Obscene amounts of resources and energy being burned up to give us Artificial general inteligence a really stupid chat bot that is constantly wrong.

Russia is a nuclear state run by a murderous sociopath. There were plenty of legitimate concerns about how they might react to aggressive military action. Personally, I’m not sure they even have any functioning nukes at this point but there’s not enough compelling evidence to back that theory up. Treating them with caution is still warranted.

That said, more should have been done to shore up Ukraine sooner. It was pretty obvious that annexing Crimes was just a test run of the broader objective.

That’s good to know. Still more complicated than it should be but not as bad as I thought.

Now that’s the way to do it.

To me, the real issue is that the entire process is one giant double standard which is built on that expectation. At least it is in the US.

If a woman wants to change her last name to her husband’s, it’s fairly easy. She can just mail a form to the Social Security Administration and use her SS card to get a new photo ID.

If a man wants to change his last name to his wife’s, he has to hire an attorney and get a court order.

Can’t. Too busy working on fixing healthcare.

My mom recently toured several scandanavian countries, including Denmark. She prefaced more than one conversation with, “Yes, I’m an American. And I have exactly zero interest in invading Greenland.” She said it got some laughs and everyone was friendly. I think most people understand that not all Americans are fucking morons.

“Ukraine has been overrun by Hamas. They’ve primarily been hiding in schools and hospitals.” – Sergey Lavrov (Probably)

Rule # 1.

State media says accusations from Kremlin critics that Max is a spying app are false and that it has fewer permissions to access user data than rivals WhatsApp and Telegram.

Lol. So what? The messages are going to be intercepted and fully accessible by the Kremlin. That’s the whole point of this exercise.

Gotta lead by example.

Unfortunately, the only example the current POTUS knows how to be is a complete piece of shit.

You know who else thought that? Neville Chamberlain.

Kakistocracy.

Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;

– The Prophet Isaiah Clearly Some Hamas Supporter /s

Am American. Do not come here if you don’t absolutely have to! You will be in danger. I am very sorry for our shithole country’s awful behavior. Some of us really need to feel the consequences of the people we put in power in a major way. One way people who live outside the US can help is by not coming here and not buying our products and services. Money talks and you can say enough is enough by not giving us any of yours.

“Warning!! A 30 minute sales pitch for a pyramid scheme is approaching from the northwest.”

“Welp…” Slaps both knees at the same time

I alternate back and forth all day long.

Jerome Powell might be a corporate banker but he’s not an idiot. He and the rest of the Federal Reserve Board know that arbitrarily lowering the federal funds rate might be “good” at first, but disaster will follow quickly.

$10 says this is just Trump wanting to refinance some of his enormous debts at lower rates and thinking this is an easy way to make that happen.

US spent the better part of the 20th century becoming a science and technology powerhouse. We are pissing away that advantage at lightning speed.