Trump tariffs were found to be illegal. It will go to SCOTUS so they are still in effect until November but as for now the decision is they are illegal.
Trump tariffs were found to be illegal. It will go to SCOTUS so they are still in effect until November but as for now the decision is they are illegal.
Huh.... a church id join!
I don't know about anyone else but... I have found myself looking forward to the new Toxic Avenger movie.
write that for us and then go in and coordinate the code in that. So now AI writes the code in a react or Node app and then we coordinatye the apps as black boxes. It'll be awhile yet before AI can do that.
See, I have no doubt that in the near future AI can write the code. It already can. But that just means devs step up the levels of abstraction and become the people that coordinate the bits of code AI writres. After all, nobody creates the file structure for a React app - we use a command line to
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Liberals tend to see the world in a more horizontal way where everyone can make their own choices. Reps see the world as a ladder of those above them and below them in a strict way. It's a difference in literla ways we see the world.
We have to remember - among republicans there is no will to oppose Trump. There might have been a glimmer of it in 2015 but since then... Reps just fall in line. And it's because Reps see the world in a hierarchical manner - those "Above" them are "Better" than them.
Protests are great but unless those protests have teeth... then they are much too eaty for Trump and his junta of fascists to ignore.
Actually what we need is more actually useful action. Marching in the streets is a wonderful topping on other stuff but without that other stuff it can be ignored. General strikes, civil disobedience and such need to also exist.
As a note - this is the same presdient that desperately wants a Nobel Peace prize.
She shouldn't step down since Trump can't fire her - she isn't his employee. But the fight is gonna tank markets and the values of the US dollar regardless.
Truth be told... that is the basic definition of "Woke" since the turn of the century with right wing people. Somewhere around 2000 people went off the deep end.
We have to start unraveling this problem. We could start by raising wages. That won't be the full solution but it certainly would help.
to make every person in the country millionaires. The gulf between haves and have nots is widening too much. This never ends up well for anyone - Marie Antionette found that out. The last Tsars of Russia found that out. And in neither case did the results help a whole lot of people.
We have problems coming... quickly. We have houses going unsold in the same city where tent cities are springing up. We have entire areas that are food deserts while we produce so much food we throw it away elsewhere. We have people at the top of the wealth pyramid with enough money
Have you seen that too - the way Trump says these things as if people are sayig it to him? It's weird.
Let's be honest - Reps are just looking for any reason to not count votes.
I've seen the prototype of this app - it might just be useful. Apparently they are also looking at making an app for the Meta Quest 3 with it's AR to do the same. No idea how long it will take to be released but even as is it's pretty cool.
As a rule - if animals like a person they are a good person.
I had that for a kitty of mine once - it's okay. She'll be wonky when she comes out of the anesthesia and all but it's pretty safe. No real worries. Of course that didn't stop me from worrying all day too...
I will say though... my employer is looking at AI. Not so much on the back end but word to the wise - no idea when it'll be available but they are working on a REALLY cool phone app where you can say "Redecorate this room and spend only $500" and it can figure it out for you.
I suspect that we are not only seeing some heroes in terms of democracy here... we are watching the 2028 Dem candiate field develop. Newsom obviously - we wanted to run in 2024 and didn't to allow Biden. I suspect Pritker is looking to run as well.
So I can say my emoployer probably isn't likely to use Palantir as a tool... Of course, my employer is also way way way behind the tech curve so. Swedish furniture companies aren't exactly known for being on the bleeding edge.
Huh... Where I work we use a different tool for that. But then again, we also have a pretty darn strict Privacy By Design thing. I have had to request data and had to fill out the 36 page questionnaure to get access to... zip codes of customers.
So which countries are using it to compromise Trump? I'd say that we can answer that pretty easily - just look at which countries Trump is inexplicably nice to. Russia, Isrtael and likely Saudi Arabia.
Here is the basic thing - the list exists. The DOJ has it. And if the DOJ has it then other coutnries intel agencies have it - to think otherwise is to be naive. So the list exists, Trump is terrified of it being released and other coutnries have it.
I am sure Jake Tapper is writing a whole book about it.
A bit of both. Trump was never very smart but with his health problems he is getting less and less sane.
I am not even sure what Panatir is, to be totally honest...
And therein lies the problem: New sources for news need to be better funded to break the news but as soon as they can get that funding then they become legacy media just on a youtube rather than cable.
Yeah... I think that the Trump era has put the last dagger in the heart of mainstream media. Which is a problem - sources like Meidas touch are good at discussing the news but not so great at discovering the news. These sources will have to be much better funded to be able to break news...
Yep. What trump wants is to normalize guns on street corners so that he can then use those guns to intimidate voters in the midterms and beyond.
Combine that terror with the innate bigotry and... well, voila - you get what Trump is now.
