The way he responded to this was really good. He got up there and said “I’m only surprised it took this long for Trump to come after me, bring it on”

I really, really hope they double down on the whole ebiphile thing

Please, let’s get into the weeds on what flavor of pedophile our leaders are. Let’s really break it down, maybe add some infographics?

He was shockingly graceful about the whole thing. I’ve never heard a concession speech that sounded so optimistic lol

Pretty much. It means give maximum output, which can easily be over 100%.

And that means burn out

What’s your risk tolerance? If every moment of data is irreplaceable, there’s so much more you could be doing

If this is just like… Your data, you’re already doing a paranoid amount

If your data is local and backed up in the cloud, your house could burn down or the cloud could accidentally delete your data. If both those things happen at the same time, I guess you could lose your data. That’s a freak accident. Having another backup of any kind is unreasonable, and a second freak accident is borderline impossible

The first backup is smart, but diminishing returns kick in quick

Oh, they tried to talk him out of tarrifs. But he personally loves them, because they make other countries come to him and kiss his ass and make “concessions” that were already in place to get them removed

Geopolitics works on several layers, getting progressively less public as you go down

If their objective was to strike back hard enough to be a deterrent next time they’re attacked, why would they announce their intentions before they had the missiles ready?

This announcement does a few things. It reassures the Iranian people that they won’t let strikes on their country go unanswered in the future. It is a show of strength towards Israel, because they know that the global political climate will protect them from war with Israel for the near future

And possibly most importantly, it’s a departure from nukes. They’re announcing the intention of pursuing alternative means of defense

The timing of this makes me think they’ve negotiated their way back in from the cold. This might have been planned all the way back at the strikes on their enrichment sites - they were strangely accommodating of that whole event, but it would make them look weak if they immediately said they were giving up their nuclear ambitions

Most ultra wealthy people have really well stocked fridges even if their chef or nutritionist or whoever shops for them. They open their fridge and see groceries

Trump grabs McDonald’s or goes to restaurants. I honestly think he doesn’t understand the concept of groceries, it’s so neat to him because he just learned where hamburgers come from

I like that idea a lot

Plus with water, we can just say fuck you, you don’t get to run the tap constantly for cooling, it’s a total waste of clean drinking water. Build more solar panels and figure out a less insane way

You’re also putting money in Google’s pocket… They’ve been caught doing things like this to cheese their metrics

Once a customer burns through their ad buy and sees they got a ton of clicks, they’re going to think “oh shit, this worked great”. Even under closer inspection, it looks like the ad worked, but that they’re failing to make the sales

So they’re probably going to buy more

This idea only works by helping inflate the advertising bubble, until it pops you’re just supporting ad services

It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low

Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better

This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google

Well that’s a misleading title

Same as it ever was

I don’t disagree except where we are in this process

Pelosi resigned, Schumer went missing, Higgs is doing talk show circuits, and everyone turned to AOC and Bernie for comments

This was the leadership failing. The old guard has lost control of the party

Umm… Yeah, I think that’s already happened

They threw all the money and burned through all the remaining goodwill trying to keep us from getting to what happened Tuesday

Lol. Come on, keep your dreams in the realm of possibility

Trump will die never facing consequences for his many crimes. But it will be soon

Nope. When I said quietly, I meant it… This got very little media attention. Also, search is pretty much dead at this point, I can’t find shit I read a week ago - there’s too many results around Jan 6 no matter how specific I query it

But essentially, the top brass created a voicemail for trump, there’s a bunch of deleted texts between the military and secret service, and then Trump was conspicuously absent during the handover process

They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best

They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama

But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all

I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t

The military basically removed him from power quietly after Jan 6 and worked with Pelosi to do the transition

Did you see the part where the defacto leader of the party didn’t show up to his own press conference, so the reporters asked Bernie (who was just watching from the back) if he’d answer questions?

The Democratic establishment fought Mamdani (and progressives generally) along with Trump and the oligarchs and lost massively. Both parties are in chaos right now, because it’s obvious that money is no longer enough to win elections, even safe ones

They’re all going to be quiet for a while before the other shoe drops, hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence