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well, joke's on you. Since I rewrote her in Rust, my mom runs the 100 meters hurdles in 14 seconds

Plot twist: Trump and Musk are secretly champions of Liberalism and Democracy who, striving to strengthen again our antibodies against fascism and populism, decide that the world needs new villains to unite against and selflessly sacrifice themselves.

As the two grow frustrated from the weak reactions, their antics become increasingly over-the-top to the point of caricature.

• I ran on a platform of insulting everyone and they elected me. Including most of the ones I was directly threatening with deportation
• yeah, I did a f*ing Nazi salute right at your inauguration. Twice, to make sure it got caught on video
• ha good one! I said I'd annex Canada and Greenland. Oh, and that I'd turn Gaza into a great resort!
• Sh#t, that was a good one, surely there's a crowd with pitchforks out there now? No? The f*k is wrong witth these people!?

and it is his cherished state

Yes it's a particularly dumb slogan when most of their common "plan" is about destroying Europe. They are basically saying "can we go back to hating and periodically invading each other?".

These guys are united by their dislike of each other. Which is fair enough, because I really dislike every single one of them too. I just wish instead of all this talking they mounted on their horses and jousted, like back then when Europe was, you know... great?

Mars should be on that list

But if half of the engagement is from AI, isnt that a grift on advertisers? Why should I pay for an ad on Facebook that is going to be "seen" by AI agents? AI don't buy products (yet?)

The full quote in the article is

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years

So, Vance seems to be saying thati Stewart is above average but the problem is that he thinks he's almost a genius. The "false arrogance" bit, though... So Stewart is only pretending to be arrogant and he's actually a pretty down to earth guy who does not think he's a genius? Overall pretty solid bromance thing going between those two!

for those of you who live in the US: there must surely be Republican voters being appalled by this too, right? _Right?

Although some say he personally wasn't but he sent Jews to die anyway because he really really wanted to be friends with the Nazis.

Tariffs seem to be Trump's go-to move nowadays. "Grab them by the wallet".

• To Putin: stop the war or tariffs!
• To Europe: buy more US oil or tariffs!
• To Denmark: gimme Greenland or tariffs!
• To Melania (probably): pretend you can still bear being in the same room with me or tariffs!
• McDonald's - "cash or card, sir?" "Tariffs!"

it is. But who said that you get to decide what's relevant for you? Welcome and learn to trust your algorithmic overlords

Who needs dollars when you have $TRUMP meme coins?

I meant something even more radical than translating language. This is Google maps changing borders for disputed territories depending on what side of the dispute the user is: https://theweek.com/speedreads/451127/google-maps-changes-chinas-borders-based-viewers-locations .

I imagine Apple has similar policies too where they adhere to local regulations or just don't want to piss their users in any country, so they just show everyone what the want to see.

So yes, they do have the tools to do it and on top of that they also have a consolidate tradition of doing it.

I don't know... Isn't naming (and even country boundaries) already localized based on where the users are? Isn't a possible scenario that Apple and others could show Gulf of America to US users and Gulf of Mexico to everyone else without even spending too much effort?

or from windows for even shorter periods. Very popular in Russia

EU sure mulls a lot.... (Source: I live in the EU)

I agree with you on the web privacy legislation, but the point u/Filthmontane was making is that the CCP could have our data anyway, by buying it from Meta or Google, so at least giving it directly to China is better (in that at least Meta and Google don't have it). I think that argument is only half-serious, but after the whole Cambridge Analytica debacle still more serious than it should be...

Imagine one of your friends says "wanna bet I can beat you at arm wrestling?".

Scenario 1: you look at them and they look more or less your size, so you bet $10. They win, but you say "wait, I wasn't ready, let's repeat". They win again and you say "my elbow slipped, let's go again". They win for the third time, you say "you are cheating" and refuse to pay the bet. You couldn't blame them if they concluded that you're full of it and didn't want to be friends with you any longer.

Scenario 2: you see that your friend has biceps the size of your head. You laugh and say "no way man, not going to arm wrestle with you!". You share a laugh and go get a beer.

You can think of Insurance as a morbid type of betting, where you don't really want to win the bet, because it's something like "hey, wanna bet that I don't get killed in a car accident this year?" and the Insurance can decide to take the bet or not depending on what they estimate your odds of dying in a car crash. If you want to bet on "wanna bet my house does not get destroyed by a fire this year" and no insurance company wants to take that bet, that's a pretty bad sign, because they think the odds of a fire are way too high.

I don't know how you feel about the ethical aspect of betting at all, but I think there's a difference between them being unwilling to take your bet and them taking your bet but then refusing to pay you if you "win".

I don't want to be the one defending Insurance companies because seriously fuck them.

But... Please correct me if I got it wrong, but for the California fires they are accused of refusing to sell insurance policies or asking very high prizes for them, which is a very different thing than selling the policy and then denying and delaying payments after something has happened.

An insurance company saying they won't insure you means that the risk is visibly and insanely high. Which it clearly was. If anything this should have been a pretty loud alarm bell that has been ignored.