You know what would actually be a good loyalty test for these guys… just print out a bunch of the memes… like the one that got a guy deported at the airport etc…
Then give a really serious look dead in the eye… and hold them up one by one “DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY???”. If the person cannot calmly say “No sir I do not find this amusing at all”. Fire them.
Some good examples to use
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But if I was her, I’d sing like a songbird for any reasonable plea bargaining.
Umm… ok not a huge expert on how the courts work… but is who she’d be bargaining with be under trumps control?, again not really sure the logistics… but if it’s all federal employees under trumps control… couldn’t they be saying “we’ll go as light as humanly possible, but if you rat out trump… we’ll hit you with everything the law allows”.
I mean come on and do it, what do you have to lose at this point. You clinging to the hope that maybe the US and Isreal might chose not to go to war with you?
Simple concept of nationalization/globalization. Honestly I would say records or whatever the first tool of pre-recorded music distribution came out that the game changed. IE if we want music somewhere… 99% of the time, hiring live musicians is a pretty silly excess, and well if you are using pre-recorded music, your local band needs to go toe to toe against big record labels… which have highly talented artists, the best marketing and production resources in the world, data driven approaches to attempt to pick the most likely to appeal to the broadest group of people possible etc…
When it does come to live music… Generally speaking the people that do want it, are relatively low budget. If say you are running a bar, how much extra money would you anticipate live music from a relatively unknown band would bring you in a night. Most likely not much if any. On top of that a lot of people enjoy doing music, and there’s just more musicians with pretty good talent, but lack of demand in places for them to go.
6 year olds with leukemia?
Yeah… in short he was in the primaries, actually had a pretty strong following, mainly because he proposed UBI. Then after losing he started a “forward” party… which as far as I can see was meant to be kind of a centrist party, but effectively didn’t have any stances besides work towards ranked choice voting.
I mean, I’d imagine probably not a good one :) Somehow I imagine asking the AI to record a conversation, is an instant arguement escalator… as is asking to read the facts back, and usually the topic would be switched rather than one side admitting their fault in the conversation.
Actually I think there’s a black mirror episode on roughly that (not a device for recording audio when asked, but everyone having a chip in their head that automatically records their memories, and a huge fight when a husband discovers his wife deleted a few hours of recordings.
half sarcastic but the overall premise of rigging something in to a local voice assistant, when an arguement starts “Ok nabu record this conversation”. then 2 weeks later on another arguement… “OK nabu search our last arguement for the cabinet”. Would be like having a court transcriber on call.
No actually origionally it was fed the internet… and elon was getting fed up with it correctly fact checking him.
IE the genisis of this change was, musk accusing the left of being violent. Followed by someone asking grok whether the left or right had commited was more violent.
Grok responded basically pointing out that there were far more incidents of right wing inspired violence, and the majority of left wing incidents only damaged property.
Musk responded that that is incorrect and he’ll fix it.
And now he made the update and explicitly turned grok into a nazi.
Well doesn’t sound like it’s going presidential, and currently I don’t think if trump goes for a 3rd term, it will involve elections.
I mean, we don’t have high regard for the guy that killed hitler.
I mean in fairness, they’ve always had Jill Steins. We can bitch about the spoiler effect and yell at our guys for voting, but election after election when you look at people focusing the blame on the greens when we lose, liberterians and other right wing parties, always have more votes than left wing 3rd parties.
Also sadly it sounds like musk is actually planning to do the strategic right way to do a new party. IE focus on house and senate seats to basically to threaten narrow votes.
In short it sounds more like he’s making the republican’s “Manchins”.
It sounds like the initial story was slated to air on april 1st. Origions of the story are hard to trace, and it sounds like the source itself is known for running with hoaxes. So maybe they were actors, maybe just a doctor looking for attention. Biggest thing is a lack of any real details or credibility to work with. Kind of how most hoaxes go. they leave out key details so that you can’t fact check them.
It’s in her phrasing of it.
“for the express purpose”. In other words… we can turn the world into a hellscape to power cars, data centers",
you can build a machine that causes a category 5 hurricain in the middle of the desert for the purpose of producing 1 ice cream cone, so long as you describe the “express purpose” to make the ice cream cone. But if you make a machine that’s primary purpose is to stop a hurricane, that’s where it becomes “geoengineering”, so yeah in short this is basically to prevent all the hypothetical solutions to climate change.
Hell it wouldn’t shock me if they were then to argue say carbon filters in coal plants, or things to mitigate polution, could be “geoengineering” because the whole point of the filters is to prevent climate change, while the actual polution is to make products or power to sell.
So in short the arguement is… over time it should be like corporations in America, we just watch as the biggest eat the smaller ones until we’ve just got one giant nation? Isn’t that basically the plot of 1984… (basically the world is down to 3 super nations… with effectively the same government. In perpetual war with eachother just to make sure resources don’t pile up to the point where everyone can survive comfortably.
Because I mean that’s basically it, having diverse nations is a good thing. Allows us to actually see differences in laws, learn from different governments, good ideas can be copied, bad ideas can be avoided. Any big nation can trample all the smaller ones. It’s a really bad idea to let them.
Because big corporations tell us what we like and don’t like. People who can toss 90% of their income into stocks/investments etc… that can be used to make more money, would rather have as much as possible. Hence they preffer the costs to go onto when you are purchasing things. While poorer people obviously are spending most of their money on things.
In short it’s a way to keep taxes lower for people making a good amount of money, Especially makes things better for those who can invest and multiply their money.
I own a percentage of the president duh… that means I can go where I want.
Based on my limited knowledge, but knowing a few people with yards like that. One is certainly something you are right about.
But also, least to my knowledge in this area, junk yards, scrap yards etc… are a pretty good distance away. So selling/getting rid of large, heavy junk costs more than the scrap is worth. Hence old washing machines etc… In rural areas a lot of people are scraping by on food stamps, barely keeping the power on etc… would have lost the house years ago if it weren’t paid off by the previous generation.
Obviously no HOA’s, no one worried about how the houses look, and it’s common enough that no one is really embarassed by it.
Gotta love the emphasis on the “outsider”.
He says bad words!!!
Well yeah sure if we were talking the obama admin you could have joked around with him… The idea that someone would be denied entrance to the US over a “thanks obama” sticker or something would be laughable and instantly condemned by the president himself if it were a public story.
This is the trump admin though… they are thin skinned to insanity, they could never laugh at themselves, or find humor in something they disagreed with.