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No. I used DALL-e like any self-respecting forum-curmudgeon might.
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3 hours ago, dimreepr said:
I just can't see how the GOP can "pull it off" this time...
It’s closer this year than it was in 2020.
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Foreign autocrats will pay it through back channels so he becomes even more of a dog in a leash subservient to their desires and demands than he already is.
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1 hour ago, MigL said:
I have a fully automated espresso machine that only needs water, coffee beans and the push of a button.
Mine is similar, though I paid closer to $800 about 7 years ago and I buy 2-3lbs bags of beans at Costco when they go on sale. I’ve saved several hundred dollars and had a better higher quality experience everyday since.
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10 hours ago, J.C.MacSwell said:
I don't think the fallout, if there will be any, from Putin doing in Navalny would have registered on any polls yet.
Yeah, valid point ✌️
10 hours ago, zapatos said:And I suspect she figures that if he does end up in jail then she will be next in line for the nomination.
We may see a contested convention.
Regardless of his legal posture.
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You’re trying awfully hard to make butter out of cream.
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2 hours ago, J.C.MacSwell said:
Haley is calling his silence out. Accurately.
And that’s why she’s down in GOP polls and votes
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18 minutes ago, StringJunky said:
If I were Trump's opposition, my attack ads would be on how much Republican-base money is being diverted away from actually getting the party back in government.
How would you target the ads? What population would be most convincible?
By now, after 9 years of every 3rd news story being about him, everyone knows exactly who they’re voting for in a few months (or more specifically, whom they’re voting against)
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2 hours ago, StringJunky said:
you don't have sex in the shop
Sure I do. As recently as Thursday. 😉
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2 hours ago, StringJunky said:
He can't use campaign funds on this either because it's not a political matter.
It’s never stopped him before
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trumps-legal-debts-top-half-billion-dollars-pay-107311283
QuoteOver the last two years, Trump’s Save America political action committee, his presidential campaign and his other fundraising organizations have devoted $76.7 million to legal fees. Campaign finance experts expect Trump will try to spend PAC money to defray the cost of his judgments in some way.
“The likelihood of the Federal Election Commission in its current configuration pursuing these violations is not terribly great,” said Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program.
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Oh good! Threads like this are like a stranger walking into a restaurant, pulling down their pants, and taking a giant steaming dump on the floor just so they can have some kicks. They walk away, get some distance, then turn around to watch and laugh at the way people freak out and gasp and the brown dookie they deposited by hostess stand without ever planning to return or engage.
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26 minutes ago, StringJunky said:
I'm in the market for a tv
There’s about 237 other ways they’re already tracking you on existing devices you already have or interact with in shops and on public streets. Recommend not stressing too much on the tv. Go for convenience over maximum security unless you’re Jason Bourne.
They’ve already got a master ad and manipulation profile for you personally… and there’s lots and lots of “theys” with different StringJunky consumer profiles used to sell ads and political manipulations and do so in an automated way via algorithms and AIs. Heck… Even your bank and credit card companies are selling data about your purchase items and transaction types, vendors, GPS locations and more. The insurance companies are pulling your movement patterns from your car. These profiles often understand us better than we understand ourselves (see also: TikTok).
Basically, the toothpaste is already out of the tube and it isn’t gonna get put back in due to a different brand tv purchase.
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And nothing bad will happen to those who perpetrated it. Zero consequence leads to more of same in future.
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Nothing is certain. Costs come down. Fossil fuels bring additional costs borne out by everyone.
Renewable energy is absolutely a key piece of the puzzle. As are batteries. We need a way to more easily capture, transport, and store that energy.
But what did you want to discuss exactly? Your OP reads like a bot with confused parameters.
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15 minutes ago, MSC said:
Always be cautious when interacting with police officers.
Especially if/when you’re trans, black, jewish, gay, liberal, and all of the great many other groups so often culturally dehumanized.
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11 hours ago, AIkonoklazt said:
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of-giant-ai-models-is-already-over/
$7T points to not "giant" but "beyond gargantuan"
Hey what the heck I was gonna link the following smoking-gun tweet that someone forwarded to me in HIS SUPPORT of Altman and Altman DELETED IT! Why?? That's not nice at all!!
Please assume I'm not following your rant... logic.
How is this equivalent to him "admitting it is not going to help?" Can you please elaborate?
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44 minutes ago, AIkonoklazt said:
He himself already said scaling up isn't going to help.
Please share source so I may read it in context.
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7 minutes ago, TheVat said:
the Shaw quote
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
When Steve Jobs did it, they described it as his “reality distortion field.”
4 minutes ago, StringJunky said:Embedded in that idea, is all the associated waste that we can't afford ecologically.
I have no doubt we can minimize waste if we choose to. We usually choose profit though.
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6 minutes ago, TheVat said:
For me, the choice would be something on the order of Would you prefer a long sensual embrace and kiss from Margot Robbie or having Ebola vomited into your face by the reanimated corpse of Joseph Stalin?
You’ve summed up the way Trump voters feel about Biden quite accurately.
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25 minutes ago, TheVat said:
Are there not people in his circle who can talk him off the ledge? This does seem to verge on delusional.
More likely IMO is he sees how slow the pace of the hardware production has become, how shortages are everywhere unable to scale with massive and still accelerating demand, and he wishes to get key players thinking in a fundamentally bigger way and to act to meet the need as he defines it.
Reach for the stars, maybe you’ll get lucky and reach the moon. That sort of thing.
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TFG or That Florida Guy? Either way, can the GOP win in 2024?
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Posted · Edited by iNow
I am holding to a whisper of a hope that they are intentionally planning to do a candidate switcher-oo at the convention where Biden steps down and Harris / Newsom then blast a bunch of fresh energy into the race talking about things that actually matter (aka: something other than Cheeto Mussolini)