Eh. They can’t tell Trump what to do, only nudge and manipulate. Trump has to think it’s his idea.

Vance will do as he’s told.

The last thing we need is Jeffries.

Explain this. Starting with who. Vance, Thiel, or Trump?

Mike Johnson is in line after Vance.

I had guessed by Christmas. He looks terrible. Cankles like that happen when your heart and/or kidneys are in failure. He also acts like a man with stroke defecits. In addition to all the signs of Alzheimer’s, which, unlike dementia, is an additional physical degradation of the brain that can kill you.

If he’s on dialysis, skipping dialysis can easily kill you. Potassium alone can do it. Skip, potassium rises, maybe to 6+, heart attack. The meds that remove that fluid and reduce the size of cankles rely on the kidneys and can damage the kidneys.

Even so. Do not believe for a single second that any of this improves under President Theil, er, Vance.

I’ve dealt with booking.com. Sent pics of what was clearly a homeless flophouse and not a vacation rental.

Customer service: were denying your refund claim because the manager says what you said and the pics you sent are not true.

And who is checking? Seriously. Is there a guard at the door demanding entrants flash their genitals? And if they’ve already undergone surgery, what then?

This smells more like a don’t ask and don’t you ever fucking tell, or else, push.

Does Theil share? Vance is Theil’s.

The one thing that might change when Trump dies is this guy may go away.

It’s a fair point. The ability to pay these wages is a key part of the ecosystem.

You may need a new toilet, but, af a bid of $3k for a replacement, and the standard trades approach of total due at the end of the job or there’s a lien on your house, you may opt to shit in a bucket due to lack of funds.

I think the only new piece here is Trump wants to link in voter data.

There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.

But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.

Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.

I feel like we’re watching billionaires race yachts. One person bought a yacht so then they all had to have a yacht and now they’re racing them against one another because for some fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.

Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.

Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.

I realize younger people probably don’t feel this so viscerally, but shorts (not all, but many) are very in tune with old TV advertising format. It’s like an endless stream of Super Bowl ads, at best. Repetitive music. Designed for the short attention span. Makes you seek a product, in this case, more of itself.

Now, look at the “upcycled” (/s) version of YouTubr content. Reused video clips with a shiny, hyper-reactive talking head in front of it. Not human expression but caricatures thereof. Millions of views. Millions of viewers. For years. Not of human faces but caricatures of human faces. This garbage won’t go away because it’s consistantly being watched.

Now, after all that priming, introduce AI into the two most popular social medias, short form and long form.

How does this fully primed crowd know the difference? How would they suddenly feel the need to leave? Not you or me, but the people who consume the ad clones and charicaturized crap daily? The same people who slide their phones out of their pockets to scroll shorts, on automatic, whenever they have 5 free minutes at work. How do they even spot the difference after years of consuming garbage?

TLDR Less human interaction + more fake, caricaturized human vid content = where we are now, with AI on social media.

States. You can find marbles new. But I’d added some to watch lists on a few auctions now, thinking I’d scoop some up on the cheap instead of buying new. I was so wrong, and it’s a pattern of high spending by bidders.

Exactly. I can find them. But these estate auction bidders are spending so much. The last bid I looked at was $38 already and that’s not accounting for sales tax or the 18% tacked on for the auction house.

It’s bizarre.

Seems a bit heavy for paper.

Not on estate auction. The bidding wars on them are ridiculous and I’d love to know why.