What conservatives want is for us to treat them like babies with tiny little fragile baby beliefs that we have to coddle.

I don’t care if you think differently than me, what I care about is babies demanding we take their hateful and irrational ideologies seriously while they simultaneously target vulnerable groups with at a minimum hate speech and harassment.

If we coddle conservatives this place becomes less welcoming to new people, that is how it is.

Solar is Fusion as a Service or FaaS technology.

What about your mom though?

I love how competent and thorough you think the people creating AI are.

AI is a self selecting industry of serial bullshitters, I am sure they claim to do all the things you say, but I am zero percent convinced of it until I see proof these kinds of anti-AI strategies don’t work.

What if we figured out the right prompt to get an AI to regurgitate its memorization of reddit and just copied that? Is that still theft if it was already stolen twice?

1. More then Reddit this place is an echo chamber for the far left anti capitalist crowd. While I don’t mind a discussion, everything over simplified to EAT THE RICH was getting tiresome.

That must be so difficult for you compared to all the wonderful corporate platforms full of rightwing hateful trolls who genuinely harass people.

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Edit Actually after taking a step back and looking at how many thoughtful comments and conversations have happened on this thread, I am heartened.

There is a lot of passion here, we are just fighting against unbelievably strong currents.

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Pathetic

Who needs the diet version of fascists?

The obvious play here is for Machado to give Trump a blatantly fake knockoff of her Nobel Prize. If Trump doesn’t immediately realize it he will be unable to admit he got duped later and double down on his prize being real.

In my opinion seeing this through the lens of nations is nearly meaningless.

What is happening is the end of oil has begun and the Ukrainian war has made it very difficult to keep oil prices high. China is moving towards alternative energy and massively investing into EVs, the writing is on the wall. If you don’t secure a buyer for your oil even if you have lots of oil it is going to become harder and harder to sell it.

The way I see it, Trump is at the end of the day attacking Venezuela and seizing tankers in order to try to introduce enough instability into the world oil markets that prices don’t crash further for the oil companies actually running all of this. I don’t really even see this as a true hostile action against Russia, it feels like a purely cynical price manipulation move that Russia just happened to be the convenient target of.

All of the other context people are providing are the details built upon this core reality.

Well to be fair Steve Bannon is a literal nazi and his brain is a smooth sphere of angry mushy hate so…

All of that is a large, large amount of capital expenditure, and the people who can put that money down will want solid assurances that the Venezuela arrangement will continue for years and decades.

Right and I think Trump doing this was mainly about introducing instability into Venezuela to reduce the likelihood foreign investors will help make this happen that aren’t US companies, and I don’t think US oil companies by and large want oil supply to increase on the world market.

Yeah it is definitely about more than the oil, but insofar as it is about oil I am completely unconvinced this is actually about pumping more oil, it doesn’t make basic sense in the context of the oil market and the glut of US oil production supply being extremely poorly positioned for the current oil market.

This only makes sense if Trump is trying to keep oil prices from dropping further, not drive them down even more.

Their business is B2B now.

That and mass surveillance such as with Palestine and Microslop’s Azure used by Israel to obscure individual culpability in deciding who to murder next.

Do you honestly think blanket restrictions on alcohol and cigarettes etc… actually work? In my experience they don’t.

Further this is a moral panic and distraction from actually addressing the problems, it will do nothing to keep kids safe and will just backfire when they search out even less safe alternatives.

In my opinion no and that is the point.

Drive up prices by artificially constricting supply…

No

If the US faces no consequences for the invasion of Venezuela, experts believe it could embolden other countries to carry out operations which may contravene international law.

“The most obvious consequence is that China will take the opportunity to invade Taiwan,” Robertson said. “This is the most appropriate time for it to do so, bolstered by the precedent of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and of course his appeasement of Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. In fact, I would say that Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is the crime of aggression, the same crime Putin has committed by invading Ukraine.”