Americans and Republicans seem so fine with this. Amazing to see this happen live.

Republicans in power and the capitalist political class, sure. But the average American on the street? They don't want this.

The average american on the street does not know how grant applications were approved before this change and they will continue to not know how grant applications are approved after this change.

it’s making the news a tiny bit more than before but we’re saying the same thing I think.

i also think the importance of grants is a bit academic, so not a day to day concern.

Grants are important because they fuel the process by which we create highly trained scientists. It's not a day to day concern (except for the people who depend on them), in the short term, but would have longer term effects.

I understand that there are people in the US who do not think that this is important and actually would prefer fewer scientists that are more poorly trained. There is nothing more infuriating then believing the world is flat and having some egghead prove it isn't.

I know grants are important. You know grants are important. When I say “academic” I mean not immediately relevant to most ordinary people who are trying to lay their mortgage etc. That’s a different group that the MAGA cult people who believe grants are a waste of public funds.

May I propose an alternative for our politicians? Rather that saying “you better take your medicine like a grown up and be responsible and vote for our side” try being _actually compelling_ for a change.

That’s it. Just offer the people what they want and stop catering to the ownership class.

You mean American voters have a clientele mentality.

Let me remind you any of you could run for a seat. You don't need to belong to any political party. You can even rise through the ranks inside a party. Trump is even an example of a complete outsider turning upside-down one of the two main parties!

Your complaint sounds a lot like "we tried nothing and we ran all out of ideas".

that is what i’m accusing the dems of.

just as well you can say the wealthy people our government caters to also have a clientele mentality. and they get most of what they want.

populists are running for more seats these days and they’re winning so maybe there’s hope.

non voters were the largest bloc and its understandable since lawmakers are largely unresponsive to their material needs. (bigger military budget every year, no universal healthcare plan, etc)

What is this "this" you're referring to? Was this on the ballot? Did Trump announce that he would do this?

It seems very easy to just blame this on the voter like this.

This = this person is clearly morally corrupt, displaying a pattern of behaviour over decades of being untrustworthy, a liar, and taking advantage for personal gains.

People decided to elect that person, it's part of the package.

I'm Canadian and I can tell you this was always part of Project 2025, which was extremely obviously the plan all along.

So I don't know. Assuming the American voter can read and and access to the internet, it's kind of pathetic to imply they couldn't have known

people in america have low political involvement after years of politicians ignoring their material needs. non-voters are the biggest group of voters. i think it’s by design.

64% us turnout. Canada 68%, UK 60%

America is not exceptional.

Jan 6th 2021 was on the ballot. You vote for Trump, or said “they’re as bad as each other”, you reap what you sow.

The contents of Project 2025 were well publicised, so yes, the voters are very much to blame (assuming that the vote wasn't gamed by Musk et al)

I mean, Trump was all but outright saying "I am going to be comically terrible"; the people voting for him presumably knew at least the broad strokes of what they'd be getting, if not the fine detail.

But they're not willing to give up their 3rd Starbucks or the day or the door dash delivery or Amazon prime. They all too overworked. Only poors go to protests.

"And the only prescription..'

Can anyone explain why this is novel? It seems pretty basic?

1. Not another LLM: +100 points.

2. 3D rat: +100 points.

3. Outdated 80s UI paradigm: +100 points.

4. Uses Rust: +100 points.

Do you think you are the typical person?

At least they didn't call it Open pi.

Not yet. :)

open pi for all humanity - opah for short

Then "on its own" has no meaning, i.e. everything an LLM does is "on its own".

For me, I use an IDE if I plan to look at the code.

So, to you basically the distinction is "fully vibe-coded" vs. "with human in the loop"?

It's sad I think we need complete control of "mainstream" internet because most people just scroll TikTok and believe whatever filter bubble they are in, and will vote thereafter.

The majority of people have intellectually regressed into sheep.

Should I understand what this is trying to show?

If we are just speculating here, I believe it can infer that you would not ask this question if the car was at home.