Guarantee if you look at the facts, there’s a history of their devs basically saying “ignore the safety protocols, do [thing]” and someone used that in a prompt with an otherwise imprecise command set.

4d ago

A financial crisis may be coming - it won't be like last time

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 4d ago

When the banks were combined prior to the Great Depression they would use deposits from the retail side to fund investments. When investments lose money, and customers come to withdraw funds, the bank is unable to cover its obligations and can fail. When you combine that with banks lending money to each other, a single bank (if it’s big enough) can start a cascading failure.

Glass-Steagall was passed in 1933. Prior to that the US had had a financial crisis every decade or so. 1933-2000 was an incredibly stable period financially speaking, there were a number of small banking scandals but nothing that threatened the whole economy. In 1999 congress repealed it and Clinton signed the repeal, and 9 years later was the 2008 financial crisis. And we’re back on track for one every decade again.

4d ago

Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 4d ago

I learned who he was when some republican called him “Barney f-slur” and tried to play it off as a misspeaking of his name.

4d ago

A financial crisis may be coming - it won't be like last time

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 4d ago

It's extremely difficult to estimate the risk or chance, but the fact that (almost) everybody is aware, makes the risk bigger, because for some weird reason, everybody preparing for a financial crisis doesn't make it less likely because people are prepared, but instead makes it more likely because nobody does anything when the uncertainty passes a certain threshold. And at that point the economy collapses.

It’s because everyone is primarily concerned with making sure they’ll turn out okay, or is too committed to the failing investments that they keep doubling down. Consider the story of the big short: guys who saw the crash coming said it was coming, and when no one listened they made bets on how bad it would be.

Our best case scenario is that we survive and get something like a worldwide Glass-Steagall act that prevents investment banks from also being retail banks.

5d ago

Vote for people who want to help, not those who want to line their pockets

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 5d ago

Also don’t disregard local elections or people who are pushing quality of life improvements that may not seem like a huge deal.

7d ago

When was the last time you thanked the person who affected you the most?

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 7d ago

Yeah, the question is framed poorly. Not all effects on one’s life are good.

Also, with the (possible) exception of kids who grow up in the foster system, I would argue your parents have the largest effect on your life, good or bad. Whether you recognize it or not.

1w ago

theorule

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

It’s not for every face. I suppose if someone already thinks they’re ugly they might not worry over-much about how it looks.

1w ago

Shut Up, Tucker - EVEN MORE NEWS

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

I was really disappointed to hear Matt and Daniel on Bad Hasbara basically treating Tucker’s apology tour as legitimate. He’s a vile racist antisemite, that’s where his criticism of Israel comes from.

1w ago

Trump considering raising refugee cap to bring in more white South Africans

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

Keep in mind, this is after a bunch of the first wave of white South African immigrants moved back because the US is a shithole.

1w ago

What a world

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

If you read it in Kermit the Frog’s voice, it’s like you’re in the room with him. Minus the smell of meat-and-benzo sweat.

1w ago

First the frogs turned gay and now this

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

The Daily Mail article is dated today, so it looks like a new one.

1w ago

First the frogs turned gay and now this

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

The Daily Mail article says he’d killed elephants before, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

1w ago

First the frogs turned gay and now this

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

“We wiped out the apex predators so now we have to be the apex predators” is an…interesting take on justifying trophy hunting.

You could just fund conservation for animals like lions and hyenas in the savanna, and other predators in other environments. It’s better overall, see the effects of reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone.

1w ago

Billionaire CEO: Work-Life Balance Is For The Weak

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

I guarantee that several times a week at least one of those “meetings” is a €500/plate lunch that lasts 3 hours and involves maybe 5 minutes of business talk.

1w ago

Billionaire CEO: Work-Life Balance Is For The Weak

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

It’s easy to say when you’re a CEO and “work” consists of a series of meetings over lunch that you don’t pay for and making decisions based on data that has already been processed and analyzed by multiple layers of underlings.

1w ago

Aaaaaaaaaa

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dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net 1w ago

Guerilla plant fast growing plants in vacant areas to suck up as much CO2 as possible?

(Yes I know this is like a drop in the ocean.)