u/adespoton — Em Adespoton

Sounds like a pizza place name even.

Thing is, almost everyone implicated here is well over the age of 70 today. If the deep state ever really existed, they did a horrible job of passing on the baton, and now they’re all dying, one by one.

Two Bills… I had to figure out which of Clinton, Cosby and Gates you were talking about.

So the pedophile ring in the fictional basement of the pizza place turns out to be yet more projection….

Seems to me that it’s time for other nations to make the best of the prisoner’s dilemma and drop tariffs with each other while sanctioning the US. After all, the US at this point has broken almost all its treaties and trade agreements. There’s no reason for the rest of the world to honour what no longer exists.

Er, “instead of caving to our unreasonable demands, they’ve responded in kind.”

It’s like Russia and Ukraine. Trump, if you want to work with Canada, just remove the trade barriers.

If “fears US aggression” is code for “fears reprisals from the US if they try the same thing with Taiwan” then your first sentence is correct.

The US military existing and being ready to respond has historically kept a whole bunch of other players behaving more peacefully than they would otherwise do. The problem is when you get an unpredictable administration in power, which is when other countries start testing the waters and the US military is used unwisely.

Or maybe Putin.

Isn’t that headline backwards? Isn’t it Moscow saying Russia has occupied the region?

All religions, or just officially recognized ones?

Because there’s plenty of modern religions out there that claim to be anti-religion. Groupthink hiding behind ideologies that are fine in and of themselves, but twisted to keep people in line.

The problem isn’t religion; it’s people.

Same reason — most LLMs are 3-18 months outdated in their core models. That means from their perspective, “news” is all predictions about the future.

Well, also remember that the current model was likely trained before the data was scrubbed, so from it’s perspective, you are asking it to create a work of fiction.

The White House may never be for sale, but it does have a history of being burned to the ground when its occupant provokes its northern neighbour.

I never said it wasn’t a word; it means bully. But hectored doesn’t mean bullied the way we use that in English—it would mean to create a bully.

Sorry… is hectoring supposed to be heckling? Trump is the hector in this case; he can’t make Canada the hector. When the first non-proper-noun word out of a writer’s keyboard is that far off what they meant, I have difficulty taking anything else they write as anything but regurgitated vaguely understood hearsay.

“Factory workers ’on average’ earn 1.9x minimum wage.”

Average is a silly thing to use here. That means the factory owners are making bank while the labourers are making minimum wages *for their country* — and in some countries, minimum wages is $0.

If they used the median instead, or compared against cost of living, we’d see different numbers.

Well, any game has at least two endings….

This speedrun is 100% tool assisted.

Charlie’s always known how to string words together in accurate but powerful ways.

Every single time Russia has announced a ceasefire since it became a nation in the 90s, that’s been so they can move their troops into better positions unhindered. Often it has been followed by a brutal attack that cares nothing about civilian or Russian casualties.

I’m sure Ukraine knows this already.