In it, the executives eulogize Kirk, calling him an “advocate for open debate, whose faith was important to him.”

Open debate is good. Now, never bring up and debate any position held by this man.

My last phone lasted me 6 years, and would have gone longer if tariffs hadn’t made me antsy about buying a new one before it stopped working. Fingers crossed this one lasts at least that long too.

My experience is that it’s never just one thing, either. If they’re using it for voice or imagery they’re probably using it for scripts, too. So the end result is slop on top of slop on top of slop, even if I would have been able to ignore a single element of it.

Literally the second sentence of the article you posted is about how Newsom wants to run for president.

He’s doing all this attention grabbing shit because he wants to run for president. It isn’t possible to have a coherent conversation about politics without accepting that politicians plan presidential campaigns more than a few months in advance.

If you aren’t voting for your own removal from society then don’t ask others to do it.

If it’s super important for queer people to all vote for one candidate, go lean on that candidate to stop fucking being transphobic instead of trying to convince every queer person that transphobia is actually okay if we really really have to win, you don’t understand, this time is different! And right after the election that we maybe win, maybe then (if conservatives all meekly fall in line), maybe then we can think about criticizing transphobia.

Oh, but not for the first year, we need unity. And not for the second year, because the midterms are coming up. And not in the third year because the midterms went badly and he can’t even do anything about it, why are you complaining? And not in the fourth year because do you want us to lose the election??!!

Newsom already got the gerrymandering on the ballot, and I don’t see California voters not passing it in retribution for how Trump has treated the state. So why can’t the people he is looking to throw under the bus to get to the national stage say anything about it without being accused of being paid for it? Is your answer to when we’re allowed to criticize Newsom’s transphobia before or after the ‘26 primary?

What about any of the previous comment made you think I was looking for a friend? Do you think queer rights organizations that have operated in the state for decades (quite likely before you were born) were just too unfamiliar with state and national politics, or how to deal with politicians?

How’d that poem go? ‘First they came for the homeless and queers, and I said ‘take them, take them, just spare me!’ and everything worked out perfectly fine,’ right? I’m pretty sure that’s how it went.

Anybody whining too hard about Newsom’s policies right now is actively supporting Trump’s agenda.

When am I allowed to “whine” about his transphobia? When should I write down in my calendar as the appropriate date to “whine” that he is signaling support for conservative anti-trans talking points, like it’s going to actually win him voters? Not even touching the way he’s treated homeless residents of the state.

It doesn’t matter that Equality California, and the leader of the state senate’s LGBTQ+ caucus, and the world’s largest LGBT health center (based in California) all condemned his statements, of course. Psy-ops, all of them.

Based on the way people talk about anyone who does anything other than sing his praises I’m guessing the answer is ‘never.’ There’s always going to be some new crisis that makes trans rights too frivolous and unimportant to hold politicians to account for. I’m not fucking stupid, I remember how Democratic leadership in the 90s and 00s reacted to increasing demands for gay rights. I’ve seen this song and dance before.

And to top it off, after living here over a dozen years I have to see people talk like California isn’t both incredibly populated and with plenty of people left of center and dissatisfied with Newsom (his approval rating was hanging in the mid 40s before the Trump shenanigans). I guess they’re all astroturfers too. Fuck, if I didn’t live here I’d have breathed in a little less goddamned who knows what in the January fires.

Lol, they’re going to fuck over the conservatives moving from California and New York that don’t have every conservative culture war talking point memorized.

LLMs are incapable of reasoning. There is not a consciousness in there deciding and telling you things. My comment was entirely about whether LLMs can reason, not whether all people reason at the same level or might decide to trick you.

The difference being that people do reason, while LLMs don’t.

Excerpts are for people who ask nicely and obey the rules of the communities they’re posting in :)

How many ChatGPhDs will it take to do the math on how long it is until this bubble pops?