The PEOC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Operations_Center)has existed under the East Wing since WWII.

I’m sure they’ll do work on it (especially if Trump can get a kickback for giving the contract to a corrupt contractor) but it isn’t a new addition.

There are no promises that you can extract that they won’t immediately violate as soon as they get the money.

Leave it shut down until the new congress can completely remake it.

That’s it kids, we’re going to Neverland Ranch this year instead!

Gosh, I hope I can survive the reputation harm that I’m suffering because a faceless person(?) on the Internet has read my comments in bad faith and slaughtering their freshly created strawmen.

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“Haha, pointing”

I hadn’t heard of him until today, but his messaging is on point and he isn’t shying away from the populist messaging.

Having someone who has the ability to inspire is a pretty powerful skill. Obama is another good example, his experience as a professor provides similar rhetorical skills.

I mean, there’s also some dangerous examples of charismatic populists in history… but I don’t read this guy as being cynically manipulative (though, I can be fooled like anyone else).

I think the Church is one of the few institutions that culturally values good rhetorical techniques.

They’re all reading the same book, so the people that stand out are the ones who are expert public speakers and understand how to invoke feelings instead of just delivering a written message.

His style of speech screams ‘pastor’ to people who grew up in churches and for a lot of Texans that’s very compelling.

He’s played well with rural Floridians.

There’s a lot of Christians who hate that their faith is being twisted to promote a political agenda that doesn’t fit what they learn in church. They’re not as loud and strident as the hardcore culture warrior MAGA so they’re not as visible in social media, but they certainly exist in large numbers.

Having a person with impeccable Christian bona fides who’s policies are more of a match to Christian teachings while also taking the populist position that Trump exploited.

Like Mamdani, we can see the populist messaging on the left is massively effective even in the face of corporate media and social media botted viewpoints being pushed.

I see what you’re talking about and I think that is because he’s a veteran politician and knows the kinds of questions that will be asked so of course his answers are polished.

I also think a bit of that is because he’s a ‘real’ christian, as in he practices the teachings of Jesus, goes to church, etc. There’s a certain cadence and style of speaking amongst seminarians that fits well into a church setting and politics (preaching to an audience that agrees with you).

He’s a bit more off the cuff in other interviews that I’ve seen (including on some YT show where he’s talking with a bunch of undecided voters).

I think we’re just too used to politicians who speak like they’re reading off of teleprompters and less used to people who can improvise effective speech without speechwriters and consultants.

It’s not like he has a hard job he’s spreading the populist message that was so effective with MAGA under Trump: “The world is fucked up, the rich elites are at fault due to owning the government and only using it to enrich themselves” It’s a safe message that resonates, he fits the profile of a stereotypical rural Texan and doesn’t accept large donors (a fact that will separate him from Jasmine Crockett).

The topic of the thread is about users migrating away from Discord due to privacy concerns over their ID requirements. If this doesn’t apply to you, what is your purpose commenting? To tell us all that the thing in the OP isn’t actually happening?

Your position is that:

• this can’t happen,
• people can’t leave discord because people are on discord,
• it’s impossible to learn 3 applications,

Therefore nobody would replace Discord with Teamspeak and also use some other chat program (that’s 2 programs! which is nearly as impossible as learning 3 programs!).

You’re posting this opinion in a thread about users migrating to TeamSpeak and calling me the idiot?

That’s certainly an opinion.

Your a fucking delusional idiot.

‘Your’ is the possessive form of you.

You’re is the word you’re looking for, as it is a contraction of ‘you are’ as in ‘you are an idiot’.

Voice chatting and streaming and text channels on the same client are an absolute must.

Yes, those are certainly a convenience that would be nice to have.

I just don’t think they’re “Be subjected to Discord” nice anymore.

I’ll take on the burden of launching two executables and clicking two different windows in order to not be subjected to the endless monetization and privacy violations.

