What you say is true... but basically all of the other president have actually been pretty smart people. There are some who clearly aren't as smart as others, but I can't think of any who were as dumb as Trump.

Selection, not coincidence. He's the right kind of grifter, with the right kind of personality. He's really not very smart, though. If he were actually smart he wouldn't shoot himself in the foot with such regularity.

I think it's just cultural although that's a problem. Even their language emphasizes hierarchy and otherness with the honorifics and how they work.

But they've been doing right wing economics and policies since the 90s and have been in a permanent recession since then. It's the definition of insanity.

And they basically just elected Trump in a dress.

I know the Yakuza there are used as Union busters. I used to wonder why they didn't have any push for unions like we did here and that's why. In America the unions cuddled up with organized crime to get the muscle they needed to push back against the Epstein class but Japan didn't have that because the upper crust got to the organized crime first.

In America we use racism and homophobia to divide the working class along with certain religious divides but I don't quite get what does it in Japan. They are ridiculously homogeneous. Then again I sometimes meet people from Maine who are racist against black folk and I know that they come from towns where the only time they see a black guy is when a new Michael Jackson album came out

Probably LRO vs. Danuri

When you radically increase the number of interactions with police you slightly reduce crime and you greatly increase the risk of innocent people being killed and the incidence of them being killed.

This is just a fact. If you want to reduce crime you fight it with social solutions like fixing the economy and fixing wealth inequality and more education not by sending more cops to beat the shit out of people.

All more cops do is broken windows policing which is where the cops constantly bust people from minor infractions which cause them problems in society leading to more problems and more crime. It's like the whole thing where Batman is creating his own villains.

You need a handful of police to stop crazy people with guns and they need training in de-escalation not military assault. You also need a handful of police to prevent people from doing dumb things in cars because public transportation is for weenies.

The basic problem we are all dancing around is that we heavily militarized police and then we trained them to believe they're in a war zone. Seriously go look up some cop training especially the stuff they get after the academy and it's basically military training but more ridiculous and extreme. The cops view themselves as an occupying force in constant danger. They are trained to think of themselves like soldiers in Vietnam surrounded by Charlie...

So since we can't reduce the number of police and fix all the social problems because voters won't go for that people have been trying to reduce the number of times police interact with the public. It's an incredibly stupid way to solve a problem but as the saying goes America will always do the right thing after it's tried everything else

They have a massive database with social credit scores for everybody. So the cops can check that and find out if you're wealthy or not. That way they only kill the right people.

So check your bank account if you've got at least 10 million in there you're probably okay. Although you probably need to multiply that by a factor of 10 if you've got the wrong skin color

Every piece of information that people have gleaned from you goes into a database that a private company maintains with your name on it.

Police have access to this database and when they pull you over they run your plates, pull up your name and check the database to determine how dangerous they think you might be.

So far I don't think there have been any death because of it but realistically it's only a matter of time and statistics.

One of the things I've noticed is that when it comes to threads like this you never see the right wing show up and comment. They avoid these threads like the plague. Because a mass surveillance Network run by the people at the top of the hierarchy who they worship for being at the top of the hierarchy doesn't gel with their worldview.

That's kind of the problem with being a right winger. It's the old joke, reality has a left wing bias. So if you're going to be all right winger you've got to stay in safe spaces and avoid threads like this where your ideas might be challenged by reality and facts. Basically go back to Ben Shapiro who tells you that you have the facts after all.

Yes, Donald Trump is stupid, and yes he knows exactly how to play to his base. These things are only incompatible if you think it requires intelligence and strategy to play to his base. It doesn't. He just does what he does and it happens to resonate with them, most of the time at least.

Meh. "Gambling" is such an amorphous term when it comes to betting on events that aren't carefully constructed to be the result of pure chance.

Critical infrastructure to the internet. But it's good for corporate profits when we do that because it means you can have remote monitoring on a dirt cheap Network. And corporate profits matter more than your water supply.

This is really no different from many other areas in which you can have conflicts of interest. For example, sports! And the answer isn't to ban betting, it's to ban betting by people who have a conflict of interest. This is well-trod ground.

I'm not particularly a fan of Kalshi or Polymarket and don't really care if they exist or not. My point is just that this isn't really any different from anything else.

The biggest clue that he hasn't read the books -- or maybe just doesn't remember them well -- is that all of the books and stories were built around demonstrating ways in which the rules failed. The 0th rule is only one example, and far from the clearest.

We will build our own inputs with blackjack and hookers!

It was supposed to be about jobs coming back but it looks like it's so painfully obvious that was a lie even the Trump cult can't pretend anymore. After all Donald Trump's own commerce Secretary admitted on television that even if the factories came back the jobs wouldn't because of automation...

So now it's no longer about jobs I guess it's about making a deal! I feel like that's a shift we didn't notice the TDS crowd make.

It would be hilarious that manufacturing jobs have gone down thanks to Trump's bullshit if it wasn't so fucked up and tragic. We lost 23,000 jobs last month I can't even imagine. And still his cult are waiting for orange Jesus to save them. There's video of people crying because they're approaching bankruptcy and homelessness pleading with Donald Trump to save them. It reminds me of North Korea really

Except instead of pursuing policies that would help open models at the expense of Big AI, anti-AI people pursue just the opposite - policies that can cripple open source AI but have no realistic ability to meaningfully hurt big AI. It's so short sighted.