We have to understand - Trump is a bigot, no question. But part of the rage is the fact that his mind is going. He watched his father descend into this and he's terrified that is what he is doing and so it manifests in resentment and anger.
I had an uncle with that. It progressed the same way - the thickening ankles, the easily bruised skin and the increasing confusion caused by blood not circulating well... I am not an expert or anything but I'd be surprised to see him make it to the midterms.
If I had to make a guess... he's on blood thinner. My father of roughly the same age has bruises all over because his meds make his blood really thin and hard to coagulate. If that is the case then Trump is in serious health trouble - combine it with his cankles and that is Cogestive Heart Failure.
We can all see where this is going. At some point those opposed to ICE will start bringing a gun to a gun fight. And at that point we are in it. And I have to say - that never works out for anyone. Sure they got Marie Atoinette but then the nothing good followed for a long time.
One will control Trump on Monday-Thursday and the other get's Fridays and the weekend.
It takes time to get a general strike organized. And the problem we have right now is that the people aooposing such a measure also control the methods of disseminating the planning.
Well... The Rpes seem to be mainly white whereas the Taliban tends to not be white. If anything, the Taliban is slightly more includive than the Repuboican party.
You know why they aren't doing that, right? It's because they can pretty much control Maxwell's statements with threats of punishment in prison. They cannot do that with the victims.
Yep. That's me this morning.
Netive Americans had no defense to. And so by the time colonies started to be established that civilization was decimated and had fallen apart. Yet we are taught that they were just these savage living in tents - because what we got to see was the last vestiges of a incredibly advanced civ.
Pre-Contact, North America was host to the largest city in the world (As far as we know), I was 5 times the size and popualtion of London at the time. These civs were engahing in a continent wide trade. Then Spain started visiting and that brought with it sicknesses that
Something I have been learnign about recently was the pre-contact native american civilizations. Those civs were wildly advanced - we have a weird view of them because once colonization started, Europeans were colonizing what amountded to a post apocalyptic landscape.
I agree but here is the thing - to be an effective speaker one needs fire AND a really encyclopedic knowledge of the rules of the House. Crockett has the fire but lacks the wonky knowledge of rules. Jeffries has the knowledge but lacks the fire. If we could merge them into one person we'd be set.
What Trump is doing is wrong. It runs against the very fiber of the US. But to claim the 2A hads anything to do with allowing armed rebellion is entirely invalid to claim.
As a question - where in the 2A does it mention "Federal Tyranny"? It discusses maintaing a free state - which literally means use of a citizen militia to guard against invasion. It doesn't hand people the right to shoort at the federal govt anywhere in it.
I will mention, though - this is a sign of how weak Trump really is. If his policies were going well and he had support for them he would not need the military to enforce them.
Waiting for the Hill to retract a claim like that is not something we have time for. That rag went all the way to the right wing in 2017 and it ain't coming back.
Youtube has the movie "tremors" on it for free. This is probably the 5th time I've seen it, and I can say it still holds up.
My first video in a sude project on my channel is up. I really want to encourage people to read for fun. youtu.be/wawJRrROwxs
My exercise regimen is oaying off. I went from doing a 2 Mike run in 25 minutes about a month ago to a 3 Mike run in 29 minutes this morning.
It kinda feels like maybe Nintendo isn't totally sure if how long Mario kart would will last...
As a rule I deplore gerrymandering. But... I mean, it's time to take a new tact here. If Reps go low, we have to go subterranean. If Reps gerrymander one state we need to gerrymander 10 staes. Time to not only fight fire with fire but to bring a flamethrower to it.
So here is the thing - I found out today that only 16% of people over 15 read for enjoyment. That is... shocking to me. So I am considering maybe trying to promote reading with a once per month episode on my channel to do a book review. Wonderign if anyone would watch.
What can dems do about it right now? Seriously - beyond making people aware of what is going on and maybe slowing it down a bit, what can dems do?
Hmmm.... Mario Kart World and Kirby Air Riders within a short time if each other. Is it me or are racing games taking over tge switch 2? I am sure both are goid but I wanted a kirby followup to forgotten world - not another Mario kart iteration.
Today marks the 4th day in a row when I log onto bluesky and immediately see sexual content that I have to report. I posit Bluesky has a real problem developing.
Literally the federal govt doesn't really have this level of control. All elections are handled by states.
Be ready. Because we will either see Trump back down and run or we will see him try to Crack down even more... and one of them will happen soon. I'd rather the former. No idea which it will be.
Trump was met with protests in Alaska, got humiliated by putin and cane back to a mass protest at the white house. We are witnessing Trump at his weakest. Here is the thing - when a fascist feels they are weakening, that us the most dangerous time.
The thing about trump is that he wants the rewards without having to put in the work.
