I really hope every country the US trades with is looking at this and behind the scenes making whatever arrangements are available to them to cut the US out of their trade network, with the ultimate intent of just ceasing trade with the US entirely. It would be the best option. Trump is going to keep weaponizing economic power to get what he wants, and if other countries keep folding, it's just going to make him bolder. If they all just cut the US out, it'd hurt them, but it'd hurt the US and specifically Trump's influence a lot more in the long term.
He says that most of us despise insurance companies and have had bad experiences with them, but that doesn't mean we think people should be going around killing insurance executives in the street.
There's probably already games where AI generated "every pixel", just not the code that displays those pixels... This headline only implies art, even though it's pretty clear they meant the whole game, code and all, and without seeing the whole article, we can't really effectively comment.
They all look happy, except the yellow beaker on the right and the yellow test tube, who have decidedly :| faces. I wonder what they know that the others don't...
however you want to cope with whatever part of responsibility you personally have on the matter.
I voted for the only other candidate with a chance of winning, she won my state handily, and I did what I could to convince others to do the same, so, nope, I take zero personal responsibility for the outcome, and as such I don't need to cope with that, thanks.
There was also rampant disenfranchisement prior to the election, whatever Trump's comments about Elon were referring to, and the bomb threats on election day, just to name a few. Maybe it all amounted to literal nothing, maybe it changed the outcome, but I don't think we'll ever know. Trump did a fantastic job of priming the country for 8 years to consider claims of election interference to be wild conspiracy theories and made the democratic party unwilling or unable to question anything without sounding like loons, so here we are.
Nah, man, there is no amount of interference that justifies Trump having a fart’s chance in hell of not losing every single state in a country unwilling to hand the keys to these guys 1932-style.
Let's say, hypothetically, Trump had personally walked into every polling place, took every ballot that was cast and replaced them with copies that included a vote for him, and then waved his hand Jedi Mind Trick style and made everyone who knew it had happened immediately forget. Obviously this amount of interference would cause him to win the election regardless of how voters voted.
This is obviously an absurd example, but the point I'm trying to make is, saying 'No amount of interference justifies this outcome' is similarly absurd and simply normalizes and discounts the interference that took place.
There were certainly a surprising and disheartening number of people voting for Trump, but we will likely never know what the outcome would have been if there hadn't been any fuckery going on.
It’d be weirder (and much more undemocratic) if there was a way to remove a sitting president without the Supreme Court or Congress.
Turns out there is, in fact. It just doesn't involve governmental process at all. You're quite correct that it's undemocratic. (See: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy)
That's making the very bold assumption that there was no interference in said election. In fact, we know for a fact that there was, we just don't know the extent of the interference and whether it changed the outcome. The reason we don't know is because it wasn't investigated (or if it was, it wasn't publicized), so I'm going to take the stance that it's very possibly on the outgoing administration, actually, for not making a bigger stink about it.
I literally won a “silent but deadly” award at a company retreat
That's actually a pretty cool thing for them to recognize. Awards and things more often seem to go to the people who talk the most / loudest, just because they're the ones people remember, but having an explicit acknowledgement that they recognize the value in what you're saying is pretty neat.
I really hope every country the US trades with is looking at this and behind the scenes making whatever arrangements are available to them to cut the US out of their trade network, with the ultimate intent of just ceasing trade with the US entirely. It would be the best option. Trump is going to keep weaponizing economic power to get what he wants, and if other countries keep folding, it's just going to make him bolder. If they all just cut the US out, it'd hurt them, but it'd hurt the US and specifically Trump's influence a lot more in the long term.