The Jewish Anti-Defamation League would disagree with you. They flat out said it was an awkward gesture, but not a Nazi Salute.

https://x.com/ADL/status/18814...

My point was, at least to the parent comment I replied to, it that Trump is in NO WAY responsible for the current technology tariffs that Biden's administration imposed.

Your counter-point is exactly what? That ours is "literally the best economy in the world right now".

Please define economy for me. Lots of people would point to GDP, and in that case your absolutely correct. We have the best GDP right now, as we also had the best GDP when Trump was president, as well as Clinton, Bush, etc.... In fact, compared to the World we've had the best economy since at least 1960. So you can't give ANY president in recent times credit for that one.

https://statisticstimes.com/ec...

But I think what people FEEL is related to inflation, because that directly affects the pocket book right now. And Biden's were the highest they've been since the 1980's. Yes it's been easing off, but even this years numbers are higher than the any other of the 10 years before Biden.

https://www.macrotrends.net/24...

So in summary, GDP wise not much has changed in comparison to other economies of the world, but inflation wise we've (global, not just US) screwed up big time. And right or wrong, globally every country has blamed their own current administration for their respective woes, which is why globally it seems most major elections have shifted hard right.

The FED only has one lever to pull (interest rates) to get inflation under-control, and to Biden's credit I believe they did just that. The voters also only have one lever to pull (R vs. D), and it sucks.

Please remind me who has been president for the last 3 years, I must have missed something.

Straight from NBC, emphasis mine.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w...

That's a good question, and one I've spend way too much time thinking about.

We are have some simple things like not being able to yell fire in a theater - because it can/does lead to direct harm.

I always wondered, would it be fair to enforce a system such that if a News outlet said something that turns out to be provably false, then they must spend and equal amount of time (in the same general time window, not 2am) talking about how they got it wrong.

i.e., if they spend 2-3 hours over the Month stating that some Senator from Texas was a Pedo, and he's later found to be innocent, then they should be required to spend 2-3 hours admitting they were wrong.

Now I fully understand that forced speech is just as bad. But if we are talking about licensing... Should we as a society continue to tolerate media outlets that knowing lie/slander/mislead? Or should we expect more from them - only reporting facts not offering opinion. I mean how awesome would that be to just report facts. And if they are caught lying, or implying, or opining, they they either accept the terms of the punishment, or lose their broadcast rights.

Ah yes, the standard Democrat method of jumping straight away into personal attacks. That's the best way to convince someone that they are wrong. Not.

Jan 6th was just another protest - I'm not sure how your mental gymnastics make it anything other than that.

And if you thing BLM was a noble cause... well I see nothing noble about burning down entire cities.

Was the BLM protests secretly the Republicans?

Oh Jan 6th happened, zero doubt there were a few idiots (~150) that stormed the capital and cost upwards 1.5 million in property damage.

But we also haven't forgotten the "mostly peaceful protests" that lasted for most of 2020 and the first half of 2021 - that cost the US 1-2 Billion dollars in damage.

I'm sorry, but Jan 6th is a micro-event compared to the BLM protests; 150 arrested vs over 10,000 arrests with BLM protests.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda...

I'm not quite as old as the grandparent poster, and I understand his position and I don't think it comes from a place of superiority - not so much a "I loved Metallica before you did", but "I loved this at a time when looked down upon". I can easily see how the two can get conflated.

When I was a kid in the 70-80s, any one who was good with computers was a geek. Not the kind of cool/smart kid geek that folks think about now. We were the downcast, the picked on, we were the bottom of society. We loved computers more than we loved people.

So while, yes there were some who weren't that good, for the most part folks were programmers because they loved the challenge, loved the creativity of it, and loved seeing what new tech came next AND were willing to pay the social cost. Once it was popular and the social cost disappeared, it naturally attracted a more broad scope of folks. And once the money was good, it would attract the folks that were only attracted to the money, leading to a markedly wider distribution of ability.

But I see it as a net positive personally; I'm no longer consider the downcast, people have a respect for what I can do - and with the rise of popularity there is a much much larger pool of people who are willing to consider it, many of which are really good at it.

The website in question, https:\\clownstrike.lol, isn't much to look at - and isn't in itself all that newsworthy.

However, while trying to find said site, I tried the obvious https:\\www.clownstrike.com, which redirects to cloud strike.

Now that I find very funny.

I know it's probably growing pains from acquiring TD Ameritrade, but as a Schwab client for over 20 years even I am getting a little frustrated that it always seems to happen on volatile days.

I had been watching NVDA waiting for a buy opportunity, and it might have been this morning except I couldn't login for an hour and a half.

When I finally got in, a had a decent chat with a support rep. They claim it was only certain individuals that were effected and it took them longer than normal to figure out what was effecting that subset of clients. He never would give more specifics, but did say this issue went all the way to the top of the company (whatever that means).

News flash, Christians aren't sin free - never have been, never will be on this side of heaven. We aren't Christian because we don't fuck up, we're Christian because we do fuck up while simultaneously believing that God will forgive us when we ask him. And before you ask, YES some Christians abuse that privilege and even try to justify their actions with it.

So as a Christian, you're not wrong, but your wording is more abstractly applied. I think the truth is closer to " is about control. Always was, always will be".

Religion doesn't get an exception to that universal rule; we have to put up with the same assholes that only care about their power and status as every other hierarchy of people.

Don't they though? How is this different from time-shifting a TV show with my TIVO (yes I'm that old).

I thought copyright was more about protection against me re-publishing or rebroadcasting my time-shifted TV show back to the general public.

I see ChatGPT as more of generating derivative works based on it's training data - more akin to taking 30 second clips of a bunch of TV shows and stitching them back into a new but similar TV show; Which is perfectly legal already.

You know what, I like new shiny things, so why not. How bad could it be? I mean ChatGPT impresses me on the daily.

I'm pretty sure Eliza was smarter than Perplexity is.

I'd give you my mod points if I could. It's absolutely crazy how many people don't understand that it's the States get to vote on the President - not the people. And that was part of the agreement when we became the "United" States.

Want to change that, great. But the reason needs to be much stronger than "popular vote count is better". It's funny how when Hillary lost all we heard for 4 years was how it wasn't fair, the election was stolen, she won the popular vote, blah blah blah. Ever single candidate knows the popular vote isn't important, and they campaign with that in mind : which means she absolutely lost the game she was playing. Just like Trump lost the game he was playing too.

Music is like Candy; You enjoy the good stuff and throw away the (w)rappers.

Your right, they are mostly arbitrary. However, one does have a somewhat minor advantage of being very close to a universal ranges of values most all people are familiar with:

0 - Cold
100 - Hot