to waste their money on postage.

I’m not going to lie and say that this is someone who I would enthusiastically vote for, but based on her campaign website I think that’s still a decent candidate. Personally, I’m ideologically a social democrat and that candidate’s campaign statements smell a bit too liberal for me to get excited over it, but she seems passable. If that’s the best out of this year’s batch, then vote for them and start agitating for people who you think would do a better job to run in 2028.

As leftists in America, we all must realise: This is our party, and we need to fight to win it back.

Your vote in primary election can often be more influential than your vote in the general election. And any campaigning activity you do in the party’s primary will be twice as impactful as activities during the general.

So, if you want change, there are two ways to go about it. You can either play along with the rules of the system and try to win control of it that way, or you can try to overthrow the system entirely.

But before you indicate your preference, let me first ask, though you need not answer: There are many people who say they’ll be a part of the revolution that overthrows the system. But are you actually working on this, or are you just waiting for it to happen? Are you working with the next Vladimir Lenin or Sun Yat-Sen right now, or are you just fantasizing about it?

Everyone wants change. What are you doing to create the future you want?

I think this is because they’ve already raised prices to the hilt in California. Consumers aren’t willing to pay more for fast food than they’re already charging.

Conviction in an impeachment trial needs 67 votes. They currently hold 45 seats. In order to get to 67, they’d need a clean sweep of all Senate races.

Politics in a nutshell:

Monday: Experts warn that Policy A will destroy the universe and eliminate 8 billion jobs

Tuesday: Government tables bill to enact Policy A

If a Democrat had posted this, he would be losing his shit about far-left propaganda trying to ruin his reputation with blasphemous imagery.

It’s possible to construct an age-verification system that allows a user to verify they are over the age of 18 without divulging any other information whatsoever.

But that would defeat the point of “age” verification for these goons.

Prior to GitHub, everyone just hosted their own Git repositories. The nature of Git is pretty decentralised. And Linux kernel development still uses old-fashioned mailing lists for development co-ordination, rather than something like GitHub. I have heard before someone say the difference between Git and GitHub is similar to the difference between porn and Pornhub.

Prior to Discord, there was IRC.