If you look at his record, Massie is basically just a baby Rand Paul. Once Paul eventually retires, I fully expect Massie to run for (and win) his Kentucky Senate seat.
I never really had any interest in "personal projects" until AI came along. Not because AI finally gave me the tools to work on those projects, but because it completely changed my perspective on the craft of writing code and made me appreciate the value in actually creating things by myself, for myself.
If you're someone who cares at all about the quality and consistency of your craft, there's absolutely nothing wrong with manually writing code.
If you're a misanthropic "techno-feudalist" who thinks of code as nothing more than an asset to sell, then pumping out as much code as quickly as possible without any human intervention is a very attractive proposition.
Tech, sadly, is absolutely infested with these people at all levels.
The AI "revolution" is the thing that finally killed my imposter syndrome as a software engineer. Not because I can write better code than AI (that's a very low bar), but from listening to all these breathless idiots talk about how they're "10x-ing my productivity!" or how "AI has replaced search for me!" or how "In 6 months no one will have to manually write code anymore!"
I wonder... is this more common in all animals that have average litter size >= 2? Or is there something else special to cats that explains this phenomenon?
I'm not saying they're wrong, but geez... "Biden administration insiders" has to be one of the most unlikeable cohorts of people on earth.
You're talking shit about one of your own as if you have no culpability, but if he was really so ineffective then why didn't Biden replace him with someone else? He ran HHS for 4 fucking years. At that point, any failure of Becerra's was willful incompetence on the part of the larger administration.
Also Biden's peeps should be thrilled with this. Politically, Becerra is one of the most milquetoast establishment Democrats there is. He's exactly the kind of guy they normally root for...
There's a reason why Christianity was so popular with monarchs in the middle ages, and it's because Christian cosmology is arranged just like a monarchy.
The reformation tried to carve chunks of that monarchism out of the liturgy, but the whole "Jesus, king of kings" thing stuck around, and had been moved more and more towards the forefront again with the evangelical movement — which is undoubtedly why the new American fascism has come cloaked in all the trappings of evangelical Christianity.
The evidence for an undiscovered particle (or family of particles) as an explanation for the gravitational oddities we see throughout the universe is pretty overwhelming — certainly compared with the evidence for competing theories.
I think the big failure in "selling" the lay public on dark matter has been a failure in explaining exactly why dark matter particles are so hard to detect and classify individually despite being so obvious at cosmic scales.
If you look at his record, Massie is basically just a baby Rand Paul. Once Paul eventually retires, I fully expect Massie to run for (and win) his Kentucky Senate seat.