“Liberals like you”, that’s a real asshat thing to say.

if they fuck around again, have them arrested. They have officers in the capitol

If that had ever happened, then it might be worth talking about. But, realistically the most you’ll ever get is “reclaiming my time”.

I wonder what the most effective way to fight this is. If it isn’t stopped both sides will do it more and more. If a democrat did it, I would really hope that other democrats would call them out on it. That might stop it. The other approach that might work is the Newsom style mocking of it.

If you understand how LLMs work, that’s not surprising.

LLMs generate a sequence of words that makes sense in that context. It’s trained on trillions(?) of words from books, Wikipedia, etc. In most of the training material, when someone asks “what’s the name of the person who did X?” there’s an answer, and that answer isn’t “I have no fucking clue”.

Now, if it were trained on a whole new corpus of data that had “I have no fucking clue” a lot more often, it would see that as a reasonable thing to print sometimes so you’d get that answer a lot more often. However, it doesn’t actually understand anything. It just generates sequences of believable words. So, it wouldn’t generate “I have no fucking clue” when it doesn’t know, it would just generate it occasionally when it seemed like it was an appropriate time. So, you’d ask “Who was the first president of the USA?” and it would sometimes say “I have no fucking clue” because that’s sometimes what the training data says a response might look like when someone asks a question of that form.

This is the shirt, in black not camo:

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Donald-Trump-Re-Election-2020-Make-Liberals-Cry-Again-2-by-EntengArt/84297730.1YYVU

Definitely a leftie, this guy.

All shootings are the fault of the country that interprets their constitution to say that everyone, by default, has access to guns.

warning?

I don’t think your risk assessment is very good.

I wouldn’t go to the US either right now. But, tens of millions of people have visited. A few hundred of those tens of millions have had incredibly bad experiences where they were locked up and then deported. Each one of those stories makes the news because it’s so shocking. It’s a few hundred people up from roughly zero.

North Korea only gets a few thousand western tourists each year, but cases like Otto Warmbier and Jeffrey Edward Fowle’s are pretty common.

America doesn’t have insane gun laws.

No, it has insane gun laws.

The 2nd amendment, as written, isn’t insane. It’s about having a militia. But, as interpreted, it’s absolutely ridiculous. Guns, at a minimum, should be treated like cars. As a potentially deadly tool that nobody has a right to have, but that people can be licensed to use presuming they pass tests.

That only works if people use it.

For some reason, people have stuck with Twitter. But, the users of TikTok are not the same as the users of Twitter, so who knows, maybe they won’t stick with it.

I think I heard that the name for this military operation was “Operation Epstein”. So, to reduce confusion when talking about this, it’s probably best to mention the operation by name:

“Today in Operation Epstein, Trump deployed troops to Portland”

the media just repeats it

The media reports on it, attempting to do so from a neutral point of view.

I actually appreciate that the professional media is still attempting to stick to a neutral point of view. If they abandon that, you get media like MSNBC and Fox News where every single news story is discussed from a certain political point of view. That just sorts people into camps that listen to the news source that agrees with their perceived notions, which then radicalizes them even more.

If people can’t agree on a basic set of facts, then there’s no point to having a democracy. A media that covers the facts with as little bias as possible is essential to that working.

That isn’t to say that I think the media is doing a great job. The big media companies that are owned by the oligarchs are doing especially badly. When Trump does something like this, responsible media that’s attempting to be unbiased should at least connect historical dots, like other times that presidents have threatened the media, and what the results of that have been.

So, Trump effectively nationalized TikTok, valued at $300b. He sells it to friendly oligarchs for $15b. So far, this is basically the post-USSR playbook, and how Roman Abravmovich, Alisher Usmanov, Vladimir Lisin, etc. got so rich.

But it might piss off his oligarch buddies if he drives all the users off TikTok making what seemed like a steal into something worthless instead.

Teen Vogue is killing it right now. For example How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

I wonder if they’re starting to feel some real competition and feel threatened!

Probably the opposite. They’re confident they won’t lose sales over this because they’re too firmly established as a monopoly. And they know that with Trump in office they’re not going to face any pushback from the FTC.

That’s the unsurprising but sad thing to me. His posts on Truth Social are unhinged rants, but I still held out some hope that when he was talking privately to members of his own team he would at least refrain from using the stupid nicknames, the over the top bragging, the insults to random other people, but no. It looks like when he’s sending a memo to his attorney general he writes it as if he’s looking for social media likes from red-hatted morons.

A bigger deal to them is the theme parks and cruises.

Not only are those big money makers, they’re also easier for news crews to see and report on.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/everythingdisneyowns_b.jpg

(As of 2019)

You could care less? You mean, you care, possibly a lot?

Some people have been elected president with no political experience. But, the trend is pretty clear.