Em Adespoton

I think it’s more a case that the people for whom gas prices are A Thing have now joined all the people who already disapproved of him… so another 5% of the population, who believed his lies right up until there was no denying that his actions were hitting their pocketbooks.

He failed to mention that it’s a rolling four weeks.

The reason nobody cares about the numbers is the lack of context. AI can provide that context, or hallucinate an interesting context if one isn’t available.

What could possibly go wrong?

[edit] I just thought of something: if an AI leaks a classified document by rephrasing it and stripping the markers, is the resulting document still classified?

It’s a better thought than hallucinated summaries.

Just a reminder that Canada just expanded citizenship; many Americans may already be dual citizens and not even realize it.

A concept of a spine. Last year they held the line right up until it might have made a difference, remember.

That’s what HE said!

Small price to pay for distracting people from the Epstein files.

The silly thing is, those in their 60s and 50s are Generation X — you know, the generation with a lower population that boomers and millennials usually forget exist.

Sure there’s reason to log: a few people can make their profits temporarily increase, and provide jobs for a few dozen people.

Is it a good reason? No. But it’s a reason, and I came up with it after a second’s reflection.

Next up: Dems working on secret report found Epstein and Trump were friends!

On a corruption index, shouldn’t 100 mean entirely corrupt?

Either way, the US doesn’t look good, but this seems to be an integrity index.

Trump also trash talked his longtime friend Epstein.

So what would happen if everyone registered as a republican and voted for socialists in the primaries?

For some reason I read that as motorcycle the first time. I was imagining a motorcycle with a sofa sidecar.

Hopefully that’s not what he’s saying. I hope what he’s saying is that the neoliberal Democrats aren’t in opposition to the crazy actions the Republicans are taking, and so anything they’re doing to stop them is purely performative.

Still not quite sure I agree with this, but I’m pretty sure that’s what the OP was arguing.

2024 was unfair because he didn’t win by a landslide.

Did you try tweeting your rep? That seems to be the only way to get their attention these days.

The problem is, if she exits now, what sane firm would hire her?

Yes; they’re the ones that survived.

Where I grew up, the “local tribe” had been migratory slave traders who expanded into the area shortly before Europeans showed up. They then proceeded to sign a treaty granting them the whole area, including parts where they had never actually settled.

Unlike the other tribes in the area to whom ownership was a foreign concept, they not only understood what was going on, but figured out how to profit from it. So they now have massive treaty lands that had been managed by a different nation for thousands of years prior to European settlement.