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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread
« on: June 13, 2025, 02:31:48 PM »
She probably dove into the topic with AI.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kids
« on: June 13, 2025, 10:16:46 AM »My oldest kid is going to new student orientation at KSU this morning. This is really hard to wrap my head around.
My youngest is going in two weeks. Old ppl stuff.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread
« on: June 12, 2025, 08:57:29 AM »Holy eff welcome backI was “detained.” Good to be back. The Cuban sandwich’s at guantanamo are good!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Congrats on the love making.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)
« on: June 11, 2025, 12:34:41 PM »
I just provided a long-term customer with a repair quote for one of their properties. He told me last week I would receive a purchase order this Monday. Monday, I received an email inviting me to navigate their new portal that is an AI agent "negotiation" portal, and once I was through that, I would get my PO. Reading the front end of the negotiation portal, it noted how it's job to help ensure my company is operating tightly and how it's going to help me remain competitive, etc. Just a bunch of bullshit on how a rough ridin' bot is about to knee cap me.
I used to spend a decent amount of time listening to podcasts about what the possible effects AI will have on society, politics, science, etc. Those podcasts spent a lot of time concerned with the race to AGI and how the first country to get it will basically be able to take advantage over those without, nearly immediately, in such a way that we should consider it one of the highest national security priorities.
I think we are about to see that play out but in the biz world. Big companies that can afford the AI agents now are about to take huge advantage over smaller companies who can't afford it, don't have a product on the market that fits them yet, or who don't want to work with it. They will also take large advantage of their customers via even more data analytics and targeting(I know this has been happening, but I think it's about to get a much finer edge).
How long until all companies can afford an AI negotiation bot? How long until all of our transactions are just two computers yelling at each other? The cat and mouse of it all is going to raise prices, similar to medical insurance, where I submit a higher quote than normal to land where I want to after the AI bot negotiation.
Given the seeming enshitification of much of the rest of the digital world, is this ultimately what AI will deliver? Not shorter work weeks or better science, but more bullshit and higher prices? I think so.
I used to spend a decent amount of time listening to podcasts about what the possible effects AI will have on society, politics, science, etc. Those podcasts spent a lot of time concerned with the race to AGI and how the first country to get it will basically be able to take advantage over those without, nearly immediately, in such a way that we should consider it one of the highest national security priorities.
I think we are about to see that play out but in the biz world. Big companies that can afford the AI agents now are about to take huge advantage over smaller companies who can't afford it, don't have a product on the market that fits them yet, or who don't want to work with it. They will also take large advantage of their customers via even more data analytics and targeting(I know this has been happening, but I think it's about to get a much finer edge).
How long until all companies can afford an AI negotiation bot? How long until all of our transactions are just two computers yelling at each other? The cat and mouse of it all is going to raise prices, similar to medical insurance, where I submit a higher quote than normal to land where I want to after the AI bot negotiation.
Given the seeming enshitification of much of the rest of the digital world, is this ultimately what AI will deliver? Not shorter work weeks or better science, but more bullshit and higher prices? I think so.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: June 11, 2025, 09:21:09 AM »People who obsess about how good their pizza is are weird to me. It's pizza, there is like 5 degrees of separation between domino's/pizza hut/shuttle/etc or cici's all you can eat buffet and Minsky's or Providence.
Like yeah, Minksy's and Providence 51 are better but are they THAT much better to be 3x the cost? (Not IMO)
The difference between Spin and Dominos is enough to nearly say that they aren't even both pizza.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: June 11, 2025, 08:31:42 AM »
Anyone worried about being seen as a creep for dating too young just needs to upgrade their peer group to one with more creeps and with lower societal standards. Boom, solved.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP
« on: June 10, 2025, 11:24:19 AM »
I don't make judgment on ramp trips. I would trip up that mf'er all the time.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MAHA
« on: June 10, 2025, 08:17:40 AM »
If he wants to get to the bottom of autism, he should replace those fired with people best fit to focus on the problem as intently as anyone could. People who will obsess about it until it ruins other parts of their lives. People who will ignore their own wellbeing to work hard as possible to solve the problem. In short, he should hire autistic people to work on that.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Recent motion picture viewing - Add your own!
« on: June 10, 2025, 08:15:12 AM »i watched The Substance ... lmao holy crap
Very good movie until the end. The end may be the worst end of any movie I have watched in a decade or two. Maybe ever. I honestly don't have a worse ending in my mind right now.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MAHA
« on: June 10, 2025, 08:11:31 AM »
The RFK think is worrisome. What would his incentive be to do this other than being a true believer in utter bullshit and nonsense? Traditionally, following the money can make you understand the idiocy coming out of Washington. However, if we have a zealot tied to all manner of "medical" stupidity, how long will it be before the CDC is fighting the latest diseases by grinding tiger claws and sprinkling it in our raw milk?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: June 09, 2025, 04:42:47 PM »
Man of the people.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: June 09, 2025, 09:48:25 AM »
Trump says he just directed Noem, Hegseth, Bondi, and any other relevant agencies to end the “migrant invasion “ in LA. Are we at war with LA?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk
« on: June 08, 2025, 08:50:28 AM »
I don't know who the 62y/o is, but that house is awesome.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk
« on: June 06, 2025, 04:56:14 PM »
Would rather a Red Wedding.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: June 06, 2025, 04:54:18 PM »Dax in quite a pickle about this development - he gotta back pedos or no?
He defended Roy moore
https://www.thewrap.com/sacha-baron-cohen-roy-moore-pedophile-detector-who-is-america-video/
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: June 06, 2025, 12:51:39 PM »
Seems like Peter Schiff may be someone who could understand the banging of a 14 year old.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: June 06, 2025, 11:51:55 AM »
Dax is literally ok with populating our government with children who's prefrontal lobe hasn't even...wait, that is just some science bullshit.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk
« on: June 06, 2025, 11:49:32 AM »
Joe was such a chess master. Being incompetent, dead, and ruled by autopen's nefarious AI algo but at the same time able to keep his name out of dissenters' mouths through guile, cunning, and pure evil. Maybe Kamala being an actual demon accounts for some of the power he was able to wield with his cold dead hands. 
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: June 05, 2025, 11:23:16 AM »
It's a high risk play. Pandering to the stupids only takes a few election generations before the stupids are actually the ones in power.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: June 05, 2025, 07:03:56 AM »
So does this shut down their airports?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP
« on: June 01, 2025, 11:29:36 AM »
1. He was executed? By Jill? By the robopen? The later would be a great sci fi about the uprising of AI.
2. We can clone people.
Need a lot more info on these abilities.
Dax, what is going on here and how is it #blueanon’s design and fault? Who is the wackado here? What are the viewers of this blog not conveniently not remembering?
2. We can clone people.
Need a lot more info on these abilities.
Dax, what is going on here and how is it #blueanon’s design and fault? Who is the wackado here? What are the viewers of this blog not conveniently not remembering?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP
« on: May 31, 2025, 01:06:10 PM »
Dan Quayle misspelled potato one time and became a generationally mocked dumb dumb.
How the mighty has fallen.
How the mighty has fallen.
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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: It's time we have a conversation about Bill Self
« on: May 30, 2025, 05:31:29 PM »
Man, Jacque's Wikipedia makes me feel old.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: May 30, 2025, 04:12:47 PM »
Being accessible doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know anything and are never held to account. Being as accessible as he is, how has he not pieced together one coherent explanation of issues at hand?