You’re right, I’m voting for Trump now because of the Biden genocide. If he didn’t want to lose the election he shouldn’t have supported Israel or tried to close the border. I honestly don’t even care what happens to Palestinians under Trump, Biden should have thought about that before hand.

I used to think this line of thinking was dangerous and was going to help Trump win reelection. But I think you’re right, we can’t let the threat of a Republican being elected coerce into supporting a genocide.

The only clear answer is to teach the Democrats they need to hear and listen to us and champion our policies. The only way I can see to do that is to throw my support entirely behind Donald Trump and other Republican candidates up and down the ballot.

Maybe once only right wing candidates are winning the Democrats will learn that the only way to power is to run extremely left wing candidates and we’ll finally see some progress.

Oh shit, Biden is trying to give more bombs to China and Russia?

Yes, those are his only policies and that’s all that matters. Moa is clearly the centrist candidate you would support.

I don’t think Biden is paving the way for anything but more Center-Right presidents like Biden. He’s not pushing us Left. He’s not enabling that. He’s actually pushing us to the Right.

Oh, you’re an uninformed bad faith actor. I’m glad I saw this before I took anything you said seriously.

Congratulations, by not voting for Biden none of your politics are being represented and you’re helping Trump get elected.

As a bonus, by helping Trump get elected you’ll be actively aiding and abetting whatever Trump decides to do, which I’m sure will be great for the people in Gaza.

But you’re not crossing your line in the sand so I’m sure you’ll sleep well at night knowing you stuck to your guns.

I’ve had pretty good luck running llamafile on my laptop. The speeds aren’t super fast, and I can only use the models that are Mistral 7B and smaller, but the results are good enough for casual use and general R and Python code.

Edit: my laptop doesn’t have a dedicated GPU, and I don’t think llamafile has support for Intel GPUs yet. CPU inference is still pretty quick.

So it takes you 15 minutes to put water in tank, put grounds and filter into the coffee pot, and brew it? And you can’t do anything else productive with your time while the coffee is brewing like take a shower, login to work a few minutes early and read and answer emails, brush your teeth, do some dishes, take out the trash, walk your dog, or anything?

And your work doesn’t allow you to get up out of your chair for the 30 seconds it would take you to walk from your computer to coffee pot and fill your cup and walk back? Or even better, bring the entire carafe back to your desk with you? Are you working for the FSB and they have surveillance cameras in your house or something?

It really sounds like you’re trying your absolute hardest to turn making coffee into such an onerous chore that it negates all the other benefits of not having to schlep to an office.

My personal theory is that a lot of advocacy for working in-person goes away when you remove:

1. People that financially benefit from office culture (office land lords, restaurants near office buildings, janitorial services, etc.)
2. Social vampires that view the office as the best place to gossip and share their boring personal lives with a captive audience
3. Managers and executives with poor leadership skills and low self esteem

It takes you more than 10 minutes to make a cup of shitty office coffee at home?

Your job is so strict that you can’t afford to step away from your computer for the 10 minutes it takes you to start a coffee pot, go back to work, and then step away again to get the coffee when it’s ready?

Are you gonna give a fuck what Trump might do in 12 months?

There are degree’s of response to genocide. If you think you Trump will have a harsher response towards Israel’s genocide than Biden, then you should definitely vote for Trump or not vote for Biden.

But make no mistake: not voting for Biden isn’t a condemnation of Biden’s response to the genocide, it’s an endorsement of how you think Trump will respond.

This reads like a poor attempt a guerrilla marketing.

We know exactly what you said, and it was fucking stupid.

I think this is the main reason people don’t use it in America.

Public transportation doesn’t exist for most Americans.

If it does exist, it’s really bad. Buses are the most prevalent in America and they just suck in most cities.

Bus routes are pretty sparse, so you end up having to walk a pretty decent distance to catch the bus and then again when you get off the bus and go to your destination. It sucks because it adds and extra 30 minutes to the trip, but the exercise is nice so for me the walk is something I can deal with.

What I can deal with is the fact that buses are hardly ever on schedule. A late bus sucks because you’re waiting forever for it to get there. An early bus can be even worse; if you get to your stop 2 minutes early but the bus was 4 minutes early you’ve missed it and now you’re waiting another ~20 minutes for the next one. If that bus happened to take you to an infrequent connecting route you’re going to miss that connection too. Now instead of being 20 minutes late you’re an hour late because you missed your connection.

I’d love to take public transportation instead of my car, but I don’t want to waste hours of my life waiting around because the bus is never where it’s supposed to be when it’s supposed to be there.