Its likely this is designed with a plan to push advertising or self-promotion.

Eg: step one is done - figure out how to both find threads early & get your content picked up as a good answer regularly and consistently. Step 2 - start inserting ‘first hand’ recommendations or even just mentions of products and services.

I’ve already seen webpages with the most esoteric or niche product/service recommendations (like some random Indian consultancy with 2 people listed in it, and no other significant web footprint) pop up in first page web results. Its another AI deathblow to the utility of search engines.

The Trump companies have been sued and lost dozens of times - and as figurehead and CEO of most of them I presume civil damages cases could wipe out a lot of the Trump family fortune. But, Trump has been working with the mob since the 80s and had Roy Cohn (mob laywer) as his personal laywer back then and for many years, so being career criminals (essentially a mob family), I’d not be surprised if most of the money and assets are carefully squirreled away in offshore accounts and trusts and whatnot.

Also given that the US is doing everything it can to pull apart legislative protections against the billionaires class, it would probably all be a major uphill battle without a sweeping change of government and an expansion of the supreme court.

Me, who didn’t even recognise the icon on the left:

Why is this blue clock guy so mean?

The same Melius Finance that gave Tesla stock its highest rating of “must own” due to Elon lying again that Full Self Drive is being deployed imminently to Teslas via their in-house “AI chips” eta Dec 2025?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-stock-must-own-melius-220721932.html

Tesla stock is currently at $416 after a high of $474 in November, around when this call was made.

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It doesn’t just cover service members, they would classify as appointed officials.

“a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government”

Edit: Jeez, just read it, it’s not even long. They would absolutely fall under it.

The act gives the president power to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”.

I think they’re referring to the name of the company being very similar to “immutable”, no?

If they sent them to the Hague, then Trump would just send the US military to the Hague to rescue them by “all means necessary” and it would all be entirely legal, frankly because the USA is a country run predominantly by criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act (aka Hague Invasion Act)

Or maybe this MicroAggressions Killer product is completely harmless to her in this fictional comic.

Oh, they’re not but I guess you’d have to ask him for the answer. Those videos are both still up if you want to watch a long stream of misogyny and logical fallacies dressed up as an ‘owning’.

The “Why ‘Feminism’ is poisoning atheism”, “Feminism Vs FACTS” chud?

I’m surprised he still has an audience tbh. Well, sadly not that surprised.

Does this not fly in the face of the First Amendment - why are conservatives not mad about this as well?

Those shot seem to have been protesting peacefully with no weapons or military protective gear on public lands, and then ICE walked into them and pulled a protester away, intentionally escalating conflict, then firing into a protesters face at about 2ft away.

Insane that there is still no general strike over ICE (and more).

Tbh I don’t think Microsoft’s fault-rate has actually gotten noticeably higher post-AI.

They were already putting out bad patches causing widespread issues with regularity for well over a decade. They slowly transitioned from “customer experience is key” under Ballmer to “move fast and break things” under Nadella.

I do love what Microsoft has been doing for Linux adoption though - more slop, please!

The pre-smartphone years. Where we could just be bored, and let our boredom drive creative thought

Its chin all the way down, baby.

The fries are vegan in Australia ever since they stopped cooking them in beef tallow - around early 2000s iirc.

However, their own website says they offer no menu options certified as vegan or vegetarian, due to cross-contamination being something they don’t wish to deal with.

Understandable as additional prep areas would be quite expensive, but also it’s a pretty weak copout when they could go to the effort of labelling their vegan/vegetarian items (with the asterisked proviso that they may have cross-contam)… I suspect it’s really to allow them to change up menu item suppliers to cheaper alternatives whenever they like, because they also do not bother to label any menu items with allergen info - and that’s very standard across even small cafes nowadays. To find allegen info you have to dig through a PDF that they update every few months.

Well, it’s not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you’re like “he seems fine to me”, then let’s just agree we have very different opinions.

Its a CIA-style listening device that people pay for and proudly install and display in their home, gathering data on them, sharing it with Amazon and anyone they care to sell or make that data available to - including police.

Ostensibly all to provide short voice answers and actions they could do privately with their phone in seconds.

Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.

I don’t celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won’t miss him one bit.

Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views

Prudism. That’s the take.

Rather read Oglaf any day than this pearl-clutching nonsense.

ICE agents are federal law enforcement officers, working under the DHS.

Anyone calling ICE agents ‘officers’ is stating fact.