At this point, I’m starting to think that the next evolution of conventional weapons of war will be building a SpaceX launch pad near the intended target.

It’s something that egotistical people might do but, they might also lie about the importance of their job or pay people to follow them around in an entourage. Not all egotists are as power hungry as politicians frequently are some want to be loved and adored.

The motivation matters and, while those that lust for power generally are egotistical, egotism itself isn’t usual the reason.

I’ll continue to say this every time that I see it. Feudalism. It’s just feudalism (or maybe neo-feudalism, with “neo” in relation to time period). Nothing about it is new. Nothing about it is really predicated on technology. Feudalism and similar mono/oligargic systems have always used available technology to oppress.

The only thing that they’re doing different is not bothering with “divine right” and being slightly more honest in that they believe having money makes the better. But that’s also been done before. No need to slap “techno” on the front of it to make it seem like it’s a unique situation that’s never been attempted before. They’re just another group of egotistical shitheads who have convinced themselves that they are special, unique, and superior, when they are none of these things. Just like all of the rest of the would-be kings in history.

Ironic since the Democratic party not supporting ranked choice voting is its own ego play.

No. It’s a control play to try to maintain power (including wealth inequality). Egotists are involved but they’re different things.

I think that that is looking at the problem from the wrong angle (even if it is extremely common). We need to not give a fuck what they think of us as we subvert their party and force it into something that’s actually at all Left of center. That’s impossible with people sitting out elections (especially primaries) and offering zero meaningful resistance to or action against the fascist Right.

That’s some eco-fascism-adjacent thinking, at best. You’re using your negative opinion of humanity to justify mass murder.

They were too small a group to appeal to

That was always a lie. But they are among the least reliable voters.

Yup. Until they take responsibility for the impact of their ego stroking and try to do anything at all to help, we’re not going to let the people just shy of collaborators forget it.

Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is

He’s already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

It may or may not happen. What I do know is that it will never spontaneously arrise from an LLM, no matter how much data they dump into it or how many tons of potable water they carelessly waste.

So what do they need it for?

To bring about Armageddon, as their Doomsday/Suicide cult salivates over. Were I their diety, I’d be pretty pissed at them wrecking my creation for their selfish desires, and the whole mass murder thing that conflicts pretty solidly with the 10 Commandments.

In that case, my suggestion would be to target implementing a REST API with OpenAPI (formerly Swagger). There are server code generators for both Rust and JS (multiple flavors, I think).

Basically, the workflow is something like this:

1. Create your API spec skeleton (YAML or JSON, pick your poison). This will have all of the required sections like info
2. Pick your first endpoint and define it in the paths section. Probably start with during simple like a GET. This will mean that you mainly have to worry about defining your responses (at minimum HTTP2XX and HTTP4XX, preferably with a catchall error response for HTTP5XX responses) and their schemas.
3. Run the code generator. This should generate files with stubbed-out definitions for interfaces (or the equivalent for your language of choice) for your response methods. Generally, you do NOT want to add any code to these files as they will be overwritten anytime you update your API spec.
4. Implement the methods to handle the stubbed out interfaces. Ex. A hello-world interface would likely need to be implemented with a method or function that returns the string “hello world”.

The reason that I recommend OpenAPI in writing REST APIs is that it helps to layout the API contracts before you even start coding. This helps with keeping typing consistent, give you a clear milestone for implement, and makes creating clients really easy.

Extra benefit is that OpenAPI is (mostly) language agnostic, so, as long as you have a codegen or some good boilerplate, you can use it for any language, which can give you a safe place to start when learning a new language.

What programming language do you have already or intend to learn?

The FCC, which licenses radio spectrum and makes the rules for device certification is part of the Executive branch. So are the CFPB and the SEC, or what’s left of them. He’s literally, corruptly leveraging his office to benefit his cons and preventing regulations from applying to himself and his cronies.

Besides the naked corruption?

I think some French (?) guy managed to get a hold of some that didn’t have warheads and took apart the guidance systems on YouTube.

I recommend Kinoite, if you’re doing anything graphical. Gnome support for DRM leases hasn’t been great. Saying that really does pain me as I still think that Gnome 2.x is my favorite DE that I’ve used.

In a world not dominated by unfettered capitalism, sure. That’s not the one that we live in however and this tool has both been built on stolen and unlicensed intellectual property as well as being used explicitly to harm people’s livelihoods while replacing their work with objectively inferior plagiaristic amalgams.

AI companies also refuse to obey the rules of the Internet and continually DDOS sites that request crawlers and scrapers not do so, necessitating creation of whole new types of software to defend against their malicious behavior.

And on top of all that, they have substantially increased greenhouse gas emissions and are actively consuming potable water in a manner that makes Nestlé execs hard. Putting the planet’s biosphere at greater risk and unnecessarily increasing water scarcity.

Nah. Simping for AI companies is the irrational take. The value that they provide to humanity is, outside of some niche use cases, marginal at best and will likely never come close to making up for the harms that they are causing to humanity for a quick buck and to increase worker oppression.

Gross.

With GenAI being used primarily as a cudgel against labor, especially organized labor, it’s a pretty accurate take.