Not everyone agrees, that that’s fine too. Using Discord (or Signal if your group is small and care more about privacy than open source) isn’t wrong, but some people see the downsides as outweighing the benefits.

Hey guys, stop moving on to the next commercial service who will do the exact same thing once they get up to critical mass.

Yes, commercial services are easier to setup. The cost you pay is all of your privacy and your loss of control over the service that you’re building your communities on.

Stop making this same mistake OVER and OVER and OVER.

Take the time to find the IT workers or tech nerds in your community, take donations to rent server space and administer it yourself. Moving from Discord to Teamspeak isn’t an improvement, you’re just selecting the next group of people who will sell you out the moment that it becomes profitable.

Use Free and Open Source solutions, that your community hosts themselves. You have Mumble (https://www.mumble.info/) for voice, XMPP (https://xmpp.org/software/?category=servers) for text chat, Discourse (https://github.com/discourse/discourse) for forums, or even setup a Lemmy instance.

None of these things are difficult to use and the administrative side of things is simple (most are simply pre-made and hardened Docker containers). Even if you don’t want to deal with that yourself, there are managed hosts available for all of these pieces of software. If you don’t want to administer a Mumble server you can just rent one for less than the cost of a single Discord subscription. There are similar managed hosts for all of the other software.

Every game that I’ve ever played as part of a large community has had forum software and voice chat that we’ve hosted ourselves. Discord killed all of that because they offered the same service for free and made it easier.

Well, it wasn’t free, they’ve been steadily enshittfying and profiting off of the users. The prices keep increasing and they’re depending on the Network Effect (“I can’t leave because everyone uses it!”) to keep you trapped on their services.

Oh, so they have a system that’s controlled by the Trump administration that will get to choose who is or is not allowed to vote on election day.

What could possibly go wrong?

removing agents depends partly on if “agitators” behave as the administration sees fit.

More tacit admissions that this isn’t remotely about immigration, but about punishing the cities containing political opponents.

These pretexts they give are completely unnecessary.

Literally everybody with a working brain that is paying attention understands the optics of this is that Gallup is bending the knee and paying the toll so that Trump doesn’t attack them with the Executive Branch.

Any development time that is not spent on a new ICE vehicle is time well spent

He’s really going for that FIFA Nobel Prize in Economics and other Huge Deals.

They’re arresting people on warrants that they write themselves, it’s kidnapping with extra paperwork.

He’s been in contact with Epstein, his names appears in the files (though, to my knowledge nothing directly incriminating), he’s a Trump lackey and a Fascist who seems to have no qualms about deleting the constitution in order to establish a Fascist Neo-feudalisim.

Despite being a person that any civilized society would have seen tried and hang for sedition, I haven’t seen any ‘pedophile apologist’ material.

But, this is social media in 2026. Once a person is labeled ‘bad’, no amount of lying, bad faith framing or misinformation is off limits. Any attempt to correct any misinformation is attacked and framed as if the person is ‘defending <insert some indefensible thing>’.

So, to my knowledge, no he is not (though I have no read the millions of files personally). Despite being an otherwise odious human being who is working against the Constitution and despite running in the same social circles, I haven’t seen him attempting to defend pedophilia.

You’re murdering that strawman, bud.

You’re attacking the AI bubble, and investments in the services side of things that exceed the revenue that they’re producing. Yeah, the investment in LLMs that NVIDIA is the center of are dumb and a bubble.

The topic of the post, top comment and my reply is about the experimenting with AI in pilot programs. The post is full of people attacking Take-Two for trying AI, which is what I’m replying to.

You’re over here attacking AI companies for investing in a technology that nobody is using (other than Take-Two, apparently) as if that argument has anything to do with the topic at all.

If you listen to the ai-bad crowd, screw science.

You can just skip the experimentation and go directly to conclusions. Testing things is for idiots, the real enlightened among us already have the conclusion, they just need to gather the right observations to prove themselves right.