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@longjohnjohnson @MicroWave isn't everyone else still on 10% too?!

@Dagwood222 @Fredthefishlord I mean it's stupid that it was even close, but Dubya's brother stole the election for him. Pretty much accepted fact now that if the recounts had actually been allowed then Gore would have won. US elections are awful. https://youtu.be/jucDFrO89Ko

@FilthyHookerSpit @Freshparsnip the thing I find weird is that not a single county flipped red to blue, but 88 flipped blue to red. Just demographic changes would usually mean one almost-blue changes hands. All one way hasn't happened since Hoover, so you'd think, from that, that Trump had a MASSIVE margin.

@ToadOfHypnosis or out of a window

@Maiq @silence7 I still don't get it. You'd think that even a Russian asset, as a malignant narcissistic demagogue, on becoming president of the largest economy in the world with the most powerful army, would just go 'actually f*** you, I'm a bigger deal than you now, and your army and economy have both been ripped to shreds since I last got booted out anyway.' Like, why's he reducing the power/influence of the US and therefore his *own* power?!

@TwinTitans ah ok I see. Thought you were saying 5 years was a *long* time!

@TwinTitans @MicroWave I mean I get your point. But how long do you expect a car to last in the US? We have one car and it's a 2012 reg that we bought secondhand in 2018...

@OutlierBlue @Chainweasel the rich have forgotten they should vote for social safety nets because otherwise the poor have nothing to lose.

@raef @thefluffiest Pretty sure ChatGPT went down a list according to trade ratios:

![Screenshot from vfxgordon's Threads (I think!) profile):

Also note that the tariffs are not broken down by country, they're broken down by top level internet domain.

It's why islands that are populated entirely by penguins (the .nm domain) and why the Diego Garcia military base on BIOT (.io) are listed, also why Reunion (.re) and Gibraltar (.gi) are listed separately from France & the UK.

They 100% used an LLM to generate this list and didn't catch the mistake because they're all dumb as rocks. ](https://europe.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.mstdn.social%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F114%2F273%2F863%2F193%2F645%2F966%2Foriginal%2Fe7984d3425ebbc34.png)

@drkt_ @futatorius gotcha. In your example "designing away stupid" sounds like it might be... well... eugenics. Very much happy to agree that that doesn't work.

@futatorius @drkt_ basically every (successful) safety feature in anything is an example of designing away stupid (plenty of examples where it designs *in* stupid too, though). And just as important, designing away tired/distracted. Everyone makes mistakes, even when they're not idiots. It's this isn't it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy/_of/_hazard/_controls

@MrsDoyle @Blaze Taytos have Irish and Northern Irish versions, just to get really confusing.