Here is the basic fact : trump is really weak. He's not a strong man and he is very open to being defeated. We can do this.
I agree. Dems have this habit of fighting with one hand tied behind their backs in some weird idea of fairness. I say... if they go low, we need to go subterranean.
Huh... when even Fox News is reporting Trump was humiliated in this summit, we can be sure it went badly in alaska.
Oops... You must remember, I was reading that this morning after the cat woke me up at 3am so sometimes I kinda only half understand what i read. Maybe that is why I do badly at wordle sometimes.
I'm starting my streak again since yesterday I just could not come up with the word.
I will also point out the simple fact: Trump can only do this for 30 days. Since it would be very naive to assume all crime can be fixed permanently in 30 days, that excuse from Trump is invalid.
Well, he did call Alaska "Russia" so... I assume we can get ready for him to turn over our largest state by area to Russia soon.
Okay - new 5k signed up for next month. I need to get serious about training for it now. If anyone lives close - come join it since it's for a good cause : runsignup.com/Race/PA/Coat...
As you listen to an unhinged Trump try to justify deploying the National Guard in DC, here's reality: Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Fascism ALWAYS fails and loses. Always, every time. And it does so on a spectacular way. The only trick is making sure it fails in ways where those of us opposed don't get hit in the fallout.
This meeting is useless. No peace deal between Russia and Ukraine can be reached without Ukraine at the table. So I have to assume that this meeting has other agenda's than just the Russia/Ukraine war...
Spelling was VERY bad there but I hope my gist comes through.
We have more than enohg wealth to make every person on the planet rich. We have more than enohg food to feed every person. We have the ability to make enohg houses to house every person. We live in t past scarcity society - we lack the will to fix things.
Because our current Congress is spineless and unwilling to govern.
We have housing and the ability to make more to make sure every person can sleep under a roof. We actually do live in a post scarcity society. It's not resources or ability that holds us back from enjoying that. It's human greed fueled by late stage capitalism.
Just combining the wealth of the top three companies in the US alone, we have the wealth to make every single person on the planet multimillionaires. We grow enohg food and have distribution capabilities to feed every person on earh.
Considering that currently Trump is using the FBI more to track down dems to allow him to rig an election than he is to track down pedophiles that frequented Epstein... I'd say the transformation to an agency subject to pres whim is done.
Wait - the world used to respect Tim Cook? When was that? I mean... Sure, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Sure sure sure. But when did we respect Tim Cook?
It's the reps. They seem oddly willing to help out child predfators recently.
I heard that once he used Bing instead of Google.
Then I guess it is open seaosn for all states to do it. At this point we cannot alow the reps to win in the midterms. It sucks because I hate this but dems are gonna have to do this and do it ruthlessly in every state controlled by dems.
Possible things the Epstein docs may contain about Donald: 1. Donald took part in the activities. 2. Donald took part in supplying girls to Epstein 3. This is the one that was suggested last night: Those docs contain a tax scam Trump was part of Or any combo or all of those.
Was in the office today. Was grabbing something from a vending machine and overheard a woman on the phone "you need a potato jacket." Its gonna drive me insane to have tgat without context in my brain.
Bluesky is getting a lot less fun as it creeps closer to twitter...
There is a creeping problem on bluesky... namely, large accounts are all that dhow up on the following tab. That us a problem because as much as I care what they have to say i also care what individual smaller accounts I follow say...
Each time I’m targeted, the volume of hate I receive — online and in correspondence — spikes. Some of it is deranged. Much of it is antisemitic. And it’s deeply conspiratorial. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...
Definitely read this book, "the uploaded" by ferrett steinmetz. What begins as a pretty basic cyberpunk novel morphs into an allegory of late stage capitalism that us very applicable to the present time.
Totally agree that Dems probably ought to have the Hosue. That said... Let's be honest - from his abysmal performance so far, I am not sure Jeffries is much of a step up from Johnson. Jeffries is better, yes, but not by much. I'd rather have speaker Cortez.
I suggest anyone reading this look into the study because it was from 2011 and roundly debunked by 2015.
Other presidents - even Reagan as he suffered from Alzheimers - didnt' wander out on the roof to yell about nukes.
It's no surpsie that Red states are rushing to build concentration camps for Trump.
But nobody can post on Twitter anymore since that site doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. Just like there were no more Indiana Jones movies after the third.
What went on? I thought they were doing well in recent years...
I mean... Reagan was evil and all but he was able to at least be mildly likeable while being evil. Trump can't even measure up to THAT.
Yeah but... I mean, Reagan was bad and all but truth be told, in the curve of reps he was only mid. Better than Nixon and definitely better than Bsuh 2 or Trump but slightly worse than Bush 1... I mean, if I had to choose and my only choices were Reagan or Trump... I'd go with Reagan.
I call this story "future autobiography"