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  • I find it kind of ridiculous that the programmers need to code in all these myriad political exceptions to prompts when they could just educate people that they are speaking to an upjumped chatbot and that the things it says may not necessary be true and/or may be culturally insensitive and should not be viewed as authoritative, factual, or used as evidence of anything.

    But I guess saying the quiet part out loud gives away the game, doesn't it? Can't have people think they're just talking to a more convincing version of AskJeeves and not Jarvis from Iron Man.

  • Ocasio-Cortez: Musk ‘one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met’
  • He didn't build Tesla from scratch.

    This guy is so fucking allergic to hurdles he pays other people to play video games for him so he can claim he's in the top skill brackets.

    Being rich does not make you smart, it just insulates you from the consequences of failure. A lot of really fucking stupid people also happen to be filthy rich. Elon Musk is no exception, regardless of the mythology people have built around him.

  • Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today
  • It appears to be real. The federal government is currently in the midst of the most comprehensive purge in the history of the nation, and many career civil servants are being asked to retire early with a severance "or else". The worrying part should have come when Project 2025 laid out the groundwork for what is happening right at this very moment, back when it was first revealed. Trump intends to replace all of these government workers with yes-men and cronies who will be loyal to him and him alone, and not the constitution or the American people they are meant to serve. The damage being done right now will probably never be reversed in our lifetimes and will pave the way for absolute executive control - in other words, a dictatorship. This is not alarmist, this was the plan all along and nobody listened.

    If you don't have a plan to GTFO in case things get even worse, I would start making one right now. You have to set an uncrossable line yourself and be prepared to act on it, because other people are going to continue to go along with this until the very end, so you can't count on other people to be giving you signals on when to bail out.

  • The art of the deal
  • Trump has loudly announced his presence on the world stage and made sure nobody can ignore him.

    Sure they can. China already is. The last time Trump tried to hit China with tariffs, they retaliated and then the Trump administration bailed out the farmers by giving $60 billion in welfare to red states to offset the cost of his failed trade war. Why would they do anything different this time?

    Starting with high or ridiculous demands is his way of getting concessions.

    What concessions?

    No, seriously, answer the question.

    The "concession" that he got from Trudeau was already an agreement that Canada had made under the Biden administration.

    The "concession" that he got from Sheinbaum for sending 10k troops to the southern border was something that Mexico regularly agrees to do - it happened during Biden's term and also during Trump's first term. Evidently, all you have to do is ask politely.

    So far, neither country has conceded anything that they haven't already previously agreed to or have historically been willing to do without threats of economic sanctions or tariffs.

    We don’t know what negotiations are taking place behind closed doors.

    Then if we don't know what he actually negotiated for, how can he or anyone else for that matter claim it was effective? We have no evidence that he's getting anything more than what was already promised to him for backing down.

    You can stop simping for Trump now, he's not going to call you back.

  • Elon Musk installs illegal server to seize all federal workers’ data
  • The main question I have is that I’ve been hearing from Americans for decades now how gun ownership means you have a 2nd amendment based militia ready to go to protect the constitution and yet in the face of what is completely obviously the initial stages of a coup, I see no signs of that militia. Where are you?

    This was always posturing. It was a dumb fantasy invented by the right to mythologize the country's origins, skew the intent of the framers, and most importantly, give them plausible deniability in the gun control debate.

    If gun owners truly believed in the myth of the "people's militia" being a necessary apparatus to prevent government oppression or tyranny, they would have picked up their rifles and stopped the insurrectionists attacking the capitol building on January 6th, 2021. A literal violent coup and they sat back and did nothing. No - worse than nothing, they agreed with the people trying to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power!

    The idiot masses won't stand up to tyranny with force or strength of arms, ever. The propaganda machine will convince Americans to shoot their neighbors long before they ever even think to shoot at their ruling class.

  • The art of the deal
  • Trump is such a coward. He can't commit to anything he says. I thought actually implementing the tariffs was the goal? What about that whole schtick on eliminating income taxes with tariff revenue? Do people just dream big on Trump's pie-in-the-sky fantasies, get on board, and then get brought back down to reality and conveniently forget all that big talk only to still have the audacity to call it a fucking W? The threat of the tariffs accomplished nothing. Trump is incompetent beyond belief.

  • Cuban MAGA and scammer gets what he voted for.
  • I don't actually feel bad for this guy at all. He was a scammer and probably deserves to be deported, but I'm not going to credit Trump for accidentally doing a good thing, his rhetoric just happened to align with reality for a very brief moment.

  • Trump warns Americans that tariffs may cause ‘pain’– US politics live
  • Longer than that, most likely, since tariffs raise prices on the end consumer and once those tariffs eventually go away there's no incentive to lower the price back to pre-tariff levels.

    Trump using examples of effective US economic policy from over a century ago and trying to apply it to modern international trade is peak Trump.

  • Stock market plummets as Trump announces new tariff war
  • Could this finally be the term that Trump speedruns the economy crash so the Republicans can be properly blamed for it happening due to their policies and leadership, rather than the Dems always inheriting a timebomb and wasting a whole ass term fixing it?

  • Keeping stuff in a shed keeps it safe from the elements, right?

    For the discerning homebuyer/vampire who hates the idea of natural sunlight!

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1119-E-Puma-Ln-Lincoln-KS-67455/128506191_zpid/

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