I agree, but that really is the point. Strain government services so they are shit, then use that as an excuse to privatize it as much as possible and funnel the funding to the oligarchs.

I thought the idea was that Trump wasn’t paying them? As in that’s the point, the Federal government is forcing the states to foot the bill as a sign of fealty.

It’s not my estimates, it’s actually polling data that is showing that among Hispanic voters in Texas that voted for Trump, his approval rating is dropping noticably.

From what I’ve seen if you account for voting trends even just back through 2016 or 2012, this redistricting isn’t very helpful. The 2024 voting trends seem more like an anomaly, especially with Hispanic voters. Given Trump’s crack down with ICE, his approval ratings among those voters have gone negative.

Remember they are basing all of this redistricting in the data from only 1 election cycle, 2024. Even though it’s obvious the trends related to Hispanic voters are likely moving back to historical levels favoring the Democrats. So in other words, this redistricting could easily blow up in their faces and increase the number of democratic seats.

I’m sure it’s as accurate and expensive as most A.I. slop.

This has been the full steam ahead plan since Reagan at least. You can see the social programs and reforms done by LBJ in the late 60s and some of the things Nixon did like the EPA. If I’m not mistaken Nixon then flirted with a government healthcare Medicare for all plan but it didn’t get far.

Since then it’s just been naked class warfare, capitalist pillaging, and wealth accumulation for the 0.1%.

Sure, it’s a horrible idea in an open office environment but if someone wants to use this at home for all their passwords it really won’t hurt anything.

I don’t doubt this is true. I’ve been playing with an A.I and some fairly simple python scripts and it’s so tedious to get the A.I. to actually do something to the script correctly. Learning to prompt is a skill all it’s own.

In my experience it’s much more useful for doing things like in AWS like create a Cloudformation template or look through user permissions for excess privileges or setup a backup schedule, like at scale when you have lots of accounts and users, etc.

How long before someone finds a glitch that allows them to trick the A.I. Into letting them get free seats or book the entire plane, etc.

My money is on them not returning him. They will either claim they can’t find him, he’s been moved to some other facility and they can’t find him or there isn’t any proof he’s actually there at all.

That name of the building is the backstory I was referring to. That was a headnod to what was actually happening with Japanese investors moving in and buying up a lot of American real estate. I think that’s when a Japanese group bought the Plaza hotel in NYC for example and when Sony bought a movie studio (renamed it Sony pictures, but I think it was CBS movie division).

Gung Ho, staring Michael Keaton, is another movie example.

This is all just Japan from the 80s all over again. There are a bunch of movies from the period with Japan as the bogeyman. The peak probably being the backstory of Die Hard.

The key difference this time is the USA was paying for Japan’s defense, had a massive military base, etc. China doesn’t have that problem, so they can counter American demands with their own demands.

Interestingly, look at interviews with Trump from the 80s, he’ll talk about Japan almost with the same language that he uses for China now. The most famous was probably an appearance of Trump on Oprah.

Even if Trump removes every tariff a recession is almost certainly coming. Short to longer term planning, hiring, building, etc will certainly slow down and that kind of things is widespread. People lose jobs, people don’t get hired, people choose not to start a business or invest money in the USA, etc.

Sorry to bust your bubble but that won’t happen. Walmart is infamous for drowning people that sue them in litigation until they are bankrupt.

She’s free to sue them for sue but that at best will get her a small payout that her legal bills will immediately consume. That’s only if Walmart offered her a payout, I’d say in this political climate and in Florida they would just grind her down.

Lol, I didn’t say any of that. But it’s a fact Goldberg has been a mouthpiece for the State department going back to at least the Iraq war in my opinion. He’s not a Trump guy but just doesn’t want to piss off any current administration so he won’t lose his access.

The reporter is a former IDF soldier, there is no way he would face any real blowback from Trump. There is a reason they had his number to add to the group and it’s because they were already feeding him information. The Atlantic is just a left coded mouthpiece for the State Department.

I did read the article but saw several mentions of texting, I was under the impression Signal was just another texting app.

TIL that the US military texts around sensitive plans, reporter aside, SMS is not a secure protocol to do this.

It’s messed up how low my federal student loan interest rates were. I was paying my loans off in the early 2000s and I swear my interest was only like 2%!