🇺🇸🗽🔧 old millennial child of the internet, contrarian, skeptic, wordsmith, philomath, above average nobody, doesn't suffer fools gladly

mortal peril
The platform of free speech and open discourse is a joke
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🤬🤬😤My wife takes her 2023 RAV4 to the dealership for a recall service. This was for an airflow sensor After finishing they come out and tell her that her horn isn’t functioning and that it would be $145 to diagnose the issue + labor and parts to repair Mind you she knows for a fact that the horn worked this morning The techs specifically said “we checked all the connections and so it’s not that” I told her to decline and bring it home Mind you this is so unlikely to be anything other than a fuse or the fact that they unplugged it and forgot to plug it back in or worse, straight up scamming After testing the fuse and the relay, as well as the clock spring, I take the radiator cover off to inspect the plugs at the horn and what do you know both horns are unplugged The airflow sensor is nowhere near these plugs so there’s zero chance these were taken off as part of the job not to mention they said they “checked the plugs” It’s also impossible they both happen to vibrate loose @Toyota I buy a brand new car from you and this is how you treat us?? This was at Toyota of Santa Cruz Stealership @SantaC_Toyota
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Employee: 3k, 3k, 3k, 3k, 3k Freelancer: 900, 5k, 0, 9k, 1k, 4k Founder: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 600k Open Source Maintainer: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 "thanks bro" Vibe coder: -$20, -$100, -$200, -$200
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Patriotism is based on love. Nationalism is based on envy and resentment.
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Opus 5.5 just deleted my entire fucking C drive. Thank GOD I have daily backups running to my Synology NAS, but holy fucking shit. This is insane. If I didn't have these backups running I'd be thoroughly fucking devastated.
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This is the doom I predicted a few days ago, coming for Photoshop. A clean-room open-source reimplementation. No prizes for guessing that they decompiled Photoshop to source code, processed that to some kind of non-code specification language, then fed the spec to an LLM with an instruction to generate Rust. Adobe just got nuked. And closed source is dead, dead, dead. github.com/storytold/photocr…
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dude i found this by myself and didn’t report this because i knew the reward would be some bullshit like this. could’ve easily gotten 300k worth of api price usage instead of 300$.
$300 for a bug that gives free access to OpenAI’s paid models with no API key or account. Zero reason to report anything else I find to them.
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$300 for a bug that gives free access to OpenAI’s paid models with no API key or account. Zero reason to report anything else I find to them.
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OpenAI is downplaying this for PR reasons. If you’re a mathematician, you must feel like a nuclear bomb hit, and you’re at ground zero. Reasoning models are two years-old. In that time they went from incapable of basic arithmetic to solving problems humans couldn’t solve for decades. Math is only the beginning. AI will revolutionize the entirety of the human scientific endeavor. Most of us don’t appreciate what that means. What a time to be alive!
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results. github.com/openai/math
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If you have little kids, I highly recommend these mini glasses and carafe. I think they’re actually intended for the Chinese spirit “Moutai.” Children find them delightful and love learning how to serve themselves and others, and the glasses only hold like 12 mls, so no mess.
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RT @PtrCzakZukowski: „Zabij tę białą rodzinę.” Grupa migrantów nagrała siebie w Le Mans we Francji, podczas gdy napadała na francuską ro…
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I'm going to make a very pointed statement. This shit has got to stop. This is exactly what will keep people like me home on election day. If federal agencies can't keep themselves in check, then maybe our system of checks and balances will work exactly as intended.
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BREAKING: James Cody Bryant, the man federally charged in Washington state for allegedly helping the Canadian trans school mass sh—ter kill seven women and children in Tumbler Ridge, is TRANS. He identifies as female and uses the name "Mel," court documents show. I wrote about the Tumbler Ridge trans massacre in my new book. It remains one of Canada's deadliest attacks. The Canadian police and media referred to the deceased gunman as a "female in a dress." hachettebookgroup.com/titles…
U.S. federal authorities have arrested a 30-year-old in connection with the February school m—ss shooting by a Canadian trans killer described in media as a “female in a dress.” Jesse Van Rootselaar (pictured) killed seven people—all women and children—in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., Canada. The newly arrested suspect has not yet been named. Rootselaar is part of the surge of trans killers in multiple countries. I wrote about this phenomenon in my upcoming book, The Zizians. ngocomment.com
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Me, looking at the gas gauge of my wife's car, after I was just dropped off at the shop to drive it home.
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I don't follow Dinesh D'Souza closely, but he's apparently done something to piss off the groypers.
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"real Americans" These drooling inbreds are so fucking annoying
Dinesh will not come into X spaces to debate. Because he is a fraud and a scammer. @DineshDSouza quit crashing out and engage in a real debate with real Americans. What is an American is easily answered. Come debate.
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I can't wait to be arrested This is a real life sitcom ! Please tell the police to contact my agent
UK: Muslim group reports John Cleese to counterterror program for ‘incendiary posts about Muslims and Islam’ The government is likely to take this quite seriously, for to do otherwise might risk enraging the nation’s Muslim population, and that is what they want to avoid doing above all. What, however, did Cleese say that was not true? And that is the problem with all “Islamophobia” initiatives: they make it a crime to tell unwelcome truths. Read more at the link in the next post.
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NEWS: NHTSA will hold an Automated Driving Systems Workshop on Dec 1, 2026, at DOT headquarters, according to a Federal Register notice (FR Doc. 2026-20516, Docket NHTSA-2026-1618). NHTSA's Office of Automation Safety will give an update on the status of its AV guidance documents and FMVSS modernization efforts, then take stakeholder feedback. federalregister.gov/public-i…
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I’m escaping the Permanent Underclass
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Theo Von is a moron. Always has been. He’s the perfect sheep with a microphone for the left to gather more loons. It’s frightening how effective this is.
Theo Von is doing a lot of damage. In a week, he gave friendly interviews to two of the worst people in American public life. He asked “Aww, shucks” style leading questions and then pretended to be shocked by their very predictable answers.
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Looks like we won't stop doing this until the last maternity ward is torn down and replaced with a hospice center.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US boomers overwhelmingly support higher taxes on younger workers to maintain current Social Security benefits, poll shows.
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