This is what I don’t get.
Trump is like everyone’s marvel superhero, he’s whatever they imagine they want, the alternative to everyone else… Even very legitimate and thought out criticism can somehow conclude with supporting Trump when that makes no sense.
What on Earth is the NIH thinking right now?
I mean, what if an moon landing skeptic took over NASA? It’s like that. They literally produce this mountain of evidence and organize this stuff, and… yeah.
Don’t jinx it.
Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.
100%.
I agree with the assertion though. These are the two biggest egos in America, and there’s no way they get along for long.
You should submit this as a post. Or I might just repost it. It’s insightful!
I really dig the explanation of how the two parties have kind of worked for so long, in spite of everything, and now that balance is disrupted since the “cranks” moved to one party.
Except Russia is not the military power Nazi Germany was.
Lets say he takes over Ukraine. Horrific… but that’s not some huge economic windfall. If Russia tries to invade a NATO country in the next few decades, even with America totally out of the pictue, they’d get theit butts handed to them.
Only way it works is if China backs the heck out of Russia. Which is theoretically plausible if America is “defeated” I guess.
Vance is an opportunist, and dangerously smart and eloquent. That’s actually a huge positive over Trump, I really hate we have such an actual gullible idiot in office.
Problem is I don’t really understand what is actual political beliefs are. It feels like he’s just a sycophant in interviews, given his history.
He’s hitched himself to the MAGA train, but if, say, he was president with basically no opposition and Trump dead, what would he do?
I’d posit the algorithm has turned it into a monster.
Attention should be dictated more by chronological order and what others retweet, not what some black box thinks will keep you glued to the screen, and it felt like more of the former in the old days. This is a subtle, but also very significant change.
I believe the calculus is “A even more extreme MAGA diehard will take my place.”
Which is 100% true.
Still extremely self-serving, but kinda reasonable in a Machiavellian way.
What do these chodes expect to happen after 2028?
Uh, nothing bad? Just like after screw-ups doing COVID-19?
America collectively has the attention span of a flea, and an even shorter term memory. No one even cares about what happened in 2016-2020 anymore
Collins and Murkowski hate Trump, they’re two of the last surviving Republicans that openly do so. I bet they won’t:
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/27/senate-collins-murkowski-harris-trump
They’re rightly scared of not being re-elected for daring to oppose him. Or worse.
Mark my words, you are going to see a LOT of railing against rebel Republicans from Trump. Or what few are left, anyway.
The “dirt” is not being re-elected because they dare question Trump.
On the other hand, the track record of old social networks is not great.
And it’s reasonable to posit Twitter is deep into the enshitifiication cycle.
The localllama/local LLM community ridicules AMD basically every single day.
They have the hardware. They have 90% of the software. Then they waste it with absolutely nonsensical business decisions, like they are actively trying to avoid the market.
2 phone calls from Lisa Su (one to OEMs lifting VRAM restriction, another to engineers yelling “someone fix these random bugs with flash attention and torchetune , now,”) would absolutely revolutionize the AI space, just to start… and apparently they couldn’t care less. It’s mind boggling.
Still perfectly runnable in kobold.cpp. There was a whole community built up around with Pygmalion.
It is as dumb as dirt though. IMO that is going back too far.
No, because Dems are stuck on a high horse and burned 1 billion campaigning like its the 1950s. Fff, they could have won the election spending a tenth of that on bots and paying off influencers.
We absolutely need money for a shameless ‘oppositional’ propaganda apparatus.
And social media feeds.
How much you wanna bet this guy scrolls facebook a ton? Or listens to railing radio/podcasts on drives? This opinion didn’t spawn from a vacuum.
They should be following up and asking him where he got those ideas.
I know every generation says it, but I really think there was a “peak” generation that grew up on the old web, and learned critical thinking the hard way. The Internet is a lie.
Those that never leave apps and their feeds? Not learning that lesson.
The biotech industry is already extremely nervous: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/15/rfk-jr-uncertainty-biotech-startups
They don’t like this at all, with the hope being RFK just focuses on other stuff.
Or… it could make investor money fly away and collapse the US biotech industry. Great.