Democrats are complicit as well. Don't let them off the hook by making the mistake of thinking they're simply weak.
Democrats engaged in the same cover-up and lies and sexual abuse as the Republicans wrt Epstein. Democrats supported ICE and the murder of immigrants and citizens. Democrats supported American imperialism, oligarchy and genocide.
The parties aren't the same. Would we have the same open chaos, violence and instability under a Harris regime? Probably not. Would they have released any of the Epstein files on their own? Also probably not. Voting for the lesser (or more restrained) evil is valid when no good option exists but make no mistake the Democrats are not really a principled opposition party. It's mostly kayfabe.
The reasons libertarians have their own party is so they can be blamed for in effect voting for Trump when they did not vote for Trump. It is a form of self-flagellation to ensure no matter which sides when, it is your fault to the other side.
When confronted with the possibility of a second term of Trump's uniquely destructive anti-leadership and proven track record of being highly corrosive to individual liberty, if you couldn't swallow your pride and vote actually-conservative then that's on you. I myself had never voted for a major party candidate in a national election. That changed in 2020.
You're right. I should have said, Republicans stopped pretending to support libertarian values when they started supporting Trump. At least they used to pretend they were for libertarian values.
>those outside “rural America”/“red states” simply do not understand those inside - and to only a slightly lesser degree, vice-versa.
I don't know, a lot of people say that "city-dwellers" (an obnoxious term) don't understand rural Americans and the left doesn't understand the right, but from where I sit the left has been trying to warn everyone about the creeping approach of fascism and the far right within the Republican party for years, and rural people are the ones just now realizing the leopards are coming for their faces too.
Rural Americans still talk about Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" comment as if it were the greatest insult to their honor and dignity since the burning of Atlanta, but she was spot on. And predictably, rather than clean their own house, rural Americans preferred to trauma bond with Nazis and pedophiles than admit a "New York liberal" could have a point.
Rural people aren't as special as they think, you'll find Gadsden and Confederate battle flags in big cities everywhere. I promise you that people in Portland and New York understand "Don't Tread on Me" and that "Defund the Police" came from just as serious a place. It just happens that black activism gets commoditized, sanitized and rendered inconsequential by the same system that romanticizes the Lost Cause and right-wing activism.
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> SDL is just window creation and a bit of audio etc.
It's a bit more than that, especially the current version. You're right that it isn't an engine in and of itself but you could probably build a decent engine on top of it. SDL3 + WASM + Lua would be chef's kiss.
A fork of Godot optimized for native apps would be a good idea. Especially if it learned the lessons of the web stack and used basic text-based formats for describing layout and theming (like HTML and CSS). Maybe something like QT. Something simple, flexible and portable that's as easy to use as Electron but doesn't require lugging around a 60mb Chromium instance for every application.
Some work would need to be done improving text rendering, layout and to add more GUI elements. Probably a lot of stuff removed from the backend that isn't necessary (apps won't need physics or lighting, probably.)
I made a basic theme loader for a project ages ago based on the config file format because dealing with theming and fonts was a pain at the time. Nothing novel, it was just a dictionary that had node paths as keys and set values. It is possible, I don't know why Godot makes some things more complicated than they need to be.
This is how GTK came about. Literally "GIMP Toolkit". They took the widgets that the GIMP creators had created, and turned it into a general-purpose toolkit for other apps to use, due to issues with Qt.
The comments about web stack stuff is probably off. Godot is already a pretty featureful UI framework + form designer that makes anything the "frontend" world has ever produced seem like they only had a fraction (1-to-10%) as much time and resources to build, compared to what Godot was already shipping in 1.0, (even though the reverse is true).
Exactly ... and that's why I'm skeptical of "AI verifies AI" as the primary safety mechanism. The verifier for moving money should be deterministic: constraints, allowlists, spend limits, invoice/PO matching, etc. The LLM can propose actions, but the execution should be gated by a human/polic-issued scope that's mechanically enforced. That's the whole point: constrain the non-deterministic layer with a deterministic one. [0]
[0] https://tenuo.dev/constraints
10 years? I promise you there are already people worshiping AI today.
People who believe humans are essentially automatons and only LLMs have true consciousness and agency.
People whose primary emotional relationships are with AI.
People who don't even identify as human because they believe AI is an extension of their very being.
People who use AI as a primary source of truth.
Even shit like the Zizians killing people out of fear of being punished by Roko's Basilisk is old news now. People are being driven to psychosis by AI every day, and it's just something we have to deal with because along with hallucinations and prompt hacking and every other downside to AI, it's too big to fail.
To paraphrase William Gibson: the dystopia is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.
Correct, and every single one of those people, combined with an unfortunate apparent subset of this forum, have a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs actually work.
Mostly because I don't like the Python-style use of significant whitespace. But functions aren't first class citizens, making closures and lambdas awkward, type hinting isn't supported everywhere (such as with callables). I could probably come up with more petty gripes if I opened up a project and played with it. "pass" is an abomination to God.
It's a lot better than it used to be and it gets the job done but I still find it ugly and awkward as a language.
A more general complaint I have is that Godot tries to load every script regardless of whether it's actually included in the game hierarchy.
Democrats engaged in the same cover-up and lies and sexual abuse as the Republicans wrt Epstein. Democrats supported ICE and the murder of immigrants and citizens. Democrats supported American imperialism, oligarchy and genocide.
The parties aren't the same. Would we have the same open chaos, violence and instability under a Harris regime? Probably not. Would they have released any of the Epstein files on their own? Also probably not. Voting for the lesser (or more restrained) evil is valid when no good option exists but make no mistake the Democrats are not really a principled opposition party. It's mostly kayfabe.
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