When you're the head of an entire branch of government, declaring your refusal to join the political fray is just a different way of joining the fray.
I am not fun at parties, why do people keep speculating about this
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When you're the head of an entire branch of government, declaring your refusal to join the political fray is just a different way of joining the fray.
I notice way more cultish thinking on the pro-AI side. It's intelligent, it has mysterious emergent behavior mere mortals can't understand, maybe it has feelings, you're going to use it whether you plan on it or not. Plenty of magical thinking all around.
What's the latest guidance, are they supposed to get sun exposure or not? I can't keep up, could see it both ways.
This is a lie, it's always been a lie, and you've repeated it like 10 times this morning.
Tiny thing like that, could've picked it up with a Chinook and set it down in the middle of Gitmo.
Ah, what country could resist the "soft invasion target" status?
"competitive" doesn't mean "as good as". Bluesky is inarguably better than Twitter. It's competitive on quality but not on reach. A Nazi site shouldn't have more reach than this site.
Definitely unreal, as in, neither what he said or implied.
Time to short TSLA is what I'm hearing
I'd disagree that it's a moral failure to get tired of being hit by friendly fire on a constant basis. It is a failure to exercise the block feature judiciously, though. I started blocking every account that emanates "durr liberals are stupid and love genocide" and it really elevates the quality.
Did it though?
The primary and pre-primary period are the time to thrash out the retail consumer politics of "what will they do for me, personally". Now is that time. Let's get the best candidate we can, but in the general election , it's time to circle the wagons.
Hooves and hides of euthanized horses get rendered for their collagen. Economically it's not worth the cost of raising and slaughtering, it will be the euthanasia of a horse that no longer serves its trained purpose.
It won't be that obvious next time. Right now they're trying to pack the GA elections board with MAGAs. They aren't smart people, but they're not dumb enough to try the same failed tactic again.
I think we're going to see him take more and more 3-day weekends that aren't bank holidays, eventually stretching out to 4 and 5 days. This might be purely a frog-boiling move to get people accustomed to seeing him less and less in public.
For the millionth time, they don't need to occupy 100% of a map that's mostly red. They send goons to stake out polling places in Bexar, Harris, Fulton, Broward. There's violence. State SoS throws out these counties' results because of "chaos". SCOTUS rules 6-3 "lmao sure why not".
2 avenues: 1. If her Russia-aiding behavior is any guide, she's on the hook for full treason. 2. But that's kind of extra, because she's kooky enough to come up with this shit without any outside incentive.
That explains why most journalists do it wrong.
They lie.
They never cared.
Again he is lying. All he does is lie. Please stop reporting what he says, and only report what he does.
If Vance is POTUS, it won't be ideal, but I think that the lure of statecraft may distract him from trollcraft, and he won't be actively trying to steal everything that's nailed down. It's cold comfort but that's the only kind that's on offer.
Benedict Arnold was a reasonably competent military commander who actually did achieve the rank of major general before turning traitor, and that still doesn't stop us from erasing both his rank and name from any honors to the Continental victories he had a hand in
He was *acting* general, and there's no need to legitimize or emphasize the honorific. We don't call Patton "General Patton" anymore. So if someone says "General Lee" I'm correcting it to "Col Lee", his last Congressionally approved rank. Which is overly generous to a traitor, if we're honest.
I realize this was a joke, but it may converge on truth in any number of ways. It could range from using AI to deceive people into thinking Trump is alive. Or they may admit he's dead, but make him into an avatar that MAGA dead-enders find compelling enough to regard as Trump's reborn successor.
Brooks for sure
"I was polishing his knob and suddenly he became stiff, which is out of character for him"
Just waiting on you to post.
I'm sure she'll be excommunicated from DSA over this.
We only want Russia to conquer part of it
The Germans a generation after the Reich consciously made sure to tell history the right way. The Japanese did the opposite. There’s no right side of history, history has got to be made.
Yeah. It’s happening here.
they’re just the Centers for Disease now I guess
I'm sure that thing causes 30 different cancers and a couple of autoimmune diseases.
I was gonna say, that can't be the whole story. No serious druggie would waste perfectly good molly and blow.
