I rage quit the quiz after 2 meant February 2001
PumpkinSkink
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if we reduced wealth inequality to the point noone could afford that kind of shit i bet we could ride the plastic straw wave for a few centuries before it really came back to bite us.
I like this quote because this is maybe the only room on the planet you can try to say this lie in and have most (all?) of the people you failed to negotiate peace with/for in the room.
I have this sneaking suspicion that this response might be in the Russian "plan". I have a feeling that the goal is to show that America won't lift a finger to stop them, and thereby break NATO and badly damage US power. If Poland downs a Russian jet, and Trump says "Hey! You guys have to be nice to Russia" it will read as Russia calling NATO's bluff while maintaining just enough plausible deniability to likely avoid even European countries from pushing for a real response.
Just mandate a single button to reject all cookies and that the default be "reject all" if users skip the banner.
If this keeps up Chuck Schumer is gonna have to capitulate without even grandstanding about "reaching across the aisle" and meeting with Trump. Rough time to be Chuck.
D or G seems like the obvious choices
I suspect the idea that there's a "backsies" button that can be pressed is delusonal. Whatever comes after Trump will not be the neoliberal realism that occupied the 25 years prior to him. I strongly suspect that the idiocy of Trump's era will give way to less incompetent right wing populism in the west in the 2030s... Maybe that's what they're banking on tho...
If they sent the entier national guard to cities larger than 100,000 people, there would be ~1,200 troops per city. The conventional wisdom I have heard places the number of occupying troops to population required to suppress an insurgency at something like 20-25 troops per 1000 people. We're at about half that number in the smallest cities larger than 100,000 in this hypothetical scenario. By those numbers, it would take the ~~entier~~ half national guard to secure NYC.
For comparison, Britain sent ~3,000 soldiers to Boston in 1768, which, at the time, had a population of about 16,000, and that basically only succeeded in turning the whole city into a preasure cooker.
This threat is a paper tiger even if we ignore the impossibility of the logistics.
It's telling that they're willing to do a hunger strike over the hypothetical issue of LLMs becoming some sort of terrible, vengeful deity, but they're not willing to do a hunger strike over any of the very real and material consequences of its development, or any of the other, more immediately life threatening issues facing humans more broadly.
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It's so funny that these two are "negotiating peace". Like, did they forget the plot line or something? They aren't at war. Netanyahu bombed the negotiators with the people that one of them is at war with?! Like, they're two granpas playing dolls on a public stage and everyone is watching.