In the recent years, Mamdani was the best thing I’ve read in news.
This really should be considered fraud.
If I advertise something that never has been and never will be, knowingly, that’s fraud.
It is fraud. It’s another instance of “this technology is too different, it surely can’t be judged by the rules we already have” type of rule-breaking
Uber and Lyft’s illegal taxis
The internet’s illegal spying
AI’s illegal theft and redistribution of IP
You’re right and I’ve a interesting thought experiment I’ve played out here before…
Try and imagine up some groundbreaking new technology. For example, a device that can carbon copy the entire universe and embed you within it as a temporary sandbox environment. It’s literally the entire universe, copied and playing out as a slightly alternate reality, and you get to go in there to do whatever you want.
We currently live in a world that would put profit before important ethical questions like: do the simulated people have rights? Are their experiences as real to them as ours are to us? How can we ever be sure we are any different from them, more “real,” and how would we like it if a god figure popped into our universe just because it could?
We currently live in a world that would soon market this as a technology that lets you live your wildest adventures with no consequences. People would engage in murder, rape, … over and over again. People would defend it, “they aren’t real…”
I like to think a different kind of world is possible… one where the speed of innovation isn’t at odds with the stability of governance. One where a new technology doesn’t risk an arms race because of fear and game theory mechanics. One where you can still get ahead, but your fellow man also helps you from falling behind. One where technology actually serves the majority, like it was first touted to do.
But then I remember we have like 10 years to figure this shit out before the Earth turns into an oven / freezer for the next century.
Yeah I don’t understand why it isn’t, or maybe it is but getting anyone to do anything is impossible.
AI housefishing?
a rising fraudulent trend known in the real estate industry as “housefishing,” where landlords use technology to mask property defects.
This is NOT a new thing at all. Even 10 years ago apartments had photo shopped clean walls and you go see it to find shitty dirty/damaged walls.
The stupid ai touch up tools do so much more now. My friends bought a house and all my friendgroup has been helping them fix it and paint it. I needed a reference photo when reinstalling vents so I decided to use the listing to figure out which vent went where.
The fuckass realtor who listed the house removed every single vent with the stupid ai tool. Same with the kitchen, there was no sink in the photos. Like what are we doing
Yeah it used to take work but now websites make it easy with a button
True. The issue is how prevalent it is now. Any moron can do it now.
Iirc, landlords never had any actual photoshopping skills and mostly just used old pictures or simply didn’t take pictures of the stuff they didn’t want to show.
I see, so like catfishing but for homes. SMDH.
I was against Mandani, but the guy has been coming out with good decisions after good decisions for New Yorkers. Yeah, I don’t agree with him in a lot, but New York chose him for specific reasons, and the guy is delivering.
It’s been wild watching these do-nothing centrist bastards criticize him as a ‘performative’ politician, when just in this short period he’s been in power, he’s delivering on promises and finding practical solutions for things previously thought impossible, like efficient snow removal (and his plan for that was also employed something like 30,000 people temporarily, insane) and a targeted tax on the billionaires.
I am very glad to have been wrong about Mamdani. I thought it was more likely he would go mask off and be another Obama.
What’s wrong with being “performative?” What does that even mean anyway? He doesn’t really want this stuff, he’s just doing it to look good? So what? If it gets done, I’m happy. I like performative.
He balanced the budget: Not really, he had to cut deals, shuffle things, etc. Yeah, no kidding, that’s how you balance a budget. It only looks weird to all these politicians because they’ve never actually done it before.
Or filling potholes: I don’t care if it is “performative,” all I know is that 6 inch deep pothole that’s been growing in front of my building for the last three years is finally filled. “Performative” works just fine for me. More politicians should try it.
What’s wrong with being “performative?”
In this context it means a politician who makes extravagant promises then doesn’t fulfill them. Someone like Barack Obama. It’s just absurd given Mamdani’s diligence so far as mayor.
What don’t you agree with? He’s been doing exactly what he’s said he wants to do.
When going to a negotiation table you say you want to eat the obscenely rich! Then you negotiate down to just taking their money.
Then you negotiate down to just taking their money.
Unless they’re the De Wtit brothers.
Then you negotiate down to just taking their money.
tbh we could also
enslavefine them to years of mandatory community service work (like public gardening and trash pickup)
What part are you possibly against? Are you a Republican voter or what is it?
Disagree with Mandani = Republican? So Disagreeing with Trump makes me a Democrat, right? That’s exactly the problem, labeling people that think different in any way shape or form. No wonder the US is falling to pieces.
you still didn’t answer the question what did you not agree on with Mandani
I was against all the evidently inflamed promises of free buses, city run grocery stores and the elimination of the homeless encampment sweeps. And, by the way, I was right all along, he had to pedal back in all 3 of them, because they were, as with every other politician, right, left or center, just campaign noise to incite the masses. Those are all doable, all 3 of them, but they all require careful planning and a shitload of time and money, to avoid making things worse in the long term. Those, and a few other promises that were impossible to achieve in the way he painted them, were the reasons I didn’t like the guy. I still don’t like him, for the exact same reasons. Full disclosure, I like Cuomo and Adams even less, those fucking dinosaurs just wanted to suck on more of the people’s money than they already had. Now, as much as I dislike that Mandani is more of the same promise-ridden bullshit, I’m still gladly surprised by the things he has actually accomplished, and in record time.
Unfortunately, much like in the last presidential race, where the US had only horrible options to pick from, New York didn’t really have any “stellar” choices. Glad to see Mandani was the least bad for NYC.
Another thing I have been right about all along, any disagreement with anyone will create execution squads made out of the fanboys and fangirls of that individual, even when proven accurate. This is why the US is in such a decline now. Get fucking together and understand that both sides want that hate between left and right to spread. We’re all nothing but fuckong sheep for both sides.
Don’t give a fuck about the right or left, only about what is beneficial to most, but it needs to make sense. The math has to make fucking sense, Mandani’s never did.
I was right all along, he had to pedal back in all 3 of them, because they were, as with every other politician, right, left or center, just campaign noise to incite the masses. Those are all doable, all 3 of them, but they all require careful planning and a shitload of time
emphasis mine. does not sound like they “pedaled back”. how many years was he in office not completing those promises of his? it seems just barely more than a half. such a bad politician for not cramping years of work into 7 months. a real good politician would deliver careful planning rapidly like that.
Like I said at the beginning, I love the things that he has achieved, and I have no issue being transparent about what I don’t like about him, but honor where honor is due. He surprised me, in a good way, I hope he can keep doing just that. Has he turned around from being an over-promising politician? Hopefully, but as with any other politician, I’m not holding my breath. Whether this makes me a left or right wing person, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter because some, if not most already decided for me.
Who did you support instead? What won you over for them?
