It’s not a matter of realization but action. “The guy with the enormous constellation of public and private allies plans to do The Big Illegal Thing” doesn’t tell us how we’re supposed to respond.

There’s a certain “well, people should just do something!!!” attitude that is divorced from reality. Everyone wants everyone else to “do something!!!” for them. Vanishingly few people know what is to be done.

Are you arguing about the use of “resurfaced”

It’s a popular media gimmick. Turn old news into a new headline because you’ve got nothing better to talk about.

The NYPost and WaTi play this game all the time

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them

You violate enough constitutional provisions and one more doesn’t seem like such a big deal

reported to be in good health

I’m looking forward to the Occluded Donald diehards insisting he’s not dead, just in hiding, after he does kick it

Dude is turning to pudding on camera. I can only hope he tries to run again in 2028

The scarf has higher requirements for precision and a more constant overhead than a one-off giant summon.

I mean, there’s a scarf.

And then there’s a scarf

You could make them go “oof” on the summon if you added a requirement that the lava properly flow along the ground and interact with all characters near the event.

I think the better question is “How many polygons do you want and what do you want them to do?”

That’s probably because you just like a different super power, no?

I’m a Virgo

It’s a superhero TV show from the perspective of a kid growing up in the hood who is just a really big guy.

TBH Cali should be a its own country.

Listen, I’m also a big fan of balkanizing the US in order to limit its global power. But lets go further. I want nothing less than Six Independent Californias.

Unfortunately, I live in a wretched red state and have most of my life and extremely unfortunately I’ve spent time around the backwater ruroids that I’ve been desperate to escape.

I mean, more power to you. But the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality gets you right back to the MAGA Libertarianism that’s destroying the country.

The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the alleged covert campaign of suppression, OpenAI said.

:-/

The report comes amid a battle between the US and China for supremacy over AI.

The Pentagon is in a standoff with another prominent AI company, Anthropic [a major OpenAI rival], over the use of its AI model. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a lucrative Pentagon contract.

Sam Altman is so fucking thirsty right now.

Why would the rich leave?

Because they can afford to escape the bedlam. Nobody wants to be in Minneapolis right now. Nevermind LA, Portland, or Charlotte.

If you’ve got enough money to put up in a hotel for a month or friendly relatives in another state to crash with, it sounds far preferable to dealing with ICE agents clogging your streets and ramming your car. Doubly so if you’re living in the US on a temporary or revocable permit. Who is holding a Student Visa or Green Card that feels safe in any of these cities right now? They’re snatching neuroscience students out of Columbia University student dorms, ffs.

MASSIVE EXODUS!

single digit change in migration patterns

It’s pure hysterical clickbait. The far more newsworthy headline would be about people declining to immigrate to the US, as the Feds add more and more foreign nations to its shit list. Very obvious that Trump (by way of Steven Miller) wants the US to be Whites Only.

But they idea that people are leaving in droves requires you to believe that’s a viable option for anyone.

The next general election is in 2028.

We just had a by election yesterday

I’m against capital punishment, so I’m training to become an executioner

What’s the over/under on Barron Trump being appointed VP before the end of Trump’s second term?

It doesn’t seem like they have more appealing choices

Right, so why leave at all? Just moving from the frying pan to the fire.

It does seem to be a downward trajectory at least though.

They’re off their peak, as they’re being forced to try and govern in the smattering of local elections they’ve already won. Also, Reform is getting larded up with Tory and New Labour refugees. The joke I’ve heard is “this may be the first boat to get sunk by the rats jumping on board”.

I hope the wider British public wakes up before the election.

The public is constantly being “woken up” by a hysterical national media. It is, if anything, too awake. Like a man on a coke bender who hasn’t slept in days. They’re incapable of supporting any kind of moderate liberal campaign for fear of these candidates being too nice to Muslims or Gays or KGB agents or pedophiles.

you’d be better off somewhere that has a relatively young democracy and/or dictatorship in living memory (Germany and Spain look pretty good from where I’m sitting - but even Germany is a little bit O.o).

Germany is absolutely fucked. The AfD is polling on par with Reform, atm.

Spain is caught between a dozen different rocks and hard places. I’d say they at least have some nice HSR, but two derailments in as many months is fucking bleak. All of Europe is once again staring down the barrel of “Oops, all out of money”, thanks to their inability to tax billionaires or nationalize critical industries. It’s going to be a repeat of 2010 if the US economy repeats 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#Seat_projections

Currently polling has Reform at a +112 seat majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#2026

Approval polling has Reform as the predominant choice.