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  • His delusion is that he's always the adult in the room.

  • I'm sure every major government has staffers that monitor the public (and sometimes private) communications of other world leaders. That means there are people who work in say Iran, or Israel or Nigeria who are on Truth Social just so they can brief higher-ups about what Trump is doing and saying.

  • Signed everyone

    Did they at least do it ironically?

  • You use another standard when looking at whether I'm lying.

    Yes, I'm using your standard when looking at whether you're lying, and I've determined you're lying.

  • Imagine you're the guy who invented SawStop, the table saw that can detect fingers touching the saw blade and immediately bury the blade in an aluminum block to avoid cutting off someone's finger. Your system took a lot of R&D, it's expensive, requires a custom table saw with specialized internal parts so it's much more expensive than a normal table saw, but it works, and it works well. You've now got it down that someone can go full-speed into the blade and most likely not even get the smallest cut. Every time the device activates, it's a finger saved. Yeah, it's a bit expensive to own. And, because of the safety mechanism, every time it activates you need to buy a few new parts which aren't cheap. But, an activation means you avoided having a finger cut off, so good deal! You start selling these devices and while it's not replacing every table saw sold, it's slowly being something that people consider when buying.

    Meanwhile, some dude out of Silicon Valley hears about this, and hacks up a system that just uses a $30 webcam, an AI model that detects fingers (trained exclusively on pudgy white fingers of Silicon Valley executives) and a pinball flipper attached to a rubber brake that slows the blade to a stop within a second when the AI model sees a finger in danger.

    This new device, the, "Finger Saver" doesn't work very well at all. In demos with a hotdog, sometimes the hotdog is sawed in half. Sometimes the saw blade goes flying out of the machine into the audience. After a while, the company has the demo down so that when they do it in extremely controlled conditions, it does stop the hotdog from being sawed in half, but it does take a good few chunks out of it before the blade fully stops. It doesn't work at all with black fingers, but the Finger Saver company will sell you some cream-coloured paint that you can paint your finger with before using it if your finger isn't the right shade.

    Now, imagine if the media just referred to these two devices interchangeably as "finger saving devices". Imagine if the Finger Saver company heavily promoted their things and got them installed in workshops in high schools, telling the shop teachers that students are now 100% safe from injuries while using the table saw, so they can just throw out all safety equipment. When, inevitably, someone gets a serious wound while using a "Finger Saver" the media goes on a rant about whether you can really trust "finger saving devices" at all.

    Anyhow, this is a rant about Waymo vs. Tesla.

  • Now you're lying about what I'm saying? Your standard for "lying" is that someone says something untrue and it's hard to prove that they knew in advance it was untrue. So, clearly you're a liar.

  • Wait, you're saying that The Hellbound Heart isn't the original? Next thing you'll be trying to convince me that Pope Greg is innocent of plagiarism, because he actually didn't steal from Se7en.

  • Apply my rules to both cases, and the media is lying

    And so are you. Those are your rules. You chose them, and so now they apply to you.

    Apply your rules in both cases, and the media isn't lying, and neither am I

    Apply my rules and we don't know if the media is lying, but there's no evidence to suggest that they knew that what they were saying is untrue, so it's unreasonable to say they're lying. As for you, who knows.

    Your bias is so obvious

    My bias? You're the guy who claims the media is lying without any evidence that they knew what they were saying was wrong, and you insist that you can still call that lying. But, when that same standard is applied to you, you want to reject it. You want to have your cake and eat it too, liar.

  • You didn't present evidence of lying, you presented evidence that what they reported ended up being untrue. That's part of lying, and I don't dispute that part. The key part is that they knew that what they were reporting was untrue and they reported it anyway. You've presented no evidence to support that.

    So, based on your rules, I can say you're a liar, because you've said some things that are not true, so I'm just going to assume that you know they're untrue and you're lying.

  • I bet you also think the original "A Christmas Carol" was the one with the muppets.

  • That's only 6 companies.

  • And there's the double standard, plain as day. To call me a liar, you would need to prove not only that I said something false

    No, your new standard is "vibes". You have "vibes" that the media lies, so you get to call them liars. I'm appyling the same logic to what you say, liar.

  • Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-1.6460410

    President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukraine was working on

    https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-developing-interceptor-drones-counter-russian-attacks-2025-06-20/

    According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones

    https://kyivindependent.com/russian-drone-and-missile-attack-killed-7-injured-dozens-across-ukraine-over-past-day/

    Iran says it launched an attack on United States forces at Al Udeid Air Base.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/23/live-iran-vows-to-respond-to-us-attacks-trump-hints-at-regime-change

    Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces had reached the border of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region

    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250608-russia-says-pushing-offensive-into-ukraine-s-dnipropetrovsk-region

    President Biden claimed former President Trump was "exaggerating" and "lying" about the crisis at the southern border during the first presidential debate.

    https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/biden-claims-trump-is-exaggerating-about-the-situation-at-the-border-213854789562


    They report on Russia and Iran's claims exactly the same way they report on anyone else's claims.

  • It's literally the most common answer on stackexchange.

  • Now you just need to slay the Apostrophe Monster.

  • An impossible standard of evidence? You think proving someone lied is impossible? And yet, despite knowing you can't prove it, you want to throw around accusations that someone lied.

    In that case, you're a liar. I don't need to prove it, because proving someone lied is impossible. I can just say you lied and then call it done.

  • Who's consenting?

  • So, are you admitting you can't actually find a single lie told by Vladimir Putin?

    I never made any claims about Putin. You, however, did make claims about the media. Back up your claims.

  • Except Gates is a piece of shit. You don't need to shout at Gates, but nobody should ever meet him and treat him like a human.

  • No she wasn't. She was never part of IBM at all.

    She simply knew the chairman of IBM because they both served on the United Way board of directors. She was also a lawyer, as was Gates' dad, which is a likely reason that the contract that Bill signed with IBM was so incredibly friendly to Microsoft.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates