Spooky Phijkchu

his entire follow list is like htis

I actually suspect he was like me and majored in Russian History, and then just didn't know wtf to do with his degree

lol ok good

I was worried for a minute

So many projects also can't scale because they rely on these external LLMs and some way to acquire cheap tokens

"oh hey, bring your own key 🤭🤭🤭"

yes

Happy Mother's Day Phijkchu

His last one was really good, not political rehashing

Apr 25th I think

fringe Albertan boomers *and the majority of under 35 y/o Canadians

we always seem to forget that 2nd part

it is a minority position across the board.... just not with young people

we've talked to to death in politics chat, Pika resents that most young people see nothing but benefits from the US, and already overwhelmingly pursue dual-citizenship, before the whole Trump push began and I downplay how much boomers in Canada (outside of Alberta) HATE that young people want to leave, and will vote to restrain them until they are literally dead

Canada will eventually join the US, slowly than all at once I think Trump has gone about it in a dumb way, but the reality is you have two common countries with an arbitrary border that already means nothing to everyone in the North, and providing economic incentives to both sides to fold Canada into the USA will just eventually make too much sense not to do

Everyone our age wants the opportunities presented by some sort of common economic/schengen zone at a minimum, and full integration would likely just be better all around, but we'll see how long it takes

Boomers hate it because they hate every generation after them

we have a surprising number of Newfie Phijkchu

No, it's 3 now right Pika

If you're actually going to debate politics, move it out of Rob chat

lol, thanks Mr. mod

also Pika, I was trying to find the other Newfie because I SWEAR we had another guy join who said he was from the Maritimes

but I couldn't find it

and it very possibly was just Plantfriend

I think the part of the whole discussion that frustrates me is that its never people from MN weighing in on what they want for their state, it's always chuds from other states blindly cheering on ICE. Immigration is hard because its inherently interstate, and you have multiple states that are skirting the line of cooperating with the feds, and I sort of do think they should escalate, but there's also basically zero long-term planning behind any of this to begin with, so escalating without a plan is just cathartic and not actually going to achieve anything which is why they ultimately didn't imo. Separate, I do think the federal government would have justification to completely cut off all federal dollars flowing into Minnesota, until a federal commission audits for fraud, and I do think that would have enough of an effect to force cooperation along limited lines if you did it in a non-completely-inflammatory sorta way

sorry Plant, had already started writing that to Kribbles

I like Reform because they had an actual plan to get into power and enact change, there's a history behind their name and they were strategic with how they went about building their grass roots org and all, it's not fast and sexy but it will actually start to improve the UK immigration system and hopefully roll back some of the more overbearing dystopian shit the last few years have teased

and I just always have liked Farage, and I think people forget where he came from now when they throw around insults insinuating he's bought and paid for

^

Restore is just a meme party as far as I'm concerned, and I hate the grifters attached to it

The US could use ANY political party that actually wanted to win and not just fundraise on the idea of winning

you get them at the state level, but nationally everyone is just in it to fundraise and enrich themselves

Uniparty memes aside, they both benefit from being roughly 50-50 nationwide parties, but the nation overall suffers for it democracies need to be swingy because that's how you actually get change, and we've done too good of a job preventing that from ever occurring

I think its also an issue of I can assess someone as being objectively charismatic (like Mamdani) but also say I don't think he has any clue what he is doing nor do I think his plans are going to suddenly turn NYC into a Great World City again or w/e he's set his goal for

We all intuitively know nothing major happens quickly, but its astounding how little is able to get accomplished by many governments/states

People (retards) talk about "late stage capitalism" but never bring up how much of the issue is the size of our bureaucracies, which is something that has a lot more historical relevance for how nations prosper and decline versus purely focusing on our economic systems

It is funny (in hindsight) how we also had this notion in the late 1920s that technology had peaked

or that we at least fully comprehended where the ends of our current advancement would be

And I definitely see similar prophetization today, since technological advances have felt mostly stagnant since the early 2010s

for @Garbage

your favorite part of Mewgenics

For context, is this directed at Kribbles post that I forwarded, or at me