Just require gun sales to be co-signed by the person's spouse or any ex-spouse, or failing that, a current or previous employer. If you can't make that happen, you probably shouldn't have a gun.
Phrased a different way, clades deal with comes-from. Grades deal with type-of. But don't give the pseudoscientific doofus any credit for knowing clades. His definition of dolphins as fish suggests he's using pre-Enlightenment grades, not clades.
Clades deal with relationships. They do not imply type-of. If they did, then every single vertebrate could be considered a type of fish. An ontology that describes giraffes and birds and frogs under "type of fish" conveys no useful information, except the ignorance of the person who uses it.
He's transactional with anyone he's aligned with. If he's not aligned with you, then you're either a scratching post or a trading chip.
I bet it sounds like Pritz saying "go ahead and invade us. I'll pull every cop off the street and you can have fun trying to manage that."
People know when they personally can't get a job or afford rent. Almost nobody knows if the overall economy is bad, even economists aren't sure. People's perception of "the economy" is 1% based on what they earn and pay, and 99% based on whatever they saw on Fox or Facebook 5 minutes ago.
Inflation was pretty much beaten. There's never been a time when people weren't "struggling to make ends meet". Little if anything has changed on the inflation front since Trump got elected, but nobody talks about it anymore. Why? Because it was never about inflation, never for a minute.
The thing is that "the economy sucks" isn't a sincere right-wing complaint. They don't know or care if the economy is bad. They use it as a rationalization for their true desires, cutting taxes or abusing immigrants. That's why you can't argue "actually inflation isn't bad." They just don't care.
Trump is just going down the list of crimes he's been accused of, so he can turn it around on others and say "let's see how YOU like it, haha" This is all he does. It's just uno reverse cards all the way down.
This is the way
They are more willing to conflate culture all issues with material issues. "I don't like immigrants because they make my taxes higher." Democrats misinterpret such signals to mean that voters simply need to be lectured about the real reasons their taxes are (or aren't) high.
2 weeks: I don't know 3 weeks: definitely never lol lmao
what if a bomb could only be defused by saying a forbidden slur? what if Trump cured cancer? what if a billionaire said something intelligent? Why debate hypotheticals that we know can't happen?
A trial seems like overthinking it
LLMs display more original, innovative patterns of expression than your typical leftie displays.
Posting my twelfth "good times create weak men" meme right before I post several times about how terrified I am of public transit.
It's like watching an LLM correct itself in realtime.
1. Mid intelligence is a thing. There are lots of successful people with like a 115 IQ 2. Having some baseline intelligence doesn't immunize you from having bad politics or echo-chambering yourself into being an epistemically-occluded dipshit.
Rarely have I seen a set of posts that completely and effortlessly fills out the bingo card of utterly predictable leftist NPC jargon.
The pokémon theory of civil rights abuse... "gotta violate 'em all"
There's no need to sell. Trump just proved that the government can nationalize shares on a whim. We can take 51% of Amazon and Bezos can just go cry about it. The markets are irrational anyway, there's no telling what will please them.
I was a teenager in the 80s and they were golden, as most people tend to view their teen decades. You can't go back in time and kill baby Reagan. Work on fixing the present, and let people enjoy their memories.
They just need to say what it's distracting from! Tariff failures, Epstein, Russia capitulation. Why can't they just say it?
They've gone the way of doozies and lollapaloozas.
These people think it's possible to affect policy by lying down in front of the bulldozer, so if Kamala didn't do that, then she's pro-genocide. Of course you don't see any of those people risking their bodies to stop the very pro-genocide Trump, because they're more anti-lib than anti-genocide.
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
And surprisingly enough, video costs significantly more.
Estimate it from the cost of the service and work backwards. If the service is dirt cheap, then it can't be using that much juice, because energy costs money. If corps are giving away an expensive product below cost, then don't worry about their energy use, they'll go out of business soon enough.
For people who claim that AI is sucking up all the energy for a useless product, I would ask: 1. Does energy cost money? 2. Is AI trash that nobody's paying for? 3. How can companies pay massive energy bills to deliver a product that nobody's buying? Maybe the tech isn't so power hungry after all.
