We have to always be on guard and win every time, but they only have to succeed once.

It’ll be a historic speech and require mandatory memorization for school children in the future idiocracy

They just do.

It’s as English as this is

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

Perhaps we’ve ended up where they’re all corporate shills because if you aren’t a corporate shill and you can make change happen, you end up dead.

Edit: Or they attempt to denaturalize and deport you…first

Edit: To be clear, i fear for Zohran Mamdani’s life if this stupid deportation thing fails.

I literally just had this happen last night, but like 5am.

So, at first from the headline I thought it was about online dating and the messages being sent back and forth were from chatgpt.

But no, this is just about using it at all.

I’m 50k km in, and my pads were at 85% when I asked them to check when getting an air filter replaced. I just wanted to have an idea of how they were wearing.

Can’t anything make it to the supreme court with enough money?

It doesn’t mean they’ll hear it, but you get to be declined like this?

During covid I got in the habit of washing my hands every time I get home, and using sanitizer whenever I get back into the car after having gone out, and it seems to have really helped too.

I wonder if they used this logic, if people who wanted an abortion within the time frame of the ruling and finding out they were pregnant could sue.

Like - I had already conceived before your ruling on Roe vs Wade, so that decision was made based off existing laws, so I should have been allowed the abortion.

Sue for the entire cost of raising those children.

I think a comic of ICE agents walking into Wisconsin homes and then walking out with already bought food would be pretty good.

To be fair, our FPTP system does tend to create majority governments so this wouldn’t ever be an issue then as they can pass anything they want. We might be having an election though if this current minority government budget fails which it might.

It’d be nice if we could move to proportional representation though as majority governments are almost always with well less than 50% of the vote and vote splitting fucks things up for center/ledt parties and let’s the conservatives win more because they consolidated into 1 party including all the extreme right whackjobs

Leopards saw it coming and took out the fine china!

No, you are right, things don’t just stop when that happens. I imagine funding could lapse if it was about to lapse, but just because there isn’t a budget passed yet doesn’t mean its immediately going to lapse.

If we somehow had a budget fail, and for some reason took 6 months to have an election (would never happen), we might run into funding issues?

Not really.

In Canada and other parliamentary type systems, failing to pass a budget triggers an election.

I still think there’s a difference.

When people talk about wielding money like power, its more along the lines of

• if you don’t do what I say, I’ll destroy you by doing XYZ.
• you better change your laws or I can fuck shit up in some way.
• I can break the law because you can’t fucking touch me.
• Your example: the power to command other people to do your bidding.

For Twitter he actually used his wealth as actual money to buy something you would buy with money.

He did get power from it yes, but I still think there’s a distinction when talking about wiedling it as power vs using money as money.

Unless you buy Twitter.

These are forward looking claims on something they are building. It’s not quite the same.

FSD is closer, but it is an improving product.

It’d be more like if FSD wasn’t ever improving even and yet he still kept making the claims.

He should still be punished for the FSD stuff though.

The only way a world like this could happen is if the governments get onboard and do a UBI or similar thing.

What’s going to happen is the robots will get made (by someone, eventually) workforces will start laying people off and there won’t be anywhere near enough jobs.

Now there’s 2 options for the USA

1. Government steps in does something to support people to have a comfortable (not poverty life)

2. Government bends to the corpos and does nothing and poverty and suffering skyrockets.

For the USA at least, I can’t see them doing #1. It would take a revolution to make a change like that happen, and it’d be bloody.