People in the middle rarely place 100% of the blame for anything on one person or party.

Yet the critters in congress with an "R" after their name are tripping over each other to show they can praise Trump more than anyone else can. The MAGA brand is worth billions here in the US (and virtually worthless anywhere else).

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Certainly a democrat wouldn't have rushed to play that card. And being as 100% of elected GOP officials (at the federal level at least) are 100% in-line with MAGA, it is fair to assume that the person who made that statement is aligned with the Trump party.

The summary says that the transaction was verified by two people. Why would two people need to verify a transaction of $280? That seems like a pointless consumption of time, especially for a bank of that size.

If the IRS paid that much attention to a tax return of $280 we'd see it all over the front page news and the MAGA party would be celebrating its discovery.

Gotcha. I had to look him up on wikipedia as I didn't recognize his name right away. He's just another techno-fascist who likes to hang out with fellow fascists. I didn't really think of him as being all that important but maybe he's doing something I wasn't paying attention to.

As much as I wanted to organize a "day without (paying attention to) Trump", I realized long ago that was completely hopeless. He's arguably the most effective camera whore since the invention of the camera. The bigger challenge with the current administration is finding the most important matters to pay attention to. Previous iterations of GOP fascists have only done 1-3 awful things in a week. This administration does that before breakfast. The problem of course is that when they play it that way, much of the bad shit gets overlooked because we're focusing on the wrong bad shit.

I'm honestly not sure who you are referring to there. While Trump of course thinks himself to be a great genius, we all know that is not remotely close to reality. Trump isn't smart enough to have an endgame, or even a middle game. All he has is decades of astonishing luck getting him from one place to another.

MAGA does not endorse learning. After all, learning is generally based on reality and reality has a known liberal bias.

The GOP still has it as official policy to blame anything they can on Bill Clinton (who was POTUS at that time), if it cannot be blamed on Biden or Obama. It's no surprise that conservatives in Miami would place blame for their problems on a mayor who left in 1998.

In November 2022 I bought a 14tb WD USB external at a local brick and mortar retailer for $199.99. The cheapest it has been since then is $249.99. As of this morning that drive is selling for $279.99.

Yes I know that SSDs and HDDs are made on different assembly lines, with few of the same parts. However they do have overlapping demand. If SSD prices are plummeting that should shift more consumers in that direction away from HDDs. Yet the HDDs prices still haven't come down to where they were over 2 years ago.

Simply asking if people "trust" AI is a strange thing to ask. That's like asking if I trust the DMV. Do I trust the DMV to properly issue me a driver's license? Sure. Do I trust the DMV to prepare a hamburger? No, that isn't their job.

Yet similarly a lot of people imagine AI to be doing (or about to do) tasks that it is not capable of doing yet. AI is of course really really good at pattern recognition. AI is far less skilled at accurately drawing conclusions from certain types of patterns. Would I trust AI to come up with a good driving route from my house to the grocery store? Sure. Would I want AI to drive my car? No.

So what are we asking people with this question? Do you trust AI at all, or completely, or something in between? The results seem to be only a collection of "yes" and "no" answers.

Almost every person who calls the Chinese government "Communist" is a conservative from the US. They call it that because the word "Communist" has a completely different meaning to those people than it did to Marx, Lenin, or anyone else who ever tried to establish true Communism anywhere.

This really is just an extension to the war on the English language, which is just an extension of the Culture Wars that they are so happily promoting and recruiting fighters for.

It's never existed in China, or in any other country on a nationwide scale. That said, it was never Marx's goal to establish it in a large country - he actually wrote the Manifesto with Germany in mind. Likely the purest form of Communism I have ever seen is in the shared ownership society of the Hutterites, and their colonies rarely exceed several dozen people before splitting off.

One can call Trump dangerous and that's fine. Calling him stupid in public - if you are yourself a public figure - is very dangerous. Trump is indeed an idiot, and an impulsive one at that. He doesn't study matters that he acts on, he just acts on them and then moves on to the next disaster. He's a toddler who happens to be using the nuclear football.

If he were even of average intelligence and curiosity he would have at least learned something useful about federal and global politics when he was previously POTUS, yet he did not. He learned nothing while in office, and will learn nothing this time as well.

It doesn't matter how many people pay attention to him that disagree with him, his power doesn't come from there. it matters how many people who agree with him pay attention to him. Getting his followers to stop paying attention to him is all but impossible; really the best we can do is try to prevent more people from joining his cult.