We know.

Boomers vote because they are already registered, know where to go, have transportation, have time to do it. They can go out the door on election day and just get it done.

Younger people, especially college age, aren’t registered in the states they live in, have no idea how to get registered, have to go through a much more complicated process of absentee voting, and have to do much of these things well in advance. They are less likely to have transportation, or a schedule that allows them to do it.

Oh, and most importantly, we haven’t given young people a candidate to get excited about in a general election in at least 40 years

If Democrats wanted to harness the power of young voters, they needed to give them Bernie.

Instead we got aptly-named Sleepy Joe.

Now we got what Boomers wanted: Bidenomics. Everyone claims Bidenomics is going well, but young people can’t afford their loans, healthcare, childcare, or rent. So what’s with all the cork-popping.

The fact is, were a nation in absolute crisis, and Democrat Boomers absolutely will not acknowledge it. They got their SUVs, stock portfolios, social security, houses, pensions, and medicare. So fuck everyone else.

Can. Should.

Strong agree.

Trump dying now would be terrible for the country. If we’re ever going to heal as a nation, the MAGA cult has to see this guy behind bars, and see the rest of the Republican leadership at long last disown him.

Remember when they owned us by refusing to vaccinate, and mask, and eventually breathe?

Have you tried Whisper from OpenAI? It’s the best I’ve ever seen. I’m curious how it would handle accents.

I’m not ready to talk about it in detail. Even my boss doesn’t know. But you’re in the right ballpark.

I’m actually building a proof-of-concept prototype for what I want to work on… and I’m using a browser extension so that I can build it independently without anyone from the tech team being involved and slowing me down.

Yes it is the paid version, and you should not wait until your budget loosens up.

This is an absolutely CRITICAL new technology. Think of it the way we think of the boomer generation when the computer revolution hit.

Some of them got on board and learned to use this new tech, and some decided it was too hard and assumed they’d never really need it.

I shit you not, learning how to really use gpt-4 has made me probably 100x more efficient at my job in all kinds of ways… most of them unexpected.

Within a few years the workforce is going to be divided between people who are super workers using gpt-4, and people who aren’t.

Someone out there is going to figure out how to use gpt-4 to take your job. So, if you’re smart, you still decide to be that someone.

And you’re already 5 or 6 months late to the party.

In my experience, what makes gpt-4 great for coding is its astonishing knowledge of available software libraries, built-in interface features, etc.

I’ll tell it the task I want done, and it will tell me where to find, and how to install the necessary dependencies.

With zero experience in browser extension design, gpt-4 helped me to build an incredibly complicated Chrome extension, using vector database; creating a custom, cloud-based server; web scraping with headless browsers, voice recognition, speech synthesis, wake-word capabilities, and a sophisticated user interface. I had ZERO experience with ANY of these.

For me, using gpt-4 was like collaborating with a just okay programmer, but one who had extensive experience with literally every programming language, API, protocol, etc.

And it was a collaboration. We would talk through problems together. I would make observations and guesses about why a block of code wasn’t working, and it would tell me why I was wrong, or alternately tell me I was right, and produce a fixed version.

1980s-90s RadioShack, yes.

They really went off the rails during their decline. They became a cellphone store, and not at all a good one… Their pricing on EVERYTHING was not only non-competitive, it was ludicrously expensive.

I think people are forgetting that Blockbuster video was the shitty megacorp that killed all the charming local, independent video stores.

Those stores had personality. I miss that experience.

Blockbuster felt corporate and bad.

I believe that Russia has dirt on a number of prominent Republicans. Trump is a given, what with his shady Russian financing, his connection to Epstein, the tape mentioned in the Steele dossier. But I think that there were a number of anti-Trumpers who turned on a dime. Lindsey Graham, for example, was very anti Trump for months and then became his biggest cheerleader literally overnight.

I think Russia had planned to damage Hillary in 2016, but never imagined that their man Trump would actually beat her. I think when they realized they had their man in the white house, they went all in, and used every bit of leverage they had to help him gain control of the party.

That honestly sounds like clinical paranoid delusions. I have a couple of bipolar friends who think this way.

I think Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both illustrated that radically changing the Overton window is best done from within the established parties.

Bernie pulled the Democrats pretty far to the right of where they were, even in defeat.

And Trump … Well, I mean, he transformed his party into a cult.

Absolutely.

Boomers were born into a country that handed them everything. You could walk into a factory, tell the manager you were looking for a job, share a handshake, and walk out with a unionized position, where you would make good money with great job security for the next several decades.

Then these clowns told themselves that they were rich and successful because of their own hard work. And they pulled the ladder up behind them.

It never occurred to them that their parents worked harder for less, and in a million years they won’t acknowledge that their kids have it harder, work smarter and longer hours for way less.

The American dream has always been a fiction for huge segments of the population.

What we’re talking about, technically, is the idea of meritocracy. If you work hard and smart, you should thrive. If you are dumb and lazy, you should flounder.

But that is not at all the case in the United States.

We have smart people working 2 or 3 jobs only to barely stay afloat, and we have morons sitting on mountains of money.

Briefly in our history we had a strong middle class. The Greatest Generation built it, wrestling wealth away from the top 1% with strong unions. Then they handed it over to the Boomers, who pissed it all away, and destroyed the power of organized labor.

Boomers inherited a nice system, but refused to fight to expand it. The 5-day work week, for example, was supposed to be just a stepping stone. The people who originally fought to get it would have never believed we hadn’t gotten that number any lower 80 years later.

Boomers allowed the minimum wage to stagnate. They allowed pensions to go extinct. They voted time and again against universal healthcare. They did nothing to stop predatory lending. They did nothing to stop the explosion of tuition prices. They did nothing to make social security viable for future generations.

The stupidity, gullibility, self-entitlement, laziness, greed, hypocrisy, and frankly psychopathic governance of the Boomers has essentially wiped out all the progress that came before them.

They are retaining a death grip on their power, and have used it to give us a choice between a Trump cult, and Democratic party that is virtually indistinguishable from 1980s Republicans.

Oh, and when they found out that they were killing the planet, they just stepped on the gas and killed it faster.

So, yeah, the American Dream, if it ever really existed, is absolutely dead right now.

When the boomers are all gone, the voting power of millennials and gen z might have been able to fix things … But honestly, we’re riding the razor’s edge with fascism right now, so it’s a coin flip whether or not we’ll even have a democracy with which to repair things.

The whole thing is ridiculous. “Mental retardation” was a technical, medical term.

People started getting offended because it was being used as an insult. They didn’t understand that no matter what you name this condition, people will use it as an insult.

That’s what happened with the medical terms “idiot” and “imbecile” as well.

Even the term “special” got usurped. Remember when Obama slipped and made a joke about himself being in the Special Olympics?

Absolutely. This guy seems confused.

When I was a communications director, I used the term “retards” as in the following sentence: “This type of legislation retards progress on several key initiatives.”

My boss made me take it out because it might offend people.

Talk about the dumbing down of America…