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in a world where private prisons are a thing, punitive measures mean business. Cut help for vulnerable populations, redirect funds to businesses, it's the same reverse-Robinhood shit; steal from the poor, give to the rich, with the added twist of "convince the poor this is good for them so they will vote you into power (until we figure out how to fix this "voting" nuisance for good)

30 pieces of silver + 2000 years of inflation.... Sounds about right

he'd probably just be like : "See? I AM wanted! Take this mom and dad!"

"we were using ChatGPT to design our server architecture and..." (OpenAI PR tomorrow, probably...)

He did something very wrong. Apologize after a failed golpe coup? That's not how you president! Amateur

EDIT: golpe is not English...

Good choice of picture, I think it represents well a totally unexpected outcome

"Pull my finger... I said pull my finger, damnit!"

Farts ..

"Well, what were you expecting me to do?"

that's probably what happens. Tomatoes get at least half-processed in China, so they are less perishable and cheaper to transport and then mixed with that 1% of "true italian" tomato puree and bottled/canned somewhere in Italy so the result can be marketed as an italian product.

This is not specific to tomatoes. I remember an article doing the math for Chianti and questioning how millions of liters of wine can all come from grapes grown on a few hills in a small part of Tuscany.

I like this. Just a couple of additions, for the purpose of trying to improve on this lore.

First, Native Americans do have ghosts too (see https://allthatsinteresting.com/native-american-ghost-stories for instance).

If "ghosts" are just the embers of a particularly strong emotion that burned in a particular place, I suggest that "seeing" the ghost depends on being able to tune-in to that emotion and on having the cultural tools to interpret it and personify it.

So I might experience some faint, weird feeling going through a field where a battle between Native American tribes once happened but, as a white person imbued with a specific culture, I would not be able to recognize that particular mix of feelings and "see" that ghost. But a Native American might.

And if a big department store is built on top of that field, it would make it harder to both tune in to that particular faint feeling (among the confusion of so many other feelings) and to personify it as an old Navajo warrior, which would not make sense to us in that place

and a participate pant

Typical autocorrect, the author of the article clearly meant "and drop his pants"

exactly! "I was energized to meet with the team in X and discuss our sales figures" or "congrats, company Y, for disrupting the market of foot creams" is the best use of AI.

I'm not sure how you would even be able to tell if that type of content is AI-generated or just plain old copy-pasted from one of a thousand similar posts

more like:

• Viruses seize opportunity given by favorable political environment to multiply aggressively
• Viruses win, humanity loses...
• but hey, that's free competition and low regulation for you and viruses are Republicans
• Viruses proceed to elect Trump (who now claims to be a virus, bigliest ever) as their leaeder

I see what you mean and I agree with you too. He's no longer a private citizen "just voicing his opinion" or "just asking questions". When you are in power, words have consequences.

The issue is that both Musk and Trump were already professional trolls and liars. Now they actually weaponized trolling to create anger and fear, which directly feed votes and power into the side they have chosen to represent. How do you fight that? Do you still try NOT to feed the troll, when the troll is leading the most powerful nation on Earth?

if you want to listen to 35 minutes of annoying music, press 1. If you want to get insulted personally by an operator stay on the line

can we start collectively ignoring whatever Musk says? I am individually starting to, making one last exception with this comment, but only collectively we can really make a difference in making the world (or at least Lemmy) a quieter, Elon-less place. If he does something newsworthy for good (puts a person on Mars) or for bad (I don't know where to start here....) then by all means let's celebrate or sulk but when he talks or Xits let his voice disperse as quickly as a fart in the wind.

Yes, I get your point and I agree that Marcos lost the chance to try and de-escalate things.

The thing is that these are not two random people fighting in a bar. They both have large, very powerful clans and millions of supporters each. If they start talking about who is going to kill whom first, that's playing a very dangerous game and they both should feel the responsibility to keep things civil. Not for them but for the People who elected them

I am not from the Philippines and am not taking sides here, but if someone taked about killing me (even hypothetically) iI would find it a bit threatening too.

Especially if that someone was very specific about it. Like, not shouting angrily "I'll kill you!" but describing a plan to send a hitman after me.

I agree with you. In addition to what you are saying, if Lodge exports to other countries and these countries fire back with tariffs of their own, there will be increased pressure to raise prices in the US to make up for the loss of revenue abroad. I'm not from the US and don't know if that is the case for Lodge specifically, but it will surely be the case for a lot of US brands

“It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” said the former Republican congressman from Florida.

Spoiler alert, Matt, being a distraction was the one job you had to do

Ok. I Hope there were industrial secrets or some weird espionage thing going on because the premise of foreign intelligence paying a guy to burn down a business sounds like peak Zapp Brannigan.

Looking forward to "yes I admit drinking one too many and getting naked at the Christmas party; Russia paid me to do it!"

Plus, you know that a human body is like 70% water? If you're one of those billionaire vampires you are going to be just fine.