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Country led by Russian asset doesn't allow others to act against Russia. That sounds correct.

You do know the American political compass is special among political compasses, right? Compared to Europe (or even Canada), our definition of "moderate" is their equivalent of "conservative". Likewise, our "left" is "center".

Wishing the already-not-left Democratic Party starts shifting even more right is wishing for a two-party system where the options are conservatism and fascism.

You're totally right. We don't have a two party system, we have a system where only two parties are large enough to win any kind of influence.

Only if you don't say "no homo" first.

From what I have seen said about him, Pierre sounds like the Canadian equivalent of a Republican. If that's true, kneeling or bending over would be the more applicable description of what he would do when facing Trump.

They sure are doing what they can to "make america healthy again"... by trying to permanently reduce the number of people with health conditions.

That's fine, he'll just ask Trump to start a non-trade war to save him /s

It's still worth signing anyways, but realistically, 250k over two months is not something they're going to listen to.

That is a lot of people if you're looking at it in absolute numbers, but it becomes an easily-ignored drop in the bucket when you compare it to total population and growth of the movement over time. It's less than 0.1% of voting-age citizens (or 1 in every 1000 people). Ignoring the fact that petitions are always front-loaded in signatures and quickly lose steam, if it kept going at the rate it's going, it would take over a year to even be 1% of people. Even by 2028, that would still be an insignificant amount of votes thanks to the winner-takes-all electoral system.

There's simply no incentive for them to care.

There is no such thing as perfect security, but there's a big difference between trying to obscure something confidential between two parties (a password) and trying to obscure information that by design must be shared with other parties (an email address).

Outside of diligently using disposable alias addresses, obscuring an email is an exercise in futility. The biggest point of failure in security is the human, and all it takes is a single person to leak it. With all the people that need to communicate with Musk over email, the opportunity for that to happen is far higher than the chance of something like someone successfully cracking a hash.

That's security through obscurity, and it doesn't work in the long run.

I wonder what other aspects of civilization we can obstruct with debris from irreversible deployment of immature tech.

You're thinking too far ahead. We already destroyed critical thinking and civility with debris from irreversible deployment of social media.

I know the image is a meme, but LLMs are actually subtly racist.

Unfortunately.

People expect the Democratic Party to oppose authoritarian and socially regressive policies, but the Democratic Party isn't an opposition party. They do the bare minimum to look Not as Bad as the Alternative™ so they can avoid having to promise to change things that they benefit from themselves, and anything beyond that is dismissed as not worth even attempting because of hypothetical Republican stalling.

They had well-liked progressive candidates like Bernie and they went out of their way to screw him at every opportunity. And they're still going out of their way to screw over progressive members among their ranks. It's disgraceful.

Grep? Nah, he probably fed it into a LLM and asked it to find any word with "trans" in it.

— Trump, probably

Exactly! You get it.

They also burned down the White House in 1812. And their geese... those things scare me. If the people are anything like the waterfowl, the correct course of action is to leave it the hell alone.

About 20 trips to the grocery store and the associated gas prices.

Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, Elon Musk criticized U.S. passenger rail as “embarrassing” compared to other countries.

Elon Musk? The same Elon Musk who helped cancel a high-speed rail transit project by touting his quickly-abandoned, far-fetched sci-fi transit system?

If the definition is broad enough, imagery can refer to text depicting something visual. For example, describing Trump talking into a microphone can be imagery. The previous sentence could also be imagery, and if you just imagined him talking into a microphone, you proved it.

That would make it incredibly easy to silence media and criticism. An article describes Trump signing an executive order to make Nazis a protected demographic? The author published intimate imagery of Trump signing his signature without first checking with Trump that it was ok to do so. BANNED.