Ah yes having to lick the boot of an autocrat with no freedom to dissent. That sure sounds like its working to me.

How about decorum minus gun etiquette.

Not just American citizens. The people he grew up with. His own community. He even wrote a book to exploit it. The guy is all sleaze.

The vast majority of Americans allowed for this by either voting for Trump or refraining from voting at all. There is certainly some global animosity towards the American voting public, though little has been said so far, as we wait to see if the people have any sway over the global recession their choice may cause.

Most of us have come to realize that the American government does not care about the world, which is fine. But this is the first time I’ve seen ordinary people around the world wish economic pain upon the American people, mostly because they know it’s the only reason that their government will change course.

At no point in my lifetime has America’s allies wished pain upon its people. It’s precedent setting and these attitudes are not going to go away overnight. Trust is a very hard to rebuild.

America’s allies invoked Article 5 of the NATO agreement after the attack on September 11th, 2001. Our countrymen then put their lives on the line (some of whom died) for several questionable American led military incursions.

This is a betrayal that likely won’t be forgotten in either of our lifetimes. Anyone who thinks that the US can just vote in a democrat in 2028 and everything will go back to normal is kidding themselves.

This is what the ARC-AGI test by Chollet has also revealed of current AI / LLMs. They have a tendency to approach problems with this trial and error method and can be extremely inefficient (in their current form) with anything involving abstract / deductive reasoning.

Most LLMs do terribly at the test with the most recent breakthrough being with reasoning models. But even the reasoning models struggle.

ARC-AGI is simple, but it demands a keen sense of perception and, in some sense, judgment. It consists of a series of incomplete grids that the test-taker must color in based on the rules they deduce from a few examples; one might, for instance, see a sequence of images and observe that a blue tile is always surrounded by orange tiles, then complete the next picture accordingly. It’s not so different from paint by numbers.

The test has long seemed intractable to major AI companies. GPT-4, which OpenAI boasted in 2023 had “advanced reasoning capabilities,” didn’t do much better than the zero percent earned by its predecessor. A year later, GPT-4o, which the start-up marketed as displaying “text, reasoning, and coding intelligence,” achieved only 5 percent. Gemini 1.5 and Claude 3.7, flagship models from Google and Anthropic, achieved 5 and 14 percent, respectively.

https://archive.is/7PL2a

I mean he’s essentially just following project 2025. They clearly didn’t want him to think too much this time around.

They can, they’ll just go out of business. Puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage relative to asian and European car makers.

The idea behind tariffs is you take the money earned by taxation on foreign goods and invest it in domestic production.

Except Trump leaves the second part out completely. He should be announcing large subsidies for American auto companies to bring those jobs back to the US but he’s not.

He’s going to find a way to siphon the money to himself and his magnificent 7 buddies.

Tariff then invest the proceeds into domestic production. Why is he leaving the second part out?

And is malleable enough to allow for coinage.

The difference is gold has carried high monetary value among human societies for nearly 3000 years while Bitcoin is a non tangible digital asset that’s existed for less than two decades and remains incredibly volatile.

This comes across as another Trump scam. He’s going to bankrupt the American government by siphoning public money to himself and other private entities and the American people are going to be stuck hodling the bag.

Trump is a vibe. Most elections are determined on vibes. Less educated white folk feel he’s their guy. It doesn’t matter that his stated policies will fuck them. They feel like he’ll look out for their interests and that’s really all it takes. Galvanizing this demogtaphic is how he won both the 2016 and 2024 elections.

People romanticize farming because it was the basis of society and its economy 100 years ago. Agriculture was key to human survival for millenia before that.

In our increasingly tech driven lives, there’s something pure about your work being dedicated to cultivating the earth and bringing sustenance to people.

But there are modern US farm owners that harken the image of plantation owners during America’s chattel slavery era. Exploiting undocumented workers with undignified working conditions and paying them insufficiently in exchange for irreversibly wearing down their bodies.

Lol

Was she hospitalized? Not a lot the doctors can do if she was at home.

Wealthy Americans pay out of pocket for top notch care in foreign countries. The ordinary person / family would not be able to afford that.

The wealthiest Americans fuck around with alternative medicine after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and then pay bribes to jump the transplant list domestically.

What are the two most important characteristics in a partnership?

1. Loyalty 2) Reliability.

The US is showing that it is neither loyal nor reliable. This is going to hurt American business for generations to come. Even of the Republicans get ousted with the next election, it is very difficult to rebuild a sense of loyalty and reliability.

The only option is the divest in the US now. Any investment in the US will not be conducive to a stable economy.

There’s no way he would invade with military force. It would not only be political suicide, it would collapse NATO and likely the Western world as unified entity. With Russia’s aggression and China’s ascension, the stakes are way to high for a potentially catastrophic move like that.

Americans are some of the most politically divided people on the planet in a country that’s basically a few corporations in a trenchcoat with limited to no social safety nets and crumbling infrastructure.

Why on earth would Canada want that? America may be the richest nation on earth but you don’t see that when you drive down an ordinary American street. All that money is sitting in the coffers of a handful of billionaires and corporations.

Hard pass.

If it did happen, private insurance would decimate Canadian universal Healthcare almost instantly. That alone would lead to significant political unrest. American healthcare is by far the most dystopian among high income nations.

He’s actually more coherent than during his first presidency. They must be coaching the shit out of him.