I’m NGL If my job put in the position to be the one testing nukes it would be very tempting to do so even without pay just on a ‘oonga boonga big boom’ basis. Unfortunately I’m educated enough to know how awful that is for the environment, also not a nuclear test engineer or whatever the job title even is.

This looks like it would take more than 4 years to build properly… implications?

The notebook rules do imply either oblivion or eternal servitude though (And an afterlife to lose suddenly seems much more likely if you’re finding magic killer notebooks) Gotta trick someone else into writing down the names for you.

Honestly if I were working to establish a dictatorship in the US I would keep them around, its always useful to have a fake opposition around in order to feign democracy and you couldn’t ask for a more oblivious and toothless opposition than the democrats.

Plus regular people can get hold of drones too.

The main character of the world was that guy who did dumb shit like shipping coal to newcastle and bed pans to the tropics but was massively successful anyway, all of the rest of us were just NPCs for that one guy and now that he’s dead the rest of the universe has no meaning anymore.

Honeslty he’s not even a very good conman he just also happened to be born rich which gives him a lot of free credibility to a certain kind of person.

Its weirder than that, had someone on lemmy try to convince me that deportations, purity tests and fascism are all far left policies. Its like they’re trying to shift all their own shit onto some imaginary other.

It can be under certain circumstances, its generally desireable for a country to be able to feed itself for example, and being able to produce products yourself is useful when negotiating trade agreements. The problem is when autarky becomes conflated with isolationism.

Honestly if the US doesn’t have a democratically elected president in 4 years its not going to have a president ever, given the last 2 months I doubt there would be anything left to be president of if Trump manages to keep himself in powr for however long he has left to live.

So he’s just an outright Traitor then?

How about just ‘Secretary Trump’ or ‘Elons secretary’ it puts him in a lesser position and also plays on the fact that he’s a raging mysoginist.

Get 500 dollars then use AI to generate the other 3/4 of the money and buy a 5090.

This is the part that I find oddly infuriating even though its already hitler. The guy was an awful leader, the allies even stopped assasination attempts once they realised how much of a hinderance he was to the German war effort.

iirc technically Obama reduced counting of drone strike civillian casualties, Trump just stopped counting all together.

Not for me but seems like a win overall? People are generally far less willing to hurt/fight people they know well compared to some nebulous concept of a nation. If American and Chinese people get to know eachother in a social setting it can only be a good thing.

Could always do the UK model (Currently being used on the NHS) The workers keep their jobs and the state/public still pay for everything but the workers are now magically actually employed by a private company that extracts profit by charging the government for stuff it was already doing without providing anything whatsoever.