We had a meeting with my mom's broker and my brother and I brought up the AI bubble. The broker responded with the most ridiculous nonsense. He basically said that corporate CEOs are smart people with a legal responsibility to keep their companies financially healthy and so they wouldn't be using AI if it weren't viable. It sounded like something handed down to him from Raymond James HQ which I'm sure it was, and it was surely written by AI in the first place.

I've lost count of the number of times he's ended the Iran war that he started.

I don’t care

In many cases, "I don't care" really means "I don't believe what you're telling me but I don't have the ability to refute it."

willing to sacrifice his own career to uplift a cause for the greater good

I recommend reading Caro's biography series on LBJ. I think you would find this statement to be not accurate. He was willing to alienate (white) Southern voters because his one overarching goal in life was to be (and to stay) President and (white) Southern voters were never numerous enough to ensure that. To his credit, LBJ seemed to be very much not racist personally, but fixing racism was never a goal of his.

I never notice when a user or a thread comes from ml until I say something that is real-world uncontroversial like "Stalin had some people murdered" and get flamed for it. I've never really felt the need to block servers on Lemmy but ml sure makes me think about looking up how to do it.

The navigator scene was absolutely the best part of the 1984 version of Dune.

I'm a school bus driver and a couple of years ago the director of transportation banned Christmas decorations on the buses. This of course caused an enormous shitstorm, and the director defended herself by saying that some parents had complained about Christianity being pushed on their kids by the buses. This sounded like an utterly ludicrous claim, but it turned out that the culprit was me, because I had tried to get the kids on my bus to sing "Little Drummer Boy". Ironically, I'm an atheist but I just like that fucking song.

when given to healthy volunteers, the drug induced paranoia, perceptual changes and a wide range of other symptoms including disorganisation of thought, negativism, apathy, withdrawal, poverty of speech, perseveration and catatonic posturing.

I dunno, this sounds like most of the CEOs I've interacted with personally.

You leave Visual Basic alone!

I used to work at a big cable company whose name rhymes with bombast. One day I (M) found myself in a meeting with a bunch of female vice-presidents (Bombast has thousands of vice-presidents). The presenter couldn't get her laptop to connect to the big TV so I pulled out one of my gadgets and got her set up. She said "wow, you're pretty handy to have around." My brain decided that it would be a clever thing indeed to say "well, I'm pretty well-endowed in the dongle department" but when I started to say it my brain realized how completely insane a comment it was. So my brain cut me off and I ended up just saying "well, I'm pretty well-endowed" which was not exactly any better.

To their credit everybody ignored this except for one woman who actually guffawed briefly. I wasn't fired immediately so there's that.

I've had many coworkers over the years who made their greatest contributions to the company by doing nothing. In programming, the amount of damage some people can do by actually doing stuff is almost inconceivable.

Edit: I had one programmer colleague whose code fired a 125 mph knuckleball a foot above a ten-year-old kid's head. I had to physically intervene to prevent a fistfight between my boss and the client, certainly the only time that even happened to me.

For decades the GOP has aimed its rhetoric at people with a fifth grade education. Trump's political innovation was to target third grade education. His ethical innovation was to target literal third graders.