The U.S. planned to spend $40 billion to build reliable internet in rural America

What is this old news doing here?

Oh, you mean the last time this was proposed, and not decades ago when telecom companies got government money to expand infrastructure and… well, didn’t, but somehow the money is gone.

Some things never change. The biggest problems aren’t the promises or coming up with money, it’s how nothing ever gets enough oversight to prevent the corruption that always happens. Look at Covid checks, or actually the money corporations got before the public, no questions asked. Look at the missing money of the Pentagon on Sept 10th, 2001. Oh, we forgot that a day later. I’m sure there are plenty more.

So now it’s full circle to the topic of this article. We gave them money, it’s gone, oh no… nothing we can do, I guess.

I haven’t really read or seen much fan written stuff, but I wonder if they have that problem? It’s easier to write your own stuff and make it work close enough, vs. getting official approval, but I have a feeling there’s a lot of stories already out there over decades that would work within the established canon with some fudging. I’m sure, just like Rogue One/Andor and “rebels steal the plans”, there is some older canon stuff with a line or two that could be expanded into a decent movie. It doesn’t have to be a whole trilogy, although maybe that’s also part of it, the studios want something they can milk for years.

So many fans would be happy with seeing a different crew with their own top notch Starfleet crew, involved in their own mission that, while might not be galaxy-breaking, is crucial to part of established history somehow (like how they connected Khitomer in several ways). Why do we have to keep inventing new timelines or move into the future more or new looks for canon ships?

Have you ran across this Youtube channel? thearchiveinbetween The lore is like that, crazy surreal.

So “that could have been bad” should be “RIP, other me”.

Now I’m hearing the theme with an inflection to it.

I included a quote so people didn’t have to go to Reddit to find it. Pick which is worse slop. Without some reference people would wonder what I was talking about.

That is funny, in a sad way. Claude, summarizing a rant thread about Claude.

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TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 800 comments.

Looks like OP struck a major nerve. The consensus in this thread is a resounding “YES, this is our life now and it’s soul-crushing.” The pity party is in full swing, and here’s the gist:

The Death of Pride: The biggest complaint is the complete loss of any “sense of victory” or satisfaction. Since everyone assumes Claude did the work, there’s no pride in shipping, even if you engineered it. It’s just… business as usual.

The Rise of the Meat Proxy: You’re not an engineer anymore, you’re an “organic vessel designed to press enter.” Or, as one user so poetically put it, you’re just a condom between Claude and your production server getting fucked. Your only real job is to be the warm body they can blame when the AI slop inevitably breaks.

It’s a Management Problem: A strong counter-argument is that this is a culture and management failure, not an AI failure. Good teams use AI as a powerful tool but still require a human to be responsible, understand the output, and do the actual thinking. Bad management just sees “code go brrr” and demands more, creating a “slopacalypse” of tech debt.

Consulting is a Sham: A lot of consultants are chiming in, saying their job is now just using AI to generate reports for clients who use AI to read them. It’s an endless loop of AI talking to AI.

So yeah, most of you feel like a background character in a sci-fi dystopia, while a handful of you are either thriving by using AI responsibly or are just really excited to watch the whole thing burn.

Um, is the rest of the world okay with this? Denmark? Greenland? What’s up?

That much is true, sure. People don’t usually like to stray far from the familiar, and if that means continuing to fantasize vs. taking the plunge and seeing what happens, that’s what they’ll do. Or with the rest of your examples, stick with what they’ve done in the past, even though they know where it leads, because doing different means the unknown.

And I’m preaching while not always practicing myself, it’s human nature to feel comfortable. But I have found that most of the time if I force myself to get past the worry and fear and just do the thing, it tends to work out fine and not be as bad as I thought it would be.

I don’t think that’s loving uncertainty as much as it’s the easier route to take.

If they say no they were probably always going to say no, and you were wasting your mental energy picturing a fantasy where they might say yes. What if your waiting to ask means that they wanted to ask you, but thought YOU might say no so they are in the same loop. Or they hadn’t considered it at all, but would say yes if you ask. No one likes uncertainty, so remove it.

Them saying no means you can move to the next potential. The worst thing we do is create simulations in our head of a perfect match, when in reality there’s lots of very good matches out there, possibly better matched in some ways than the one you’re obsessed with.

My take is that the word “suns” would imply someone else’s Sun in various systems. I don’t think it would be correct to call a star a sun if it didn’t have planets and occupants (past or future).

Since “the” is needed, “the Sun” is more of a generic placeholder, whereas Sol is its actual name in English. So you could be on a different planet somewhere and refer to its star as the Sun (implied of this system), or its name.

It’s also quite possible “suns” has been used in the past for all stars, this is just my take given how the words tend to be used by us.

One can predict doom and not be part of the PR. I just think we’re the core part of the doom, not (necessarily) some AGI that comes out of this. We’ve shown we’re good at getting ourselves close to extinction with simpler tools.

The attacks are coming from inside the government.

I love all the promises of what they’ll do if they win the mid elections. As if they don’t have the seat of power now and couldn’t do these things now if they wanted to or even could. Liars, all of them. Start governing and improving the country. Do your job.

Be one thing to claim that the minute you get power, you’ll change things. But you already control the government, so why not do it now?

It would be okay if it was local, and a simple voice recognition could work. Smart phones have that ability when the connection isn’t present. But they’re going to make it cloud driven because that’s easier and opens up more “features”.

Remember inflation happens, so direct amounts can be misleading. The $3.82 record for Labor Day is $5.56 in 2026 dollars. On the flip side, the economy is comparably more a disaster and people are struggling, so even $4 is a hit.

His parts weren’t that large compared to others. He nailed that second one though, great work. Overall the movie was okay, but honestly I was never impressed with Homer’s work anyway. It’s classic and great because it was one of the first and other stories have used it to build on. That’s about it.