“Ah shit, is that Venezuela? Where was the one with the gondoliers then?”

and WE were the snowflakes who wanted a prize for everything

I think the generally unspoken hope is that democracy in the US is not completely fucked and that the transition to full-on fascism can still be reverted after Trump’s political or physical death (both of which seem ever so close).

Gangster starts war with some of its closest colleagues

I laughed when I read the list of organization names and saw “Education Cannot Wait”. Because I mean that one had it coming: it’s so clearly anti-MAGA!

Loophole. They didn’t cross their heart and hope to die. The only way is calling them out with Liar Liar Pants on Fire

If he’s going to fuck whole nations now, I though he’d go for South Sudan, as it’s now less than 15 years old as a state.

As a EU-an, It’s a good plan, but I don’t want my city bombed and our President kidnapped.

Being a bubble does not mean the service they provide is useless. It means that the service is never generating enough profit to repay for the huge cost of providing it.

Would you pay 500 dollars a month to have the possibility to do your movie searches? Or alternatively, would you like your LLM of choice to counter that, having read all your emails and browser history, you are probably interested in a totally different movie that just happens to be playing now at a nearby cinema?

Because these AI companies are currently burning through literally a good chunk of all the cash in the world and they will eventually need to make even more gigantic profits to repay that cash. And the only one that is currently making money from AI seems to be NVIDIA, by selling the hardware that powers the AI giants.

I’m not saying that it IS all a bubble, by the way, as I can’t read the future and these gigantic profits might well materialize in the future. I’m just saying that “bubble” and “useless” are different.

Microsoft could write an AI agent to filter threads based on context you don’t like. Come to think of it, Megagenius Elon Musk already has one he wrote to censor anti-Israel posts on Trump’s Truth Social. There, I think I got them all… Happy holidays!

“no, we meant it as a compliment!”

Yeah, they didn’t even kiss until season 2!

And yes, you CAN run Doom on it. But turns out it’s not a great idea

***k

Hey, how do you know my password?

Underestimating China isn’t wise, but always using China as the new Boogeyman to get even more trillions invested in “national security” is getting old fast. “Secret reports” my ass. If you’re reading it on the internet it’s most likely plain old FUD.

You’re right, meddling with elections in other countries has been done pretty often (see how many times the US appear in this list on wikipedia ) but sitting Presidents usually pretend to be politely looking the other way.

What’s different now is that Trump likes to put his name on everything, preferably in big golden letters, and he can’t keep his mouth shut to save his life. In the news it’s hardly ever “the USA” now; it’s “the Trunp admin” or just “Trump” doing everything.

Oh, now he’s concerned that Roblox is bad for kids? After he bought Trump?

…out of the overwindow?

I see… so people have to find Xi useful instead of the old outdated system where they are allowed to vote. Oh, also NOT finding Xi useful is a crime. Got it. Seems like a sensible system!

Oh, new intelligence has just emerged that your country’s government is supporting a terrorist organization that sending drugs to the US! /s