Not sure if I'm a fan of Newsom as a candidate, but everyone should be doing what he's doing right now. Mock, defy, satirize.
the first thing I need to see is for Dems to hold the line and stop collaborating. Start there FFS. If you can't even hold the line, how are you going to attack?
People who fancy themselves clever think: well, woke is basically a slur already, maybe I can just make it mean "extremist" to try and shame the guys who are getting ummm a little exuberant about restoring western civilization
ok but how does one... go back to the 80's? I'm guessing there's a QR code to buy something?
For real?
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Serbs mass-murdered or expelled hundreds of thousands of Albanians from Kosovo before NATO intervened. It's good that they did intervene, finally, but up until then, there was indeed a LOT of standing by.
The correct response is "I know". Because you knew, because those stories never go any other way.
Is this a recent piece? Brooks has been insufferable for most of his career, but he's done a face turn this year. He's more militantly anti-Trump than many congressional Democrats. Of course he could've just gotten drunk and shipped another throwback clinker, who knows.
He wants to abolish mail-in voting because he wants all voting to happen in locations that can be surrounded by ICE cordons.
I'm only gonna say this once, but Lorenz is correct. Right-wingers are conscious and strategic about their performance of civility and tolerance, concealing deeper malice. OTOH lefties delight in antisocial displays because "civility benefits the oppressor." One is effective, the other less so.
"You see, my Medicaid is a virtuous village, nothing like the grubby handouts that are undeservedly claimed by Those Types of People."
What Democrats should be saying is "the first 20% of ICE staff to testify against the other 80% will get amnesty for whatever they've done".
Seems like if someone thinks AI is the solution to everything, and a conspiracy is undermining AI, you could just ask AI who is behind the conspiracy and how to stop it.
She's not making any kind of turn. People wilfully misunderstood her entirely true point about how Nazis strategically use civility while leftists strategically disdain it. She's a hypochondriac, and there are a LOT more of those in liberal-left spaces than anyone wants to admit.
Yeah that was my theory of how the first Trump term was going to collapse. And Trump's second campaign.
Come on now. Is it really controversial to point out that far-right actors are highly strategic about maintaining a pretense of civility, while far-left actors actively rejoice in alienating persuadable voters for the crime of being too bougie or cringe? I mean, think this all the way through.
BARRRRRRF
She lies. All the Trump admin does is lie. Please don't report what they say, only what they do.
You're like 12 weeks behind us lol
Data centers generate massive amounts of heat. Space is one giant insulator. Bro do you even thermodynamic
Europe is sighing with relief that Trump mostly behaved himself so far. They shouldn’t. Ignore what he says, whether it’s crazy or sane. His words don’t matter, he backtracks constantly. Judge only what he does to help Ukraine or punish Russia. And don’t wait for him. Act now.
Well yeah. It was never about finding the most appropriate time to call a Nazi a Nazi. It was about discouraging the idea that it's ever appropriate to do so.
He's not having a bad night. He's telling you how he's going to steal 2026 and beyond.
Trump wants to eliminate mail-in ballots and then have ICE block access to in-person voting in blue districts.
GET SOME KAHONIES YOU FREAKS
Trump wants to accomplish certain things that depend on other things remaining unknown or discreet. That's the leverage they have over him. It's about undermining his resources and image in the present. And it needs continual renew because it has a short shelf life. Nothing in the past matters.
Don't say "pushed the bounds" when you know he's exceeding and erasing the bounds.
Whose field? That's the problem.
What? Nobody notified me.
Counterpoint: shut up
She should win, and be awarded the entire dairy farm, as a warning to other dairy farmers.
I hope she wins her lawsuit and takes the farm. Not because she deserves the compensation, but because dairy farmers need to feel threatened by every wacko raw-milk buyer who insists they "did their own research."
ICE agents view themselves as an expressly political goon squad in service of an expressly political project. When Dems get into power they need to understand this and treat ICE like a political opposition group in need of reconstruction, because that's what it is.
He was trapped behind a waterfall, yet they "treated him for dehydration"? What?
No country will ever listen to pressure to diplomatically isolate Russia after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin on US soil. Russia is the clear big winner here. Their diplomatic relations with the US have been restored, Trump got nothing, & Europe is as impotent as ever.