UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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Nobody is talking to Hegseth

I'll believe that when I see the next leaked Signal chat.

Literally all marketing. $1B in marketing.

none of the checks and balances have any balls

Trump took full control of the DHS and the FBI, staffed it with loyal goons, and is actively arresting/assaulting anyone who stands in his way.

This isn't a matter of "no balls", its a matter of Biden handing Trump's biggest supporters a bunch of money and guns back in 2021 and Trump telling these guys "Arrest all the Bidencrats" the moment he took office.

Dafuq is any judge or legislator supposed to do in a country when ICE can kick down your door?

They fucked up thinking they'd never lose power. Now its too late to politics their way out of the mess.

How is he being blackmailed by TWO superpowers?

It's hardly blackmail. He's benefited immensely from the right wing turn on TikTok. They've got a Sword of Damacles over their heads that can drop any time the site turns against him.

He's extorting them.

Sorry, I hired a political consultant at $12,000/hr and he told me voters will only support idiots.

Besides, we need to do something as a party to distance ourselves from Muslims, Women, PoC, and the LGBTQ community. They're holding us back and scaring off all the white male social media millionaires!

Like: Why don’t these corpos just use a PIN system, god damn it? (rhetorical question, they probably don’t care)

This is what a Zero Regulations For The Last Forty Years government does to the business sector. Very simple, obvious solutions that you'd think multi-trillion dollar tech companies would have no trouble implementing aren't worth the effort.

Why bother doing anything for the consumer when you can just spend another $1M on advertising to make your shit service irrelevant?

Still an ugly pain in the ass for the person who wanted to exchange currency for goods and/or services.

I do find it amusing that Doordash itself seems so blaise about this misuse of their services. Like, what an amazing racket. Get paid by one of the biggest retailers in the country to not-pay drivers so they can not-deliver expensive hardware.

Best I can do is "Above Rocks, Jamaica"

No need to stop at Australia. You can take this international.

• Unterhaching, Germany
• Unterseen, Switzerland
• Sous-Bois (as in Montfermeil-sous-Bois), France
• Sotto il Monte, Italy
• Altındağ, Turkey

He's too popular. Precisely because he brought $77B into the state to line his friends' pockets.

Who is going to run against Abbott that isn't just a more Fash version of him? Any Democrat that runs will campaign on "Actually I always supported the wall and I'm upset he didn't build it fast enough". Any Republican in the primaries will complain that Abbott is too nice to Jews.

And then every newspaper and TV channel in the state will endorse him, because that's what their sponsors told them to do. The state will split 46/54, with a weird 40,000 vote undercount in Harris County and six counties in the Panhandle voting GOP to a man. And he'll be in for another four years while the Green Party gets blamed for another liberal defeat.

It's absolutely not. Bush, Biden, Clinton, Reagan - they all whined about how mean the press was. I think Obama was the only president in my lifetime who just mugged his way through it.

And Nixon? Regularly squeeled like a stuck pig, if you work his way through the White House tapes.

The joke of '16 is that Hilary stood Trump up as a punching bag. She thought he'd be the easiest candidate to beat, while the GOP was trying to hand her Jeb Bush as an opponent.

Trump could have been another Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul if Dems hadn't deliberately promoted him.

If you want to talk about someone who should have swallowed a bullet in 2016...

That would require them to make devices that don't instantly fail due to water damage or similar environmental hazards.

Do modern cell phones meet these requirements? I'm seeing at least two or three different points of failure on my OnePlus right off the cuff.

Under an Imperial Presidency, the Congress has relatively little to do. Since everyone in the House just slaps the "Okay!" button when Trump demands more authority - and since the Presidency already has so much authority pre-allocated to it by Congress that there's relatively little left to surrender - all the little Congresscritters can do is hold investigative hearings in a vain attempt to get media attention.

Chasing the ghost of Joe Biden is what the Alex Jones tier of the right-wing entertainment sphere want. It gives them something to fill 4-5 hours a day of talk radio whining about. And it gives back bencher Congresscritters and opportunity to go on these shows and get some national attention.

For the wanna-be celebrities in the GOP, this is one way they know how to get attention.

The irony of the bin Laden attack is that it was in response to US military occupation of Saudi Arabia, via a dozen-odd installations ringing the Saudi Peninsula.

But UK/US military occupation of The Kingdom (combined with the Petrodollar, which grants the Monarchy an unlimited line of international credit) is what effectively makes Saudi Arabia a military and economic power in the region. The western occupation of Saudi Arabia is the gun to the head of every other country in the region. Without that, they'd be no better off than Egypt or Turkiye.

Bin Laden and his allies were certainly fanatical. But they were reactionary in defiance of the Protestant dominance of the Muslim World. It's hard for us to forget 9/11. It's far easier for us to forget the prior 60 years of UK/US/Israeli backed violent oppression, invasion, and assassination of every Unaligned Muslim Leader stretching from Algeria to Thailand.

I mean, its genuinely sad to see someone so horrifyingly alienated from her father. I hope she's got other people in her life who can present positive male models of behavior. It would absolutely suck shit to be Elon Musk's child and I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

Vivian had the good fortune to have a cool mom and an extended family/friend network who supported her. Idk how many of Musk's other kids will be that lucky. Certainly Ashley St. Clair's kid is fucked. That child is going to be sheep-dipped in fascism from day one.

The apple can fall pretty far from the tree when the tree spends all its time bouncing across the country between corporate orgies and fascist TED Talks.

Vivian was fortunate enough to have a good, cool mom who raised her to have a sense of self-determination and independence. I doubt Grimes or Ashley St. Clair's kids will be so lucky.

It needs Just 1 bullet in trumps head… FCK America.

I mean, sure, that would be nice.

But the idea that Fascism is just one man using mind control powers on the rest of the country and if you get rid of that singular embodiment of evil the rest of the fascists will disappear in a puff of logic is... flawed.

If Trump had eaten a bullet in 2024, JD Vance would be President right now and nothing would be meaningfully different. The rot is systemic. It isn't even contained to the GOP. Go check out "Welcomefest" and the continued Liberalist campaign to transform the Democratic Party into a rebranded Dick Cheney style of neoconservatism by courting Silicon Valley goons who are on the fence about Trump.

This doesn't end with one guy going away. This doesn't end with 100 guys going away. This ends when the top tier of mega-wealthy families no longer have an incentive to kill millions of people in order to maintain their elite positions.

Why not create comparison like “generating 1000 words of your fanfiction consumes as much energy as you do all day” or something more easily to compare.

Because its still bullshit. The bulk of the utilization of these LLMs isn't going to your 1000 word Princess Leia/Dianna Troy lesbian romance. They're going to some call center in the Philippines blowing up your cell with automated voice-to-text phone calls and a bargain basement Netflix animation studio experimenting with AI generated children's cartoons.

Once again, we have a giant Business Factory spewing out enormous plums of waste to produce things nobody asked for. Then we're getting an Op-Ed from some know-nothing hack on the greenwashing beat to tell their readers "Um, aktuly, these skyrocketing emissions are because you asked Alexa to add kidney beans to your shopping list." And I will put even money odds on this Op-Ed, itself, being AI generated.