Trump has managed to assemble quite the impressive nightmare team, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone with a trifecta of cruelty, corruption and incompetence comparable to Kash Patel.

The low number of jobs supported is seen as a feature, not a bug.

For every 100 new jobs at a data center, AI companies mean to erase 100,000 existing jobs from the wider economy.

AI companies advertise themselves to local governments by boasting about the jobs they'll create, and to their customers by boasting about the jobs they'll make redundant.

There's no way that burying legit info under a ton of slop is even all that profitable. Page views are worth next to nothing.

But hey, it also *costs* nothing, at least to the one doing it.

"following all kinds of stars" is a funny turn of the phrase.

I guess in Texas you're only allowed to follow a lone star.

Market cap is such a weird metric, seemingly divorced from things like assets and revenue.

There are billionaires whose companies have never turned a profit. I'm no economist, but I don't think this can be sustainable.

Borders are fake.

For almost all of human history, border enforcement was not a thing and people were free to move in and out of countries. #RETVRN

Also, old person yaoi/yuri is cute. When it's depicted respectfully, of course.

It's depressing that the politics of disgust (not moral disgust, just sensory disgust) works so well even among progressives.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

I know this is true, but it still beggars belief. Like how some slaveowners were raping their slaves while being married and raising daughters.

They apparently didn't even see it as adultery - which, mind, would be the *least* of their crimes.

CSA can happen anywhere, but I think puritanism, deference to leaders and elders, wagon-circling, and putting reputation and "honor" above actual moral principles, are factors that create a uniquely fertile ground for it to fester for *decades* - unaddressed and even unspoken of.

Agreed. This story took so long to unfold (against a backdrop of Trump already being a known sex pest) that most people will just shrug and move on.

Boiling frog situation, but for having a pedo president. 🐸

At the time, I heard it described as the equivalent of a kid who plays "gun" in a game of rock-paper-scissors.

The Tea Party took over the GOP easily because it didn't pose a threat to oligarchs.

I'm not saying the left can't take over the Dems, but it'll be an uphill battle every step of the way.

"United Nations free zone"

Yeah, those damn Blue Helmets have overstayed their welcome in Grafton, NH. Time to kick them out.

Looks like ice cream 😋 🍨

Remember when the Mission Impossible movies briefly added him to the main cast and then just... stopped casting him?

I suspect there are ~stories~ about his on- and off-set behavior that aren't widely known yet.

They really seem to be under the impression that a mayor is a king.

Eh, it depends. An "almost won" in Texas or Georgia is different from an "almost won" in Pennsylvania or Virginia.

But Pete has always struck me as very fake. The product of focus groups and think tanks.

Wait, what? Buttigieg said that?

What is he nowadays, anyway? Is he still a figure of any importance in the party?

Yeah, I hear the same about pilots, too. If you buy a private jet, you'll be hiring your pilot from the dregs of the talent pool.

"All New Yorkers AT HEART". That part is important. It allows him to summarily dismiss any counter-examples to his point.

United Passions - Wikipedia

Remember the time they made a vanity movie about their own greatness? It made $168,832 on a budget of $32M and has a score of 0% (average rating: 1.8/10) on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Assuming a mayor even had the power to implement these policies.

What happens if the US has undertaken a full-blown invasion of Venezuela by Dec 5?

FIFA will look a bit foolish awarding this prize to Trump.

[NYT Opinion Writer voice] One Day Into Mamdani’s New York City, He’s Already Transing Our Teams

I think they work backwards from the intended genre (kids' movie with musical numbers) and then find a plot that fits.

Having the characters be singers is just an organic (if obvious) way to integrate musical numbers to a movie.

Everything I hear about this movie makes me regret not seeing it at my neighborhood theater it came out.

Gambling, crypto and AI are def a sign of the times. We're being sold a rent-seeking, zero-sum economic system where only suckers have to actually *earn* their money via goods and services.

Why have a physical job, a people job or even an email job, when you can have a "watch number go up" job? 📈