Nonsense. He would say nonsense. Because they don’t care. They care as much about sounding serious as they do about other people.

Countries don’t play by the same rules, necessarily. The signature doesn’t mean much if the signers are flaky. The question is what happens if Ukraine renigs on the deal. Maybe nothing, or maybe war.

Maybe this should serve as a warning to other countries trying to enter agreements with the US. We absolutely can’t be trusted and you might just be signing a pretense for war or sanctions.

Fair. It is easy to lose the humor when things are getting worse and worse.

“Photoshopped? You can’t do that, Terry.”

LOL

Unirionically our funniest president. Shame he might be our last.

Maybe because AI porn of her is very popular on 4chan.

And this is why I’m not surprised at all the US is in the situation it is in right now. We have two viable political parties: one is a pack of gremlins doing their best to destroy anything good, and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it. Even if you’re one to believe that the Democrats are the “good guys”, they’re the proverbial good men who do nothing that let evil thrive. Rational or not (not), people have been pushed into making more and more extreme choices in a collective attempt to make the powers that be listen to them. Now we all have to pay for it.

good point and not something to be trivialized. it would be devastating and the toll to life and limb would be high. but i take solice in the fact that even then, they’d be greatly outnumbered by non-establishment citizenry. im just saying it wouldnt be a landslide victory and theyd face a (probably) reasonably well equipped guerilla resistance force that wouldnt just fade away.

side note, i also find the drone arguments to be kind of irritating. technically yes they could carpet bomb the US and drone strike every apartment building where some resistance leader is living, but then they’d just be the king of a wasteland.

you might be surprised. there are those who are very open about owning weapons, but there are just as many who do not flaunt what they’re equipped with. there are still lots of reasons left-leaning people might own guns, like hunting, self defense, pure hobby shooting, etc. i think progressive people have been stereotyped as anti-gun because they tend to be anti-kids-getting-shot-in-school, but they’re not quite the same thing.

it’s possible progressive might be out-gunned, but it’s by no means a guarantee.

LOL yeah I see what you’re talking about. It’s like the Red Scare but for illegible text and wonky pixels.

Seems newsworthy to me when powerful government officials say unhinged and deranged things.

I’m just a layperson, but my guess would be that they could start from the bottom and work their way up. They can’t touch Trump, but they can start sending US Marshalls to round up the underlings that refuse to obey the orders or the court.

Now would the Marshalls do that? Who the hell knows. And maybe there’s a problem with that plan I don’t know. I like it better than just assuming the executive branch is defacto untouchable.

hell yeah i love learning new words

Always, if they can deal with the consequences. But if the consequence is being blocked by a country they could make money from, chances are slim.

My understanding is that it is technically a “federated” standard, but I think there is a lot of technical hurdles to implementing and hosting a compatible server. So no one actually does it, and I’m not sure they’d federate even if someone went through the trouble of getting it up and running.

WE HAVE BEEN. But we need the people in power to push this, not just us plebs on the internet!

Came in with the opposite view, but this convinced me and changed my mind.

Ironic that AI proficiency is increasingly being required for the positions in the first place. Red flag if you use AI, and a red flag if you avoid using AI. Catch 22 lol.

I suspect everyone is just going to be a manager from now on, managing AIs instead of people.

I would expand on this to declare that the free speech that has been granted to all is a Good Thing™ and should be a point of pride that we strive for and boldly implement.

Loved that movie.