Thursday, February 16, 2023

Professional Left Podcast #695



"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."  
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am hoping to hear your take sometime soon on the Psycho Stalker Bing Chat Bot: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html

dinthebeast said...

That language is entirely appropriate. Since the recording of this podcast, there has been yet another mass shooting and word has gotten out that another six year old took another loaded gun to school in Virginia.
Bill Clinton once said that they would keep doing it as long as it keeps working. I think we have to update our definition of working, because they obviously believe it to be working in some way or other.
Jimmy Carter is in hospice. He's 98. It seemed like he was on some magical roll after he beat cancer last time, but in reality there are no magical rolls, and we are all just mammals who will meet our ends at some point.
The goddamn monsters are really showing who they are now. Youngkin in Virginia killed the bill that would have exempted menstrual tracking apps from search warrants, and the Idaho state lege is considering a bill to make it a misdemeanor to administer any mrna vaccine.
Hopefully between their out and out insanity and their attacks on Medicare and Social Security they will lose the next election and we can perhaps do some of the things we needed to do but couldn't after 2020.
Thank you again for the podcast. I was sort of thrilled to get a car from this century last fall, but now the key, which doesn't have any buttons on it but does apparently have a rfid chip in it, won't start the car. Which is hella strange as it ran fine to go to the grocery store yesterday, and started right up in the parking lots of all four stores and the gas station.

-Doug in Sugar Pine