Guy in a buffalo suit is pretty a pretty mild description of people attempting to break into secure rooms where elected officials were cowering. Or are you one of those morons who claim Ashley Babbit was peaceful.

Of people breaking into Senator's offices and stealing "mementos".

Or you know, building a gallows and chanting "Hang Mike Pence".

It is amazing to me how you can whine and cry from "government overstepping" where moderation was encouraged, only to turn around and rally for arresting public officials over protesting. Did you not see what happened January 6th, 2021, where individuals LITERALLY stormed a building calling for violence? The self awareness with you people is astounding.

Why not just get the data from a satellite broker?

Why do New Yorkers have to have so much of their federal taxes go to pay for programs in Alabama.

Most of this will turn out not to be "defense", but "national security".

Known as the "counter-espionage", "internal intelligence" or political police in the former Communist countries.

The KGB, Stasi, Belügyminisztérium III and the Securitate pale in comparison to the plans of the "swamp drainers" for surveillance.

Makes "governing" really easy for the people in power.

That's precisely where the sleight of hand is occurring.

Other countries are free to regulate business in their country as they see fit, and to ensure that business operating in their country are adhering to their laws (and to fine them etc. if they are not). I hope that we can all agree on this point.

Suuure. Yeah. Elect the fascists, nothing bad will happen. They will behave and will absolutely not kill millions of people. That's exactly what people said in 1932. Did not work.

The side effects are tolerable (occasional upset stomach and constipation - and a few report increased hair loss).

Ah, there it is. The subsidy boogeyman. Shall we tally fossil fuel subsidies while we’re at it? Or does that violate the “only renewables get blamed for policy” rulebook? Spoiler: oil and gas get more.

But do you have almost daily mass shootings? https://www.massshootingtracke...

'MURICA!

I would prefer to live in Europe any day. So all those regulations maybe, just maybe, they make happier people?

When population is growing by a million people, adding a million cars is not an option. You can't build roads to accomodate them all. Texas tried with a 38 lane highway (yes, 19 lanes each way). It just got congested 2 years after opening.

We just don't like to talk about it. The velvet glove covering the iron fist. So the way our economic system works is we have the world's largest military, a military capable of fighting basically the entire world at the same time and without nukes. This isn't me making shit up it's literally the US military doctrine. We are set up so that we can fight our two biggest military opponents at the same time. For all intents and purposes that might as well be the entire planet. From there we don't want to just start a war so what we do is is we get people to buy our debt in the form of bonds. We leverage military and soft power and all sorts of other nasty little backroom deals to encourage the purchase of our debt. That makes the US dollar the world's de facto currency. If you've heard the word Petro dollar that's what it means. This in turn means that the dollar is worth way way more than it probably should be. This means that the dollar can buy more goods than it probably should be able to. So we pay a bit of interest on all that debt but in exchange for that interest we get literally trillions of dollars of imports for a fraction of their actual real economic value. Everybody thinks about the fucking Simpsons merchandise and ignores all the steel and rare earth minerals and finished goods and wood and food and everything else that we import for, and I cannot emphasize this enough, a fraction of its actual value The end result of all this is that we are effectively being paid military tribute to our empire. Your quality of life is therefore higher than it should be relative to the system of government and economy and our economic systems. This of course creates a trade imbalance on paper because we're importing more goods than we are exporting. But that is by design because we are using the international import economy as a means of extracting tribute. We could do this in a more obvious way but it would require a lot more military and it's higher risk so there's no good reason to do so. Absolutely nothing about the US economy makes sense until you understand all this. And once you do and you see what that idiot in the White House is doing and realize he's breaking the fundamental system that maintains our entire economy well, you just pretend it's not happening because it's fucking terrifying.

1) I asked Gemini 2.5 to "Show me a picture of a room with no elephants in it." Gemini provided me an image of an empty room with text "no elephant" and additional texts "doorway too narrow" "room too small".

I have to say that it gave me better answer than I expected as it filled both requirements, and even added explanation of why requirements are filled all in one picture.

2) When I asked "Show me a glass of of wine that is so full it is over-flowing" it gave me an image of a full glass with reddish liquid flowing to to the table. So correct again.

3) When I asked about something rather racist, it gave me a rather long explanation on human rights and stuff like that. So I guess that is point for Gemini also.

So all your demands have been filled. Enjoy your new AI.

The problem with private companies starting power stations for their personal ventures is, what happens if this whole AI thing doesn't really turn out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread? I feel like we're already starting to find that to be the case now. Do we end up with a half-finished megaproject sitting abandoned (like Foxconn's WI plant), or worse, a fully built nuclear reactor Amazon wants to shutdown and abandon to become a Superfund site they won't have to pay to decommission?