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Karine Jean-Pierre writes she couldn't be a Democrat anymore after party's 'horrible' treatment of Biden (Hanna Panreck/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/19/media/karine-jean-pierre-writes-she-couldnt-be-a-democrat-anymore-after-partys-horrible-treatment-of-biden/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p3#a251020p3

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

This is what I'm reduced to when I want to eat and Horrible wants to cuddle.
#CatsOfMastondon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Herb Alpert:
🎵 Rise
#HerbAlpert
https://djpantelis.bandcamp.com/track/dj-pantelis-feat-herb-alpert-rise
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TsmHRIXvMTLP7Vu53XsUV

Dear #GitHub, thank you for implementing the new, completely useless "Files changed" view that tells me to switch to the old view because it can't display more than 40 comments. Also, thanks for making your horribly useless platform the de facto standard for making reviewing anything a true misery.

@… ow I hope not, my experience with CVS is horrible. Never used Mercury tho

In one case, it turns out that an all-male client group was giving vicious beratings (undeserved!) to a female project manager when they had her cornered alone. I had no idea.
In the moment, I found those men kind of obnoxiously self-confident in their ignorance, but nothing worse. Later they want on a Trumpian scorched earth campaign trying not to pay everyone for work already done and threatening lawsuits willy nilly. They turned out to be horrible people. Missing that early red flag of misogyny cost us all — but especially that manager.
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When Lee and Yang suggested there's a fundamental difference between left and right, Pauli wrote:
"Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist."
(I do not believe that the Lord is a weak left-hander.)
Two days later, Wu's experiment showed that Lee and Yang were correct!
-- @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social

Jacopo Bertolotti (@jacopobertolotti.com)
There is a infinite number of stories about Pauli being horrible to other (especially younger) Physicists. His word carried a lot of weight, so people were either psychologically crushed, or abandoned promising research lines just because he liked to be a assh@le.

#DearLazyWeb: Hey #Nederlanders ik heb en expat vrag over mijn #VvE. Our management company is absolute garbage. Our VVE management company recently scheduled repainting, during winter, with the most incompetent company possible, who did a horrible job, some of which didn't need to be done. Our windows had just been repainted since they were painted before we moved in, so 1/3 of the work they did was unnecessary, and now they look much worse than they did before. I could go on, but generally lots and lots of complaints along with absolutely terrible service.
Our upstairs neighbor (also an owner) also hates them and wants to switch, but a rental company owns the top half of the building and seems to be trying to force us in to staying. Basically, this management company is super cheap and the rental company are absolutely trash absentee leaches. (They *may* also have not been paying their part of the VvE fees for a while, but I'm not totally sure I understood everything.)
Unfortunately, I am way out of my depth and can't seem to get much help from google. Can anyone give me some advice about what to read or who to talk to, or are we actually stuck?